Guilty Pleasures

There are some things in life that feel so wrong, they just feel right. Junk food treats, trashy novels, outlandish fashion accessories. And music.

We all have albums that we don't bring up in normal conversations. We all have them, hidden away in our sock drawers, buried underneath that pile of rare Smiths B sides that you proudly display to anyone who asks... the music that dare not speak its name. Those Abba records you bought back in the 70s. The Sweet album you thought was really great in the 70s, but would now prefer to forget. Guilty Pleasures.

Pop music is such a broad genre that you can't expect it to be all good. For every Beatles there's a Herman's Hermits. For every Marc Bolan, there is a Mud. For every Oasis, there is a Menswear, waiting in the wings. We all know that it's the bad music that makes the good stuff sound so good. So it's only natural for us to have a few records that we bought years ago that we hide away.

And it's not uncommon for artists who were thought of as being slightly naff and cheesy in their heyday to find new audiences, all in the name of irony. Who'd have thought we'd see the day where Shakin' Stevens plays the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury (to apparently the largest ever crowd for an opening act on that particular day). Or Rick Astley's re-emergence into the spotlight? Sometimes, the mind does boggle...

So check out our playlist of 12 specially selected Guilty Pleasures.

And after that, your chance to confess - what are your Guilty Pleasures? What are the records you hide away when your mates come round? Spill the beans on the We7 blog, now!

These are the records that you just shouldn't have in your collection... Go on, you know you want to have a listen. Feels good, doesn't it?