Marcello Carlin's 50 Guilty Pleasures

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Does anyone have a link for this? It seems to have disappeared from hemingwoid blogspot. Or if not, could someone send me a copy of it?

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"A consumer society needs us to consume. But a puritan culture demands that we feel guilty about sensual indulgence. Hence the centrality of the 'guilty pleasure' in the US/UK zone, which is that unhappy and conflicted beast, a puritan consumer society."

Guilty Pleasures.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

very good, momus, but have you ever read the thing in question?

all of marcello's archive seemed to have vanished, when i looked. was it deliberate? is he okay?

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 29 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Momus, does not "guilty pleasure" have to do with aesthetics rather than consumerism/materialism?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 29 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

'tis to be found here, google being a wonderful thing...

http://nostudium.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_nostudium_archive.html

― mms (mms), Saturday, 29 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

A pretty good article, though I wonder what it sez for the UK journo/fanboy mindset if ABBA and the Carpenters are excluded from the list for retroactive appreciation but there's an entry for Johnny Cash.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

"sugar sugar" a guilty pleasure? no way!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 October 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Momus, does not "guilty pleasure" have to do with aesthetics rather than consumerism/materialism?

I think what Momus is getting at are the principles underlying those aesthetics.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 30 October 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Ah, thanks mms... what is this google thing?

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Sunday, 30 October 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

the mr bloe record mentioned is a great slice of early 70s MFI bubblegum pop (and still often gets an airing when i'm out)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 30 October 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

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