# Any songs on your iPod which would invoke contempt and mockery from your friends? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931 "2007-05-05T22:49:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/41 "2007-05-06T17:21:46Z")
The ones that would probably generate the most ridicule I would imagine is everything by Britney Spears (I have her greaest hits on there I imagine some people I know would take the piss out of Fall Out boy, Panic! at the Disco and All American Rejects (And sevreal others in that whole genre). I could care less though - its my ipod I will listen to whatever I please! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/42 "2007-05-06T17:28:08Z")
I have some Brittany Spears and N’Sync on my iPod. Also have the Carpenters and “One Tin Soldier” by The Coven. Hopefully The Frames and Wilco will redeem me. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/43 "2007-05-07T03:02:20Z")
Today I added: “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” by Bonnie Tyler “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty “One Night In Bangkok” by Murray Head but I also added “In Heaven” from _Eraserhead_, so I’m still cool, right? Actually, I have very little shame when it comes to music. I also own ABBA’s _Number Ones_, for example, but that’s just great pop music. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/44 "2007-05-07T03:09:42Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] \*I’ve got a lot of embarassing stuff on my iPod, which most people never even see anyway except my boyfriend in the car (that shuffle thing will kill your cool cred), but Barry may win. [/QUOTE] That’s why you choose the “skip when shuffling” option 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/45 "2007-05-07T03:10:17Z")
Umm… I may, or may not, have nearly everything Jimmy Buffet has ever recorded on my iPod. Ok… I in fact do have nearly everything he’s recorded on my iPod. Can’t help it… reminds me of my dad, but there would still be mockery… Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![sasdaisy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sasdaisy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sasdaisy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/46 "2007-05-07T03:27:00Z")
There’s nothing wrong with Aqua!! (Just don’t tell anyone I said that!) Other embarassing songs: Ice Ice Baby (and, yes, I know all the words) Animal (Def Leppard) I Saw the Sign One that I want but can’t find: Take on Me by A-Ha ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/47 "2007-05-07T04:10:15Z")
iTunes has “Take On Me” by a-ha (spelled just that way). That’s where I found it. What? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/48 "2007-05-07T04:14:32Z")
I have multiple versions of “Iko Iko” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” Everything else on there is pretty easy to justify. Oh, also, there’s the Michael Stipe/Natalie Merchant version of “To Sir With Love.” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/49 "2007-05-07T04:33:13Z")
I have about three albums’ worth of Men Without Hats on iTunes. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/50 "2007-05-07T11:25:53Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] I have multiple versions of “Iko Iko” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” Everything else on there is pretty easy to justify. \ [/QUOTE] But those are both great songs! I see nothing to mock there. ---
**Author:** ![Chew\_Barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Chew\_Barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chew_Barker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/51 "2007-05-07T11:43:00Z")
I dont have an iPod, my superior mp3 player has the Disneyland Paris Parade song “Dancin’ A Catchy Rhythm”. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/52 "2007-05-07T11:47:10Z")
I don’t own an iPod or an MP3 Player, which is enough to evoke contempt and mockery from people as it is without getting into my somewhat eclectic and incomprehensible taste in music 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/53 "2007-05-07T12:39:14Z")
On my computer (I don’t have a portable mp3 player that I use), I do have music which might have inspired ridicule if the rest of my collection were not so very eclectic. I have a friend who thought he enjoyed a wide variety of music, but my collection takes it to another level. Buddist nuns chanting, catholic monks chanting, punk renditions of nursery rhyme, classical, baroque, punk, pop, rock, alternate, jazz, satire, klezmer, rap, hip hop, Yiddish jingles, c&w, cowboy, bluegrass, R&B, sound effects, big band, show tunes, show tunes in Yiddish, political jingles, and much more. The more music I listen to, the more I learn to like. One of **KellyM** ’s contributions to my collection is the Aqua CD with “It’s a Barbie World” on it. She bought it because there was a legal case about it, but we like to listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/54 "2007-05-07T13:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=Reepicheep] Air Supply - _Making Love Out of Nothing at All_ [/QUOTE] I like this song, although I don’t have it on my iPod. We heard it on the radio yesterday and I mentioned to my husband that I like it and he said, “_Air Supply_? What is _wrong_ with you?” So I suppose he’d ridicule me if I did have it on my iPod… Anyway, I have cruddy low-brow taste in music and I’m sure any music snob would be appalled by my iPod. That said, the worst song I have is probably Dolly Parton’s “Me and Little Andy,” which is some sad, sad shit. In my defense, I don’t have it because I like it, but so, when I’m talking to somebody about terrible songs, I can prove that it is one of the worst ever written. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/55 "2007-05-07T14:46:19Z")
“Heart & Soul” - T’Pau “Hazy Shade of Winter” - The Bangles “Smooth Criminal” - Alien Ant Farm “Good Vibrations” - Marky Mark & Los Bunchos Funky I have an 80’s music problem… ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/56 "2007-05-07T15:36:29Z")
I just skimmed through my iPod and the oddest is probably Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” but that’s a good song for driving to. I guess the worst must be The Corrs, but only the early stuff that’s not real poppy. Everything else I’ve gotten rid of so it doesn’t count! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/57 "2007-05-07T16:14:27Z")
I have T’Pau’s “Heart and Soul” _and_ Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone” on my iPod. Nice to know that I’m among friends! The _Top Gun_ soundtrack has all sorts of cheesy '80s pulse-pounding good stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/58 "2007-05-07T16:26:32Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] If they knew I had the following artists on my iPod I would be laughed at and derided for an extended period of time: AC/DC Billy Idol Blink 182 Falco Goo Goo Dolls Prince Tears For Fears Zamfir [/quote] When come back, bring different friends. :eek: 😉 > [@](#): > > How about you? Is there anything on your iPod that would invoke the contempt of your friends? Death Cab For Cutie. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/59 "2007-05-07T16:45:11Z")
I don’t have an iPod(not even sure what it is) but i have songs on my computer that are, well, not cool. Abba- Dancing Queen Four Lads- Istanbul Cher- Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves Joey Scarbury- Greatest American hero Village People- YMCA Village People- In The Navy Jerry Vale - Al Di La Frankie Laine- I Believe ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931/60 "2007-05-07T16:48:23Z")
I have the Barry White Antology and the Casablaca Records Antology, and I play them a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-songs-on-your-ipod-which-would-invoke-contempt-and-mockery-from-your-friends/402931.md?page=4)