What is the most embarrassing CD, LP, cassette, etc. in your music collection? You know, the one that when your friend who is going through your collection says:
“What the hell are you doing with this?”
you say:
“Where did that come from?”
or
“I got that as a freeby. I would never BUY that!”
For me, its (get ready for this) The Right Stuff by the New Kids On The Block.
I swear to God it was a freeby. Honest.
Wow, Kepi… It took a lot of courage to admit that! I’ve been digging thru my collection for the past two days, and I honestly can’t find anything I’d be ashamed of. I know I sold off/traded in most of my crap CDs a few years ago. Lemme think about it and get back to you. I’m almost positive I had something just as hideous as New Kids!
The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera
groan
This is an easy one. I own a copy of (and listen to, from time to time) At Worst, The best of Boy George and Culture Club.
This was my dirty little secret until SO moved in with me. She found it and has mocked me about it ever since. Not to mention told all of our friends at a party. Hell, everyone knows now. This happened two years ago and I still hear grief.
Still trying to think of something witty to say here
Three words:
Color Me Badd
“I Wanna Sex You Up”? I think I’m gonna throw up.
But at least I didn’t buy it. I sort of never returned it to an ex GF
Still trying to think of something witty to say here
Well, my tastes in music run to the super-obscure indie variety - i.e., on the “Your Favorite Bands” threads I list mine and ask if anyone else here knows them, and nobody ever does - so my like-minded friends are always shocked to see an Alanis Morrissette CD on my shelves. I wouldn’t say it’s really embarrassing because I really do love that album (well OK maybe it’s a little bit embarrassing :)) but it certainly has thrown a few people who know me for a loop.
Oh yeah … and Stevie Nicks’s album Belladonna. Pure pseudo-goth cheese… but I love it!
Correction. The name of the New Kids CD is Hangin’ Tough. No less embarrassing, however.
I have a number of CDs that are kinda…kid-ish. Two Animaniacs discs, Schoolhouse Rock, and Kermit: Unpigged. Those, I try to keep hidden from my friends.
I have two: I own the Poison Greatest hits CD, and I have the Ricky Martin CD.
an oldie but baddie, just put away for the season–the Beach Boys Christmas Album. Not only that, but I’ll admit that my foavorite song as a kid was “We Three Kings” You’d have to know the album to know how embarassing that is–it’s sung in the style of a funeral dirge, and off-key to boot.
Gotta be the Flintstones Soundtrack. Purchased and listened to onece, for the Barenaked Ladies cover of Public Enemy’s Fight the Power.
Buddy Ebsen was a hero to some…
Easy. Vanilla Ice. Like 13 million other people, I bought it in 8th grade. By the time I got home from the mall, I realized how dumb it was, but have kept it all these years.
“And on the eighth day, God Created beer
to prevent the Irish from taking over
the Earth.”
~SNOOGANS~
I have a lovely collection …
Anne Murray record - have a couple of hers
Vera Lynn - she used to sing to the soldiers in WWII - also a record
Donny Osmond - heh. Puppy Love - record
To Sir with Love - the album from the movie
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Oh man, this post prompted me to go look. I just found
Kenny G, Breathless
I’m not gay, I swear! Or should I say “I hope.”?
“And on the eighth day, God Created beer
to prevent the Irish from taking over
the Earth.”
~SNOOGANS~
Three words:
Color Me Badd
Ditto. I owned it at one time, but have since given or thrown (certainly no one bought it at a garage sale) it away. This was a gag gift while in college. I supposedly resembled one of the freaks sans the cheesy, 80’s Prince/The Artist beard. Damn, that more embarassing than owning the CD.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
– a Celtic motto
Wait a minute Sue, is Vera Lynn really embarrassing? A funny coincidence, I just listened to side three of the The Wall, in which Gilmour sings so hauntingly of Ms. Lynn. So I figured she must be wonderful.
The most embarrassing CD in my collection is hard to pick. The goofiest name, by far, is The Hottest Mariachis in Mexico, but I like Mariachi and it’s a good CD.
The one I would least like any of my friends to hear would be J.D. Crowe and the New South. I was under the impression it was a bluegrass album, but it sounds like run-of-the-mill country-western like you’d hear on one of those radio stations I never listen to. It’s kind of weird to be a big bluegrass fan and really dislike country music at the same time. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up buying a lot of whiney pedal-steel unit shifters when what you’re looking for is good foot-stomping mandolin music.
Hmm. I take back what I said about J.D. Crowe and the New South. I haven’t listend to it in a long time, and the only song I remembered is kind of whiny and bad. I’m listening to it now, though, and I’m enjoying. It’s not the foot-stompingest stuff around, but it’s pretty good bluegrass.
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
I’ve got a few:
New Kids On The Block
Sir Mix-A-Lot’s single “Baby Got Back”
Kris Kross
The Spice Girl’s first album.
The sad thing is, I paid for the first 3, and bought them all within the past few months. I’m also looking for something by Snow. I need to add “Informer” to the all-mighty Tape O’ Bad Music.
-Lanna
I own twelve of the aforementioned embarassments! And I am curently looking for “Informer” by Snow, as well! Does this mean I have to turn in my secret SDMB decoder ring at the door?
The Top 10 Greatest Things About Procrastination:
Well, I’m a cornicopia of bad CDs. Lanna, I can hook you up with the Snow MP3s off of my 12 inches of Snow CD.
I own Shaq Diesel, but this I got free as the 12th free BMG CD, hey it was big at the time, and I was out of other options.
I own a handfull of one-hit-wonder Rap CDs, but am glad to say that I don’t think any of them are bad and therefore embarassing. Onyx, Wreckx-N-Effect, K7, Young MC were entertaining at their time, and still get spun late at parties.
Lanna, Im offended that you think Sir Mix-a-lot is embarassing, his rap is pretty damn good, if you like old school rap. I have 3 of his CDs.
I like half the world have a MC Hammer CD, but I have both 2 Legit… and Please Hammer….
Of course I still have some hair bands’ CDs, but nothing embarassing like Ratt or Winger.
I even own The Simpsons Sing the Blues, but I was only 14 and it was cute in a campy sort of way.
The CDs I am truly embarassed of, I chalk up to adolesence. I own Vanilla Ice To The Extreme. This isn’t so embarassing, A couple of sangs were catchy, and millions of teens bought into it. I however hung on the bandwagon, a shade to long. I own both Vanilla Ice Extremely Live and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Soundtrack featuring Vanilla Ice. For this I must repent, I hope my Beatles and Dave Matthews Band commitment can undo the damage.