Mixed in among my healthy collection of Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, Rush and Pearl Jam CD’s is a copy of Shania Twain’s “Come on Over” CD. Our male friends snicker every time they see it, but their wives all own the same CD, so I just laugh right back at them.
Shadowfox
“We are what we pretend to be.”
I got one…
The Smurfs go pop.
if I ever get my hands on the vicious bastard
that created these abominations…
John Larrigan
“82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves
Tonight, when I get home, I will go through my collection to see what I can find.
From the top of my head, it will be the following single:
“My Prerogative” by Bobby Brown.
Say no more, I know.
Boris B., I think Roger Waters sings the Vera Lynn song on The Wall, not David Gilmour.
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
And what’s the matter with Ratt? The only Ratt CD I own that I’d rather not is Detonator. I’m keeping all of their earlier stuff.
Ok, embarassments: a friend, knowing that I like punk, gave me a CD by Skrewdriver called Booted. Not only don’t I care for their music, it turns out that this is a neo-Nazi skinhead band. Anybody want it?
I actually bought these two (used): Ted Nugent, If You Can’t Lick 'Em…Lick 'Em. A dumb title, and Ted’s way past his prime by this point. The cover should have been a giveaway: when there’s a picture of a pretty woman on the cover, the music is usually not worth listening to. And Horny Holidays by Mojo Nixon. I like most of Mojo’s other music, but there’s nothing on this CD worth hearing.
The same friend who gave me Skrewdriver also gave me his entire vinyl collection when he went completely digital. I kept maybe a third of it, and gave the rest away, except for 5 Barry Manilow albums that nobody wants. Can’t unload Olivia Newton John’s Greatest Hits, either. After trying to sell them to various used record/cd stores, another friend remarked, “You have more balls than I do. I would never go out in public with those albums.” My brother said they’d make good pistol targets.
You’re only as old as you look.
I had a Doo Wop version of Sergeant Pepper, but got rid of it. I still have three Nancy Sinatra CDs. Once I had a tape where every other song was Nancy, every other Frank Zappa. They were born the same year in the 40s.
It would have to be Poison’s Native Tongue…came close to throwing that one in the garbage, but one crappy CD deserves to be in company with 250 good ones.
Evilbeth, I love you. Anyone else who’s currently searching for Snow has to be one of the all-time coolest people in the world.
Omniscient, you’re my hero. Hook me up with those MP3s, m’kay? I know every word to “Informer”… I just have to prove it to my friends. Oh, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Soundtrack is sweet.
-Lanna
“Go ninja, go ninja, go, go!”
The first thing that came to mind when I read the title was Cyborgasm. Not because I have it, but because of what happened with it once. See, I have this 6 CD changer, and I had it loaded up with a bunch of metallica. I was blasting it a pretty good volume, and it could be heard from the street. I left it going when I ran out to the store and forgot about it. When I got back, I heard the noises of someone in the throes of passion coming from my bedroom. (Not that that’s a rare occurance, er…) I waited outside for like 5 minutes, until I realized that I’d left Cyborgasm in the 6th slot of the player, and was listening to a recording.
Doh.
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I have a tape of “Ice Ice Baby” in the car right now! Also own everything recorded in the 80’s ilncluding the complete works of Adam Ant and a little ditty called “Push Push in the Bush”.
Omniscient: I even own The Simpsons Sing the Blues, but I was only 14 and it was cute in a campy sort of way.
I bought it too, and I think I was at least 10 years older than you were. 
I only played about 1/2 the tracks (I couldn’t stand Marge’s singing; I kept trying to clear my throat.). But I really like the version of “God Bless The Child” that Lisa (Yeardley Smith) sings. She really belted it out.
Plus, Bart’s songs were hilarious. A little reminiscent of my own childhood. 
Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.
My CD collection has nothing I am embarrassed about, mainly because it’s my job to have some stuff I personally don’t like - for research purposes. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!
However, I do have an abominable collection of MP3’s which I keep only because they are songs I do like, but not enough to get a whole CD of crap to get them. They are as follows:
Yer pal,
Satan
Wow, Im impressed that anyone even knew who Vera Lynn was. None of my friends know and they always just laugh when they see the album sitting there cuz of her poofy hair, etc. Basically I grew up on her music plus that of Don Messers Jubilee and Hymn Sing. My parents were older than most of my friends, so it was pretty funny to see how they reacted when my dad sang all the old war songs and their parents had been so young during the war, if even born.
LOL not that you asked… but there ya have it
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Sunbear:
HEY! That “doo-wop” take on SGT. PEPPER is GREAT! (The band’s called Big Daddy, BTW).
It’s actually a dance through most of the pop-music styles of the 1950s, each style applied to a different tune from the Beatles album. The lounge-singer version of “A Little Help from my Friends!” The Buddy Holly-style “A Day in the Life!” “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” as done by the Kingsmen! And especially the beatnik/hipster/coffeehouse/jazzbo “Within You, Without You,” complete with bongos!
All right, I admit I don’t play it much.
Uke
Heck I have that one too and I’m not embarassed about it. Yeardly Smith has a very decent singing voice, though the only good one in the cast, and does a nice job on God Bless the Child.
I’ve been pretty selective about the CDs I’ve bought so there’s no mullethead butt-rock, that I have on vinyl. I have every single Electric Light Orchestra album on vinyl and I’m trying to get them all on CD so that’s something. Maybe I could get a Cheech and Chong and Chong album or KISS Destroyer to be embarassed about.
On a side note I bought my brother Spice World. It was all I could do to look the K-mart cashier in the eye when I got that.
Come let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado.
People laugh at my Carpenters Greatest Hits CD, but it really is one of my favorites. My mom played her Carpenters records to me as a fetus, I think is why I like it; that and Karen had a super voice.
From the “Be the first to hate this song” thread-
And from this thread-
Love/hate relationship, huh Satan? Heh.
Anyway, ol’ Flyp’s got more shameful CDs than you can even begin to imagine.
[ul][li]Nelson-After the Rain[/li][li]Spice Girls-Spice Up Your Life(single)[/li][li]Go West-Faithful(another single)[/li][li]Kenny G-Forever in Love(yet another single)[/li][li]Indecent Obsession-self-titled[/ul][/li]
There’s more, I’m sure, but I can’t remember them off the top of my head (either that, or I’ve blocked them out of my memory).
He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break.
And while Yori raged against his unbending
courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back.
His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought.
-Yakamo’s Funeral
It’s my wife’s record collection that embarasees me most. The other day she insisted on playing or her “Rocky Horror Picture Show Rarities” album.
I need to buy ear plugs.
Like Jebediah, it’s my wife’s collection that’s the problem. In fact, I have NO embarassing music anymore.
“That? Oh, I guess it must be my wife’s.”
On CD I’ve given most of my shameful stuff away (like the KC and the Sunshine band Live CD- it wasn’t til after I got it home I realized it was from '92). However, on vinyl I have:
a lot of Molly Hatchet 45s
The “Superbowl Shuffle” album (I’m actually kinda prideful of this)
Mike “Mad Dog” Adams
and…
Ray Stevens.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again? One foggy day…
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