Ok-
Nice try gang, but the entire thread was but a prelude to this.
Extreme-Extreme II Poronografitti. More than words??
Thank you and go on about your business now!
-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal
Compared to some of the rest of you, I appear to have escaped my youthful days relatively unscathed. My most embarassing CD is The Spin Doctors’ “Pocket Full of Kryptonite”. Not particularly embarassing, I suppose, (although the way the group has gone downhill as of late, it might be), but it does not fit in with the rest of my collection at all. The question now is “How in the flaming blue hell did you come by it in the first place?” It was the first CD I ever acquired. My parents had just bought me a CD player for Christmas, and gave me a gift certificate to buy a CD to play in it at Wal-Mart. It being after immediately after Christmas, their CD selection was picked clean, and they didn’t exactly cater to my tastes in the first place. The Spin Doctors was all I could find. I still have it, even though I haven’t listened to it in eons.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
I’d imagine that a good half of my CD collection consists of stuff that would make the average person cringe and plug their ears. Details:
Air Supply’s Greatest Hits
Hootie and the Blowfish – Cracked Rear View
Poison’s Greatest Hits
Warrant’s Greatest Hits
GNR – Appetite for Destruction, and Use Your Illusion I and II
Power Ballads
Monsters of Rock
Crank it Up
Monster Ballads
There’s more…I still haven’t delved into the soundtracks, but I figured I’d stop nauseating you people. Considering that half of my favorites have an “As Seen on TV” sticker on them, I’m amazed that people let me live.
“Buffalo Bills? Oh, yeah. The guys that always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” --WallyM7
Extreme? GNR? Poison? Warrant? Embarrasing? Never! I would love to get a copy of monster ballads, but I won’t pay more that $12 for a CD. I’m all about 80’s hair rock… I don’t see being embarrassed by likeing the music one grew up to. Except the two years I listened to Top 40 due to lack of exposure to real music.
Now, Spin Doctors and Hootie… that’s just wrong.
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My collection is pretty diverse, so I’m sure that I could raise a few eyebrows, but nothing compares to some of the stuff I’ve seen here. I mean some of the stuff previously mentioned in this thread is not just bad, its obscene. I couldn’t get up in the morning and pretend that life was good with those kind of hideous CD’s intermingled with all of the others.
Do everyone a favor, DESTROY ALL the crappy CD’s! Don’t just take it on down to the nearest CD-exchange where it could pop-up again. You never know, you could be sitting at a stop-light somewhere and some car with a boomin’ system will pull up next to you blasting that abomination that you just offloaded.
If these CD’s are so BAD now, just think about how bad they’ll sound like 20-30 years from now!!! Let’s spare the future all of this mess. This type of noise pollution makes things like nuclear waste and global warming look like a gift to the future.
Do it now! Shatter those crappy CD’s and LP’s, and make ribbons out of all the bad tapes! Your children’s children will thank you for it.
The one with The Macarena on it.
But I swear it’s not for me! I’m (very) occasionally called on to provide entertainment for groups and it’s a good ice-breaker.
Oh, c’mon! You’ve never done the Macarena?
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
The Transformers Movie soundtrack. It rocks in a cheesy-80’s pop-metal way. Plus, I still have those feelings for Megatron.
Another “bad movie, good soundtrack”- Less Than Zero. Has Danzig, Ray Orbison, Jimi Hendrix, Public Enemy and the Bangles.
“I’d think God would want to LIMIT my powers.”
Satan:
- Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny)
- Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
- Nena 99 luftballoons
I wouldn’t be embarrassed about those.I have all those as sigles. Some day I’ll take all my singles and put them on CD in 5 year segments.
Besides the 3 Nancy Sinatra Cds I have her Country my way. I keep it for the kitsch value. I had a Screaming Jay Hawkins album with probably the most awful cover in my junk, him sitting in a coffin.
I don’t really have any CD’s I’m embarrassed of.(I for one, maintain that Garth Brooks-In the Life of Chris Gaines is a GREAT CD, and don’t try to dissuade me)
My MP3 collection, however, has a few out of the normal realm.
A few examples:
- Snow - Informer
- Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
- Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
- Showtunes (but I’m not gay…really…)
View every exit as an entrance someplace else
My most embarrasing CD? Whoo. Given how little chance I get to listen to CDs, I don’t really have many bad ones; but I don’t really have any good ones. Probably the most embarassing is the “Mad About the '80’s” CD I have on loan (I stole) from my younger sister. Sorry- every once in a while, I just have to listen to “Come On Eileen.”
As for most embarrasing album en toto, I think I’ve got all of you beat.
“Alvin and the Chipmunks do Country & Western.” On vinyl. Includes the unforgettable “Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Chipmunks.”
I was such a loser geek as a kid.
JMCJ
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HAH! You think I’m going to confess to owning the Right Said Fred CD? Never! You here me? NEVER!!!
Me there you??? What?
I don’t have any CDs that embarrass me. Does that make me abnormal?
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Hmmmm. Possibly my problem is that I have no shame.
I own a few of those “New Wave '80s” discs from Rhino also, which my wife absolutely hates, but I have to listen to “Come On, Eileen,” every once in a while, too.
Not to mention “Video Killed the Radio Star,” “Turning Japanese,” “La Plane Pour Moi,” “I Do the Rock,” “Too Young to Date,” and “She Blinded Me with Science.”
I am equally not embarrassed by the Ernie Kovacs disc. Anyone who wants to listen to the Nairobi Trio “Solfeggio” or that raspy German version of “Mack the Knife” or the immortal “Hot Cakes and Sausage,” you’re invited to my house. Bring beer.
Uke
I think you mean Plastique Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi”. Great song, by the way.
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
Whoops! Thank you, CF.
Think I can get everyone to believe it was a typo rather than ignorance?
Wow, talk about a walk down memory lane here. Whatever happened to good ol’ Plastique, Cold?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge…others just gargle.
<Hanging head in shame…>
OK…I still have Tiffany sitting on the shelf, waaaayy down at the bottom. What can I say? I have a thing for redheads. That’s why it’s next to the T’Pau disc. <claps hand over mouth> I think I said too much.
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Justin
You people are amateurs. Amateurs!
How many of you can say you own these classic compilations?
Pure Moods, volumes I and II
The Best of Culture Club
Macarena and Other Dance Super Hits!
The Best of House Music
Caribbean Nights, volumes I and II
The Roots of Rock: 80’s New Wave
World of Dance: New Wave the 80’s
3 Club Mix albums
2 Dance Mix USA albums
Dance Hits Super Mix
Sun Splashin’ (the first one only)
The only album I’m ashamed to own is Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Moosie, Ike,
According to this link, Bertrand made a record as recently as 1994. And I learned another thing: he’s Belgian ! I always thought he was French. The page is in French though, so you better get that ‘Quebecois - Français’ dictionairy out, Moosie 
http://www.sirius.com/%7Ealee/p/plastic.htm
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)