What’s the matter with Beyond the Sea?
I’m a little younger than most of you, so in my days of bad taste, (junior high, in the early '90s) I owned both Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston CDs. I am proud to say that I never liked New Kids on the Block, though. I think I was the only one in my sixth grade class who didn’t. The horror they must feel now.
I’m not ashamed of anything I listen to (maybe I SHOULD be, but that’s another issue). But among the CDs in my collection that raise a lot of eyebrows when friends visit…
John Denver’s “Back Home Again”
The original soundtrack of “Fiddler 0n the Roof” (with Zero Mostel and… Bert Convy???)- and I’m not even Jewish!
“The Blizzard of Ozz” by Ozzy Osbourne
Plus, the Greatest Hits of…
Bread, the Association, the Ohio Express, KC & the Sunshine Band.
Dang… maybe I’m wierd. I keep reading these songs, and thinking… thats not bad. Why are they emberassed? Maybe I have a lot more to be emberassed about than I thought.
(I love 80’s music, play it loudly and proudly.)
If I had 1 guilty pleasure… it would be… for the man who <sigh> writes the songs that make the whole world sing.
Oh, and when I am SURE nobody is looking… (I secretly groove to that spice girls tune… ITS CATCHY I TELL YOU… you know the one… “if you wanna be my lova”)
(I can’t believe I just admitted that)
Screeme
I wasn’t going to admit this, but Barry Manilow, who did Copacabana. Also, sorry… Donny Osmond!!!
my first cd was please hammer don’t hurt 'em.
Hello.
My name is friedo, and I used to like
New Kids on the Block
MC Hammer
Vanilla Ice
Wilson Phillips
God save me.
I’m not exactly ashamed of any of my music, but I don’t brag about the fact that I still have buried somewhere in an album collection (don’t even have a turntable, so you know I ain’t playin’ 'em)…Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garrett. :o
And I don’t care who knows it! 2 1/2 years ago I won 92 compact discs (my choice) on a game show. About 50 of them were compilation albums of all 70’s songs. People thought I was nuts. Screw 'em.
But your question was, what music I’m ashamed I like.
Duran Duran! Some of my buddys almost caught me listening to it in my car! I had to hid the tape under my seat while I gave them a ride. It was not cool college music, but I liked it.
I was fifteen. I had never really listened to much modern music. It was frowned on by my parents. So the first semi-pop music I was exposed to was Selena. Yes, yes, I bought a CD. Not long after that, however, I realized that Selena was really, really not my style. Not horrible, but definitely wrong for me. I moved on to different stuff like Garbage, Foo Fighters, Phillip Glass and Afro Celt Sound System.
Kyla
We must be exactly the same age. NKOTB hit it big when I was in sixth grade. My school entered a bizarre contest: whichever middle school could write New Kids on the Block and the number of some radio station on the most index cards would win free tickets to a local New Kids concert. The pressure for every kid in the school to go home and fill out thousands of index cards was enormous.
I fondly remember the first real “fuck you” I ever gave to someone. This girl, and I even remember her name, tried to force me to fill out these inane index cards. At the time she was about twice my height and four times my weight. So I flipped her the business end of my middle finger and told her NKOTB sucked. I spent the rest of the afternoon in the principal’s office, but damn, it was worth it. 
MR
After this post yesterday I went home and played some of my old albums and got stuck on “Don’t you want me baby” till my idiot neighbor told me no one wanted to hear that crap all night, so I found my Elton John CDs put on “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, hit repeat turned it up, and went grocery shopping.
My wife says Im evil
[hijack]My cousin once sent me a letter making reference to “Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute.” I always thought it was something she made up. It couldn’t be real. Imagine my horror . . . [hijack]
I still like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, some songs by Poison and all the hair band ballads of my youth. I don’t often admit it, true enough, but it doesn’t usually come up.
I also love eighties music, also, apparently some songs that make other people want to tear their ears off and stomp on them until the last vibrations have died away forever . . . but perhaps I exaggerate; anyway, I love “Safety Dance,” “S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!” (an eighties cover, not the original Bay City Rollers), “Amadeus,” and so on and on and on.
Oh, yeah, and worst of all: I like “Bye Bye Bye.” What can I say, I hate everything they stand for, and if I can actually see them, I want to laugh hysterically, but the song is catchy. And I like the message of a guy actually being the one to get fed up with being cheated on, etc. It’s not that uncommon, but underportrayed in popular music. So, there.
I guess there’s a little demented teenager left in us all.
Barry Manilow.
ABBA.
Milli Vanilli.
I still listen to all of them 
I make her ask me reeeaally nicely, and I sigh and roll my eyes like it is painful to agree. She turns her lovely face up to mine and smiles at me when I tune in the whining am station, 1310.
She grooves to the Backshoot Boys, Christina Abigsluta…and yes, N’Stync. Twitney Crows about her Oops’…and I drop her off at school.
And then…then…I still listen to it! I…TURN IT UP sometimes. But then I shake it off, look around to make sure no one is watching me, and…dig under my car seat, find my quarry and put in my
“OUTFIELD-PLAY DEEP” tape. Please. Can someone help me?
Check it out, did you know that Poison, Dokken, Cinderella and Slaughter are touring together…NOW? And Rob Halford is out there too, and Iron Maiden is touring!!
YES! I am going to go get my studded collar, combo black leather/denim stretch jeans and stilletto black boots…and then sit on the floor cuz none of them fit anymore, dammit
Saysha -
Are you kidding me, where?? I did not, repeart did not get in to NKOTB, even though many of my friends were, I’m a little older than Kyla, I think they hit it big when I was in grade seven and eight. I was a headbanger though, and did not like them.
Get out of the city!!! Oh, please tell me you’re not just playing a horribly cruel joke to tease me. I was voted most gullible in high school, you know. Can you just imagine the rapture of watching all these guys play together? Granted, they might look a little…er…droopy in their spandex, but damn if I’m not going to hunt this tour down and party like I wasn’t allowed to when they were still in.
Now, where’s my aquanet and curling iron?
Not ashamed that i listened to, rather that i looked like…
Flock of Seagulls. bad 80’s haircut man, i’m so sorry. if i have a picture, i’ll post it, my sister might even have one i think.
The Monkees. (Obviously I’m at least a decade and a half older than most of the respondents here.)
I have a “greatest hits” cassette in my glove box and listen to it occasionally.
My CD collection has a high shame quotient. I still love Neil Diamond, ABBA, Journey, Eddie Money, etc. In fact, there’s a lot of stuff I didn’t buy in the 70s and 80s but now snap up when I see it at the used CD place down the block. My husband the diehard Led Zeppelin freak also enjoys the Neil Diamond stuff and has quite a Carpenters fixation.
I used to listen to Air Supply as a pre-teen and think about some guy singing that stuff to me and I’d nearly weep.
::wondering if she should have deleted that last line