# What songs or albums do you own that you are ashamed to admit that you like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555 "2009-11-06T12:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/41 "2009-11-07T10:54:28Z")
12-inch mix of _Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go_, by Wham! ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/42 "2009-11-07T15:58:34Z")
I will see you your Yanni and raise you: **John Tesh** I am also currently obsessed…OBSESSED I tell you…with Miley Cyrus’ new song **Party in the USA**. It’s a little embarrassing, I’ll admit. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/43 "2009-11-07T16:16:55Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > I will see you your Yanni and raise you: **John Tesh** > > I am also currently obsessed…OBSESSED I tell you…with Miley Cyrus’ new song **Party in the USA**. It’s a little embarrassing, I’ll admit. Kinda works with your username though…so at least on this message board you’re still good. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/44 "2009-11-08T20:05:01Z")
I will and must admit I still love Hanson and Spice Girls… nostalgia, mostly. I loved them when things were simpler and times were easier… middle school. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/45 "2009-11-09T00:47:10Z")
I once bought an album by The White Boys. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3WyERPA6YM) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvwqOeItB_A) They came out at the height of the RUN DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J era for comparison. My college roommate found the tape and invited others to join him in ridiculing me. ---
**Author:** ![heavybuhbuh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@heavybuhbuh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavybuhbuh)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/46 "2009-11-12T20:53:52Z")
I have turned a few people onto Lawrence Welk. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/47 "2009-11-12T21:15:13Z")
> [@heavybuhbuh](#): > > I have turned a few people onto Lawrence Welk. Are any of them under the age of 80? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/48 "2009-11-12T21:18:14Z")
> [@Mike\_Fun](#): > > Dionne Warwick’s greatest hits. Since I recently joined a Burt Bachrach cover band, I have an excuse for owning it. I liked and owned it for years before that, though. Her version of “You Can Have Him” is a great lost classic imho. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/49 "2009-11-12T21:23:34Z")
The new Britney Spears single “3” is really starting to grow on me. At least Lawrence Welk gets a pass in the indie crowd because of the irony factor… but this is just shameful. I live in fear that the indie police will bang down my door and seize all my Arts&Crafts MP3s, because I’m clearly not worthy any more. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/50 "2009-11-12T21:24:24Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > And though I’m not ashamed of it, some hipster doofus that I went out with mocked me for having a Heart CD :rolleyes: I’d be ashamed if it were 80’s Heart. Dreamboat Annie is make of unabashed win, and their later offerings slowly descend into guilty pleasure territory before becoming just shameful in the 80s. (A couple songs excepted) ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/51 "2009-11-12T21:32:08Z")
I go around town blaring 80s new wave with the windows down. I don’t mind, but my wife does not think that one should blare that kind of music even though she is a huge fan of it, too. I think she told me to turn the volume down for _Too Shy_ by Kajagoogoo. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/52 "2009-11-12T21:38:57Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I really can’t understand people being ashamed to own an ABBA album. No one wants to admit to being an ABBA fan, but everyone can name an ABBA song. I, too, have the Xanadu soundtrack. But in my defense I bought it for the ELO songs. Ok that’s not much of a defense. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/53 "2009-11-12T21:41:23Z")
> [@Neatness\_Counts](#): > > I own a Neil Diamond album, for his own version of “I’m a Believer”, which I think is better than the Monkees version. I’m a Neil fan myself, even though I don’t own any of tunes. Still and all, you must admit that the above is faint praise at best. > [@G0sp3l](#): > > I have about five songs total on my ipod by Tammy Wynette, George Jones and Dolly Parton. George Jones? Who’s ashamed to own George Jones? Not that **I** do, but hey. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/54 "2009-11-12T21:53:58Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > I, too, have the Xanadu soundtrack. But in my defense I bought it for the ELO songs. That was my primary motivation, too. But, I also bought it because, in the early 80s, ONJ was my major crush. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/55 "2009-11-12T22:30:05Z")
I own both the Carpenters’ Greatest Hits and the Captain and Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together.” I also have singles (45s) of the Carpenters’ “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” and Zager and Evans’ “In the Year 2525.” Hey, they don’t make cheese like those anymore! 🙂 …oh, and “Pac Man Fever.” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/56 "2009-11-12T22:52:00Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > No one wants to admit to being an ABBA fan That might have been true 20–30 years ago. But where have you been since then? It’s long been cool to like ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/57 "2009-11-13T18:28:58Z")
“Tarzan Boy” by Baltimora. I’ve got the 12" single. So there. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/58 "2009-11-13T18:48:16Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > …oh, and “Pac Man Fever.” Oh, man. Somewhere amongst my old 45 collection, a copy of that resides. Even worse, I colored in the “C” on the [Columbia logo](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ouxxa0eFam8/SeVjThvL7cI/AAAAAAAACI4/dTRtcz1WHvM/s400/columbia-1.jpg) on the sleeve with a yellow marker, so it looked like Pac-Man. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/59 "2009-11-13T19:22:45Z")
I love, love, love all sorts of 80’s hair metal. I’m not ashamed. What I am ashamed of is the time that metalhead me got busted by the RIAA for downloading a Maroon 5 song. At work, too, so everyone found out about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555/60 "2009-11-13T20:20:51Z")
I’m sure that vast stretches of my music library (including schlock like Tommy James & The Shondells) would horrify a rock connoiseur, . One recent joyfully shameful acquisition is [_Glam Crazee_](http://www.discogs.com/Various-Glam-Crazee-20-Original-Glam-Rock-Hits/release/1794317), featuring such classics as “New York Groove” by Hello and Chicory Tip’s “Son Of My Father”. Even worse, I have The Sweet’s Greatest Hits, and occasionally satisfy the urge to crank up great tunes like “Ballroom Blitz”, “Hellraiser” and “Blockbuster”. I tend to listen on headphones, though, so the extent of my depravity is unknown to others at work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-or-albums-do-you-own-that-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-that-you-like/516555.md?page=4)