What songs or albums do you own that you are ashamed to admit that you like?

12-inch mix of Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, by Wham!

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.

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.

I once bought an album by The White Boys.

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.

I have turned a few people onto Lawrence Welk.

Are any of them under the age of 80? :wink:

Her version of “You Can Have Him” is a great lost classic imho.

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.

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)

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.

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. :frowning:

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.

George Jones?

Who’s ashamed to own George Jones?

Not that I do, but hey.

That was my primary motivation, too. But, I also bought it because, in the early 80s, ONJ was my major crush. :smiley:

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! :slight_smile:

…oh, and “Pac Man Fever.”

That might have been true 20–30 years ago. But where have you been since then? It’s long been cool to like ABBA.

“Tarzan Boy” by Baltimora. I’ve got the 12" single. So there.

Oh, man. Somewhere amongst my old 45 collection, a copy of that resides. Even worse, I colored in the “C” on the Columbia logo on the sleeve with a yellow marker, so it looked like Pac-Man. :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

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, 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.