# Which CD in your collection are you most embaressed by? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543 "2005-04-22T03:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/81 "2005-04-23T20:48:57Z")
I have a lot of dumb CDs but I think the only one I feel weird having people see is the \*\*Xena \*\* “The Bitter Suite” soundtrack. Or else it’s Robert Mitchum “That Man” which combines his 1967 album and his 1957 calypso album into one handy album. Except that I’m really only embarassed about the calypso album and even then only if someone else hears it. Which they won’t since I save it for private moments of solitary drinking. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/82 "2005-04-24T09:30:50Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > **Christmas in the Stars: The STAR WARS Christmas Album, Featuring the Original Cast; R2-D2 & Anthony Daniels as C-3PO** > > Including that wonderful Holiday Hit… _What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb?)_ > Lead Vocals by John Bongiovi (who later in life became Jon Bon Jovi) > > I am so ashamed. That’s amazing! Man, I’d love to hear that. And I’d like to have that Star Wars Christmas thing with Bea Arthur. I’m not really a fan of the franchise, but that stuff is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/83 "2005-04-24T09:36:53Z")
I am **so so so so so so** grateful that my car window was smashed in and my CD case stolen a couple years ago. If it hadn’t been, I probably could have filled this entire post. As it stands now, I have almost nothing that I really find embarrassing, except maybe Jason Mraz or one [Bond](http://www.bondmusic.net/) CD I bought when I realized my music collection was lacking classical music, dance music AND hot chicks. 3 birds with one stone at the time, but that doesn’t mean I tell people about it now. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/84 "2005-04-24T10:01:09Z")
Oops, I forgot to post my own. [Jordy](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008H5J/qid=1114336987/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2793908-5834446?v=glance&s=music). What do _I_ win? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/85 "2005-04-24T10:38:35Z")
I admit with great shame that my main musical interest during my brief stint in highschool was Marilyn Manson. I got rid of _Portrait of an American Family_ and _AntiChrist Superstar_ but I steadfastly refuse to let go of the _Lunchbox_ single CD. It had several versions of the afore mentioned song and I really liked his cover of _Down in the Park_ (the Gary Newman tune). Some people might be ashamed of Depeche Mode, Adam Ant, ABBA, or (here’s my big one) Donovan, but I’m not. Really, I’m not. What? Stop looking at me that way! Donovan is my guilty pleasure. And I’m starting to dig John Denver in my old age. Someone shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/86 "2005-04-27T14:52:39Z")
Okay, technically I can’t claim this as a winner, since my a) it’s on LP, and b) my parents bought it for me when I was 8. But try not to gasp in horror. [Cringeworthy link](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000J2TO/002-1846059-5300852?v=glance) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/87 "2005-04-27T15:53:05Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > The Spice Girls’ first album. Now, let us never speak of this again. I share your pain! _Spice World_ was the first answer that came to my mind–that, and the Backstreet Boy’s _Millenium_. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/88 "2005-04-27T18:27:14Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > the Backstreet Boy’s _Millenium_. I have it and I’m admitting it! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/89 "2005-04-27T18:37:04Z")
My CD collection pretty much doesn’t get worse than Sheryl Crow, Travelling Wilburys, and Rick Wright’s solo album, but 30 years ago I bought Jimmy Osmond’s solo album. Still a little embarrassed by that. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/90 "2005-04-27T19:21:03Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > My _cassette_ collection, on the other hand … No kidding…Lots of Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, Gene Loves Jezebel…you get the picture. My most embarrassing CD would be Barry Manilow’s Greatest Hits. I can’t blame it on a youthful indescretion, either. I bought it about 4 years ago. But I only listen to it in my car. With the windows rolled up. So no one can hear me singing along. :o Ace of Base is another one, but I bought it when they were popular and I don’t listen to it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/91 "2005-04-27T19:23:56Z")
Oh for chrissakes. That should be “indiscretion”. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/92 "2005-04-27T21:07:56Z")
One of the first CDs I ever bought was Wilson Phillips’ debut album, back in 1990. I kept it in a box with some of my old stuff for years, but when I moved recently I put it back into my CD collection. Not that I ever need to hear it again, but it’s a part of who I once was, dorky as that is. I feel like my music and movie collections are autobiographical, so it seems a little dishonest to rewrite that history. My copy of Kenny Loggins’ Greatest Hits was a gag gift, but I’ve listened to it plenty. Still, I always skip the “House on Pooh Corner” track with backing vocals from Amy Grant. Come on, I have SOME taste! My husband has about half a dozen Insane Clown Posse CDs. He doesn’t necessarily think they’re _good_, but he finds them hilarious. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/93 "2005-04-27T22:11:36Z")
_Scene: Collectors’ Anonymous meeting._ My name is **fishbicycle**. I am a record collector. _Group: Hi, **fishbicycle**!_ I have more than 12,000 records. It’s hard to pin down what kind of music I like, because I have so many different kinds. Not genres, specifically, but what I’ve tried to assemble is all the songs I know and like, and even some stuff I’m not too keen on, because it’s worthwhile to have for the lesson. And to try to get a good representation of what was on the charts during the popular music era. Where I like a group enough, I like to try to get their complete discographies. It starts at or possibly before 1887 (I have an mp3 of the first ever recorded sound, according to the Smithsonian) and peters out at the end of the 1980s. I have a great deal of what was on the Top 40 since they started keeping one. So it’s hard to be ashamed of anything I have. You’ll find everything from Lesley Gore to King Crimson, The Partridge Family to Tom Waits, Perry Como to Max Webster, Doris Day to Rush, Benny Goodman to Donny Osmond, Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes to Brian Eno. If I had to pick one, I think I’d have to admit to never actually wanting to hear “Funky Cold Medina” again. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/94 "2005-04-28T04:32:30Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > _Scene: Collectors’ Anonymous meeting._ > > My name is **fishbicycle**. I am a record collector. > > _Group: Hi, **fishbicycle**!_ > > I have more than 12,000 records… Root-Boy Slim and the Sex-Change Band? The Gordons? (Southern Illinois bluegrass.) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/95 "2005-04-28T04:41:33Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Root-Boy Slim and the Sex-Change Band? I had an LP by them once, but I traded it for a Kate Bush colored vinyl bootleg. > [@](#): > > The Gordons? (Southern Illinois bluegrass.) Nope, sorry, I don’t think I own a bluegrass record. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/96 "2005-04-28T06:09:14Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Nope, sorry, I don’t think I own a bluegrass record. Wow. 12,000 records and not a single bluegrass? I can’t think of anything more uniquely and distinctively American (and therefore collectible). The best of it is _baroque_, i.e., lots of stuff going on at once (if I am understanding and using the term correctly). Look into Bill Monroe, Doc and Merle Watson, The Dillards, Earl Scruggs, and, more recently, Alison Krauss and Union Station. I like The Gordons because the female vocalist really “spikes” her vocals. p.s. How about Trout Fishing in America? Robert Randolph and the Family Band? Brave Combo? Robert Earl Keen, Jr.? The Gipsy Kings? The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir? Israel Kamakawiwo’ole? John Gorka? Greg Brown? Angelique Kidjo? Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens? Wayne Toups and Zydecajun? Luka Bloom? Francky Vincent? Gerard Hubert? The Balfa Brothers? Selecter? If not, you gotta get some… ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/97 "2005-04-28T06:15:38Z")
Amy Grant’s _Heart in Motion_, on CD. Shut up right now. I don’t listen to it much. But when I do, I sing my damn heart out. QUIET, ALL OF YOU. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/98 "2005-04-28T07:03:09Z")
I own _three_ **Oasis** albums. I wouldn’t be embarassed by any sinlge one of them, or maybe any two. Three is just ridiculous, though. Man, did that get old quick. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/99 "2005-04-28T13:25:57Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Wow. 12,000 records and not a single bluegrass? I can’t think of anything more uniquely and distinctively American (and therefore collectible). How about Muddy Waters? Little Richard? Chuck Berry? Phil Spector? The Beach Boys? Those are the first names that came to my mind, thinking of distinctly American music. Actually, I’m not an American, and there isn’t much in the way of music that appeals to me less than country music of any stripe. Back in my first post, I said I was amassing a representation of what’s been on the popular music charts. Bluegrass and zydeco and the like never made a dent in them. I could start my own oldies station tomorrow and have a larger playlist than any existing station. But I haven’t collected specific genres, and there are lots of musics of which I have no examples. No matter how excellent others may find them, some kinds of music are just fishbicycle repellent. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543/100 "2005-04-30T06:02:59Z")
yeah, I have the first Limp Bizkit CD. everything after that one’s been utter shit, especially Fred Durst’s little image, but I still dig the first one and still listen to it… doesn’t mean I don’t feel cheesy as hell about it though. ^\_^;;; [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cd-in-your-collection-are-you-most-embaressed-by/300543.md?page=6)