Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Therapy: Admit your bad music loves.

Ok....this will be theraputic....trust me!!

This is the time to vent....admit your guilty pleasures in terms of music. What music is in your collection that you hope nobody ever sees? What bands would you never admit to liking, but in secret sing along with on the radio?

Ok...I'll go first. I thnk its now obvious I'm an 80s teenager!

Here are a few CDs I hate to admit I own (and listen to once in a while):

The Carpenters - Greatest Hits
Abba - Greatest Hits
Milli Vanilli (their first and only only album)
Karyn White (one hit wonder pop star in late 80s)
Duran Duran - Greatest Hits
Boy George - Greatest Hits

Ok....I feel better now. :o It's in the open....I feel a weight lifted. :cry:

Ok....this will be theraputic....trust me!!

This is the time to vent....admit your guilty pleasures in terms of music. What music is in your collection that you hope nobody ever sees? What bands would you never admit to liking, but in secret sing along with on the radio?

Ok...I'll go first. I thnk its now obvious I'm an 80s teenager!

Here are a few CDs I hate to admit I own (and listen to once in a while):

The Carpenters - Greatest Hits
Abba - Greatest Hits
Milli Vanilli (their first and only only album)
Karyn White (one hit wonder pop star in late 80s)
Duran Duran - Greatest Hits
Boy George - Greatest Hits

Ok....I feel better now. :o It's in the open....I feel a weight lifted. :cry:
lol.. Im an 80's fan too.. love duran duran too.. hungry like the wolf is a great running tune! boy was I happy when Def leppard "poor some sugar on me" song came back to the charts!! the most embarrassing song i listen to while running is cheer's "strong enough" I will turn it down so noone knows but i guess secret is out now!:)

Songs: Ohia
Owen (aka Mike Kinsella)
Superstitions of the Sky
Secret Stars
Saves the Day (first two LPs only)
The Get-Up Kids (first two 7"s, Four Minute Mile LP)

Rockapella.

That is all that needs to be said.

Falco
The Red Violin Soundtrack
The Fixx
Robert Cray
Roger Waters solo material
Billy Idol

I don't think any of this is bad music, but it seems a lot of other folks think otherwise...

I have Dan Fogelbergs first 4 or 5 albums (yes those large black thingies)
A few David Sanborn albums
and Henry Gross' first 3 albums (at Shannon I gave up).

marty

ABBA Rocks !!

Any 80's 1 hit wonder.........

The Monkees.........

Spice Girls......

The Ventures: surf music and TV theme albums.
Respighi: Pines of Rome. Reprehensible bombast, but fun to crank up.
Wire: late career sellout techno/dance music.
UFO2: One Hour of Space Rock.
Any mellotron-death-of-the-universe prog-rock album (i.e., King Crimson's "In The Court Of The Crimson King").
Neil Young folkie ballads, like "Comes a Time" and "Long May You Run"
Blondie

Merton told me he likes "Muskrat Love" by Captain and Teneille (sp?) and "Ben" by Michael Jackson. But I'm not supposed to tell anybody so you didn't hear it from me.

Hey Poppa, the Ventures were actually GREAT! Don't be embarrassed! Surf music rules! The Brits killed American guitar instrumentals, too bad. :(

Blondie had some good chops, too, at one time. I think drugs, booze and general fast living killed that band.

Beach Boys.....Love the Beach Boys. And Chicago.

2 Unlimited:eek:
Traci Lords:o
Snap!:lol: Woohoo! I got the power!

I have a Winger CD from, what, the late '80's, early '90's? Never listen to it anymore, but I can't even give it away. I guess I should just toss it...gotta recycle the case, tho.;)

[QUOTE=KingTermite]Ok....this will be theraputic....trust me!!

Sorry I'm in serious denial.
The ABBA, Billy Idol and Duran Duran CD's all belong to my wife.
Yeah, thats it my wife.

I do own the soundtrack to Grease though!

'Rasher

I still listen to The Real Thing album from Faith No More (remember Epic? "It's it! What is it? It's it! What is it?")

Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate ----------

...but vulgarities are divine. :lol:

Aqua
Justin Timberlake
Will Smith

I still listen to The Real Thing album from Faith No More (remember Epic? "It's it! What is it? It's it! What is it?")
When did that become bad music? I still rock out to that whole album.:o



...but vulgarities are divine.:lol:
Hey, don't let my secret out! Everyone'll start doing it...again!:D

How can the Beach Boys be a guilty pleasure? Pet Sounds is the single greatest piece of recorded music ever.

Merton told me he likes "Muskrat Love" by Captain and Teneille (sp?) and "Ben" by Michael Jackson. But I'm not supposed to tell anybody so you didn't hear it from me.

Actually....I forgot to list that one. I have Captain & Teneille's greatest hits CD too. I love "Muskrat Love", but the first song I remember loving as a kid was "Love will keep us together". I think Teneille was also my first crush.

Aqua
I give you cahones of steel credit for admitting that one!!

[QUOTE=KingTermite]Ok....this will be theraputic....trust me!!

Sorry I'm in serious denial.
The ABBA, Billy Idol and Duran Duran CD's all belong to my wife.
Yeah, thats it my wife.

I do own the soundtrack to Grease though!

'Rasher


Grease is the best ever! I know all the words and all the moves to those songs.

"Hopelessly deevohhhhted to youuuuuuuuuu......."

I have Prince's 1999 album. Album, not CD. Not that it's bad (it's not), but it would surprise most people that I'd have it and like it.

I don't have any music I'm ashamed of listening to, but people are surprised when they find out I like Erasure, ABBA, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance

How can the Beach Boys be a guilty pleasure? Pet Sounds is the single greatest piece of recorded music ever.

Yeah, but anything post 60's is atrocious. Kokomo anyone? :D

80's music in general
"Hair Bands" ...80's metal
Jessica Simpson
Classical Music

I love the soundtrack to Xanadu.

If you like Pet Sounds, make sure to check out Shine. Brian Wilson put it out solo a year ago, and it's really well done, you know - if you like that sort of thing.

Am I the only one who has this pet peeve? Albums are collections: photo albums are collections of photographs, music albums are collections of songs. A "record" is the old term for putting a recording on a big black plastic disk w/ a needle in the groove and all. Albums are released in several formats; on records, cassettes, and compact disks (and and even digitally for iPods) and they're all still albums.

Ooh, you're right, this is therapudic... Thanks!

Yeah, but anything post 60's is atrocious. Kokomo anyone? :D
to appreciate The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson’s output in the 70’s you’ve got to be...well...a bit goofy. After the Smile failure Brain took to his bed and has been only sporadically brilliant since..and lucky to be alive.

Throughout the 70’s the Beach Boys continued to record and certainly released a whole lot of crap, but many close watches, myself included, count many of these albums as their favorites in the entire catalog. Sunflower and Surf’s Up, both albums recently released on one cd is a fantastic collection of little heard Beach Boys music, the final two minutes of Surf’s Up are breathtakingly beautiful (known as the Father of the Man coda). Dennis Wilson stepped up and wrote some great numbers included here, as well as releasing his own well respected solo record Pacific Ocean Blue, which remains out of print.

I’ve never been a big Mike Love fan and consider his contributions skippable. Most of the music that is painfully bad can be collected under the occasional Brian Is Back tag. 15 Big Ones is pretty lousy from start to finish, but Johnny Carson on The Beach Boys Love You is worth the price of admission.

It takes a bit of work and there’s plenty to cringe about, but that 70’s stuff is the reason I continue to listen to the Beach Boys today.

Barbra Streisand's Broadway album. It's really da bomb, really. I love "Porgy and Bess".

Koffee

I give you cahones of steel credit for admitting that one!!

Yeah, it's embarassing, but Barbie Girl was the big hit during a really memorable time of my life. Plus I really admire their lawyers for sticking it to Mattel, Inc.

For You Toni Tennille fans: that's her on Pink Floyd's The Wall playing the groupie, the one that says "are all these your guitars...wanna take a bath" on One Of My Turns.

Barbra Streisand's Broadway album. It's really da bomb, really. I love "Porgy and Bess".

Koffee

I'm stunned you would place HER in a "bad music" thread. For about forty years, she has been the second greatest living singer of Broadway music. She takes second place to Cleo Laine, whose versions of Broadway songs are astounding wonderful.

Cleo Laine did an album of "Porgy and Bess" with Ray Charles that is the best recording of those songs ever. They both understood the characters, and she "became" Bess, and Ray became Porgy. Their "P & B" belongs on any list of the "100 greatest albums of all-time".

The current price for that version of "Porgy and Bess" at Amazon.com is $159...it has become an expensive "cult" favorite. On E-Bay, the bidding on a used copy is currently at around $50.

Am I the only one who has this pet peeve? Albums are collections: photo albums are collections of photographs, music albums are collections of songs. A "record" is the old term for putting a recording on a big black plastic disk w/ a needle in the groove and all. Albums are released in several formats; on records, cassettes, and compact disks (and and even digitally for iPods) and they're all still albums.

For some of us, we still buy records. In my case, all of my music is on vinyl, and the only CD player I own is on my computer.

For some of us, we still buy records. In my case, all of my music is on vinyl, and the only CD player I own is on my computer.

Please, buy records by all means; many (most?) albums sound better on vinyl. The thing that gets me worked up is when people refer to "albums" to distinguish from other formats. I don't get too worked up though, that's why it's a pet peeve. ;)

Please, buy records by all means; many (most?) albums sound better on vinyl.

Only on the highest end turntables.

Dollar for dollar, you're going to get way better sound on a lower budget from a CD system.

Only on the highest end turntables.

Dollar for dollar, you're going to get way better sound on a lower budget from a CD system.


Turntables are OK, but over rated. Probably by the same ninnies who tell their friends they need to buy monster cable and tube amplifiers.
I like loading .wav files onto a HD, no changing CD's, no skipping.

I'm stunned you would place HER in a "bad music" thread. For about forty years, she has been the second greatest living singer of Broadway music. She takes second place to Cleo Laine, whose versions of Broadway songs are astounding wonderful.

Cleo Laine did an album of "Porgy and Bess" with Ray Charles that is the best recording of those songs ever. They both understood the characters, and she "became" Bess, and Ray became Porgy. Their "P & B" belongs on any list of the "100 greatest albums of all-time".

The current price for that version of "Porgy and Bess" at Amazon.com is $159...it has become an expensive "cult" favorite. On E-Bay, the bidding on a used copy is currently at around $50.


Do you have Judy Garland too?

Tube amplifiers? surely you jest.
there is something palpable about music played through tubes.
harmonic distortion? neoform cozmic wavelenghts? placebo effect?
I don't know but given a modertate turntable and cartridge (rega planar 2
ortofon or sumiko cart) it blows away the same priced CD player
(to my ears that is).
SACD is a different story all together.

Back to guilty pleasuer I have been listening to Savage Garden's
Savage Garden and Affirmation all day.
Don't know why, but I really like it.

marty

Ok...I'll go first. I thnk its now obvious I'm an 80s teenager!

Here are a few CDs I hate to admit I own (and listen to once in a while):

The Carpenters - Greatest Hits
Abba - Greatest Hits
Milli Vanilli (their first and only only album)
Karyn White (one hit wonder pop star in late 80s)
Duran Duran - Greatest Hits
Boy George - Greatest Hits

Ok....I feel better now. :o It's in the open....I feel a weight lifted. :cry:
FREAK!

Every once in a while I listen to Michael Jackson's Thriller. And do the moonwalk.

I listen to Alice Cooper - okay, I'm obsessed - and you probably have to be a fan to really understand this, but...

I have,and play regularly, both Lace and Whiskey and Zipper Catches Skin. I even play through No More Love At Your Conveniance. Oh, and Freak Out.

Trust me, they qualify for this thread.

I listen to Alice Cooper - okay, I'm obsessed - and you probably have to be a fan to really understand this, but...

I have,and play regularly, both Lace and Whiskey and Zipper Catches Skin. I even play through No More Love At Your Conveniance. Oh, and Freak Out.

Trust me, they qualify for this thread.

Where have you been ZG, haven't seen you around for a while. Did you ever get to see Alice Cooper last summer?

Before Beatles 1967 tunes- there is no music history for me. I am very fussy about my music. I plead innocent. Well, maybe - I recall- there was one Duran Duran cut I liked amongt all their crap.

I don't know but given a modertate turntable and cartridge (rega planar 2
ortofon or sumiko cart) it blows away the same priced CD player
(to my ears that is).

Ditto...but, in my case, using Music Hall/Benz Micro/CIAudio. When I want to actually listen to music, as opposed to having it as background noise, vinyl works best to my ears.

You turntable guys are on crack I think! hee hee. I loved vinyl before CDs came out, but come on..... even with an unblemished disk, a premium needle and good high end system, you are getting sound loss and wear on any record every time you play it. Tell me you love it for "romantic/retro/nostalgia" reasons, but the other stuff is a bunch of bunk IMO. :-)

Crack is for digiphiles :D You need it to tolerate the grating treble, and artificially-enhanced bass. "Who needs musicianship, we've got Pro Tools!" Puhlease...

True vinyl connoiseurs prefer fine hash...

yes...your right. Hash or weed not crack! :-)

and.... to get back on topic for the thread... I secretly love the soundtrack to Vision Quest.

and.... to get back on topic for the thread... I secretly love the soundtrack to Vision Quest.
That reminds me, I'm quite fond of the Flash Gordon soundtrack(by Queen).:)

Some tunes on my Ipod that I'd be ashamed to admit to anyone except my wife and BF:

Britney Spears - Toxic
Pink - Get the Party Started
Tupac - Hit 'em Up
Eminem - Kill You
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body

I'm a 40 year old C.P.A., married with one child. No one who works with me would ever suspect that I listen to mindless pop music like this.

Barbra--from "Funny Girl" on, even if the Clintons do like her. Felt like I'd won the lottery last year when I found a Laura Nyro box set on sale in an Olympia record store--a very much underappreciated, if never ever "cool" artist. No, I won't go so far as to admit liking Three Dog Night's covers of her work!