[MUSIC] Songs and bands you are ashamed to admit you like(d)

justin....timberlake. i'm not kidding. rock your body...senorita...i can't turn those songs on. i haven't gone out and bought an album or anything...but when i hear those songs, i can't turn them off.

 

Erasure rocks.

I am right there with Codell on Neil Diamond.

I liked Wham.

I feel moe on Ace of Base.

I can relate to Harrisment on Kelly Clarkson (Stuff Like That There blew my doors off).

So, using codell's poker analogy, I see all of these and raise Soft Cell, Men at Work, The Kingston Trio , and the New Christy Minstrels.

 

i saw wham in concert when i was in 5th grade!

 

Yeah, I like Christina's "Beautiful" song and others...I do a mix for my kids when we're driving with girl songs, etc. and damn, I may sign a few bars...

 

I don't know what to say. I mean, seriously - I'm flabbergasted.

 

There aren't any.

 

uh...yeah there are.


sorry...i couldn't resist!!! all good!!! just playing!!! happy friday...get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well.

 

Man, I'm gonna get killed for some of this, but here goes:

Culture Club.

Don't know particularly what. While my aunt Barbara would reach to change the station, singing along in her own words, "Yes, I really want to hurt you/Yes I really want to make you cry," I always liked them. Back in the day. "Karma Chameleon," "Miss Me Blind," hey, they were good.

Although Boy George did get torpedoed when paired with Stevie Wonder on a duet at some music special, back in the mid-80's. Boy just disappeared.

Actually, I'm a little more ashamed of Wham! I even went to see one of their g.d. concerts. George Michael's talented, but I don't think the Wham! songs stand the test of time. And, too, once he came out, then got all serious on us, and didn't gender-neutral his music, everyone forgot about him.

Hmn. Quiet Riot. I'm sorry, but they just sucked. "c*m On Feel the Noize." Ugh.

Um, any rock band with too much mousse and hair spray. Ratt was OK, and I never, ever, EVER could abide Poison; but you know, the 80's "rock" bands with the idea that your hair had to be seen from the last row.

Paula Abdul. Ugh. BLARF.

And the worst: Yes, I was one of the many dumbasses who liked Milli Vanilli. It was catchy, what can I say? LIKE THE FLU. Then there was that great skit on "In Living Color": "Remember, it takes two jerks to make Milli Vanilli." Then the tragedy occurred later, and I couldn't even laugh at that anymore.

Some stuff, though, will always rock. The Police. AC/DC. Journey. Van Halen. Stevie Wonder. Elton John. Etc.

 

My parents had several of the NCM albums and I would play them over and over again.

 

Growing up, I was limited to what my mom had in her record collection which was Barry Manilow, Anne Murray, John Denver and Broadway show tunes. Amazingly, I still turned out to be heterosexual.

 

My wife's unmedicated schizophrenic uncle thinks the NCM are the best band ever. He'll play them for us over the phone - which is a unique experience to say the least.

He sent us a few of their albums, and just recently a limeliters collection. I can't say I liked the music all that much, but it was interesting.

I was more surprised to hear that anyone else knew about them - I assumed they were rather obscure.

 

Vanilla Ice - People won't admit it, but you know every word of "Ice, Ice Baby"

 

Is there any shame in liking Gwen Stafani's last 2 hits?

Rich Girl and Hollaback Girl?

 

my wife HATES hollaback girl...but it's so freaking catchy!

 

After hearing this song about 50 times I decided to look up exactly what a holla back girl is:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holla+back+girl&defid=1182906

 

I liked the Morrisey song English Heart Irish Blood or something close to that when it was on the radio so I bought the album. Well I knew nothing about the guy but as I started listening to the rest of the album it was like some hour long gay rights protest album and I just couldn't get with it. Needless to say the album is buried in the deepest darkest corners of my sock drawer where hopefully noone ever knows my dark secret.

/obligatory "Not that there's anything wrong with that" added to show my compassion on the subject

 

I'm amazed nobody's figured out that the last guy is Tommy Tutone.

I'm the King of bad songs. I love a ton of them.

 

They are pretty obscure and I can't say I have heard them in the last two and a half decades, but when I was between 7 and 11 years old, they were AWESOME!

 

check this article a friend of mine wrote for the Brooklyn Rail:

http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/streets/april05/ipodwars.html

enjoy.

 

I thought the last one was the lead singer for Loverboy.