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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:16 PM Mar 2014

Post your embarassing musical secret here....

Go ahead and let the shame flow all over your body as you post your musical dirty lil secret.

Mine?

I know all the words to "Humpty Hump" by Digital Underground.

I also have Creed and Color Me Badd songs on my Ipod and I do listen to them from time to time.

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Post your embarassing musical secret here.... (Original Post) LynneSin Mar 2014 OP
I actually like some of Britney Spears' stuff steve2470 Mar 2014 #1
As a musician in the early 70s, I once performed Neil Diamond tunes in public aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2014 #2
I love "Sweet Caroline"..... Jade Fox Mar 2014 #5
That is a song I often wish would go away tabbycat31 Mar 2014 #24
A long long time ago... pipi_k Mar 2014 #54
Crash Test Dummies: Superman's Song siligut Mar 2014 #3
Once upon a time.... Broken_Hero Mar 2014 #4
I am now ok with Justin Timberlake. Xyzse Mar 2014 #6
psssstttt..... LynneSin Mar 2014 #8
Well, I haven't bought a single CD or music of his. Xyzse Mar 2014 #9
Duran Duran Throd Mar 2014 #7
I was just humming Hungry Like The Wolf this morning OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #64
Not just embarrassing... pipi_k Mar 2014 #10
I don't understand the hate-on for Nickelback... Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #14
I don't get it, either. GoCubsGo Mar 2014 #16
I have three of their albims and sing along to them... Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #17
I don't understand it either... pipi_k Mar 2014 #46
Noooo, I can't follow you there lol OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #65
I have to admit pipi_k Mar 2014 #78
Ode to Joy OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #94
I've always believed that it's the singer, not the song... Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #102
So true... pipi_k Mar 2014 #106
Some of the best pipi_k Mar 2014 #105
BOAT! RUDDER! STRANGE MOUNTIAN! OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #108
I have over 20k songs on my Ipod and I will admit there is one Ted Nugent song. However... LynneSin Mar 2014 #76
I actually like "Stranglehold" and cyberswede Mar 2014 #77
See...there ya go... pipi_k Mar 2014 #80
See I would not allow that LynneSin Mar 2014 #83
She also likes Celtic music... cyberswede Mar 2014 #87
OK I thought pipi_k Mar 2014 #79
Hello my name is Lynnesin and I'm a musical hoarder LynneSin Mar 2014 #82
I'm also pipi_k Mar 2014 #88
LOL that was the one I was going to fess up to when I read the OP laundry_queen Mar 2014 #110
My children make fun of me for loving Steely Dan. Demoiselle Mar 2014 #11
Tell the kids you'll trade them in for a brand new puppy... LynneSin Mar 2014 #13
Thank you! They're too old to trade in now. Demoiselle Mar 2014 #26
Never say never LynneSin Mar 2014 #42
No way! pipi_k Mar 2014 #85
I am not embarrassed. Wait Wut Mar 2014 #12
I was surprised at how funny JT is, as well. GoCubsGo Mar 2014 #15
Copa was a happy song. Wait Wut Mar 2014 #30
Barry Manilow writes the songs the whole world sings LynneSin Mar 2014 #20
He's ear worm worthy. Wait Wut Mar 2014 #31
Me too. He came to Columbia Md to perform in an outdoor venue in the 1980s. DebJ Mar 2014 #22
His voice wasn't exceptional.. Wait Wut Mar 2014 #33
Justin-"Bring it on down to Omletville kairos12 Mar 2014 #57
And... Wait Wut Mar 2014 #93
JT may be my exception to the boy band rule OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #62
"I know all the words to "Humpty Hump" by Digital Underground." Rob H. Mar 2014 #18
I'm listening to it right now as I post LynneSin Mar 2014 #19
I had 7 years of piano lessons LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #21
Not being able to read sheet music was gonna be my dirty secret too! pink-o Mar 2014 #117
You seem to be doing okay musically LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #118
This should generate some puking smilies... DebJ Mar 2014 #23
No pipi_k Mar 2014 #89
Ke$ha tabbycat31 Mar 2014 #25
I kinda like John Denver Ron Obvious Mar 2014 #27
Shhh... CherokeeDem Mar 2014 #29
This should never be an embarrassment LadyHawkAZ Mar 2014 #35
You know you're right... Ron Obvious Mar 2014 #37
I saw him in concert when I was 17 LadyHawkAZ Mar 2014 #40
John Denver was a very talented musician. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2014 #72
Ain't nothin wrong with that! OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #63
My daughter downloaded this J Denver cover album for me. progressoid Mar 2014 #68
I got fired from my task of knocking blocks of wood together back in grade school... Kaleva Mar 2014 #28
hahahaha noamnety Mar 2014 #48
"MMM Bop" by Hanson. LumosMaxima Mar 2014 #32
This one time at band camp... NightWatcher Mar 2014 #34
LOL - did you know a fifth of vodka... cyberswede Mar 2014 #39
once you've hidden weed in a trumpet case, the smell lingers for months NightWatcher Mar 2014 #41
The massive crush I had on Prince around age 12 LadyHawkAZ Mar 2014 #36
I have a Partridge Family CD... cyberswede Mar 2014 #38
I Think I Love You OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #66
I like something from almost every genre there is OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #43
So... pipi_k Mar 2014 #50
WHales and Gregorians make good music OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #61
I cannot sing a note. femmocrat Mar 2014 #44
I once lost a kamikaze karaoke draw... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #45
Did you manage pipi_k Mar 2014 #51
I was in band in high school. noamnety Mar 2014 #47
What instrument did you play? Do you still play it? n/t DebJ Mar 2014 #49
At the time I played bass clarinet. noamnety Mar 2014 #52
I always wanted to play the flute. DebJ Mar 2014 #53
I have writing credit on a bad song Generic Brad Mar 2014 #55
C'mon spill! progressoid Mar 2014 #69
I thought that this one was the bomb when I was in college. TexasTowelie Mar 2014 #56
I bought a think black belt to wear with my acid wash jeans... LynneSin Mar 2014 #75
When I was a kid, Brigid Mar 2014 #58
I love disco... Archae Mar 2014 #59
Last year I made a 70s/disco mix-tape (CD) OriginalGeek Mar 2014 #67
In the late 70s... GReedDiamond Mar 2014 #60
I like this song for a while. progressoid Mar 2014 #70
I have a weakness for video game music, Jamaal510 Mar 2014 #71
Hah! pipi_k Mar 2014 #90
Nothing wrong with videogame music. Archae Mar 2014 #92
as long as it isn't videogame-inspired music. foo_bar Mar 2014 #116
I loved the DIY attitude of punk.... sendero Mar 2014 #73
I have Daddy Yankee and Pitbull on my iTunes. a la izquierda Mar 2014 #74
I listen to "New Age" music when I'm stressed out Coventina Mar 2014 #81
I bought from itunes the soundtrack to... lame54 Mar 2014 #84
Pet Shop Boys el_bryanto Mar 2014 #86
... Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #91
I have Nintendo video game music on my playlist chrisa Mar 2014 #95
My middle-school daughter was traumatized by me liking Depeche Mode. kairos12 Mar 2014 #96
TMBG dawg Mar 2014 #97
I like Ke$ha's music (generally at least) when.. mvd Mar 2014 #98
I was first chair trombone in my high school Orchestra Arcanetrance Mar 2014 #99
I would have loved being the first chair trombone in my high school Orchestra. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #124
I didn't feel I deserved it my heart wasn't in it I guess that's why I was embarrassed Arcanetrance Mar 2014 #125
Well that sounds like a perfectly reasonable explanation. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #126
I actually liked Call Me Maybe Liberalynn Mar 2014 #100
Same here mvd Mar 2014 #101
I used to be a roadie for a guy named KamaAina Mar 2014 #103
So.... pipi_k Mar 2014 #107
I steal Casiotone beats Tom Ripley Mar 2014 #104
I like Fergie... JCMach1 Mar 2014 #109
I know when I hit the button wrong too many times on my iPod... Iggo Mar 2014 #111
I have A.F.I and Abandon Kansas before Abba LynneSin Mar 2014 #113
I have a perfectly good acoustic guitar in the case directly behind me IDemo Mar 2014 #112
Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is just an incredibly catchy song... Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #114
Pssst....I like this version. Iggo Mar 2014 #120
"Yes" songs make me sing outloud. Myrina Mar 2014 #115
Don't have an Ipud or know what an mp3 is....... Hula Popper Mar 2014 #119
I have no embarassing musical secrets, but a friend of mine in Canada does. Captain Stern Mar 2014 #121
I thought you were going to say your Canadian friend is Justin Bieber LynneSin Mar 2014 #123
I saw the most awesome Jimmy Paige guitar riff from Stairway to Heaven madinmaryland Mar 2014 #122

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
2. As a musician in the early 70s, I once performed Neil Diamond tunes in public
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:26 PM
Mar 2014

Sweet Caroline comes to mind. My band was really into jazz fusion at the time and we'd go over to the keyboardist's garage to get high and practice. But he convinced us to learn some Neil Diamond tunes in order to get gigs. It was painful.

tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
24. That is a song I often wish would go away
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:50 PM
Mar 2014

MY name is Caroline, and if I had a penny for everytime someone references that song to me, I would be richer than the Koch brothers.

It's a good song otherwise, I am just tired of people linking me to it.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
54. A long long time ago...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:55 PM
Mar 2014

before Steve Winwood and Amy Winehouse and the Monkees, there was a song called "The Happy Wanderer" where part of the lyrics go, "Val-da-reee...tra la la la la...Val-da-rah.... tra la la la la....etc."

And people would always sing that to me.


I hated that damned song.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
3. Crash Test Dummies: Superman's Song
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:41 PM
Mar 2014

My latest joy/crush:



And this isn't music, but it is embarrassing that it cracks me up every time:

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
4. Once upon a time....
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:42 PM
Mar 2014

In a galaxy much like our own a few friends and I use to have a 3hr block on a local radio station, fri/sat nights from midnight to 3am and I liked Bryan adams and we got a request for the Everything I do song and I put it on, and usually I would sing a long with the song and I was during this time but I knew my mike wasn't on. During the airing of this Everything I do song, one of my friends secretly turned on my Mike when I was singing along and I didn't realize I was on live til I put my headphones back on...so for about 2-3 minutes I was singing to my hometown(and singing badly at that).

So yes, Bryan Adams, I like him and he is one of my embarrassing musical secrets.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
6. I am now ok with Justin Timberlake.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:02 PM
Mar 2014

I didn't used to be...

For shame...

I even learned the damn "It's Not a Bad Thing" on the guitar and ukulele.
-hangs head in shame-

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
8. psssstttt.....
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:14 PM
Mar 2014

I have Justin Timberlake on my Ipod. That one with Love Sexy song on it (not his last album).

Hey Amazon had the digital download for $2.99 so I figured why not.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
64. I was just humming Hungry Like The Wolf this morning
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:23 AM
Mar 2014

When I was a teen a friend of mine was in a bar band that covered that song. Got a lot drunk listening to that lol. I didn't even have to pretend to be a roadie - they just let me in.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
10. Not just embarrassing...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:30 PM
Mar 2014

but downright shameful, judging by the opinions I've seen...


I like Nickelback.



Oh, and even worse...Ted Nugent is a filthy shitheaded pig, but I like some of his songs.



sorry...

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
14. I don't understand the hate-on for Nickelback...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:06 PM
Mar 2014

I love their stuff. And if anybody has something bad to say about that, well "I know you are but what am I?"

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
16. I don't get it, either.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:10 PM
Mar 2014

I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to them, but I don't hate them. I'd rather listen to Nickleback than to Lorde. The sound of her makes me want to gouge out my eardrums.

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
17. I have three of their albims and sing along to them...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:15 PM
Mar 2014

while playing my guitar. I think their songs are fun for the most part.

Haters gonna hate, I guess.
It's usually the dirty hipsters who loved them until they became successful.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
46. I don't understand it either...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:40 PM
Mar 2014

Then again, I don't quite understand how so many people can like Bruce Springsteen or a few others I can't quite remember at the moment.

Oh well...



OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
65. Noooo, I can't follow you there lol
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:29 AM
Mar 2014

I like a band named Gorebortion and _I_ think Chad Kroeger's lyrics are middle school juvenile. But you get to like what you like. It took me a long time to learn that. I'm not proud that it took me a long time but I gotta be honest.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
78. I have to admit
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:50 AM
Mar 2014

that sometimes I don't even pay attention to the lyrics.

Or sometimes it's just a part of them that connects and that's why I like the whole song.


Long ago I knew some guys in a band. In typical young-guy-who-thinks-he-knows-it-all fashion, one of them proclaimed that anybody can write music but it's the LYRICS that really count.

Meh.

Yeah, lyrics are important, but I can often get more meaning from a piece of music that doesn't even have lyrics.

Like Classical music. There are some pieces that can literally take me through every emotion there is, and then back again. With no lyrics whatsoever.



OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
94. Ode to Joy
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 11:58 AM
Mar 2014

Actually I guess it does have lyrics but I usually hear it as an instrumental and it literally lifts my spirits no matter how lifted I already was. I can't not be happy when I hear that.

lol! I used to know it all too. I wish I still did. Except that when I knew it all I was an ass about it. Heheh, back then I knew so much I even knew what everyone else was doing wrong.

Most of the music I listen to regularly you can't even understand the lyrics - the vocals are growled so low that the voice is really just another percussive instrument rather than a vehicle for a message. And yet, despite the notoriety that metal in general has, many of them are meaningful (not all of course - there's some stupid high-school lyrics in metal too for sure). Gojira is a French progressive Tech-death metal band that sings mostly about the envirnment (and how we are screwing it up). Cattle Decapitation is a great grind band that looks like a gory mess of nonsense but the founding members are vegans (well, maybe just vegetarians) and most of their lyrics are written about humanity's sins from the cow's point of view. (At one time all the members were vegetarians but line-ups change and whatnot)

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
102. I've always believed that it's the singer, not the song...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 04:20 PM
Mar 2014

The song remains the same; it's the particular performance of that song that gets you hooked.

Hell, I heard a kickass performance of Van Halen on the banjo fer chrissakes.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
106. So true...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 05:03 PM
Mar 2014

I had a bit of a small go-around a while back with someone who thought I was wrong for liking Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Will Always Love You" more than Dolly Parton's rendition.


Hey, people can like whatever singer they want. I just don't think Dolly did it as soulfully as Whitney did.


pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
105. Some of the best
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 04:48 PM
Mar 2014

songs with lyrics that are unintelligible are also the funniest when people end up making up their own lyrics.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
108. BOAT! RUDDER! STRANGE MOUNTIAN!
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 05:11 PM
Mar 2014

I saw the original before youtube screwed up the sync (the guy who made it explains it in the comments) - this is harder to watch because you have to keep up with everything that's out of sync between the pictures and the music

&noredirect=1

it was always one of my two favorites. The other one being My loony bun is fine, Benny lava!

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
76. I have over 20k songs on my Ipod and I will admit there is one Ted Nugent song. However...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:15 AM
Mar 2014

Absolutely no Justin Bieber.

I bought the fundraiser CD they did after Japanese Earthquake and that had a Bieber song on it. I deleted it off the collection.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
77. I actually like "Stranglehold" and
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:50 AM
Mar 2014

"Free for All," but the Nuge is a total whackjob POS, as a person.

I'm forced to occasionally listen to J Bieber, as I have an 11 year old daughter.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
80. See...there ya go...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:00 AM
Mar 2014

"Stranglehold" is a totally awesome song!


So are "Homebound" and "Death By Misadventure"


I'm sort of mixed on "Terminus el Dorado", though. The message behind it is a little dark, which isn't the problem. It's that he sounds a bit too....happy, I guess...when relating the tragedy that happened when a teen aged girl stole the keys to Daddy's car.


And yeah...Nugent is a total whackjob. Well, OK, back in the day he was known as the Motor City Madman, but who knew it wasn't just an act...

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
83. See I would not allow that
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:13 AM
Mar 2014

For a few months back when I was 11 I was a Shaun Cassidy fan. My brother made me ditch those albums for Zeppelin, Queen, Floyd, Yes, Rush, King Crimson etc etc.

My best friend's daughters who are at that age of swooning over bad pop music have totally skipped that stage of life thank goodness. The oldest loves the doors and the youngest still likes video game music.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
87. She also likes Celtic music...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:33 AM
Mar 2014

and Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie. But all the kids at school like the pop stuff, so it gives her something in common with her peers. I'm sure she'll grow out of it.

My 13 y.o. son is familiar enough with the current pop music to be able to relate to his peers (like when everyone was all into "Thrift Shop" a while back), but his music of choice is Hendrix, Ozzy, AC/DC, RHCP, Motorhhead, & Green Day. He also likes the songs by The Prodigy that he found on my iPod. I'm working on getting him to like Zeppelin, the Doors, Pink Floyd, JTull, etc, but it has to happen on his own time (as far as he knows LOL). He did remark the other day that I listen to a large variety of music styles - and thus learned the word "eclectic," which he seemed to think was a cool word, so hopefully, he'll be open to more mom influences.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
79. OK I thought
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:52 AM
Mar 2014

I had a lot of songs on my mp3 player...

20K on yours? Holy cow!!!!


Oh, and I will never Bieber-ize either.


I do have some pride...

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
82. Hello my name is Lynnesin and I'm a musical hoarder
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:11 AM
Mar 2014

And technically all the songs are legal. I refused to use those download services like napster.

But I did have some unique ways of finding music outside of the great sales they have from Amazon MP3 page. Like when I was dog-sitting for a friend for a week. Each night I went home and took about 10 of her CDs she owned and uploaded them. Plus my local library has a massive CD collection you can check out like a book. And finally there was a time that I swapped my Ipod Classic with my friend's Ipod Classic so I got a bunch from him.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
88. I'm also
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:40 AM
Mar 2014

a musical hoarder, but you're waaaaay better at it than I am.


I'm pretty sure I uploaded my entire CD library to iTunes some years back, and some of Mr Pipi's as well, although I had to be a bit more selective with his because I'm not that much into C & W or (Modern) Jazz.

Anyway, I must say you have some real creative ways to find music...

Kudos to the Queen of Music Hoarding!

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
110. LOL that was the one I was going to fess up to when I read the OP
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 11:23 AM
Mar 2014

You beat me to it.

Of course, they are Canadian and as a Canadian I like to support our musicians. Plus, my ex-h went to school with the original drummer (their moms are still in contact) and my ex's best friend went to school with the rest of the band. Same class as the lead singer or his brother...can't remember which. I think a lot of people who hate them just don't get the whole 'rural Alberta' culture at the time of our 'coming of age'.

I don't like ALL of their stuff, but they do have quite a few catchy tunes.

My other weaknesses as evidenced by my iTunes library include:
Britney Spears
80's hair metal
Anything top 40, really. I love pop and I'm not afraid to let everyone know it!
Some Disney teeny bopper stuff - hey when you have kids, and hear the music 40 billion times, it grows on you.


Oh, and I sometimes download 'The Voice' performances.

Phew! I feel like a weight has lifted - so glad to get that all off my chest!

Demoiselle

(6,787 posts)
11. My children make fun of me for loving Steely Dan.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:34 PM
Mar 2014

I don't know which embarrasses me more…the fact that I love Steely Dan or the fact that they make fun of me.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
13. Tell the kids you'll trade them in for a brand new puppy...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:46 PM
Mar 2014

if they diss your love of Steely Dan every again.

I'd take a puppy any day over kids who do not understand the joy that is Steely Dan.

On the bright side that could be a sign your kids aren't smoking dope yet although to be fair I love SD but never touched the stuff in my life. But when I saw them in concert I think I was one of the few people not stoned.

Demoiselle

(6,787 posts)
26. Thank you! They're too old to trade in now.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:54 PM
Mar 2014

Both are in their thirties. And they have done their share of illegal substances. I really haven't…and yet I love SD, too.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
85. No way!
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:29 AM
Mar 2014

Nothing wrong with Steely Dan.


"Deacon Blues" is my favorite



Oh, and "Hey Nineteen"

and "Josie"


Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
12. I am not embarrassed.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:38 PM
Mar 2014

Barry Manilow.

Had a huge crush on him in Jr. High (about 35 years ago).

I'll add Justin Timberlake, not for his music but for his SNL performances. Kid is hilarious.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
15. I was surprised at how funny JT is, as well.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:08 PM
Mar 2014

Some of his music is not half bad, at least the more recent stuff.

As for Barry, I don't love him, but I don't hate him, either. I DO like "Copacabana".

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
30. Copa was a happy song.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:41 PM
Mar 2014

Most of his stuff is/was.

The chemistry between JT and Jimmy Fallon was adorable. I could see hanging out with the two of them at a BBQ.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
22. Me too. He came to Columbia Md to perform in an outdoor venue in the 1980s.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:29 PM
Mar 2014

I couldn't get tickets, but I drove my car around the roads circling the place trying to hear him

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
62. JT may be my exception to the boy band rule
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:14 AM
Mar 2014

but maybe not since it's only his solo work I have any respect for. I don't own any of his records but if I see him in a bar some day I'd be happy to buy him a beer. And beg him to be a permanent cast member on SNL. His are always the best episodes.

OH (edit to add): And I don't mind Barry at all if for no other reason than the church I grew up in called him out for being satanic. Because of some line in I Write The Songs. So anything that pisses those dumbfucks off is OK by me.

But those dipshits thought EVERYthing was satanic.

Rob H.

(5,351 posts)
18. "I know all the words to "Humpty Hump" by Digital Underground."
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:09 PM
Mar 2014

Hey, me, too! I even heard it on the local oldies station recently and unabashedly rapped/sang along. I'd forgotten how much that song makes me laugh.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
19. I'm listening to it right now as I post
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:10 PM
Mar 2014

I'm debugging report code so I prefer very loud music while debugging.

I post while I run tests.

pink-o

(4,056 posts)
117. Not being able to read sheet music was gonna be my dirty secret too!
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 11:31 AM
Mar 2014

Well, actually, I can read one line of it, for voice or a one-note-at-a-time instrument (I played flute, could follow perfectly) but when there are 10 possible tones going on and glisses and trills--well, I had NO mental Rosetta stone for that. I used to struggle through the mass of notes, then memorize Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Bach et al, then go to my lesson and play the songs perfectly--even turning the page at exactly the right time! I have really good tone memory, so it was easy. Little did I realize I wasn't doing myself any good.

I went on to play in a band, writing songs and making up arrangements which suited my personality much better! When it's yours, you don't have to read the notes.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
23. This should generate some puking smilies...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:36 PM
Mar 2014

I loved bubblegum music... Yummy Yummy Yummy et al back in the 60s, butI was only 11 in 1967 so forgive me!
Where's an embarrassed smilie? I STILL like it...........

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
89. No
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:41 AM
Mar 2014

puking from me...

I was in the prime of my teenaged years when Bubblegum music came out.

I get some real good memories when I hear it.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
27. I kinda like John Denver
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:11 PM
Mar 2014

I was actually deeply moved hearing Looking for Space on that episode of Magnum where Magnum is in a coma after being shot.



I'd probably been drinking.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
37. You know you're right...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:19 PM
Mar 2014

I actually like "Thank God, I'm a country boy" the least of all of his songs, but to hear him sing it a cappella really showcases what a pure, special voice he had.

I feel a sudden desire to play Sunshine on my Shoulders...

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
72. John Denver was a very talented musician.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 02:49 AM
Mar 2014

And he was one of those talented people who a lot of people made fun of.
He got his start replacing Chad Mitchell in The Mitchell Trio, in the early 1960s.

Example with the other two guys, and John, singing one of his compositions, For Bobbi:
The guy on the far left on guitar with the beard is Paul Prestopino, who has also accompanied Peter Paul and Mary for decades:





Other people who are/were very talented that get dissed:
Celine Dion (except for that suckwad song she did for Titanic)
The Carpenters
Barry Manilow


I took many years of music lessons on two instruments plus voice, and I think I have a pretty good ear for talent.

Kaleva

(36,298 posts)
28. I got fired from my task of knocking blocks of wood together back in grade school...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:11 PM
Mar 2014

music class. Couldn't keep the rhythm.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
34. This one time at band camp...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:45 PM
Mar 2014

I remained sober and didn't fool around.

Band camp was pretty much just a big orgy.

The rest of my visits to Band camp were tons more fun.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
39. LOL - did you know a fifth of vodka...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:31 PM
Mar 2014

fits perfectly inside the bell of a bari sax? At least that's what I've heard...

Yeah - band camp was fun.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
41. once you've hidden weed in a trumpet case, the smell lingers for months
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:39 PM
Mar 2014

Something about that felt lining in the case....

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
36. The massive crush I had on Prince around age 12
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:52 PM
Mar 2014

I watched Purple Rain awhile back for the first time in decades and wondered what I ever saw in him.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
38. I have a Partridge Family CD...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:24 PM
Mar 2014

that I play at work from time to time.

My favorite song on it is "I Can Hear Your Heartbeat" and I always play it over at least three times when it comes on.

Here's my other favorite PF song - from an episode with Richard Pryor and Louis Gossett, Jr.





OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
66. I Think I Love You
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:35 AM
Mar 2014

was one of the earliest songs I can remember liking - maybe second or third grade. I had such a crush on Susan Dey. Still do actually.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
43. I like something from almost every genre there is
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:30 PM
Mar 2014

and I'm not ashamed of anything I like. Yep, I've got Cyndi Lauper on the same shelf as Carcass. (they're my shelves - I can sort them how I want). Duran Duran hanging out with Dying Fetus. I even have a Lady Gaga record and it's just a tiny step over to Gorguts. You'll never catch me putting down roots type bluegrass or outlaw country. I like western swing as well as swinging jazz. Shit, I LOVE the Humpty Hump. And NWA and M.U.R.S. and Louis Logic and Nujabes and Dalek and they all share hard drive space with Tchaikovsky and Mozart and Grieg among others. I love bagpipes and Celtic fiddles and didgeridoos.

About the only thing I can't find any fun in is grunge, nu-metal and boy bands.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
50. So...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:49 PM
Mar 2014

another bagpipe lover here.

They even sound good in Rock & Roll...as in AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top"


Grunge...I guess Alice in Chains might qualify for that genre...I do like their song "Would?"


I guess my musical tastes, like yours, run toward the eclectic. A bit of everything is in my library, including whale songs and Gregorian Chants.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
61. WHales and Gregorians make good music
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:09 AM
Mar 2014

I really like folk music from around the world. Tuvan throat singing fascinates me:



I love the Dropkick Murphys cover of Long Way To The Top (And the original too!)

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
44. I cannot sing a note.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:27 PM
Mar 2014

Cannot carry a tune in a bucket.

I was the only one in the eighth grade who did not make Glee Club. When I was in a college sorority, I had to mouth the words to the songs.

I took piano and violin lessons as a child... I could play piano pretty well, but lost interest and quit. Much to my dismay today.

Wounded Bear

(58,649 posts)
45. I once lost a kamikaze karaoke draw...
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:33 PM
Mar 2014

and sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" on stage, at a bar. Every goddamn weem-away.

 

noamnety

(20,234 posts)
47. I was in band in high school.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:42 PM
Mar 2014

One day we found some old fancy uniforms in a back closet at our school so we decided to form a "football band" to play at games. We were a self-formed group of about a half dozen friends with no adult supervision. Our football team always lost and none of us in the band cared about football. We just sat in the bleachers with our instruments and ill fitting uniforms, we didn't march around.

And we didn't watch the games we played at - because we had zero interest in football.

Once during a lull in the game we decided to break into a rousing number. We got yelled at to stop - the lull turned out to be that someone on the field was injured kinda bad; none of us had noticed.

 

noamnety

(20,234 posts)
52. At the time I played bass clarinet.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:54 PM
Mar 2014

I don't even own one, I borrowed one from the school. (After the band teacher tactfully suggested that I switch from the regular clarinet, even though I did own one of those!)

I played flute for a while as an adult in some small groups but I'm officially done with that now.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
53. I always wanted to play the flute.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:55 PM
Mar 2014

Got guitar lessons at my mom's insistence in 10th grade during the summer.
All I remember now is one strum: down down up up down up

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
55. I have writing credit on a bad song
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 11:07 PM
Mar 2014

I wrote the lyrics to a song that was recorded in the early 1980's. My discography page has a single entry.

The chances of any of you having heard it is close to 0%. The song was not horribly bad, but it was never marketed. I think I received a royalty check for something like $0.31 once.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
67. Last year I made a 70s/disco mix-tape (CD)
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:50 AM
Mar 2014

for a road trip with my wife and another couple (who are our best friends and are a little younger than us but have similar musical tastes). We had a blast singing disco all the way to Sarasota to eat at an Amish restaurant (The sole purpose for the 2.5 hour drive)

In addition to the disco I put a little Curtis Mayfield on there too just to have some modicum of respectability.


Go ahead and shake it...

GReedDiamond

(5,312 posts)
60. In the late 70s...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 12:46 AM
Mar 2014

...I played drums on a recording with the bass player who was/maybe still is the Musical Director for Neil Sedaka.

The song is called "Have a Drink," by the band Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero.

Jimmie Fielder, the bass player, was also a founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears, and played with Buffalo Springfield and Zappa's Mothers, so there is that.

The Neil Sedaka reference is the only "embarrasing" thing I could come up with.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
71. I have a weakness for video game music,
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 02:46 AM
Mar 2014

especially many of the songs on the Pokemon games. This one is my #1 favorite:

Archae

(46,327 posts)
92. Nothing wrong with videogame music.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 11:13 AM
Mar 2014

Stewart Copeland (drummer for the Police) created the soundtrack of the first 3 Spyro games.

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sendero

(28,552 posts)
73. I loved the DIY attitude of punk....
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 05:58 AM
Mar 2014

... but 99% of punk music is swill, and that's putting it charitably.

a la izquierda

(11,794 posts)
74. I have Daddy Yankee and Pitbull on my iTunes.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 06:34 AM
Mar 2014
it's so unfeminist of me. It's also not punk rock.


Also, when I was in high school, I was supposed to play a flute duet with my friend. I knew the whole thing by heart. I stood up, started to play, and my brain went blank. I ran off the stage hysterical, in front of hundreds of people. My mom and the band director finally convinced me to go back out and try again. Second time was the charm, I guess. And I got an ovation.

Coventina

(27,115 posts)
81. I listen to "New Age" music when I'm stressed out
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:11 AM
Mar 2014

When I'm really rattled, and need to get get stuff done, the music helps.

Pop or rock becomes too distracting, even classical can be too complicated (I'm listening to it instead of working).

If I'm really, really stressed, the bland soothing-ness of New Age is the only thing that keeps me productive.

lame54

(35,287 posts)
84. I bought from itunes the soundtrack to...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 10:19 AM
Mar 2014

On Any Sunday
the music is hokey and completely dated
But i love it

Arcanetrance

(2,670 posts)
125. I didn't feel I deserved it my heart wasn't in it I guess that's why I was embarrassed
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 12:59 AM
Mar 2014

I started out playing bass in the jazz band and one day the director asked if one of us would mind switching to the orchestra as a trombonist. So I did and I was really good and wound up first chair but I always felt he gave me extra points for switching over because I missed a lot of practices because I was also on the football team and once almost missed a concert so I was embarrassed and always felt like I didn't earn it he was just thankful someone decided to come fill up his mistake of allowing a ton of people to pick percussion.

Iggo

(47,552 posts)
111. I know when I hit the button wrong too many times on my iPod...
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:04 PM
Mar 2014

...because it goes straight to the top and starts playing ABBA's Dancing Queen.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
112. I have a perfectly good acoustic guitar in the case directly behind me
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:39 PM
Mar 2014

Which I haven't made the effort to learn to play.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
114. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is just an incredibly catchy song...
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 09:16 AM
Mar 2014

...and if it's playing on the radio when I'm flipping through the stations, I'll always stop to listen to it.

And sometimes sing along.

Loudly.

Captain Stern

(2,201 posts)
121. I have no embarassing musical secrets, but a friend of mine in Canada does.
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 03:01 PM
Mar 2014

Despite Milli Vanilli's history, he still likes the song 'Blame It On The Rain". Everybody laughs when I play it in the car or they hear me humming it...err.. I mean when they hear my friend in Canada doing those things.

madinmaryland

(64,932 posts)
122. I saw the most awesome Jimmy Paige guitar riff from Stairway to Heaven
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 07:26 PM
Mar 2014

by a violinist the other night.

I had never seen a violin riff before and it was fucking awesome.

I'll see if I can find it one line. Have their CD, but I don't thinks it's on it.

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