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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.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)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.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)Actually, I think a lot of Neil Diamond's songs have held up well.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)So, I think I'm ok.
Throd
(7,208 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)songs with lyrics that are unintelligible are also the funniest when people end up making up their own lyrics.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)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
it was always one of my two favorites. The other one being My loony bun is fine, Benny lava!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)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)"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)"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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)Both are in their thirties. And they have done their share of illegal substances. I really haven't and yet I love SD, too.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Nothing wrong with Steely Dan.
"Deacon Blues" is my favorite
Oh, and "Hey Nineteen"
and "Josie"
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)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)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)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.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and that is a fact!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I now have Copacabana stuck in my head.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)I couldn't get tickets, but I drove my car around the roads circling the place trying to hear him
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...but, there was a sweet, soothing quality that made me melt.
kairos12
(12,860 posts)...this one!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)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)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)I'm debugging report code so I prefer very loud music while debugging.
I post while I run tests.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Can't play a thing.
Can't read music.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)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.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)The only thing I can play is the radio.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)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...........
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.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)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.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)Me, too.... have all his albums... I'm a closet John Denver fan...
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)John Denver was great.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)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...
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)It was beautiful.
Always did love his music.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)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.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)I kind of like it (except for one song).
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)music class. Couldn't keep the rhythm.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)That's so sad. And so funny, for some reason.
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)I like it.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)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)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)Something about that felt lining in the case....
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)I watched Purple Rain awhile back for the first time in decades and wondered what I ever saw in him.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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)and sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" on stage, at a bar. Every goddamn weem-away.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)to do the real high notes too?
noamnety
(20,234 posts)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.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)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)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)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.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Give us a few lines!
TexasTowelie
(112,167 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)just so I could dress like them.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)The cornier the better!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)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)...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.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Then I discovered The Cure and Talking Heads
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)especially many of the songs on the Pokemon games. This one is my #1 favorite:
I was expecting to see "Donkey Kong" music...
Archae
(46,327 posts)Stewart Copeland (drummer for the Police) created the soundtrack of the first 3 Spyro games.
foo_bar
(4,193 posts)(Embarrassing secret: I own this LP.)
sendero
(28,552 posts)... but 99% of punk music is swill, and that's putting it charitably.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)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)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)On Any Sunday
the music is hokey and completely dated
But i love it
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)But I can defend them on their lyrics which are pretty sharp.
Bryant
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)chrisa
(4,524 posts)kairos12
(12,860 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)everyone else seems to pig her down.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Seriously.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)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.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I just like trombone.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)I'm not ashamed of liking her (Carly Rae Jepsen's) album either
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rick Astley.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)another head hanging moment...
I like this song.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)JCMach1
(27,556 posts)Even her humps
Iggo
(47,552 posts)...because it goes straight to the top and starts playing ABBA's Dancing Queen.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)So I'm safe
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Which I haven't made the effort to learn to play.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)...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.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Shhh.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Only Yes. No idea why.
Hula Popper
(374 posts)And I love Al Jolson!
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)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.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Now that would be embarassing
madinmaryland
(64,932 posts)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.