Songs You're Embarrassed to Admit You Like...

[Fidatelo]

Late to the party, but here's the stuff that I like, but if my friends knew I'd never hear the end of:

Paris Hilton - Stars are Blind
Christina Aguillera - Candyman, Beautiful, Still Dirrty, Hurt
Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again, Baby One More Time, Toxic
Michael Buble - Home
Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince + Will Smith - Entire Catalog!
Five For Fighting - Superman
L'il Bow Wow - Bow Wow (What's My Name)
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Spacehog - Both albums!
Young MC - On & Poppin'

[Fidatelo]

Dola

My friends actually know about my love affair with Will Smith, for which I am punished frequently by way of sarcastic comments.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince + Will Smith - Entire Catalog!

In that case, I highly recommend checking out DJ Jazzy Jeff's wikipedia page. A small, but great example of creating facts Stephen Colbert style by editing wikipedia by a buddy of mine. Its been out there for 3 weeks without being corrected so far.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

See, I'm reading everybody else's list thinking 'I love Modest Mouse and Neil Diamond and ELO'. Hell, I've got Murray Head records and Rupert Holmes' OTHER single, ABBA and Carpenters records up the wazooo, and basically none of this stuff is phasing me....but your list, my friend, contains some truly horrible music that you definitely should be ashamed of. Three of those songs make me physically sick.

My own embarrasing song...let's see....Cher - 'Believe'. MMMmmm.

Which Rupert Holmes single? Him? Answering Machine? Any B-sides on those?

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Radii

In that case, I highly recommend checking out DJ Jazzy Jeff's wikipedia page. A small, but great example of creating facts Stephen Colbert style by editing wikipedia by a buddy of mine. Its been out there for 3 weeks without being corrected so far.

Gee I hope he gets back on his feet soon!

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by gkb

"True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper

I heard this song recently, for the first time in several years. Maybe it's because I heard the Phil Collins version so many times, which is really horrible, but I was surprised that this one was better than I remember it being.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by RendeR

Agreed, never be ashamed of Blondie. Her music set entire new standards for punk in the 70's.

Yo, Blondie's a band, not a girl.

[Sgran]

I can't believe that 2 lists beat me to Toxic. But on the other hand, that song is the perfect embarassment song by this criteria: You're in the car with your friends and you're scanning the radio stations. You hit on Toxic, and you know you want to listen to it, so you stop scanning and enjoy as long as you can before there's a revolt in your car and you're being reminded for weeks about how you like Britney Spears.

[Mr. Wednesday]

The thing with Britney Spears is, I don't particularly like her contributions to the songs. I like the writing (which she didn't do AFAIK), and the performance is somewhat fungible. I would imagine that a lot of her work would be better with a more talented singer.

[cuervo72]

Sign Your Name - Terence Trent D'Arby
So Alive - Love and Rockets

(Heard these two this afternoon on Jack, with Simply Irresistible in between. Nice stretch there.)

[path12]

Originally Posted by WVUFAN

"Major Tom" by Peter Schilling. One of my favorite songs, and I have no idea why.

When I was a DJ in the mid-eighties, the bathroom was way the hell on the other side of the building. If you had to take a sudden shit for whatever reason, you put on Major Tom and hauled ass.

[kurtism]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Sign Your Name - Terence Trent D'Arby
So Alive - Love and Rockets

(Heard these two this afternoon on Jack, with Simply Irresistible in between. Nice stretch there.)

No shame in liking TTD. Very underrated singer and songwriter, imo. Introducing the Hardline... is an excellent debut, and his later work was far more ambitious in scope and style. As musically brave as Prince, and similarly odd. I believe he has converted to Buddhism now and goes by Sananda Maitreya - still releasing very good stuff, just to a MUCH smaller audience.

[Apathetic Lurker]

Heavy metal/glam(old school)/death metal/old-new country is where i'm at....but, have a very soft spot for Abba and Bay City Rollers.

[path12]

Originally Posted by kurtism

No shame in liking TTD. Very underrated singer and songwriter, imo. Introducing the Hardline... is an excellent debut, and his later work was far more ambitious in scope and style.

Hardline was a great disc. Somehow I remember seeing interviews with him at the time and thinking he had an ego the size of Texas.....

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Apathetic Lurker

Heavy metal/glam(old school)/death metal/old-new country is where i'm at....but, have a very soft spot for Abba and Bay City Rollers.

Funny. I listen to plenty of metal, but still love John Waite and the Babys. But I'm not embarrassed about it!

[Kodos]

I like quite a few George Michael songs.

[Abe Sargent]

I really love the theme to Breaker High

[Abe Sargent]

Here's the website with it available as a download in case you care to visit or listen.

hxxp://www.televisiontunes.com/Breaker_High.html

[kingnebwsu]

Most of my music collection would bring shame to most people.

ABBA, Ace of Base, Aqua, Cascada, several hundred songs from DDR, Erasure, Fastball, and soundtracks for many music-themed video games.

I do have some more popular bands like Billy Joel, The Beatles, Green Day, Queen, and Weird Al.

ABBA would have to be my favorite group.

I bet almost everyone cringed when they read what I listen to every day

[Passacaglia]

oh man everyone got so much on my case for liking Ace of Base back in the day.

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by Anxiety

I really love the theme to Breaker High

YES. I watched this and Student Bodies back-to-back a lot.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by kingnebwsu

Most of my music collection would bring shame to most people.

ABBA, Ace of Base, Aqua, Cascada, several hundred songs from DDR, Erasure, Fastball, and soundtracks for many music-themed video games.

I do have some more popular bands like Billy Joel, The Beatles, Green Day, Queen, and Weird Al.

ABBA would have to be my favorite group.

I bet almost everyone cringed when they read what I listen to every day

Eh, it's all good. I don't listen to most of that stuff, but a lot of the pop/rock I listen to clearly has those influences to it. I probably would never listen to ABBA or Bee Gees, for instance, but I could point to several songs I really like that have elements of their music woven into them. Mainly, I enjoy genre-hopping pop/rock, but I don't like most of the best examples of music from within each of the genres. I don't know if that makes sense.

[korme]

It's very hard to help my street cred when I listen to Regina Spektor, Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yael Naim, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, etc

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Shorty3281

It's very hard to help my street cred when I listen to Regina Spektor, Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yael Naim, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, etc

I'll give you some street cred, Shorty. I'm down with the chick rock. That's a solid line-up right there. I've seen Sarah Mclachlan in concert 7 times and went to two "Lilith Fairs." It's all good! I just sort of dabble in music now (though Regina Spektor's "Fidelity" and "Samson" have been two of my favorite songs for months now).

Back in the glory of my college days, however, it was all Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Sinead O'Connor, Concrete Blonde, 10,000 Maniacs, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Belly, The Breeders, and the like. Those were good times... The Golden Era of Chick Rock.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

I'll give you some street cred, Shorty. I'm down with the chick rock. That's a solid line-up right there. It's all good! I just sort of dabble in music now (though Regina Spektor's "Fidelity" and "Samson" have been two of my favorite songs for months now).

all Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Concrete Blonde, 10,000 Maniacs, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Belly, The Breeders, and the like. Those were good times... The Golden Era of Chick Rock.

+1

[Fidatelo]

If you guys like the chick rock, how can Metric not be included?

And for mellower listens, Pascale Picard is awesome too.

[MikeVic]

I'm not embarrassed to like them, but a group called Die Mannequin has a lead (chick) voice that I like.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

If you guys like the chick rock, how can Metric not be included?

I've never heard of Metric. I pretty much completely stopped following music right around 2001. A

nything I have since then I either randomly happened to hear on the radio one day (I only listen to music stations when there are commercials on sports talk radio or NPR is too dull to bear) or someone reccomended, which is also rare.

So, Metric is good? Can you reccomend a few of their songs?

[Fidatelo]

Ohmygod! Metric is awesome. Give me a few minutes to figure out the names of the good songs (iPod has ruined me forever from remembering song names, what with Random play and the lack of a CD Jacket to stare at when bored).

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

I'll give you some street cred, Shorty. I'm down with the chick rock. That's a solid line-up right there. I've seen Sarah Mclachlan in concert 7 times and went to two "Lilith Fairs." It's all good! I just sort of dabble in music now (though Regina Spektor's "Fidelity" and "Samson" have been two of my favorite songs for months now).

Back in the glory of my college days, however, it was all Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Sinead O'Connor, Concrete Blonde, 10,000 Maniacs, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Belly, The Breeders, and the like. Those were good times... The Golden Era of Chick Rock.

Jen Trynin ("One Year Down", "Better Than Nothin'") has a book out about her experience in the Golden Era of Chick Rock, though she apparently did NOT want to be considered a chick rocker. It's an interesting read... I'd say a little bit better than the book by the drummer of Semisonic.

[Fidatelo]

OK I have a meeting in 5 minutes. It might take me a couple hours to get that list of songs. You will enjoy them; it will be worth the wait.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

OK I have a meeting in 5 minutes. It might take me a couple hours to get that list of songs. You will enjoy them; it will be worth the wait.

Looking forward to it. No rush, I'm at work and will likely be here for another few hours...

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by CamEdwards

Jen Trynin ("One Year Down", "Better Than Nothin'") has a book out about her experience in the Golden Era of Chick Rock, though she apparently did NOT want to be considered a chick rocker. It's an interesting read... I'd say a little bit better than the book by the drummer of Semisonic.

Interesting. I will have to check that out. Was there any reason she didn't want to be considered a chick rocker? Did she just want to be considered a musician? A rocker? A chick?

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

oh man everyone got so much on my case for liking Ace of Base back in the day.

Same here. I took a lot of heat for that and Poison.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Ohmygod! Metric is awesome. Give me a few minutes to figure out the names of the good songs (iPod has ruined me forever from remembering song names, what with Random play and the lack of a CD Jacket to stare at when bored).

Some of my favorites of theirs are Police and the Private; Live it Out; Poster of a Girl and another I can't remember right offhand........

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Interesting. I will have to check that out. Was there any reason she didn't want to be considered a chick rocker? Did she just want to be considered a musician? A rocker? A chick?

She wanted to be a "rocker". She felt like the "chick rock" label would pigeonhole her. It's kind of fascinating to read about all the decisions she made that in essence kept her career from taking off like it should have.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by path12

Some of my favorites of theirs are Police and the Private; Live it Out; Poster of a Girl and another I can't remember right offhand........

Yes, those are all fantastic! Great picks. My wife listened to Police and the Private over and over for weeks!

I also really like Empty, it takes a bit to get going, but wow, the payoff. That whole album (Live It Out) is really, really strong.

Off their other albums, I recommend starting with:

Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Combat Baby
Succexy
Dead Disco

Grow Up and Blow Away
Rock Me Now
Raw Sugar
Soft Rock Star (second version; last song on disc)

There are more, but those are the best.

[korme]

Apologies to my girl who is the front for Paramore. They the shit too.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

I also really like Empty, it takes a bit to get going, but wow, the payoff. That whole album (Live It Out) is really, really strong.

Yeah, Empty was the other one I was thinking of. That was one of those discs that I ended up downloading one song at a time until I realized I had half of the damn thing and should just get the rest. Glad I did.