The most embarrassing CD I ever bought was also the first CD I ever bought – Now That’s What I Call Music! Volume 2. However, I purchased U2: Best of 1980-1990 a second later. Hopefully this ablates some of the guilt I rightfully deserve for propogating the Now! music phenomenon.
I think we should all take a minute and reflect upon one entry that we all would like to put on here but can’t: The countless-upon-countless albums by nameless bands we’re all guilty of buying because:
A) One of the band members lived on your block or dorm floor,
B) You REMEMBER them sounding okay live, or
C) Some member of a larger group you like was constantly hyping them.
That said, the worst album I own that I could hope to have other people recognize would have to be Talk Show. It’s not the Stone Temple Pilots, it’s worse: It’s the Stone Temple Pilots minus the singer.
You’ve got nothing on me..
I was watching the Ellen Degeneres talk show after smoking a joint (yes that early in the morning) I saw what I thought was a cool sounding band, and in my green smoked haze I stumpled into the record store and and bought ….wait for it…. that fucking “Thicke” album. In case you don’t know who Thicke is (and if you don’t, stand proud!) Thicke is a “band” that samples Beethoven, and is fronted by none other than the son of T.V’s Alan Thicke! (father from growing pains).
I don’t know if it’s so bad because the music is absolutely wretched, or because the son is so obviously proud of his horrible heritage….
Menswear (isn’t it titled Menswe@r or something like that? I can’t really remember…)
I also owned Kula Shaker and all their singles (!!!). I have no idea what came over me. Eventually, it was like a fever broke and I sold them all in a single day.
Yeah, I bought fully into the whole Britpop thing.
I own 3 Richard Marx CD’s. And I still sing along to “Right Here Waiting”. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Whenever someone looks through my CD collection I am so embarrassed, but yet I can’t seem to sell them.
I too purchased the Crash Test Dummies CD just for MMMM mmm mmmm mmmm song on it…
Once there was this kid who
got into an accident and couldn’t
come school
But when he finally came back
his hair
had turned from black
into bright white
GAWD I can’t believe I remember that!
Now, that’s embarassing.
wow. my worst choice was downloading the backstreet boys album sampler. although it was free. Then i shafted a friend and put it on his burned CD. lol. good times.
5ive. My first CD ever. I had fun with the scissors when I found it last year. Most embarrasing one I own? Jet. I think all Australians own it, like them or not. And people, Bon Jovi are my guilty pleasure. Please don’t pay them out!
Well, except that the Cranberrie’s ‘To the Faithfully Departed’ was an amazing CD….at least it was when I was 15….up yours to whoever listed that as their worst…
I own the Wilson Phillips’ self-titled CD. Yes, the one with song “Hold On” on it. (If you still don’t know, you probably haven’t seen Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle).
I also purchased the Chumbawumba, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin CDs.
While there’s no shame in my owning Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill, there is in owning her craptastic sophomore album, “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” (Wtf does that even mean?) EVEN AFTER seeing the bizarre video where she’s naked.
I also have a Donna Lewis CD, with the wispy, pathetic song “I Love You Always Forever”. To be fair, though, at the age of eleven all I was allowed to listen to in the car was the soft-rock adult contemporary “hits of the 80′s, 90′s, and now” station.
Aaaand I have the Space Jam soundtrack somewhere along with my Kazaam soundtrack, with Shaquille O’Neal’s horrible rapping skillz.
And those are only the CDs I actually feel some degree of shame about. I still carry my George Michael and Boyz II Men CDs with pride.
I can’t believe someone was apologizing for Master of Puppets by Metallica. That is a great freaking album. Maybe you’re young and too caught up in the whole Napster thing….
I bought the first Smashmouth album the day it came out, cause I heard Walking on the Sun like 3 times and thought it was a good idea. I didn’t know it would be on 45 times a day for 3 years. I had the CD at house party that same week, and by then I knew the CD SUCKED ASS. Someone stole the CD, and of course I didn’t not care. The funny part is when I had another party like 6 months later, someone returned the CD, that’s how shitty it was, a thief returned it.
Yeah, why would you be ashamed of any Metallica album purchased before the s/t black one? Master of Puppets still has Cliff Burton on it, doesn’t it?!!!
I can’t believe some of these. I gotta say, it’s worse than I expected! Wow!!!! You’re all very brave for coming out with these admissions, though.
I would have too many to list… basically everything I listened to up until about sophomore year in high school. Some highlights would be the Armeggedon soundtrack, 2 Unlimited, Ace of Base, and not one… but 2 Bon Jovi albums.
first album i bought in cd format is also the worst: joey lawrence. yeah, i don’t know what i was thinking, either. i was young and stupid and ignorant in the ways of good music!
I am doubting anything can top Joey Lawrence but on mine’s *NYSNC’s No Strings Attached. But it sort of comes in handy because now I spin ‘Bye Bye Bye’ so people can pretend to dance to it in an ironic fashion when we all really know they used to practice those moves infront of MTV…or was that just me?
LFO – Power of 3
“I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch. Chinese food makes me sick.”
I was 14 when that album came out & that’s old enough to know better. I’m so ashamed.
1. You had to buy the CD yourself or at least asked for it by name.
2. You had to be at least 15 years old (the recognized age of consent for shitty music).
3. Bonus points if your worst CD (that you’ll admit to) was purchased in the last few years.
My answer?
Korn’s “Life is Peachy” – Complete garbage, although I liked it when I was 17.
Erasure should definitely be added to the list below. Great stuff. Also, Michael Jackson of the ’80′s was far from the freak of today. “Off the Wall” – classic.
Top 10 Albums/Groups/Songs Mentioned in This Thread That Are Actually Not Bad and You Should Not Be Ashamed of Owning (in order):
10. Huey Lewis and the News – Sports
9. Metallica “Master of Puppets” AND “…and Justice For All”
8. Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
7. Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual
6. Blood Sugar Sex Magick
5. Pac Man Fever
4. Face Value by Phil Collins
3. toad the wet sprocket
2. gin blossoms
1. Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
dude, who put Cyndi Lauper? She’s like one of my all time favorite vocalists.
I stand by Ritual De Lo Habitual. Certainly it’s not that bad and it’s not even uncool by these standards, but it was one of the few purchases I’ve made for no other reason than to be cool. Blood Sugar Sex Magick is dorky but I wish I still had it- it’s got some golden moments.
See, the thing is, the only thing I think that made Jane’s Addiction arty or interesting at all was Perry Farrell’s voice. Dave Navarro is a total cheeseball shredder, and not in a good metalhead way, and the production on those albums is totaly pristine late 80s/early 90s slickness. But Farrell’s vox are interesting. Sadly, the man himself is an idiot, and an advertisment for every bad stereotype people associate with the West Coast. But what a cool voice.
I think I was in 3rd grade, but still . . . The Fat Boys “Disorderlies” Soundtrack. Purchased for a Bon Jovi song “On the Edge of a Broken Heart.” Wow.
“Buster Poindexter (on tape) – what can i say? i loved that hot, hot, hot!”
Slightly off topic, but Buster Poindexter was in the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see in the theater. I was 15 and I was planning to sneak into Demolition Man, but we got caught and the usher sent us to the movie that we actually paid to see, which was…
When my ex-girlfriend was away at college back when I was a youngster (7 years ago or so)… I bought the Donna Lewis CD… you no… “I love you, always forever, near and far, closer together”…. yeah … that one…
the unfortunate thing was I bought it with one of my buddies there with me… 8 years later… and I haven’t heard the end of it…
i have a lot. i used to be into creed. i remember buying human clay and thinking it was awesome. but hey, it was all they played on the radio, how was i supposed to know there was better music out there? also, supernatural by santana, and some matchbox 20 albums. and i got the matrix reloaded soundtrack for free.
Um, yeah. I never thought I’d admit this, but my first CD purchase was the “Lion King” soundtrack. I bought it in 8th grade, when I got my first Discman. I thought I was the shit, jamming away to the smooth grooves of Elton John and Pumba.
OK here’s are the top ones that I’ve seen so far on this list:
5) Ace of Base
4) Aqua – Barbie Girl
3) Any of those special novelty albums (Smurfs go Pop, Superbowl Shuffle, Star Wars Christmas, etc)
2) Any soundtrack to a really bad movie (Goodburger, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, From Justin to Kelly, etc.)
1)Joey Lawrence
ALso, I think we should give special dispensation to:
A) All record purchases made before the age of 16
B) All the white kids who bought rap albums before they realized that there was a difference between quality hip-hop and crappy crossover pop (like Hammer, C&C music factory and Vanilla Ice)
Man after reading all of those, I am still emberassed. The Titanic Soundtrack. However, I remember listening to it only once, and that was when two girls slept over and we all slept in the same bed. No, I didn’t get laid, if I did that would be my favorite cd of all times!
Why do people keep mentioning Kula Shaker?? Kula Shaker is NOT embarassing! They’re GOOD!!!!!!!!! In fact, I’m quite sad that they’re no longer together
the first CD i ever bought was an MC Hammer cd when i was in gr.3, what the hell was i thinking?? and better yet why did my parents allow that?? 2 legit 2 legit 2 quit!!!!
Incidentally, Buster Poindexter is David Johansen, vocalist for the great and influential New York Dolls, in case you didn’t know already. And I definitely spelled his last name incorrectly. I mean wrongily.
the most embarrassing cd (first i had the tape) that i bought and still love to listen to from time to time esp. before going to sing karaoke is Bon Jovi Cross Roads!! best cd from my childhood hands down!!!
I dont get you guys, a lot of these albums I own MAINLY because they are guilty pleasures and I am proud of it. Hanson? C&C Music Factory? Spice Girls? Aqua? If you’d get over the fact that you are too darn “cool” to own these, you’d actually realize they are fun poppy albums and ITS OKAY TO BE FUN AND POPPY!
And I still love that Gin Blossoms album
I guess mine would have to be… oooh! I’d guess mine would probably be that Tatu album. THAT was crappy. And embarrassing.
To everybody who answered Snow – SOLIDARITY!
My crappiest – a Basia cassette I HAD to have when I was little (I think it was “London, Warsaw, New York”) – and insisted to all my little classmates the music was the best.
I was a lonely little child…
Yes, Bon Jovi are great to sing karoake to. I think this should be a rule: if you enjoy singing it on karoake, it CANNOT be a bad song. For example, Cyndi Lauper is not bad. “Time After Time” facking rox! Ritual De Lo Habitual is a great album.
I agree with the people who suggested that the Joey Lawrence CD (or the Olsens’ CD) is the worst. Not only were these not popular, have no songs that anyone can remember, but they were entirely made for marketing purposes. That is shitty music.
the most embarassing CDs I ever bought were the NSYNC “Pop” album. I made my sister drive me to WalMart at midnight after she got off work to Walmart so I could buy the 3rd album sold from that WalMart. and the albums from the English dance band Steps…..i look back at myself and want to slap her.
also it should be noted anyone who lists U2′s most recent or any coldplay album is sucking the fun out of this entire thread. You don’t have to try and sound really ‘cool’. The point is to dig up something from your past. And, btw, you sound INCREDIBLY arrogant when you make posts like that whilst everyone else is joking around about their boyband phase or their raprock phase. Seriously check your life out.
In 1988 I was “heading for the nineties/Living in the Wild Wild West”. Escape Club, y’all. And the next year I bought Enuff Z’Nuff’s self titled debut on the first date I ever went on. We hit Sam Goody, then I took my lady for some McNuggets at McDonald’s. Even at 13 I knew how to treat ‘em right.
Okay, someone back up there ripped Emma Bunton’s first solo CD. Fair enough, maybe, I haven’t heard it. But her most recent album, Free Me, is an overlooked gem. Seriously. Great 60s Swinging London vibe to it. Heaps of pure pop goodness. Seriously.
I bought Paula Abdul’s SECOND Cd, “Spellbound.” “Forever Your Girl” was so good that I figured her sophomore effort had to be rad too.
I think it came in a Columbia House shipment with a CD by Jasmine Guy (the girl who played Whitley on “A Different World”), Rhythm Nation 1814.
I was 11 though, so if you take 15 to be the age of consent on pop records, then I’d say the worst album I bought was something like “Fat of the Land” by the Prodigy or something like that.
I ordered the Milli Vanilli cassette from BMG. The lip-syncing scandal broke the next week, before I received it. I was upset. I bought Vanilla Ice instead.
That LFO CD with “Summer Girls” on it…MmmBop by Hanson…Ricky Martin…all CDs somehow accumulated from others over the years, though thankfully I never BOUGHT any of those. I was an odd child anyhow, my first actual musical purchase of my own was Sgt Pepper by the Beatles and Thriller by MJ, at the same time.
I’ll never be embarrassed by any of my music purchases. My music choices don’t define me. If I bought a certain album years ago that now looks like a lame decision: who cares? At the very least I was experimenting in different music. If not, I’m not going to sit here and copout that my taste wasn’t “cool”.
JUST KIDDING
It is between The Presidents of the United States of America & Spin Doctors.
The most embarrassing CD I ever bought was also the first CD I ever bought – Now That’s What I Call Music! Volume 2. However, I purchased U2: Best of 1980-1990 a second later. Hopefully this ablates some of the guilt I rightfully deserve for propogating the Now! music phenomenon.
the Macarena cd….wow i was cool.
Mine must be Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s
“Brother for Sale”. Totally humiliating. I think I beat everyone.
The “Good Burger” soundtrack.
I TOTALLY win THIS game…
I think we should all take a minute and reflect upon one entry that we all would like to put on here but can’t: The countless-upon-countless albums by nameless bands we’re all guilty of buying because:
A) One of the band members lived on your block or dorm floor,
B) You REMEMBER them sounding okay live, or
C) Some member of a larger group you like was constantly hyping them.
That said, the worst album I own that I could hope to have other people recognize would have to be Talk Show. It’s not the Stone Temple Pilots, it’s worse: It’s the Stone Temple Pilots minus the singer.
I was a surly white boy in a small town… Who bought Shanice’s “Inner Child” for “I Love Your Smile” in 1992 on casette. Good lord.
Bush – 16 Stone
Beat that!
Brian Setzer – “The Dirty Boogie”
with that Gap Khaki song “Jump Jive and Wail”
hmm, I am probably more embarrassed to own Reel Big Fish’s “Turn the Radio Off”.
Falco. R.I.P.
Aqua’s cd, the one with barbie girl on it
You’ve got nothing on me..
I was watching the Ellen Degeneres talk show after smoking a joint (yes that early in the morning) I saw what I thought was a cool sounding band, and in my green smoked haze I stumpled into the record store and and bought ….wait for it…. that fucking “Thicke” album. In case you don’t know who Thicke is (and if you don’t, stand proud!) Thicke is a “band” that samples Beethoven, and is fronted by none other than the son of T.V’s Alan Thicke! (father from growing pains).
I don’t know if it’s so bad because the music is absolutely wretched, or because the son is so obviously proud of his horrible heritage….
Needless to say I win
David Bowie – The Buddha of Suburbia
WORST PIECE OF SHIT EVER. KRISS KROSS, ACE OF BASS, MILLI VANILLI ARE ALL BETTER THAN THIS ALBUM.
The Osbourne Family Album.. the one with Kelly doing Papa Don’t Preach on it. Yeah. I own that.
Michelle Branch- the first one. I don’t know why I got it. Its horrible.
And both of Vanessa Carlton’s CD’s.
And Ricky Martin.. Livin’ La Vida Loca. That was what, 99?
I have the Friends Soundtrack too. The original one from 94 or 95. With that rotten theme song.
CHUMBA-WAMBA (or however the shit its spelled.) Pure crap.
Menswear (isn’t it titled Menswe@r or something like that? I can’t really remember…)
I also owned Kula Shaker and all their singles (!!!). I have no idea what came over me. Eventually, it was like a fever broke and I sold them all in a single day.
Yeah, I bought fully into the whole Britpop thing.
I own 3 Richard Marx CD’s. And I still sing along to “Right Here Waiting”. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Whenever someone looks through my CD collection I am so embarrassed, but yet I can’t seem to sell them.
I too purchased the Crash Test Dummies CD just for MMMM mmm mmmm mmmm song on it…
Once there was this kid who
got into an accident and couldn’t
come school
But when he finally came back
his hair
had turned from black
into bright white
GAWD I can’t believe I remember that!
Now, that’s embarassing.
I had the Rembrandt’s album on cassette. I forgot, but I wish I hadn’t remembered.
Well, any Spandau Ballet record is embarrassing enough. And I’ve got them all…
coldplay – a rush of blood to the head
it was stolen out of my car two days after i bought it and i was happy!
SUCH a disappointment after Parachutes (which still makes me swoon)
Avril Lavigne AND Evanescence. But I threw them away a week later.
wow. my worst choice was downloading the backstreet boys album sampler. although it was free. Then i shafted a friend and put it on his burned CD. lol. good times.
5ive. My first CD ever. I had fun with the scissors when I found it last year. Most embarrasing one I own? Jet. I think all Australians own it, like them or not. And people, Bon Jovi are my guilty pleasure. Please don’t pay them out!
This tops you all….
Jennifer Love Hewitt – BareNaked
I have nothing else left to say….
Well, except that the Cranberrie’s ‘To the Faithfully Departed’ was an amazing CD….at least it was when I was 15….up yours to whoever listed that as their worst…
i could make an entire list…
linkin park
eminem
backstreet boys
pokemon movie soundtrack
haha…oh the tastes of a suburban boy.
Beavis and Butthead Soundtrack (where they sing with Cher and giggle a lot)
Ugly Kid Joe
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
I own the Wilson Phillips’ self-titled CD. Yes, the one with song “Hold On” on it. (If you still don’t know, you probably haven’t seen Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle).
I also purchased the Chumbawumba, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin CDs.
While there’s no shame in my owning Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill, there is in owning her craptastic sophomore album, “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” (Wtf does that even mean?) EVEN AFTER seeing the bizarre video where she’s naked.
I also have a Donna Lewis CD, with the wispy, pathetic song “I Love You Always Forever”. To be fair, though, at the age of eleven all I was allowed to listen to in the car was the soft-rock adult contemporary “hits of the 80′s, 90′s, and now” station.
Aaaand I have the Space Jam soundtrack somewhere along with my Kazaam soundtrack, with Shaquille O’Neal’s horrible rapping skillz.
And those are only the CDs I actually feel some degree of shame about. I still carry my George Michael and Boyz II Men CDs with pride.
I bought that Rednex “Cotton Eye Joe” single.
I’m truly sorry for helping it to number 1.
it’s been mentioned before i think: Live – Throwing Copper
Mine would be Ace of Base the Sign or in recent years Avril “i’m the punkiest punk that ever punked” lavigne’s let go.
I can’t believe someone was apologizing for Master of Puppets by Metallica. That is a great freaking album. Maybe you’re young and too caught up in the whole Napster thing….
I win. Easily.
At the grand old age of 18 i bought ‘The Smurfs Go Pop’. honestly.
Damn, I’ve bought many a foul record.
But yeah taking a Gin Blossoms CD to the counter always gets some looks.
However, I’ll still take them over the groan and moan of Metallica any day of the week.
Anniemal, by Annie. Just kidding. I’d never buy that. Or at least never admit it.
OK, either I was the only one to purchase a Roxette album, or everyone else here stills digs them? I’m the only one to mention this band!
Christmas with The Brady Bunch
It’s a Sunshine Day- The Best of the Brady Bunch.
I can’t help it. It makes my life such so much brighter…*groan*
Annd…
William Hung- Inspiration
I bought the first Smashmouth album the day it came out, cause I heard Walking on the Sun like 3 times and thought it was a good idea. I didn’t know it would be on 45 times a day for 3 years. I had the CD at house party that same week, and by then I knew the CD SUCKED ASS. Someone stole the CD, and of course I didn’t not care. The funny part is when I had another party like 6 months later, someone returned the CD, that’s how shitty it was, a thief returned it.
Yeah, why would you be ashamed of any Metallica album purchased before the s/t black one? Master of Puppets still has Cliff Burton on it, doesn’t it?!!!
I can’t believe some of these. I gotta say, it’s worse than I expected! Wow!!!! You’re all very brave for coming out with these admissions, though.
I would have too many to list… basically everything I listened to up until about sophomore year in high school. Some highlights would be the Armeggedon soundtrack, 2 Unlimited, Ace of Base, and not one… but 2 Bon Jovi albums.
where do i start….
primitive radio gods
rupaul’s first album
to name a few
first album i bought in cd format is also the worst: joey lawrence. yeah, i don’t know what i was thinking, either. i was young and stupid and ignorant in the ways of good music!
WOW, joey lawrence……you win dude. sad thing is, i really liked that cheesy song he had, ‘nothing my love can’t fix’. guilty pleasure all the way.
I am doubting anything can top Joey Lawrence but on mine’s *NYSNC’s No Strings Attached. But it sort of comes in handy because now I spin ‘Bye Bye Bye’ so people can pretend to dance to it in an ironic fashion when we all really know they used to practice those moves infront of MTV…or was that just me?
LFO – Power of 3
“I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch. Chinese food makes me sick.”
I was 14 when that album came out & that’s old enough to know better. I’m so ashamed.
Deep Blue Something’s album — Home. Those are the people who sang “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”…
Yeah, that song lost its appeal after the second listen and there wasn’t anything even moderately good on the rest of the album.
There should be some ground rules for this.
1. You had to buy the CD yourself or at least asked for it by name.
2. You had to be at least 15 years old (the recognized age of consent for shitty music).
3. Bonus points if your worst CD (that you’ll admit to) was purchased in the last few years.
My answer?
Korn’s “Life is Peachy” – Complete garbage, although I liked it when I was 17.
Erasure should definitely be added to the list below. Great stuff. Also, Michael Jackson of the ’80′s was far from the freak of today. “Off the Wall” – classic.
Top 10 Albums/Groups/Songs Mentioned in This Thread That Are Actually Not Bad and You Should Not Be Ashamed of Owning (in order):
10. Huey Lewis and the News – Sports
9. Metallica “Master of Puppets” AND “…and Justice For All”
8. Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
7. Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual
6. Blood Sugar Sex Magick
5. Pac Man Fever
4. Face Value by Phil Collins
3. toad the wet sprocket
2. gin blossoms
1. Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
I purchased the ‘Dangerous Minds’ soundtrack. Yes for the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, and the single off that was ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ by Coolio.
I am also guilty of the Nelson crime….
After the rain…washes away the tears…
Buster Poindexter (on tape) – what can i say? i loved that hot, hot, hot!
THIS BEAT IS THIS BEAT IS THIS BEAT IS TECHNOTRONIC!!!
PUMP UP THE JAM!!!
Puaj!!!!
this is difficult to admit….”PacMan Fever”. OK, are you happy? I said it.
dude, who put Cyndi Lauper? She’s like one of my all time favorite vocalists.
I stand by Ritual De Lo Habitual. Certainly it’s not that bad and it’s not even uncool by these standards, but it was one of the few purchases I’ve made for no other reason than to be cool. Blood Sugar Sex Magick is dorky but I wish I still had it- it’s got some golden moments.
See, the thing is, the only thing I think that made Jane’s Addiction arty or interesting at all was Perry Farrell’s voice. Dave Navarro is a total cheeseball shredder, and not in a good metalhead way, and the production on those albums is totaly pristine late 80s/early 90s slickness. But Farrell’s vox are interesting. Sadly, the man himself is an idiot, and an advertisment for every bad stereotype people associate with the West Coast. But what a cool voice.
Addams family soundtrack.
I think I was in 3rd grade, but still . . . The Fat Boys “Disorderlies” Soundtrack. Purchased for a Bon Jovi song “On the Edge of a Broken Heart.” Wow.
“Buster Poindexter (on tape) – what can i say? i loved that hot, hot, hot!”
Slightly off topic, but Buster Poindexter was in the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see in the theater. I was 15 and I was planning to sneak into Demolition Man, but we got caught and the usher sent us to the movie that we actually paid to see, which was…
Mr Nanny starring Hulk Hogan and Buster Poindexter.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107612/
Great question. Either Billy Ocean’s “Love Zone” or Toad the Wet Sprocket.
When my ex-girlfriend was away at college back when I was a youngster (7 years ago or so)… I bought the Donna Lewis CD… you no… “I love you, always forever, near and far, closer together”…. yeah … that one…
the unfortunate thing was I bought it with one of my buddies there with me… 8 years later… and I haven’t heard the end of it…
makes a great coaster though…
i have a lot. i used to be into creed. i remember buying human clay and thinking it was awesome. but hey, it was all they played on the radio, how was i supposed to know there was better music out there? also, supernatural by santana, and some matchbox 20 albums. and i got the matrix reloaded soundtrack for free.
Um, yeah. I never thought I’d admit this, but my first CD purchase was the “Lion King” soundtrack. I bought it in 8th grade, when I got my first Discman. I thought I was the shit, jamming away to the smooth grooves of Elton John and Pumba.
OK here’s are the top ones that I’ve seen so far on this list:
5) Ace of Base
4) Aqua – Barbie Girl
3) Any of those special novelty albums (Smurfs go Pop, Superbowl Shuffle, Star Wars Christmas, etc)
2) Any soundtrack to a really bad movie (Goodburger, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, From Justin to Kelly, etc.)
1)Joey Lawrence
ALso, I think we should give special dispensation to:
A) All record purchases made before the age of 16
B) All the white kids who bought rap albums before they realized that there was a difference between quality hip-hop and crappy crossover pop (like Hammer, C&C music factory and Vanilla Ice)
enuff z’nuff
the one with “new thing” on it.
when i was young i also bought the transformer soundtrack on cassette. it had this song called “You Got the Touch!”
or something.
very inspirational music. it changed me forever…
Man after reading all of those, I am still emberassed. The Titanic Soundtrack. However, I remember listening to it only once, and that was when two girls slept over and we all slept in the same bed. No, I didn’t get laid, if I did that would be my favorite cd of all times!
Why do people keep mentioning Kula Shaker?? Kula Shaker is NOT embarassing! They’re GOOD!!!!!!!!! In fact, I’m quite sad that they’re no longer together
To the guy (or gal) who bought the Joey Lawerance CD. Bravo. That is the trump card, my friend. This thread can now be retired.
last summer i bough Melanie’s Greatest Hits…
i also own both Vindaloo and Who Invented Fish’n'Chips by Fat Les
Len ‘Can’t Stop The Bum Rush’
Spinal Tap’s “Break Like the Wind”
Bitch School baby…
the first CD i ever bought was an MC Hammer cd when i was in gr.3, what the hell was i thinking?? and better yet why did my parents allow that?? 2 legit 2 legit 2 quit!!!!
*sigh* this ain’t gonna be pretty:
Collective Soul (their first two albums… i think they influenced Creed, btw)
Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam: The Album
Snap! – Snap Attack: The Best of Snap!
and.. uhh…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Coming Out of Our Shells (i bought this casette from Pizza Hut)
(Thank God I discovered trip-hop when I did….)
Incidentally, Buster Poindexter is David Johansen, vocalist for the great and influential New York Dolls, in case you didn’t know already. And I definitely spelled his last name incorrectly. I mean wrongily.
the most embarrassing cd (first i had the tape) that i bought and still love to listen to from time to time esp. before going to sing karaoke is Bon Jovi Cross Roads!! best cd from my childhood hands down!!!
oy…
all saints.
I had a few backstreet boy cds…
nsync’s debut..
countless other musical atrocities…in my defense, I think I was 13. I assure you I have fully redeemed myself.
I dont get you guys, a lot of these albums I own MAINLY because they are guilty pleasures and I am proud of it. Hanson? C&C Music Factory? Spice Girls? Aqua? If you’d get over the fact that you are too darn “cool” to own these, you’d actually realize they are fun poppy albums and ITS OKAY TO BE FUN AND POPPY!
And I still love that Gin Blossoms album
I guess mine would have to be… oooh! I’d guess mine would probably be that Tatu album. THAT was crappy. And embarrassing.
2 soundtracks, 2 stars, 1 mans music
1 top gun, cruise, loggins
2 footloose, bacon, and yes loggins
To everybody who answered Snow – SOLIDARITY!
My crappiest – a Basia cassette I HAD to have when I was little (I think it was “London, Warsaw, New York”) – and insisted to all my little classmates the music was the best.
I was a lonely little child…
Yes, Bon Jovi are great to sing karoake to. I think this should be a rule: if you enjoy singing it on karoake, it CANNOT be a bad song. For example, Cyndi Lauper is not bad. “Time After Time” facking rox! Ritual De Lo Habitual is a great album.
I agree with the people who suggested that the Joey Lawrence CD (or the Olsens’ CD) is the worst. Not only were these not popular, have no songs that anyone can remember, but they were entirely made for marketing purposes. That is shitty music.
the most embarassing CDs I ever bought were the NSYNC “Pop” album. I made my sister drive me to WalMart at midnight after she got off work to Walmart so I could buy the 3rd album sold from that WalMart. and the albums from the English dance band Steps…..i look back at myself and want to slap her.
also it should be noted anyone who lists U2′s most recent or any coldplay album is sucking the fun out of this entire thread. You don’t have to try and sound really ‘cool’. The point is to dig up something from your past. And, btw, you sound INCREDIBLY arrogant when you make posts like that whilst everyone else is joking around about their boyband phase or their raprock phase. Seriously check your life out.
Has to be the Gerardo cd., that guy who used to sing “RICO-SUAVE!
i will stand by that second coldplay album! it was such crap and i was so disappointed…
but maybe i should “check my life out” anyway…
In 1988 I was “heading for the nineties/Living in the Wild Wild West”. Escape Club, y’all. And the next year I bought Enuff Z’Nuff’s self titled debut on the first date I ever went on. We hit Sam Goody, then I took my lady for some McNuggets at McDonald’s. Even at 13 I knew how to treat ‘em right.
Okay, someone back up there ripped Emma Bunton’s first solo CD. Fair enough, maybe, I haven’t heard it. But her most recent album, Free Me, is an overlooked gem. Seriously. Great 60s Swinging London vibe to it. Heaps of pure pop goodness. Seriously.
The Flinstones Soundtrack
And what’s even more embarrassing, I still own it.
Slanted & Enchanted by Pavement
arcade fire
the futurehead ..
franzferdinant
britneyspears
lohan
..insert indieyuppie cds here ..
hey ladyfantastic – i think i love you!
anyone that smokes joints in the morning while watching ellen is a woman after my own heart.
swoon…
Mine is Big Bam Boom by Hall & Oates… of course there really wasn’t a lot of CD’s to choose from back then (1984.)
I bought Paula Abdul’s SECOND Cd, “Spellbound.” “Forever Your Girl” was so good that I figured her sophomore effort had to be rad too.
I think it came in a Columbia House shipment with a CD by Jasmine Guy (the girl who played Whitley on “A Different World”), Rhythm Nation 1814.
I was 11 though, so if you take 15 to be the age of consent on pop records, then I’d say the worst album I bought was something like “Fat of the Land” by the Prodigy or something like that.
Oh, I had the Jewel debut.
prozzak, anyone?
I ordered the Milli Vanilli cassette from BMG. The lip-syncing scandal broke the next week, before I received it. I was upset. I bought Vanilla Ice instead.
vinyl, if that still counts. Atomic Rooster. Don’t ask.
Vanilla Ice.
No, no … I mean the second one. The “metal” one. Yup.
Boyz II Men
All 4 One
Kindred- a band from my high school that SUCKED!!
That LFO CD with “Summer Girls” on it…MmmBop by Hanson…Ricky Martin…all CDs somehow accumulated from others over the years, though thankfully I never BOUGHT any of those. I was an odd child anyhow, my first actual musical purchase of my own was Sgt Pepper by the Beatles and Thriller by MJ, at the same time.
whatever.
I’ll never be embarrassed by any of my music purchases. My music choices don’t define me. If I bought a certain album years ago that now looks like a lame decision: who cares? At the very least I was experimenting in different music. If not, I’m not going to sit here and copout that my taste wasn’t “cool”.
JUST KIDDING
It is between The Presidents of the United States of America & Spin Doctors.
Wow, over 200 responses and nobody has this one:
Quiet Riot, Metal Health. On vinyl, in 1984.
Considering some 8 million other people bought it too, I’m amazed nobody else has owned up here.
I win. No really, don’t even try. Seriously.
Oh, BTW I still have it if anyone wants it, only been played twice!
The Ghostbusters soundtrack! Where art thou now, Ray Parker Jr?
I don’t know what’s more embarassing – the fact that bought “Extreme – 3 Side to Every Story” or that I still listen to it.