Worst/Most Embarrassing CD You Ever Bought?
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June 16, 2005
i bought the second verve pipe album. yeah, what second verve pipe album? it had a dissected frog on the cover, and reportedly cost a cool mil to make.
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how about the second kris kross album? I think it was called Da Bomb! They tried to get all thug and I think they were both still under 18. Bummer.
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The Sign- Ace of Base
It's kind of a guilty pleasure, but i admit is embarrassing...
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DIDO.
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That would be Too Legit To Quit by MC Hammer. Christ. A whole album based on a hand gesture.
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Dude, that is so tame! My first album was also my worst: Paula Abdul's "Shut Up and Dance." On vinyl. Ah, sweet jebus--it'll take a lifetime to live that one down.
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Mine was Spice World by The Spice Girls. I can't believe I actually spent money on that!!!
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Thanks you guys now i don't feel so bad for mine!
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Not CDs but I bought two cassettes at the same time in high school (he said uneasily, revealing his age) "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em" and "Rythym Nation 1814" (or whatever) from Janet Jackson
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http://www.iseemonsters.com/?p=251
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George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice, Vol I.
I still like "Freedom '90", though.
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Hey since we are talking about K7 i also bought a Debbie Gibson tape and a Bananarama tape, in my defense i was young and stupid! I feel really ashamed for those two...
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the most embarassing CD i've ever purchased was "the sign" by ace of base. but it was only $1.99! the most embarassing CD ever given to me was stacie q's "two of hearts" CD. yikes.
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The second Candlebox cd, "Lucy". Even at 15, I knew it was garbage.
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That Natalie Imbruglia cd. And I should have known better at the time.
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I'll have to amend mine.
The Cranberries, "To the Faithful Departed." Just an awful, awful album. I remember feeling ashamed for buying it when I listened to it in my car on the way home from the store.
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i think my most embarrasing cd was........ gasp..... milli vanilli bahahaha
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Not only did I buy Bryan Adams' "Waking Up the Neighbors" in high school, but I was in the crowd for the concert video of "Touch the Hand."
"Touch the who with the what, now? Video, huh?" Exactly.
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Get ready:
The Great Milenko.
By the Insane Clown Posse.
I was a junior in college.
I have no explanation.
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I have Ginger and Sporty Spice's solo albums.
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Under the Table & Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets by the Dave Matthews Band. I needed something that I could make out to with chicks during college. Pavement, Stereolab and Primus wouldn't cut it. DMB have since been removed from the shelves
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There are too many that I have to say am embarrassed to have owned once. Highlights include:
* Tiffany -- her self-titled debut on cassette, no less. I was fourteen years old and thought she was hot. I still have it somewhere.
* Michael Jackson "Dangerous" -- in my defense, it was given to me for Christmas by my parents. The embarrassing part about that is that I kept it for a few years.
The most recent one I am embarrassed to have owned was Electric Six's "Fire." I was so excited about the song "Danger! High Voltage!" that I bought it and immediately had to have my girlfriend and her friend hear it. All I remember is that we all agreed to never play that piece of crap ever again.
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Tiffany! I bought Tiffany on tape in the seventh grade!
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gin blossoms.....
Oh my sweet Lord
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I asked for, and later received, "Human Clay" by Creed for my birthday back whenever it came out. I liked them then, but man do I hate them now.
I actually had a dream a few weeks ago that I bought a new Evanescence album for no reason then felt so ashamed once I got to my house.....mark my words, I will never buy an Evanescence album.
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Finally, my chance to atone for my sins against good taste in music. My terrible past purchases include:
Jewel's first album
Metallica - Load
Kula Shaker (which I actually liked in 1997)
Soul Asylum - whatever the album was that came out after "Runaway Train"
Phew. Now I feel better.
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C & C Music Factory....sigh.
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The Official Soundtrack to "Sabrina : The Teenage Witch," where Melissa Joan-Hart warbles her way through 'One Way or Another.'
Also, Mandy Moore's "Coverage" and a bootleg copy of the "From Justin to Kelly" Soundtrack.
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Lou Bega, "A Little Bit of Mambo"
Eiffel 65, "Europop"
Will Smith, "Willenium"
Happily, I've either sold these albums or passed them on to my younger brothers. It's their problem now. :-)
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http://homepage.mac.com/mstephens7/artwork/eiffel_65/europop.jpg
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lou Bega? OMG he acctually sold an album?
here is my sin:
Britney Spears- Baby one more time...
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I bought the first popular Linkin Park CD.
But I was young and retarded.
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i once bought mariah carey's "emotions' cd...
in my behalf, i was young.
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nkotb before they went by that acronym... yeesh
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The only one I see here that's really embarassing is the bootleg of "From Justin To Kelly". Most of what people are calling 'embarassing' was timely. How many people are going to have The Darkenss or Jet or the Killers on their list in 15 years?
mine has got to be Robin Hood soundtrack, which I bought thinking it was the Braveheart soundtrack.
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Elton John - Reg Strikes Back
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received as a christmas present by my older brother from a man who loved megadeath...
Anything Is Possible -debbie (pre deborah/playboy) gibson
YES, the cd AFTER electric youth...
don't know what he was thinking but i remember my boyfriend in high school found it in the back of my tape collection (early 90's) and teezed me about it to no end. I can still hear the taunts!
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I bought the cassette of Pornograffitti by Extreme. The one with that horrendous song "More Than Words" on it. There's a song on there called "Get the Funk Out" -- Just thinking about it still sends a chill of abject shame down my spine.
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My first, '12 inches of Snow' by Snow... Jeesh, it hurts even to write it!
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I got a list of em on my lj...bad!!!
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My first cassette tape was Billy Ocean, Love Zone
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Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack (Celine Dion? Peabo Bryson?)
Yech.
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LFO. I bought the album with the song "Every Other Time On It" because I wanted to put it on a cd mix for my ex-girlfriend back in the day, as an attempt to win her back.
Should I be surprised that it didn't work?
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i'm going to top you all. i bought two tapes at the age of 9: amy grant, heart in motion and michael bolton, time love and tenderness. i have clearly shamed myself and my whole family here...
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Ok Josh you win! LOL
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No Elton John album is a bad choice.
I agree with Mia Wallace though. Some of these "embarrasing" albums are just good pop albums that are a little old. Justin and Kelly is embarrasing; George Michael and Janet Jackson are endearing.
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three words, one letter.
rick ashley
stacy q
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How sad that the albums I'm embarassed about were already listed... or is that less sad? Cuz I'm not the only loser?
C&C Music Factory, Michael Jackson, the soundtrack to "Annie"...
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Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. AND I sang along to it, loudly, in the shower. Yowch.
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"HIStory: Volume 1" by Micheal Jackson. Boy, was that a bad idea.
Although it's probably worth something on eBay now.
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"HIStory: Volume 1" by Michael Jackson. Boy, was that a bad idea.
Although it's probably worth something on eBay now.
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I can top all of you, although most of you are probably too young to remember it.
Disco Duck. On vinyl. Ordered directly from K-Tel (as seen on TV!). I loved that song, and being eight was no excuse.
And Dugan, loving Martha Wash is never wrong.
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Color Me Badd
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[on casette]
Amy Grant.
Jon Secada.
Bon Jovi's "Keep The Faith."
the last action hero soundtrack.
the list goes on.
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i'm going to go with whitney houston - whitney. or possibly the single for mariah carey and boyz II men "one sweet day". ouch.
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First Mariah Carey album.
Thanks for nothing, Columbia House.
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hah i bought the single on tape of "Everything i Do i Do it For You" from Robin Hood.
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Ok, I guess there are two diff categories:
1.) Stuff from when we were little/impressionable (which shouldn't count).
2.) Albums from when we should've known better...
In that case,
1.) Marky Marky and the Funky Bunch
2.) Lenny Kravitz "Are you gonna go my way"
and just for the record, C & C music factory was the bomb and "more than words" by extreme still captivates me.
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I, uh, bought MDMA, Vol. 1 by DJ Skribble. Remember? He was that tool on MTV....yeah I heard some kid playing it 2 rooms over when I was tripping and had to have it. Boo drugs.
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It's not necessarily embarrasing, but certainly the worst CD I ever purchased:
Fishbone - Chim Chim's Bad Ass Revenge
Such a tragic fall from grace, that band.
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I bought the "Addams Family Groove" single on tape. It was one of the latter "hits" of MC Hammer. He might just have been "Hammer" by then, though.
Anyway, it was awesome.
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Also, awful novelty vinyls I had around the house for my childhood (but not actually purchased by me):
Pac Man Fever ("Defender" rocked by the way)
Star Wars Christmas (e.g. "What do you get a Wookie for Christmas (When He Already Has a Comb))
Hooked on Classics (If you mom ever did aerobics, you heard this album)
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The first CD by Will To Power. The one with their medley of "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird" on it. I'm a new waver at heart but got into a weird pop mode at the end of the '80s since I worked in a mall record store and all the stations in Cleveland played crappy pop music. Once I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991, I looked at my collection and asked myself "What the hell am I doing with all this CRAP?" And off I went to the used record store to sell off this CD, along with Sweet Sensation, Expose, Color Me Badd and a million other things I had accumulated. Keep in mind that as a record store manager, I got a lot of stuff for free. I know, it's no excuse. At least I finally came to my senses.
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En Vogue. No, you're never gonna get it.
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The most embarassing thing I can remember ever buying was Jane's Addiction's Ritual De Lo Habitual, and that's only embarassing because I did and still think they suck. Except for "Mountain Song", which isn't even on that album.
I used to have "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" in high school, but they were still considered cool back then, so I don't know if that counts.
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Another Bad Creation - Coolin' at the Playground
I think it was through the Columbia House 10 albums for a penny club.
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12 inches of snow rocked...I licky boom boom down
worst for me... hootie and...and....I can barely say it but limp biscuit, The funny part is that I cant bear to throw away music even if its horrible, so they reside in one of those old cd wallet things with the labels facing in just in case anyone is flipping through
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Also, Gin Blossoms rock and being young is no excuse for buying a Linkin Park album.
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Zoot Suit Riot. Cherry Poppin' Daddies. I win.
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One word....Nickelback.
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I must have been about 7 when i got "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Pretty Poison. She was so hot on the cover. Now that I think about it the album cover picture reminds me a lot of the Britney Spears Rolling Stone cover.
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Showing some age here: not so much buying it, but defending it for some years afterward -- Billy Joel "The Nylon Curtain"
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How about the first 2 Creed albums, Limp Bizkit's "Three Dollar Bill Y'all" AND "Significant Other"...Oh and I was really into Korn's " Life Is Peachy" at some point. I was so ashamed I threw them out.
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Alapalooza; Weird Al Yankovic - with that FANTASTIC parody of "MacArthur Park."
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Roxette/Joyride
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Probably Atari Teenage Riot. Good for one listen and then it's into the dustbin. Either that or The Soupdragons, what the fuck?
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In high school, I had to buy a Liberace cd for a play I was working on. I was so embarrassed and so relieved to get out of the store without being seen (it was only two blocks from school!).
I later told a trusted friend that there really needed to be Liberace dispensers in public mens rooms, so you could discreetly purchase cds as you would condoms.
C'mon folks, some of your choices are guilty pleasures and nothing to be ashamed of. Kula Shaker? Eiffel 65? I still listen to mine!
--Mikey
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The fact that I'm the first to admit that I bought the first Kid Rock album is soul-crushing.
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Born to Boogie -- Hank Williams Jr.
http://tinyurl.com/c4xlv
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That would be Limp Bizkits second CD. I was young and angry, and got rid of it soon after. I also own a Chipmunks Christmas, but I'm not embarassed of that at all.
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A couple come to mind...
Emma Bunton's first solo CD. Sticks out like a sore thumb in my Case Logic CD wallet.
Martina McBride - The Way That I am. Lost that one years ago.
The bottom line is, people: No matter how cute the girl is on the CD cover, DON'T give in and buy the CD!
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I stole my younger sister's Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation tape and I used to wear one hoop earing with the key in it just like Janet and I used to mimic the dance that she did in the "Miss you much" video, I was 13 at the time and I didn't know any better.
I also brought the first Spin Doctors CD and the live cd that they put out again I was a kid at the time I was 16.
Some of the sucky cd's I brought as an adult for which I have no excuse
"Spice World",
"Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits"
Sucky Cd's that I got while I temped:
"Human Clay" Creed
The first Nickelback cd
Those were free and I think I listen to them once and sold them along with Lenny Kravitz and the Spice Girls.
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I bought the same cd as robb (Limp Bizkit).
Worst of all?
I bought it at Wal*Mart.
I win.
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Yanni- Live at the Acropolis. I have no excuse.
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Nickelback, hands down. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but my taste in music changed drastically after that. I only gave that album one listen, I kid you not, then pawned it off on a friend with even shittier taste. A day or two later, I bought The Strokes' (Is This It), and the rest is history.
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I second Michael Bolton's Time, Love and Tenderness - I think I was 8.
Also, Aqua. It's still on the shelf to this day and I always get teased for it but I'm a pack rat, I can't get rid of it.
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I think it might be Face Value by Phil Collins. I guess I figured he was in a band with Peter Gabriel so how bad could it be. The most embarrassing part is remembering how I sang along to "In The Air Tonight"...on second thought I might have to give that another listen
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It sounds like most of the albums were bought because they were cool at the time and now have fallen from grace. The embarrassing part is the complete lack of independent thought that went/goes into many of these purchases. I like the Spin Doctors when they came out. And the things I like about them then, I still like (but to a lesser degree because my musical tastes have changed). Anyway since we are all guilty of this, my admission is the first cassette I ever owned:
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
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I subscribed to BMG Music Club, and for my 6 free CDs I got Celine Dion - Celine Dion, Ce Ce Peniston - Finally, Mariah Carey - Unplugged, Jon Secada - Jon Secada, Wilson Philips - Wilson Philips, and Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours. You should see what I got for my paid selections..
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probably ocean avenue by yellowcard. i liked one song on it and i got a gift certificate to mhv so i snatched it. also i have the aqua cd somewhere around my room.
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Chixdiggit. Ummmm, I think they're Canadian, and they were up at our college radio station. Esoteric, yes. Good? No.
The hit song was "I Wanna Hump You", but I also enjoyed "Hemp Hemp Hooray".
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Oh God....
New Kids on the Block Christmas Album.
Have a funky, funky Christmas, yo!
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Freaking Billy Ray Cyrus - the one with that douche of a song "Achy Breaky Heart." My grandmother bought it for me.
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ummm...does no one remember those 'jock jams' compilations that mtv put out? yeah. in sixth grade i think i had all of those. i'm afraid that things just got worse in junior high.
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Bon Jovi's New Jersey (on cassette).
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It is hard to admit it publicly like this, but my embarrasing album was Erasure, The Innocents. I am lucky that I got out of that era alive.
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addendum: i also warbled along to the soundtrack to 'the bodyguard' for far too long. and then there were these four tragic little words: toad the wet sprocket. (still listen to that cd, actually. screw you all.)
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In 3rd grade bought Olivia Newton John's "Lets Get Physical" to impress a girl, she ended up with the dude that bought Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Lesson learned.
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Bros with the song "When Will I Be Famous"...gag and heave.
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The shame of my first CD purchase ever is summed up in six letters and an incongruous exclamation point.
Frente!
This is, of course, after I'd worn out my cassingle of Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)".
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Donny Osmond: My Love is a Fire (Cassette Single)
OH THE SHAME!
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Hmm, I own a lot of things that would embarass other people-- PM Dawn (all 3 albums), The entire Singers and Songwriters Collection (from TV), Barry Mannilow, and Basia. I even think Yanni has an acceptable time and place, but the only one I hope people dont see in my collection (and makes me wonder why I dont just sell it) is Eric Johnsons Ah Via Musicom for that "kick-ass" guitar jam "Cliffs of Dover." Terrible, just terrible. And I think a little part of me knew it, even back then...
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Oh, Jeremy just reminded me that I had the Donny Osmond 'Soldier of Love' cassette single. I think that counts as embarassing.
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Surprised that no one has mentioned Vanilla Ice. Ouch.
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The cassette single of Paula Abdul & Skat Kat's "Opposites Attract".
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The third Asia album.
The third Men at Work album.
The C&C Music Factory 12" Single for Gonna Make You Sweat.
Plus the latest Stereophonics. Ugh.
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i have copies of no strings attached and 98* and rising, sad thing is that when rising was all messed up a stole my firends copy to replace it...
oh my mom has color me badd
and that jet was horrible...
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erm, quite probably the Poison "Nothing But A Good Time" cassette single.
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Live's Throwing Copper
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I sadly have an entire drawer filled with shameful CDs. Some off the top of my head -- 3 *NSYNC albums, 5ive (*facepalm*), the Babysitter's Club movie soundtrack (my very first CD), the best of Boys II Men (it was a gift!), Ricky Martin, and...wait for it...the single of Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me."
Oh, the shame!
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These are all embarrassing but no one tops this:
Jesse Camp - "Jesse and the 8th St. Kidz"
Unfortunately I can't claim to have bought or ever owned this cd. But once I sat through the entire video for one of the songs, and for that I am deeply embarrassed.
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"It is hard to admit it publicly like this, but my embarrasing album was Erasure, The Innocents. I am lucky that I got out of that era alive."
Hey! The Innocents was one of my first purchases too (on cassette) and I STILL think it's good! So there! :)
But OH MY GOD I just remembered an even more embarassing one than Bon Jovi:
Life, Love and Pain by Club Nouveau (on cassette of course)
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not only did i buy the milli vanilli album, i saw them live, front row, in concert with Young M.C.(who's album i also owned).
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I continue to buy wierd al albums to this day. Have nearly all of them all.
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I definitely walked around the house with one of those old voice recorder tape players rocking huey lewis and the news - sports. 2nd tape was duran duran no-no-notorious. I remember looking up "notorious" in the dictionary.
And loving Indiana Jones with all of my tiny little heart.
Sigh.
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Liza Minelli performs Petshop Boys songs
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AQUA, 7th grade
BARBIE GIRL!
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I have Menudo on cassette and vinyl.
I clearly win.
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Without a doubt, the Wham album with "wake me up before you go-go". It had the boys on the front and the back, so it was hard to even hide it. What's more, I was a freshman in college, so I was old enough to know better. I bought Husker Du - new day rising and the replacements - let it be that year also, so I was hip. Just completely inexplicable. A close second, I suppose, is the second Culture Club album. Karma chameleon is still a guilty pleasure, though.
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I own a number of Mariah Carey albums. For about four years, I bought every-damn-thing the woman put out.
But the Tiffany and Debbie Gibson albums aren't exactly bright points in my collection...
I also went through a Michael Bolton phase. It lasted about two weeks.
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Spin Doctors was the first concert I ever attended, right after getting my drivers license. I just couldnt wait for Screaming Trees and Soul Asylum to get off stage so I could see the Doctors, stupid me. And I couldnt understand why they were selling ballons in the parking lot.
Most embarassing album: Cocktail motion picture soundtrack, "Aruba, jamaica ooo I wanna take you"
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Hanson. I definitely own "Middle of Nowhere". The REALLY embarrassing thing is that I still put it on and hop around to it every once in a while.
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No shame in Toad the Wet Sprocket. Check out Glen Phillips new stuff, it is VERY GOOD. And most of everyone's "embarassing" CDs are just fads.
My worst CD is either the first Hootie album. I knew it wasn't cool back then even when I bought it. Or, Motley Crew, Decade of Decadence (Best of CD) I think I was a junior in HS, again... too old for that.
But what is better is my first CD was Great White "Once Bitten Twice Shy" a birthday gift.
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being ashamed to like or admit you like ANY music is completely retarded. following the "cool kid" rules, if any of you still do that, are completely missing the point of why you should or should not like things.
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My first two cassetes:
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (although I still love Time after Time)
Whitney Houston - Whitney
I also had the Pac Man Fever Album - that thing rocked!
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Loud Sugar.
Ugh.
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Dino 24/7 & Swingin'
first I bought the cassettes and now I have the CD's...sssshhhh..I dont want to mention it out loud....I still listen to them every now and again because 'That's The Way It Has To Be, Cuz Thats The Way I Like It, I Like It!!!!" :P
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free willie soundtrack.
yepppp.
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snow.
as in "informer....a licki boom boom down" (or something)
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snow.
as in "informer....a licki boom boom down" (or something)
please don't tell anyone...seriously.
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eiffel 65
white town - women in technology
ugh!
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"Aquarium" by Aqua.
Remember them?
"I'm a barbie girl in a barbie world life in plastic...it's fantastic! You can brush my hair undress me everywhere, imagination life is your creation! (C'mon barbie let's go party!)"
And so on.
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Yeah...I did some coke when they came out. I stopped now. Promise.
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I had the first two Tiffany albums on cassette, and bought the third that nobody else did on CD (I was 11). I did the same thing with Paula Abdul. I've since sold the Abdul, but I just can't give up Tiffany, God knows why.
We have a dollar bin full of craptacular cds at my store, and I've been guilty of purchasing these out of it:
Lemonheads, Jewel, 4 Non Blonds, En Vogue, Mariah Carey, Gin Blossoms, Duran Duran, and Michael Jackson's 'Bad' (but I love Michael, and will stand up for that choice any day).
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*Bows head in shame* Vanilla Ice- To the extreme.
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I agree that you should not be embarrassed for buying a cd that was only temporarily popular. What is embarrassing is buying a cd that was never popular, was never good, and remains both unpopular and bad to this day.
I still submit that Jesse Camp satisfies these requirements with flying colors. Unfortunately I did not actually buy that cd. But somebody must have (his parents maybe?) and they bear the awful distinction of buying the most embarrassing cd of all time.
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It's like having Gilgi on DVD.
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Get this ... Joey Lawrence, the self-titled album. Yes, yes, yes ... that Joey Lawrence ... the one from 'Blossom'
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/lawrencejoey-st.shtml
Now what do I win?
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Duran Duran, The Rasmus, and Monty Python Sings... Oh, wait, those are on my favourites list, not my embarrassing list.
Now that mp3's are a buck each (or free), I've got a stack of songs that would NEVER would have made an appearence in my CD player...
To name a few:
-Justin Timberlake, Rock your body
-Beyonce, Crazy in Love
...and Britney Spears....not one but THREE songs.... BRITNEY SPEARS people!
(sadly all were purchased in the last year...but my only mark of redemption is that at least I didn't buy the whole album!)
PureTracks and iTunes are the spawn of satan.
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Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Milli Vanilli
Arrested Development
The Verve Pipe -- one with "freshmen"
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Hope, you and I are riding the same shame spiral with Hanson (and I do the dishes listening to it every once and a while). Please don't tell anyone.
Oh, and every ska cd I purchased during the 90's makes me cringe with embarrassment.
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OK, I write about music for a living, so my defenses are either: 1) I was young and stooopid, or 2) hey, I need to know about *everything*, not just what's indie and underground!
So here goes... all on cassette:
Def Leppard "Hysteria" AND "Pyromania"
Thompson Twins "Here's To Future Days"
Stryper "The Yellow And Black Attack"
Duran Duran "Arena" (yes, the one where the only new song was the putrid "Wild Boys")
Bon Jovi "New Jersey"
Metallica "Master of Puppets" AND "...and Justice For All" (it was weightlifting music, I told myself)
And there are probably more if I really thought about it. But those jump out first.
I continue to defend stuff that's unfashionable and non-indie, but solid -- e.g. Dido's first album (couldn't hear much difference between her vibe and Beth Orton's, honestly), Sixpence None The Richer (ok, they're friends of mine, but guitarist Matt loves My Bloody Valentine and certainly knows his way around a pop hook) and at least Dave Matthews Band's first CD, which had really solid songs to say nothing of the musicianship -- that it was popular with the frat-rock audience doomed it with the cred-obsessed. (i.e. most of you reading this.) And the guy at least has enough sense to put Mike Doughty and My Morning Jacket on his label.
Now that I've completely blown my indie-cred, I'll hopefully steal back just a shred of it by saying that Sufjan Steven's "Illinois" is the best CD I've heard this year, and a serious early contender for Best of 2005.
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TRENT WINS!! HANDS DOWN NO CONTEST!!
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No Authority. Debut album. They were a C list (and that's being pretty kind) group formed in the aftermath of Backstreet and NSYNC.
I bought it because one of the group members is my friend's cousin. I'm not really friends with her anymore, but unfortunately I still have the cd. I was also given Jessica Simpson's first cd, and her voice makes my ears bleed--especially on that John Mellencamp sampled song.
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my car stereo(cassette deck)was stolen in the early 90's along with all my tapes i had in the car. the thief took all the tapes but made sure to leave behind my howard the duck soundtrack.
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Lou Bega and Shaggy...
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Justin Frickin' Timberlake - and I stand for the decision. Some of the tracks are so nicely produced. Great CD to compare the sound of my own stuff with.
But it's embarrassing as hell. And the songs are not all that, erm, strong.
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mariah carey #1s
i think i win.
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En Vogue - Remix to Sing...twice.
Not so bad on its own when you're, like, twelve years old, but when you own it, sell it at a used CD shop when you're 24, then re-purchase it when you're 26, the purchase can only be qualified by one word: embarrassing.
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two words: milli vanilli
there. i said it.
let the healing begin!
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U2's latest album. How sad is that?
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Ace of Base
Natalie Imbruglia
N'Sync
Christina Aguilera
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I actually bought a WHITE STRIPES album! HOW EMBARASSING!!!
Kenny Chesney Rules,
The Anti-Cool
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"Kiss From a Rose" single by Seal. "Batman" just came out, and my two girlfriends and I would drive to and from our junior college classes in her Ford Escort belting it out, getting all the lyrics wrong.
Baybeh! ahkintellahbuhbuh KISS FROM A ROSE on da grabe...
God, we sucked.
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Stabbing Westward. I was pissed that I had picked it up before I even made it back home and never managed to get past the first handful of cuts.
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i bought Taxiride after i heard their single on the 'Election' sdtk. they have a song called "I love ice cream". i am ashamed.
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Worse than Milli Vanilli, worse than Ace of Base, even worse than U2's latest:
Nobody Else by Take That
I'd give a slap across to face to the boy I was before I developed any sort of taste in music.
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... i was hoping these would make me feel better about mine, but alas...
the first smash mouth album.
sigh.
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Debbie Gibson, Bon Jovi and Micheal Jackson, all at the same time in '86.
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Del Amitri, nuff said.
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...the spice girls...
im so ashamed.
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GODZILLA SOUNDTRACK! PUFF DADDY - COME WITH ME, UH YEAH!
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The "Good Burger" soundtrack. So sad.
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MASE - "Harlem World"...or also known as the worst album ever recorded in the history of all time.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico! What a shitty album!
(just kidding)
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That Robyn "Show me love" Cd. I think she was Swedish.
Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere"
and the first Matchbox 20 album. And Matchbox 20 was the first concert I ever went to, so I have more to be embarrassed about with them.
I also had Inner Circle (the "Bad Boys" song from COPS) on cassette.
...Oh, and that All-American Rejects CD is pretty bad too.
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....NKOTB(after they "re-named" themselves)"Face The Music".I also had the Joey Lawrence cassette and *sigh* Take That's Nobody Else. When I was 13 there was no way you could have convinced me that there was a better song than Back For Good.
I think I win.
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Jewel's "Pieces of You" -- because when I was in middle school I thought girls had to listen to Lilith Fair crap.
Other than that, I'm ashamed of surprisingly few of my purchases.
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whoever said basia wins.
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I've never purchased any music that sucks, my motto is what would Beavis and Butthead listen too, any way I steal all mine off the internerd, who buys music anymore?
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tiffany, debbie gibson, nkotb etc...AND an autographed tape of Sweet Sensation -they lived in my building. I think I still have it...
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any coldplay album
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i think y'all will have a hard time topping this one: in 1988, i had the most unfortunate circumstance of paying real money for the album 'x2' by really bad pop duo Times Two. it was on reprise and the two dudes looked like really low-rent american knock-offs of wham! (but even gayer). they had a 'hit' (#21 on Billboard) called 'strange but true.' i remember thinking 'this doesn't look good' at the time, but my friends and i were all about any synth-pop band that used lots of keyboards (information society were big at this time). of course bands like depeche mode and new order were the best, but we were cheesy enough to delve into stuff like scritti politti and even book of love (remember those art-school drama majors? wow). the 80s were especially hard on some of us...
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and a message to mindi: wow - you bought the whole bros album! that's amazing. i did buy 'when will i be famous' on 45 though. i think i still have it somewhere. and i'm not even gay!
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One word: Nelson
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Celine Dion. That album gave me a headache after the second listen.
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Bruce Willis - Return of Bruno
Belinda Carlisle - Belinda
Ah, to be young, dumb and tone deaf again...
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Is anyone reading anyone else's comments? Jeez louise, there have been thousands of repeats...
Anyway, I just thought I'd point out that the following are NOT embarrassing, in my estimation:
Justin Timberlake
Robyn
Beyonce
Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight"
select Bon Jovi and Metallica
That Jewel song "You Were Meant For Me"
Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation"
Michael Jackson "Bad"
And some Mariah Carey is darn good! When I saw Final Fantasy open for The Arcade Fire, he did "Sweet Fantasy Baby" with Gentleman Reg. It was fackin' amazing. Don't be haters of Top 40, people.
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Both "Vengabus" and "Macarena" singles.
I am so ashamed.
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Those are all pretty good, but I think I have you all beat: Brian Austin Green's "The Carnival." Yup, I bought David from 90210's awful "rap" CD.
Plus I own(ed) pretty much all of those mentioned above.
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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
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maybe the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack. Or lionel ritchie's "Dancing of The Ceiling." Actually I need to dig the Lionel out for Dance Party at CCA Deuce for Friday nite.
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from the first popstars show (a reality show that manufactured this girl band) Eden's Crush self titled.
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do you remember Silverchair? I had both albums
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Huey Lewis's "Sports" and Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" may not be embarrassing to some people... but how about:
Huey Lewis "Fore!"
(featuring Stuck With You and Hip to be Square).
--or--
Phil Collins "...But, Seriously"
(featuring Another Day in Paradise).
I had these fiascos on cassette back in the day. That is damned embarrassing and I don't care what anyone thinks. I'm going to go hide under the bed now.
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X&Y - coldplay
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My mom got me a Yanni Christmas CD...
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vanilla ice
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It all depends WHEN you bought it. My embarassing moment.
2002- NKOTB Hanging Tough
2001 - LA BANDA GORDA
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008S33/qid=1118973992/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-5664189-3961720?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
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Sheryl Crow's first album.
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Definitely OMC's "How Bizarre." Bad song, but I wouldn't know about the rest of the album since I bought it for that song alone.
CD Warehouse was kind enough to give me $1 for it.
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One Christmas, I BEGGED my sister to get me Candyman's Knockin' Boots album. Damn.
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Primitive Radio Gods.
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hey, i see no shame in hanson.
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The "Super Bowl Shuffle" was an instant classic,
I think its about time for the keyboard gutiar to comeback...
(CHORUS)
We're the Bears Shufflin' Crew.
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.
You know we're just struttin' for fun
Struttin' our stuff for everyone.
We're not here to start no trouble.
We're just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.
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worst album of all time?
ok computer by radiohead ;)
i'm too embarrassed to even play it in mono.
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that Crash Test Dummies album, the one with that stupid hit on it. I was in college by then, I really should have known better.
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Lou Bega, Spiceworld, Venga Boys, C+C Music Factory....
You guys are just naming dream all the songs I play on any jukebox at any bar I go to.
I love to see people try and look cool while Mambo #5 is playing really loud.
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papa roach?
pure disco?
jock jams?
nothin' to lose soundtrack on cassette?
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You know I would say "Up" by Right Said Fred, but that album is actually pretty good. And i'll still listen to it. But seriously, the worst album I ever bought was High Speed Racer's new one. That was like maybe two months ago too. I really don't know what I was thinking. That album really sucks. Now, even when I know better to listen to them first, I still bought it. Now THAT'S emberrasing.
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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.
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the Macarena cd....wow i was cool.
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Mine must be Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's
"Brother for Sale". Totally humiliating. I think I beat everyone.
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The "Good Burger" soundtrack.
I TOTALLY win THIS game... ;-)
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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.
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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.
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Bush - 16 Stone
Beat that!
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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".
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Falco. R.I.P.
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Aqua's cd, the one with barbie girl on it
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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
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David Bowie - The Buddha of Suburbia
WORST PIECE OF SHIT EVER. KRISS KROSS, ACE OF BASS, MILLI VANILLI ARE ALL BETTER THAN THIS ALBUM.
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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.
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CHUMBA-WAMBA (or however the shit its spelled.) Pure crap.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had the Rembrandt's album on cassette. I forgot, but I wish I hadn't remembered.
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Well, any Spandau Ballet record is embarrassing enough. And I've got them all...
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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)
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Avril Lavigne AND Evanescence. But I threw them away a week later.
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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.
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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!
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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...
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i could make an entire list...
linkin park
eminem
backstreet boys
pokemon movie soundtrack
haha...oh the tastes of a suburban boy.
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Beavis and Butthead Soundtrack (where they sing with Cher and giggle a lot)
Ugly Kid Joe
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
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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.
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I bought that Rednex "Cotton Eye Joe" single.
I'm truly sorry for helping it to number 1.
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it's been mentioned before i think: Live - Throwing Copper
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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.
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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....
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I win. Easily.
At the grand old age of 18 i bought 'The Smurfs Go Pop'. honestly.
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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. :)
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Anniemal, by Annie. Just kidding. I'd never buy that. Or at least never admit it.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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where do i start....
primitive radio gods
rupaul's first album
to name a few
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I purchased the 'Dangerous Minds' soundtrack. Yes for the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, and the single off that was 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio.
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I am also guilty of the Nelson crime....
After the rain...washes away the tears...
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Buster Poindexter (on tape) - what can i say? i loved that hot, hot, hot!
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THIS BEAT IS THIS BEAT IS THIS BEAT IS TECHNOTRONIC!!!
PUMP UP THE JAM!!!
Puaj!!!!
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this is difficult to admit...."PacMan Fever". OK, are you happy? I said it.
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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.
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Addams family soundtrack.
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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.
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"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/
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Great question. Either Billy Ocean's "Love Zone" or Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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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... ;)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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enuff z'nuff
the one with "new thing" on it.
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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...
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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!
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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 :-(
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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.
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last summer i bough Melanie's Greatest Hits...
i also own both Vindaloo and Who Invented Fish'n'Chips by Fat Les
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Len 'Can't Stop The Bum Rush'
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Spinal Tap's "Break Like the Wind"
Bitch School baby...
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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!!!!
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*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....)
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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.
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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!!!
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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.
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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.
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2 soundtracks, 2 stars, 1 mans music
1 top gun, cruise, loggins
2 footloose, bacon, and yes loggins
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Has to be the Gerardo cd., that guy who used to sing "RICO-SUAVE!
:-(
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i will stand by that second coldplay album! it was such crap and i was so disappointed...
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but maybe i should "check my life out" anyway...
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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.
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The Flinstones Soundtrack
And what's even more embarrassing, I still own it.
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Slanted & Enchanted by Pavement
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arcade fire
the futurehead ..
franzferdinant
britneyspears
lohan
..insert indieyuppie cds here ..
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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...
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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.)
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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.
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prozzak, anyone?
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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.
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vinyl, if that still counts. Atomic Rooster. Don't ask.
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Vanilla Ice.
No, no ... I mean the second one. The "metal" one. Yup.
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Boyz II Men
All 4 One
Kindred- a band from my high school that SUCKED!!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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The Ghostbusters soundtrack! Where art thou now, Ray Parker Jr?
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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.
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Bad Boy Bill vs Richard Humpty Vission
Top it. Seriously. Raving was bad...
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HANSON is the shit.
Deal with it. Yeah I farted. Jealous?
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collective soul - hints allegations and things left unsaid
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3. Doors. Down.
It's disheartening that some of the albums named I'm not really ashamed to own: gin blossoms, collective soul, Alapalooza (my first CD).
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You may be an indie yuppie if...
you took this thread even a little bit seriously.
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Joey Lawrence- Woah!
But I sure do love to put it on during parties to freak people out. Or make them go home because the party's over.
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filter - title of record. i have NO IDEA WHY. it was even before that song "take a picture" was a hit.
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This is truly horrible, but here it goes. I bought the first Hilary Duff CD. I'm VERY embarrassed and ashamed. I really don't know what came over me. I'll never live it down. I'm not sure if it's as bad as MC Hammer though...
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BBMak.... or Spice Girls... I'm sure there are more, but those are the first that come to mind.
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The first Destiny's Child album. Not that I don't still love "Bills Bills Bills," but god, not enough to BUY THE ALBUM
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dc Talk. Jesus Freak
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Smashmouth "Astrolounge", the first CD I ever owned. I was about 12 or 13. I really liked that song "Allstar".
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milli vanilli
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The Liza Minnelli/Pet Shop Boys album that someone mentioned earlier is actually quite good.
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well folks, over the winter in the spirit of christmas and to support my fellow azn brother i bought william hung - hung for the holidays. for those of you who didnt know, in the album big willie did a cover of we are the champion. com'on even this beat joey from blossom
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creeesco. You win in my opinion. Just the idea of someone stealing your tunes, but then going back and leaving the soundtrack to "Howard the Duck" is just too funny.
Although "Smurfs go Pop" Wow. That's a really close contender.
The Good Burger soundtrack guy, That's pretty bad. But George Clinton is on there. He kicks serious ass. (If you owned the movie however, that would be a different story)
And everyone, lot of good runners up.
I'm not really ashamed of any of my music. HOWEVER. One time, I wanted to play Tom Lehrer's ''The Elements'' (1959) It's a song where he sings all the elements in the periodic table, I gave the tape to my science teacher to appreciate.
I gave him the wrong tape. I gave him the previous weeks Dr. Demento show. The theme was "Star Trek" and he listened to the entire thing waiting for the element song which wasn't on there. And that show had tons of crap on there.
Maybe related or not, but I got an "F" in his class. My only "F" ever.
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The Mooony Suzuki - Electric Sweat
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I also have Disco Duck!
quad city dj's
pink
vitamin c
soul decision
the heights soundtrack
BTW Rhythem Nation 1814 is not an embarrassing purchase, that album is the shit.
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a bit unoriginal but it might very well be aquarium by aqua, i still rock barbie girl on the ipod every now and then
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This is my list of albums I am now ashamed I owned:
1. SWV's first album
2. Shai's first(and only?)album
3. No Doubt's second album (I made the mistake of assuming it would be as fun as Tragic Kingdom)
4. Please Hammer Don't Hurt Them
5. Sheryl Crow's first three albums
6. Orgy's first album (forgot the name)
While we are at it, I will admit that I am extremely embarassed that I went to Lilith Fair in 1999' and saw Alanis Morrisett in concert that summer as well (I now use the concert tees as rags)
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I am not embarrassed easily. I have CDs by John Denver, Britney Spears (3!), Limp Bizkit. I own "Spider-Man: Rock Refections of a Superhero," and happily pull it out for anyone who wants a good laugh. Keep all that in mind when I say:
Air Supply. Right between Air and Alice in Chains, there's Air Supply.
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Take That's Greatest Hits when i was 12.
just for that song, 'back for good.'
the worst part, i was actually MOVED by the song and thought Take That was the most vocally gifted group around.
if only i knew then waht i know now.
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I bought not just one, but *two* Debbie Gibson CDs through one of those '20 Cds for $1' through the mail deals...Anytime anyone looked at my CD collection, I claimed that they were given to me by someone I didn't like anymore.
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aha i have so many,lol.
mariah carey emotions,Whigfield"Cassette",otown,Bewitched, i was 15 so i was old enuff 2know better, Wild Wild West Soundtrack,.Ace of base the seconde album.,Prozac,chumbawambah,britney spears,spice girls and spice world,backstreet boys mind u all of themLOL,N sync,Donna Lewis,clueless soundtrack,jordan knight his solo one u know da one"give it to You" yah i suck,lol and S.O.A.P,this is how we party,haha,plus aqua-aquarious,Sugar Jones,.theres hell ofalot more too,aha,now someone please SHoT ME!?!
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Ooh Btw i didnt actually buy all these albums most were from those pay a cent for 12 cd's threw the mail.comumbia house, so its k.and i had most of the cds u guys mentioned on top too,ahahah
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That's a lot of sad crap, people. I can't believe nobody listed J-Lo's On the 6--ugh, that was horrible shit, and I was over the age of 30 when I bought it! Humiliating!
Other humiliations from approx. the same time include Significant Other by Limp Bizkit and Now That's What I Call Music, Vol. 2 (which I bought by calling the 800 number...) Embarrassments from my youth are mainly limited to the complete libraries of Billy Joel and ELO, certain sections of which I'm ashamed to admit I still enjoy.
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Undoubtedly someone else has said this...
"Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears (that's the first one, right?)
How humiliating.
I wasted $20 on that crap.
And then I *stole* the 2nd one from a Smithbooks.
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Y'all should be less apologetic with your pasts - just because it's lame now does not mean you should be embarrassed. Ned's Atomic Dustbin? Got it. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Soundtrack? Got it. Urban Dance Squad (1st and 2nd albums)? Got it. The Chieftans? Got it. But I feel no shame about those choices.
These however... well I'm still trying to recover from doing this to myself.
Poison - the first two albums
Warrant - the Cherry Pie one
Def Leppard - I think everything they produced until after 1990 or so.
Steve Vai - had some harts or stuff on the cover
Stryper - and I'm Jewish!!!
Wasted countless hours on my yellow SONY Sport with those bitches. Worst part, my hearing is all fucked because I rocked them too hard! Course, I also used to blast the Band's "the weight" in my ears around the same time as those choices - so it wasn't all in vain.
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Please, if this thread continues, no more pretending to be ashamed of buying the Arcade Fire (great) or Pavement (really, asshole, go shoot smack and swim in the east river) in order to score hip points with people you'll never meet. Dig deep, we all have strange little things tucked away that we bought for some strange reason. Early 90's Kiss comes to mind. Aerosmith's later works. Tracey Bonham and anyone who bought the last couple of Smashing Pumpkins records. Whale! Sean Lennon (see through the hip).
Lit. Sugar Ray.
Also, not that they were the worst thing on earth, but what was up with Dramarama and Ned's Atomic Dustbin - exactly what were they up to?
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i am not alone. i also got times two's strange but true. on those cute little 45 vinyls!
during that dark period in my young life, i also became briefly obsessed with johnny hates jazz - got shattered dreams / i don't want to be a hero (or something like that) on 45.
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Mmmmm...there are so many to choose from. Let's see...I bought the Bloodhound Gang CD, only because I liked that one song. Oh, and I also bought Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals, but it was a pitty purchase cuz they suck so bad now!
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The Pet Shop Boys did an album with THE LATE, GREAT DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, not Liza Minelli LOL! Come to think of it, any of Liza's solo albums would be worthy of being included on this list! And then there's Ethel Merman's disco album. "The Merm" as she was known, sang all her classic hits like "There's No Business Like Show Business" exactly the same way she always did completely ignoring the thumping disco beat that bangs away in the background. Nothing can top it! :)
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I don't think 8Os should count as embarassing ... Milli Vanilli and Tiffany and stuff..... especially if you were a kid. Creed and Insane Clown Posse on the other hand....
Mine is J Lo's "On the 6"
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Soul Asylum, "Grave Dancers Union". No contest.
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Ok, as a Verve Pipe fan, I just need to get this off my chest; what is so embarassing about buying either their eponymous second release OR 'Villains'?! So it's not edgy and frindge and obscure like all the kids like, but what it is is good, solid, well written pop fluff that's fun to sing in the car.
/end rant
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Some people might consider my knowledge of these details embarrassing, but the Pet Shop Boys did albums with *both* Dusty Springfield ("Reputation") and Liza Minnelli ("Results"). And, really, they only did half of the Dusty Springfield album. Haven't heard the Liza one, but I like the Dusty one.
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i used to LOVE the singles "what's up" by 4 non-blondes and "all for love" by color me badd. lol those were grrrreat
i also have guilty pleasure over the real mccoy's "runaway" (runaway, runaway, runaway and save your life!) and "another night" (another night, another dream but always you)...
BACK FOR GOOD BY TAKE THAT IS MY FAVE SONG...on my itunes, it has like 5 stars next to it because i listen to it all the time lol
freshman year of high school my fave songs were chumbawumba's "tubthumping", leeann rimes "how do i live (without you)" and allure's "all cried out" (cover of a cheesy 80's song...don't you know my tears will cause an inferno?!"
my most embarassing cd i ever got was the dinosaurs soundtrack. (tgif show circa 1992)...with the "i'm the baby gotta love me" song on it!!!!!!!!! BEAT THAT!
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ps PHIL COLLINS RULES!!!!!
get his "SERIOUS HITS" it will not disappoint...
and i LOVE his new single... "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away" it is really great
and those Disney songs were awesome
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1. Psuedo Echo (holy shit)
2. Mariah Carey's Butterfly album
3. Chumbawumba
4. *NSYNC's Christmas album (along with every other album they made and two pricey concert tickets)
5. Pat Benetar's Greatest Hits...after my high school graduation.
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Drum rolls please... Puddle of Mudd! And I had the Queensryche single 'Silent Lucidity' hahaha. I also had the casette single for Nelson's 'After the Rain' and Wilson Philips' 'Impulsive' -- What was I thinking?!@#!?
I'm so sorry. I was young. It will never happen again!
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Two words: Shaq-Fu.
(Granted, it was a joke present for a friend's birthday, but it's still the worst fifty cents I ever spent.)
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The Cocktail Soundtrack...
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Right Said Fred and Grateful Dead's greatest hits.
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i am yet another who bought nelson "after the rain"
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Cheap Trick Live at Budokan
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MTV Best of TRL Pop
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Someone already nailed Chumbawumba (or whatever), but I haven't seen ANYONE mention Deep Blue Something with that "Breakfast at Tiffany's" song.
Their NAME was "Deep Blue Something". Come ON.
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I am so ashamed to admit this...but we were all young and naive to "good" music once... I bought TRIXTER... I don't even remember one song they had on it... but they could have given me some hair and make up tips... they were all "prettier" than me.
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the klf chill out album.
nothing but bells and sheep noises. i despair i really do.
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Whoever said that Frente is embarassing is so wrong. "Labour of Love" rocks...and their cover of Bizarre Love Triangle is precious.
And SWV "About Time" is not embarassing either. That CD had good hits. "Weak," "Right Here" (i think thats what it was called). Come on, it was of an era.
Funny CDs I own or owned at some point (although I'm not that embarassed):
Free Willy 2 soundtrack (I think it was 2 - whichever one had NKOTB and Michael Jackson)
The Cable Guy Soundtrack
Spawn Soundtrack
Sponge "Plowed"
X Files soundtrack
Metallica "Load"
Pearl Jam ...the brown one with "nothingman"
En Vogue "Funky Divas" on cassette.
Stabbing Westward "Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel"
Korn "S/T" (the first one)
Prodigy (the one with "smack my bitch up")
Seven Mary Three
basically the entire Moon Ska Records catalog.
basically all the popular alt. rock one hit wonder CDs of the 90s...
oh well.
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See, and I love the KLF's Chill Out album. But, yeah, you'd want to know what you were getting into before you bought it.
Another weak purchase I made: Overwhelming Colorfast.
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"Stryper - and I'm Jewish!!!"
Classic.
For me, Live -- Throwing Copper...
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The single of Baby, when the lights go out; by Five
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I used to be a total sucker for 'limited editions' put out by record companies. Even though they produced thousands of them I somehow used to think they were going to be worth a fortune in the future - my worst buy:
a pineapple shaped vinyl picture disk of Going Loco Down In Accapulco by the 4 Tops
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this is bad.....
a) emf - all the albums
b) corey hart crap
c) gary puckett and the union gap greatest hits
d) joseph & the amazing tech....w/donny osmond
e) debbie gibson - electric youth, a great 45
f) stress busters
g) the california raisins
h) minipops - which is still kinda creepy cool
but i have an excuse - my family carries the bad music gene.
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"Grandma's Ghost" by Bronx Style Bob in 1992. He was acclaimed by Rolling Stone mag as the best new artist of that year, but I don't think anyone but me fell for it and bought this R&B/hip-hop train wreck. I played it for a few weeks in college and when I suddenly realized how icky it was I was mortified that anyone might have witnessed.
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I bought the boomerang soundtrack with boyz 2 men's song "all though we go to the end of the road still I can't let go," song on it... last month. I'm a little behind on the fads.
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Okay, since we all are coming clean about our record collections...
American Idol 3 Album... I liked 1, 2, & 4, so I thought I would like 3: The Great Soul Classics. The only soul it had would be equivelent to my shoe!
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I bought that Aqua album. (Barbie Girl) Don't worry, I burned it already.
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I traded an EAR CUFF for C&C Music Factory...with a boy. I bought Marc Anthony's "I Need to Know" single. I was 20.
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The second and third cds that I ever bought were Joey Lawrence, which I was totally obsessed with and made up dances to it in my bedroom, and the Boomarang soundtrack.
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Quad City DJ's
I hang my head in shame.
'nuff said.
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Escape Club - Wild Wild West.
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Most regrettable CD purchases:
Shampoo - We are Shampoo
The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
Nelly Furtado - Woah, Nelly!
Andrew W.K. - The Wolf
The soundrack to the cinematic gem that is 'Threesome' *ahem*
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
Color Me Badd
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Whoa! Guys there are some great albums listed here. Embarrased about buying a legitimate album that had a place? Come on! Now, embarrasing...
I picked up a Wiggles CD for my young kids. And the girl behind the counter looked at it, turned it over, looked up, cocked her eyebrow, curled her lip and said one word, "Seriously?"
My response? A lame, obvious, "Yeah, uh, it's for my kids. They love it."
The CD can be kinda fun in a bizarre my brain melted into my mouth kind of way. I don't think I could even put Teletubbies Greatest Hits in the CD player, though.
"Seriously?"
That was tough.
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The Wiggles are better than "WWF: The Wrestlemania Album." What was Simon Cowell thinking when he put that out? Ehhh! (Cue Full Body Shivers!!)
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I've looked through everyone else's picks. How 'bout this one: "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off," the Reagan-era abstinence anthem by the flaming-hot Jermaine Stewart.
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Oh, my God! Live! Secret Samadhi! Boy, did they suck!
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b*witched.
oh my sweet jesus.
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Most of my questionable purcheses I remember with nostalgia if not particular fondness. There was a time and a place and - usually - a fairly coherent reason. But there is one purchase I have a very hard time justifying to this very day:
N.W.A. - Niggaz4life
Understand that this confession is coming from a lily-white 32 year old feminist. If I had a good reason for buying this cd I've buried it deep in the subconscious.
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I don't own anything not already mentioned. The album that I'm most embarrassed to own is Good Charlotte's latest; I'll pull out the NSYNC before that one. My brother, on the other hand, owns just about every single pop album possible, Sisqo, multiple WWF / WWE soundtracks... the list goes on. I was so proud of him for buying Death Cab For Cutie the other day.
I still rock the Aqua. Everyone in the car tries to hide as I'm blasting it and dancing while driving through town but I don't care. It's fun!
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Hanson, and I do dust it of every now and then. Even guys thought they were hot chicks at first.
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Yes, many of those are embarassing in retrospect, but M.C. Hammer and Milli Vanilli were HOT in their day. How about..... CHRIS GAINES (the alter ego c.d. by Garth Brooks wherein he disguises himself and doesn't play country). AND I ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT :)
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meohmy, I also saw Milli Vanilli in concert, twice. Once on the Club MTV tour with Paula Abdul, Information Society, and some other bands I forgot. And another time, with Seduction and Young MC. The second time I saw them, they opened their concert with a sword fight with some ninjas, hehe. It's a pity I wasn't at that concert in Bristol, CT where their tape skipped.Girl you know it's (skip) girl you know it's (skip) gggg girl (skip).
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Death Cab For Cutie? Why would you be proud of that? Anyways, today people listen to music made by metrosexual losers (who call themselves emos? wtf?) and their songs suck cock. it's not music it's just CRAPPY SOUND put together.In a few years you'll be laughing at yourself thinking about the music you're listening to now.
Anyways my most embarassing album would have to be Wu Tang-Wu Tang Forever. -_- I only bought it cause...don't make me explain
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EXPOSE
Rick Astley
Micheal Bolten
Debbie Gibson
Tiffany
Wilson Phillips
Nelson & Nelson
Bangles
Bananarama
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No, no, no - I can beat you ALL.
THIS summer - yes, in 2005 - I bought a copy of the "Beaches" Soundtrack. I'm sorry, but Bette Midler's version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" makes me weep.
I was so embarrassed by this purchase that I did the old "buy lots of other stuff so that the cashier won't notice this album" ploy. I don't think it worked.
Oh, the awesome shame of it all . . .
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Oi! Leave these alone:
White Stripes. (I proudly own all five albums).
Metallica "Master of Puppets" AND "...and Justice For All".
Blood Sugar Sex Magick.
OMC - How Bizarre.
Chumbawamba.
Arcade Fire.
The Futureheads.
Franz Ferdinand.
Prodigy.
Jeez!
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http://www.surveyincomesystem.com/wondertext.php
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Chumbawumba and Right Said "I'm Too Sexy" Fred have been single-handedly blamed for the vast and illegal downloaded mp3s during Napster's heyday because their music sucked so much. Why? Because nobody wanted to own the entire album of such bad musical acts. And, yes, I owned Chumbawumba's album as well as Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" cassette single. Just thinking about it makes me too ashamed to get out of bed sometimes!
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Big Willie Style.
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