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Li'ldude · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Embarasing things on you're iPod

Now, don't hold back...

1) Dido - Shut up, shut up, shut up...
2) LeAnn Rimes - C'mon, it was in Coyote Ugly
3) Hanson - No excuses this time...
4) Amy MacDonald - Only a couple...
5) Buggles - Who can't love that song?
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Blarno · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

Don't own an iPod. No embarrasment..
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Li'ldude · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

Alright, music related stuff...
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TimR · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

On the iPod :-

1) Imagination - Belouis Some
2) Obsession - Animotion
3) Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
4) Small Town Boy - Bronski Beat
5) Uninvited - Freemasons

The first 4 are Sarah's though and she only downloaded those individual songs thank god.

Blarno · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

I'm ashamed of nothing I own musically.

Well, except for Silver Side Up by Nickelback. And that's only in CD form, I've never bothered converting it to mp3.
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Racing · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

I'm not really ashamed either, but others might be if they found on their iPods:

1. Who Plays Wins - Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern
2. Lots of cheesy Italian pop - Eros Ramazzotti, Lucio Dalla, Antonello Venditti, Zucchero etc.
3. Hey Eugene - Pink Martini (which I don't even like - a GF uploaded it for me)
4. Lots of '80s cheese like Belinda Carlisle.
5. Some deeply cheesy Russian club remixes.
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Most of what you lot ould be 'embarassed' about is what I like!

Long live chessy pop, dance and anything else you lot don't like.

Matt · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

I'm not ashamed of any of them, because if they're on my iPod, I like them. If people imagine my taste in interiors converted to music, they might not be surprised that I have a couple of songs by Tatu and Aqua. I'm generally tasteless

My latest like is that Bass Hunter song, Now You're Gone, I think it's called.
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BeN · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:43 am Post subject:

Oh dear...

My wide range of music means that this list could be quite long...

I have an entire album of 90s dance thingys in there (from MC Hammer to Spice Girls, with virtually everything in between).

Out of the rest:

Westlife
James Blunt (I'm sorry. Guilty as charged)
Spice Girls again (My friend sent it to me, honest)
Backstreet Boys
Mika (my brother wanted it)

(I didn't even mention Take That...)
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Li'ldude · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

I like Mika, he's not on though...
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Stuntman · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

There are some really good 'embarrassing' things above, IMO!

Hanson - Mmmbop is a cracking pop song
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star is fantastic
Bronski Beat - I love Small Town Boy, as well as many more of their songs
Belinda Carlisle - fantastic rip off of Livin' On A Prayer

Tatu - whatever their big single was called, love it
Aqua - Barbie Girl is brilliant
Spice Girls - early stuff is cracking pop.

My MP3 player only contains the edited highlights of my music collection. I operate a rule by which no more than 5 tracks from any album make it onto the MP3 player (sometimes far fewer than 5 make it). The only exception to this rule is for Greatest Hits albums, where I usually limit it to a maximum of 10.

So just about everything on the MP3 player is a joy for me to listen to when it comes up during the random play setting that I leave it on.
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Ha! I love all of stunters tracks.

My Mens A Crew is nick named Team Hansom...End of season Piss up last year, the DJ played mmmmmbop for us...

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject:

Mmm Bop is indeed a great song, as is Video Killed ...

Some of my guilty pleasures

Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Lift Me Up - Geri Haliwell
Never Ever - All Saints
First Picture of You - Lotus Eaters
Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

BeN · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

Guilty pleasure confession time.

I bought a CD of 80s songs today, filled with 'hits' like Tarzan Boy, Living In a Box (I'm a living in a cardboard box!) etc etc.

I know I should be shot at, but what I like about these are that they are so silly that you just can't help but buckle over in laughter when you hear them, and we all know we need to do that occasionally.

Among the embarrassments:
Erasure - A Little Respect
Phillp Oakey and Giorgio Moroder (I thought he was some sort of designer) - Together In Electric Dreams
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

And so on...

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Matt · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:56 am Post subject:

Gold and Karma Chameleon are bona fide classics!
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Tom · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:06 am Post subject:

1. Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams
2. Wannabe - Spice Girls
3. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
4. Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer (Prop, did you know they're a Christian Rock band from like, Arkansas?)
5. Walk This Way - Aerosmith

The embarrassing thing is, these are probably getting quite close to my 'Top 25 Most Played'. Yeeeeah.
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Blarno · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:50 am Post subject:

'Christian Rock'

2 words to send shivers down anyone's spine. Remember Stryper?
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TimR · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

Is "Walk This Way" a guilty pleasure or an all-time rock classic? Discuss ...

Further question, if a song is intrinsically great, is it still great if the artist is uncool beyond a certain level. For example, could you admit to liking anything by, say, Cliff Richard or Chris de Burgh? Speaking of de Burgh, I quite liked James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" until it suddenly reminded me of Lady In Red ...

Some more unhealthy pleasures:

Eric Clapton - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Chris de Burgh - Spaceman Came Travelling (thereby answering my own question)
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Whigfield - Saturday Night
2 Unlimited - No No No No No No No No No There's No Limit!
Vanessa Williams - Saved The Best Till Last
Betty Boo - Let Me Take You There
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle

. · Dieselhead My Car: . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 7595

Grooverider vs Lou Reed - Satellite of Love has just popped into my head.

Orinoco Flow - Enya - god knows why. (Prefer DJ Tiesto remix though)

Girls Aloud. SUgababes. Kelly Clarkson. Early Spice Girls stuff. Pink.

What Tom said. What Stevie Wonder said. What everyone has said really. That is my music taste really. Or lack of.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

How about ex-Beatle guilty pleasures?

Ringo Starr - Photograph (most of his solo stuff was crap, but this is as good as anything any of them did post break-up)

John Lennon - #9 Dream

Paul McCartney/Wings - Helen Wheels

BeN · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject:

Tom · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Things that are embarrassing about 'Walk This Way':

1. The lyrics. OMG they are cringe-worthy. But having said that, so are most songs'.

2. I think it's really a wannabe rock song. Nowhere near as bad as Bryan Adams or Bon Jovi, but I think it's really middle-aged. Like 'cool' mums and dads listen to it. BTW I'm sorry if that's you!

What kind of appeal did it have when it came out?
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tali · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject:

No ipod here either, but i would have lots of Girls Aloud on it
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

Li'ldude · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

Stuntman · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

My two most criminal records (well, cassettes) are Chris de Burgh. But I don't care, I like them. And I've got the first two Michael Bolton albums, which are a bit criminal too - but at least they have a modicum of credibility about them, whereas his later albums had sold out somewhat.

I agree that a good song is a good song, regardless of the reputation of the artist. More evidence of the guilty pleasure variety?

Year 3000 by Busted, and 5 Colours In Her Hair by McFly.

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I'm gonna add Rihanna aswell.

Rodge · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

TimR · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject:

I've just discovered Africa by Toto on the iPod.

I know I didn't put it there

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Cher - Walking in Memphis!

Tom · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

Africa by Toto is an absolute tune! It's also on one of the Singstar games..yes I have sung it.
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TimR · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject:

Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand.

It's only there because The Damned did it for a laugh at a gig in Glasgow a couple of years ago and it sounded familiar.

I can't stand Africa.

Matt · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

I have Ca Plane Pour Moi on my iPod, too.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

They're alright, not much embarasing about them...
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:-( · Turbocharged My Car: . Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 2787

Talking of classic pop songs - Baby One More Time by Britney Spears is a classic. If I had an I-Pod (can over 40's have I-Pods?), it would be there.

Loving the Belinda Carlisle nods further up too. Circle in the Sand played a big part in my love life in younger days.

PR · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

I have not succumbed to an ipod yet (might do soon as the laptop I bought off my brother is full of his itunes library) but I do recall, in the old days of Napster and so on, committing to a compilation CD, a track byCeline Dion

I believe this atrocity was 'outed' in polite company in a Hertz Ford Focus as I drove throught the St Gotthard tunnel.
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I'd forgotten about Napster. I used to download the occasional single from them on dial up. A 5 mb single used to take getting on for an hour.

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