The most embarrassing record you've ever bought?
When I was about 11 I bought Tago Mago by Can.
Jesus christ, I was dumb.
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How is this "embarrassing"?
A had some good stuff, I thought
Heino!
And if you don,t believe me :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQk3YrJ5e8
And i love it!
Aqua Aquarius!
Other than the Fratellis, above
All Change by Cast probably. I was 15 at the time, mind.
great first post
Mine is a Nanci Griffith record. Never played, no idea what I was thinking (a charity shop buy). Or a 10cc record based on a single Madlib sample.
Vanilla Ice - I Love You
on cassette single as a mothers day present. The little me wanted to express the sentiment through music. I don't think she ever listened to it.
Fieldy's Dreams - Rock N Roll Gangster
or Tommyland: The Ride.
an album by a rapping cartoon cat
turns out the raps were provided by the black dude from The 40 Year Old Virgin
Doin' the skat strut!
The first two Spice Girls albums
Glad to have them in my collection, mind you.
Why? Do you need two bird scarers or something?
The brilliant songs, obviously
Not sure what makes Tago Mago embarrassing...?
Pre-teenager me bought some disco compilation off TV advert...as if those disco tunes weren't bad enough in retrospect, the ad was misleading...wasn't even by the original artists. So an album of bad disco songs by cover bands.
What do I win?
Second Sisqo album
Doesn't even have The Thong Song on it (although I also own that album).
Tago Mago is probably one of the *least* embarrassing records you could buy.
I still cringe a bit whenever I remember that I once actually walked into HMV, bold as brass, looking for Chocolate Starfish.
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Think I'm winning so far.
Still "Cash Machine" is a good single
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f8AgWOpNt8
It really isn't.
I still like Hard to Beat, but yeah I bought this album also.
dog shite.
Hard to Beat remains kind of irresistable, indeed
On a hot day. In the car maybe. If you forget you're supposed to hate it and that you should be blasting out Atlas Sound or something instead.
i'm not really embarrassed by stuff i used to like, who didn't like shit stuff?
but my answer is Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Prince - Lovesexy
great album, don't get me wrong, but it took courage to walk up to the counter at age 14 with that album, with THAT cover.
Ricky Martin's self titled album
I REGRET NOTHING
Brian McFadden's solo album
An xmas present for my dear old mum. Left it too late before xmas to order from Amazon so had to go to a shop to buy it. Bought it in a Tesco as I figured their checkout staff would be less judgmental than staff at a proper record shop.
The most embarrassing I've bought for myself is probably "Where is the Love?" by Hanson. It was, as Jens Lekman once sang, a strange time in my life.
Something by Staind.
Oh, for shame.
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
in my defence, most people in the mid-Nineties did this
that's because it was awesome!
An album by Cock Robin
Which was embarrassing enough - I really liked one of their songs as a kid - but to make it worse the record store clerk picked up the CD when I went to buy it and then loudly exclaimed "Mmm slurp mmm Batman! What is that? It's Cock, Robin'
I had two cassette singles
by Let Loose (third tier 90s boy band). I have no idea why, I reckon when you are younger you just buy it if you like it, potential embarressment doesn't really come into it.
A toss up between Synkronized by Jamiroquai
Or an album of an orchestra playing sci fi themes
You fucking try hards...
Enjoy Yourself by Kylie. Gets worse. I taped the transmissions album by the flaming lips over most of it, and Carcass's Heartwrok e.p. over the rest, but rather liked one Kylie song that reminded me of Madonna's dear jessie, so in my tape box is a wonderful mix of a kylie song the rot n'roll by Carcass.
I also have the batman album by Prince, Gloria Estefan's cuts both ways and runaway horses by Belinda Carlisle. In my 7" collection I have the Bryan Adams single, yes that one, and Wet Wet Wet's biggest single with an ex girlfriend's sweet nothings etched into the runout groove.
You try to impress us? ;)
I can tell you all are :p
When metal died in the mid 90s and I was trying to understand what I actually liked
Out of experimentation, I bought a Puddle of Mudd record.
I feel ashamed and upset even today. It wasn't my fault, it was nu-metal. It was everywhere like a disease, it seemed NORMAL to buy it. NORMAL. I've never felt so un-normal since.
I didn't think Puddle of Mudd did anything until the early 2000's
(trying to pretend he was younger than he actually was)
I think you're right - It was his debut
But I was still reeling from the death of metal crisis.
It took me years for me to like or "get" other music. Nu metal did me a favour really I guess. Fucking nu metal cunts.
Five Star - Silk and Steel
or
Go West's Debut Album
Contest Over !!
i bought elephunk by the black eyed peas
At least it has a good on it, "Where Is the Love?"
in fairness that was why i bought it and it only cost £3
i never listened to the rest of it
Joints and Jams is still a jam.
That Goddamned Republica album back in the day.
What a wet fart that band were.
I'm afraid that you're wrong. I don't agree with your shitty opinion.
Dude
You've been defending shit bands all over this place. Come on, sometimes a band is shit and you just gotta let it go.
I don't defend shit.
If a song/artist it's not shit and someone claims that it is, then I defend that song/artist. Only then. Question of perspective.
Hairy Muff
But sometimes it's easier to just say you like a shit band, rather than the band are good. For example, I like Toploader.
No really. COME ON YOU BASTARDS, CRUCIFY ME.
Can you just
hop onto that crucifix for use while I get me nail gun? Cheers. Cross your feet over, I've only got three nails left, ta. Make room for the nobber who bought the album with the one Republica song on it repeated twelve times.
Go West's first album is very good - though have not heard it for a good 20 years admittedly. Eesh...!
Go West?
There's room on this cross on the other side you know.
Radiohead's OK Computer.
see what he did there ^
Radiohead?
The first (only?) King Adora album.
I wonder how long all these purchases were?
Probably well before illegal downloading. That has cut my list of wish-I-hadn't boughts down to nil.
Long ago
rather than how physically long were these records obvs.
Agreed
I haven't bought a duff record in ages.
The only way it happens now is if I pre-order an album I'm really excited about, then the artist lets me down.
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Yeah, I was 13, and had a massive crush on Hayley Williams.
paramore are great
and awful at the same time. i have a real problem with them because they rip off a lot of old deep elm bands in terms of things like song structure and drum sounds and stuff. the problem is that they rip those bands off really really well so i just find myself enjoying them
It ends up being Hayley Williams that annoys me about them.
Musically, a lot of their less straight up pop-punky stuff is pretty great. Careful could be a pretty great post-hardcore song if it wasn't for the fact that she seems content on doing the whole big diva voice thing over the top of it.
HOW IS TAGO MAGO EMBARRASSING YOU FOOL?
Definite Troll..
He should change the user name to Jeff-Luvs-The Boaby.
The only embarrassing thing
is someone claiming to have bought a Can record when they were 11. When of course, any self-respecting 11-yr old would prefer Faust.
This guy is twisting my melons, man
nope
I was in a nightclub first time I heard that song
From the intro I thought it was Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb or something of that ilk.
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water - Limp Bizkit
:ohgodwhy:
For some reason I liked "My Way" but I even cringed with that when I played it and noticed the annoying voice saying "check out, ch ch che-ck out our melody!".
Methods of Mayhem
aka Tommy Lee's post-prison nu-metal bilge. It's getting pretty desperate when a Fred Durst cameo is the best thing on an album.
Feeder - Echo Park
Stereophonics - JEEP
some Deep Purple live album that I actually took back for a refund the very next day.
or the Best of Queen.
I hate queen, so it embarrasses me that people might see that on the shelf and think I like it. Except Killer Queen.
all total crap:
Steel Wheels & voodoo lounge
get behind me satan
the idiot by iggy pop
Victory by The Jacksons
squeeze by velveteen underground
the best years of our lives by cockney rebel
growing up in public by lou reed
gone again by patti smith
downloading definitely cut down on the crap, but some still squeaked by.
Even if you're not trolling
Surely you can't be embarrassed by, say, Iggy Pop's The Idiot even if you think it's crap. I mean, I think Led Zeppelin are crap but I'm not embarrassed by the fact I own a couple of their albums.
Not many are going to be like 'ha, look at that sad bastard with his shitty Iggy Pop/Led Zepp albums, what a card'
I bought a Nickelback album
so maybe that?
I bought the first Reverend and the Makers album
I was confused. I regret it. I was bored in town, at a record shop and I felt I needed to buy something. It was in front of me...
The musical purchasing equivalent of the semi-comatose "You'll do" 3am pull... :-(
embarrasing childhood purchase, the gareth gates single spirit in the sky
teenage purchase? songs about fucking by big black only because i was a spotty, nerdy ginger 15 year old and the lady behind the counter obviously thought i was some kind of masturbator
I have a perfect track record.
When I bought that wax cylinder recording of your mum squeezing one out behind a Biffa bin
I've gotta post this:
when I was young I did purchase a couple of New Kids on the Block records.
Yes I did have a record player even when I was young!
Ever the music geek, I got into them BEFORE anyone in the UK had even heard of them, by encountering them on a chance listen of the US chart, being played on a random radio station.
kind of a jam though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay6GjmiJTPM
It's a tie between The Fratellis - Costello Music and Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm