Musical Embarrassments/Guilty Pleasures

[hunnymonster]

This post is brought to you by way of me & SWMBO looking through the CD collection that we have jointly amassed and finding some things within it (ok quite a lot of things) that we can't believe that the other spent actual money on....

Mine (that she can't believe):
John Denver - I grew up with JD playing pretty much full time in my parents' house
Snow Patrol - I can't explain this
Carl Nielsen (complete works) - En fantasirejse til Faerøene is possibly my favourite piece of music ever
Motorhead - oh those far off days of headbanging :?
Proclaimers - even though I'm not Scottish and don't vote SNP :lol:
Liam O'Maoinlai - the Parting Glass - this is getting played at my funeral and everyone gets a glass.
Gráinne Hambly - Traditional Irish harp music

Hers:
Simply Red (ffs - is there ever a justification)
Bros :shock:
Loads of shite musical soundtracks.... (I mean loads - 20+)

So - we're both embarrassed for each other... show yourselves and make us feel better (or worse) :lol:

 

[Pig Cat]

Carl Nielsen (complete works) - En fantasirejse til Faerøene is possibly my favourite piece of music ever

What is your missus's reason for objecting to Nielsen? Not too familiar with his work myself. Rather overblown Romantic music with a Scandinavian slant? Not really to my taste, but I do like what I've heard of Sibelius (not loads) and so am listening to his 5th Symphony at the mo on Spotify.

 

[hunnymonster]

No idea - maybe it's her unfamiliarity with the works... something that obviously the MP3 player in the car will now be set on fixing :lol:

 

[philamac]

Cher's Greatest Hits.

Cannot explain why I used to like that sort of thing, makes my earholes pucker up in pain now.

 

[SirPrize]

Cher's Greatest Hits.

Cannot explain why I used to like that sort of thing, makes my earholes pucker up in pain now.

Oh - does she sing?

 

[Pig Cat]

After seeing that lovely picture I think her name should be spelt 'Share'.

 

[hunnymonster]

After seeing that lovely picture I think her name should be spelt 'Share'.

It's actually what happened when all her "improved" bits got too close to the microwave...

 

[SirPrize]

After seeing that lovely picture I think her name should be spelt 'Share'.

Decorum, gentlemen - remember we are a "mixed" site now. :!:

 

[Blyth Spirit]

Mixed?

You mean wet and electric shavers?

 

[hando]

i am in no way embarressed by my musical taste but hers is bloody awful.

the same can be read from her point of view of course

 

[Pig Cat]

I'm a big They Might Be Giants fan. They are a deeply unfashionable band so I always feel a twinge of embarrassment when I tell anybody.

 

[RB73]

del

 

[hunnymonster]

New guilty pleasure... The Toxic Airborne Event - I suspect they'll be a one album flash in the pan though.

 

[Pig Cat]

New guilty pleasure... The Toxic Airborne Event - I suspect they'll be a one album flash in the pan though.

I heard them a while back on Radio 2. Sounded pretty good. Unfortunately few bands with such quirky names ever make it. I've just stuck them on Spotify. For some reason as I listen to track 1 I'm thinking of Del Amitri...

 

[hunnymonster]

Well I heard "Sometime around midnight" a few weeks back, didn't make the effort to listen to who they were (OK - my incessantly chatty son was there and I missed it...) - it was on today again and I heard it but didn't believe what I heard so mailed the radio station for the playlist... so I sampled some online before ordering up the CD.

 

[hunnymonster]

As I set out on my newly repaired bike today, I found myself humming "On the road again"

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