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Subject: Most embarrassing album? From: Morticia Date: 11 Jul 00 - 11:50 AM I noticed that one or two people, on the Whats this song thread, owned up to liking The Monkees and even, Gawd help us, the Bay City Rollers ( you know who you are ..Alison ). So, come on, confession time....what is the most embarrassing album in your collection? I will cough to " The Wombles of Wimbledon Common" and let the Devil take the hindmost. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 11 Jul 00 - 11:53 AM "The best of Gilbert and Sullivan" - tripping hither, tripping thither, nobody knows why or whither? Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Amergin Date: 11 Jul 00 - 11:55 AM John MacDermott.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: sledge Date: 11 Jul 00 - 11:58 AM Adam and the Ants.
But I got better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Bugsy Date: 11 Jul 00 - 12:03 PM The Shaggs - History of the world. And I only kept it because it is SOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Mbo Date: 11 Jul 00 - 12:07 PM HEY what's wrong with the Monkees? No music I own I consider embarrasing. I love it all, or else I wouldn't have it. Most of the folk nazis would crucify me if I listed my CD collection though. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Rick Fielding Date: 11 Jul 00 - 12:08 PM Ferrante and Teischer play "Greatest Movie Themes"!!! I was once under contract to Columbia Records. I signed the contract.......they sent me the records! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Amergin Date: 11 Jul 00 - 12:14 PM That sounds like an excuse if I ever heard one, Rick... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Kim C Date: 11 Jul 00 - 12:50 PM Oh no! I love John McDermot! I don't have any of his records besides the Irish Tenors. But I love his Last Rose of Summer on the 2nd Irish Tenors record. Makes me dash for the kleenex every time. When I was a kidling I had several of those K-Tel albums, including the disco collection. I also loved Barry Manilow then, too. Seems like at one time I had a Frankie Goes to Hollywood record. All of these things have magically disappeared along the way. I had that Loverboy album, you know, the one with the red leather-clad behind on the cover? That was hot stuff when I was in high school. Later on I realized that guy really was an awful singer. But he looked good in those britches! Nowadays, I can't say as I'm really embarrassed by anything on the music shelf. If you laugh at it, well, that's your business. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:00 PM Sweet and Lovely: The Best of Nino Tempo & April Stevens. The most profoundly awful recorded music I have ever heard, even though I kind of like "Deep Purple." -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:25 PM Geoff Love orchestra plays Bond Themes..... sorry. And I too have an Adam and the Ants LP (that's one of the big black flat things, for you youngsters out there), BOTH the Wombles LPs, 'Sing along with the Goodies' and a delightful thing called 'United Manchester United' which is the 1973 Man Utd football team with George Best in it, singing various contemporary tunes..... SO has two Yetties LP's so he can't talk! The only records that we had in common when we married were 'Since Time Immoral' by the Kippers and 'The Ying Tong Song' by the Goons. Sorry. I've been playing my way through the collection whilst sewing in the dining room, and have come across some screamers!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Bill D Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:47 PM Leonard Nimoy sings.....(although, I haven't SEEN it in some time...maybe the "Taste Police" confiscated it on their last inspection) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Homeless Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:51 PM I don't have anything I would consider embarrassing, but I do have some strange things
Pickin' on Skynyrd - bluegrass versions of classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Mbo Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:54 PM Homeless, there's also a "Pickin' On Yhe Eagles" album which you might be interested in too. It's really good. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Steve Latimer Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:11 PM Homeless, That Pat Boone one is a scream. I can't believe that he was serious when he did it. Apparently it got him thrown out of his church. They must have a poor taste clause. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: GUEST,I guess Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:21 PM Well the most embarrasing 'serious' album I own is by the Earl Scruggs Revue. It's a total mess. Not Bluegrass and not Rock and not Country. Pretty lousy playing as well. g |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Steve Latimer Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:27 PM Guest I Guess, Is that the one that they do Dylans' "Song to Woody" on? My dad had that one when I was a kid and I really enjoyed some of the tracks, STW especially, but I do recall some terrible singing on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: GUEST,I guess Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:32 PM Boy that was quick. I don't think so Steve. Dylan's You Aint Goin Nowhere might have been on it but I hated it so much I never listened to it again. Nobody in the band could sing at all. Don't get me wrong, I love Earl Scruggs. He just can't play Rock. Bela Fleck does that. g |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Rana who SHOULD be working Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:47 PM One lp I bought which would fit into this category is Hawkwind's Space Ritual - bought on a nostalgia whim in the late 70s whilst remembering In Search of Space. Must avoid sale bins!! Talking about nostalgia, I'm tempted to try and get early Tyrranasaurus Rex - we used to listen to it on the PA at Bearwood Skating ring during games at school (much better than the soccer, cross-country running or rugby others would choose), however, I'm too embarred to look in the T. Rex/Marc Bolan section. Keep 'em coming!!! Rana |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Steve Latimer Date: 11 Jul 00 - 02:49 PM I guess, The one I am referring to had a catchy tune about a Swimming Hole. It also had Third Rate Romance on it, but I wouldn't classify any of it as rock. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Melani Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:03 PM Does anyone remember Mrs. Miller? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Wesley S Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:06 PM Several years ago I sold off about a third of my LP's. I went from 3,000 to 2,000. Most of the embarrassing ones went then. I seem to remember owning "Rod McKuen in Concert". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Alice Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:17 PM McGuinness Flint (way off key... yikes) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: dwditty Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:17 PM Forget about me. I can't wait to hear what Catspaw comes up with. dw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Celtic-End Singer Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:20 PM "Please Hammer - Don't Hurt 'em" by MC Hammer (He stil had the MC in his name then. A truly atrocious waste of plastic if ever there was one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Alice Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:21 PM then there is the "Masked Marauders" album (anyone else have that one?) with the last paragraph in the notes saying, "Leading experts now estimate that the music business is currently 90% hype and 10% bullshit." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: dwditty Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:26 PM Alice, is that an all black front cover? Seems to me Andy Warhol had something to do with it. Lou Reed, et al. I could have the wrong title, though. dw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: GUEST Date: 11 Jul 00 - 03:51 PM Rick, you should remember these guys. THE BONNIE SCOTS. THEY WERE JACKIE DICKSON AND MICK MADDEN.GREATguys but terrible. LJC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: GUEST,art Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:02 PM i don't own anything by FLORENCE FOSTER-JENKINS i wish i did. that lady was in a category of her own, buying her own recording studio, hiring Carnegie hall for an audience of six(?) anyone know of recordings by her? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: SINSULL Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:04 PM Mrs. Miller who sounded as if she was singing under water and off key? I loved her. Tiny Tim tried to match her style but never made it. My worst is an 8-track called Yackity Sax, free from Columbia House with ten tapes. I am embarrassed by the title. The music is dreadful "Look Mom, I'm playing jazz!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:11 PM Oh ya... I got 'roots rap' in my collection... Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, no less... And it's on vinal... What the hell was I on when I was a teen!?!?!?!?! Glad I'm not on it now! LOL!!! {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Dee45 Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM I have a compilation soundtrack from John Barry of all the best instrumental music scores from the Bond movies, in my car CD. I would never dream of playing this for anyone. It is strictly for my own amusement and fantasy when driving my Austin Martin --make that VW Bug. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Alice Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:23 PM Yes, dw, that's the one, the "Masked Marauders", black cover with a woman's face in shadow and a man's hand reaching from the darkness. No names given, and at some point in one cut a person in the background saying "nobody's going to believe this sh*t." Duke of Earl and other attempts (no successes). The liner notes are signed "T.M.Christian" as in The Magic, do ya think? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Jacob B Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:32 PM I'm not embarrassed by the strange things in my record collection, I'm proud of them. The record I'm proudest of is my copy of "Muhammed Ali Meets Mr. Tooth Decay". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Bert Date: 11 Jul 00 - 04:56 PM Let's see, there's a Country Music collection of Christmas songs and a CD of music for Belly Dancing (the least said about that the better. But worst of all was a record I borrowed once. It was Carson Robison trying to be a Square Dance Caller. 'Hook and a Whirl' I think it was, to the tune of 'When the work's all done this fall' Ugh!, needless to say I returned it. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Jeri Date: 11 Jul 00 - 05:04 PM I have a Monkees album or two, but I'm not embarassed about it; they did some good songs. Ed Ames, but I got that when I was about 13. I have a Slade album, an Alice Cooper. I guess I'm not that embarrassed about any of them. Er...anybody ever heard of Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band? ("Party 'Till You Puke?") Nope? Good! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Lonesome EJ Date: 11 Jul 00 - 05:12 PM 1) Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. An attempt to alienate his own listeners succeeds admirably. 2)Best of Rush Getty Lee's voice affects me like chalk screeching on blackboards. A gift. 3)Graham Parker and the Rumour Stick to Me Soul plus R&B plus rock minus talent. 4) Rolling Stones Steel Wheels. Weak filler from four guys who are only in it for the bucks nowadays. 5)David Bowie Aladin Sane Two good songs, ten complete turkeys. 6) Gino Vanelli. Left with me by an ex-girlfriend, I keep it in comemmoration. Complete horseshit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Callie Date: 11 Jul 00 - 06:10 PM The single "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. A cassette by Air Supply which is VOMITOUS. My family laughed at me for listening to Tibetan monks as a teenager (I was the teenager, not the monks). The recording is all chanting and conch shells. But I loved it, and had no trouble playing it alongside my ABC record, Don McLean and Split Enz. Callie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Rick Fielding Date: 11 Jul 00 - 06:18 PM Florence Foster Jenkins! Hey Art I TOO would love to hear the lady. I DID hear Ima Sumack, though. Little John...I remember 'em well...not fondly, just well. Guest I guess...You're a man/woman after my own heart. Scruggs was a superb banjo player with Monroe and Flatt, but with his Kids (The Earl Scruggs Review) Ughhh! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: zonahobo Date: 11 Jul 00 - 06:55 PM Sometimes you can mix all kinds of wonderful ingredients and come up with something .. awful .. One we have was by Bing Crosby ... "Hey Jude Hey Bing" mixed like oil and vinegar. I don't think Bing made much hay on that album. But we still have the album (with $1.59 store sticker marked down to $1.00). It wasn't a bargain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: sophocleese Date: 11 Jul 00 - 07:10 PM One tape we were given which my kids like is a combination of Bagpipes and Dixie Banjos. Yuck! Art and Rick there is a Cd available somewhere of Florence Foster Jenkins singing. I used to borrow it from the Hamilton Library years ago. It was hilarious, but not recommended for sufferers of perfect pitch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Mbo Date: 11 Jul 00 - 07:20 PM Well, Wizzard's combo of 50's "Jump Jive & Wail"-sque Swing with a traditional pipe tune in the song "Are Your Ready To Rock" worked well. I'd love to hear the pipes & dixieland jazz! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Jim the Bart Date: 11 Jul 00 - 08:14 PM I have already proclaimed myself a Monkee lover and in a forum dedicated to traditional music that should indicate that I have absolutely no shame when it comes to my musical taste. I am lucky enough to own some of the weirdest albums, casettes and CD's ever made. 1. Poe for Moderns - Edgar Allen's poetry recited over bad 50's jazz interpretations. 2. Slug Line, by John Hyatt - just really bad stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Jim the Bart Date: 11 Jul 00 - 08:28 PM Darn - I was just getting started when I got booted off. Actually, there are too many bad ones to mention them all. I just got my turntable hooked up after about ten years in storage and I was revisiting some old albums I hadn't heard in a long time. It just so happened I pulled out the first Earl Scruggs Revue album this past weekend. The singing was awful. And it did seem that Earl was only around to humor his kids. I also listened to a Vassar Clements album that was really lame. And I always used to like him. The most embarassing album I ever bought, though, doesn't fit that category because of the quality of the music. I remember finding this album at a supermarket, years ago when I was just getting into folk music. All it said was "Woody" in big black letters on a silver background. I snatched it up thinking, "Hot Dog! Woody Guthrie!!" It turned out to be Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd playing Big Band Jazz. Not bad, but not the Woody I expected (insert your own Woody joke here). I guess the lesson is - read the fine print. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: bob jr Date: 11 Jul 00 - 09:13 PM william shatner live in concert--------double album of shatner singing and reciting "poems and famous speeches" and a question and answer side with lame star trek questions...on k-tel gets lots of laughs when i play it to friends um also tales of topographic oceans by yes i dont know why i even have that one.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Bugsy Date: 11 Jul 00 - 09:14 PM Just goes to show that one man's meat is another man's human waste. I rememeber finding 100 copies of Roy Bailey's "Dalesman's Litany" LP along with The Johnston's "Give a Damn" LP in an electrical store going for 99c each. I bought 2 copies of each and the guy said, "You don't really LIKE that shit do you?" No accounting for taste eh? Cheers Bugsy. Wish I'd bought all 100 copies. Could have sold them 20 times over! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: alison Date: 11 Jul 00 - 09:39 PM I like the Bay City Rollers, and I too have an Adam and the Ants LP (and now CD).. they were great until they did Prince Charming and all the crap that followed.... worst....... and this may open up another can of worms..... for worst Christmas LP the Partridge Family Christmas Album....... weren't the 70's great.... hahaha slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Lucius Date: 11 Jul 00 - 09:42 PM The advent of CD's has certainly made my collection less interesting. I still have a copy of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies that has been passed around a a wedding gift. (I was first and last married, which is how I got stuck with it). They're all gone now , Sebastian Cabot covering Bob Dylan; Johnathon and Darlene Edwards; Electric Light Orchestra (JUST KIDDING Mbo). But I digress, I have to take issue with Lonesome EJ. In my feeble opinion, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music--as obnoxious as it is--was a culmination of the "Sound as Music" concept started by John Cage, bless his heart. Otherwise, right on, especially the part about Geddy Lee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: Alice Date: 11 Jul 00 - 10:01 PM Speaking of the Monkees, my son just discovered them on early morning re-runs. He comes to me with questions like "hey, mom, do you remember the episode about when Mickey...." I have to confess I watched them when they were first on in the 60's, but I can't remember a single program.
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Subject: RE: BS: Most embarrasing album? From: raredance Date: 11 Jul 00 - 10:59 PM It's so hard to decide. There's "The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug Liberals" Then there is "Songs of Hawaii" by Leo Addeo and his orchestra, a truly awful collection of pseudo=Hawaiian music. And also "Go Get 'Em Braves" excerpts from actual brodcasts of Milwaukee Braves baseball games from 1953-61. Remember the rainy night that Max Surkont fanned eight Reds in a row? And finally "Mr. Lincoln's Party Today", speeches on national defence, taxation, limited government....by Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller "dramatically narrated and colorfully woven together by film and television star Ronald Reagan". Now that's folk. rich r |