Music You Are Embarassed To Love

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What band/music do you love that embarasses you with your cool friends who look at you like there's really no hope left for you because of it?

Iron Maiden is my embarassment, which is compounded by the fact that at age 38, I really should have left this stuff behind 20 years ago. Still, listening to "The Prisoner" gives me such pleasure...

― Davlo (Davlo), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're 38 and still listening to Iron Maiden, I don't see a problem. If you're 38 and still have Eddie posters on your walls and wear an Iron Maiden bandana, you might need to grow out of it.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're 32 you might need to grow out of it. If you're 38 the world just has to get used to it.

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i get a bit embarassed about loving loads of U2 songs or whatever, but this only happens on ILM, and anyway you're all fine ones to talk ;)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I don't have Eddie posters on my walls, nor do I wear bandanas of any sort, or for that matter any band 'gear', although I do ocassionally wear a Wilco tee around the house.

This Iron Maiden "thing" of mine is only a small part of my musical interests. I listen to lots of genres and usually have some mixture of bebop, classical, and pop/rock/punk/new wave/alternative/fuzz folk/whatever in the cd changer. But Iron Maiden still rocks!

― Davlo (Davlo), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm positively indignant about loving Iron Maiden. To quote the Wedding Present, "if the world doesn't understand.... then the world has got to learn!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Music seemed to really open up and get a hell of a lot more fun once I stopped being so self-conscious about it/realized there are no guilty pleasures. Iron Maiden roxxor, even if Bruce is wearing short-shorts in the liner notes.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quoting the Wedding Present in the context of Iron Maiden is the biggest classic ever!

― hstencil, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

My drummer gives me a gnarly guilt-trip every time he catches me singing a System of a Down song. He really doesn't like them. I tell him to pull the tapeworm out of his ass.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I am shameless and off to play that tAtu cover of "How Soon is Now"

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I make no apologies for owning and occasionally listening to a Moon Martin CD. Other than that, I'm totally hip...... dude.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Quoting the Wedding Present in the context of Iron Maiden is the biggest classic ever!

I was about to say, that makes me very happy. :-) Course, you could also make a case that Maiden plus Weddoes = modern emo, but I have a feeling Alex would object. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Maiden plus Weddoes = modern emo

Ned....you shouldn't be sniffing so much glue this early in the day.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

But now I want something to do!

(Actually, if you combine Gedge's lyrics and delivery with Dickinson's high-pitched notes...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Murder on the Dancefloor" - Sophie Ellis Bextor.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.danacountryman.com/coolandstrange/comp.html

Diary of Unborn Child. You get odd looks when you play this at work.

― s samson, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Paula Abdul's Spellbound.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I like No Doubt. There you go. I have embraced my inner Gwen Stefani after many years of fighting the good fight. I silently mocked my roommate first year of college for putting Stefani's Spin cover up on the wall. Ever since accidentally punching her in the arm while putting on my coat at a The Fall show some years ago I've strangely warmed to her. I don't care if Gavin dragged her there either. And "A Simple Kind of Life" makes me almost cry (and I don't even want to get married!)

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

kenny, dammit, you beat me to the punch. except mine is sophie ellis bextor's "get over you."

given the pop-friendliness of ILM, i probably shouldn't be so embarrassed. still, in MY universe, this is shameful stuff indeed.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite liked several of the Spice Girls songs. Not at all into "Wannabe", but several of their other hits were quite classy.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

since accidentally punching her in the arm

In my case, it would not have been an accident.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I really dig the sheer power of Limp Bizkit (tho' I cringe during the rap bits)...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

No guilt. No Doubt is super good fun, and I love every single Belinda Carlisle has ever released.

― jillian (jillian), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

fleetwood mac (although i'm not that embarrassed really)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned in Gwen Abuse Shocka!

can't think of a group that I like that embarasses me. Though when I realize how much Good Charlotte's music touches me (not just that I like it) I get little sheepish.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Broadway musicals, I suppose.

― JC (JC A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I really dig the sheer power of Limp Bizkit...

Sheer power? Surely you jest. Their "sheer power" couldn't propell a ping pong ball.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 March 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm embarrassed by how much i'm enjoying the new black box recorder record (the same way i've enjoyed the prior two). there's not much going on musically and certainly nothing new. lyrically it's the same too--one joke songs where the joke is clear by about the third line. all that's there is this fucked up mean-spirited icy heartless thing that they do, and i really like it.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Flaming Lips

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Man Group, esp. since their new album looks like it's going to be a MAJOR DUD and they're marketing it like cwazy.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't stop listening to "Situation," by Yaz/Yazoo, though I am faintly embarrased to admit it.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 7 March 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a sucker for library music, by which I mean that oft-corny, usually '60s/'70s Velveetafunk/go-go action/moog espionage Logan's Traipse diddly shit composed for the purpose of accompanying bad bad awful cop or sci-fi TV shows or whatever the BBC saw fit to do with 'em.

I completely freaked out when I recognized one I'd been listening to -- some electric piano/wah-wah orgy of post-Starsky madness called "Gun Law", from a De Wolfe compilation -- actually used in a Minnesota Twins TV spot. (Said spot, incidentally, was a TV cop show parody featuring catcher A.J. Pierzynski - I'm pretty sure I spelled that wrong. Plus it featured an old-school '70s Datsun Z doing the Sabotage video hill jump so I'M BUYING SEASON TICKETS NOW).

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 7 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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