albums that you absolutely embarrassingly admit to having in your CD collection...and your excuses.

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There must be one.

I cringingly confess to having a copied Enrique CD.

Excuse?: I didn't want it. Honest. My cousin copied it for me. I didn't ask for it. He just said he'd copy it for me and send it to me. I felt bad not taking it. I had to take it. I've not even listened to it. Honest.

― ThErEdNed, Monday, 21 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No excuses. No apologies, but I will say this.....ever since I got married, there is a disarming amount of coffee-bar trip hop style stuff in my otherwise rock-engorged disc shelves.

Most embarassing thing recently is a CD single by a German band called the Donots. It's a rather workaday cover of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It." I was in Berlin in October and the video kept playing everywhere I went, and I kept mistaking their name for "Donuts" (which would've been much funnier/cooler), as oppposed to Donots (which, I'm guessing, is a variation of Do Nots, as in a command). In any event, it's tragic, but it's a nice little souvenir of the trip.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Once, I found Alanis Morrissete's Jagged Little Pill at my house. The thing was, I never, ever bought that CD. I really swear to it, anyone who's ever spoken to me even in passing probably can figure out that it's not my bag. It was there though! It wasn't so much embarassing as it was very confusing.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a Blue Oyster Cult greatest hits. Only to judge for myself the Kerouac-ness of Meltzer's lyrics to "Burnin' For You"
I sorta keep it underneath a bunch of oversized pkgs.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You should fuckin' display your BÖC albums with a pride that borders on obstinate aggression, dammit!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I recently turned down the opportunity to buy a Clash singles collection at a really low price, because I didn't want let the hepsters at the counter of HMV know that I have very little Clash.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a copy of Hole's Celebrity Skin on CD that I "won" at a radio station music giveaway. It's in a pile of discs I let my son play with...last I saw this one he had shoved it through the air-conditioning vent.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Never apologize for your taste in music. And if you're embarassed by your music, then the problem isn't your music, folks.

But Horace brings up an interesting tangent about holes in your collection, or music that you "should" have.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"I sorta keep it underneath a bunch of oversized pkgs."

I pray that your shame lies only in the fact that its a greatest hits package!

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Puffy Daddy's "Come with me" single, the one from Godzilla. I got it for free, obviously.

― fletrejet, Monday, 21 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, yes. it's the cheapness of the thing that bothers me. It's not even a classily put together thing, even by BOC standards.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I am unembarrassable. Thee last rekkid I bought = Whigfield's "another day", from a bargain bin! (it is absolutely terrible, & the helium-vox are incredibly irritating, but I don't care!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Red Ned? I like that.

I am unembarrassable.

Yup. I own RYL records, for crying out loud.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing to be emabarrased by in owning RYL whatsoever. besides, Mr. Tape Mountain is swell guy. had coffee with him a few weeks ago and it was ace.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, when you say you RYL records, do you mean like in a Victor Kiam sense of own?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

somehow there's a copy of Saturnz Return or whatever the hell it's called by No Doubt in my apartment. while i'll freely admit to finding gwen stefani pretty attractive, how it got here i really don't know. i'm pretty sure i didn't get sent it as a promo and no one i know likes that sort of thing, so i'm baffled :-/

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom's boss owns a record label that specializes in these bottom-of-barrel budget releases, real sub-sub-K-Tel stuff. Sometimes she gets CDs at her office and tries to pawn 'em off on me. Which would explain why I end up with things like this in my collection.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i have some blah trip hop, inconsequential drum and bass (also that Goldie record), lousy korean pop, a Puff Daddy single, a Tortoise record, and more but it's all much more would-be ashamed than really feeling that way. also once when i went to Japan i just bought a whole bunch of j-pop records indiscriminately which i sorta regret.

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, when you say you RYL records, do you mean like in a Victor Kiam sense of own?

I would never take away from Mr. Tape Mountain -- as Jack notes, a scholar and gent -- what is his.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shake it Like a White Girl". I can't remember why I bought this.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I have two Liz Phair albums, neither of which are Exile in Guyville. Whip-smart I think maybe someone gave me, whitechocolatestarfish I got cuz I really really like "Polyester Bride" (third best Sheryl Crow song ever)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus Jones - "Doubt". I swear I have no idea how it ended up in my collection.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

loads of semi-decent halfway ok electronica/dance type stuff that i burnt when i first got a burner but never listen to and would sell if second hand shops bought cdrs. in a box with santa claus all over it.
embarrassing cos i went o yeah gimme gimme gimme with no thought whatsoever.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'Be Here Now', 'Urban Hymns', 'BloodSugarSexMagik'

i can't believe i havent sold any of them yet. i bought them all enthusiastically years ago but truth be told i've never listened to any of them more than a couple of times, though i was convinced they were good for quite a while.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Flying Colours" by Chris De Burgh.

Christmas present. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If had more money (a lot more money) I would buy used CDs I knew my friends despised and sneak them into their collections.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie. I got it at a used record sale for 50 cents, and it's so fuckin' nuts and poncey that I'm afraid to sell it (I might "get it" someday).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what is it Anthony?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'BloodSugarSexMagik'

Yeah, agreeable. I only bought it for under the bridge. Never listened to the CD from start to finish. Barely listened to it at all.

― ThErEdNeD (ThErEdNeD), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that one Shine CD, you know, the guy who went to jail in the whole Puff nightclub shooting scandal. It's a relic of my "rap phase," which I think I may be going into again.

― David Allen, Monday, 21 April 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably the worst thing I currently own is the O' Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. That thing is an utterly vile collection of the worst kind of musical appropriation ever. Lets take rural hillbilly music and make it glossy so we can sell plastic nostalgia to people in SUV's.

The first time I heard it was down south in Kentucky last summer, and it struck as being wrong right off the bat, but I wasn't exactly sure why. It just struck me as being a very shitty suburban shopping mall way of experiencing music from an "other" culture. I listened to it through monitor-grade headphones last night (for the third time ever) and I figured out exactly what was wrong with it.

You cannot record this sort of music in pro-tools equipped modern Nashville studios with 4,000$ Kurzweil reverbs and super high-end microphones through expensive tube mic preamps and digital mixing boards. This kind of music was meant to be recorded directly to acetate or 1/2" tape in some shitty country radio station in East Bumfuck Tennessee in 1932 by a sharecropper named Clyde who could not read. If you try and make it slick and glossy you completely lose the vibe that made those recordings so special in the first place.

Long story short, this was my Christmas present from my Aunt who knows I like music, but doesn't know too much else about me. I am glad she thought enough to get me the present, but it just isn't my style at all. Then again, I cannot really expect her to bust out a copy of Alan Lomax's prison plantation recordings. Around here my tastes seem pretty pedestrian, but ILM loves weird and obscure music.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

thanx for the condescension yankee

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, you guys are just from a different planet, thats all. :)

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

we are from cletus you are from mars

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

: )

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"James Blount's Greatest Hits." I thought from the getup he was wearing on the cover it was Peter Gabriel.

― rumpelstiltskin, Monday, 21 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

lol

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell is wrong with Liz Phair? I admit to owning The Beach Boys self titled album from the '80s. Jesus, this album sucks a big one. I've been told that they've actually released albums shitier than this. Hardly seems possible. Well, at least John Stamos isn't on this one.

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have absolutely no shame in anything I own.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie is this goofy moog stuff that has some interesting moments but is all fruity and classical and remote and I don't get it and shit (jazz rarely makes me feel so pissy cuz usually I can at least catch the vibe of the piece). Plus someone reads the goofy titles of each piece before each song in French and English.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll take that off your hands if it embarasses you that much. :)

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ironically I am clearing the crap out of my CD collection (I've already found about 40 albums I can give friends. A small percentage of my collection, about 4%, but that's A LOT for me to get rid of). But I can't give you Satie. as I said, I mmmiiight get it later.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm amazed at how easy it is for some of you decide what the embarassing items are in your collections. I wouldn't even know where to begin. I spend as much time listening to Bulletboys and Ratt albums as I do Matmos and Autechre albums. Goo Goo Dolls, X-Ray Spex, Joe Satriani, Cannibal Ox -- whatever. I'm just glad I have a variety of stuff around when the mood strikes to hear one of them.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i frankly don't understand why anyone would be embarrassed by anything in their record collection.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

nor do i,but i have to admit to feeling slightly foolish about having the soundtrack to that film "honest" in my collection
i mean,it was 2.99 and has loads of good motown stuff on it,so i don't regret buying it,but even so...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

also,having stuff like the best of tchaikovsky makes me feel like a bit of an uncultured shitheel

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

At least it's not Mozart for Breakfast or something worse...

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Among my circle of friends: S Club Jrs, Steps, Britney, lots of hiphop/R&B or other popular pop musics.
My roomates laugh at me because I watch BET a lot, but I need no excuses because this stuff is simply good music.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"At least it's not Mozart for Breakfast or something worse... "

like Hooked on Classics

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF I don't see what is wrong with any of this.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, there is plenty wrong with Hooked on Classics.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*nods in agreement*

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

well i don't know the specific albums being mentioned,but i do feel slightly stupid about having those kind of albums
i mean,i would defend having them,and they do serve a purpose,but i always vaguely feel i should be going to the trouble of seeking out good versions of specific works,rather than getting the best mozart album ever part two or whatever

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't buy many classical albums at all, because the library has a better selection than most record stores -- even 20th century composers.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Mxpx.

My aunts meant well. :)

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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