Best album by an artist you're too embarrassed to mention aloud

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What's a great album by a band that's not well respected, or embarrassing to tell people you listen to?

― Manny Parsons, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stunt" by Barenaked Ladies. You think they're just a bunch of tossers? Well, you're wrong. Hideously wrong. They wrote the best guitar pop album of the late 90s. If anyone wants to challenge me, I'll prove as much.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, where do I begin? I particularly fond (in a very, very quiet way) of PHANTOMS and REACH THE BEACH by mawkish 80's also-rans, The Fixx,.....and I have been known to play the first Asia album, STRICTLY for "Only Time Will Tell" and "Sole Survivor."

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No one's going to beat Dom's answer.

― Keiko, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You think that's bad? I play the THIRD Asia album for the songs "Go" and "Rock & Roll Dream."

― paul, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first Christopher Cross album and the second Wilson Phillips. I mean really, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

― john-paul, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amnesiac

― Kris, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my circle of elite music snobs,I just can't narrow it down to one so here's two: Tears for Fears- Songs from The Big Chair and Lenny Kravitz-Greatest Hits. Most people laugh when I say I like these but they don't listen to any made in an addition of more than 1000...

― brg30, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Def Leppard - Pyromania. Not too embarrassing, ILM-wise, tho. I think DPass takes it.

― misterhungry, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Midnight Vultures is really very good!!!

― chaki, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm quite fond of the Crash Test Dummies' Give Yourself a Hand, an underrated masterpiece, if you ask me. I am not ashamed!

― Prude, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sole Survivor" is great. I have no shame whatsoever, so there are no artists I am embarrassed to like ha haha h

― Norman Phay, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mate Nick has two or three albums by The Spin Doctors and gets very cross when I say that I don't much like them.

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bee Gees MAIN COURSE

― brian, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just as a point of reference, STUNT is for sale at CDNOW for either $17.97 (13 tracks) or $29.24 (w/ bonus tracks)...and there's a debate why new music isn't selling???

My Achillies Heel is Blind Melon, not necessarily the songs, the sound, etc. but the CONCEPT

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― Steve K, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who gets mean about _Songs From The Big Chair_ has no heart. Tears For Fears didn't get embrassing until _The Seeds Of Love_, anyway.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Classics: The Early Years" by Neil Diamond. "Red Red Wine" being the whitest reggae song ever recorded by possibly the whitest white man who ever lived.

― Stu, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Gin Blossom's "New Miserable Experience" is quite good. Something very endearing about it.

― Manny Parsons, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Brady Bunch! "Sunshine day" and "Candy" are amazing songs. And Greg's "Cheyenne" is very pretty. And "Road to Love" They have a bunch of good songs, but geez is it embarrassing to admit that.

― A Nairn, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I second the Gin Blossoms mention

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fire and Water" by Free. The album that contained "All Right Now." Great album start to finish. Sits pretty close to Fushitsusha in my collection.

― Chum Frink, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the first Debbie Gibson album, Out of the Blue is it? It's got that song and "Only in My Dreams," both are great.

― Aaron A., Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i get the Free/Fushisushita connect.

also, I'm with it when it comes to the Gin Blossoms. Ever see them play?

― Steve K, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

erm, beaytiful south best off or, when i was born for the seventh time,cornershop. actually, thats not too bad. Kick by inxs.....

― john, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles are my all-time favourite band, which is as embarassing as it gets because it's such a damn dull thing to say. If you have children, do not submit them to "Yellow Submarine" at 9, lest the same fate gets to them.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''If you have children, do not submit them to "Yellow Submarine" at 9, lest the same fate gets to them.''

I won't. I'll submit them to Fushitsusha instead.

― Julio Desouza, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth - Daydream nation

― Marc, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

James. I love the first album and bits of each of the others. In ILM terms that's a fairly big confession, I think!

― Daniel, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, Julio, just as the fact that the word RAP is contained in the word CRAP tells you something about the music, so does the SHIT in FUSHITSUSHA! Proven by lingvistik science!

Still no one has beaten Dom. Lots of these answers are "acceptable" on some level, be it as indie-irony or as counter-canonical touchstone, but the *Barenaked Ladies*? Jesus, man, you might as well admit love for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones or Train! ;-)

I like Smashing Pumpkins a ton, and I have since I was 14 or so, and they are ILM's Worst Band Ever (apbs!). Seriously, it all depends on who I'm talking to, although it's hard for me to get embarassed about my tastes around people who know next to nothing about music.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alessi by Alessi. (Not sure if this even exists except in my record collection as I've never seen another copy anywhere. surely every other copy hasn't been burnt?)

Laughter and tears by Neil Sedaka.

The best of Silver Convention.

Best of the Wombles.

― Kris England, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Insert any random rock/pop record. Not avoidance of caps when using the rock and pop genre.

― Adorno, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All this talk of the Gin Blossoms makes me want to listen to The Babys.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Easy Rock 2-CD compilation, which I felt compelled to order off a TV commercial. All the Michael McDonald you can stand and then some.

― mike, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My Barnes & Barnes mixtape.

― Lord Custos III, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''Dude, Julio, just as the fact that the word RAP is contained in the word CRAP tells you something about the music, so does the SHIT in FUSHITSUSHA! Proven by lingvistik science!''

Science is too logical. you must free yourself from that prison, clarke.

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

"Colour by Numbers" by Culture Club.

Yes, I am a closet Boy George fan. But please don't tell anyone.

― Alicia, Thursday, 27 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeds of Love is far superior to Songs from the Big Chair.

I guess my most embarassing answer is "Woodface" by Crowded House.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir would love you

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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