[blip]

Well the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. So it is time for me to take MY first step towards recovering from a bit of bad musical taste. Who knows, maybe my bravery will inspire others to take the first step towards their recoveries.

I have this weakness for that dance-pop singer Amber... And no... not just to look at. I actually listen to her music. I know, I know... it is fairly generic dance pop. But the samples are sort of interesting and kind of well done... and her voice is pretty good actually... Okay maybe I'm just justifying it. That's step two admitting that it isn't right.

I don't know... sometimes I just get this urge to listen to it. Like I have an itch that only it can scratch. It's a problem, I know... maybe I was dropped on my head as a child.

Well I feel better now. Admitting that you have a problem is the first step.

Anyone else want to confess an embarrassing musical taste? Come on you'll feel better after you admit it. Trust me.

 

[Hajime]

Michael Jackson.

 

[xtreme4099]

i still dig billie jean ... and rock my world ... its about it.

 

[Hajime]

Yeah. There are a select few of his songs I like. Billie Jean and You Rock My World are two of them. Thriller, Smooth Criminal, Beat It, and that earth song are the others. I'm a rock kind of guy, too. I really shouldn't like these songs.

 

[Mr.PD]

80's music

I like this stuff. Some of the songs from those famous groups like Bannanarama, Culture Club, Stray Cats, Human League.

Don't tell anybody. I am trying to keep this a secret.

 

[bong]

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr.PD 80's music I like this stuff. Some of the songs from those famous groups like Bannanarama, Culture Club, Stray Cats, Human League. Don't tell anybody. I am trying to keep this a secret.

hey, there' NOTHING wrong with liking The Human League!

in fact, their first two albums (pre "Dare!") "Reproduction" and "Travelogue" are a few of the most experimental pieces of electronic music i've ever heard. and i dare (no pun intended) any artist nowadays to make a perfect pop record as strong as "Dare!" Trent Reznor once said that listening to The Human League was his calling, he said "there's absolutely no drums, it's all electronics!"

in fact, there's nothing wrong with liking many bands that are considered "80's," like The Cure, New Order, U2, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Gary Numan, Pet Shop Boys, Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Bansheees, etc. etc... they made the era's most exciting music, and i love them all!

i do have some slight embarrassment with liking a few other 80's stuff like Tears for Fears, Erasure, Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, etc... the ones with less credibility.

 

[Newbiez]

I have a heart for bit talented boybands

I loved Boyzone and Take That. And many otehrs simply for thier 1 or 2 songs that are to me, brilliant.

 

[grrr223]

I am ashamed to admit that Justin Timberlake's new single doesn't suck, it actually almost sounds like Michael Jackson back when he was in his black phase

. I also enjoy Tori Amos a lot, although I still tell people I listen to it because it's well recorded (which it is, it's amazing stuff to listen to with my HD-600s).

 

[Audio Redneck]

Weird Al and Lawrence Welk come to mind, though I can't say I'm really embarrassed by it - more like my family is embarrassed.

Oh, and Weird Al is a musical genius!

- The Musically Diverse Redneck

 

[Hajime]

Oh, I forgot about Weird Al. Weird Al is great.

 

[Ptrick]

Not all 80's music is bad... it's got a bum rap because it's too old to be hip and too new to be retro. But trust me, the 80's will come back in a nice nostalgic kinda way.

Anyway, my guilty indulgence is Justin Timberlake as well! Get rid of the rubbish Cry Me A River track and the album is actually fairly decent...


Aaahh.. OK I reckon it's great! haha
Oh boy.

 

[psxguy85]

Sorry. What I like is what I like, and no ******* telling me to change my tastes, is going to convince me to change what I TRULY enjoy.

 

[neil]

Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent and Low. I was just on Rhapsody and never heard the girl sing before (never watched that show that she won). She's not the greatest, but it's just that catchy-pop-tune... it has to be formulaic because I don't even watch MTV or listen to pop-radio. I'm just a pop-music minion! Hang me now!

 

[Russ Arcuri]

When the song "MMMBop" first came out, before I knew who performed it or even whether the singer was male or female, I liked it. Pure pop, sure. But it had a good hook and I've never been a pop music snob. Some of it appeals to me, most of it doesn't. "MMMBop" did. When I found out it was a trio of blonde teenage boys from middle America, I still liked it, but it became a guilty pleasure. I would only listen to it if it came on the radio (no problem there) while I was alone driving in my car.

Then, by about the 10th or 11th time I heard it, I began to despise it. If I only happened to catch part of the song, it would get stuck in my head and I would be so sick of it after 20-30 minutes I'd want to shoot myself in the head with a grenade launcher just to make it stop. This usually didn't happen if I could hear the entire thing through, but most of the time I'd be switching away from commercials on one channel and happen to catch part of "MMMBop" on another.

I actually stopped scanning channels on the radio in the car while driving, fearing that I might catch a quarter-second of it accidentally and be cursed with it repeating over and over and over and over and over again in my head all day. Mercifully, after a few months it started to fade from the airwaves and then it disappeared completely. I think even the DJs, paid to play it, were embarrassed later on.

Years go by.

I heard it again while flipping channels a few weeks ago -- apparently there's a DJ out there with absolutely no shame. Y'know what? After not hearing it for a couple years, I didn't mind hearing it again. Once.

But of course, having switched to that station to escape commercials on another, I hadn't caught the entire song. It got stuck in my head that day, and the next, and it wouldn't go away. The only way I know of to rid myself of a song that's repeating in my head endlessly is to listen to it again, and sing along. Problem -- it's 2003. Hearing it on the radio again is not going to happen anytime soon, and of course I don't own the CD.

I was forced to... (gasp) actually pay 99 cents plus tax for it at the iTunes music store. Then I could burn it to a CD and play the damned thing in the car on my way home from work, where I'd have the necessary privacy to sing one of the silliest songs on the face of the planet out loud in an attempt to rid it from my traitorous brain.

Thankfully, it worked.

The only problem is, now I have to remember that one of my drive-time mix CDs has the evil track on it. If I forget, which happens sometimes, I have to listen to the whole song through so it won't repeat endlessly in my head. Listening to just a short snippet at the beginning will start it repeating, just as catching a short snippet on a radio station years ago would set it off. I keep intending to destroy that CD-R, but by the time I've reached my destination, I've usually forgotten about it until the next time I pop the wrong disc in and hear it. Plus, I have about a dozen mix-CDs in my car, none of which are labeled with track names, and I wouldn't want to destroy the wrong one.

Pity me.

 

[Zanth]

Well the trained musician in me tells me I should hate poppy-punk but I love it...nearly all it! Blink 182, The Ataris, Jimmy Eat World, Sum 41 etc. etc....

I also like some mindless 80's electronic music as well. Gets my body moving which is always a good thing.

Oh...and as for you MJ dissers...as my old sig used to read and as Seth Green was quoted as saying:

"There are two types of people in this world - Michael Jackson fans and losers!"