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#187550 - 31/10/2003 17:33 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: mwest]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Anything Celine Dion (current track count at 29 and holding)
Okay, I think we have a winner...
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#187551 - 31/10/2003 17:37 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tonyc]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
Nah, I've got Enya on my player.

Who was it, on this BBS, that said it's cheap to be a fan of Enya because she never tours and you only need to buy the one album?
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#187552 - 31/10/2003 18:04 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tfabris]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Actually, I'd have said buy one track from the Apple Music Store.

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#187553 - 31/10/2003 18:13 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tfabris]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Nah, I've got Enya on my player.
I think Celine Dion is much more embarssing than Enya. At least you can say Enya is background music for studying or coding or something. I don't think anyone could use Celine Dion as background music with that shrill nails-on-chalkboard voice.
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#187554 - 31/10/2003 18:27 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tonyc]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
<best poker expression>

I see your Celine Dion, and raise you a Sarah Brightman & Andre Bocelli duet!!!
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#187555 - 31/10/2003 18:28 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
How about the Weird Al parody of achy breaky heart. I'm sure outside the car when you can't hear the lyrics it sounds like the original.
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#187556 - 31/10/2003 18:35 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I see your Celine Dion, and raise you a Sarah Brightman & Andre Bocelli duet!!!
<Nervously looking around the table>

<Moe Szyslak>Awww crap, I fold.</Moe Szyslak>
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#187557 - 31/10/2003 19:05 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: msaeger]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
<shuffles>

I see your Weird Al (I can match it), and raise you Frank Zappa's "Jazz Discharge Party Hats"...
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#187558 - 31/10/2003 19:18 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
This game is completely unfair. It's like we're all playing and you come in with a 33 gallon trash bag full of chips. Come on, you have every song ever recorded! Of course you have a few stinkers in there.
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#187559 - 31/10/2003 19:30 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tonyc]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Valid point. And I must honestly admit that some of those tracks are not in my standard mixes, but are really only visible if you look for them on the player. Still...

I am looking for a good copy of Kermit the Frog's rendition of "The Rainbow Connection" from the Muppet Movie soundtrack. Amazon has them out of stock / used, but I refuse to pay $89 for it!!! I may be insane, but even I have my limits!

Edit: Senility strikes deep! I forgot to check ebay!!! Nevermind!


Edited by pgrzelak (31/10/2003 19:40)
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#187560 - 31/10/2003 20:49 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA

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#187561 - 31/10/2003 22:01 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
cushman
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Registered: 21/01/2002
Posts: 1380
Loc: Erie, CO
I have the Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman duet...
and I've seen Bocelli in concert...
and I have Sarah Brightman's entire album...
along with that Bee Gees dude and Barbara Striesand's album (my wife forced me).

Others include:

Adam Sandler's "At A Medium Pace"
Dalida
Lords of Acid's "Pussy"
Bloodhound Gang can get pretty perverse with songs like "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk" and "I Wish I Was Queer So I Can Get Chicks".
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#187562 - 31/10/2003 22:08 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
thrasher
enthusiast

Registered: 10/01/2002
Posts: 362
afroman,She won't let me [censored].That was on my 20 gig I bought off ebay.It came on when me and my wife were on are way out to dinner.She got alittle upset.
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#187563 - 01/11/2003 02:54 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
"Gulp"

I have William Shatner doing "It Was A Very Good Year"...

/me hangs head in shame. =^D
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#187564 - 01/11/2003 04:58 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tonyc]
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
Ok, I have some Starship and the John William's theme from Back to the Future - great for driving up to 88mph!

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#187565 - 01/11/2003 18:46 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
muzza
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
Men Without Hats: Safety Dance
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#187566 - 03/11/2003 05:35 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: muzza]
PaulWay
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Registered: 03/08/1999
Posts: 451
Loc: Canberra, Australia
Men Without Hats: Safety Dance

How's this for sad - I found a copy of the video clip for that on Kazaa. I was actually out looking for other video clips and thought 'why the hell not' - and believe me, it's nothing like I thought it would look.

In my comedy list we have:
* Charlie Drake : My Boomerang Won't Come Back
* Scaffold : Lily The Pink
* Rolf Harris : Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
* Val Doonican : O'Rafferty's Motor Car
* Eric Bogle : Little Gomez
* Flanders and Swann : The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud)
* Morris Minor and the Majors : Stutter Rap
* Dr. Demento - The Monster Mash

All classics - but then I have the entire collection of Goon Shows and a large swathe of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue on there, so I don't think my definition of 'classic' can be really orthogonal with everyone else's...

I went through the list looking for things that I'd have to censor should anyone sensitive to swear words get into the car, and I couldn't actually find anything! Well, maybe 'The Reefer Song' by Mindless Drug Hoover... or some of the Monty Python...

Have fun,

Paul
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#187567 - 03/11/2003 05:50 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: PaulWay]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
I went through the list looking for things that I'd have to censor should anyone sensitive to swear words get into the car, and I couldn't actually find anything! Well, maybe 'The Reefer Song' by Mindless Drug Hoover...
The original, or the Orb remix?

A vicar-proofing wendy filter on my empeg would have to exclude Fatboy Slim's "~ing in Heaven", Peaches' "~ The Pain Away" (actually, that whole album), that Alanis Morrissette song, the live version of "Kinky Afro", the original versions of "Short ~ Man" and "Go See The Doctor" (which I only knew the radio version of for years -- when I heard the original I was amazed they'd managed to make a radio version), and, most un-vicar-friendly of all even though it's got no lyrics, Lil Louis' "French Kiss".

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#187568 - 03/11/2003 06:15 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: peter]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
47 replies and no-one's got Telly Savalas, you're not really trying!
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#187569 - 03/11/2003 07:28 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: boxer]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
I fold...
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#187570 - 03/11/2003 07:35 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: peter]
Half_Geek
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Registered: 03/12/2002
Posts: 119
Loc: Stratdord-upon-Avon, UK
A vicar-proofing wendy filter on my empeg would have to exclude Fatboy Slim's "~ing in Heaven"


I had sent a Camelot off for a potential customer demo, forgetting it was my own music collection one, rather than the "cleaned" one (which lost about 50 tracks with dubious titles) - Fat Boy Slim's "F...ing in heaven" apparently came up as the first song on a random choice. Lucky I wasn't there to see the scramble for the volume control! It's so much more fun when it scrolls across the screen at them, rather than waiting to see if they have noticed the lyrics.

I was also demo'ing an MP3 CD player to a car manufacturer's marketing guys (in my own car). I offered a selection of disks, and they chose a comedy collection. The first words on that disc are Bill Hicks - "Anyone here from Marketing - KILL YOURSELF - Just a suggestion".....

Whoops!

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#187571 - 03/11/2003 11:50 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: boxer]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
47 replies and no-one's got Telly Savalas, you're not really trying!
I fold...
Agreed. It's just frightening that such a thing would even exist in this dimension, let alone on this planet.

Boxer, do you really own that, or are you just messing around?
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#187572 - 03/11/2003 12:25 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tfabris]
Conscientious
stranger

Registered: 30/10/2003
Posts: 36
Good lord; that's just down right frightening!

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#187573 - 03/11/2003 15:14 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: muzza]
m6400
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Registered: 18/09/2002
Posts: 188
Loc: Erie, PA
Men Without Hats: Safety Dance


Dude, Men Without Hats rocks. I have that and "Pop Goes the World" and "I Wanna Be A Cowboy". I also have an excellent cover of "Safety Dance" that The Echoing Green did a few years ago.

I have copious amounts of Weird Al, old school rap (Grand Master Flash, Ultramagnetic MC's, etc.) and entirely too many Madonna songs. That and my synthpop collection always draws strange looks when it comes up.

Actually, my musical tastes in general require a lot of explaining usually. But I'm not usualy embarrassed by any of it. Of course, if The Reverend Horton Heat's "Cowboy Love" were to come on with certain passengers in the car, that might be a bit embarrassing.
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#187574 - 04/11/2003 03:40 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: tfabris]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
Boxer, do you really own that, or are you just messing around?

- er, only kidding - it's a joke, but I did know someone whose mother had it.
Many years ago a DJ in London, Kenny Everett, did a bottom 30 and one of the tracks from that LP was fairly highly regarded, along with Ferlin Husky's drunken driver song - if I can only remember which corner of Boxer Towers I put the cassette of the show in, I can claim legitimate ownership.
Many years ago, I was shown round the Rolls-Royce factory in Crewe and they were finishing a shocking pink Roller - who the hell would buy/order that, we all said - and a few months later it turned up on Kojak: Just about as much taste as the L.P.!

Oh, But I do actually have this LP
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#187575 - 04/11/2003 03:51 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: Half_Geek]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
A vicar-proofing wendy filter

Of course, the ordination of a gay bishop might require the creation of more than one filter to cover the subject!
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#187576 - 04/11/2003 09:13 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: boxer]
mwest
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Registered: 01/05/2003
Posts: 768
Loc: Ada, Oklahoma
You might be surprised what your vicar listens to...

A few additions to the list... Not because they're really that embarassing but because people are surprised I have them.
She Hates Me... Puddle of Mudd
It's Been Awhile... Staind
Bitch... Meredith Brooks
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#187577 - 30/12/2003 11:30 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
Bit late replying to this, but today 'C is for Cookie' by Cookie Monster came on. I couldn't even begin to explain.

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#187578 - 30/12/2003 12:09 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
How about sitting in traffic in the boy racer mobile on a friday night in the middle of manchester with the stereo up loud and trying to look cool. One minute it's Supermodified by Amon Tobin then on next it's the theme tune to 'Grange Hill'!

Random shuffle, it can be a blessing and a curse. Very embarrasing...
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#187579 - 02/01/2004 12:21 Re: Most embarassing tracks [Re: pgrzelak]
foxtrot_xray
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Registered: 03/03/2002
Posts: 687
Loc: Atlanta, Georgia
Uhm.. hehe.. Okay:

1. Gummi Bears / Talespin / Darkwing Duck Themes from Disney Afternoon.

I think THAT about wraps it up..!

Me.
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