Greetings!

Okay, we have done the Desert Island 10, and a few other variations. In honor of the why shuffle mode is bad thread, let's go the opposite direction. Everyone out there has some stray track or ten that they would really be embarassing, require lots of explaination or are just too surreal to come up during a random mix in public.

So, what is the strangest you have? It does not have to be any specific genre or anything. Just something that would give you that special feeling of "Oh, yeah, I forgot that was there" if someone found it randomly playing with your empeg.

I will start with a handful:

1) "I Love You" - Barney's Greatest Hits
2) "And Nobody Knows It But Me" - Chevy Tahoe commercial
3) "Jingle For Goldfish" - Pepperidge Farm commercial
4) "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
5) "Silver and Gold" - Burl Ives (Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer Soundtrack)
6) "Conjunction Junction" - Schoolhouse Rock
7) "Pure Imagination" - Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Soundtrack)
8) "Deteriorata" - National Lampoon

Hey, man, don't go dissing on Conjunction, Junction! And let's not forget Naughty Number Nine! Schoolhouse Rock rocks.

One set of terribly embarassing tracks that I have are from a "learn how to play jazz & blues" set of CDs that came with a learning piano book I bought. They do, adequately, show you the exercises, but taken as music by themselves.... yuck.

Oh, trust me, I am not dissing Schoolhouse Rock! I have the whole collection on the player. It is just a little strange if you are listening to a random mix of various tunes and it pops up in the middle...

1) Complete works of Tom Leher.
2) Love Hina soundtrack.
3) Schoolhouse rock(almost all of them)
4) Lap dance(is so much better when the stripper is cryin')
5) [censored] Her Gently
6) The complete works of Weird Al.
7) Last will and temperment - The Frantics

OK, I'll pony up here. I have the midi music from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest on my player. Only because I think it was the best music in a video game of its time. Nothing could compare.

You should check out the Minibosses. They're a trio that plays nothing but 8-bit Nintendo music on dual guitars and drums. They kick serious ass. I'm actually going to see them at a video gaming convention tomorrow night

As for embarassing songs, I think you guys are getting embarassed about the wrong songs. I can see how Schoolhouse Rock would be odd to pop up in a mix, but I certainly wouldn't be embarassed In that case, you should buy the album "Schoolhouse Rock Rocks". I always have "3 is a Magic Number" pop up when I'm shuffling my Blind Melon playlist. I love it, and everyone in my car tells me to turn it up!

Hmm. A lot of mine fall into the "guilty pleasures" category. I have a pretty extensive glam rock collection with Poison, REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake and the like. Those aren't songs I'd necessarily want coming up in certain situations, but they're good tunes. I also like a lot of cheesy eurodance-ish artists like Daze, Reset, Fun Factory, Cartouche, and Whigfield, those are definitely ones I need to hide with a Wendy filter on occasion.

Probably the most questionable material is in my "Adult Contemporary" folder:

Bette Midler [The Rose].mp3
Billy Ocean [Carribean Queen].mp3
Billy Ocean [Get into My Car].mp3
Blessid Union of Souls [Let Me Be the One (Acoustic)].mp3
Bob Seger [We've Got Tonight].mp3
Boy Meets Girl [Waiting for a Star to Fall].mp3
Breathe [Hands to Heaven].mp3
Brenda K. Starr [I Still Believe].mp3
Bryan Adams [Everything I Do I Do for You].mp3
Bryan Adams [Heaven].mp3
Chicago [Hard to Say I'm Sorry].mp3
Chicago [Will You Still Love Me].mp3
Chicago [Your My Inspiration].mp3
Don Henley [End of the Innocence].mp3
Don Henley [The Last Worthless Evening].mp3
Foreigner [I Want to Know What Love Is].mp3
Howard Jones [No One Ever Is to Blame].mp3
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes [Up Where We Belong].mp3
John Waite [I Ain't Missin' You].mp3
Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton [We've Got Tonight].mp3
Linda Rhonstadt & James Ingram [Somewhere out There].mp3
Londonbeat [I've Been Thinking About You].mp3
Neil Diamond [Sweet Caroline].mp3
Peter Cetera & Cher [After All].mp3
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush [Don't Give Up].mp3
Richard Marx [Hold On to the Night].mp3
Stevie B [Because I Love You].mp3
The Cars [Drive].mp3
Toto [Africa].mp3
Toto [Rosanna].mp3
T'Pau [China in Your Hand].mp3

With a couple exceptions, this is pretty much a "who's who" of bad slow songs from the 80's and early 90's. There are a few halfway decent songs in there, but a majority of them are pretty dismal. They're holdovers from when I used to DJ and I needed to play "end of the night" type love songs to get everyone slow dancing and making out. Some of the others I don't really have an excuse for, other than I occasionally get in the mood to listen to a really bad song or two.

Hey... I have almost all the songs you listed above, does that mean I am wierd? How about the theme songs from "whats hapining" "small wonder" or "different strokes" oh and "night rider". I also have a song that nobody can seem to stand "cool for cats" by squeeze.

I also have a song that nobody can seem to stand "cool for cats" by squeeze.

That one used to get played very, very often in St Catherine's (Catz) bar, which is where my own aversion to it was formed...

Peter

Barry Gray - Theme from the TV series "UFO". A gift from Rob Schofield after he discovered I'd been a big UFO fan in my childhood. Rob is da man.

Not much wrong with that list. Or am I weird too??

John Waite [I Ain't Missin' You], is GREAT!

Greetings!

Just wondering if you knew about this.

It was seeing that very DVD set at Rob's house which sparked the discussion.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want Monty Python's "Sit On My Face" or "I like Chinese" to pop up in certain company, of course there are some Eminem songs I wouldn't want to play in certain company either. Certainly Kompressor would get some looks with just about any of his songs. I definantly roll up the windows when singing full volume along with Hole's "When I Was a Teenage Whore" or Cure's "Killing An Arab", both of which I love. And I certainly have my share of empty pop, disco, and 80s hair bands too, but have no embarassment in admitting I like these genres, or anything else for that matter.

Hmm, I think my most embarassing guilty pleasure is perhaps Blow Job Betty by Too $hort. The Ace of Base oeuvre is perhaps next. Mainly these are embarssing because of their play count, however.

Matthew

Lap dance(is so much better when the stripper is cryin')

That song is SOOOOO bad. I of course have it on mine too. Along with the complete works of Weird Al.

About two weeks ago I was driving my girlfriend to work, and we were listening to Uncle F**ka from the South Park soundtrack. According to my buddy Scott, who was in the back seat, an innocent bystander thought we were yelling at them and started yelling back.

Oh, and does having Leonard Nimoy singing "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" loaded on my deck qualify me as an official geek? Or is it having him singing "The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins" that does it? ;^)

Mine would have to be:

1)Corky and the Juicepigs (any of them)
2)Homestar Runner interstitials - in fact one just played: "Homestawwunner dot net. It's dot coooooom!"

- trs

Why should we help them, what good do they do? Have you ever had a panda do something good for you?

Thank god other people listen to them, too..... Corky And The Juice Pigs ALWAYS get funny looks from other cars.....

Wait, would some songs done by person on the board be a guilty pleasure? I do have to explain myself if someone else hears them .)

I also have lots of the HR clips on the player.

The three songs I can think of right now that people would find strange are

2NU- Ponderous
David Wilcox- Mango
Clint Black- The Galaxy Song (which is a remake of the song from "The Meanging of Life")

Not that any of these are embarassing to me, but I do get strange looks whenever they come on.

I have a ton of "guilty pleasure" music that I acquired in high school that I'm not going to own up to, especially the play counts!

Its when you have William Shatner as well that you should really worry!

Can anybody beat "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" sung by William Shatner?

In my defense, it IS in my "Comedy" playlist...

tanstaafl.

I did get a lot of funny looks when I was fooling with the pitchbend and playing some Manowar. It was hilarious. It sounded like satanic chimpmunks.

Mr Tambourine Man by William Shatner is terrifying!

Uncle F**ka from the South Park soundtrack

Ahh the SP soundtrack... I had my player on a low volume in the office when a female co-worker that is very, let's say "sensitive" to sexual comments, (IOW don't say anything around her if you value your job) was in helping me with something. "Mephisto and Kevin" came up in the queue, and wouldn't you know it, the verse that says something like "With an unusually large penis" was heard just as clear as could be... I reached for the next button as fast as I could, but she heard it, and I blamed Cartman... I still have my job though...
Luckily the next song wasn't "I Fucked You Daughter in the Ass" or "Big Butts and Blowjobs" by the Scabs...

The song Pornographiti by Extreme has this part where they sing "sex, sex, sex . . ." over and over again. It's actually not really a song about sex as much as society’s obsession with it, but the vocal part is high and really rings out even when the volume is low. Not a good song for the office.

> 2NU- Ponderous

I didn't think anybody else in the world knew that song. That is cool, it is on my Empeg too.

The Only Gay Eskimo Corky and the Juice Pigs
The Goldfish Song Already mentioned. However when comes on in my car I have to explain that I got it from a guy in New Jersey that I've never physically met, but know because I own the same car stereo as him...
Anything Celine Dion (current track count at 29 and holding)
Puddle of Mudd uncensored albums... My friends seem to have only heard the radio edits.

2NU- Ponderous

I didn't think anybody else in the world knew that song.

Oh yeah! It got like two weeks of solid radio play when it first came out and then just dissapeared. Anyway, for anyone else who remembers it, you can get it for free on mp3.com now