Your Secret Musical Shame

[Artisan]

Right, I know everyone has one...a song that you know you shouldn't like, a song by all rights you should loathe, but you can't help tapping your foot to the beat and mouthing the words. Come one, tell us what it is...

Mine is...well, I'm 6'2", black, built like a brick outhouse and my usual haunt is my clubs on rock night. And yet...my secret musical pleasure and shame is "Take On Me" by A-Ha

The shame! The shame of it all!

[Yuki Akuma]

I am a complete dork. I'm also a Japanophile, a "kiddie" gamer (Gamecube represent, yo), and all those sorts of things.

I like "Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park. I also enjoy most of Eminem's 'songs', and I don't know why! :'(

[Lykan]

Whats wrong with "Somewhere I Belong"? It's a good song!

Oh yeah, and for some reason, I can't ever get "Breakfest at Tiffany's" out of my head once someone mentions it.

Ah... Dammit. THere it goes.

[Yuki Akuma]

Whats wrong with "Somewhere I Belong"? It's a good song!

Yes, I know it's a good song. But it's by a band I absolutely detest, so I'm not sure why I like it...

[Lykan]

Is this a bad time to mention that it's my favourite band?

I guess the screaming bit isn't as harsh as some other songs, and it has a message most people can relate to?

[Yuki Akuma]

Actually, I think it's because it would make a good character image song for a roleplaying character. Yeah... ;D

[Lykan]

The cliche of a wandering adventurer... Nice. :)

[Artisan]

The cliche of a wandering adventurer... Nice. :)

Like I've always said: "They only become cliche because they're cool"

[Beleriphon]

Ring, ring, ring
- ABBA

Of all of their songs this is by far the worst. Yet I like it a great deal. Take that as you will.

[Goff]

Hair Metal!
*Insert guitar going "meedly meedly meedly meeeeeee!" and the smell of hair spray.*

Mötley Crüe (Kickstart My Heart), Van Halen (Jump!), Twisted Sister* (I Wanna Rock), Survivor (Eye of The Tiger), oh and Aerosmith (Dude Looks Like A Lady).
And of course I would have to mention Guns n' Roses because of Axl's bike shorts alone, however, when coupled with with wearing a bandanna and a cap (why one hat when you can wear two?) well, then you know you've got something special.
I know that not all of this stuff technically qualifies for Hair Metal as such, but it's all in the same gloriously bad vein...
Come to think about it, It's no secret shame, I just know that it's bad music and *technically* should be ashamed. ;D

*[size=1/2]Gains (loses?) extra points for being especially bad.[/size]

[Lianae]

Heh. Anything 80's - whenever I play my music my friends just shake their heads :P

Edit: Ooh, just remembered another one.
Numa Numa anyone?

[Cardel]

Dschinghis Khan, Moskau. Its incredibly catchy... they even did it in different languages.

Russian (original by the Khans): Moskau! Moskau!
Finnish or Sweedish, not sure which: Volga! Volga!
Korean: (k)aja! (k)aja!

yes, im sad...

[Roland St. Jude]

Heh. Anything 80's - whenever I play my music my friends just shake their heads :P ...

Your friends aren't nearly rad enough! I, too, am a big 80s fan.

I'm not ashamed to listen to anything - and I like almost everything. (I don't like really twangy country music, but I listen to everything else from showtunes to hardcore rap to classical pieces to - hey, Headbanger's Ball anyone?) My preference is for late-70s and 80s pop and rock.

Anyway, if there's anything I listen to that's most "against type" - like if you saw me with my iPod you would never guess I was listening to it...I dunno, probably the best of Death Row Records stuff.

[Brickwall]

"Take On Me" by A-Ha

Okay, I just got back to the boards from watching the music video of that song. This is the first thread I clicked on.

That's messed up!

Anyway, my secret musical shame is...I don't know. I kind of like some annoying songs, but that fades after the first 10 times listening to them

[Dr._Weird]

Heh. Anything 80's - whenever I play my music my friends just shake their heads :P

Edit: Ooh, just remembered another one.
Numa Numa anyone?

Yes. I have that album and it shames me.

[Old_el_Paso]

Heh. Anything 80's - whenever I play my music my friends just shake their heads :P

Me, my brother, my cousins and my friends and my brother's and cousin's friends all make fun of people who don't like 80's music. And every single one of us wishes we were born 20 years earlier.

[Lord Iames Osari]

My secret musical shame is the song "Aryan Man Awake," by the neo-Nazi singing duo, Prussian Blue.

Yes, there is a story here.

See, it all began in my Contemporary Problems class. We got Newsweek every week, and we'd discuss things from it. Anyway, one week there was this little sidebar thingy about Prussian Blue, with example lyrics. One of my classmates decided to check the song out, out of morbid curiosity. A few days later she came in and played the song for the class.

It was complete trash. Leaving aside the message of the song, Prussian Blue can't sing, can't play guitar, they definitely can't do both at the same time, and the only reason I could understand the lyrics of the chorus was because they were right there in Newsweek.

Regardless of these things, the tune is rather catchy, and I sometimes find myself humming it. At which point I say ARRRRRRRRGH! and exorcise it with the Imperial March.

[blackfox]

Hm. I wouldn't say there's many songs I like that I'm not 'supposed' to, but I listen to the Grateful Dead a lot, when only three people I know have ever heard of the Grateful Dead...

[Flabbicus]

I like the Grateful Dead.

My secret musical shame would have to be... Derek and The Dominos, Matchbox Twenty, Steely Dan, The Replacements, and Tom Petty.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

In total defiance of the view many have that I am a dark-minded, broody, and all around morbid evil son of a pessimist, I love the small world song from the ride at Disneyland. Go figure.

[Abd al-Azrad]

Uhh... that's not a Disney original.

Well, see, I have this thing where if someone starts singing Come Sail Away, you know, by the Styx, I can't do anything until it ends. You guys know how that is?

^Not actually true.

My secret shame of songs: *sigh* I Want It That Way, by the Backstreet Boys.

[Norsesmithy]

Mine is "Gangster Paradise" by Coolio.

It is the only rap song that I could listen to more than twice in a row.

[Tom_Violence]

I often discover, far too late, when I'm doing something mind-numbing like cleaning up or cooking or whatever, that I've been singing Elton John's Crocodile Rock very loudly. And just the "laaaa la la la la laaaa" bit, as the rest is clearly far too complicated. And I often discover this by having someone else point it out to me.

So perhaps less of the secret there, but by god a helluva lot more of the shame.

[Jack Squat]

My secret musical shame would have to be... Derek and The Dominos, Matchbox Twenty, Steely Dan, The Replacements, and Tom Petty.

I don't see anything wrong with those bands, they make up a pretty good chunk of what I listen to, and how could anyone not like Layla ???

[Flabbicus]

I don't know but some of my friends don't like them.

[Vaynor]

I'm sorry...

[Jack Squat]

I don't know but some of my friends don't like them.

Try finding friends who like Jethro Tull 8)

[Norsesmithy]

Dude, Jethro Tull was the first band I ever paid money to listen to (as in bought a tape)

Yes, it was a real long time ago, back in the days of cassets.

[GravyThePowrballr]

Which one was Jethro? ;D jk

My number one shame is actually learning to Klown. Pretty foolish when I think about it. Oh well. Slap that on the shelf with my MJ moves and Helicopter.

Music wise I am ashamed to know all the words to Get Low. Dirty version even. I'm far to white and I respect women... 'cept for jokes... if they're funny.

[geek_2049]

Eric clapton is a god, so was Jimmy Page. Please do not diss the Yardbirds. Jethro Tull has a few cool songs. Grateful Dead I could never get into as Jer Bear died before I had a chance to see them live.

For me, movie soundtracks, classical, and video game music mixed with electronica. I have also found myself listening to Indie Rock and liking it. Grr

Check out Vanessa Mae a classically trained violinist frequently mixed with electronica. Classical Gas(on the violin at that)+techno+reggae=nothing you have ever heard before. She also has a unique rendition of Can-Can.