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

Anything Celine Dion (current track count at 29 and holding)

Okay, I think we have a winner...

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?

Actually, I'd have said buy one track from the Apple Music Store.

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.

<best poker expression>

I see your Celine Dion, and raise you a Sarah Brightman & Andre Bocelli duet!!!

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.

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>

<shuffles>

I see your Weird Al (I can match it), and raise you Frank Zappa's "Jazz Discharge Party Hats"...

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.

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!

http://www.cowgirlfunk.com/rainbowconnection.htm

Here's a decent copy.

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".

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.

"Gulp"

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

/me hangs head in shame. =^D

Ok, I have some Starship and the John William's theme from Back to the Future - great for driving up to 88mph!

Men Without Hats: Safety Dance

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

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".

Peter

47 replies and no-one's got Telly Savalas, you're not really trying!

I fold...

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!

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?

Good lord; that's just down right frightening!

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.

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

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!

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

Bit late replying to this, but today 'C is for Cookie' by Cookie Monster came on. I couldn't even begin to explain.

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...

Uhm.. hehe.. Okay:

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

I think THAT about wraps it up..!

Me.

Bouncing here and there and everywhere.

Possibly my favorite rhyming couplet of all time:

Whenever you're in trouble, you
call DW

Possibly my favorite rhyming couplet of all time:


I think Ogden Nash beat that one with:

"If you think the elephant preposterous,
you've probably never seen a rhinosterous."



tanstaafl.

Aaah. I don't feel TOO bad now. At least other people here KNEW the LYRICS.

Me.

the theme tune to 'Grange Hill'!

Er, just a small point that I feel needs some clarification: Why in Hades have you got the theme tune to Grange Hill on your Empeg?
I'm eternally grateful for whoever found the Terry Wogan programme on my Empeg at Amersfoort, and left it playing, I thought I'd walk the worst installation with that blaring out, but it wasn't to be!
N.B. It was the only way that I could get Mrs. B out of the house and on to the ferry!

Strangest I have... Must be the Pokemon theme... Original Japanese version even.

Even worse is that before the music, it starts out with [Some pokemon guy] yelling "Pokemon? Tengo..." (~translated: "Pokemon? It's awesome!").

Just one of those tracks that you remind yourself you should delete every time you hear it, but somehow never remember to actually delete. Damn annoying.