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Time to own up

Opps!!

18:39 / 24.11.04

OK, we used to play this game with new staff when I worked in a record shop.

What is the most embarasing record you have owned?
(yes, even if you shamefully sneaked it into a bag of stuff that ended up at the charity shop or you burned it on the first full-moon after you discovered what real music was).

So come on own up, everyone has one (or more).

Mine, Ultimate Dude by Edd the Duck on 7" picture disk (oh, and Poison Unskinny Bop)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:44 / 25.11.04

"Club Tropicana" by Wham. For some reason, when I was a kid, our local shoe shop had some kind of deal where you got a free Top Ten single with your footwear. And yes, you did have to choose which one you got. No, I don't know what I was thinking. I was very young.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

09:06 / 25.11.04

I just bought the new U2 single. I suppose that's pretty sad. I mean they are pretty shit, i don't know why i got it. I don't even like Bono. He's a dick.

Grey Area

09:14 / 25.11.04

I own Whigfield's first album.

_Boboss

10:04 / 25.11.04

i've got oasis' first album, only on tape though. i've also bought records by such great, great bands as powder, menswear, the bluetones, heavy stereo and sleeper. the ja danke-ties were unkind to me, musically.

i don't, luckily, own any records by the the, genesis, or post-barrett pink floyd (the missus does though, floyd i mean), so i'm not all cunt.

lord nuneaton savage

10:31 / 25.11.04

I'm with Gambit on this one. The Britpop years were unkind to many an otherwise excellent record collection.

Shed Seven singles, Echobelly LPs and, aarrggh, the sodding Bluetones...

Mea maxima culpa...

Seth

10:40 / 25.11.04

Good job we've got another one of these threads. In time for Christmas, too!

My most embarrassing record is the original demo by The Release. It features appalling drumming by yours truly. I was only fifteen. Awful stuff.

Jack The Bodiless

11:10 / 25.11.04

Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. I don't know what I was thinking.

gergsnickle

13:06 / 25.11.04

I went through a period when I LOVED the Monkees, bought all their albums/cassettes (back before CDs), watched the TV show, wore the t-shirt. None of this was ironic, either.

_Boboss

13:19 / 25.11.04

why should it be ironic? the monkees were one of the best bands ever, that's a top-pop fact. why be embarassed by your love for last train to clarksville, circlesky, listen to the band? head?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:21 / 25.11.04

Gumbitch, dod you just diss The The?

Bad, BAD Gumbitch.

_Boboss

13:44 / 25.11.04

yeh, fraely, runce and that have all got good things to say about the the the. sounds like 70s prog meets 80s stadium to me, makes me laugh with fear to think of otherwise decent people enjoying it.

Seth

13:53 / 25.11.04

Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. I don't know what I was thinking.

It was probably something like, "I've got one last shot at redemption."

And yeah... you were wrong.

It was already far too late.

Boy in a Suitcase

16:43 / 25.11.04

PM Dawn mothafucka!!!!

Spaniel

17:19 / 25.11.04

I'm not sure Wham counts, Stoatie. You were a kid, afterall. In fact, Club Tropicana is most definitly CLARSIC.

Now then, Bobosun as an adult: I've gotta third Shed 7.

Wotacunt

Jack Vincennes

20:01 / 25.11.04

Now then, Bobosun as an adult: I've gotta third Shed 7.

Yes. Even at the time I knew it had gone too far when I realised I'd got not only their album, but the limited edition album with the free b-sides CD. I only listened to the b-sides one once, though (that means it doesn't count, doesn't it? Someone please say yes...)

I also own Barbie Girl by Aqua and I Am, I Feel by Alisha's Attic, because they both made me inordinately happy at a time when I was... well, asking for Shed Seven albums for Christmas

No star here laces

06:59 / 26.11.04

I think I probably dispute the idea that ANY record is actually embarassing to own.

Having said that, I'm a little embarassed if people notice that I own any of the following:

Res - "How I do"
Jurassic 5 - "Quality control"
Galaxie 500 - "Fourth of July"
Swervedriver - "Raise"

Particularly because if people do notice 'em, they usually say "Wow! I love this record!" and then I have to apologetically tell them that I think it's shit.

Spaniel

08:17 / 26.11.04

Vincennes, you bought Barbie Girl and I Am, I Feel as an adult? You are a scary man.

But you excite me.

Triplets

09:04 / 26.11.04

Meat Loaf
Bat Out Of Hell

Come on!
*bruce forsythe pose*

Jack Vincennes

10:16 / 26.11.04

Boboss- even more scary (or exciting), I actually considered buying the Alisha's Attic album, but in the end decided they were 'try-hards' and probably spent my money on an 18-Wheeler 10" or some similar work of deathless art. Being 16 kind of sucked.

The Natural Way

10:55 / 26.11.04

Right, Vincennes is officially fucking amazing and my new best friend. Uh, BTW, Gumbit, I don't even know what The The sound like.

Spaniel

11:18 / 26.11.04

try hards

Lol

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:54 / 26.11.04

Ah, but Triplets, do you have Bat Out Of Hell 2?

I stand by my assertion that Jim Steinman is the god of musical comedy.

Benny the Ball

15:24 / 26.11.04

Tubular Bells II.

I used to listen to TB when a kid, and for some reason thought that it would be a nice nostolgic memory of happier times... I was wrong.

Haus of Mystery

16:05 / 26.11.04

An Aswad album.

and

a Transvision Vamp album.

That's bad

haus of fraser

19:52 / 26.11.04

I had many a cut to shape heavy metal disc when i was in my teens- including WASP, Iron Maiden and GnR- the worst of which was this....
(may not be work friendly...)
sorry...

iamus

23:28 / 26.11.04

"We're Walking In The Air" by Aled Jones.

I was four at the time.

OK, OK.... It's no excuse...

charrellz

23:32 / 26.11.04

Do gifts from relatives count? If so: The Toy Story soundtrack.

If not: either Otep or Chumbawumba, can't decide.

Bear

23:40 / 26.11.04

Copey never forget Maiden still rock, never feel ashamed!

Unencumbered

09:15 / 27.11.04

You know what? Music makes me happy and improves the quality of my life and I'll never be made to feel embarrassed by anything I own, however cheesy or naff others may think it is.

Spaniel

12:13 / 27.11.04

^Boring^

Metal disks, Copey? Am I being thick?

Are you?

gergsnickle

12:54 / 27.11.04

the monkees were one of the best bands ever, that's a top-pop fact.

In my mind that's something of a top-pop overstatement. For every "Last Train to..." there was a "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky" and for every "Circle Sky" there was a "Gonna Buy Me a Dog." My rabid support of the Monekees' entire back catalogue is what I'm getting at here. Then again, thanks for the support.

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