Ok your most embarrassing fave band/artist/song

[freakchylde]

I can't say that I'm embarassed about liking them...
Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver and Merle Haggard. Grew up on them.

 

[mloanna]

A short list:

Pink
Ronnie and The Ronnettes
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Ike and Tina Turner (Not embarrased about Tina's Solo stuff though)
Sparks (for you youngin's they were out in the early 80's)

 

[DAVETHEMETALGUY]

Brother Cane kicks ASS!

 

[Princess_Divine]

Well since I am such a "TRU" metalhead... ha ha ha j/k, there is no real artist or band I am embarrassed about, but I heard this awesome ballad on the radio at work one day a couple of years ago. Though a very mature song that was sang with great emotics and style by a really good vocalist, it was still a "love lost" song.
I remembered as much of the lyrics as I could and went home (I was too busy to look it up on the work computer) and googled the lyrics. I received hits immediately. It turned out to be the mighty Back Street Boys "Incomplete." To this day, I still love the song, though. I suppose even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
Bryant

This is getting wierd Bryant
We're both already BIG fans of Pagan's Mind and Vanden Plas
now I find we have both been moved by a Backstreet Boys song.

I am not usually the type to rush out and buy chart music, however
when i heard this song a few years ago I loved it so much that i bought it.
And I still love this song too.

Show me the Meaning of Being Lonely

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

yeah don't tell me how good the MD Renn Fest was this year.. We just went to the one in Charlotte and it was lame... take MD and suck all the fun and attitude out of it.

Funny you should say that - Nick and I live in MD and we said the exact same thing about Maryland's Renn Fest this year after we had gone to visit friends in Minnesota and got to experience their Renn Fest. Now that's a Renn Fest!

Sleepwalk is one of my favorite instrumentals ever.

Love this song ... have you heard the Brian Setzer cover of it?

I am not a big fan of the Boss, but I heard a new song entitled radio something on the NFL Network and it was actually a pretty monster song. I was rather impressed.

Radio Nowhere - yeah that's probably the best song on the new album IMO. I had high hopes for the new album when I heard that track, but everything else on there just sounds like it was something that he couldn't fit on to The Rising. I'm more of a early-Springsteen era girl - Greetings From Asbury Park, The Wild & innocent, Born to Run, and Darkness on the Edge of Town - although I do like stuff from the other albums. (Spare Parts from Tunnel of Love is probably one of my favorite songs, next to Jungleland on Born to Run.)

I remain, as I have been for the past 35+ years, an Elton John fangirl.

Me too.

 

[yardleybates]

Show me the Meaning of Being Lonely

This video completely confused me. Are the 2 guys at the hospital gay lovers?

 

[metalprof]

Okay, I'll confess: Here is a list of CDs I own, from my CD library web page:

Yanni Keys to Imagination 1986
Yanni Out of Silence 1987
Yanni Chameleon Days 1988
Yanni Optimystique 1989
Yanni Niki Nana 1989
Yanni Dare to Dream 1992
Yanni In My Time 1993
Yanni Live at the Acropolis 1994
Yanni Tribute 1997
Yanni If I Could Tell You 2000
Yanni Ethnicity 2003

What do I win?

Ken

 

[yardleybates]

I can't say that I'm embarassed about liking them...
Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver and Merle Haggard. Grew up on them.

Peter Paul and Mary ... awesome stuff! Their Christmas album is a family classic! Can't support the John Denver though Freaky - you're on your own with that one.

A short list:

Pink
Ronnie and The Ronnettes
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Ike and Tina Turner (Not embarrased about Tina's Solo stuff though)
Sparks (for you youngin's they were out in the early 80's)

No Pink or Sparks for me, but the rest - I totally dig.

OK - guess I'll pony up my own embarrassments.

I think the song is called Oops by Blu Cantrell (so pop - I hide my face)
Several songs on the Spiderman 1 soundtrack including the Chad Kroger song
I have an 80s new wave CD that I mostly listen to when I'm running it includes Come On Eileen among other brutal 80s classics

Stuff I'm NOT embarrassed about that I love :

50's and 60's (that's what I grew up on)
70's rock and roll (what my Dad plays on the guitar)
80's hair bands - they suck but they are just fun as hell
Blues and some Jazz - especially live
Vanessa Mae and Acoustic Alchemy - Yip Hates these!

 

[scooterSST]

Funny you should say that - Nick and I live in MD and we said the exact same thing about Maryland's Renn Fest this year after we had gone to visit friends in Minnesota and got to experience their Renn Fest. Now that's a Renn Fest!

I lived about three minutes from Jaxx up until a couple of months ago, my wife and I were regulars at the MD fest. The Pennsylvania one is supposed to be pretty cool...

<gripe sopabox>

Now Charlotte on the other hand

• No central places to congregate (readubs)
• booth workers not being in character
• very few people in costume
• too much blantant corporate hawking, the giant inflatable cat with the guitar was a dead give away
• too "family friendly" The guy doing the tightrope act was the most "bawdy" thing there and he was tame compared to MD

</gripe soapbox>

 

[DAVETHEMETALGUY]

um, all i can really say is WOW.
i dont really know what to say. im impressed

Okay, I'll confess: Here is a list of CDs I own, from my CD library web page:

Yanni Keys to Imagination 1986
Yanni Out of Silence 1987
Yanni Chameleon Days 1988
Yanni Optimystique 1989
Yanni Niki Nana 1989
Yanni Dare to Dream 1992
Yanni In My Time 1993
Yanni Live at the Acropolis 1994
Yanni Tribute 1997
Yanni If I Could Tell You 2000
Yanni Ethnicity 2003

What do I win?

Ken

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Stuff I'm NOT embarrassed about that I love :
80's hair bands - they suck but they are just fun as hell

I'm with you on this one too! But the embarrassing part for me ... this is how Nick got me into Metal when we first started dating over 5 years ago. I was a lot more into Classic Rock, so he started to build off of that with some glam and classic metal bands. He and I still laugh at the fact that the first time he played Iron Maiden for me I told him they were "a little too epic" *hides for fear of beatings* and now they are one the bands in my "Holy Trinity of Metal" (The others being Doro - obviously - and Dio.)

The Pennsylvania one is supposed to be pretty cool...

I have actually hear the exact opposite from several people. Most have said it's not nearly as nice as MD's.

<gripe sopabox>

Now Charlotte on the other hand

• booth workers not being in character
• very few people in costume
• too "family friendly" The guy doing the tightrope act was the most "bawdy" thing there and he was tame compared to MD

</gripe soapbox>

These are actually a lot of the reasons Nick and I were so displeased with MD's Renn Fest when we came back from MN. (I took out the ones that weren't really an issue for us.) However, I will admit that I think we went on a bad day, because I went again this past weekend and things were considerably better ... still not as good as MN's Fest, but better than the first time we visited the MD fest this year.
BTW, in order of size, the top three US Renn Fests are 1) Texas, 2) Minnesota, 3) Maryland.

 

[Jibrille]

I forgot the biggest one of all. Ace of Base. While in college, a friend and I would blast their music at 2 am when stuck in the lab getting a project done (this was like 3 years ago, not 10)

 

[yardleybates]

I forgot the biggest one of all. Ace of Base. While in college, a friend and I would blast their music at 2 am when stuck in the lab getting a project done (this was like 3 years ago, not 10)

Fantastic - though the only Ace of Base song I know is Signs

 

[yardleybates]

...does this mean you don't wuv me anymore?...

Of course not! That could never happen.

I love disco too, and funk and a good bit of R&B. I even have some old-school hip-hop around here. Totally not what you'd picture me listening to, but I love to dance and that stuff really gets me moving. :danceboy:

can't do the hip hop, but I also LOVE to dance an Yip does NOT so I love all those silly girls dancing in a clump songs

 

[thedelicateflower]

A short list:

Sparks (for you youngin's they were out in the early 80's)

...i love sparks!.....i saw them once with oingo boingo at the country club in reseda and with a flock of seagulls...might have been there too.............great shows

 

[thedelicateflower]

I can't say that I'm embarassed about liking them...
Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver and Merle Haggard. Grew up on them.

...i can't remember my mom playing peter, paul and mary...but i grew up on the new christy minstrels, the chad mitchell trio, the kingston trio....i love folk music...my mom gave me her albums....

 

[thedelicateflower]

Of course not! That could never happen.

...yay!...:danceboy:

 

[TheWhisper]

Are we not men? We are DEVO...love this band.

 

[freakchylde]

Yardley, all I can say is....the guy could sing a country love song. The Christmas specials were definitely not worth it, though.

 

[Angrafan]

portishead....

Nothing to be ashamed of! One of my favorite bands! Their live CD in NYC is probably my favorite live Cd of all time!

by now over half my CD collection (about 1100 CDs) is not metal... So, If I listed all the non-metal stuff I listen to this thread would be huge!

And to be honest, the genre I am most ashamed of liking is power metal, hands down... I am open about liking Coldplay, but my love for Stratovarius not many people know about...