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Donny Osmond: My Love is a Fire (Cassette Single)
OH THE SHAME!
Hmm, I own a lot of things that would embarass other people– PM Dawn (all 3 albums), The entire Singers and Songwriters Collection (from TV), Barry Mannilow, and Basia. I even think Yanni has an acceptable time and place, but the only one I hope people dont see in my collection (and makes me wonder why I dont just sell it) is Eric Johnsons Ah Via Musicom for that “kick-ass” guitar jam “Cliffs of Dover.” Terrible, just terrible. And I think a little part of me knew it, even back then…
Oh, Jeremy just reminded me that I had the Donny Osmond ‘Soldier of Love’ cassette single. I think that counts as embarassing.
Surprised that no one has mentioned Vanilla Ice. Ouch.
The cassette single of Paula Abdul & Skat Kat’s “Opposites Attract”.
The third Asia album.
The third Men at Work album.
The C&C Music Factory 12″ Single for Gonna Make You Sweat.
Plus the latest Stereophonics. Ugh.
i have copies of no strings attached and 98* and rising, sad thing is that when rising was all messed up a stole my firends copy to replace it…
oh my mom has color me badd
and that jet was horrible…
erm, quite probably the Poison “Nothing But A Good Time” cassette single.
Live’s Throwing Copper
I sadly have an entire drawer filled with shameful CDs. Some off the top of my head — 3 *NSYNC albums, 5ive (*facepalm*), the Babysitter’s Club movie soundtrack (my very first CD), the best of Boys II Men (it was a gift!), Ricky Martin, and…wait for it…the single of Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me.”
Oh, the shame!
These are all embarrassing but no one tops this:
Jesse Camp – “Jesse and the 8th St. Kidz”
Unfortunately I can’t claim to have bought or ever owned this cd. But once I sat through the entire video for one of the songs, and for that I am deeply embarrassed.
“It is hard to admit it publicly like this, but my embarrasing album was Erasure, The Innocents. I am lucky that I got out of that era alive.”
Hey! The Innocents was one of my first purchases too (on cassette) and I STILL think it’s good! So there!
But OH MY GOD I just remembered an even more embarassing one than Bon Jovi:
Life, Love and Pain by Club Nouveau (on cassette of course)
not only did i buy the milli vanilli album, i saw them live, front row, in concert with Young M.C.(who’s album i also owned).
I continue to buy wierd al albums to this day. Have nearly all of them all.
I definitely walked around the house with one of those old voice recorder tape players rocking huey lewis and the news – sports. 2nd tape was duran duran no-no-notorious. I remember looking up “notorious” in the dictionary.
And loving Indiana Jones with all of my tiny little heart.
Sigh.
Liza Minelli performs Petshop Boys songs
AQUA, 7th grade
BARBIE GIRL!
I have Menudo on cassette and vinyl.
I clearly win.
Without a doubt, the Wham album with “wake me up before you go-go”. It had the boys on the front and the back, so it was hard to even hide it. What’s more, I was a freshman in college, so I was old enough to know better. I bought Husker Du – new day rising and the replacements – let it be that year also, so I was hip. Just completely inexplicable. A close second, I suppose, is the second Culture Club album. Karma chameleon is still a guilty pleasure, though.
I own a number of Mariah Carey albums. For about four years, I bought every-damn-thing the woman put out.
But the Tiffany and Debbie Gibson albums aren’t exactly bright points in my collection…
I also went through a Michael Bolton phase. It lasted about two weeks.
Spin Doctors was the first concert I ever attended, right after getting my drivers license. I just couldnt wait for Screaming Trees and Soul Asylum to get off stage so I could see the Doctors, stupid me. And I couldnt understand why they were selling ballons in the parking lot.
Most embarassing album: Cocktail motion picture soundtrack, “Aruba, jamaica ooo I wanna take you”
Hanson. I definitely own “Middle of Nowhere”. The REALLY embarrassing thing is that I still put it on and hop around to it every once in a while.
No shame in Toad the Wet Sprocket. Check out Glen Phillips new stuff, it is VERY GOOD. And most of everyone’s “embarassing” CDs are just fads.
My worst CD is either the first Hootie album. I knew it wasn’t cool back then even when I bought it. Or, Motley Crew, Decade of Decadence (Best of CD) I think I was a junior in HS, again… too old for that.
But what is better is my first CD was Great White “Once Bitten Twice Shy” a birthday gift.
being ashamed to like or admit you like ANY music is completely retarded. following the “cool kid” rules, if any of you still do that, are completely missing the point of why you should or should not like things.
My first two cassetes:
Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (although I still love Time after Time)
Whitney Houston – Whitney
I also had the Pac Man Fever Album – that thing rocked!
Loud Sugar.
Ugh.
Dino 24/7 & Swingin’
first I bought the cassettes and now I have the CD’s…sssshhhh..I dont want to mention it out loud….I still listen to them every now and again because ‘That’s The Way It Has To Be, Cuz Thats The Way I Like It, I Like It!!!!”
free willie soundtrack.
yepppp.
snow.
as in “informer….a licki boom boom down” (or something)
snow.
as in “informer….a licki boom boom down” (or something)
please don’t tell anyone…seriously.
eiffel 65
white town – women in technology
ugh!
“Aquarium” by Aqua.
Remember them?
“I’m a barbie girl in a barbie world life in plastic…it’s fantastic! You can brush my hair undress me everywhere, imagination life is your creation! (C’mon barbie let’s go party!)”
And so on.
Yeah…I did some coke when they came out. I stopped now. Promise.
I had the first two Tiffany albums on cassette, and bought the third that nobody else did on CD (I was 11). I did the same thing with Paula Abdul. I’ve since sold the Abdul, but I just can’t give up Tiffany, God knows why.
We have a dollar bin full of craptacular cds at my store, and I’ve been guilty of purchasing these out of it:
Lemonheads, Jewel, 4 Non Blonds, En Vogue, Mariah Carey, Gin Blossoms, Duran Duran, and Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ (but I love Michael, and will stand up for that choice any day).
*Bows head in shame* Vanilla Ice- To the extreme.
I agree that you should not be embarrassed for buying a cd that was only temporarily popular. What is embarrassing is buying a cd that was never popular, was never good, and remains both unpopular and bad to this day.
I still submit that Jesse Camp satisfies these requirements with flying colors. Unfortunately I did not actually buy that cd. But somebody must have (his parents maybe?) and they bear the awful distinction of buying the most embarrassing cd of all time.
It’s like having Gilgi on DVD.
Get this … Joey Lawrence, the self-titled album. Yes, yes, yes … that Joey Lawrence … the one from ‘Blossom’
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/lawrencejoey-st.shtml
Now what do I win?
Duran Duran, The Rasmus, and Monty Python Sings… Oh, wait, those are on my favourites list, not my embarrassing list.
Now that mp3′s are a buck each (or free), I’ve got a stack of songs that would NEVER would have made an appearence in my CD player…
To name a few:
-Justin Timberlake, Rock your body
-Beyonce, Crazy in Love
…and Britney Spears….not one but THREE songs…. BRITNEY SPEARS people!
(sadly all were purchased in the last year…but my only mark of redemption is that at least I didn’t buy the whole album!)
PureTracks and iTunes are the spawn of satan.
Michael Jackson – Dangerous
Milli Vanilli
Arrested Development
The Verve Pipe — one with “freshmen”
Hope, you and I are riding the same shame spiral with Hanson (and I do the dishes listening to it every once and a while). Please don’t tell anyone.
Oh, and every ska cd I purchased during the 90′s makes me cringe with embarrassment.
OK, I write about music for a living, so my defenses are either: 1) I was young and stooopid, or 2) hey, I need to know about *everything*, not just what’s indie and underground!
So here goes… all on cassette:
Def Leppard “Hysteria” AND “Pyromania”
Thompson Twins “Here’s To Future Days”
Stryper “The Yellow And Black Attack”
Duran Duran “Arena” (yes, the one where the only new song was the putrid “Wild Boys”)
Bon Jovi “New Jersey”
Metallica “Master of Puppets” AND “…and Justice For All” (it was weightlifting music, I told myself)
And there are probably more if I really thought about it. But those jump out first.
I continue to defend stuff that’s unfashionable and non-indie, but solid — e.g. Dido’s first album (couldn’t hear much difference between her vibe and Beth Orton’s, honestly), Sixpence None The Richer (ok, they’re friends of mine, but guitarist Matt loves My Bloody Valentine and certainly knows his way around a pop hook) and at least Dave Matthews Band’s first CD, which had really solid songs to say nothing of the musicianship — that it was popular with the frat-rock audience doomed it with the cred-obsessed. (i.e. most of you reading this.) And the guy at least has enough sense to put Mike Doughty and My Morning Jacket on his label.
Now that I’ve completely blown my indie-cred, I’ll hopefully steal back just a shred of it by saying that Sufjan Steven’s “Illinois” is the best CD I’ve heard this year, and a serious early contender for Best of 2005.
TRENT WINS!! HANDS DOWN NO CONTEST!!
No Authority. Debut album. They were a C list (and that’s being pretty kind) group formed in the aftermath of Backstreet and NSYNC.
I bought it because one of the group members is my friend’s cousin. I’m not really friends with her anymore, but unfortunately I still have the cd. I was also given Jessica Simpson’s first cd, and her voice makes my ears bleed–especially on that John Mellencamp sampled song.
my car stereo(cassette deck)was stolen in the early 90′s along with all my tapes i had in the car. the thief took all the tapes but made sure to leave behind my howard the duck soundtrack.
Lou Bega and Shaggy…
Justin Frickin’ Timberlake – and I stand for the decision. Some of the tracks are so nicely produced. Great CD to compare the sound of my own stuff with.
But it’s embarrassing as hell. And the songs are not all that, erm, strong.
mariah carey #1s
i think i win.
En Vogue – Remix to Sing…twice.
Not so bad on its own when you’re, like, twelve years old, but when you own it, sell it at a used CD shop when you’re 24, then re-purchase it when you’re 26, the purchase can only be qualified by one word: embarrassing.
two words: milli vanilli
there. i said it.
let the healing begin!
U2′s latest album. How sad is that?
Ace of Base
Natalie Imbruglia
N’Sync
Christina Aguilera
I actually bought a WHITE STRIPES album! HOW EMBARASSING!!!
Kenny Chesney Rules,
The Anti-Cool
“Kiss From a Rose” single by Seal. “Batman” just came out, and my two girlfriends and I would drive to and from our junior college classes in her Ford Escort belting it out, getting all the lyrics wrong.
Baybeh! ahkintellahbuhbuh KISS FROM A ROSE on da grabe…
God, we sucked.
Stabbing Westward. I was pissed that I had picked it up before I even made it back home and never managed to get past the first handful of cuts.
i bought Taxiride after i heard their single on the ‘Election’ sdtk. they have a song called “I love ice cream”. i am ashamed.
Worse than Milli Vanilli, worse than Ace of Base, even worse than U2′s latest:
Nobody Else by Take That
I’d give a slap across to face to the boy I was before I developed any sort of taste in music.
… i was hoping these would make me feel better about mine, but alas…
the first smash mouth album.
sigh.
Debbie Gibson, Bon Jovi and Micheal Jackson, all at the same time in ’86.
Del Amitri, nuff said.
…the spice girls…
im so ashamed.
GODZILLA SOUNDTRACK! PUFF DADDY – COME WITH ME, UH YEAH!
The “Good Burger” soundtrack. So sad.
MASE – “Harlem World”…or also known as the worst album ever recorded in the history of all time.
The Velvet Underground & Nico! What a shitty album!
(just kidding)
That Robyn “Show me love” Cd. I think she was Swedish.
Hanson’s “Middle of Nowhere”
and the first Matchbox 20 album. And Matchbox 20 was the first concert I ever went to, so I have more to be embarrassed about with them.
I also had Inner Circle (the “Bad Boys” song from COPS) on cassette.
…Oh, and that All-American Rejects CD is pretty bad too.
….NKOTB(after they “re-named” themselves)”Face The Music”.I also had the Joey Lawrence cassette and *sigh* Take That’s Nobody Else. When I was 13 there was no way you could have convinced me that there was a better song than Back For Good.
I think I win.
Jewel’s “Pieces of You” — because when I was in middle school I thought girls had to listen to Lilith Fair crap.
Other than that, I’m ashamed of surprisingly few of my purchases.
whoever said basia wins.
I’ve never purchased any music that sucks, my motto is what would Beavis and Butthead listen too, any way I steal all mine off the internerd, who buys music anymore?
tiffany, debbie gibson, nkotb etc…AND an autographed tape of Sweet Sensation -they lived in my building. I think I still have it…
any coldplay album
i think y’all will have a hard time topping this one: in 1988, i had the most unfortunate circumstance of paying real money for the album ‘x2′ by really bad pop duo Times Two. it was on reprise and the two dudes looked like really low-rent american knock-offs of wham! (but even gayer). they had a ‘hit’ (#21 on Billboard) called ‘strange but true.’ i remember thinking ‘this doesn’t look good’ at the time, but my friends and i were all about any synth-pop band that used lots of keyboards (information society were big at this time). of course bands like depeche mode and new order were the best, but we were cheesy enough to delve into stuff like scritti politti and even book of love (remember those art-school drama majors? wow). the 80s were especially hard on some of us…
and a message to mindi: wow – you bought the whole bros album! that’s amazing. i did buy ‘when will i be famous’ on 45 though. i think i still have it somewhere. and i’m not even gay!
One word: Nelson
Celine Dion. That album gave me a headache after the second listen.
Bruce Willis – Return of Bruno
Belinda Carlisle – Belinda
Ah, to be young, dumb and tone deaf again…
Is anyone reading anyone else’s comments? Jeez louise, there have been thousands of repeats…
Anyway, I just thought I’d point out that the following are NOT embarrassing, in my estimation:
Justin Timberlake
Robyn
Beyonce
Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”
select Bon Jovi and Metallica
That Jewel song “You Were Meant For Me”
Janet Jackson “Rhythm Nation”
Michael Jackson “Bad”
And some Mariah Carey is darn good! When I saw Final Fantasy open for The Arcade Fire, he did “Sweet Fantasy Baby” with Gentleman Reg. It was fackin’ amazing. Don’t be haters of Top 40, people.
Both “Vengabus” and “Macarena” singles.
I am so ashamed.
Those are all pretty good, but I think I have you all beat: Brian Austin Green’s “The Carnival.” Yup, I bought David from 90210′s awful “rap” CD.
Plus I own(ed) pretty much all of those mentioned above.
Top 10 Albums/Groups/Songs Mentioned in This Thread That Are Actually Not Bad and You Should Not Be Ashamed of Owning (in order):
10. Huey Lewis and the News – Sports
9. Metallica “Master of Puppets” AND “…and Justice For All”
8. Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
7. Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual
6. Blood Sugar Sex Magick
5. Pac Man Fever
4. Face Value by Phil Collins
3. toad the wet sprocket
2. gin blossoms
1. Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
maybe the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack. Or lionel ritchie’s “Dancing of The Ceiling.” Actually I need to dig the Lionel out for Dance Party at CCA Deuce for Friday nite.
from the first popstars show (a reality show that manufactured this girl band) Eden’s Crush self titled.
do you remember Silverchair? I had both albums
Huey Lewis’s “Sports” and Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight” may not be embarrassing to some people… but how about:
Huey Lewis “Fore!”
(featuring Stuck With You and Hip to be Square).
–or–
Phil Collins “…But, Seriously”
(featuring Another Day in Paradise).
I had these fiascos on cassette back in the day. That is damned embarrassing and I don’t care what anyone thinks. I’m going to go hide under the bed now.
X&Y – coldplay
My mom got me a Yanni Christmas CD…
vanilla ice
It all depends WHEN you bought it. My embarassing moment.
2002- NKOTB Hanging Tough
2001 – LA BANDA GORDA
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008S33/qid=1118973992/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-5664189-3961720?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
Sheryl Crow’s first album.
Definitely OMC’s “How Bizarre.” Bad song, but I wouldn’t know about the rest of the album since I bought it for that song alone.
CD Warehouse was kind enough to give me $1 for it.
One Christmas, I BEGGED my sister to get me Candyman’s Knockin’ Boots album. Damn.
Primitive Radio Gods.
hey, i see no shame in hanson.
The “Super Bowl Shuffle” was an instant classic,
I think its about time for the keyboard gutiar to comeback…
(CHORUS)
We’re the Bears Shufflin’ Crew.
Shufflin’ on down, doin’ it for you.
We’re so bad we know we’re good.
Blowin’ your mind like we knew we would.
You know we’re just struttin’ for fun
Struttin’ our stuff for everyone.
We’re not here to start no trouble.
We’re just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.
worst album of all time?
ok computer by radiohead
i’m too embarrassed to even play it in mono.
that Crash Test Dummies album, the one with that stupid hit on it. I was in college by then, I really should have known better.
Lou Bega, Spiceworld, Venga Boys, C+C Music Factory….
You guys are just naming dream all the songs I play on any jukebox at any bar I go to.
I love to see people try and look cool while Mambo #5 is playing really loud.
papa roach?
pure disco?
jock jams?
nothin’ to lose soundtrack on cassette?
You know I would say “Up” by Right Said Fred, but that album is actually pretty good. And i’ll still listen to it. But seriously, the worst album I ever bought was High Speed Racer’s new one. That was like maybe two months ago too. I really don’t know what I was thinking. That album really sucks. Now, even when I know better to listen to them first, I still bought it. Now THAT’S emberrasing.