Embarressing LPs
 

Everyone has one! It's the one album that you bought despite it being incredibly uncool to even admit knowing that you're aware of the artist!

There is one LP in my collection that I almost daren't admit to. At the time you have to understand that I was a goth/new romantic - I was keeping Rimmel afloat with the amount of eyeliner I wore and everything in my wardrobe matched because it was all black. So what is that one embarressing LP that no one would possibly imagine that I could have owned and listened too often at that time?

I'm not going to tell you - until at least 10 people have admitted theirs! Then we can share our embarressment and face the world together.

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I had a Monkees album - but gave it away with the sound system

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I recently bought one of those record players which plugs into your computer so you can record them in MP3 format. The most embarrassing albums I found in the loft would most probably be Bros & Brother Beyond! I'm just going through my old singles now to record them and found a few Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy & Deeply Dippy, my teenager has been rolling his eyes and saying 'sad' quite a lot!

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I have all David Cassidy's albums, quite a few of The Partridge Family as well, a few - dare I say it - Bay City Rollers ones but my most embarrassing is probably The Muppet Show Album :)

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I actually had the very first Nolan Family LP, before the sisters became famous.

As I have now given away my lp's do I out the ones who have it now :rofl38:

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I don’t care what people think about my musical taste and not one single record or CD that I own is an embarrassment to me. My musical collection ranges from the 1920’s to about 20 years ago from big band to traditional jazz to pops to classics. Chuck in some folk music by the Wurzels and Houghton Weavers for instance, some good old skiffle from the fifties and a selection of recordings by Stan Freeberg that make me laugh.

Even the Stan Freeberg recording of John & Marsha isn’t embarrassing - for all its sexual suggestiveness.

In a nutshell if I like a recording, I like it and that is that and I don’t care if the rest of the world thinks that it is naff. Although in the last 20 years or so there hasn’t been anything that grabs my attention. It is just background noise to me.

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gotta say, aint got one, still love ALL me music, which depends on mood.:)

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my childer both say all my music collection is an embarresment
cohen..doors..van morrison..nick cave...stones..who...
endless and timeless but embarrasing i think not :cool::cool:

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must agree, i have loads of stuff that may be called CRAP but to me it was/still is great so i`m not embarrassed by anything......so what if i have the first Kylie album, i liked it once of a day.....lol:D

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I have very wide tastes in music and my LP/CD collection goes from Classical to Rock'n'Roll, Big Bands to Folk, Film Musicals to Pipe Bands. No, nothing I've got is an embarrassment but my daughter keeps threatening to buy me a Foster and Allen CD for Xmas. :eek:

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:D I've still got some of my Mum's old Englebert albums.

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I bought an Ion USB Turntable - think it was about £70-£80 with recording software included.

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I`d guess it would be the Slik album, as you were quite proud to have the Marilyn album if I remember rightly :D:D:D:D

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I’ve just remembered I like Jimmy Shand and his band too. Foster and Allen are great also – in small doses.

Exceptional avatar West Ender. Two of the funniest screen comics the world has ever seen.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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I won't argue with that. ;)

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i still have my bros album lol, the worst one i bought has got to be my bananarama album, and i still have that too

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Off the top of my head it must be the Nolan Sisters, but i have probably a load more when/if i have a look.

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Nowt wrong with that,, id say your mum had good taste......:)

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There is no such thing as Embarrasing music, it all depends on who you listen to it with.

Gayle, the chance is up to you! (All you need to do is let me know how embarrasing you need it to be!).
:D

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Can't Stop the Music, the soundtrack to the Village People film of the same name.:o

Mind you, it was so bad, as is the film, that today it has a certain naff kudos.:D

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pmsfl, i've got all of those too

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Welcome Back Gary, Hope You Had A Great Holiday xx :D

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The album to the "Fame" film oh yeah and my dad bought me Brotherhood of man when i was little :rolleyes:

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YEEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA now I dont feel bad listening to them now. :D:D:D:D

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yer sure it wasn't yer daughter that posted that willow?:D;)

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Snicker, snicker:D

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I actually have lots of embarassing albums. ((That's no surprise I hear you say).

Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Journey - Escape

A couple of Wreclkless Eric albums and Lew Lewis.

But rather than call them embarassing I prefer to call them guilty pleasures, so come on Gayle 'fess up :D

Oh yeah forgot, the soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Lew Lewis is embarrassing??!! Stan, how could you? Lew Lewis is a most righteously blueswailing harmonica man, who stayed true to his music, when all around him were going punk. I play his two CDs regularly and seriously considered going all the way down to Southend to see him when he staged a comeback gig a couple of years ago. Embarrassing??...never!!

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Whats an LP?

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stop pretending your younger than you are Mani ;)

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It's much longer than a 45, and a little bigger than an EP. I hope this clears things up.:rolleyes:

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Lew Lewis is embarrassing??!! Stan, how could you? Lew Lewis is a most righteously blueswailing harmonica man, who stayed true to his music, when all around him were going punk. I play his two CDs regularly and seriously considered going all the way down to Southend to see him when he staged a comeback gig a couple of years ago. Embarrassing??...never!!

It's why I call them guilty pleasures Wynonie.

At least I don't or didn't have a Yes or Emerson Lake and Palmer album like a lot of my peer group :D

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I have Boston, Chicago, Trooper, Foreigner and all that good stuff, plus CCR, BTO, and Nestor Pistor. Oh, and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks, and Doug and the Slugs.

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Shoot ... I shouldn't have put CCR in there; they are one of the great rock bands of all time.

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And I'm having second thoughts about Nestor Pistor too ... his song "Winestoned Plowboy" must put him up there with the all time rock 'n roll greats.:rolleyes:

I think it's time to quit, I'm really "willowing" on here:D:D:D

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Wreckless Eric guilty pleasure!!
Genius I think...YouTube - Wreckless Eric - A Pop Song

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Still don't understand, Stan...if somebody's good, why should they be a "guilty" pleasure...and why should they be in the embarrassing LPs thread in the first place? :confused:

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Because it's something I bought that was totally out of kilter with everything else I had at the time (Slaughter and The Dogs, Damned etc) and I thought it reminded of Dr Feelgood at the time. (I also preferred his stuff in Eddie and The Hot Rods).

I see it as a guilty pleasure as nobody else liked Blues/Pub Rock at the time and so therefore kept such albums under wraps.

Maybe I don't have any embarassing LPs then (Like I said earlier no Yes and no prog rock (I don't have the Slaughter and the Dogs album any more :D).

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Ive got Charlie Drake, and Rolf Harris ,and they still both make me laugh.