Thread: Music you're ashamed to like ...
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20th Feb 2008, 8:11 PM #1WhiteCrow Guest
Music you're ashamed to like ...
I was in ASDA today and there was a song I've heard a lot and really like called Shine.
I asked my wife if she knew who sung it, and she told me it was Take That.
I told her it couldn't possibly be, because I hate Take That, and I liked this song.
But damn she was right!
I still think Bros are rubbish though, and Hansen are just a bunch of one-hit wonders ...
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20th Feb 2008, 9:08 PM #2
I'm not ashamed of any of the music I like!
And I own everything Steps ever released.
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20th Feb 2008, 9:12 PM #3
I've got some stuff that is a bit cheesy but hey what the hell! Karen Carpenter had a great voice!
It's a dirty old shame when all you get from love is a love song but the best love songs are written with a broken heart...
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20th Feb 2008, 9:57 PM #4
I'm not ashamed of any music I like. Who cares what other people think? I'd hate to be so unsure of myself that I had to apologise for the things I like.
Si.
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20th Feb 2008, 10:10 PM #5
The question is why do you 'hate' Take That? Is it to do with what they are or represent rather than what they sound like?
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20th Feb 2008, 11:53 PM #6WhiteCrow Guest
I've never been a fan of any of their previous work, and in fact I'd say generally their brand of plastic pop never really appealed to me. So yeah quite taken aback that they've ever produced anything I went so far as actually liked!
I have an Aqua album on my MP3 which I'm slightly ashamed of, as I really like most of the songs on it.
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20th Feb 2008, 11:54 PM #7Pip Madeley Guest
I'm with Si, never be ashamed of yourself - I like Phil Collins, so I've learnt not to give a toss! Speaking of whom, today we recieved a signed & personalised publicity photo from the man himself after my dad wrote to him wishing him happy birthday and thanking him for the Genesis tour. Not many would go to that trouble.
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21st Feb 2008, 12:05 AM #8Wayne GuestI'm not ashamed of any of the music I like!
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21st Feb 2008, 12:06 AM #9
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21st Feb 2008, 12:13 AM #10Wayne Guest
I'm not ashamed of that either.
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21st Feb 2008, 12:15 AM #11
quite right! - oh and I love "Raindrops keep falling on my head"
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21st Feb 2008, 12:19 AM #12Wayne Guest
Done much knitting today?
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21st Feb 2008, 12:22 AM #13
I'll knit your arse if you like
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21st Feb 2008, 12:24 AM #14Wayne Guest
Pervert.
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21st Feb 2008, 8:40 AM #15
What's wrong with Aqua? "Barbie Girl" is cheesy but if you look beyond that they actually reveal themselves to be a quirky but highly intelligent group. If "Turn Back Time" was done today by Coldplay, everyone would love it. And "Cartoon Heroes" is just brilliant on any level.
Si.
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21st Feb 2008, 8:43 PM #16
I'm still vewy vewy pwoud of my Girlfriend/Let Loose singles and Wilmot album.
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21st Feb 2008, 8:43 PM #17
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21st Feb 2008, 10:05 PM #18
It's funny, but Take That are singers, they sing along while other people play, the same as Amy Winehouse does. Yet for some reason one of them is "plastic pop" and the other is vintage soul or something. What's the difference? She has a slightly better voice? Or just more dreary songs?
Si.
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22nd Feb 2008, 12:18 AM #19WhiteCrow Guest
Lets see - albums I've bought and I'm ashamed of owning ...
- The Best of Gary Glitter (obvious reasons why)
- The Best of Roy Obinson
- Climie Fisher
- B*witched
- Spice Girls/SpiceWorld (they were for my wife honest)
- Aqua - Aquarium
- The Best of the Lightning Seeds
- Pulp - Different Class (it's all a bit pretensious at times)
I had a friend who once wanted a best of Phil Collins CD, but even though it wasn't for me, I couldn't take that chance, so ended up getting him a CD voucher instead.
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22nd Feb 2008, 12:21 AM #20
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22nd Feb 2008, 12:24 AM #21Pip Madeley GuestI had a friend who once wanted a best of Phil Collins CD, but even though it wasn't for me, I couldn't take that chance, so ended up getting him a CD voucher instead.
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22nd Feb 2008, 12:42 AM #22
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22nd Feb 2008, 12:52 AM #23Wayne Guest
It's just different marketing. Winehouse as a base product has a stronger voice, which can be specially blended for retroheads who missed out on Phil Spector & 60's soul. Throw in the word 'jazzy', to attract the wannabe arty crowd, & meanwhile the trendy crack-head angle comes in handy for added drug coolness, & bob's yer uncle. Market cornered.
Media fuelled record company dream. Guaranteed to make mega bucks in a world where even Pete wotziface who used to shag Kate Moss doesn't get out of bed for less than ten grand.
Hey, i could get a job on 'The Sun' doing this shit!
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22nd Feb 2008, 8:20 AM #24WhiteCrow Guest
I'm not really making new friends with this thread am I?
Actually one band I'm probably quite ashamed liking any of their songs is Oasis. Mainly because I feel if you say you like them, it's like you're buying into this whole "the greatest band, better than the Beatles" crap. Their songs are not bad, but a bit samey, and feel like things you've heard before, so never as revolutionary as some music journalists would have you believe.
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22nd Feb 2008, 8:26 AM #25Actually one band I'm probably quite ashamed liking any of their songs is Oasis. Mainly because I feel if you say you like them, it's like you're buying into this whole "the greatest band, better than the Beatles" crap. Their songs are not bad, but a bit samey, and feel like things you've heard before, so never as revolutionary as some music journalists would have you believe.
Here's an idea! Why doesn't everyone listen to everything for themselves and MAKE THEIR OWN MIND UP!
It ain't rocket science.
Si.
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