Most embarassing song/piece to be overheard listening to

[Twincam16]

You know the scenario - you may have your mp3 player up a bit too loud, or you may be driving along in your car with the roof down/sunroof open, or you're having a house party and someone decides to have a bit of 'fun' with your CD collection.

Anyway, what is the most embarassing thing in your collection to be 'caught' listening to?

For me, it's got to be the James Bond theme. I've got pretty much all the soundtracks from Dr. No to The World Is Not Enough and they're all superb pieces of work from the likes of John Barry and David Arnold, but the minute that brassy 'Daah-dah di-daaaaaah da-da-daaaaah' strikes up I find myself lunging for the volume control, hoping no-one's overhearing and thinking 'oh dear, he thinks he's in a Bond film. Bless.'

So what's yours?

[davepoth]

"Dreadlock Holiday" by 10cc. I think it may well be a little racist.

[55allgold]

As a heavy metal kid, I used to keep my The Carpenters cassette well hidden in the '80s. Times change; nowadays, I keep my '80s hair-metal stuff out of sight.

[The Nur]

Probably the Skid Row stuff, or the Elvis

[james_gt3rs]

Probably Dragonforce

[Animal]

Got caught by my parents having a serious mosh numerous times as a teenager, so probably anything by Slayer or Metallica.

[The Lukas]

Some of Blink 182s stuff is horrendous

[andy_s]

'Plaistow Patricia' by the Blockheads when you forget how loud you've setthe hifi...

[Gompo]

I'm struggling to think of anything, possibly Mousse T featuring Hot 'N' Juicy - Horny.

[davepoth]

Gompo said:

I'm struggling to think of anything, possibly Mousse T featuring Hot 'N' Juicy - Horny.

That's pretty poor. Actually Mousse T's other hit "Sex Bomb", featuring Tom Jones, would probably be on the list. I wonder how bad the album was?

[jt racing]

I once drove through town, on the phone,( I know) and hadn't realised that although the previous song on the radio warranted serious db levels, the following song I should have turned it back down. The song? Spice girls wannabe, the car bright yellow mr2 tbar with the roof off and windows down...

[Twincam16]

davepoth said:

"Dreadlock Holiday" by 10cc. I think it may well be a little racist.

"I heard a dark voice beside of me, and I looked round in a state of fright". Delivered in cod-Jamaican patois by a white man from Stockport.

Thing is, I'm not convinced it's actually racist as it seems to be about a guy overcoming his xenophobia.

[Gompo]

davepoth said:

Gompo said:

I'm struggling to think of anything, possibly Mousse T featuring Hot 'N' Juicy - Horny.

That's pretty poor. Actually Mousse T's other hit "Sex Bomb", featuring Tom Jones, would probably be on the list. I wonder how bad the album was?

Poor yes, but I still dont mind it. Nothing really in my collection I'm embarrassed about, I'm sure many would disagree

[vit4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8N9WywIqY

Quite catchy though. An old band I was in did a cover of this, originally as a pisstake but it drew us in... Made a bit heavier and with a thicker sound it fking works

[JonnyFive]

High School Musical soundtrack.. Don't ask.

It was on when I had someone drive into the back of my car.. I immediately turned the music off before getting out of the car

[omgus]

I got sabotaged by my ipod putting on 9-5 by Dolly Parton just as i was starting my old MR2, i had the roof out and the windows down when it blasted out in front of everyone who had just got off the bus across the road.


I managed to recover my cool by getting a massive tank slapper mild controlled drift out of the car park in my efforts to escape the embarrassment as quick as possible.


And honestly 9-5 was my girlfriends track, and not at all in the playlist marked guilty pleasures (James Blunt, Dido, Damien Rice and a bit of Country and Western)

[davepoth]

Twincam16 said:

"I heard a dark voice beside of me, and I looked round in a state of fright". Delivered in cod-Jamaican patois by a white man from Stockport.

Thing is, I'm not convinced it's actually racist as it seems to be about a guy overcoming his xenophobia.

Apparently it's about an attempted robbery on the songwriter from 10cc and the singer from the Moody Blues while they were on a parasailing excursion. Curious.

http://www.minestrone.org/article004.htm

[TheEnd]

Worst one yet...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Chillout-Album-Var...

CD1, Faithless just finished...

There was a "hmmm, that sounds familiar.. ah yes, it's OH GOD! SHUT IT OFF!!!"

[Twincam16]

TheEnd said:

Worst one yet...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Chillout-Album-Var...

CD1, Faithless just finished...

There was a "hmmm, that sounds familiar.. ah yes, it's OH GOD! SHUT IT OFF!!!"

Hehe, I remember when they were all the rage. You couldn't go to a house party without someone saying 'you got a chillout CD? Put it on! Put it on!' then claiming it was 'amazing'.

On similar lines, when I'm in clubs Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby winds me up, simply because I think we're about to get a blast of Queen.

[KaraK]

My collection is pretty diverse and there are definately things in there I'd rather not admit to. But for bonus points of it being a whole album I'll have to say the soundtrack CD to the Buffy musical episode "Once more with feeling". As much as I love it there is just no way of explaining it's presence to anyone else that doesn't make me sounds like a Weapons-grade loser.

I'm going to have to abandon this PH account aren't I?