Time again for your musical dirty little secrets - post them here

[LynneSin]

I will say this much - as progressives for the most part we all have excellent taste in music. But lets face it deep in all of our musical collections is that dirty little secret of something not only that we own but we actually enjoy.

Here's one very shameful dirty little musical secret - I like Color Me Badd. They were like the 3rd Rate R&B Boy Band groups of the early 90s. And honestly, all the good ones that were out there like New Kids on the Block or New Edition or Boys to Men - couldn't stand any of them. But I liked Color Me Badd. Go figure. And I still listen to them from time to time.

*** hangs head in shame ***

[Scuba]

1. Not really a secret, but I like folk music ...

[RiffRandell]

9. I LOVE Walk Right In!

My Dad is a bluegrass/folk guy (loved Peter, Paul and Mary) and I listen to that song every so often.

That is too funny! I don't think that's shameful at all.

[Scuba]

10. The big sound of the double twelve strings is what got me hooked on guitar.

[hifiguy]

27. There is something irresistible to me

about the sound of a good 12-string. But especially a Rickenbacker electric 12. That chiming quality, I think.

[geologic]

35. Martin--

D-12-28...

[hifiguy]

36. Or one of Leo Kottke's

custom made Bozo Podunavac 12 strings. Mmmmm. Works of pure art as much as players' tools:

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Not one of Leo's AFAIK, but still.

[pinboy3niner]

47. I always think of McGuinn's jingle-jangle 12-string

I'm not a musician and I don't know a Fender from a Bozo, so I don't know what kind of 12-string he plays--I just love the sound.

[DFW]

65. He played a Rickenbacker 12 string

I bought one a few years out of Heritage Auctions guitar sale in Dallas just to have one, but there are no groups left with which I could use it. So I tinkle on it when I'm back home in Dallas.

Božo built several 12 string acoustics for me over the years, each one different. Those are the ones I play on when I do my rare public appearances. Nothing sounds like his 12 string guitars.

[pinboy3niner]

67. The son-in-law of a close friend designed guitars for a major maker in CA

I spent time with him when he came to visit, but all his inside industry info went right over my head.

I still love McGuinn, though.

[DFW]

69. My favorities look like this

A matching pair built for me by Božo in 1999/2000:
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This is what I take out of the closet when I'm home:
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[hifiguy]

72. That post is about as hard-core

as it is possible for Guitar Porn to get.

[DFW]

73. Good thing I'm posting from outside the country

Germany had no extradition laws for that sort of thing.

[Hoyt]

77. Howsabout a Light-show Ric?

[hifiguy]

80. Those are one of the holy grails of guitar collecting.

Ric made very few of them between '70 and '75. Saw one at a local music store in '73 or '74, where I got my Ric 4001 bass back. BIG money for a clean one that works.

See: http://www.normansrareguitars.com/rickenbacker/

Twenty thousand fish.

Also: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/electricguitar/pop-ups/04-07.htm

I'd bet Roger's is one of the only 12s that Ric built in that configuration.

[Hoyt]

81. I actually saw him play that live with that same band. The first show was perfect.

The second show was a different story. They apparently did some serious stuff during the break because all five came out playing a different song. It was a mess. I left after the first couple of songs, and I am a big Byrds fan. It was that bad. I've seen him probably 15 other times, and stayed right til the end.

[DFW]

82. NO fair

Because of legal mumbo jumbo, that video can't be shown in Germany, so I couldn't see it.

[DFW]

70. Božo has made several for me over the years (first met him in 1976)

Hell of a nice guy, but his English still sucks even after 60 years in the States!

His name is pronounced BAW-zho Paw-doo-NAH-vats, which just means "Božo from below the Danube"

[geardaddy]

2. I like SPAM

but only when it's fried.

[Xyzse]

3. I'm In Love With Meghan Trainor and her song "All About that Bass"

I like full figured women... Sue me.

[LynneSin]

5. I'd like that song more if it was less auto-tuned

I hate how auto-tuning has taken over the music industry.

[Xyzse]

6. I agree, but... BASS!!!!

Like I said, embarrassing.

[RiffRandell]

4. This is really embarrassing, but I like

Taylor Swift's new song Shake it Off. The video is really cheesy, but the song is catchy (to me) and I have to say the girl is beautiful.

Although I always thought she was talented and cute I was never a big fan of her music.

I'm thinking of chopping off my hair to her length which would be about 7 inches gone...actually more after watching the video again.

I'm getting it done in 2 weeks so have time to think. I'm hanging my head BIG TIME, Lynne.

[LynneSin]

7. It is!!!

[RiffRandell]

12. What? Cheesy, catch or both?

[RiffRandell]

41. Oh I get it...embarassing!

Hey, I admitted it!

[Coventina]

8. Enya

It's embarrassing, but true.
Once in a while, when the mood is right, I like to listen to Enya.

[antiquie]

11. She's my cat's favorite artist.

[LynneSin]

14. How do you know it's your cat's favorite artist?

Maybe your cat is just writhing in pain?

[pinboy3niner]

15. The cat probably bought all the albums online

[LynneSin]

16. Oh come on - you know cats can't buy music online...

that would be doing something legal. We all know cats prefer downloading their music illegally!

[geologic]

22. On The Internet--

Nobody Knows You're A Cat...

[antiquie]

21. She was raised with this in the cattery, pre- and post- natal.

When Enye comes on she'll wake-up out of a sound sleep, walk over to the speakers,
sit down and stare at them like Nipper the RCA Victor dog; appearing to be in deep contemplation.
She also likes Grateful Dead.

[pinboy3niner]

13. I was a Charter Member of The Association Fan Club

[Arugula Latte]

18. I like them too!

and then along comes Mareeeeeeeeeeee... :

[pipi_k]

17. Feh. You guys are all amateurs!

Quite possibly the most vile human being to ever play a musical instrument, but I'm a guitar junkie, and lord, I do love me some "Stranglehold"

Apologies in advance for people actually having to see his face

[LynneSin]

20. You don't realize how strangely compelled I am to alert on you

Seriously

[nolabear]

84. I just had the most bizarre thing happen.

Your post had, instead of that abomination Nugent, the Megan Trainor video from above. Then it turned into the correct one.

How could that happen?

Oh, and you're demand brave to admit that.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Two words: "Sugar, Sugar"

[orleans]

32. "bubble gum" pop

how's this one:
tracy by the cuff links

or
dizzy by tommy roe

[hifiguy]

38. i am also a total sucker for the Sunshine Pop

of my early teen years. It still makes my King Crimson, Yes and ELP-lovin', proggy self go all swoony.

Peppermint Rainbow

Spanky and Our Gang (holy dog, did Elaine "Spanky" MacFarlane have a great voice!)

Cowsills (those chorus harmonies still give me chills)

I am bad.

[politicat]

23. O-Zone. (Actually, euro pop in general)

I like the goofy-sugary feel of EPop. EPop artists seem to be having fun with it, which I don't see so much in American top 40 pop. (KPop seems to have fun, too) And the viral vids are great fun.

[azurnoir]

24. Billy Idol - should be blush inducing

[RiffRandell]

26. No way!

Loved him in 7th and 8th grade...Rebel Yell! I still listen to some of his tunes...my favorite was Dancing with Myself.

[hifiguy]

34. The cover band in was in back in 92-95 played

Rebel Yell as our usual finale. Man, lemme tell ya, the dance floor filled up with drunks for that one like we were throwing free cocaine off the stage. Every time.

[LynneSin]

29. I adore Billy Idol - I hugged him once about 8 years ago

well he hugged me. I had just said I was a big fan. He reached out and gave me a hug.

Nice guy!

[hifiguy]

25. The Carpenters;

I have mastered the ability to listen through/around Richard's usually saccharine arrangements and just focus on THAT VOICE.

K-pop of this stripe, which is too damned adorable in every way for words (and listen to that killer bass player, and holy shit those girls could sing!):

Then I put on something like THIS to bring me back home:

[RiffRandell]

31. Congratulations for admitting The Carpenters.

When I was 24-25, I bought this alterna cover CD of their tunes...my favorite was Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by Babes In
Toyland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Were_a_Carpenter_(tribute_album)

[Mr.Bill]

28. I like the Five Six Seven Eights.

Nobody does 60s garage band music better. And I know this because I was in a 60s garage band.

[Iggo]

30. That's rock and roll right there.

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[hifiguy]

33. Go back to the source, man: Shonen Knife!

It's like the Powerpuff Girls formed a rock band twenty years before the PPG were a twinkle in the back of creator Craig McCracken's teenaged brainpan. Love 'em.

And how can ya not love this??

[wyldwolf]

37. The truth? Color Me Badd was one of the most entertaining opening acts I've ever seen

I worked in radio for a number of years and in various formats.

Summer of '92 I was programming a top40 radio station and had comp tickets to Paula Abdul and Color Me Badd. It was really a great show.

[Callmecrazy]

39. You can kill me later...

But I like this song:

I never understood the hate for this song. It's a cute, catchy, little diddy.

[RiffRandell]

40. Guilty!

I liked it too...however, by babysitting my young nieces it was forced upon me.

[LynneSin]

44. I'll top ya on that one...

I saw them in concert!!!

Ok mind you they were playing the Wilmington Flower Show a few years ago where I was a volunteer but our stand was in direct line of the main stage so yes I saw Hansen in concert. And I have to say this - they can play their own instruments and they can sing. Anyone who can do that even if they write songs that can put the healthiest of people into extreme diabetic shock is ok in my book.

[cemaphonic]

50. It really didn't seem to fit in to the angsty rock and gangtsa rap that dominated the early-mid 90s,

but if it came out today, rock fans would be thrilled to have a rootsy garage-rock song like this to hit it big in the current pop music landscape.

In retrospect, it doesn't sound all that far away from the stuff that Sheryl Crow and Hootie & the Blowfish were doing around the same time.

[taterguy]

42. My favorite Flaming Lips album is the one with their hit on it

I'm so ashamed.

[Kingofalldems]

43. I like Gigi.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

59. My problem with Gigi is

Thank Heaven For Little Girls is the pedophile's anthem. Maurice Chevalier comes across as a dirty old man when he sings it.

Just like Every Breath You Take is the stalker's anthem.

[LynneSin]

45. 1979 music class we had to write about what band would be huge in the 80s and why

I wrote mine about The Knack.

Yes the one-hit wonder The Knack

[Throd]

46. I'm a hardcore punk/metal/industrial/heavy rock fan who secretly loves Duran Duran.

Her name is Rio and she dances 'cross the saaaaaaannnndddd....

[kentauros]

58. At least their music was better than their namesake's:

[hifiguy]

71. Duran Duran could

REALLY play. They woodshedded for months before going on stage and looking for a record deal. They turned into Tiger Beat fodder but their first single, "Planet Earth", was excellent, especially the extended version. And this just plain kicked ass, especially The Great John Taylor's monster bass guitar work and the fact that a Bond theme is the perfect place for overwrought, hyperdramatic vocalizing (see Bassey, Shirley) :

[abbeyco]

48. I loved Survivor

And with the passing of Jimi Jameson, I'll be firing them up on my iPod tonight.
No shame in my 80s music game now.....

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. there are a couple of nickelback songs that I really like.

Can't remember the names but one has some Realllly sweet slide guitar work.

I'm not sure what the big thing against them is about, to be honest. But I wasn't paying that much attention, so...didn't they do something stupid and it turned people off? I don't remember.

[HipChick]

51. Abba....love 'em

I have them in my workout list..

[fizzgig]

52. i have a choreographed dance for this

i like to have drunken solo dance parties.

[U4ikLefty]

53. Tom Jones n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

56. Tom Jones used to have a TV show

It was called "This Is Tom Jones" and it ran from 1969-71 or thereabouts. I've always liked "Delilah" and "Just Help Yourself" because they always take me back to that time.

[Jamaal510]

54. ...

[cemaphonic]

55. You know how you hate "Tubthumping"?

Of course you do, every sensible person does.

Not Me

To make it a little less shameful, here's They Might Be Giants performing it:

[LynneSin]

61. Oh I love that song - even the original

True story.

I went to Acapulco about 20 years ago and it was like an epic adventure of failures trying to get there that we almost didn't make it. My friend drove so fricking slow because of construction on I83 in Maryland that we got to the airport with 30 minutes to get thru the massive counter line and board the plane (Luckily someone was nice at let us to the front of the line). Back then you didn't need a passport to get into Mexico but you did need a birth certificate and I brought the wrong one but the airport was nice and helped me out there (when we got into Houston there was correct paperwork for me there but we had 20 minutes to find the office that had it and board our next plane).

That was our theme song the entire trip!

[Lars39]

64. I like it in the original!

It's on my pick-me-up playlist. I also like Cake's version of 'I Will Survive'.
The video you posted looked like it would have been do much fun to be there.

[kentauros]

57. I love old (and new!) bachelor pad Lounge

Also, Arabic dance/pop/club music

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

60. I used to love Neil Diamond

But then the Jonathan Livingston Seagull album came out, and that cured me. Permanently.

It was also about that time I rediscovered Mozart.

[pinboy3niner]

68. I still like a lot of his stuff

i used to juxtapose his 'America' with Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' on my mix tapes. You know what I mean, brother.

[Recursion]

62. I can't do the umlaut, but Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" makes my iPod Nano cut

I'm not proud, but I won't deny it.

[maryellen99]

63. I have 2:

I Want it that Way by the Backstreet Boys and Baby Hit Me One More Time by Britney Spears.

[DFW]

66. You probably CAN do the Umlaut and don't know it

Go to Accessories, then System Tools, then Character map. Choose your symbol (all letters with umlaut are there), select, copy and then paste.

[pinboy3niner]

74. Another solution

Google a word with that character, then copy and paste that character from wiki or wherever the search took you. For stuff you may use fairly often you can save it to a file in Notebook or its like to grab whenever you need it.

[DFW]

75. Actually I cheat

I have a German keyboard.

[pinboy3niner]

78. I cheat, too

I have a dumb keyboard and a dumb opeator but somehow together we have a synergetic effect.

[DFW]

79. Your method of cheating is more complicated than not cheating

Intricate, but defeats the purpose of cheating !

[Recursion]

83. Well, I'm on Linux, and it just requires the alt key and remembering the Unicode point

So I should have said "I can't be bothered to do the umlaut"

[DFW]

76. If Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Paco de Lucia combined their DNA and picked up a 12 string guitar

This would be the result:

[nolabear]

85. I'm a Kottke fan myself.

I actually like his singing too, though he himself refers to it as sounding like "geese farts on a muggy day."