Do you have music on your iPod (or other mp3 player) that you would be embarrassed for your friends to find out about? This seems to be a common topic of geek culture blogs and forums. For example, here, here, here, and here. Since I'm a blogosphere newbie, I thought I'd get into the spirit and peruse my iPod for potentially embarrassing content. Oddly enough, there isn't that much that I would call "embarrassing." Some of it is a little silly once I explain why I downloaded it, though. Here's what I came up with:
- A 70s singer-songerwriter mix that includes a few songs that could be on a TV ad for soft rock classics, such as Gordon Lightfoot (If You Could Read My Mind), Jackson Browne (Running On Empty), Dan Fogelberg (Longer), and Michael Murphy (Wildfire). However, said mix regains some street cred for also including Harry Nilsson, Joan Baez, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
- Styx "Babe" - I guess this is the only song that would fall under the label of "embarrassing." I don't know why but I love this song, and I also kind of like other Styx songs as well but I haven't had the nerve to download them . . . yet.
- Minnie Driver "King Without A Queen" - Actually a decent song but a little embarrassing since it's an actress.
- King Missle "Detachable Penis" - A silly song that was popular while I was in college.
- A few random songs I only downloaded because they appeared in an episode of Buffy or Angel (Has anyone ever even heard of the groups Epperley, Lolly, Vast, Psychic Rain, Collapsis, Louis Says, Darling Violetta, Lumrovia. My Vitriol, and 12 Volt Sex? I guess being in a TV show didn't make them famous.)
- The soundtrack to the Buffy musical episode "Once More With Feeling" (which I can totally sing along to)
- A couple of sound clips from actual episodes of Buffy. (My personal favorite is the Buffy/Angel talk at the end of "Amends.")
- Songs from John Doe's solo albums - I have these not because he was in X, one of the best early 80s rock bands, but because he played Liz's dad on Roswell
- Blind Melon - A remnant of the 90s grunge phenomenon that I can't bring myself to delete
- A hypnosis recoding for my fear of flying
- Christmas in the Stars - The Star Wars holiday album including one of my favorite songs when I was a kid "What do you get a wookie for Christmas when he already owns a comb?" (Okay, this isn't really embarrassing; it's actually kind of geek kitschy cool.)
- Kara's Flowers - I only bought it because the band had my name in it
- Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet - I loved this album so much in jr. high. Doesn't everyone secretly have a copy?
And that's it. Nothing too bad, right? Maybe the most embarrassing thing of all is all the indie rock that I download to make myself feel hip. Of course, I'm writing this while hearing in the background my husband listening to a really bad techno remix of J.Lo's "Waiting for Tonight." Maybe I should nick his iPod (actually, it's a Zune) and see what musically embarrassments await me!
So what embarrassing music do you, my fair readers, have?
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Detachable Penis came out when we were in high school ... remember that Paul and the Bagel used to sing it constantly to annoy us? For some reason, I think I got into a wreck while screaming about it and choking on a pecan sandy cookie. Suji was in the car, were you?? Ridiculous.
Anyway, my embarrassing song is something by Justin Timberlake.
P.S. I have a HUGE old guy crush on John Doe. He's on my list of five.
There's some embarrassing stuff for sure and on my iPod too, but John Doe? He's great and getting greater!
I agree. John Doe is totally amazing. What's embarrassing is the reason WHY I downloaded it in the first place. Not because he's John Doe and a great musician, but because I liked a TV he he was in. I didn't realize until later who he actually was.
I have Jeffrey Lewis covering 12 Crass tracks from the 80's. Come to think of it, it's not that embarrassing...
Styx?
Say it ain't so!
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