Unlikely good al***s

Posted by: Rasher on 12 August 2003

Know when you come across something that you would instinctively avoid like the plague? My missus came out of Piccadilli Tower Records late one night after we had been having too much fun on the town (we have very good babysitters) with an armful of very dubious CD’s, among which was the new Lisa Marie Presley jobbie. My how I laughed (especially as I slipped a few in her pile & she paid for them without knowing Big Grin). But after having to hear it in the car a few times, I began to realise that this is a seriously great album, very bitter - but the real deal.
So….We all must have great albums that we play, but hide away for fear of embarrassment.
Own up you lot – what are they?
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Kevin-W
Er, I have a Paul McCartney & Wings compilation (4x LP) called "Wingspan" which has some execrable pap on it, but about half of it's very good. A real guilty pleasure - I only ever play it when nobody's in the house, and never loud enough so that he neighbours might hear.

Kevin
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by andy c
Ok so shoot me but I recently purchased the Justin Timberlake CD 'Justified' - on the basis of one track - put it on and played it the whole way through and thought "Hang on this ain't too bad". It became the most played CD in the personal CD player whilst away on holiday.
I also took it to use for demo purposes when sorting out my next upgrade and of all the Cd's I used it showed up the diff between a hicapped CD 3.5 and a CDX2. Even the dealer thought so and he turned his nose up when he saw what I was putting in the player!
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Rasher
Brave man Andy - taking it out in public like that!
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by domfjbrown
Was this a chemical fuelled holiday by any chance? Wink Just kidding...

Mine would be Tourism by Roxette - OK, so it's cheese pop of the highest order, but there are a lot of fairly OK (and fairly well recorded) tracks on there...

The fact it brings back great memories is a bonus...

When the music's over turn out the lights
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Bosh
Andy

Bet you wouldnt admit to that dahn Mansfield on a Friday night yoof Wink

PS. Who's your Naim dealer round here?
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Richard Dane
My guilty pleasure: ELO - Out of the Blue. Surprisingly good when the mood suits.

OK, I'll run away and hide now....

Richard
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Kevin-W
Two more:

Replicas by TUBEWAY ARMY and Pleasure Principle by GAZZA NUMAN. Ok, so it's Philip-K-Dick-meets-Kraftwerk-lite with some very silly dated lyricsa nd some stodgy guitar, but I still listen to it when no-ne's around...

Kevin
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Bhoyo
Out of the Cradle by Lindsey Buckingham. I loathe and detest F.Mac, but this includes some surprisingly fine luscious pop thrills.

The defence rests, m'lud.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by HTK
Everything ever recorded by Rush.
Lots of other "one off's" that I keep quiet about but one which I will own up to, Exposed by Mike Oldfield. One of the best live recordings I have, doubtless rose tinted because I was in the audience when it was recorded.

Slinking off now....

P.S. IMO Lindsey Buckingham is one of the most underrated musicians alive - but he only has himself to blame.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Geofiz
Frampton Comes Alive on LP. Nuf said.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Tim Jones
Hang on Kevin W - Numan and Tubeway Army are (apparently) considered dead, dead cool now. But then 'one decade's futurism is another's nostalgia', etc.

Problem is that some things that we always thought were so uncool they were just...dead have a horrible way of coming back to life in a revival, or when sampled by a teenie band.

I used to think Favourite Shirts by Haircut 100 (which I love) was terribly embarrassing until someone said they thought it was OK to like them these days. And wasn't there a hint of a Level 42 revival recently? Well, maybe just an early Level 42 revival...

Tim
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Bhoyo
quote:
Originally posted by Jedster:
This is just masochistic


But confession is good for the soul. So here's another (very guilty) secret pleasure:
Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by HTK
quote:
Originally posted by Jedster:
how about One or two albulms by Jethro Tull...
This is just masochistic


I wasn't going to put my hand up for Tull, but hey, I'll support the only other Rush fan I've ever met! Guilty. Although, looking up the thread and not naiming names, I think I'm on the moral high ground here - or it might be quicksand....
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Bruce Woodhouse
Jethro Tull; I can still listen to some of their less, ahem, glorious moments and enjoy. I'm sad to say I have their entire output on both CD and vinyl and do not even have a record player.

Bruce
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Kevin-W
Blimey!

Frampton Comes Alive. Still listen to that (only "Do You Feel" though), and, I hate to admit, quite enjoy it.

Tull are unspeakably bad, always will be, but I'll stick up for Rush too. For three kimono-clad Canucks, they made one helluva noise, and "All The World's A Stage", "Hemispheres" and "A Farewell To Kings" are all pretty good records if you ignore the clodhopping cod-conceptualism. In fact, I've just realised I own NINE Rush albums! Help!!!

Kevin (in an alliterative mood)
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Minky
Our local library has a dog-eared copy of a CD by Glen Campbell called "Light years". Last time I checked it was unobtainable new, which explains why I appear to have taken it out more than once (or twice) over the last 10 years. All the songs are by the great Jimmy Webb including "if these four walls could speak" which later appeared on Shawn Colvin's "cover girl". Don't tell anyone.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by HTK
There's a DVD of the Rush Vapour Trails tour out in the Autumn (in case anyone's even in the least bit interested).
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Rasher
Oh bloody hell...its worse than I thought...
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Not For Me
Let's not forget:

"Shooting Stars" by Dollar and 'The Best of Dollar'

Defintely time for a revivial after the Reborn in the USA show.

DS

OTD - Hed Boys - Girls + Boys
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by domfjbrown
quote:
Originally posted by Jedster:
Ouch, I'll put my hand up for Rush as well. No avoiding the fact that its embarrassing


What's so wrong about Rush anyway??

Don't mention "Favourite shirts" by Haircut 100 - I was 6 when it was out, and the only time I heard it on the radio, I was being driven back from Cornwall - in total agony. I managed to fall down a bank into 6ft deep stinging nettles wearing only a pair of swimming trunks - agony doesn't even come close. That same year I cracked my head open and it was a pleasure compared to that!

When the music's over turn out the lights
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by MichaelC
And I'll stand up for Rush too. What's the guilt problem with them?

Mike
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by jayd
Rick Springfield, "Living in Oz". What can I say? It rocks. So sue me.
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by david needham
I've got Nick Heywood's solo LP (him from Haircut 100) - very embarrassing to be seen with. But it's full of some of the best session musicians around, and a couple of the tracks are absolutely slammin'!!

David

PS Rush are NOT embarrassing. Neil Peart is God!
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by Olly
I'll join the Rush groundswell, I bought the Spirit of radio "best of" collection a few weeks back and its reminded why I liked them as impressionable 18 yr old. Nothing wrong with early Elton John either.

My embarassments?

Paul Simon - Still Crazy after all these years
Runrig - Searchlight
Bruce Hornsby - The Way it is

and bearing in mind his reputation on this forum

Sting - Ten Summoners Tales

Olly

[This message was edited by Olly on WEDNESDAY 13 August 2003 at 22:42.]
Posted on: 13 August 2003 by Milan
Another one for the Rush following. Also have Bruce Hornsby, Enya, Jethro Tull.....free course of therapy!

Just to be obscure, Wild Turkey 'Battle Hymn'

Milan