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Is your music library embarrassing, awesome or both?

Nov 17, 2011 4:30 AM

I've been re-ripping my entire CD collection over the last week. As I go through some of these discs, I realize that I have awesome and horrible taste in music. Here are a few examples:

Embarrassing: Gerardo - Mo' Ritmo
Awesome: They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Embarrassing: Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
Awesome: Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship
Embarrassing: MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Awesome: Saint Etienne - Good Humor
Embarrassing: Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
Awesome: Snake River Conspiracy - Sonic Jihad
Embarrassing: Chunky A - Large and In Charge
Awesome: Ken Nordine - The Best of Word Jazz Vol 1

What Embarrassing/Awesome titles do you have in your collection?

cloudscout cloudscout

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Mine, nope. But if you look at mine AND the wife's, the answer is yes. She's got some stuff she isn't allowed to play when I'm around but she'd OK with that as it works both ways.

mtm2 mtm2
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Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring,
Banana phone!

My music library is awesome, just like me.

xarous xarous
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Uh both. I have some great Grunge and rock and 90's rap (Humpty dance, anybody?)

But I do have my skeletons like Jewel, younger Avril Lavenge (someone else spell that.), Christina Agulara, Cyndi Lauper.

teenracer6 teenracer6
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It's a mix. I'm definitely downloading more classical music thanks to the mp3 compilations from Amazon. The weirdest one so far is The Karaoke Channel's Best Traditional Christmas Songs. It was free last year ($2.89 now). It's fun to sing to badly and loudly.

dreamyvelvet dreamyvelvet
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I look at my music collection as MY music collection. It's what I choose to listen to and isn't here to impress you.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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I have no sense of embarassment, so it's all awesome. Except for some of the stuff my dad has on there (he likes Nickelback)

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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Both. But mostly awesome. Not so bad that I fumble anxiously and dive at anyone who picks up my iPod.

meh3884 meh3884
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@wickedd365: Exactly, you may be embarrassed for me when Bach comes on after Rise Against but for me to be embarrassed about my musical taste would be me being embarrassed about who I am, and I'm not.

apocello42 apocello42
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@apocello42: So true.
I'm teh same way. My iPod will go from Slipknot to Gary Go and then maybe to Korn and then to Kelly Clarkson to Skrillex. I listen to a little of everything. Male/female, rock/pop, metal/easy listening.
Sure if I have it on in the car with some friends I'll skip past something, but that's not embarrassment, it's because I know no one else will want to hear it.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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To give you an idea of my library, I once ordered Dr. Dre-the Chronic, Madonna-Erotica, REM- Automatic for the People, and the Aladdin Soundtrack in the same columbia house order.

woothulhu woothulhu
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It's embarrassing how awesome my music library is...

nmachen nmachen
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When my iPod is on shuffle, my boyfriend likes to consider it musical suicide. There's over 10,000 songs on it and I don't even know what some of them are or why they're on there.

staceroo staceroo
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I think most people would consider my musical tastes embarrassing, but the puzzled looks I get are awesome!

samstag samstag
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I wear my embarrassing playlists as a badge of honor.

I consider it a valuable skill to be able to enjoy a wide variety of music. It lets you get along with just about anybody.

@staceroo I call that Musical Whiplash.

cloudscout cloudscout
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@cloudscout I'm completely there with you. I have the most random selection of music, and it's hilarious to see the reactions I get from people when they hear my stuff, so I proudly play it all. It's surprising how many people would be ashamed to say they have a track in their library if you asked, but the minute I play it, they're singing along with it.

marianmm marianmm
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@marianmm Indeed! It's like that scene in Harold and Kumar where they find the "Extreme Mix Tape" and find that it is "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips. At first they sort of hesitantly mumble along until they realize they both love the song and start singing along in earnest.

Yeah, we've all been there.

cloudscout cloudscout
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I have the 160 gb Ipod which has about 120 gb music. Yeah, that's a lot of junk. I have all genres of music. It goes from classical to musical, jazz to reggae, rock to folk, hip-hop to big band, pop to... Okay, well you get the idea.

The most fun is putting it on shuffle with my husband and daughter around. He hates rap, and she hates alternative. It is hilarious to go from Emimem to Rachmanoff to Theory of a Deadman. Whiplash, indeed @cloudscout. I like it all, so it doesn't bother me to listen to it all together. Keeps it interesting.

pyxientx pyxientx
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@woothulhu: OK. I am officially going on the record as loving the Aladdin soundtrack.

dreamyvelvet dreamyvelvet
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I would say impressive above anything else.

mikecris mikecris

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