you got to find that third choice when you see those 3 for 2 offers at the music shop....

you will have to buy Office Space for the best Michael Bolton assessment on record - "ass clown".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Office-Space-Ron-Livingston/dp/B0000BZNIU/ref=sr...

Battle Hymns For Children Singing/Hayzi Fantaysee, is my dark secret, so I can sympathise with Michael Bolton.

I even bought the 2nd album too

than the Gay Dad album (which was rather good)

I quite like K.

...a Hootie & the Blowfish album.

by Martika - long since 'lost'. It was produced by Prince you know.

Still kind of fond of 'K' though.

I even sported a T shirt with their name emblazoned across it back in the early 90s.

However I am a little concerned about all the albums by Creed I bought a few years back.

and raise you Richard Marx's 'Rush Street'. "Po-faced" doesn't even scratch the surface...

:)

...I have, on vinyl, Lionel Richie's Dancing on the Ceiling.

I also seem to have spent good money on Texas and David Gray. I think I had had a blow to the head.

However, I am sure I NEVER knowingly purchased/shoplifted/borrowed the Shania Twain (or 'that ******* Twain woman' as I call her) abomination that appeared on my shelves, someone must have put it there.

I parted with good money for three (count 'em!) Coldplay albums.

I also have a Shania Twain album and the first two Cranberries albums.

And Be Here Now.

Extreme (Pornograffitti, 3 sides and Waiting for the Punchline), Chris Rea (Early Middle and Late stuff) and Macca (his last few solo albums).....because I like em all...but I guess for some these are not guilty pleasures but just "Guilty"

On reflection it would seem strange that I have an album of Mike Post and its all TV themes . The reason it seems strange is that I grew up in a house without a telly ! and kept up the tradition most of my life . The box , now ,in the corner belongs to the missus .

I would not part with this LP .

...for last night I sinned and strayed from the path of The Word. Whilst reading the holy words (this blog) I gave in to temptation and placed my shiny new CD, delivered from Ebay the same morn, into the computer and was afflicted by the rhythms of Relient K.

Yea verily, The Christian rockers spoke to me in dulcet tones and said unto me...

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

Yea verily, and so on. I shall remain in the town named after St. Michael in the dark northern enclave of Bolton until I have reached track 16 Auld Lang Syne and purged myself of my addiction to all things...exotica.

you know them...John Williams and Herbie Flowers et al....catchy, classical, poppy

There must be a good 20% of my music that it actually unlikely to be played very often. Probably the most unlistenable record in my collection is an album by a German band called DAF (I think). I bought it in the 80's after reading a review by one of those pretentious penguins at the NME ,either Morley or Penman.
Yikes it is awful. I'll trade it for your Micheal Bolton album.

A three disc set. Its all very bland versions of very bland songs. Don't know what possessed me to buy it.

I'm sure it's playing in elevators all over the world. It should have been called "Music to Madden Office Workers."

just because I thought I 'should'. They were being written about a lot at the time.
Not once has it troubled my cd player. I don't know if it's good or bad. I haven't a clue what they sound like.
But I just know it's not worth the effort. There's too much other music out there.

Are You Gonna Go My Way. To be fair, this was a gift from a friend in America. I have the single so why do I need the album. Flog it on Ebay then? No takers. Take it down to the local CD Swaperama. Pfft! Even on Amazon you can buy this for as low as £0.11.

Only one thing for it...down the charity shop. I'll let you know if they refuse it. At least with LPs you could make a half-decent plant pot.

Paul Young. I quite liked it when he first came on the scene, even, it's true, with it's versions of Love Will Tear us Apart and Love of the Common People, the former being,to my ears, then, the "original". I even went to Birmingham Odeon to see him, and was the eldest there by far, even 20 years ago, the majority being young girly screamers. I was a little embarrassed.
But, without shame, I have just checked and seen that I still managed to migrate 5 songs from the LP onto my i-pod. Quite what Kuku kurama is doing there I am not quite sure...

They are in my collection.Don't know how. Can the Word Politburo just accept my shame?

...but, yes, I did, I really did... oh God, look, if I tell you this, you mustn't breathe a word of it to anyone, OK. Right, here goes. I bought "Parachutes" by Coldplay. There, now it's out in the open.

i still have a bros and a five star album. in my defence i bunked off school to get the bros lp to impress a girl i thought was into them, turns out she wasn't. i have no defence for the five star lp tho i did use both lps to lean on whilst doing homework so they're not entirely pointless. not sure why i still have them tho i've not done homework for 20 years.

Five Star.

I was very young.

I own a Albert Hammond compliation. I've never seen him mentioned here by any of the Word massive so I assume he's deeply embarrasing. Also have a couple of Gilbert & Sullivan Cd's (as opposed to Gilbert O' Sullivan of which I have none). I appeared in a school production of The Mikado and the songs have always stayed with me...i'm so, so sorry. ;)

And I LIKE them. He's a good musician and his music holds my attention. Sure, there's a few bad songs but the good stuff is really good. This is a killer song about God and the Devil playing poker for a man's life, a great song.

Bring 'em on, with lashings of Jimmy Jewel on sax.
In their way, were they not a Fence collective of their day, along with McGuiness, Flint and all those who became part of Slim Chance?

Not only do I own the first Power Station album (I was young and naive! In my defence I did think their version of Get It On was appalling even then) but I must be one of only about 3 people on this planet to have purchased the second one as well ( I have...no excuse to be honest - what the hell was I thinking ?)

If so I have
"You Think You're A Man" by Divine
"Rage Hard" Frankie Goes To Hollywood
"Wild Boys" Duran Duran
"Respectable" Mel n Kim
"I Know Him So Well" by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson
"More Than A Feelin'" by Boston
Among rather a lot of equally dubious other ones.

Some of them weren't even bought when I was a boy. I'm not even gay...

I was just moving my vinyl to a different room this afternoon and found I had Haircut 100's Favourite Shirt 12".

I'm sure it's why my then-neighbours moved house.

Sisters Of Mercy albums and Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim, well the way that genre is regarded in here...

I LOVE CELINE DION! Think Twice - belter
It's All Coming Back To Me Now - better than Meatloaf
I even like My Heart Still Goes On.
Plus she's got a great pair o' pins and is kind of bonkers.
And most of all - she did this AC/DC track which I love (though not so keen on Anastacia appearance!)
check out the hip-swing at 1.21

Am I banned from buying Word now?

'Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Musical episode soundtrack'

Thanks to some TV advertised compilation or other, some Radiohead has sneaked into the collection. A hanging offence. By the same token, I now own How Soon Is Now by The Smiths.

The shame. The shame. The shame!

Two Words: Greatest Hits.

How is it that the words ashamed and Emerson Lake and Palmer have failed to intersect? HMMM!

As Rick Wakeman had previously released an album called 'Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record', I should have been warned! Rhapsodies was a double album to boot and was wall to wall shite!

I say 'was' because after this piece of utter garbage had sat unplayed for many years, I decided to see if I could trade it in. I got no joy at the Record Collector in Sheffield, where the shop assistant couldn't suppress a snigger after I showed him the cover, which had old Rick playing the piano whilst floating over a snowy mountainous landscape.

I then trotted off to 'Rare and Racy', who do sell some pretty strange second hand stuff, but even they 'couldn't see it selling in a million years, sorry mate'.

Eventually, I did a sort of hit and run job in reverse on a charity shop - I dashed in, said, 'Do you take LPs?' and before they could answer, dumped it on the counter and ran out!

The second, unsuccessful, album somehow resides in my collection. Still has the £12.99 sticker on from HMV.

Myself and Mrs Nodge often argue as to the ownership rights of "The Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby" - It's yours. No, it's YOURS.....

Unfair. It has 3, maybe 4 good songs. Which is more than any of his others.
Now Finlay Quaye, the "new" TTD of whenever, there was a con if ever, one song, and that a Marley one at that. Fabulous promotion clearly.....

...truly awful, awful album, heard it a few years ago for my sins. 'Love Beach' isn't far behind!

My parents are similarly coy about buying Phil Collins' 'No Jacket Required'- neither of them remembered or admitted to buying it, but it was definitely in their record collection once!!

I am very wary of admitting to some of the dodgy metal/heavy rock stuff I had. I've always been historically minded when it comes to music so I'll trace the roots and try every nook and cranny of a genre that I'm into. So I came to 'hair metal', eventually. However, the assorted Poison, Warrant and Motley Crue albums were simply horrific and every bit as bad as received wisdom tells you- am very wary of admitting I ever owned anything by Def Leppard or Bon Jovi, or The Darkness' two albums. Heard 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' earlier and a shudder of embarassment came over me...

I will remind you of your comments re americana, a music unfairly lumped together by that awful title,and when called such, should be awful, but that includes, to my ears, any modern country related music.And awful it isn't. There comes a time when the ears and nose sprout, along with hair, an intangible desire for pedal steel, groany/whiny vocals and big beards. You can call it alt. country, country/rock or just plain country, it's all fine to me. Go listen to the Drive By Truckers latest and tell me otherwise.....

...I dunno, I have Lucinda Williams' 'Car Wheels On A Gravel Road' and like that just fine. Is that considered alt. country? I got a Hank Williams best-of not long ago and enjoy that too, and have liked Flying Burrito Brothers and The Band for a while.

On a side note, though, I also have a Ryan Adams album ('Gold') and Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', though, and neither does a thing for me, but I'll persevere. It's ironic I should complain about them being long-winded and lacking in catchy tunes considering my other tastes, I guess! I also remember 'Unshod' championing Ryan Adams to death a few years ago- he was in every bloody issue, maybe that tainted me.

Drive-By Truckers, I'll remember that name for future reference, anyway.

As a good Catholic boy I feel it only right to confess all. My vinyl collection is home to six (count 'em) Peter Frampton albums. It all started with Frampton Comes Alive and that bloody talk box. Then it became a guilty secret...

On the plus side, I was heartened to see PF in the Simpsons some time ago and in this slightly bizarre commercial:

And I seem to have his 25th Anniversery Frampton Comes Alive in my CDs. It's rather good actually...

I've been away so this goes back to much earlier comments.
1. Albert Hammond (sr). A fine songwriter, Down By The River was written about by John Tobler so eloquently many years ago in an early ZigZag. Many of his other songs still cut the mustard.
2. Gallagher & Lyle. I used to trail around the country to see them play in their early days, I even happened upon their first "solo" performance, supporting Buffy Sainte-Marie in the early 70s at the Albert Hall. The early albums were great but I feel that the success of Breakaway sent them into far too commercial territory. Listen to Seeds if you should get the chance, some lovely rootsy music.

Whilst I'm ranting I am delighted to see that 3 70s Buffy Sainte-Marie albums have been released, Changing Woman, Buffy (such a sexy cover) and Sweet America, all on one double cd. I love these albums and have never understood why they didn't launch her into superstardom. It may be that the demise of ABC Records shortly after Sweet America's release, may have contributed though.

Robbie Williams - Rudebox £2. Nope, not even tempted. They would have to pay me to listen to that pap.

The Wurzels Greatest Hits £1.99. That's more like it.

Blimey! Track 1 - I Am A Cider Drinker 2007 (Paloma Bianca) with TONY BLACKBURN. Singing!! Fab...

I have both the High School Musical albums on my iTunes, but they are for my daughters - honest!

Otherwise, in a few thousand over the years there are too many to mention, but I guess Rick Astley would be hard to beat. I cannot remember why I bought it and it may have been my first CD ever (in 89 or 90).

Probably 10 years ago but he's been resurrected, and good thing too (although Machine and Soul is pretty rank). I took lots of stick at school for liking him but his early live shows were great at the time. Replicas really stands the test of time IMHO

I went through a bit of a religious phase and bought a number of Stryper albums - strangely I sold them for top dollar on ebay. They weren't the worst though - I have a Cliff tape somewhere. No wonder I turned atheist.

I have OK Computer in the collection and what a pile of drivel it is, easily the most overrated album of all time. I first heard it sitting on the crapper, how appropriate i thought at the time!

Am I alone in not caring what other people think of my music collection?

On the subject of embarrassing music, I don't understand this whole 'guilty pleasures' thing. I don't feel shame about anything I listen to. If I didn't think I'd like it, I wouldn't have bought it, and if I like it, why not tell people about it? If they sneer, so what? Won't stop me listening to it, and poor them for not being willing to give it a try.

Large parts of my collection are by artists that nobody outside a teeny tiny minority in this country have ever heard of - Black Tape For A Blue Girl won't be troubling the hit parade any time soon, nor will Dark Sanctuary, L'ame Immortelle, Lacrimosa and countless others. As for my own favourites, Dead Can Dance, their name means absolutely nothing to the man in the street.

But do I care? No (although if more people liked them, it might make it easier to buy their CDs from shops instead of scouring the internet). I like who I like, and will defend my musical taste against all comers - as, I expect, would everybody else who is passionate about music.

So you like Abba, '70s disco, ELO and all those other groups and genres you are supposed to be ashamed of? Great, good for you. At least you have some interest in music and you spent your hard-earned money on it. Far better that than having no interest, or criticising other people's taste simply because it isn't "cool" or "popular", whatever that means.

Rant over :)

Goth!

I bought Crocodile Shoes for the Paddy McAloon songs - they are rather good.

Okay............I bought the best of Poison because I really like Unskinny Bop and Every Rose Has It's Thorn. There.........i've said it...........I feel better now.

On the subject of Jimmy Nail, I saw him live at Hammersmith many moons ago. He wasnt too bad y'know.

...There's No Limits.

Too Unlimited's album c1988.

BH!