wishfulthinking
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I think "sometime always" by jesus and mary chain would have to be the one I go "how did they get in there?" 
What song are you embarrassed to have in your music collection?
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oggbashan
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I have so many that I would reach the 750 word minimum story limit but some of my highlights are:
Florence Foster-Jenkins
78rpm records:
The Singing Dogs
The Haydn Quartet singing, pre 1900, A Farmyard Medley (their rendition of turkeys gobbling would be unidentifiable if they hadn't announced what they were intending). The record has survived 110 years because it is so bloody awful.
The arrival of the British Troops at Dunkirk 1914 - which is supposed to be "live" but obviously isn't with the mechanical sound effects team working flat out. Trying to produce a cavalry troop riding past with a few dozen coconut shells and some rattling chains doesn't cut the mustard. Throw in a few recognisable Cockney comedians pretending to be Tommy Atkins.
Billy Elliott, the Blacked-Face Comedian singing about the (plural of four letter offensive word to describe an Afro-American) doing the Black Bottom, or singing about "Massa".
1914 Recruiting Record by Florrie Forde "We don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go..."
Dozens of records by artists nobody has ever heard of, singing songs that were complete flops.
It is annoying that the records in the best condition are the ones that no one in their right mind would want to play.
Og
Florence Foster-Jenkins
78rpm records:
The Singing Dogs
The Haydn Quartet singing, pre 1900, A Farmyard Medley (their rendition of turkeys gobbling would be unidentifiable if they hadn't announced what they were intending). The record has survived 110 years because it is so bloody awful.
The arrival of the British Troops at Dunkirk 1914 - which is supposed to be "live" but obviously isn't with the mechanical sound effects team working flat out. Trying to produce a cavalry troop riding past with a few dozen coconut shells and some rattling chains doesn't cut the mustard. Throw in a few recognisable Cockney comedians pretending to be Tommy Atkins.
Billy Elliott, the Blacked-Face Comedian singing about the (plural of four letter offensive word to describe an Afro-American) doing the Black Bottom, or singing about "Massa".
1914 Recruiting Record by Florrie Forde "We don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go..."
Dozens of records by artists nobody has ever heard of, singing songs that were complete flops.
It is annoying that the records in the best condition are the ones that no one in their right mind would want to play.
Og
amissmosely
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Puttin' on the Ritz.....I forget who sang it though.....lol
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Why would I be embarrassed? yeah, sure, sometimes I buy a CD that I think I will like and it turns out to suck, and I wish I hadn't bought it, but if I like a song, I like it. There is no shame in that, even if everyone else tries to convince me and the people around me that there should be.
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Back in the 1960s a company in London offered a bargain price of ten shillings (fifty pence) for "100 hit 45s".
I ordered a set of 100. Their definition of "hit" was very dubious. They were all ex-juke box singles, rarely played, because they were dreadful. Many were covers of real hits by unknown and incompetent artists.
Almost all of them ended up in the dustbin but I have kept a few including "Boom! Boom! Surf!" by an Italian group trying to imitate The Beach Boys. I don't think they had ever heard a Beach Boy recording.
Another was a Hamburg group, singing, in German, about the delights of Hawaii. One of them played a Hawaiian guitar. I wish he hadn't.
Og
I ordered a set of 100. Their definition of "hit" was very dubious. They were all ex-juke box singles, rarely played, because they were dreadful. Many were covers of real hits by unknown and incompetent artists.
Almost all of them ended up in the dustbin but I have kept a few including "Boom! Boom! Surf!" by an Italian group trying to imitate The Beach Boys. I don't think they had ever heard a Beach Boy recording.
Another was a Hamburg group, singing, in German, about the delights of Hawaii. One of them played a Hawaiian guitar. I wish he hadn't.
Og
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Henry Mancini's versions of "Moon River" and "A Summer Place" are in my Itunes, and I don't care who knows it.
I think though, that having "Desperado" and "New Kid In Town" in there-- that's embarrassing.
I think though, that having "Desperado" and "New Kid In Town" in there-- that's embarrassing.
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High school band teacher?
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In the UK Mrs Mills was a dreadful pub-style pianist. Russ Conway imitated her in the 1960s.
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sr71plt
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No, a warbly old soprano who butchered hits of the mid 60s (think "These Boots Are Made for Walking" sung off key, with vibrato, and the emphasis on the wrong syllables like the singer had never seen the lyrics before and didn't have a clue what they meant)
She sold up the charts for a couple of weeks in the mid 60s. Think the female Tiny Tim.
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Now, there's a thought that's hard to think!
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We all bought it at the time for the joke of it, of course.
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I have Jessica Simpson's Public Affair on my iPod. *dies in shame*
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Because some jokes just never grow old!and kept it for what reason...?
I still have Captain Beefheart in my LP collection.
And "The Best of the Seeds."
(wait-- there was a best?)
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Because some jokes just never grow old!
I still have Captain Beefheart in my LP collection.
And "The Best of the Seeds."
(wait-- there was a best?)
Thanks, Stella; that may help explain the continued presence of Nancy Sinatra in my collection.
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Because some jokes just never grow old!
I still have Captain Beefheart in my LP collection.
And "The Best of the Seeds."
(wait-- there was a best?)
I bet you would get along with my younger brother, at least musically.
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So much better than the Mantovani or 101 Strings versions, which are just elevator music.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRu4aLAG2AISo much better than the Mantovani or 101 Strings versions, which are just elevator music.
Going up... straight to that naugahyde penthouse, baby!
(NSFW if your office has any sort of taste in music)
Huckleman2000
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I've never gotten into the show, but this makes me think that a porn version of "Mad Men" could be awesome!
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and kept it for what reason...?
Once it was in the stereo cabinet why would I bother touching it again?
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