July 26, 2004
Your Top Five Stinkers

I was re-reading High Fidelity this weekend, and the irony didn't escape me as I slipped a Sting CD on as I was reading.

So, who would you be really embarrased to admit to having in your CD collection, but that you actually like even though you know you shouldn't? My top five, in no particular order:

Posted to Music and Film by Simon Brunning at July 26, 2004 01:16 PM
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Well, I have to disagree that Tori Amos is anything but great.

Jeeze - with my goth history, I've more choice than most here. Still, I'll have a go...

*Tanita Tikaram (all the LP's).
*Iron Maiden (Still rocks if you ask me)
...hmm, you did say really like Even Though You Shouldn't...
*T'Pau (used to have All the LP's)
...luckily I don't own a copy of the Marillion LP, or that would be down here...
*Isla StClair doing Folk Music stuff
*Tibbettan thigh-bone music. Don't ask if you don't know already.

Posted by: Mark Matthews on July 26, 2004 02:00 PM

I think you'll find that Marillion have gone past sad and back into cool these days ;-)

Posted by: Andy Todd on July 26, 2004 02:01 PM

Oh, God, if we are including vinyl...

I've also got to put my hand up to owning some Tanita Tikaram. And, sigh, some Terrence Trent Derby. What was I thinking?

But I don't *like* them, so they don't count for this list. The saddest music you *own* is another list altogether - this is the saddest music you *like*. And I must say, Mark, Isla StClair is going to take some beating.

Posted by: Simon Brunning on July 26, 2004 02:10 PM

>>"And I must say, Mark, Isla StClair is going to take some beating"

yet again... I AM THE KING OF CHEESE MWHAHAHAHA. An old title, but very familliar to me...

Posted by: Mark Matthews on July 26, 2004 02:57 PM

Got Dire Straits too - albeit their first album, which isn't actually that bad. Ocean Colour scene's first album - but they were the first band I ever saw live. The worst album I ever owned I think was Toploader! I gave that away though....

Posted by: Sam Newman on July 26, 2004 03:00 PM

First off - Tori Amos is fabulous - Simon, if you like Tori Amos then you have permanently redeemed your woman-hating self in my eyes.

Second - Mark is being far too charitable to himself. He hasn't included the copious amounts of Jean Michele Jarre that clutter up our CD rack, or the various random 'New Age Pipe Music and other waffley twaddle' CDs that I occasionally try to hide when guests are arriving.


Thirdly - my confessions of things I like even though I shouldn't:

Sting - definitely. In fact, I'm not sure that should count as something to be ashamed of.
Christina Aguilera - I like her songs and I like her 'tude. However, I do not own any of her albums.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - although actually I don't listen to it that often.
Rick Astley - I bought a tape of his as an impressionable teenager, and I'm sorry but I still like his voice. Stoopid hair though.
Erm... that's it.

Posted by: Katherine on July 26, 2004 03:08 PM

I'm a big Kate Bush fan, too, Katherine. Does that redeem me further? Besides, I don't hate women - I've just got a nasty habit of fancying psyco witches from hell.

Jean Michele Jarre! Hah! How can Mark show his face now!

Rick Astley, Katherine, hmmm. He does indeed have a good voice - but his material was *dreadful*.

Christina Aguilera - I'll never own one of her records, either - one of her *videos*, now, that's another matter. See what I mean about dodgy taste in women? ;-)

Posted by: Simon Brunning on July 26, 2004 03:19 PM

Kate Bush is great, and Sting, when was there a problem with him? He's done a ton of good stuff. And Jean Michele Jarre defined what some of the whippersnappers like K are listening to now!

Pah!

Posted by: Mark Matthews on July 26, 2004 03:32 PM

What's wrong with Jean Michel Jarre, then? You'll be complaining about Pink Floyd and the Alan Parsons Project next...

Does having an autochanger with CD's by Status Quo, Steeleye Span, Mountain, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Lynne/ELO, Nazareth, the Eagles, Judge Dread, Johnny Cash, The Band, the Hamsters, Lonnie Donegan, Lindisfarne, Alice Cooper, Clannad, Jethro Tull, Neil Young and Free get me an award of some sort?

Posted by: Tracey on July 26, 2004 03:35 PM

Kate Bush isn't in my stinkers list, you'll notice. Nor is Pink Floyd.

As for Sting, well, I like his music, but he couldn't be more pretentious and self-important if he tried.

I can see why you don't have a list of bands you are embarrassed by now, Tracey. If you're not embarrassed by *that* lot, you are immune. (Except for Lonnie Donegan, that is. He's class.)

Posted by: Simon Brunning on July 26, 2004 03:36 PM

Tracey, all you need is a bit of Camel, the odd album by Pendragon, a little Mostly Autumn and perhaps some of the *quality* work of IQ and you will officially be the Queen of Prog.

Posted by: Andy Todd on July 26, 2004 03:42 PM

Totally & completely immune! Like I say, do I get an award of some sort? Preferably cash... :)

Posted by: Tracey on July 26, 2004 03:43 PM

Sorry, Andy - no Camel, not a Pendragon fan, and I confess that I haven't heard of the other two... Does an elderly album by Focus count for anything? Or is it maybe offset by that ill-advised (and dreadful) Toyah CD I got the other week?

Posted by: Tracey on July 26, 2004 03:49 PM

Runrig - Transmitting Live (what the hell was I thinking?)
Tyrant - Metal Rules (don't ask)
Anthrax - Among the living (80s anyone?)
Joshua Kadison - Picture Postcards from LA (words fail me)
Pantera - Reinventing the steel (ugh)

Geez, that took entirely to little time to come up with.

Posted by: blacky on July 26, 2004 09:51 PM

Dixie Chicks. Simon and Garfunkel. Gordon Lightfoot. Oh, the shame, the unbearable shame!

Posted by: David Pinn on July 27, 2004 12:53 AM

After much thought here they are:
- Simon & Garfunkel
- Japan
- X-ray Specs
- Adam & The Ants
- Softcell
To be honest I'm not really ashamed of these, maybe I'm just like Tracey. But if you go into my old vinyl singles:
- Altered Images
- Toy Dolls
- China Crisis
- (oh the shame is too much) Bananarama just one, but I know one is too many

I hang my head

Posted by: El Presidente on July 27, 2004 01:55 PM

I was about to say that even though I have an eclectic collection (includes music as diverse as Allegri, Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Byrd i.e William Byrd, Bird i.e. Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ralph Towner, James Morrison, Brandon Marsalis, The Chieftains, Procol Harum, James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Elton John, Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull, Midnight Oil, The Corrs, ...) I'm honestly not embarrassed by any of them.

But I do admit to once owing LPs by Deep Purple and Suzi Quatro!

Posted by: Keith Pitty on July 27, 2004 01:57 PM

Good for you, Keith! There's a Deep Purple CD in my autochanger right now.

Posted by: Tracey on July 27, 2004 03:01 PM

Oh, Paul - BANANARAMA!! The shame, the shame...

Posted by: Tracey on July 27, 2004 03:02 PM

...I feel better now I've got it off my chest

Posted by: El Presidente on July 27, 2004 03:16 PM

Oh I do complain about Pink Floyd - ever since as a teenager my boyfriend forced me to listen to it again and again and again. Until my dying day I will never get that damn riff from 'Money' out of my head.

Shine on you crazy diamonds.

Posted by: Katherine on July 27, 2004 04:15 PM

Strange. Not a single mention of either Yes or Genesis. Are they so uncool that, even within this self-help group of cathartic honesty, nobody can bear to mention them through fear of excommunication ? Surely no stinkers list could ever be deemed complete without an album from either or both of them and, given their huge collective album sales over the decades, it must be statistically likely that some of you have got at least one hidden away somewhere. Time to own up everyone. In true Alcoholics Anonymous style, I'm happy to hold my head high and proudly declare my affliction which has, in the absence of treatment, been allowed to develop unchecked over several decades resulting in the ownership of every Genesis album made before 1979 (and none thereafter; I even replaced all of them on vinyl with CDs). Sad ? Truly. Treatable ? Unlikely at this late stage.

Anyway, the list, in no order of preference. Anything by:

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Genesis
Yes
Stockhausen
Ludovico Einaudi
Racey
Tony Banks
Leopold Mozart
Andrew Lloyd Webber (yes, I know, but he really is awful)

And yes, I do have albums by all of them. Can I borrow your record collection please Tracey ?

Posted by: Jeff Ward on August 16, 2004 04:02 PM

Jesus! Your in a different league Jeff

Posted by: El Presidente on August 17, 2004 09:08 AM

I happily put my hand up to albums by Genesis, Phil Collins, Yes, and Asia...

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