Music that embarrasses you in mixed company!

[Chojin]

This isn't in the music forum because this is an open discussion topic not pertaining to music dorks - it's more of a SOCIETY issue. Also, shut up.

This is also different from the 'songs you're embarrassed to like' thread because that talks about songs that a lot of people like that are generally bad songs.

SO. I thought I'd bring this up because a lot of the music I listen to I consider to be good music, but sometimes involves MATERIAL that is too childishly explicit or has subject matter that isn't appropriate to 'bump' in public. Examples!


Johnny McGovern - Any song by this guy

This guy makes great music, but every single song is about how gay he is and how he's going to have sex with all of the straight guys in the world whether they like it or not. It makes me feel like some sort of HOMOSEXUAL BLACK PANTHER every time I listen to him ;<


Pattendorf - La La La Girl (B-Relack mix) (http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/mp3/Paffendorf_-_Alala_Girl_(B-Relack_Mix).mp3) <- LINK

This is really catchy and the original mix is just the chorus over and over. However, the verses are all LICK MY PUSSY FUCK MY PUSSY PENIS PENIS PENIS but they syncopated it really well :< I feel like an idiot every time I listen to it, but I love the song ;<


Also provide mp3s if you can, peeps.

[noob3]

music forum is not where this belongs dude i totally agree with you i know just because you're a mod you think you can get away with this sort of thing but you totally are correct in this case don't think you can't post this here i am stopping you here and now!

also i've never heard of any of those songs so that's probably why they suck so bad! if you're emberassed of your music there should be good reason!

[Chojin]

That's why I provided an mp3 you fucker.

[DeadKennedys]

SOCCER PRACTICE

[tenno]

Vib Ribbon soundtrack. Period.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LjNdIanmOt0

[Schimid]

I was actually driving into Baltimore once listening to Dr. Octagon with a big group of friends, including my new girlfriend of a month, and I'd never heard the first track before. At the end of it, the track starts going UGH, YEAH, FUCK ME, YEAH and I had to shut it off quickly.

I love Savage Garden, but they're very, very gay! I also kinda like Jewel and Fiona Apple!

Pretty much anything by the Ying Yang Twins!

[Guitar Woman]

Two or three songs on Elite Beat Agents. It's especially embarrasing to take to school because I play it without headphones, my DS is pink, and the cover of Ashlee Simpson's "La La" is my favorite level in the game. :<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVOOuDD1PCQ

[Emu]

I can't listen to any music in mixed company. :(

[Zomboid]

radiohead.

[Guitar Woman]

CONTINUATION:
I've been trying to get into Danzig this week, and I feel uncomfortable about listening to it with other people around because pretty much every song that isn't Mother feels like it's sending the message "I WORSHIP SATAN AND SO DOES THIS FAGGOT, HAHA."

Also, Whole Lotta Love has a 2 minute part around the middle of the song that's just bongo drums and Robert Plant moaning and stuff, and if I have my MP3 player turned up really loud I always fast forward through that part so people won't think I'm some kind of wierdo.

Aaaaaaaaand since pretty much the entire teen population of Portland is comprised of retarded kids who love shitty punk bands and whatever the hell genre Linkin Park is supposed to be (read: ZBF clones), I always get flak for listening to anything and everything from Michael Jackson to The Beatles to Johnny Cash. I can't wait for everyone around me to grow the fuck up with their musical tastes so I will stop getting the STINK EYE while jamming out to Earth Wind and Fire.

[Krythor]

I was playing the Twilight Sad album and somebody said it sounded like Snow Patrol; I haven't played that one since.

The Leonard Cohen album "I'm Your Man" is really good, but has really cheesy 80's arrangements and production, complete with gospel choir backing vocals, which can sometimes be a bit much.

I used to be embarrassed to play the Beach Boys, but of course now I know that is absurd.

[Terra]

I can't listen to any music in mixed company. :(

Right on.

I will NOT listen to any music in mixed company. But I swear to jeezum Almighty Christ that I'll shoot the next motherfucker that cranks up a Robert Palmer song next to me at a stop light.

But other than that, I'll *almost* listen to anything.

[Esuohlim]

I can't listen to any music in mixed company. :(

Me neither. :( I've never been comfortable with listening to music I like while anyone else is around.

So I guess the answer to the question of what music embarrasses me in mixed company is my own :tear

[DuFresne]

I can't play Enigma in company due to the gracious levels of watthefucksthisshit. I lol'd at the description of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jb12Un0yX4


And, of course, any videogame music I've happened to amass is out of the question.

[DeadKennedys]

I can't listen to any classic tunes around most people, for fear of getting a "Hay, isn't that the song from Guitar Hero?"

[zeldasbiggestfan]

I heard that from someone at school today. The world is a sad place when more than 3 people hear that question.

[ItalianStereotype]

jenny rom, who also happens to be kinda ugly for an italian pop star

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sfK8P-YD5BM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1hstsjPMXKI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V5uYQZOakhs

[Chojin]

I'm just going to ADD links to your posts, then!

Also, Jenny ROM is a computer-generated voice, IS.

[mburbank]

AFTERNOON DELIGHT which is about hippies screwing during the day

and

CHEVY VAN Which is about hippies screwing in the back of a Chevy van.

[Emu]

I don't even feel comfortable listening to something as innocuous as the Beatles in mixed company because most of the people I'm with are philistines who think the entirety of the Beatles' discography consists of their boybandish early songs and Yellow Submarine and when I play the White Album they're like what is this shit.

[Cfr5]

This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAAXEgAwE8) is one of my favorites, but yeah, my family would never wanna hear something like that.

[Chojin]

I already mentioned Jonny Mcgovern, but he has a new song, so yeah ;<

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7pMDuoenI

Probably NSFW, depending on where you work ;<

[ItalianStereotype]

I'm just going to ADD links to your posts, then!

Also, Jenny ROM is a computer-generated voice, IS.

that is a subject of much speculation, actually! some think it IS computer generated, or at least a digitally altered voice, others think it's the voice of an ugly Italian Europop star. the world may never know!

[Rongi]

Young Marble Giants and Lush cuz they got girl singers :(

Also rap can sometimes be embarrassing because I am white as milk and people are like "wut r u doing?" :(

[Chojin]

that is a subject of much speculation, actually! some think it IS computer generated, or at least a digitally altered voice, others think it's the voice of an ugly Italian Europop star. the world may never know!
Well, we called up the guy behind Jenny ROM when we were getting songs licensed for Neon FM. He told us to talk to SAIFAM about any recordings he's already made, but he also told us that Jenny ROM is a computer-generated voice.

I think Jenny ROM was a modified ADAM voice (ADAM is the computer-generated voice software used in most music).


By the way there's a guy that looks EXACTLY like Retro Kat in that Jonny Mcgovern video.

[Dr. V]

Everyone I know laughs at me for liking Weird Al.

[Fathom Zero]

I don't want to tell anybody that I'm a fag for Jamiroquai.

[Guitar Woman]

I'm a fag for Jamiroquai.

Oh shit, me too :(

[Fathom Zero]

Great. Everything you touch turns to ass.

[MarioRPG]

Everyone I know laughs at me for liking Weird Al.
Honestly, I don't get what people have against him. Most of his stuff is decent, and a few are funny.

[calavera]

I like weird al! alot of his rip-off's of songs are actaully pretty funny! (living with a hernia = ftw)

but yea, I rly lke the original genesis with peter gabrille. That goes down a storm at parties! They write some awesome music but unfortunatly, most ppl think that im talking about phill collins genesis and just point and laugh at me!

[Angryhydralisk]

Everytime I've ever popped in a music DVD I was in for an onslaught of mockery. Regardless of what music I was listening to at the time.

[Mr. Vagiclean]

the NINTH

[sloth]

Great. Everything you touch turns to ass.
may i respectfully remind you that jamiroquai was, in fact, ass to begin with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRKc_AgAniI

what an obnoxious twat. JUSTICE IS SERVED.

[JediScum]

Once while closing a kitchen i worked at, i put on "Licker Fingen Good" by The Revolting Cocks, totally forgetting about the title track at the end. Almost 10 minutes of stand up bass with female vocals singing "WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE COCK?" over and over. I got a couple remarks from a waitress and the owner. Luckily, i'm rarely embarrassed.

[Grislygus]

I simply cannot bring myself to listen to any songs from The Dickies' later years in public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI_N1D1uLHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVX033PiDA

Correction. I cannot bring myself to listen to any of The Dickies' songs in public.

[Dixie]

Chojin, thank you so much for introducing me to Gay Pimp. McGovern is awesome!!!


Alot of the heavy metal I like cannot be listened to around people that aren't into it.
Example:
I don't really feel comfortable blasting Gehennah's "I Fucked Your Mom" with my in-laws around.

[Big Papa Goat]

Everything I listen to or otherwise enjoy is basically derided by everyone I know. I've only ever gone to a concert with someone I know once, out of basically a dozen times :(

[Grislygus]

I get a lot of wierd looks if I put in a John Jorgenson cd in front of other people, particularly the newest one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tm5Ikl1AXw

[DuFresne]

A few hours ago one of my roommates knocked on my door to inform me that my Pavarotti was too loud. I felt a tad ambarrassed. :(

[Eyelobe]

Sometimes I get drunk and crank the Springsteen.

The Boss kicks ass, but I get teased by my friends...

[saltshakermaniac]

Hmmm, listing to Tom Waits in public does it for me. I love the music but alot of people hear and just want to crawl into a hole and drink themselves to death

[Miss Modular]

Each is far from the other as you can get, but...

http://www.explorenewengland.com/travel/explorene/newhampshire/blog/jtheader.jpg

and

http://www.soloencostarica.com/sintoniza/images/HighSchoolMusical_Jewel.JPG

I also have Hannah Montana's "I Got Nerve" on my IPod.

[Cedar]

Ladytron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqGoHouoE0)
and
Paramore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiR838VOCrA)

[executioneer]

i have one g. stefani track on my music device that if anyone else is around i have to skip >:

[23_]

I have a few songs from Of Montreal. I will not listen to anything from them in public.

[Miss Modular]

Also...

http://www.earfuzz.com/uploaded_images/jeffersonairplane_surrealisticpillow-731566.jpg

Love this album, but I wouldn't get caught dead listening to this with a bunch of hipsters. Or my mom. For different reasons.

[Vanhelm13]

The Bastard Fairies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVMTs0Stq4

I love them...But..It's not good for my metal-street-cred...

obscure blackmetal, obscure death metal, obscure black metal, Indie pop...

And NO ONE should feel embarrassed about liking Jefferson Airplane. They're awesome.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

The Beach Boys. End of thread.

[dirtyxblondexdame]

for some reason, i'm embarassed to play any metal around my hip-hop loving friends. they always make fun of it, and lord knows i don't want to have to break it down for them why rap sucks. so i just keep it to myself.

[Cedar]

hip-hop is pretty good and so is metal

[executioneer]

but nev'r the twain shall meet :x

[Sacks]

I'm glad I don't have this problem!

[Trash]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6IWn_Zhhf0&feature=related

Fuck Nuit Noire for their great riffs but overtly gay songs about fairies.

[Cedar]

now that i think about it, who cares if other people think is gay or weird as long as you are into it is cool.

[thegrayhoodie]

While I was driving, Dad in passenger seat, Mr. Bungle on the stereo.
Dad: "(rolls eyes) I knew you were into some weird music, but this guy's just yelling to noise"

[Styled Executioner]

I would have immediately stopped the car and punched your dad in the face whilst saying "That's Mike Patton, bitch!"

[Tadao]

He's right, Zorn is noise. And Mike is yelling.

[Guitar Woman]

I'm getting really heavily into Pink Floyd all of a sudden, and the sound effects they are so fond of using get me a lot of wierd looks from my peers.

The one I'm most nervous about listening to around people is The Trial. It's a great song, but it's just too weird for me to be comfortable with anyone hearing it from my headphones :<

[Pub Lover]

Whenever Richard Cheese swears I always feel I have to apologise to everyone, even though when I listen to the originals I ignore the cussing.

[Guitar Woman]

Gunther and the Sunshine Girls.

[Trash]

Günther is nothing to be ashamed of.

[Esuohlim]

Well if you listen to it then yeah, it is

[Zomboid]

Did I say Queen yet? If not, Queen.

[Grislygus]

BICYCLE

BICYCLE

[KatieLovesThe80's]

any oingo boingo music. all of my friends hate it but i seem to Love it and Danny Elfman is my hero! this is my favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLkAo0Kbfl8
and i also love They Might be Giants and the only reason i feel uncomfortable listing to them around people is because they sound really diffrent than anything else out there
this is my favorite song from them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2l0LaTi4U

P.S. if you like homestarrunner.com check out that last video!

[Rez]

i would have to provide about 3500 mp3s

unless you're at a concert where everyone knows and likes these people already. most is not mixed company listening

[Vanhelm13]

Oh. I forgot to mention Journey.
I fail at metal
=(

[KatieLovesThe80's]

oh also i forgot to mention that i have a soft spot for Creature Feature.

[Hangie]

I simply cannot bring myself to listen to any songs from The Dickies' later years in public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI_N1D1uLHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVX033PiDA

Correction. I cannot bring myself to listen to any of The Dickies' songs in public.

Oh noes, not even "If Stewert Could Talk" ???

Anyway it sucks if any rap, 1349, or monty python comes on my ipod while its plugged to the family car.

[Nick]

My friends sometimes mock me because The Ramones aren't as cool as their latest Fall Out Boy CD. :(


I'm embarrassed of their taste in music, not my own.

[23_]

My friends sometimes mock me because The Ramones aren't as cool as their latest Fall Out Boy CD. :(


I'm embarrassed of their taste in music, not my own.
You should be.

[Dixie]

You need new friends Nick.

[JediScum]

I like Moby.

[Styled Executioner]

I dunno why, since no one can understand the lyrics, but I get embarrassed when I accidentally put any Cliteater on. I know what the lyrics are and it just makes me feel uncomfortable around other people (My mother mainly).

[Alive]

Not exactly embarrassing per se, but theres a lot of music i listen to privately and though looking glass made this famous it was rather quite dated until these guys made it cool once again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzA0g28Ue4

[DuFresne]

I have no idea what you just said.

[BlackHexen]

50's Rock is wich nobody likes. System of a down, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of filth, Nightwish and Rammstein are too mainstream to my friends so i have to listen hiddenly. Classical is just a mark of elitism so that i can listen and look clever in company. I rather kill myself that listen J-rock, finnish hip hop, girl-bands or emo-music in company. That musici listen under my planket in darkness,

[Fat_Hippo]

System of a down, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of filth, Nightwish and Rammstein are too mainstream to my friends so i have to listen hiddenly.

People who won't listen to something because it's mainstream are stupid. So are people who listen to something because it is mainstream. Tell them to form their own goddamn opinions instead of just judging it right away.

[Dixie]

Sadly those bands are very mainstream in Finland.
If Black Hexen really is from Finland, that would explain alot.

[Esuohlim]

Rammstein was huge among my high school friends. Then when I got to college no one had ever heard of them.

[WhiteRat]

I have nearly every ICP album. :\

I hate juggalos and juggalettes and I hate whiny angsty kids, but damn do I love the music. I take a lot of heat from my friends whenever they see the albums in my cd case.

[dawnna]

:rockon labor day we had a big gathering or what not and im usually in charge of the music which i warn people that its pretty out there. all in all i know i shouldnt mix celldweller with malice mizer and cibo matto. um yeah good times. especially throwing origa and hoover in the mix. rockin