CHUD.com Community › Forums › MUSIC › Music › Woeful Music Choices
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Woeful Music Choices - Page 2

post #51 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:03pm
I thought it was the soundtrack to AGAINST ALL ODDS.
Reply
post #52 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:04pm
How dare you.
Reply
post #53 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:05pm
*cracks knuckles*

Alright, time to make lots of you feel old.

My first cassette single was Coolio's Gangsters Paradise. I had a soft spot for Dangerous Minds when I was 10.

My first CD was Rammstein in 1997.

And my first Vinyl record was The Postal Service.
Reply
post #54 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:08pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
How dare you.
My mistake, it was WHITE KNIGHTS. Who can resist PC's classic ballad, "Seperate Lives"?
Reply
post #55 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:08pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by MSO Major Domo View Post
There are bands I liked from note one, and others I learned to like. Smashing Pumpkins fell into the latter category (as did Manson, who I loathed until Mechanical Animals.)
Mechanical Animals is definitely their most accessible album for regular folk, so many of my friends have changed their mind about him upon hearing it.
Reply
post #56 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:09pm

I bought this CD with my dad when I was a kid. Now it's going for $99.95 now on Alibris.com! Wha??
Reply
post #57 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:10pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
My mistake, it was WHITE KNIGHTS. Who can resist PC's classic ballad, "Seperate Lives"?
Bob you idiot!! It actually was the soundtrack to BUSTER!

Reply
post #58 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:27pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by gravedigger View Post
ABBA is pretty close to woeful but I otherwise agree.
At worst, ABBA can be unfavorably compared to the Eagles - all craft, no soul. But at least none of the members are as big a douchebag as Henley and Frey are reported to be.

Anyway, ABBA's early hits tended towards the disposable pop fluff - PERFECT pop fluff, at that, which most people think sounds pretty easy but isn't. It had enough going for it, at least, that angry young iconoclast Elvis Costello nicked the little piano fill from "Waterloo" in a song or two.*

But the payoff came when the two relationships among the core members dissolved - it lent some depth and melancholy to songs like "Winner Takes It All" and "Name of the Game."

Now we all don't have to like the same stuff; it's fair enough - but "woeful" is a pretty poor description.


* - yes, really. I saw a show (about ABBA, natch) where EC admitted it.
Reply
post #59 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:28pm
I am old enough where I bought an LP.

And that LP was K-Tel's Masters of Metal.
Reply
post #60 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:40pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chavez View Post
* - yes, really. I saw a show (about ABBA, natch) where EC admitted it.
He's talked them up a lot over the years. Abba was the soundtrack for his first American tour with the Attractions. It was the piano part on "Oliver's Forces" that was a stylistic lift from "Dancing Queen" (not "Waterloo," but close enough).
Reply
post #61 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:40pm
Just mentioned this in the Autographs thread. I had a Spice Girls phase when I was 15. I own all three albums, 4 singles, Geri Halliwell's first solo album, and Mel C's first solo album.

This thread? I fucking own it.
Reply
post #62 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:40pm
The first vinyl I ever bought was a beat up copy of Darkside of the Moon. At the Swap Meet (Fla Market) for 50 cents.

I actually asked the guy if it was scratched, he said "It's 50 cents?!?" Sold.

If I'm in a bar and Dancing Queen is in the jukebox, that bitch is getting played. Period. And aside from the few over played 'radio hits' from Mellon Collie I still love it.
Reply
post #63 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:43pm
As far as tapes and albums go, I don't remember buying much--I was a radio kid. There was a copy of Thriller around, of course, and I distinctly remember playing a copy of Peter Gabriel's So until the tape broke. And there was the Beastie Boys tape I only played when my parents weren't home.

I do recall my first 3 CD's, though. My parents gave me a copy of the Fine Young Cannibals debut album with my CD player. I then bought a copy of the Cocktail soundtrack* and I got Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel for my birthday.

My taste got a lot better in high school and college, luckily.

*I distinctly remember choosing between that and Def Leppard's Hysteria. No idea how Cocktail won.
Reply
post #64 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:45pm
My first albums were Destroyer by KISS, Dressed to Kill by KISS, and Love Gun by KISS.

I also had Pac-Man Fever, but that was later, around the same time I got this (not music):

Reply
post #65 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:56pm
Sorry, I think we got derailed, this was supposed to be about woeful music choices, not first ablums.

Mine would be a Sammy Hager ablum or some such shit.
Reply
post #66 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:59pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveB
On Gish (released when I was a senior in high school)
Holy old. I remember seeing the Pumpkins during their Mellon Collie tour when I was in college. Since it was mentioned earlier, is it shameful to have the Aeroplane Flies High boxset? The packaging is pretty neat.

Going back to the Godzilla soundtrack for a second, it features two great tracks from Ben Folds Five and Foo Fighters so it's not as bad as it could be. Besides, take the rapping out and the Puff Daddied version of Kashmir is okay.
Reply
post #67 of 96
4/15/08 at 5:59pm
My woeful choices are usually loyalty based:

Avenue B by Iggy Pop
Never Let Me Down by David Bowie
Around the Sun by R.E.M.
Reply
post #68 of 96
4/15/08 at 6:00pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
Do they know what kind of suffering they've caused? Do they know that the BoDeans still play festivals around Milwaukee every fucking summer? Do they know that the BoDeans are one of the reasons that turning on the radio in this city has been labeled a health hazard by FEMA?
If they know, they don't care. Our* collective CD shelves held the necessary ingredients for an untold number of aural atrocities: Spin Doctors, Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Jupiter Coyote, Dave Matthews and, god help me, Blues Traveler could be found in most any UNC dorm room in those days (as could The Connells, but hey, I LIKED The Connells).

Yep, from the area that brought you CoC and the Flat Duo Jets.

*Don't blame me: I was still molting out of my "metal phase" and am still seeking absolution for my own sins (Bang Tango or Overkill, anyone?).
Reply
post #69 of 96
4/15/08 at 6:07pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil View Post
My woeful choices are usually loyalty based:

Avenue B by Iggy Pop
Never Let Me Down by David Bowie
Around the Sun by R.E.M.
Yeah, loyalty's what led to me buying the second Chris Mars (drummer for the Replacements) solo album. It's still the one CD that no used place will accept from me, and I think I've tried a few times now.

A good review will do it, too, but I think we've all bought crappy CDs based on recommendations, so that's no big revelation. It's different when you're a kid, and you honestly think that Huey Lewis and the News song is the single rockingest thing you've ever heard and ever will hear.
Reply
post #70 of 96
4/15/08 at 6:14pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
and you honestly think that Huey Lewis and the News song is the single rockingest thing you've ever heard and ever will hear.
Don't you believe in love?
Reply
post #71 of 96
4/15/08 at 6:44pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
Don't you believe in love?
I believe it's true.
Reply
post #72 of 96
4/15/08 at 6:58pm
More adventures at Target:

Received Beastie Boys' License to Ill from a relative in Kansas. My mother haggled with a weary customer service clerk to let me exchange it in Iowa for another cassette since, like every right-minded white boy, I had no interest in this subversive rap business (this was my view, not my mother's). The tape I got in exchange? Whitesnake.

Yeah, I earned my spot in hell that evening.
Reply
post #73 of 96
4/15/08 at 7:02pm
Eh, your eternal damnation would be more of a sure thing if it had been Paul's Boutique.
Reply
post #74 of 96
4/15/08 at 7:30pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
One of my first CDs I owned was the techno filled soundtrack to the VIRTUOSITY! Ugh!
One of my first CDs was the soundtrack to Toys, I'll swap ya!
It's got Tori!
Reply
post #75 of 96
4/15/08 at 8:27pm
Virtuosity features a scathing techno track by former underage pornstar Traci Lords, who I guess had a brief career making music. She also has a song on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.
Reply
post #76 of 96
4/15/08 at 8:42pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
Yep, from the area that brought you CoC and the Flat Duo Jets.
Are you presenting this as a negative?

I regret not one album I have ever purchased. However I have never purchased some of the shit you people have.
Reply
post #77 of 96
4/15/08 at 8:58pm
Every single Down South rap act randomly placed into the Paris-set KISS OF THE DRAGON. Fuck that shit. Ruins a perfectly solid, sleazy Euro-thriller every time it comes on.

This is the movie that Luc Besson should have crammed full of French hip-hop instead of ONG-BAK... because it would have actually made some sort of fucking sense.
Reply
post #78 of 96
4/16/08 at 10:08am
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge,
Someone feeling their lesbian roots? I've had straight friends have one of these 2 in their collections, but never both.
Reply
post #79 of 96
4/16/08 at 11:53am
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
Seven Wishes, right? I had that on vinyl and Midnight Madness (the one that did have "Sister Christian" on it) on cassette.


But I can still say that I started my CD-buying era in a respectable fashion - I first bought the Pixies' Monkey Gone to Heaven CD single, followed by Bob Mould's Workbook and Living Colour's Time's Up. But I was already a sophomore in high school by the time I had a CD player, so it's not like I stumbled on to these as a fifth grader or something.

Seven Wishes is correct! It had a picture of a WWII fighter plane on it.

Coincidentally, The Pixies 'Bossanova' was one of the first three cds I bought when I got my first cd player in 1992. This purchase of said cd player allowed me to eventually phase out all of the crappy cassettes I listened to previously.
Reply
post #80 of 96
4/16/08 at 12:01pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt View Post
Are you presenting this as a negative?

I regret not one album I have ever purchased. However I have never purchased some of the shit you people have.
Heavens no. Just pointing out that despite Chapel Hill's justified reputation as a source of musical innovation in the late 80s-early 90s. there were plenty of copies of "James Taylor's Greatest Hits" on local college kids' bookshelves.
Reply
post #81 of 96
4/16/08 at 12:08pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil View Post
My woeful choices are usually loyalty based:

Avenue B by Iggy Pop
Never Let Me Down by David Bowie
Around the Sun by R.E.M.
Arrrgh! I actually like those first two. I know Bowie hates Never Let Me Down, but I still like that album. It's one of the creepiest pop recordings I've ever heard ... fairly light melodies coupled with nightmarish lyrics. And it has Mickey Rourke rapping, which is scary for a whole other set of reasons.

I like Avenue B a LOT ... not sure why it gets the occasional bad rap. It's one of my favorite Iggy solo albums.
Reply
post #82 of 96
4/18/08 at 9:24pm
Tin Machine II. Oops. And it's a shame too, because Tin Machine is the real shit.
Reply
post #83 of 96
4/18/08 at 9:31pm
My first "Parental Advisory" album I ever bought was the soundtrack to 'End of Days.' I'm not ashamed that the Rob Zombie song was all I ever ended up listening to.

I am ashamed to admit that Limp Bizkit's - Significant Other was the first CD I listened to, to pieces.
Reply
post #84 of 96
4/20/08 at 3:15pm
I had the Chris Gaines album. And I listened to it. A lot.

(And I will cut anyone who badmouths the Indigo Girls. Yes, even Dave.)
Reply
post #85 of 96
4/20/08 at 4:45pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
Tin Machine II. Oops. And it's a shame too, because Tin Machine is the real shit.
Agreed on both counts.
Reply
post #86 of 96
4/20/08 at 4:51pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
(And I will cut anyone who badmouths the Indigo Girls. Yes, even Dave.)
Their first one is really good. I lost interest afterward, for the most part, but I've got nothing against them. I think most people resent what they represent* rather than their music, honestly.

* Not necessarily lesbianism or anything gender-related, but that NPR World Cafe style of vaguely political, but harmless and friendly, folk rock - they're better than much of that crop, though. And I'll still take that World Cafe fare over the Afro-Celt-Latin-Jazz-with-a-drum-machine global mish-mosh bullshit World Cafe fare.
Reply
post #87 of 96
4/20/08 at 5:14pm
Their two-disc live album's pretty good as well, and I like some of their later stuff as well, but it's that first album that's gotten the most play from me. (Plus, in the summer camp "world," Closer to Fine is one of those songs you wind up hearing an awful lot. It's one of those songs that has never really gone away.)

And I interned at a AAA radio station in high school where shows like World Cafe and its ilk got a ton of play, so the Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and all their other Lillith Fair brethern were a pretty fundamental part in my musical "development." So I have a soft spot for them.
Reply
post #88 of 96
4/23/08 at 1:57pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by misfit View Post
And yeah, give me Bon Jovi over Marilyn Manson or (most) Smashing Pumpkins any day.
I was going to let this go without a word, but I just can't do it. First, I probably detest Bon Jovi and Marilyn Manson with equal measure. But I'm having trouble with the Smashing Pumpkins part. It's true that Billy Corgan is one of the most annoying people alive in interviews. It's an undisputable fact that the latest SP album, Zeitgeist, is worse than many fatal diseases. And as much as I love Gish, I've definitely outgrown a good deal of Smashing Pumpkins songs. But even so, at least they have "I Am One", "Siva", "Drown", "1979" and "Cherub Rock" to be proud of. As for Bon Jovi, just how much of their music can you actually listen to anymore before you begin to hate your existence?


Edited to add: I never thought I'd see the day where it was okay to admit on CHUD that the Indigo Girls are not terrible. Count me in as one who likes some of their early songs.
Reply
post #89 of 96
4/23/08 at 2:16pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
And I interned at a AAA radio station in high school where shows like World Cafe and its ilk got a ton of play, so the Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and all their other Lillith Fair brethern were a pretty fundamental part in my musical "development." So I have a soft spot for them.
I don't care what anyone says; I LOVE Tori Amos, and sitting front row center at her Milwaukee show back in November was incredible.
Reply
post #90 of 96
4/23/08 at 2:44pm
Tori Amos is great. But I like her most when she's singing "straight" without the extended high shrieks and warped vocal experiments she sometimes applies. I feel mixed on most of her albums, but Little Earthquakes is one of the best albums of the '90s in my opinion and I still love it to pieces.
Reply
post #91 of 96
4/24/08 at 12:26pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by RyanC View Post
Tori Amos is great. But I like her most when she's singing "straight" without the extended high shrieks and warped vocal experiments she sometimes applies. I feel mixed on most of her albums, but Little Earthquakes is one of the best albums of the '90s in my opinion and I still love it to pieces.
My freshman roommate's wild overplaying of Under the Pink aside, I was beginning to respect Tori Amos until two things happened:
  1. I started dating an insanely hot girl who was a massive Tori fan. When she started sending me one-line emails of Tori lyrics expecting me to decipher what she meant ("It's 2:38, do you know where my spark is" = "I'm mad at you for not calling me today."), I realized it was time to pull the plug on the relationship and any possibility of becoming a Tori fan myself, my disappointment was so great.
  2. I heard Kate Bush's THE KICK INSIDE for the first time, which is a bit like lenjoying Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory well enough and then finding out about Gene Wilder's version. Depp's fine and all, but what's the point?


And the Indigo Girls are all about context. Fall in love with a girl in a car while Rites of Passage plays on her boombox in the backseat, and then see if you don't drink up the sap with relish.
Reply
post #92 of 96
4/25/08 at 9:08pm
When I was 11 I owned cassettes by Kriss Kross and Color Me Badd.

And up until Results May Vary I owned every Limp Bizkit album. And I thought they were really, really good. God I hate myself for admitting that.
Reply
post #93 of 96
4/26/08 at 2:11pm
The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy

I went through an odd electronic-only stage when I was young (featuring but not limited to Fatboy Slim and the Crystal Method), but The Prodigy started it. Listening to this album today, I think the only tolerable tracks I can stand are "Climbatize" and (maybe) "Funky Shit". "Smack My Bitch Up" was cool when I was maybe 11 or 12. Now? Not so much. Actually, I take that back - the music video is fitting.
Reply
post #94 of 96
5/18/08 at 6:14pm
First 8 Track - "Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy"
First 45s (bought at the same time) - "Chic - Le Freak" & "Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'"
First Album - "K-Tel's Dumb Ditties - Various"
First Cassettes - "The Time - Ice Cream Castles" and "UTFO - UTFO" (I recorded a lot of my music from the radio so I didn't buy my first cassettes until I was in high school)
First CDs (bought at the same time) - "Miami Sound Machine - Let It Loose" and "Keel - The Final Frontier"
Reply
post #95 of 96
5/18/08 at 10:35pm
When I play the faux-hipster to impress the ladies, I quietly brag I got into hip-hop through Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines" & RUN DMC's "RUN DMC". In reality, it was The Fat Boys' eponymous debut.
(What a sucker m.c. I am!)
Reply
post #96 of 96
5/19/08 at 1:22am
I'm not sure what my fist cd was but my first cassette tape was Weird Al Yankovic IN 3-D!

NATURE TRAIL TO HELL! IN 3-DDDDDDDDD!
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Music
CHUD.com Community › Forums › MUSIC › Music › Woeful Music Choices