Most Embarrassing Music

A discussion was started at work, “What is the most embarrassing musical person/group you were into?”

There was the usual admittance by my coworkers of New Kids On The Block, Tiffany, Milli Vanilli, etc.  Then an argument broke out because one person stated they were embarrassed about having really liked Kenny Rogers and another girl apparently was still into Kenny.  Who knew people could become so enraged about the Gambler?

That led to another debate about Disco Duck, which got me great ridicule for knowing that it was sung by Rick Dees (national DJ with “Weekly Top 40” show).  I have quickly learned my coworkers don’t appreciate an impressive knowledge of useless trivia.  That is all I’m really good for, so I might have to quit soon.

The music I am most embarrassed about did not raise any eyebrows amongst these rubes.  They apparently had not even heard of most of them.  Most of the music I like is not mainstream, it is really not mainstream here in Mississippi, so it is only understandable.

Here is my most embarrassing musical choices.

Huey Lewis and The News:  It was not so much that I am embarrassed about liking them, it is that I was such a devoted fan, I openly mocked the cooler kids at summer camp listening to RUN DMC and proclaimed that Huey Lewis would some day rule the universe.  I loved “I Want A New Drug”, but was really too uncool to realize it was about illegal drugs.  I kind of assumed it was about Tylenol or something like that.

The Dead Milkmen:  Once again, not so much they are bad, just that I was REALLY into them.  I would only listen to the Dead Milkmen and was constantly searching out new albums.  If you don’t think it is something to be embarrassed about, Follow this Link to listen to them.  “Punk Rock Girl” is actually their biggest hit, but you really need to hear “takin’ retards to the zoo” to appreciate my favorite tune.  Picture a chubby, punk kid in a beat up VW Rabbit rocking out to this at full blast. 

The Hansons:  This one should need absolutely NO explanation as to why I am embarrassed, but I will offer one anyhow.  I was the guy who first saw the video and thought, “That chick is hot!” Come on now, don’t make me out to be the only one...some of you other guys need to back me up here.  That middle brother would be a pretty hot chick.  It gets worse since I had the single for “Mmm-Bop”.  Not the entire album, but I did have “Mmm-Bop”.  I still want to have sex with that middle Hanson kid...he is so pretty I don’t think it makes me any less Hetero.  Right?

Chumbawamba:  I know you may not remember them, but it was the song, “I get knocked down, but I get up again, They’re never gonna keep me down...” That song is DAMN catchy.  My friends still make fun of me for that purchase.  It is multiplied many times because it was actually the first actual CD I ever bought.  “Tubthumper” was the name of the album.  Yes, a quick google search, will reveal it came out in 1998.  I was really behind in the technology realm.  I have since made up for it with a vengeance.  My friends think it is because I am still trying to make up for this one purchase.  I hate those guys.

Jimmy’s Chicken Shack::  I am glad you have never heard of this Baltimore band.  I was on my very first travel nurse job in Baltimore and was bombarded with their music.  I guess the mixture of being so far from home and alone for the first time, weakened my taste in music.  Their album, “Pushing the Salmonella Envelope” was looked down upon so badly by my friends that we would combine it with the Chumbawamba album and pass it back and forth as a Birthday present for several years.  I am not sure who last received it.

What about you?  Any music you are now embarrassed to have danced around in front of the mirror, in your underwear, singing into a hair brush?

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