I didn't develop taste until after High School
 

So I was cleaning out some old drawers and stumbled upon the Holy Grail of embarassments. Old mix cds. From junior high and high school. About 8 of them, with no tracklistings to be found. I knew what I had to do.

"I wonder what I was listening too bad then. How bad could it be?"

Bad.

Some of the more questionable choices include:

Will Smith - Freakin' It
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Sisqo - Thong Song
Britney - Oops I did it Again
Desitny's Child (what the hell?) - Say my Name
Blink 182 - Lots and lots.
Green Day - Lots and lots.
Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch (alright, this song is just awful)
DMX - something that has alot of barking in it
Creed - My Sacrifice
Five - Everybody Get Up (I think these guys may have been Canadian only. I pray that they were. This is the single worst song here)
Lots and lots of Eminem. Lots.
Tracii Lords - Control (the song from the Mortal Kombat movie when they fight Reptile)
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
Nelly - Ride wit' Me

Oh god. It's like a trainwreck of popular music.

So what can you recall liking in your younger days that today to realize was absolute garbage? Do you have some old mix cds somewhere? Dig them out, and share in the horrible horrible memories.

Shaggy? Really? :frown:

Holy shit that CD is awesome. Its like you took everything funny about highschool and put it on a single CD.

Requesting a torrent of Highschool OST.

Out of that lot, in my opinion, only Freak on a Leash (because of the video), Bad Touch (I liked it. Meh) and possibly Blink are forgiveable. The rest is shameful.

As for me, Steps and S Club 7. The embarrassment may now ensue.

Hey, there ain't no party like an S Club party.

gonna show you hooooow~~~

I have an old mix CD from high school but it's not as embarassing as that. It has Brian Duque (he did a couple of video game covers before I really got into them), Minibosses, Sonic Mayhem (they did the music for Quake II), Pantera, Meshuggah, KMFDM, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Liquid Tension Experiment and Led Zeppelin. I still pretty much listen to all of those bands.

There's a couple groups on that list that, while not being paragons of awesomeness, aren't wholly bad. I can still tolerate Shaggy in small doses. His style is different enough to keep him out of the pop gutter, in my opinion. That said, I enjoyed him more when he was with Maxi Priest.

I wouldn't punish yourself too much over the Green Day either. Years ago, they were actually a fairly respectable group. By all accounts, 'Dookie' was a good album and it didn't try to play to any crowd. They just got whored out like nobody's business after the initial success. Frankly, I don't consider the current incarnation with their mascara and silk ties to be the same group. They're like "Pod People Green Day".

Wasn't Five the born-again Christian version of Backstreet Boys? My aunt used to be a fundamentalist Christian and would only permit my cousins to listen to Christian music. During one visit, the oldest cousin wouldn't shut up about that Five group, which leads me to believe they were steeped in religion.

Me, I didn't have too much that's incriminating. And if I listened to it then, chances are I'll still listen to it now. Fuck what people think of me. I'm pretty sure I still have the following floating around somewhere:

Aqua
Sixpence None the Richer
Chumbawamba
Lou Bega (this was given to me; I didn't buy it.)
Real McCoy

I could think of much worse than those.

You will not tarnish the good name of Sisqo. Anyone who can compare himself to a dragon with a straight face deserves props.

Dumps like a truck, truck, truck.

I think Disturbed, Static X, Linkin Park, and System of a Down are the only popular-type music I was listening to at the time. Of course, that was before Toxicity, so SOAD hadn't reached pop idol status yet.

"Suggestions" for the win. <3

English actually, and proudly so! Its a great pop track.

Um, the four or five Nine Inch Nails CDs that I purchased back in high school probably qualify. It's not that I don't like the music, but holy shit, it's just not me, and it's really weird to see that stuff in the middle of my music collection.

I also have three Kylie Minogue remix CDs. I liked and still like Kylie, but these are just horrible remixes. The world does not need a 9-minute version of "The Locomotion," and I'm sorry I gave money to whoever made it.

I had an old C-cassette with songs recorded from MTV music videos, like old Lenny Kravitz (Mister Cab Driver), Public Enemy, Rebel MC and Fleetwood Mac.
No tracklist, but I'd written a large "YO MAN, GOOD" with a felt-tip pen on the cover. Ah, how I've learned more english words since then~

I'd also recorded Mega Man music from my Gameboy on another tape. You could hear me turning the console on and the ching of the Nintendo logo.


Though I found it far more embarrassing that I had the first Spice Girls album recorded on tape and I had even drawn the cover myself, with a kind of doodled "Includes the smash hits:" sticker on it.

But I have no Ace of Base albums or tapes. And everyone in my class had Ace of Base. And E-rotic. I also have never had E-rotic albums, which I'm slightly proud of.

Ditto, I actually saw Steps in concert >_>

Spice Girls, Steps, S Club 7, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera oooh the joy. Still, i'm not ashamed to get out those good ol' compilations and think of the good old days when you could know the dance from a pop video and be cool.

5ive =

http://www.stargate.no/images/5ive-album.jpg

British, came out with a few chart toppers but are easily laughed at now.

Haha, I actually have that CD somewhere I think. Used to think it was so awesome...

I was digging through my old tapes and I found one with random songs recorded off the radio, and of the few names I can remember, Suga Babes, Christine Aguilera, and Simply Red... There are plenty of tracks on there that I don't even know the name of the artist or the song, but it's a completely random collection of 80's songs and a few from one of my brother's Creamfields CDs. It was so funny finding all that stuff; I'd forgotten half of the songs even existed.

It was 5ive. The bad backstreet boys one. Not metal one.

Oh god.

Were they the ones with that "When the Lights Go Out" song? I remember seeing the video on MTV once a long time ago.

Ahaha, I just found lyrics.

Is it edgy? It's something, all right!

Baby when the lights go out....something something express.

Yeah I loved that song it was cool ;_;. I was too young to know what the lyrics were telling me. It sorta freaks me out thinking that little girls used to sing songs like "2 become 1" by the Spice Girls. Naughty stuff man.

http://www.freddie.ca/images/orcover.jpg

Ouch.

I like how the far left one looks gay, the centre left one looks like he should be in jail for mugging old ladies, the middle one looks like cannon fodder for the army and the other two just don't fit at all.

In elementary school, I had tapes of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Oh god. :tpg:

They were easily laughable then. Apparently they were created by the same guys who made the Spice Girls. And another manufactured pop group goes bust.


I actually used to be a big fan of Offspring's Americana album, but never purchased any thing else from them or bother to look into the rest of the discography. Pretty Fly For a White Guy is a personal guilty pleasure.

I liked Ace of Base (Bass?) for a while. Too bad for me.

I still like maybe one or two Green Day songs from their new albums, but I used to like most of them. They were pretty great.

What else is embarrassing? Well, I liked Paula Abdul. Ouch -- that one hurt me a little. I must say that humans interacting with cartoons on video was like holographic 3D imaging back then. I remember singing along to Wilson Phillips. Oh, shit. Also: Amy Grant, Sugar Ray, Spin Doctors, Duncan Sheik, and Duran Duran.

For shame.

Pom took the words right out of my mouth.

Since my High School was from 2000-2004, that pretty much
will sum up that I too didn't develop an appreciation until my last year of high school, and I didn't have much knowlege about VGM until I joined in 2002-2003 (Sophmore year).

I second the Torrent Request.

5ive?! motherfucking 5ive? They had that song "when the lights go out" and it was in a bowling alley. Holy hell, acid. Props galore.

If it makes you feel any better, I actually purchased a Vanilla Ice cassette in high school, along with a ton of horrid rap & hip-hop albums. Color Me Badd, Bell Biv Devoe, Kool Moe Dee, Young MC...to name a few.

Good God, what was I thinking?

/hangs head in shame
//cranks some Jesus Lizard to dull the painful memories

That list is bad, but i've seen worse. hell, i started out on my musical journey listening to shitty visual kei acts and fuckin'

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There's an awful CD single I have from high school called "Peanut Butta" by Scarlet Letter. I didn't know who the singer/group was, or what year the single came out on, but an old friend of mine and I bought it one night because the cover was amusing. I don't think they even have this on Amazon.

As for embarrassing mix tapes, I have one from years ago that a friend gave me by "2gether," the parody boyband from MTV.

I still like the ol' Backstreet Boys. I have their first album and probably their only good one.

I'm disappointed to still have NSYNC's first album in possession.

And sadly the required Napster downloads back in the day, such as Britney Spears (shudder).

I'm fairly embarassed to own "NOW 2" -- but since it was a friend's CD that I accidentally ended up keeping, I don't feel *quite* so bad. A lot of my 'early' music consists of Creed, Eminem, Korn, a smattering of Limp Bizkit, SoaD, Bush, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul, Offspring, Metallica, Tool, Megadeth and Nirvana. Sounds pretty standard for 8th-10th grade in my area.

That said, it doesn't completely horrify me too much (aside from the Korn/LB/Creed stuff). I mean, whenever I run across songs that I've burned onto mix CDs or hear them at random on the radio, it brings back nice memories. They belong in the past, but I spent a lot of time locked away in my room drawing to the radio in those days -- and admittedly, not everything was terrible, awful music on the airwaves, either. And the Metallica/Aerosmith/Led Zepplin was normally stolen from my dad's CD collection.

I can forgive myself for most everything except for Limp Bizkit. Really, with the shittiness of both their lyrics and music, I can't bring myself to admit that I had one of their stickers on my viola case in 7th grade :(.

The other day I was taking a quick listen to an array of old (like...4 years ago) mix CDs and all I find are just generic trance/OC remixes and stuff, rather lame.

The only stuff I feel ashamed about listening to in high school is linkin park and New Found Glory. I had CD's of Good charlotte, Simple Plan, and Trust Company, but that's only cause friends gave them to me. I always hated those bands.
Then again, I still have some guilty pleasures. Like Dashboard Confessional and 4 songs (only four!) by The Used.

You should see my embarassing CD collection from High School: (I don't know most of the album names right off the bat.)

S Club 7
Kylie Minogue: Fever
Britney Spears: Baby One More Time
Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again...
Grease (The Musical OST)
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mandy Moore: Real(?)
Shakira: Laundry Service

God I hate myself for EVER buying this crap. :( (About $160 bucks on CDs that I could of used towards better things.)

I have the first NOW CD lying in my old cd case. It was a bad choice from begining to end. The only redeeming song on it was a Harvey Danger song that I cant remember the name of for the life of me.

What on earth is wrong with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"? Have you even listened to that album in its entirity? "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" alone sets it head and shoulders above anything else mentioned in this thread.

That album is considered by many to be a timeless classic, a record whose brilliance will endure throughout generations. I tend to agree. I think we can all finally look beyond Elton John's flamboyance long enough to say that the man is a gifted musician and songwriter. He will always be in a much higher league than Britney Spears, DMX, Creed and Aqua.

I will proudly admit that I own this album and listen to it often. It's fantastic and definitely nothing to be ashamed of.

Sisqo - Thong Song
Britney - Oops I did it Again
Desitny's Child (what the hell?) - Say my Name
Creed - My Sacrifice
Five - Everybody Get Up
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
Lots and lots of Eminem. Lots.

that's what i used to listen to also...now i just don't get NEAR anything like those...i forgot that shaggy or five or britney or sisqo even existed...

actually, a few days ago, i was listening to a mixed CD i made for my friend a few years ago and started laughing at the abondance of Eminem there and of too many BAD laughable songs!