Youthful Indiscretion-Some Really Bad Albums I Owned in My Youth
Submitted by pivvclam on Tue, 07/29/2003 - 11:29
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- 1. Culture Club-Kissing to Be Clever & Colour By Numbers (Not 1 but TWO Culture Club records! Oh, the horror!)
- 2. Duran Duran-7 and the Ragged Tiger. (The fact that I also got my fashion sense, at the time, from these guys makes me question why I was not beat up on a daily basis.)
- 3. Spandau Ballet-True (See #2)
- 4. Haircut 100-Pelican West (What could I have been thinking? I WASN'T thinking)
- 5. Lionel Richie-Self Titled & Can't Slow Down (ahhh-first loves. I should have given these to the girl on her way out the door) I think the fact that my grandparents also liked these albums should have given me a clue. The Commodores were cool,though.
- 6. Michael Jackson-Thriller ( Who knew? At least I wasn't the only one who was fooled by this future freak. This album sounds extremely dated now, given it's status at the time)
- 7. DeBarge-I can't remember which album, but does it really matter?
- 8. Quiet Riot-Mental Health (This was a gift from someone. Thanks a lot)
- 9. Journey-Escape & Frontiers (How sickenly slick can you get? I think I also had that Steve Perry solo album-uggh!)
- 10. Toto-IV (Could this album be any more polished and trite? I'm ashamed of myself, really)
- 11. Asia-Alpha ( I didn't even have enough sense to buy the first Asia album-which was bad enough, this album was even worse)
- 12. Men At Work-Cargo (Like #11's reference to Asia's first album, I bought this POS instead of MAW's 1st. What an idiot!)
- 13. A Flock of Seagull-Telecommunication ( I didn't run far enough away from this one!)
- 14. Styx-Caught in the Act ( I think this is one of those where I didn't return the card in time and Columbia House sent me as an automatic selection-I never recall liking Styx)
Author Comments:
These are among the first albums,tapes, ect. I bought (Damn Columbia House!) In no paricular order.(How could they be!) While it is hard to believe and painful to admit I once owned all of these records; I admit this as a service to others, really; to show that people CAN change, improve and grow. If you know me this list will be damn funny, and if not, please don't judge me by this list. I'm much better now. Really!
I don't know pivvclam. Some of these are classics. Well at least you didn't wear parachute pants... or did you? Here are some of mine. You'll see a pattern - spell your bandz name funny, and you'll suck!:
Ratt - Out of The Cellar
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
and the worst album I ever owned...
Dangerous Toyz - Dangerous Toyz
Red parachute pants , of course.
Who can forget Dangerous Toyz and the all-time classic : Teas'n, Pleas'n. Whew! Somebody light a match!
Am I really pathetic if I still own Thriller, listen to it on a semi-regular basis, and rather love it?
Probably... :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
No, probably not. I really only put that on there because MJ is so scary now, that for me, it taints his whole catalog. You might however be more of a Quincy jones fan than a MJ fan-I think Q is the brains behind Thriler and Off the Wall. Just my opinion, though and given the selections on this list...let's just say, I've been proven wrong before. HaHa.
I say, "let the 80's be bygones and we're all forgiven for any indescretions we may have committed." Think about it, music was doing it's best to take Disco to the next level for God's sake! Just be thankful you weren't trying to make it as a musician back then; imagine your album covers during the peak of your career looking like some of theirs Poison. Tell me how you live that one down!
Who started the 80's, "gotta' look like a drag queen to make it in this business" look anyway? "What could be more frightening than that" you ask? "Why heterosexual males buying that $#1T of course!!"
Disclaimer: This post is in no way an attempt to insult any potential gay readers. I have several gay friends; they make me feel manly and I insure them that there are a few W.A.S.(Southern)P males out there who accept them. It's a nice trade-off.