Music: Reader Poll #2: What’s Your Favorite Embarrassing Band?
Our site is dependent on your feedback. We’re trying to put together something that serves the community, and as such we’re kind of lost without the community’s help. To get you more comfortable with leaving comments on our posts, I’m introducing the 2nd in a series of reader polls to let you all know that TNG really does care about your opinions. Though this question is a little less salacious than than the last one, I hope if gets you thinking nonetheless.
What is your favorite embarrassing band? I’m not talking guilty pleasure or favorite one-hit wonders, so please don’t give me Aqua or Backstreet Boys. I want to know which of your cherished bands, whose entire catalogue you are familiar with and whose artistic merits you can spout off at length, do you most find yourself defending to other people?
I boast a fierce loyalty for ELO and Moody Blues, but there is no band that I experience more derision for liking than Steely Dan. I got into them through “Reelin‘ in the Years” when I was 16 and had soon worn out my copy of Aja so thoroughly that I could only listen to “Peg” on their greatest hits compilation. But for all this band’s technical mastery and jazz/pop fusion, I could not even get my own father to come see them with me.
Literally. They have been through Chicago twice and D.C. once since I’ve liked them and not a single person would even entertain the idea of coming with me to a concert. I’ve begged friends, neighbors, acquaintances and yes, even my dad to no avail. A lot of people just don’t like Steely Dan. They consider them smooth and cheesy, something you’d hear on Cozy FM while driving home from a church social. I love Steely Dan, but that position has rarely won me any friends.
So I shared something with you. Will you share something with me? Last time I asked a question it got 13 responses, so lets break the record and go for 15 comments by the end of the day on Monday. I know you guys can help me out.
ADDENDUM TO THE READER POLL: Favorite embarrassing band can also include favorite embarrassing solo artist. If Gordon Lightfoot makes you quivery, then by all means put him down.
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There are certainly portions of my CD collection that give people some pause. There’s more Lionel Ritchie in there, for instance, then really is healthy. Billy Joel too, CD & vinyl. But the one I’d go to the mat for? John Cougar Mellencamp. Any other baby butches get real into his video for “The Authority Song?” I know people deride him as the poor man’s Bruce Springsteen, but really, doesn’t it sound real real good to turn “Jack and Diane” up real loud in the car and sing along? And to seal the deal, how about his cover of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night” with the one and only Me’Shell Ndegéocello? For that alone he has my undying loyalty.
I have several bands that I listen to more often that I let people know — Smashing Pumpkins, for one — and Oasis got me through my time abroad, but the most embarrassing band on my iTunes that I listen to regularly? Fall Out Boy. And when I started listening to them it was just because I girl I liked loved them.
If I had to have a “band” that I’d shamefully admit to liking, It would probably have to be Enya. She’s not much of a band, but not something that many guys walk around claiming affection for.
Ok I know this is tragically queer, but I loves me some Spice Girls. ‘Spice Up Your Life’ still gets me all hot and bothered.
Enya and I have the same birthday, so I’ve always had a sort of affinity for her.
i spent the whole day racking my brain on this one. my musical taste is impeccable. yes, there is some lionel richie in my itunes from drunk purchases. some avril lavigne. some metal ballads. but all in all i think (or i thought) that there was nothing in there that i really like that was too embarrassing. i thought i should say the smiths and morrissey because a lot of people give me shit about liking that stuff so much. but then i remembered the promise ring. my friend used to work at the jade tree hq in newark, de when they were on that label and got me all their cheesy emo records for free. i fell in love when i heard that song “is this thing on?,” a song that i’m told is about how the band was obsessed with how cool delaware and philadelphia were. oh yeah. . . and then the next record, very emergency, rivaled the queen is dead for a while for the cd that spent the most time in my car stereo. so the promise ring it is.
Its an SOS, oh yes. Parker is all the rage.
Steely Dan is great. I need to purchase Christopher Cross’s greatest hits. Rickie Lee Jones (who I saw early this year at the 9:30 club), Joan Armstrong, and Joni Mitchell. Mostly 70s music, since it was apart of my childhood, music from that era will do the job. Thanks Pandora Internet radio.
If I had any shame, I would probably be embarrassed by at least half of my music collection…
- Natalya
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