Are you embarrassed of the music you listened to growing up?

Question

Through some of the questions I have asked and answered recently, I've seen that some people are and some really don't care.

Me? I fall into the latter category. It seems like I got much more grief back in the day for listening to Duran Duran than I do now. :) But I honestly have no problem talking about growing up on Pop, some New Wave, Rap and 80's Metal - I'm not embarrassed about it in the least.

How about you? Are you comfortable talking about your musical past, or do you blush a bit and leave parts out?

I'm officially offering $500 (I'm not the Inquirer here) to anyone who can produce AUTHENTIC photos of Bowzer with his John Taylor haircut.

*giggle*

"Last Splash" rocks, Prof!

Mike too?!? I may have to start a fund to pay off R&Pers who are able to dig up these photos...

LOL - I didn't even pick up on that, MachPen. :)

Darth - that's very, very cool!

Oh man, sylvia. Talk about pictures that should never see the light of day...

YIKES!

Rckets - there's nothing wrong with Pg. 2...we've all been there. Some of us have been on Pg. 3...

Who's giving a thumbs-down to Cinnamon?!? *grrr*

Awww, rukrym...no judging here! :)

Hey, John Taylor was hot...I used to drool over the "Hungry Like The Wolf" video.

Thank you, Spooky!

Answer 1

Not at all Sookie
My Mother was a concert pianist, and also a strict conservative Christian. So it was strictly Gospel & Classical for Me until age 17.
When I very first stated listening to rock it was pop at first, but fortunately I got into Hair Metal pretty quicky. By the time I turned 18 I was listening to Def Leppard Maiden & Dokken.
And even though I don't like all the same stuff now I'm not embarrased about it, no.

Answer 2

For the most part, I grew up listening to some of the best music ever made {1960's anyone?!}.

But, I *am* very embarrassed about that brief period around 1994/5 when I was listening to Take That and East 17.
Ohhhh the shame!

The reason I'm embarrassed about it is because I can look back in hindsight and see just how truly AWFUL that music was!
But at least I saw the light {grew out of it} far quicker than some of my peers ~ and some adults!

Answer 3

As far as the music alone, I’m not too mortified. My biggest regrets stem from not knowing more about the underground music scene during my teen years. But I take a ton of pride in knowing that I loved new-wave music back in the day. I certainly have no regrets for that entire old-school rap thing either. Nobody I knew could do a better imitation of the human beat box than yours truly! Not to mention, any CD that was really embarrassing got sold at the Sookie Garage Sale. My shame is more along the lines of fashion that was directly influenced by rock. That acid washed Guess jacket was the perfect accoutrement for taking in the sweet sounds of Warrant and White Snake . People tell me I had a mullet in the early 90’s but it’s all lies, I swear I was GROWING my hair out. The one group that I'm most embarrassed for liking was Winger. No alibi on that one.

GRRR, I hate being on page 2. :(

Sookie - Yeah, yeah I hear you but it's like being locked out of the VIP room.

Answer 4

There was a very, very brief period where I met and started hanging out with an older croud and wanted to fit in when I was in my early teens and I got into stuff like Snow, actually bought that cd. I'm kind of embarassed about a couple of purchases in that period. Really though I don't care. In fact I turned that Snow cd into quite the lopsided trade when I dumped it on a friend of mine for a Social Distortion cd. I'm not really a fan, but I'm very proud of that upgrade. Sucker.

That was the second most lopsided trade I ever pulled off. The best was when I got Last Splash by the Breeders for Fixed by Nine Inch Nails (which is basically one song remixed about 10 times). Better than the Snow cd certainly, but I would put Last Splash in the top 25 or so albums I've ever owned (for my tastes).

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Thanks Sookie. I still hold that trade over my friend's head when I see him. I think that record is one of the real definitive 90's records. It was really perfect for its time.

Answer 5

Let's see... early 80s... we had:

AC/DC
Bryan Adams
Phil Collins
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Genesis
Don Henley
Journey
Huey Lewis & The News
John Mellencamp
Motley Crue
Night Ranger (SCORE! 27!)
The Police
Quiet Riot
Ratt
Scorpions
Van Halen
ZZ Top




I don't see much of anything there to be embarassed of.







NP: "My Home's In Alabama" - Alabama
(Hey, us southern guys have a country music gene, too."

*** Ha-Ha! MacPhen listened to Faster Pussycat.
Oh wait..... I still do.
Damn.

*** Bowzer, don't feel bad. I have pictures from high school with my old band mates. I had bigger hair, more make-up, and tighter pants than my girlfriend. The 80s were.... well, they just were.

Answer 6

Well, most of the music I liked growing up wasn't to shameful or bad, but....I did listen to a little more Nirvana than I should have. And there is one tragically bad mistake I made when I was little and my aunt will not let me live this down... When I was really little.. like first or second grade... I liked New Kids on the Block, and I had the hots for the young one.. That one is the one I usually leave out, but I'm coming clean for you Sookie!

Answer 7

Yes and no. The only things I'm embarrassed about are No Doubt, Sum 41, Good Charlotte and Blink 182. But I liked Blur, Oasis and The Beatles as a kid too, so it's not all bad.

The 90's/early 00's were shite.

Answer 8

Am I comfortable talking about my musical past? Absolutely. I'm actually more fascinated by the evolution of my tastes, and how they formed even from 'those bands' that are guilty pleasures now :) I actually appreciate all of it. It makes sense that one would start off at Top 40 (as a kid), and work their way into the less conventiontional Top 40 as an adolescent (REM). For me, it was heavy metal in my pre-teen years (L.A. Guns, Bang Tango, Faster Pussycat, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, *Look What The Cat Dragged In* Poison) as a pre-teen, then punk in high school. EDIT: my interest in glam punk, and glam goth (New York Dolls, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Bowie, Iggy Pop) is a product of my interest in glam metal during my early years. Shortly after I got into industrial as I was getting closer to graduate, which opened my mind to electronically based techno, and finally College was the explosion of all explosions. Through it all, I still listened to everything I fundamentally started out with. Now, as an adult, I'm exploring a lot of obscure classics. I also have a fascination for synthbased punk, but the base is still mostly punk in general. I haven't shaken that side of me since high school :)



lol, electronically based techno - that goes without saying, doesn't it?

Answer 9

When I grew up in the late 90's, I used to be the biggest fan of the Spice Girls and NSYNC. I didn't have Justin Timberlake posters or anything like that, but I did have the replica Barbie-type dolls they sold for each member of NSYNC. About the Spice Girls... I had posters and I loved the movie, "Spice World," so much I would watch millions of times... I was the biggest fan of both of them. XD

Answer 10

I was a Top 40 girl, through and through until I turned 12 and discovered taste.

I'm not that embarassed about it.. I mean come on lol, I was 11.?
I have (almost) no problem admitting there was a time when I would like repeatedly profess my undying love for the Backstreet Boys.