A Dare . . .

[sunvalleylaw]

I dare you to admit a song you really liked and played over and over in your youth, but now realize was extremely lame to your ears now. For me, those songs existed largely in middle school when I first discovered girls and got all pie faced and sappy about it. My lame song I dare to admit:


10cc I'm not in Love.


Ok, GO! I dare you. uke:

 

[deeaa]

Fair enough...can't really think of ever playing any lame song somebody else made, as right from the start I almost exclusively played my own songs.

I did learn a handful of songs like Heaven & Hell and Fade to Black etc. but they aren't lame to me even now.

BUT some of my own songs sure were lame...here's one off my second ever studio session...it was, um, 1989 and I was ~18...singer/songwriter/guitarist...forgive me, I had only really done it for a year by that time. As a side note the clean guitar is a Bill Lawrence tele D/I and the driven is an am.std.strat with lace sensors into a JCM800 half-stack.

http://deeaa.pp.fi/WorldOfMine.mp3

Pretty damned lame, even saxophones etc. Back then I was still into blues and jazz and all that lame-o stuff, because I hadn't really learned to play and sing rock yet ;-)

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Oh, I didn't mean you had to have played it yourself musically. I only played that 10cc song on an 8 track tape or something. I just meant one you listened to a lot. I would not call your personal work lame.

 

[deeaa]

Ah, OK...well I grew up on classical & some jazzy stuff, but when I was maybe nine or ten, my sister had some pop stuff I would probably not listen to any more...like...can't find them on YouTube...Clyde Shelton Singers or something...and some, like Jackson 5 or similar I listened to for a while before I found Judas Priest

 

[markb]

Lots of (mostly manufactured) glam rock like The Sweet



But I don't regret T. Rex.

 

[marnold]

The first cassette tape I ever got was the Village People "Go West".




Let us never speak of this again.

 

[mainestratman]

I would love to participate in this thread, but honestly I've rocked since day one.

:-D

 

[otaypanky]

Not too long after my gramma gave me a pocket transistor radio, it became pretty clear to my parents that I was sicko for sound. They got me one of those little record players in the close up case, you know, with the fuzzy grey turntable? Man, did I wear out those 45's. OK, here comes the embarrassing part, man this is tough ~~~
G GG Gaaaa Gary Lewis and the Playboys. There, I said it. LOL I used to come home from school and sing my little slowly dropping nuts off. But I widened my horizons quickly and was singin' Da Do Ron Ron before you knew it. There was a bunch of good stuff. When the records got so worn out they skipped constantly I tried something I heard somewhere. I took my mom's lipstick and rubbed it on the record. When that spike of a needle ran through it like a plow it filled in the low spots of the ridges and it worked for a while. Uh, yeah, it did make a major mess

 

[sumitomo]

10cc I'm not in Love. :what


Guess I was more stoned back then than I thought I was,cause I always thought Paul McCartney and Wings sang that song.I was always thinking man where's the Beatles? Sumi

 

[Jimi75]

Yeah that's a good thread...and there are many songs that sound lame to my ears whn I isten to them now, but I loved listening to them when I was young.

My no 1 "so lame now song" is: Wonderful Life by Black - a British band

BUT there is one song I loved it since I was a kid, I played it a million times, and everytime I listen to it I like it like it was the first time I'm listening to it.

The song is called "No Easy Way Out" by Robert Tepper. This song is from the ROCKY IV soundtrack - man, I love that song!!!!

 

[Tig]

10cc "I'm Not in Love"? Um, me too!
Although sappy as can be, I loved the synth vocal sounds in the song. Even today, I still like that sound when I'm goofing around on a synth.

I'm trying to remember anything I liked back then that is embarassing... Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo album? Nahhh, it rocked!
How about some of Supertramp's music? I wasn't a big fan, but their bass player, Dougie Thompson, was over at our house one night in 1981... Friend of a friend kinda thing.
I'll admit that I was a Pat Benitar fan. She had some serious pipes and was cute as a button back then.

 

[tunghaichuan]

How about some of Supertramp's music? I wasn't a big fan, but their bass player, Dougie Thompson, was over at our house one night in 1981... Friend of a friend kinda thing.

Bingo, Supertramp for me too. And John Denver. :messedup:

I'll admit that I was a Pat Benitar fan. She had some serious pipes and was cute as a button back then.

And Neil Giraldo is one hell of a guitar player.

 

[Bloozcat]

The whole album "The Monkees".

I was only 13 then and the real 60's rock explosion was just in it's infancy...

 

[R_of_G]

Let's just say that in retrospect, Leroy Brown might not be as bas as his reputation might otherwise suggest. :nope

 

[syo]

+1 for The Sweet. For me it was Fox on the Run.



By the way, is that David St. Hubbins on vocals?
Desolation Blvd. Was the first album I ever sold. I felt some shame/embarrassment about 4 years after buying it. Runner up goes to Carry on My Wayward Son. Second album I ever sold...

Btw... "I'm Not in Love" still one of my all time faves. Know nothing else from 10cc but that one does it for me every time.

 

[Algonquin]

A bunch of good posts here... and I really don't think any are truly shameful.

I can remember digging this song as a kid... who am I kidding, I just found myself smiling when I dug it up.

 

[mainestratman]

"Destination Boulevard" was a great album.

And I just heard that Captain and Tenille song at the store.. LOL

 

[Spudman]

Oh boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA
Double oh boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjxZDT_5SA&feature=related

 

[sunvalleylaw]

LOL!! This is great! Marnold, that was classic and gave me a much needed laugh. Spud, so how stoned do you think the guy talking in the Dr. Hook video was?

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Bingo, Supertramp for me too. And John Denver. :messedup:



And Neil Giraldo is one hell of a guitar player.

Ok, I might still listen to Supertramp. At least Crime of the Century and particularly School.




I won't apologize for that one. I still love the piano solo.

And John Denver wrote the first "chord song" I learned on guitar. But that song was assigned not chosen.

Captain and Tenille, Sweet, yep. I listened to them. What about this one?



Ok, I might be embarrassed now. :thwap :what

 

[marnold]

LOL!! This is great! Marnold, that was classic and gave me a much needed laugh.

And people wonder why I turned to metal . . .

No shame in liking Pat Benatar. I even found a way to like her shimmy-shake in the lamentable "Love Is a Battlefield" video.

Of course, due to my mother's record collection, during the 70s I was only exposed to:
50's pop (not the worst thing in the world)
Oak Ridge Boys (smokin' cigarettes and watching Capt. Kangaroo)
The Lettermen
Barry Manilow

The only good thing is that I was mostly spared disco. I repeat: And people wonder why I turned to metal . . .

Remember, every time someone plays "Wildfire" a puppy gets rabies.

 

[hubberjub]

I was born in '78 but my musical roots were firmly planted in the '80's metal scene. Yes, that does include hair metal. All I listened to was Poison and the like.

 

[FrankenFretter]

When I was in grade school, we got to take a field trip to our local AM station, and each kid got to take a 45 home with them. Mine was Sweet - Fox On the Run. I loved that song.

But as long as we're being honest...I did listen to this one over and over, and yes, I am ashamed. In my defense, I was young.

 

[markb]

Surely if you're going to have a Captain and Toenail (thks, Kinky Friedmann) song it has to be this sordid paean to randy rodents

 

[Eric]

Ok, I might be embarrassed now. :thwap :what

Ha...large chunks of his acoustic guitar solo sounds like the wanking that comes out of my guitar sometimes.

 

[oldguy]

Ha...large chunks of his acoustic guitar solo sounds like the wanking that comes out of my guitar sometimes.

If you can sing like that as well, I'd say you've got a shot, Eric.

 

[helliott]

I think I match these for questionable taste. It was 1969. I was 12. There was a girl.

(And consider this note posted by one of the UTube Andy Kimm fans.
'# Junglehike I have been listening to this song like 30 times today. Apparently a friend of mine in Japan told me the singer is Andy Kim. Arigato Ochiai-san...! My favorite...! It used to be a big hit in Indonesia in the early 70s. I can flip my underwear....!! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4x2AOLoB0

 

[Bloozcat]

I think I match these for questionable taste. It was 1969. I was 12. There was a girl.

(And consider this note posted by one of the UTube Andy Kimm fans.
'# Junglehike I have been listening to this song like 30 times today. Apparently a friend of mine in Japan told me the singer is Andy Kim. Arigato Ochiai-san...! My favorite...! It used to be a big hit in Indonesia in the early 70s. I can flip my underwear....!! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4x2AOLoB0

Thanks for that, helliott...my ears are bleeding and I can't get it to stop....

 

[sunvalleylaw]

This thread is hilarious! Lame songs through the decades. LOL! :AOK :happy ancake :help

 

[tjcurtin1]

I was noodling the other day, and the guitar lick of 'Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress' (Hollies) came to me. I was never particularly a Hollies fan, but that song was always catchy, thoughI could never understand more than half the words (I would fill them in in typical nonsense lyric fashion when singing along). So I looked up the lyrics - what a lame songwriting job! I am embarrassed to think of it now.