Clearly I don’t embarrass easily
We all thank Marko for asking, but I’m not in a position to list the five most embarrassing albums on my iPod, for the following reasons:
- I don’t have an iPod. I have a Sony MP3 Walkman and a couple of iTunes installs, the bigger of which is on my work box.
- No actual albums were uploaded to the Walkman; it’s all singles.
- That large iTunes install (4,563 tracks) is mostly singles. Apart from classical sets, there are only six complete albums:
- Ory Chalk, Queen of Hearts
- Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
- Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
- Local H, Twelve Angry Months
- Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells
- She & Him, Volume One
I don’t find any of those particularly embarrassing. Then again, this comes from someone who owns four Enya albums.
Aside: I did an experiment last week during the commute: two days with Enya on the stereo (Watermark and Shepherd Moons), followed by two days with Nine Inch Nails (both discs of Ghosts I-IV). If my driving was at all affected by what was playing, I didn’t notice.
(Suggested by Mark Alger, who has even more Enya than I do. Then again, I still have all those Debbie Deborah Gibson albums.)
unimpressed »
2 June 2009 · 7:57 am
I have two of the six complete albums you listed (3 and 5); I have no classical and no Enya whatsoever. I also have a large iTunes install. There are 8237 tracks. Most of mine are the full album, though. Some tracks I like, some I don’t. I often just start it up on random and listen to whatever comes up, like it or not.
Baby M »
2 June 2009 · 8:49 am
I have Thick as a Brick on LP and Tubular Bells on CD and in iTunes.
I don’t have any Enya–I have lots and lots of Clannad, a group made up of Enya’s cousins. Enya’s the black sheep of the family in comparison to Clannad.
Most embarrassing things on iTunes? There’s a few guilty pleasures in there:
- “Frontier Psychiatrist” by the Avalanches
- the samba version of “Smoke on the Water” by Senior Coconut and His Orchestra
- “No Anchovies Please”
- Paris Hilton’s “hit” single
- a musical tribute to the AMC Pacer
- “Dragostea din tei” (the “Numa-Numa” song)
- the Vietnamese-language techno-dance cover version of “Dragostea din tei,”
- and last, but certainly not least, the rap theme from the German cop show “Alarm fuer Cobra 11.”
McGehee »
2 June 2009 · 8:52 am
My official position is that the only people to be embarrassed by what’s in my MP3 collection are the people who don’t like what I’m listening to.
David »
2 June 2009 · 11:41 am
Apart from the “your sperm’s in the gutter” line, I wouldn’t qualify Thick As A Brick as an embarrassing song. I have an album’s worth of Carpenters amid the angry rock on my device.
Lisa Paul »
2 June 2009 · 12:04 pm
Wait?! Enya CDs have been sold to people who are NOT aestheticians, physical therapists and dentists? ‘Cause those are the only place I’ve heard her. And there she is ubiquitous.
CGHill »
2 June 2009 · 2:43 pm
I have eight Carpenters tracks, counting the entire “Yesterday Once More” medley from Now & Then as one.