Skeletons in the cupboard

[DanJennings]

there's a few stinkers on there, but I guess it's down to personal taste....

but that Chad Kroeger (however you spell it) song makes me want to kill things

[Grez]

Fortunately, I've got no credibility on here, anyway but I think you'll find that this tops the lot.

My guilty secret is THIS!



A cheap album of Christmas carols played in the style of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass, but not by them, obviously.

Not only that, but it's on the legendary Music for Pleasure label. I kid you not, this was bought for me the year it came out (1968) and I think it was my very first LP - I would have been 2 years old (just) at the time. Since then, it's been an integral part of the family's Christmas celebrations and we play it every year without fail while putting up the Christmas decorations.

The first track on each side has a spot about halfway through that crackles like a bowl of coco-pops (obviously some heavy-handed handling back in the days of mum and dad's old Philips Diamond mono record player!). However, the rest of it plays really well for all of its 40+ years.

And getting ready for Christmas would never be the same without it!

[Techno Commander]

I'm keeping me gob shut.

[Tim]

I'm keeping me gob shut.

Me too and it's late, maybe I'll fess up over the weekend

[WOStantonCS100]

What a hilarious thread...

Ok... ummmmm..... most recently,

Lipps, Inc. Mouth to Mouth (yep, the one with "Funky Town")

Sometimes when I come home from record shopping I find that the clerk just slid some things in the bag. They're always doing that. I don't know why. There's no sense in taking the records back.

[shane]

I'm not confessing to anything in my collection, but I will admit that if Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep comes on the radio, I always turn it up unless there's anyone else in the room, in which case I reach for the off button in a pointed manner.

Same applies to Son Of My Father and Zoom (Fat Larry's Band). Something to do with the synths I think.

There. After all these years I've admitted it.

Oh all right then. I've got a copy of Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well. Nurse, the screens......

[Welder]

Thankfully I don’t have any of that ghastly rubbish on my hard drive.
I’ve always had excellent musical taste preferring to sit down with a nice glass of claret in order to appreciate every nuance and harmonic detail that flows from my wonderfully transparent sound reproduction system.
I must confess, I did have some “pop” I collected in my youth before I came to understand the intricacies and harmonies of better presented works but thanks to a recent clear out most of that sort of produced for the masses drivel has gone.

I did have a moments regret when I erased Emerson Lake and Palmer to make way for Pinks Greatest Hits.
It didn’t take much thought though to delete Yes Fragile in order to make room for James Blunt.
All my Dire Straights albums went to be replaced by my Scissor Sisters collection.
I was a bit sad to see my copy of Edgar Broughtons Band Out Skinheads Out retire to storage but hey, it was all such a long time ago wasn’t it and lots of nice chaps have those haircuts now. Not to worry though Salt n Peppers greatest hits along with NWA Straight Outa Compton more than makes up for the loss (alwayss thought it a shame white people can’t make this sort of music but I suppose its genetic)
My Camel recordings from Watford Town Hall went. Well, we got let down by the local rugby club who had promised to appear and do a “dirty ditties” turn and Camel was all we could get at short notice at the time. Still, it has meant I can squeeze a couple of Sugar Babes tracks on and of course my selection of Spice Girls music.

I certainly wouldn’t describe myself as a snob of any kind. I just have taste, comes with being white, middle aged and comparatively well off I suppose. I’ve never really understood this dancing business; I mean, all that energy and sexuality on display, it’s just not British is it.

[MartinT]

Status Quo - Quo & Hello.

[Beechwoods]

Noooo! It's one thing owning it, it's another listening to it!

[MartinT]

I didn't say I listened to it, did I? Well, about a month ago, I did - maybe - put Quo on for the first time in 20 years