What's Your Biggest Secret Song?
December 12, 2006 3:30 PM   Subscribe

Name The One Song You're Most Embarassed To Admit You Like...

Not a difficult to explain, really. There's a whole load of songs I love that I'd never mention to friends or family or my girlfriend for fear of ridicule, usually because I hate the artist but can't help but like the song.

From Blue to Cliff Richard I've got some bad ones, but what are your worst ones? Come on.. open up.
posted by Matt_MP to Media & Arts (51 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is chatfilter.

 
"Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)," Styx.
posted by escabeche at 3:31 PM on December 12, 2006


Robbie Williams, Angel.
posted by fshgrl at 3:34 PM on December 12, 2006


REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
posted by empyrean at 3:34 PM on December 12, 2006


Open up on metachat, perhaps?
posted by AwkwardPause at 3:34 PM on December 12, 2006


Avril Lavigne - "Don't Tell Me"
Thought I liked you a lot
But I'm really upset (really upset)
Get out of my head, get off of my bed
Yeah, that's what I said
posted by tmcw at 3:37 PM on December 12, 2006


Dude, chatfilter.

But I think the Top Gun soundtrack is up there with Beethoven's Fifth, so what do I know.
posted by Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey at 3:38 PM on December 12, 2006


You forgot to go first, Matt_MP!
posted by grouse at 3:41 PM on December 12, 2006


Adam and the Ants, "Goody Two-Shoes"
posted by lleachie at 3:47 PM on December 12, 2006


Madonna - Hung Up.

Yes this is chatfilter, but dammit I had to get that off my chest.
posted by Jimbob at 3:47 PM on December 12, 2006


All the Things She Said - TATU (though if I listen to the Russian version, at least I can imagine the lyrics are Dostoevsky-esque).
posted by Rock Steady at 3:50 PM on December 12, 2006


What about the entire Dirty Dancing soundtrack? Admit it! You all love it!!
posted by Sassyfras at 3:50 PM on December 12, 2006


Response by poster: That, indeed I did, grouse - You may be sorry you asked, though.

I'll plump for:

McFly - 'Star Girl'

New Kids On The Block - 'Tonight'

Blue - 'You Make Me Wanna'

Sir Cliff - 'Stronger Than That'

Some belters already mentioned by you guys though - The sad thing is that I may even now go and have a listen to a couple of them!
posted by Matt_MP at 3:50 PM on December 12, 2006


Whoever answers "Blue" by Eiffel 65 is going to win. But it's not going to be me.
posted by moift at 3:54 PM on December 12, 2006 [2 favorites]


Information Society - 'Pure Energy' (but I've been told I should be more embarrassed for digging Leonard Nemoy's 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins')
posted by JohnFredra at 3:55 PM on December 12, 2006


Lindsay Lohan - First. The single from Love Bug movie.

I don't even know how it got on my harddrive.
Leave me alone.
posted by dong_resin at 3:55 PM on December 12, 2006 [1 favorite]


Chatfilter, so I feel pretty safe confessing "Believe" by Cher-borg
posted by Good Brain at 3:55 PM on December 12, 2006


Caught him hook, line and sinker, grouse.
posted by matthewr at 3:55 PM on December 12, 2006


All-Star - Smashmouth
posted by pdb at 3:57 PM on December 12, 2006


Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (the wealth of covers of this song make it so much more awesome)
posted by a. at 3:59 PM on December 12, 2006


Basically anything by TISM.
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:01 PM on December 12, 2006


(and while looking at the wikipedia page of Belinda Carlisle i found there is a photo of her performing a cover of Baby One More Time, SNAP)
posted by a. at 4:02 PM on December 12, 2006


Ooh. I probably have a few more than I'd like to admit.
Hips Don't Lie by Shakira, catchy pap that it is.
posted by Malachi Constant at 4:02 PM on December 12, 2006


I Wish by SkeeLo (and not just for nostalgia purposes)
posted by twoporedomain at 4:04 PM on December 12, 2006


What The Hell, Matt? by the Chatfilters
posted by bshort at 4:12 PM on December 12, 2006 [1 favorite]


Off the top of my head,

"La Tortura", by Shakira and Alejandro Sanz.
posted by theiconoclast31 at 4:14 PM on December 12, 2006


Off the top as well:

Little Bow Wow, "Take Ya' Home". Soooo Bad. (Still, after 3 years) soooo good.
posted by zpousman at 4:17 PM on December 12, 2006


This "question" is totally going to get deleted, but . . . I do feel like expressing the following in a public setting is the first step toward recovery so . . .

anything by Marc Anthony. There I said it. Oh the shame!
posted by necessitas at 4:18 PM on December 12, 2006


"The Sign" by Ace of Base. Yeah. I deserve to be beaten with sticks for that one.
posted by Gucky at 4:23 PM on December 12, 2006


Meatloaf: "I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that)."
posted by jmd82 at 4:24 PM on December 12, 2006


"I Want You Back" by N'Sync.
posted by SoulOnIce at 4:25 PM on December 12, 2006


"Wishing I Was There", by Natalie Imbruglia.

I have Ace of Base's "The Sign" on a motivational mix CD right after Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up", so there. :p
posted by Myself at 4:28 PM on December 12, 2006


I like "No Angel," by Dido (and her AutoTuner).

Hopefully I'll just do time in Purgatory for this, rather than being consigned straight to the nether depths.
posted by ikkyu2 at 4:35 PM on December 12, 2006


jmd82- you win in my book.

Mine? "More Than Words" - Extreme
posted by Thrillhouse at 4:36 PM on December 12, 2006


"Ice, Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice....god, do I love that song.
posted by tristeza at 4:36 PM on December 12, 2006


My friends give me shit for loving Dmitri from Paris.

Disco house is the language of the soul.
posted by mammary16 at 4:47 PM on December 12, 2006


I think I love you, by the Cowsills omg!
posted by deirdeir at 4:48 PM on December 12, 2006


Madonna, Ray of Light
posted by frogan at 4:59 PM on December 12, 2006


I'm continually embarrassed by how much I enjoy most of the songs on Justin Timberlake's "Justified".
posted by saladin at 5:04 PM on December 12, 2006


Sylvia's Mother
Achy Breaky Heart
posted by yclipse at 5:13 PM on December 12, 2006


Van Halen, "Running with the Devil"
posted by Meatbomb at 5:14 PM on December 12, 2006


Def Leppard, "Bringin' On the Heartache"
posted by scody at 5:20 PM on December 12, 2006


Crazy Horses.
Bette Davis Eyes.
Kids In America.
The Macarena.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 5:23 PM on December 12, 2006


Abba, pretty much anything by Abba. Can you hear the drums Fernando? Please kill me.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:31 PM on December 12, 2006


"Don't Cry Out Loud" by Melissa Manchester. I only admitted that to my boyfriend after 2 years of dating, and months AFTER we got engaged.
posted by mmmchan at 5:35 PM on December 12, 2006


Livin La Viida Loca
posted by Deep Dish at 5:42 PM on December 12, 2006


No doubt it's on its way to deletion, but :
  • Collette's version of Ring My Bell
  • Nikki Webster's version of I Wan'na Be Like You, and
  • Faith by George Michael
Though I guess they're not exactly secret shames anymore, are they?
posted by Pinback at 5:43 PM on December 12, 2006


"Lucas With The Lid Off" - Lucas
"Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
posted by fixedgear at 5:43 PM on December 12, 2006


Hey, no dissing ABBA.

Erm.

"Living on a Prayer." *winces*
posted by jokeefe at 5:49 PM on December 12, 2006


Hollaback Girl
posted by evilcolonel at 5:55 PM on December 12, 2006


First thing that came to mind: Ace of Base, I Saw the Sign. I am SO RELIEVED that someone else thinks so. As if that makes me cooler.
posted by orangemiles at 5:59 PM on December 12, 2006


I think I love you, by the Cowsills omg!

isn't that the Partridge Family, deirdeir?
posted by brandz at 6:23 PM on December 12, 2006


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