Embarrassing songs that you love.

Feeling nostalgic, now......... growin up in SF when i did, my mom would shoo us outside to play. She'd say "it's a beautiful day, go outside." (It coulda been raining and she would say that.) The rule was to be home before the streetlights went on. I was usually at Ocean Beach, but would travel all over The City. As young as 8 years old. I would ride my bike over the Golden Gate Bridge and go to the flea market in Sausalito. Never told my parents where i'd been. (They prob didn't always wanna know, lol.) For a coupla years, my crew and I would break in to the SF Zoo by climbing the fence where the water buffalo lived. We'd dart from tree to tree thru it's pen and get to the zoo and just drink beer and watch the animals sleep. (The ones who weren't housed at night.) We had no idea til much later how dangerous water buffalos are. This one was well fed and lazy. Kids today growin up in The City seemingly can't do any of the stuff i got to do, and if a group of teens were caught in the zoo at night, there'd be arrests, i'm pretty sure. Oh well. That thing about You Can't Go Home (Frost?) is true for me, cuz home doesn't exist anymore and my City is completely different.

Crew dedicate this '70's spunky track to seeds...all are hooked on yer embarrassing forum.

tbb can vouch that this was an Official Top 10 Embarrassing song of the era. (That's good right!)
Mushed up all the Macho Men's moustaches.
{Warning!}
Song may still hold appeal with today's sensitive new age millennial audience...being serious!

zenagain wrote:

Was I mistaken Indo or didn't you once say Desperately Seeking Susan was your favourite movie?

Ha ha i think ive seen it, but i cant remember it.

Another cheesy classic, a mate knew every lyric it was impressive.

indo-dreaming wrote:

Surprised no one has one has posted a Madonna song yet.

Got a favourite???

I think this is mine.
....

holiday.
it's one of the great pop songs of all time.

wax24 wrote:

Feeling nostalgic, now......... growin up in SF when i did, my mom would shoo us outside to play. She'd say "it's a beautiful day, go outside." (It coulda been raining and she would say that.) The rule was to be home before the streetlights went on. I was usually at Ocean Beach, but would travel all over The City. As young as 8 years old. I would ride my bike over the Golden Gate Bridge and go to the flea market in Sausalito. Never told my parents where i'd been. (They prob didn't always wanna know, lol.) For a coupla years, my crew and I would break in to the SF Zoo by climbing the fence where the water buffalo lived. We'd dart from tree to tree thru it's pen and get to the zoo and just drink beer and watch the animals sleep. (The ones who weren't housed at night.) We had no idea til much later how dangerous water buffalos are. This one was well fed and lazy. Kids today growin up in The City seemingly can't do any of the stuff i got to do, and if a group of teens were caught in the zoo at night, there'd be arrests, i'm pretty sure. Oh well. That thing about You Can't Go Home (Frost?) is true for me, cuz home doesn't exist anymore and my City is completely different.

wax...have you read Rachel Kushner's "the hard crowd"? the story of her teen years in SF.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/18/the-hard-crowd

Great track TB above and way cool story Wax. My good mate here is from Silcon Valley/San Jose but moved to Santa Cruz. Full Cali surf grom to this day.

Here's an oldy that I rarely skip when it comes on-

Chopper reviews Neville Bartos' CD collection.

Ain't no coming back from this...surefire way to blow yer cred!
{ Death 2 Disco } Spent a lifetime tryin' to argue this shit hot dance tune is not Disco.
Big Fat Liar...busted! ( tbb will load both Trippy dance Vidz as YouTube keeps blanking this track.)

Not just for the music

Hey Zen. San Jose in the 70s and 80s (and a century leading up to that) was a farming community. Fruits and vegatables. Prunes, apricots, grapes, hops, avocados..... it was mostly orchards. It was a little surreal to watch it become Silicon Valley. Now, it is larger and more populated than The City.

Thanx for the link Chook. I didn't have time to check it out last nite but just did. I wonder if the world is getting worse or memories just select toward the gentle?

groundswell wrote:

Not just for the music

On that note..

seeds wrote:

I’ve always liked that one Sheepdog

Yeah its corny but heart stirring. The aussie version imo is "my island home" by warumpi band. But I'm in no way "embarrassed" saying I love that song

First song i remember liking as a kid, played it non stop.

First time I've listened too it in forever, there is actually some nice little lead licks from Ace, not over done.

indo-dreaming wrote:

First song i remember liking as a kid, played it non stop.

First time I've listened too it in forever, there is actually some nice little lead licks from Ace, not over done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhIsAZO5gl0

I actually dug the b side to that

This Aussie band mixes Tang with bubbles to conjure up a gooey schweppervescence sound.
tbb don't care...tastes great & sounds quite tingly as well...crew will get all up ended with this track!

seeds wrote:

What about this beauty
https://youtu.be/lqZEp4Fb6qw

Technically a great song hahahahahaha... Try singing it. It's bloody hard

I'm an old dude. Seeds. Aussie pubs used to be great. But. Pokies and the death of live music, noise complaints, prices, banning of smoking and violence have sterilised aussie pubs

Driving home tonight and this came on. Remembered to chuck this one up.

Sheepdog wrote:

I'm an old dude. Seeds. Aussie pubs used to be great. But. Pokies and the death of live music, noise complaints, prices, banning of smoking and violence have sterilised aussie pubs

Agree with most of that but the banning of smoking has been a huge positive.

It's so much better now waking the next morning and not stinking of stale cigarette smoke, and as a non smoker all the passive smoke couldn't have been good.

Maybe this one isn't overly daggy as such not exactly top 40, but just not a band id otherwise get into, but i really love this song for some reason.

That's not an embarrassing song Indo...this one is pretty embarrassing with a very cheesy video

Ha ha yeah that one is, but thats another song i do love, just love her voice.

I didn't realise i love so much daggy music, although ive got nothing on Zen :D

Argh here's another now this is proper.

You can get away with liking their peak period stuff especially if you mention Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds, blah blah blah, im a cool hipster, but washed up late 80s beach boys is total cringe, yet i still cant help but like it.

That reminds me of one of Tom Cruises best movies, cant remember the name but he was a trickster bar tender with Brian something, the Aussie actor. Its in that video clip a few times, but cant think of the name.
I even bought the soundtrack, it was all time.

Cocktail

That's the one and its Brian Brown i think.

Here's another embarrassing one:

mystery Girl

Nessun Dorma

Good choice Mick.

Check this doco out Seeds. It’s brilliant. Saw it on the big screen. A great insight to a monumental concert event.

“Three Tenors - From Caracalla to the World”

Might of been called “Three Tenors. Voices for Eternity”. Anyway, same concert documented. Incredible.

seeds wrote:

Any history Mick behind why you like those? Especially Luciano

Not really anything that would interest anyone here I think.

Hope you enjoyed them.

Heard this blasting out of the comms tent at an mtb event last weekend, definitely an embarrassing fav, this one

I want to confess….

Still a catchy tune.