Embarrassing confessions.

[Bryan]

But Bright Eyes? No thanks.

Well, yeah. That's kinda my point. At least Bright Eyes is up front about his angst and doesn't use macho swaggering to hide it.

(In all honesty though, and to keep it on topic, I actually like I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. Sad songs, that make you want to lie on the floor.)

[jbissell]

(In all honesty though, and to keep it on topic, I actually like I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning.

That'd be the one Bright Eyes album I can listen to.

[JonFromMaplewood]

I cannot stand Bright Eyes.  But it is not his fault (I'm sure he's saying, "Oh thanks, John from Maplewood. I feel so much better now that it's not my fault"). I just have a hard time relating to anyone who could have anything he wants at any time, and then sits down with a guitar and sings about life's challenges. And the fact that he does it well makes it worse. 

I am too jealous to enjoy myself.

[buffcoat]

I don't think Mr. Oberst not using macho swaggering is so much a choice...

[Sloppy Joe]

Jon - I don't think there's anything embarrassing about liking the song "Time." That song is beautiful and profound.

Woolfson did a great job of singing it. I like to imagine Alan Parsons at the mixing board in the control room with tears pouring down his face while Woolfson does the vocal track.

Like this (fast forward to 4:20 or so):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQi7-GKJp0

[JonFromMaplewood]

David Cross at his best. Thanks for bringing me back.

[Steeley Chris]

Was that the song Mandy Patinkin, nude, sings in Run, Ronnie, Run? Is the fact that I liked that film and thought it was underrated count as an embarrassing confession? Should I be embarrassed? 

A true embarrassing confession is that since I was a small child I've loved, and continue to love, the Eagles' song "Take It To The Limit", but wait there's more. It wasn't until I got that issue of Rolling Stone with the Eagles on the cover (my wife got me a subscription - I feel about that magazine the way Tom does about Entertainment Weekly. It makes me so angry, but I read it cover to cover) that I found out Randy Meisner, not Joe Walsh, who wasn't even in the Eagles at the time, sang that song. I was like "Randy Meisner, who's THAT?"

That paragraph is full of embarrassing confessions 

[iAmBaronVonTito]

as far as rolling stone goes, youre on your own.  sort of.  my mom knows a lady who gets it, but doesnt want it...so she gives them to me thinking its "my thing".  i read them when im bored enough at work.

as for RUN, RONNNIE, RUN...way overrated.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Yeah, I got an RS subscription free with some concert tickets, and then they automatically renewed it.  I called up to cancel the automatic renewal, and the person I spoke to told me that she could cancel the subscription - but couldn't refund my $.  Since I had already paid for it, and it wasn't a big enough amount of money to deal with the hassle, I kept it.  I actually mostly only read the political writing and ignore most of the music stuff (though I really did like the Lethem pieces on Dylan and James Brown).

[masterofsparks]

I still like the Afghan Whigs. I guess I can see being embarrassed by the macho posturing covering angst thing, but considering Thin Lizzy is one of my favorite bands, I guess it's not such a big thing for me.

I am originally from Cincinnati as well, so maybe that has something to do with it.

[yesno]

Not much of a confession, but I didn't hear the song "Werewolves of London" until I was 27 or so.  I loved it, frankly.

[Gregory]

I don't like "Werewolves of London" at all, but I kind of like "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock.

[cutout]

Embarrassing: three of my favorite pop songs from the 80s are all by the Culture Club - "Miss You", "Time" and "Church of the Poison Mind".

This is weird but I went to Busch Gardens (Va) in the mid 80s with my mom and walked along this outdoor amphitheater. There were a couple old guys on stage setting up stools and a piano. We peered in but couldn't tell what was going on. Next thing you know, Dylan comes out, picks up a harmonica and does a 3-minute mic check, playing "Karma Chameleon" on harmonica and guitar, then puts down his stuff and disappears. Apparently he had a show for later that evening and apparently it barely sold 3/4 of the seats.

I'm not sure I even knew who Dylan was at the time, I guess my mom had explained it later. It was only years later I put the whole story together in my mind and realized how strange it was. From what I could tell he was yesterday's news at that point, but I guess came out of the slump?

[buffcoat]

Sorry to correct you, cutout, but "Miss You" is by the Rolling Stones, while "Time" is by the Alan Parsons Project.  Or you may mean the song "Time" by The Pink Floyd.

That is all.

[mackro]

When MC Hammer's album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em was released, I couldn't understand why

a) MC Hammer would hurt anyone!  Why does someone have to ask MC Hammer to not hurt anyone?
b) Alternately, how could hammering them be less painful then hurting them?  I thought hammering people caused a lot of pain!

Years later, I realized it was just code for "Hammer, don't make them dance too hard, because you can do that, you know!", but by then he was just "Hammer", and became a co-host of Paul and Jan Crouch on Trinity Broadcast Network.