TLC
were a fine soul/hip-hop combo, Andrew WK is a cheesy rock filth badger. AICMFP

/just 'cause they mention it in the NME doesn't make it BIG or CLEVER
(you're all a bunch of twats anyway, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 14:16, Reply)

Ah the Old Days
When I think back of how I used to be so fussy about having my Armani Suits altered and making my valet spit and shine my hand crafted Churchs loafer's every evening I cringe with embarrassement.

Fortunantely I have now seen the error of my ways and I now shop at JD sports for all my clothing needs. Thank god for UK Garage sensations Blazin' Squad and So Solid for showing me the true path........
(myohmy, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 13:57, Reply)

0.o
I was a very, VERY disturbed child. Exhibit 1- I had read Phantom of the Opera at an early age. 2- To compensate for this to the peer group, I just HAD to wear red jeans with a really, really terrible shirt. I mean, it had little puppies and kittens and FLOWERS. It looked like a department store threw up all over me.
(ZooLurker is an angry chick with a mullet!, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 13:46, Reply)

bad buys
When I was younger, much younger somewhere in the eighties I begged my parents to buy me something which now *shudder* when I think about it my loving parents brought me a fluorescent green and black striped dungerees! - I was young and knaive and wore them with you guessed it flurescent green socks - i thought I was god!

whoops ;o(
(thesickandwrong, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 13:34, Reply)

Waistcoats
When I left school and started working in 1993 we all had to wear shirt and tie. So me and the other young imp I worked with thought it would be great to wear waistcoats as well. We started off thinking we were the mutts danglies, but I think I may have taken it too far by having one that must have been made out of a old rug. It was thick with bright red and blue squiggles on a black background. It was also the itchy-est bastard known to man. must have been made out of the wool from round a sheeps arsehole or something.

Also had a leather waist coat which is bad in itself, but when u wear it with a white t-shirt and a bloody demin shirt unbuttoned ontop of it, you just look a tit. Actually started a small mini trend with that one for about 2 weeks till we noticed that no one who wore it was pulling the girlies in the pub. All that and a curtains haircut.

Just to carry on the music theme, first album - Bobby Brown, My Perogative.

Think i have grew wiser with age, can't get any worse.
(Billy Sastard, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 13:16, Reply)

the reason Thunderbirds is so slow and repetitive
is because they were originally made for a 30 minute time slot but then they had to pad them out to a 1 hour slot for some reason - we seem to only get the padded versions.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 12:01, Reply)

I used to have 14 hole Doc Martins, a mohawk, and be obsessed with the Sex Pistols...
however it was the early 90s.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 12:00, Reply)

Cyndi Lauper
I used to be into Cyndi Lauper, which is OK, but I also used to think a lot, and talk to my brother a lot, about how I wanted a robot who looked like Cyndi Lauper that I could have sex with. I think I didn't have enough self-esteem to ever imagine having sex with Cyndi Lauper or a real woman who looked like her.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 11:56, Reply)

Like the reply below
it was studio line hair gel for me. All crackly and set like concrete. Why didn't anyone tell me I looked like a complete tit? Even my parents?

My first record when I was young was Showaddywaddy - 'Let's go for the little one .. dadadaDA ... under the moon of love'. Oh good lord.

Also, I tried body popping at discos for a while in the eighties (we got in by sending my mate in first, who could grow a moustache). "Chaka Khan .. Ch-Ch-Ch-Chaka Khan" I was very crap at it. It genuinely makes me cringe to think back. A friend has old footage of me doing it at a wedding, and regularly blackmails me with it.

That's your lot. I think I've humiliated myself enough now.

/edit - oh, and Travbot - there's nothing wrong with liking Kraftwerk.
(8-Ball, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 11:41, Reply)

socks
i wear them inside out. or, at least i did back when i wore socks
(HalfwayHebrew, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 11:41, Reply)

Hair, oh the hair

Gel, what the watermelon was that all about. Its like at the end of the eighties they had all this gel. like some kind of EU gel lake (swamp) that they had to get rid of before it set or went off or whatever. I swear, I used to have so much of that crap in my hair I could have been hit by a football sized meteorite and now even known.

I have blocked out the styles so I can tell yo unothing about them I'm afraid
( Liquid Crystal, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 11:22, Reply)

Well I firmly stand by my liking of them
but I'm told it's horrific to like the Pet Shop Boys.

Not a gayer neither.

Though my girlfriend thinks so now that I showed her my collection.
(unholysmoke, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 10:19, Reply)

Those of you who complain that they used to like 'A' music, but now like 'B' shouldn't be embarresed
it not old tastes being bad, it's Evolution. Sure, some of you are evolving into Morons, but hey, it's who you are.
( ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 10:07, Reply)

first comedy show i went to see...
...was Russ Abbott. Used to love him when I was wee.

And Roy Walker was his warm up act.

Sad. But I met Bella Emberg in the chippy afterwards.
(2headedturtle, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 10:06, Reply)

One word:
anime
(ladycat, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 8:24, Reply)

I used to like
the "band" TLC. Good god. This from somebody who wears his hair long and listens to Tool and Andrew W.K.
(+3 Baroque Vambrace of Icthyology, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 7:53, Reply)

Hawaii Five-O, Jack Parnell Orchestra....
...yes, it had Black Beauty on the other side, and a picture sleeve. No idea where it it is now though.

I used to fancy Debbie Gibson you know. Which way for immolation through shame?
(InfiniteZenMaster, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 6:05, Reply)

A tragic child of the early ninties
Spokey dokeys from kellogs cornflakes spinning and donking around on your bicylcle wheel for the following 8 years, enough said really except for two other words -- shell suit!
(Pyro_Deb, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 1:48, Reply)

Oh Lord, just remembered some other things....
"Kylie's Lucky 7 Megamix" by "UK Mixmasters"

NOTHING would get me jiving as a four year old, than THIS record. It was a mix up of every Kylie hit (to that point) edited with a tin-opener and some masking tape. Truly crap and unforgivable... Hit me... go on, hit me.....

The first record "I" ever bought however was a few years later, it was the $%£%^$£ Mr Blobby single and the vinyl was coloured pink with yellow spots. (Yes my family were still buying vinyl singles from "ourprice" as late as 1993)
(knife_of_justice, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 0:27, Reply)

The blow monkeys, enough said :(
(chossy, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 23:54, Reply)

terrible trainers
In the early nineties I went on a school football trip to Cork to which I took a brand spanking new pair of 'converse' trainers- except these were M&S rip-offs which were entirley made up of the American flag. Yes, one half of the trainer formed the stripes, the other half the goddam stars.
Whilst wandering about our holiday park with my chums, another group of school kids decided they wanted a scrap with us. For reasons unbeknown to me I was singled out for a good shoeing and it may have been something to do with one of the scrotes saying to a few of the others 'Ha! Look at his trainers!' then proceeding to kick my bloody head in.
I'm not sure the Guns N Roses bandana on my head helped either.
They must have been bad trainers as none of my mates helped me- I truly paid for childhood bad taste.
(Raffles, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 22:15, Reply)

This one got passed round my dad's office a bit:
I went to the bog in a local pub with my dad, aged about 6 and saw a vending macine with lots of pretty colours and names of flavours on the outside. My then fragile un-corrupted mind instictivley asked my father for two english pounds to purchase what I percieved to be sweeties from this mysterious mechanical vending contraption.
Needless to say, I will never ever use flavoured condoms EVER. Even if it means going without.
(Mr. Beef studio gash stylist, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 21:40, Reply)

nkotb
that's how it all started...god forgive me...
(rawr!, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 21:13, Reply)

bad taste
oingo boingo.huey lewis. dire straits. kraftwerk.
my hair cut into a 'rat-tail'. my hair cut into a 'hang-bang'. hypercolor shirts. 'jams'-(brightly patterned baggy shorts).xtra large corny logoed t-shirts from wal-mart-(things like 'robo-surf' and glow in the dark skeletons saying 'bad to the bone').flip-down two color converse all stars. a 'space invaders' bicycle. various off-brand skateboards. thick ass foggy-brown plastic glasses, i couldn't help it, it was all we could afford.....ah. i'm glad i have the money, fashion sense and freedom of choice as an adult. oh shit. did i mention i tight rolled my jeans? well, i did, but that's ok 'cause you did too. this 'childhood bad taste' discussion is really becoming more of a bad 80's fashion thing id'nit?
(travbot, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 21:03, Reply)

Bad music taste
Oh, the crap I would listen to when I was young - Weird Al (before I even knew many of the songs he'd parody), the Monkees, and the crap Chicago of the 80's.

No apologies for lack of length.
(joe stoner dot com, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 19:40, Reply)

liking digimon
nuff said
(Wonchop Where are your goggles, boy?, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 18:26, Reply)

Soapy Norris,
You dirty bastard ;)
( Laughing Boy, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 18:00, Reply)

Very bad taste
I can think of something from my childhood with a very bad taste indeed. The piss I did into my hand and drank to see what it tasted like.

Although it wasn't as bad as the shit I scraped out of my own arsehole and tried. It tasted like shit. So I smeared it all over the pages of my sister's Ladybird books.
(Ali Bongo 9000 Ali Bongo 9000, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 17:30, Reply)

When I was younger
I really LOVED PJ and Duncan.

Now I am very ashamed of this fact.

Better watch out they're after you...
(Melmite This is a MUMORPUGUH!, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 17:18, Reply)

Somehow i think i got punished for this
The white knee high pop sock with a blue and white terry cloth mini dress and black patent shoes. I wore that for my 1st communion, needless to say I chose the outfit myself.
Maybe god decided to punish me because a few hours later, we went to a horse race type of thing in a field, and I got run over by a horse.
(albator, Wed 15 Dec 2004, 16:49, Reply)