do any americans remember a show on the Nickelodeon channel
"Roundhouse"? It was a skit show that all took place with movable sets and oddly super-charismatic actors. Between scenes were interspersed dance routines, and one of the characters rode around in a sofa with a motor and wheels.

Don't know why I enjoyed it, but Micki was pretty damned hot (I knew this at six years old)
( AgentMuu hentai coordination, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:11, Reply)

aqua thats all i have to say
i dont know why i liked the crap the band aqua put uot, i just know none of my "new" friends will never know.
(Merlon, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:05, Reply)

hmmm where to start
well, the first single i ever bought was take that, i also had one of their albums.
i also owned the smurfs first album, PJ and Duncan's album, a couple of spice girls singles...the list is endless
( The Incredible... accident free since, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:02, Reply)

its fun to stay at the...
to my eternal shame from the age of 14 i had my picture up in hamleys toyshop so the security guards would know not to let me in..never a good idea to shoplift from one of the biggest toyshops in the world, even worse when its for stealing lead...lead to make models...models for dungeons and dragons figures..dungeaons and dragons figures which i was playing with at the ymca, the ymca which i had to spend over an hour on the bus to get to... what was i thinking???????????
(poomin, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 21:41, Reply)

Shoes
I wore grey slip-ons for a while at 6th form. Then one summer I bought a pair of white ones. How I didn't get bum raped is beyond me.
(rogerzilla, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 20:54, Reply)

Bad Taste!
A lot of people on here have mentioned some truly awful songs but I think mine may take some beating. When I was (a lot) younger I owned:

Nellie the Elephant by the Toy Dolls (Imagine Nellie punked up)
A couple by Nik Kershaw (don't remember which)
A Shakin' Stevens album (not just a single)
Agadoo by Black lace, my (Evil) grandmother then decided to buy me their album for Xmas.

It didn't end there though, in my teenage years I bought Mmbop by Hanson and Achey Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.

Now I'm a Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams, Iron Maiden.... fan with several Steps albums in my possession.

I blame my mum, she going back to Birmingham next week, from France, to see Status Quo in concert.

You can stick an apology where the sun don't shine.
(Lord of my Ring, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 20:53, Reply)

I (or rather my mum)
bought "comedy" Star Trek spoof record Star Trekkin' by The Firm when I was much younger because I loved it, I thought it was the funniest wackiest music I'd ever heard...

...fast-forward several years to my 22 year old self. I've just started my first job in the West End and on a drunken night out with my new workmates the conversation turns to cheesy records from our youth. "HAHAHA!" I say, anxious to impress. "I bought that piece of shit Star Trekkin' single by The Firm!" There's a stony silence round the table and then my new boss murmurs "I mastered that record when I was a bit younger..."

Still, it WAS shit though.
( naeonlite, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 20:32, Reply)

Global Hypercolour t shirts
the ones that changed colour with the heat.
God I must have looked classy wearing that and my shell suit.
*swishes off into the distance*
( Scary Mary The D'oh Fairy, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 20:22, Reply)

i am ashamed...
i was heavily into Steps when i was 7 or 8, particularly that welsh cockhead type called 'H'. beat that.
my friend Jin was worse, until early this year she liked blazin squad, (she denies it now) the corrs and craig david. luckily for her, she had a good friend like me to point her into the direction of blink 182 and guns n roses. hurrah!

Shit, iv just been giving myself a pat on the back for my good taste music-wise, and im listening to the lion king soundtrack. and i know all the words. oh dear....
(PAMPAMPAM, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 20:06, Reply)

whilst we're on the subject
ok i own up - this was my favourite jacket for a good deal of the 80's.
What you can't see is the impressive "batwing" arms

( Beardo, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 19:13, Reply)

no words needed really


oh - I think the thing on my hat is a fish
( gracielou, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 19:02, Reply)

I deny it when my sister asks when im in public
but I guess ill tell you guys...*god this is so embarassing*
As a young innocet girl I used to strip when I listened to Micheal Jackson till the age of about 7...which means I dont do it now beofre you ask.
( Blobcat Less Jaffacakes this year, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:58, Reply)

I bought and still own
"London Nights" by the London Boys



ooh whilst searching for the cover online...found out -

"Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller of The London Boys, were both killed in a car crash in The Alps on 21st Jan 1996, also killed was Edem's wife Bettina.
R.I.P."

there goes my DJ crediblity
( Beardo, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:52, Reply)

When I was about 6 or 7...
I used to fancy the pants off Helen Slater. I hid all of my look-in posters of her as "Supergirl" under my bed so mum wouldn't find 'em - I used to take them out and peruse them when the coast was clear - not knowing quite what to do with myself. "I'd get a right ribbing if anyone ever found out," I thought. So I binned 'em after about a month. I felt as if my heart had been ripped out when I saw the dustmen drive away :( Anyhoo, I'm 27 tomorrow and have realised over the years that there are more things to life than crushes on beatiful women ... If they get their tits out for ya it's a whole new bright shiny day.
(fudge the return of the man with the cat on his head, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:50, Reply)

BAD taste
I purchased the smurf album.

Even worse one of my mates stole it! He wont admit it through shame, he's not bothered about stealing!
(carlspick profile? Dunne, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:48, Reply)

Boney M (oooh the shame)
I made my mum trail the town the week end before xmas when I was 10 to get a best of Boney M tape (it was 1980) Oh my god I have never admitted that to anyone.
Thats feels sooo good to get that off my chest.

Thanks.
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:45, Reply)

Awful Memories....
I owned the PJ and Duncan Album, 'Psyche'... and my first CD single i ever bought was Mr Boombastic by Shaggy. I was 9 (blimey, 10 years ago)

I also owned a Global Hypercolor T-Shirt which changed color from orange to yellow when you got hot, and a shell suit... but i never stooped low enough to by LA Gear light up trainers......
( mr_wicksy is.... old., Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:44, Reply)

For the first 10 years of my life
I wore naught but stretch pants and oversized tshirts I decorated myself with those puffy fabric paints.
(save a quarter, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:40, Reply)

I tried Marmite once as a child
That was a bad taste.....
(TheintolerableGS, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:29, Reply)

My confession, ladies and gennemuns..
As an eight-year-old boy, I rebelled against gender norms by reading "The Babysitters' Club" novels. Obsessively. I honestly thought I was doing my bit for feminism and that.

As recently as 4 years ago, I've been caught rocking out to dream-trance travesty "Children", by Robert Miles.

My first albums, though (aside from the more predictable Raffi and suchlike) were "the Raw and the Cooked," by Fine Young Cannibals, and "the Man-Machine" by Kraftwerk. Respectably hardcore for a sprog of six, if I may say so.
(spazdor, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:19, Reply)

I still own
Betty boo doin the do album....

Although even when i looked at it the other I can sorta understand my teenage hormones :D
oh and the Fatboys album as well
( Plomien is Polish for flame, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:16, Reply)

Discerning Musical Tastes? We've heard of 'em!
I owned both the "Monkey" album (#..born from an egg on a mountain top..#) and The Muppet Show (#..it's time to face the music..#) Album. They'd probably be quite valuable by now.

I also bought Rolf Harris' "I've Lost My Mummy!" for some unknown reason. I still know the freakin' words, too.
( Biggus Dickus , it was like that when I found it, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:12, Reply)

I grew up in the nineties
I'm sure that i was the only six year old who listened to Rock music and watched beavis and butthead at my school. I still do these things a decade later. My friend on the other hand had a mullet! IT WAS THE NINETIES! He still has it. I don't talk to him anymore.
( Brown cow, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:12, Reply)

Oh
I just remembered. Black drainpipe jeans and white Hi-Tec Leagues when I was about 14 and into metal. I will point out that even now at 28, I am a lanky streak of piss, so you can imagine at 14, I looked akin to a golf club and frankly bloody ridiculous!
( D3xt3r Don't take any guff from these fucking swine...., Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:12, Reply)

I used to like UB40. Oh the shame.
(Xybex, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:01, Reply)

Child of the 80's I am
Magenta legwarmers, white tights, and a black leotard. Need I say more? Oh yes, the side pony as well.
(Chessintra, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:00, Reply)

The first record I ever bought with my own money...
...was by Rolf Harris. I don't remember the title, but I do remember that it was 39p at Woolworths and had the tracks "Maximillian the Bullfighting Mouse" and "Waltzing Matilda" on it.

Class.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 17:51, Reply)

To be
honest, I think that most of us who were kids in the eighties can use that as the best excuse of all for any kind of bad taste. The eighties WAS bad taste, and we knew no different. Well thats my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!
( D3xt3r Don't take any guff from these fucking swine...., Fri 10 Dec 2004, 17:44, Reply)

real extract
i am aged 9 and my favourite band are wet wet wet and my favourite clothes are my cycling shorts*.

* as leisure wear
(Spamuel, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 17:36, Reply)

Yeeeesh.
My first LP was Europe/The final Countdown... to add to that I used to think Bruce Springsteen was "The Tops". Using words like "Skill" "Ace"....I usd to rock in my hideous shellsuit, Hi-Tek trainers and Ninja Turtles T-Shirt.
I also used to fancy the living arse off Sarah Greene from "Going Live!" with Schofield, that Gordon the gofer/gonad. And that Trevor and Simon. I 'ated thems two I did.
When I got older (teens) Sun-in and reverse moolay Sun-ined Fringe and shaved everywhere else. Looked like bloody Tin-Tin I did.
( -:Coop:-, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 17:28, Reply)