first album bought
Elvis sings Gospel.

it had Hound Dog on it which did confuse me somewhat. Bright Pink sleeve with Elvis framed by a big seventies style star.

I also had a baby grow until I was about eight or even nine, my american aunts bought them over.

Bitty anyone?
(pyrogenius, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 21:16, Reply)

Where to start?
Iv had a Spiderman costume (but thats cool when i think about it now)

I have had a teenage mutent ninja turtle costume.

I bought babylon zoo's spaceman the single when it came out, i was 10.
( Gaz, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 20:54, Reply)

Bees
When i was 3 i used to catch bees with my bare hands....and once i tried to eat one....it didn't taste very good. After that i went around stamping on every bee i could find shouting "NAUGHTY BEES! NAUGHTY BEES!"
(The_Kommandant, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 20:00, Reply)

well...
...where do we start.

my bedroom was (and still is) painted bright orange. I went to both a Spice Girls and Westlfe concert. I have worn stripey black and white leggings.


I crimped my hair *shudder*.

The first single I bought? Ricky Martin. Don't remember which song.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:23, Reply)

arsehole
Oh, and I also used to own a Phil Collins tape.
(weirzbowski, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:21, Reply)

o.O
When I was about 3 I could sing most of Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith. My mom thought it was OK, as pretty much everyone in the area of Oregon we lived in owned a gun.

Probably a good thing I'd moved on by the time we moved to southern California.
(Lua, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:16, Reply)

not bad taste as such...
Im going for the wrong end of the stick here,but pehaps the worst bad taste joke i ever told was in a law class once whilst very drunk. I was chatting away to the chap next to me, and then decided to tell the joke about the englishman who gets shot down by germans, and loses a leg, and asks for it to be sent home to england, but they say no coz they think he is trying to escape. You know the one, its dead funny when your drunk.

So, anyway, i told this joke to this fellow, then suddenly realised through my woozy drunken eyes, the fog lifted and realised he was sitting there in a wheelchair.

He only had one leg.
(justjuice, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:10, Reply)

Simpsons and Jive Bunny
My first two albums (on tape) were Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers and the Simpsons Sing the Blues.

I still think they are good. Well, the Simpsons at least...
( Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:02, Reply)

I know a lot of you are gonna be offended but...
Doctor Who.

I was obsessed with this TV show as a little tot.

But the show never made any sense. The Dr. guy didn't have a real name. No one knew where he came from.

If a guy in a trench coat and scarf came up to me and said, "I'm the Doctor. Come with me in my police box for an important mission!" I would think he was a child molester!
(fcknuts, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 19:01, Reply)

Crying over bad taste!
I used to wear the crazy patterned leggings with the baggy sweaters
the best being the fab combo of a pair of black and white large houndstooth leggings and a black sweater that had black string hangign off of it ..i looked like a fucking gorilla...My dad thought i was so cute....it's really sad now that i think about it
Oh andI remember being REALLY upset in the 7th grade b/c no one got me the second spice girls cd for christmas....
(roxandsand24, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 18:54, Reply)

The first single I ever bought...
was Shampoo's song Trouble, it was on the soundtrack to the Power Rangers movie!

Bloody hell, 9 years ago that was.
( King Ralph is drunk, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 18:31, Reply)

Limp Bizkit
...

Yeah?
( gazz, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 18:16, Reply)

Between around 5 and 10...
...Years old, I found butter really tasty, in large blobs.


I should also mention a classmate of mine: He doesn't brush his teeth & he washes up about once a month. His breakfast consists of bread with a centimeter-thick layer of butter and coke.
Spooky.


Linus
(Linusmartensson, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 17:21, Reply)

Grim.
Oh, the shame!

When I was a kid, I had a pair of glasses with Roland Rat on the sides!

I actually bought BAD by Michael Jackson, and hid it because I was metal and all my mates would laugh at me

Permed bobs. Except mine wasn't because it's curly anyway. I looked a right mushroom-head

Jelly shoes - blisters and sweatiness - nasty things!

My skin tight snow washed jeans from Justins (now Burtons), and yes, a stripey shirt. Mine was green and white.
(Beklet is inexplicably angry, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 17:10, Reply)

batman ruled
me and my bro got batman and spider man costumes for christmas we also got a trampoline we wore the costumes for about a month im so glad there isnt any video of us although there is lots of video embarrasing video o well looks like i aint gunna let my birds meet my parents/entire family till im married maybe not evan then.
(fwack bang on it, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 17:03, Reply)

not me my brother
used to dance like a complete spastic to the power rangers theme tune
(fwack bang on it, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 16:54, Reply)

OK...so what if I still have bad taste???
I last decorated my room about 8 years ago, It's still the same(people at college still dont belive me about this.)
I have... A leapord skin pattern carpet and alternate purple and orange walls. (Oh yeh and I have long hair)
(mr.BIG I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 16:44, Reply)

It never leaves you
Luminous socks (pink, yellow and green) worn as odd socks and purchase from the market, making me look like a day glo pikey twunt

A blue blazer, with a gold crest on it bought as a 14 year old in the miss-guided belief that it would help me look older and get into pubs, when I was 5’2” and hadn’t started shaving, trying to look 18 by dressing like a midget pensioner as never going to work.

Abba arrival and the rainbow album, still I bought cd’s by Vanilla and s-club7 in my 20’s so I suppose bad taste never really goes away does it ?
(tufty the chav slayer, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 16:40, Reply)

Thank god for my mum
I used to dance in my front room to Mike Oldfield, and it's only thanks to my mother that I don't have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tattoo.

I also tried to grow my hair long in early adolescence and had what could be best described as a ratty, uberlong bowl-cut. My mum eventually made me get a hair cut.

Thanks mum!
(weirzbowski, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 15:54, Reply)

The outhere brothers
Don't stop wiggle wiggle.

Oh how I cry when I see it hiding on the bottom of my CD rack. I've never had the heart to throw it out.
(Deiwos - Woo I found my old name!, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 15:44, Reply)

my first album I bought was the Michael Jackson one with the Earth song on it,
but i still like that

the first single I bought was Babylon Zoo - Spaceman, and people always mock me for that. But I think it's great. I'd buy it on CD if I could be bothered to look, instead I shall rock out to the tape!
( stevierar, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 15:25, Reply)

lets see now, i think i have a history of this kind of thing
Aged 5-10

Pink leg warmers/stripy leg warmers
Florescent socks (I had orange and yellow and swapped one of each for pink and green with my brother)
Ra ra skirt
Shaking Stevens and Culture club albums
Wearing all yellow for a few months (including a beret)
Red pixie boots (although maybe they were cool, I was 6)
Fluorescent Bermuda shorts (although my little brother was worse for these)
Pale yellow pants with bunny rabbits on
A pink cardigan with bunnies on, including pompom tails – my gran made this so I think it does have some cool
Jelly bean shoes
Thick NHS glasses (in either blue. pink or clear)
Crimped hair sprayed orange and green (looks even wierder as my hair is straw coloured)

My brother also had a global hypercolour t-shirt, and in his even younger days, nylon t-shirts with spiderman/superman/racing cars on them

As a teenager:-

Pale blue and pink shellsuit (with spots)
Trainers with sticking out tongues
Writing in purple and orange in school books
My short hair years were not long but it got very close to a mullet/bad perm combo (although no real perm, my hair just went like that) and involved too much hair spray
Thick purple/yellow tights under shorts
BIG glasses in various colours including a pink and red pair and a pair with mottled green and blue

At Uni

Greeny blue hair, red woolly hat, green and blue checked surfy trousers, a purple shirt and blue denim DMs


Nowadays my clothes are boring - although I am a Live Role Player so sometimes my clothes are in the style of a bad taste pirate
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 15:07, Reply)

When I came home from school,
I would change out of my uniform into a Bugs Bunny t-shirt, some tracksuit bottoms, no socks (very important, that part) and a backwards baseball cap, making sure a small tuft of hair stuck out the front.

I thought I looked the mutt's nuts.
(scoob666 Ain't Nuthin' Ta F' Wit, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 14:22, Reply)

"Taste" is ephemeral and personal
The hideous brown stripy nylon garments from BHS and Littlewoods that I was dressed in from 1967 to 1977 were all I knew and so perfectly acceptable. After learning to despise them, I see the same styles now back in fashion, and my (much younger) brother has a Missoni shirt (circa £200) that is identical to a vile "Lord John" brand shirt I wore in 1972.

Likewise the music - apart from the nasty twee stuff - if you bin it, you will regret it later, if only from nostalgia.

Although finding the first three Toyah albums in my parents attic last month was embarrassing. But I was only 11. And wanked over the photos of her more than listened to it.
( godstar, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 13:36, Reply)

lies, damn lies and
the first single I ever bought.
When asked, I usually say Scritti Politti, "The Word Girl". Avant-garde post-punk art-school funk, pretty bad taste.

The truth is, I say this only to disguise the fact that the first single I bought was, in fact, "I know him so well" by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson. From the musical "Chess".

I still know all the words. I rest my case.
(sags tupac-a-hats, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 13:26, Reply)

When I were young...
I developed an attachment to two...interesting objects. One was a pair of bright yellow lyrca cycling shorts (I couldn't even ride a bike back then) and the other was a white fake fur coat (I'm male). I would wear these two in tandem almost every day and no one had the simple basic human decency to bully me for it. Bastards! I kept going for almost a year

/first post
(Dromedary, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 13:06, Reply)

When
iI was young I went through a stage of eating raw sausages, now when I think back of what could of been in them at the time it makes me cringe.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 12:55, Reply)

Eiffel 65...
... and that fucking shitty arsey 'Da ba dee' song.
I went and bought the album!
*cringes just thinking about it*
( Noo_Noo Is now 'BeerElf Jnr', I guess :), Sat 11 Dec 2004, 12:18, Reply)

mauve cauldry trousers
Oh my god, what where my parents thinking.. Sending me to school in 'hand me down' (not even new !) cauldry trousers which where purple. Like i think my mum had been given these by a friend in the 70's and my brother wore them, then outgrew them, then i had to suffer them into the early 80's. Sad thing is i i kinda liked them in the end tried to squeeze itno them. Finished up after one too many skidzies down the steep hills in the park...
(The_artist_formally_known_as_alz0r, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 11:36, Reply)