Guilty Musical Secret
Was sitting on the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) this morning on the way into work with the iPod on listening to ... Meat Loaf and tapping my feet and using my hands on my thighs as a drum kit (I play sax, not drums, but there's not much in the way of sax in the songs of Mr Loaf).

What's your guilty musical secret?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:05, 38 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Reach by S Club 7
Toxic by Britany Spears (one of the most well-constructed pieces of electronic pop ever)
Listening to N-Dubz with daughter and enjoying it.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:10, Reply)

Don't stop moving by S Club
fucking brilliant

it's not a secret though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:55, Reply)

I preferred Starsailor's version

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 12 May 2009, 9:24, Reply)

I don't entirely dislike N-Dubz's "Father can you hear me" song.
I hate Britney though, and the entire team of people who wrote her songs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:09, Reply)

I'm very ashamed to admit this.
Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight".
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 12 May 2009, 8:20, Reply)

No shame in that
When I was a baby Edmund I was involved in a dodgy political exercise and that song was banned from UK radio stations by the government. Don't mind admitting, as a 20-year old, I was positively crapping myself when I first heard it when I returned from hot n sandy.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:27, Reply)

ooo tell me the song. Please?
There is a brilliant cadbury's ad with "In the Air Tonight" where a man in a gorilla suit does the drum solo - it's fucking brilliant!
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 12 May 2009, 8:31, Reply)

Like the reverse of Neighbours and Home and Away
is seems you're a few months behind us on adverts. That makes up for knowing Harold was returning six months before it happened.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:36, Reply)

Sorry, my bad
It's the Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight" piece.

I'm afraid when I see the Cadburys gorilla on the TV I'll typically grab the first two available drumstick-like-things and play along.

Yes, I am 3.

100% of fact: Phil Collins was originally the drummer in Genesis and Peter Gabriel was the singer.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:36, Reply)

I believe I knew that already :P
but it's a cool fact anyway huh?

And I do that too. When I'm driving I hit the steering wheel with my fingers for the solo.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 12 May 2009, 8:44, Reply)

but do you know the dodgy political exercise?
suspect it might have been before you were born :(
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:49, Reply)

No I don't believe I do...
I was born in '92. My earliest memory is from '95 when I was stung more then thirty times by european wasps and taken to hospital.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 12 May 2009, 8:55, Reply)

Bollocks, that makes me feel old.
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. In 1991 a large coalition of about 40 countries soldiers (including one (very young) Ed) kicked Iraqs butt out of Kuwait then came home to be completely ignored by the public.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:01, Reply)

Now I knew Iraq invaded Kuwait
don't understand why you got no support though?? Was it an unpopular war?
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 12 May 2009, 9:08, Reply)

not a particularly popular war
or didn't appear to be when we got home. suspect that this might have been that most people look at any war that lasts six weeks to be a meaningless, small skirmish without realising just how much hard work was associated with it and the effect of being Scud'd every day and night, working 14-18 hour shifts and 1-2 hours sleep a night.

I completely applaud the people who've been in Iraq and Afghanistan this time around but people fail to realise that "my" war was the last time, hopefully in history, when multiple armies face each other across a battlefield measured both in terms of miles and gallons of blood spilled. Just wish that some of the public support thats being lavished on "our boys" now had come our way.

/rant.

Sorry. Personal, pet peeve.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:13, Reply)

This is great
and would probably do well in its own thread.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:51, Reply)

which one,
guilty musical secret or eds pet rant?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:55, Reply)

Rant
You speak the truth, right there. It'd make for a debate, I reckon. I've been wrong before, though :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:25, Reply)

I've just
suggested it as a future qotw topic: grudges.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:31, Reply)

It's clicked.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 11:39, Reply)

I am the worlds biggest Carpenters fan.
But it's not a secret, and I don't feel guilty.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:38, Reply)

Great misheard Carpenter lyric
"Calling all you cunts, on interplanetary craft..."

Otherwise agreed.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:23, Reply)

I have been to see...
Busted and McFly.

And it was ace!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:40, Reply)

Five Colours
is another awesome piece of pop.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:46, Reply)

I love singing hyms in the car on the way home from work.
One of my favorite songs is Trapped by Colonel Abrahams.
( girlinthehole, Tue 12 May 2009, 8:58, Reply)

hahaha!
I'd forgot that one. The other from that era was Oran' Juice Jones - The Rain.

"I saw you (and him, and him) walking in the rain..."

Classic crap.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:07, Reply)

I fucking love me a bit of Meatloaf.
Bat out of Hell II was one of the first tapes I ever brought, and "It's all coming back" is one of my favorite songs.

It's not a secret about my love for Will Smith, but my love for Will Young is, I think he's fucking ace, esspeicaly if you forget he got famous from Pop Idol.

I did my work experiance in the docklands, and nothing* quite takes my breath away than when you turn that corner and the whole london skyline opens up.

* well, in respect to archetecture.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:08, Reply)

Echo Beach
Martha & the Muffins is one of my workout tracks.

I'm not a bumgay.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 12 May 2009, 9:30, Reply)

That's a fantastic song
Also "Because the Night" by Patti Smith is similar in style and also awesome.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:29, Reply)

Justin Timberlake
I make no apologies.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 12 May 2009, 9:49, Reply)

I love...
...Rock your body.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:02, Reply)

I am not ashamed to say it...
...but others scoff at the fact that I like Nick Hayward (Haircut 100)and have been to see him live. North of a Miracle is a lost classic.

Dr Bumgay2
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:05, Reply)

Where Are You Baby
by Betty Boo. Cheesy as fuck and camp to boot, but it makes me grin like a loon.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 12 May 2009, 10:06, Reply)

Betty Boo
would fucking GET. IT.

repeatedly
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:29, Reply)

Yes
AKA Alison Clarkson.

Would though.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 12 May 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Allyson Hannigan
OMG yes yes yes yes yes...band camp or not.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:33, Reply)

That one Backstreet Boys track
Where they turn into monsters from literature in the video?

I like that one.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:33, Reply)

Think I might win...
Meatloaf is awsome and you need feel no guilt! You would need some, however if you secretly loved the Viking power metal stylings of 'Manowar'. With such classic tunes as 'Blood of the kings', 'All men play on ten', 'Guyana: Cult of the damned', 'Heart of Steel' and the classic 'Woman be my slave' its hard to fathom why they never made it into the mainstream...

"Manowar,
Born to live, Forever-more,
The right to conquer every shore!"

Check them out, they look hillarious in their loin cloths
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Tue 12 May 2009, 10:44, Reply)