b3tans, I am listening to Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer - since I'm home alone I'm listening to all my music including the really cheesy stuff.

What's your most shameful, you'd die if anyone found out, musical secret? Mine is this www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBoxjLPJeUE (it's not a rickroll, although I do actually like that song and listen to it all the way through every time I get rickrolled).
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 13:51, 63 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I listen...
to Phil Collins. AND. Michael Jackson. And Bon Jovi. And even Simon and Garfunkel.

Shut up. I'm ashamed enough!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 31 May 2009, 13:54, Reply)

Flatmate likes Genesis.
And Michael Jackson (I'm convinced Darth Jackson on Britain's Got Talent was a b3tan). And Abba. Which all nestle on his Creative Zen among the heavy metal and industrial and probably feel quite uncomfortable. He also likes Girls Aloud for their music and not their slappertastic natures (which when we were together did make me feel better, except that I hate them and nearly cunted him in the fuck for waking me up with them one morning).

I also love Dragonforce even though I know they're cheesy (except for Through The Fire and Flames) and Simon and Garfunkel :) don't feel ashamed VC!
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:00, Reply)

At the moment
I love the Cakeroll song. It's so goddamn fucking CATCHY.

Other than that, I'm very afraid of giving my music tastes out, in case I'm judged/people listen to the artists I like and think "What the hell is that shit?"

One of my top-played songs is about date-rape, bullying and abortion.
Oh, and Oasis. WOULD Amanda Palmer in a flash.

If you don't have a grin on your face from that song...erm, you've probably been offended by it. But I love it. It's so fucking HAPPY!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:04, Reply)

This is AMAZING.
I love it a big huggy bunch. Thank you! :)

/is unable to be offended by things these days
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:08, Reply)

As far as I remember she really was raped
though I doubt it was aborted by a coathanger to a soundtrack of cheesy cheery pop. It's an amazing song, I would love to be able to perform it. She's got another song about backstreet abortion, it's great - very sultry and dark.

I love the Numa Numa Song (Dragostea din Tei - the love of the linden tree, I watched Grease in Romanian once and remembered the word for "love")
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:12, Reply)

In that case, I have so much respect for her
being able to laugh about it. Jamesthegill introduced me to the Dresden Dolls some time ago but I think I prefer this :)

This weekend has been one of musical rediscovery since I got my new PC and put everything on it from my external hard drive; some of it is total shit and needs to be deleted (for example, flatmate's complete Weird Al discography) but some of it is gold!
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:18, Reply)

Oh you might know the song I mean
Mandy Goes To Med School - the one that starts with "I've been feeling dull as a coat hanger, pretty as a picture of a patient on a fresh ID; giddy as gang-banger with a pair of sutres where his magic Johnson ought to be"

Would kill to be able to sing like her! My friend Sarah introduced me to them, hough by weird coincidence I had heard Coin Operated Boy a few days before and was WTFing about it. BRILLIANT song.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:22, Reply)

I'm currently acquiring
her albums; my laptop appears to have eaten my Dresden Dolls :(
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:27, Reply)

Love the Dresden Dolls
You would probably also like The Bastard Fairies. Also awesome. See also "We're all going to hell".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:39, Reply)

Yay :) I'll check them out more!
Also, could someone test this link for me? It's an Excel file of my iTunes library:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rP4PPcHw7cz4J7kO2FBiPdQ&hl=en
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:51, Reply)

Apart from needing to do it as a proper href type link,
"We're sorry, [email protected] does not have permission to access this spreadsheet."

I think you need to do a sharing thing.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:58, Reply)

Oh cock.
I had a feeling it might not work. I'm proud that the solution was so straightforward though; I might see if there's a way to make the spreadsheet feed off my library data with some kind of giant macro like we do at work.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:06, Reply)

ahah that is BRILLIANT
I loves it!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 31 May 2009, 14:13, Reply)

Wow
what a song !

My guilty musical pleasure - Jean-Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield.

Uber-geek music for the over 40s. Don't put it on often mind...
( I_Was_Mordred, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:16, Reply)

Moonlight Shadow is AWESOME.
For some reason, Italian radio is obsessed with it, which is where I heard it :)

*resists the temptation to say "Jean-Michel Jarre is a fraud"*
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 14:19, Reply)

:O The Cakeroll song is genius.
LazyTown + rap (which I usually hate) = epic win.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:26, Reply)

When I saw her back in February
She had a long rant between songs about how UK radio stations wouldn't play it because it's "making light of tragedy". She mentioned that gallows humour is something we Brits do extremely well (at which point I wondered if she was on here herself) and proceeded to play a tragic, minor key version of the song.

Thankfully it's been recorded for posterity on youtube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbGItbX7tA
(jamesthegill opens new tabs with his scroll wheel, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:29, Reply)

Pah.
If it's cathartic for her, which I suspect it may be, then I applaud her.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:34, Reply)

Bloody brilliant song
very brave of her to put it in public like that. Here on QOTW when we go for carthesis it's still reletivly anonymous, but to perform it in public, with that much humour - excellent.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:38, Reply)

I hope she tours here again soon
I'd like to see that.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:42, Reply)

Me too.
Waiting to have cash to go and see Jenny Lewis in August, too. And teh Izzard in December.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:00, Reply)

Oh, and
Livin' On A Prayer is one of the songs that can transport me back to leeds. The others are Sweet Child of Mine and Don't Stop Me Now, oh, and that song by Battles that's a bit strange. Love it.

Anyone going to Leeds? I'm working there!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:06, Reply)

Sweet Child O'Mine
is one of my favourite songs ever ever ever. It transports me back to a packed Mungo's on the UKC campus, and unfortunately the night I met Twat Ex With Child. Livin' On A Prayer reminds me of nights in the union totally wasted and squealing to every song we knew.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:13, Reply)

Livin' on a prayer
That takes me back... I lost my virginity to that "Whoa, We're half way there, Livin' on a prayer" - never been so apt.

Sweet Child of Mine.... 3am, NSDF 2005, rigging stage kit like there was no tomorrow having just found that elusive time zone that gives you 28 hours in the day when you really, really need it.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:28, Reply)

Stalker Girl lost her virginity to Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day.
I hate that song; especially as she told me the exact line where he first stuck it in her foul mimsy and I do involuntary Kegel exercises when I hear it now. Do. Not. Want.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:57, Reply)

Right
So that's my cue to recite it line by line...
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:36, Reply)

*cries*
No! No! I'll be good!
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:39, Reply)

Don't worry
I hate that song too. Green Day, I do not get on with very well.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:00, Reply)

Me neither
but especially that one song. The bitch ruined American Idiot for me and all she had to do was mention her minge.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:03, Reply)

I can tell you what killed American Idiot for me
Doing lights and sound for a local youth group, showing off the bands they support. Of the 12 bands, I remember 8 of them playing it, and not particularly well either.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:10, Reply)

Oh dear God it's in my iTunes,
Apparently the only songs I don't hate are Jesus of Suburbia and Holiday.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:17, Reply)

Select all
Delete! Sorted.

Than burn the hard drive.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:22, Reply)

D: not my new PC!
*cradles tower* If I burn the hard drive it'll void the warranty!

*deletes*
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:38, Reply)

I'll let you off this time
But if I catch that filth on your computer again, I may have to put you over my knee!
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:41, Reply)

Oh, I wouldn't want it to come to that.
*sneakily reinstalls filth*

Also, I am unashamed in my love for John Denver. I downloaded his entire back catalogue last summer and it makes me ridiculously happy.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:46, Reply)

Not really my sort of thing
Great voice though. It doesn't make me stabby like so much C&W does. Or Green Day.

*sigh* Right, come here and bend over,,,
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:51, Reply)

*does as she's told*
Teh filth is gone and purged from the external, too.

I grew up listening to John Denver; my father's taste in music is appalling in all other directions but he did have all John Denver's albums and played them a lot, especially on long car journeys.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:57, Reply)

*spank your tender cheeks*
Now never let it reappear again.

Instead, go on a ten hour car ride with only one John Denver CD which you're not allowed to turn off.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:00, Reply)

Yes master.
Except I don't have a car and only a provisional licence. *selects one album in iTunes and air steers*
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:02, Reply)

This is indeed a problem.
I like the mental image of you sitting there, air steering and making car noises with the alum on... would pay good money to see it.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:06, Reply)

The new PC doesn't have a webcam
because the one built into my laptop used to flash and made me paranoid it had turned itself on and was broadcasting my morning hair and make-upless face across the internets.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:09, Reply)

Ah ha
This is why I like having a webcam with a lens cap. Although I think people would be more worried if they saw me with makeup on. Nothing wrong with no makeup though. People look fine without it :)

You have just reminded me of something to put in the main QOTW this week though.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:17, Reply)

Do Evanescence
also result in spankages? Although I'm more afraid of flatmate coming home and taking the piss...
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 19:49, Reply)

Only if you want them to
I quite like them myself.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 19:57, Reply)

A difficult decision.
See, I enjoy Evanescence in small doses, perhaps not enough to warrant said spanking...
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 23:41, Reply)

Classic Queen
at 6th Form we had a record player in the common room and I think just two albums - Play the Game and News of the World.

Whenever I here any of those tracks - It's Late, All Dead, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Save Me - I'm transported back to simpler time. A time of acne, near-permanent semis and neverending games of Canadian Gin Rummy.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:46, Reply)

The lads in my year
were obsessed with Bohemian Rhapsody and used to break into it at the slightest provocation. It was awesome. There was also the day of tormenting the evil Domestic Science teacher above by playing She Hates Me by Puddle of Mudd while she was teaching Year 7, with creative volume control:

"She hates me... sheFUCKing hates me..."

Seeing your comment about Gin Rummy too, I have just remembered the game of Nut-Ball that used to accompany Bohemian Rhapsody. I think you can guess the rules.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:54, Reply)

I love heavy metal
Can't get enough of it. Look at WinAmp, youll find bands like Arch Enemy, Carcass, Nightwish, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Necrosadistic Goat Torture etc. But look further... You'll find such delights as all three Smurf's albums. Every ISIHAC I can get my hands on. S Club 7. Ben Folds. Barry Manilow.

And people think it's porn that makes me stop them using my laptop...
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:34, Reply)

Metal ... love it. There are no words.
Mostly stuff that flatmate also likes, like Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Korn (yes, he's 25 and still listens to Korn. Bless), 'tallica, etc. I'm quite fond of some Nightwish (but only Tarja era; flatmate is totally in love with her and her solo album is lully too). I've also just finished downloading S Club 7's greatest hits; hated them when they were out first but I'm on a total nostalgia trip now!
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 15:54, Reply)

Gid you ever watch the S Club 7 TV show?
Found some on youtube the other day, really takes me back.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:03, Reply)

From time to time
and usually when my parents weren't about as they'd have taken the piss something rotten! *goes to look*
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:12, Reply)

ISIHAC!
I got all those off the torrents a while back.

I currently have all of the Goon Shows but I haven't listened to them yet.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:47, Reply)

Goon Show, Navy Lark
As many of the BBC comedies as I can find, really.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 16:50, Reply)

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
www.mininova.org/tor/635217

Has all the ISIHAC, but if you use uTorrent you can select to download just the I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:26, Reply)

Oooh, shiny
Thankyou! Might have some Clue I don't have as well...

Edit: Yup - it's got a lot of early Clue I don't have
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:29, Reply)

Livin' on a Prayer
I once heard this song performed by a marching band (all brass, etc) in a parade that was held outside my former office. It seemed to be a non-sequitur until I realised Bon Jovi is Italian and it was "Columbus Day".

FWIW, JBJ used to come to my office now and again, as he was friendly with my boss. Tiny chap, with huge dazzling chompers.
( cackers, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:41, Reply)

Italian?
Didn't know that. Fits with the rest of what I know about him.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:44, Reply)

If I'm not making this up (which I may be)
the correct spelling of his name is Bongiovi.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:58, Reply)

that is correct
How do I know this? Uh, nevermind.
( cackers, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:29, Reply)

I thought I'd invented it
in the oddness and Italian-speaking part of my brain.
( Maladicta, Sun 31 May 2009, 18:40, Reply)

You should, with a bit of work,
be able to select just the bits you want.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:41, Reply)

I have
Unfortunatly, I think there are gaps in some of my later ones as well - this is defianatly better organised. I'll just grab the lot then sort it out later - I have several gb of stuff than I need to work through and rename/tag/delete at some point.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 31 May 2009, 17:43, Reply)

this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK0y8C-c2Jw


kicks arse
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:09, Reply)