This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
Guess I am the odd one out. I like almost all music except Rap, some Hip-Hop and Disco. Grew up on old time Country Western. Own Hank Wms SR. on vinal and Iggy and the Stoogs first release on vinal too. Have over 800 vinal in storage, many are bootlegs. I also like Beethoven's 5th and 9th. Swan Lake and the Killers and Kid Rock. Will give anything a listen once (Britney is out so is Justin Timberlake). Have alot of music no one has heard of so I never mention it to people. Like The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Or The Fugs, The Ogen Edsel Jajaleia Blues Ensamble Modo Bazario Band, Barns and Barns. Shirley Temple's Greatest Hits (on black vinal). Mostly collectables, but stuff you don't go around telling your friends. KWIM?
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MadHatter wrote:
Vitamin C. Shut up. Boys Vs. Girls is a good song.
I have the Vitamin C album too xD Hahaha. I also have M2M, Me & My, a bunch of random eurobeat, and an assortment of CDs by Ayumi Hamasaki (shame shame shame... I hate her but I loved her way back when I was 11 and her music isn't all bad) and... ....Gackt. *dodges flaming pitchforks* ;-; Illness Illusion is a cool song...
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Hm....
I was making an AMV involving Utena and the backstreet boys.
*hides under her desk*
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hyacinth_black wrote:
I actually quite like a FEW (emphasis on F-E-W) of Britney Spears' songs...
Don't hate me.
Meep.
EDIT:Clover wrote:
Evanescence and "Sexy Back" by Justin Timeberlake
Quoted for truth.
I love Sexyback. And Evanescence. Well... some of Evanescence. The songs that don't sound like everything else they do.
Indeed. Sexyback is too good.
Ditto about Evanescence.
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I've never even heard Sexyback, or that Fergie song everyone I know considers a guilty pleasure. I don't know how I managed to wander into this pop music bomb shelter but I'm not about to change it.
The other day I carpooled with a bunch of girls who AREN'T in that bubble and now I have a bunch of Jay-Z songs on my MP3 player.
Ladies is pimps too. ;]
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I think I'm the nerdiest bunch of us yet. I love old video game tunes. Especially from NES and SNES and Genesis games. I play them using WinAmp and a special plug-in to hear the songs I REALLY love. I'd put them on my PSP, but I've no utility to make them into MP3s. Ah, well. You gotta take what you can get, right?
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BioKraze wrote:
I think I'm the nerdiest bunch of us yet. I love old video game tunes. Especially from NES and SNES and Genesis games. I play them using WinAmp and a special plug-in to hear the songs I REALLY love. I'd put them on my PSP, but I've no utility to make them into MP3s. Ah, well. You gotta take what you can get, right?
I do that, too. But I bought the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. The imported one. God I love that game... but yeah, I have everything from Xenogears to Sonic to Super Mario World soundtracks on my compy... I mention it to other people, though. Since I'm a senior member (5 year anniversary was in February!!) of a very prominent RPG website/forum with a pretty successful online radio, I don't mind. I'm used to talking about video game music, I was even thinking of making my own radio show with them. (I've also convinced them to play the SKU Sega Saturn duel songs a couple times.. hehe).
Most of the stuff I don't mention to other people is because I listen to it for the simple fact that it makes me feel like I'm 9 years old again. Those were my glory days, sadly.. I never got into N'Sync or the Backstreet Boys, though, but I do think the Backstreet boys were the better of the two when my friends would make me choose. I liked Eifel 65 the most, personally. The "Blue" song was all the rage back then.
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I dunno if its something to really be ashamed of....but it's something I don't mention in public....I have almost six hours of Enya on iTunes...her completed works....Christmas specials and all.
BioKraze wrote:
I think I'm the nerdiest bunch of us yet. I love old video game tunes. Especially from NES and SNES and Genesis games. I play them using WinAmp and a special plug-in to hear the songs I REALLY love. I'd put them on my PSP, but I've no utility to make them into MP3s. Ah, well. You gotta take what you can get, right?
Are you kidding? That music is greatness. *wants Mario theme songs on her iPod*
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guilty pleasures....oh man
I actually like Willa Ford's "I wanna be bad"
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I'm utterly terrified by the fact that I like Hilary Duff's new song, "With Love". To make matters worse, I don't fight the urge to dance to it... BUT I DON"T DANCE!!!!
And I actually like Avril Lavigne.
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Bringing back the old guilty pleasures thread.
I talk music all day long; I'll talk your ear off. But, I don't like talking about my own music for some reason. Working with some bands, now, about doing some collaborations, and maybe some live stuff the next time I'm in the States, but I know when we do, I'll hype all their stuff except our collaborations. And that'll be the more pop/traditional stuff, too. I got sort of pressured/guilted into putting up my recent stuff. When I work with bands or other musicians, I try to veer to more danceable music, you know? But on my own, it's just stress-relief, it's making sounds for the sake of sounds, rhythms that don't necessarily lead anywhere or develop a hook.
I notice, I do the same with similar music from other folks, too, though. I don't go pushing indulgent jazz or freeform music, Sun Ra's We Travel the Spaceways, Zombina's She Has No Reflection, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, that sort of thing. Soundscape stuff. Fully-active music.
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Hmm. I'm trying to think whether I'm embarrassed about any of my music anymore. I am no longer embarrassed about Eminem and Dolly Parton, that's for sure. They're both solid artists.
Liking Katy Perry stopped being embarrassing to me when my army buddy told me she and Lady Gaga were the best to listen to while using a machine gun, and then proceeded to heavily imply that he'll sing or dance around to it after getting off a really good or hard shot. This was during active duty, too, so I guess people have died to those songs.
Hmm. I guess Avril Lavigne would be the only one I'm embarrassed by anymore. She's kind of an embarrassment as a human being, and especially as a punk. She's definitely everything I despised when I was a punk-- fake, shallow, overproduced-- not to mention those dead eyes in all her photos. Still, she's had a couple catchy songs.
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I'm a big rock, punk and metal fan. But my guiltu pleasures are those boybands which bring some nostalgic memories from my teenage years when that music was all I listened to (and for some reason I'd probably never admit it ) My favourites back then were Backstreet Boys and Westlife (which remains in my heart)
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I...I still love Hanson. (turns red) They were the first band I ever saw in person so they will always have a special place in my heart.
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Tom Lehrer. That is all.
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Riri-kins wrote:
I...I still love Hanson. (turns red) They were the first band I ever saw in person so they will always have a special place in my heart.
Hanson is forever ruined for me because of a very awkwardly timed 'mmbop' x3
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Fuck I like Coldplay, and super optimistic pop shit like Marianna's Trench and Panic at the Disco.
And I really, really, really love this song:
Anyone who has ever grown up in a white trash backroad area should empathize. On the surface, it's light and funny, almost a parody of a crooning drunk-at-the-bar country ballad. But it sounds so self aware. White trash life is shit and you get stuck in these cycles of shit decisions and hopelessness. The guy is singing about going back to prison, but he's resigned, not surprised. What else is there for people like him?
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I am so not gansta even though I like some gangster rap now and then. Yet, I would have a time trying to explain this to some of the guys.
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