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13 December 2006

Secret Song Continued... Nervous, lost, dazed and slightly confused, I accidently mis-understood the fact that such threads of the above nature aren't meant for MetaFilter, I see this now and understand the error of my ways and whilst some of the locals were less than understanding of their new and curious visitor, many thought it best to humour me while they had the chance, and I've got some decent responses. Have a look at it, can any of you fine souls add any more to the list?

Hope this can break some ice, too. I'm Matt, by the way. Nice to meet you all.
post by: Matt_MP at: 15:23 | 54 comments
"Tell it to My Heart" by Taylor Dayne, definitely.

Welcome, Matt_MP!
posted by initapplette 13 December | 15:27
"Misdemeanor" by Foster Sylvers

Wuddup, Matt? Pleasure to meet ya.
posted by Joe Famous 13 December | 15:33
I have no shame and don't believe in 'guilty pleasures,' but I love (unironically) plenty of songs that others would find embarassing:

"Saturday Night" Bay City Rollers
"Shelter" Taylor Dayne
"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey
"Fallen Angel" Poison
"Brandy" Looking Glass
"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" Edison Lighthouse
"Higher" Creed
"Angel" Aerosmith
"Stranger" Jefferson Starship
"I Don't Mind At All" Bourgeois Tagg
"MMMMBop" Hanson
and countless others

on preview "Hey Little Girl" is Foster's best, Joe.
posted by jonmc 13 December | 15:34
Hello Matt. And welcome.
Unfortunately I do not have a favourite song.

Some songs that I like are ...
Chardonnay - Cerys Matthews
Crazy mary - Pearl Jam version.
Black Horse and a Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall.
Pretty Good Day - Martha Wainwright

When I was younger I remember being asked by a friends mother why it was I seemed to prefer female singers. It took me years to realise that she may have been asking a completely different question.

It's a shame I can't remember what answer I gave.
posted by seanyboy 13 December | 15:34
Hi Matt!!! I like the Sprout Happy Birthday song.

happy birthday (claps twice) to you
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ... to you

First you're one, then you're two
then you're three, then you're four
posted by danostuporstar 13 December | 15:36
*welcomes matt with a whuffle*

I have to say, it's "The Sign" by Ace of Base. One time, my friends and I put that song on repeat, with the base turned all the way up (in the middle of the afternoon). It took 20 minutes for a neighbor to complain!
posted by muddgirl 13 December | 15:38
I get a lot of stick for still owning the first two Shampoo albums. One day I'll get around to eBaying them. Probably. I should, as I never listen to them. Maybe they'll come in useful one day for a compilation of the ironic variety.

Also: hullo Matt.
posted by TheDonF 13 December | 15:39
"MMMMBop" Hanson

Heh. I thought I was the only one...

And welcome Matt.
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 15:44
Hi Matt. . nice to have you here. . .

er. . .

"Popular" from the Wicked soundtrack by Kristen Chenowith.
posted by danf 13 December | 15:44
In the old days MetaFilter would have tarred, feathered and chased you out of town for an honest mistake like that. Where have all the assholes gone?

"MetaFilter: Where Have All The Assholes Gone?"

Someone once wrote me an e-mail, btw, and told me it was against the rules to tagline my own quotes on MeFi. He seemed quite peeved about it.

See, I can do that here occasionally and no one hates me much.

Secret songs? I've been listening to Out of the Blue, the whole CD by ELO, constantly lately. I still have the original vinyl album somewhere.

Someone, somewhere, will never look at me the same after admitting that.
posted by shane 13 December | 15:46
"MMMMBop" Hanson

Heh. I thought I was the only one...

I used to call Hanson "The Aryan Jackson Five" and plenty of people I know agree that song is right up there with 'I Want You Back' and 'ABC' as pop perfection.
posted by jonmc 13 December | 15:47
Wow - I thought even in a crazy place like this, some may disown me if I admitted to liking that belter of a number from Hanson... Though know I shall join the club!

Thanks so far guys!

By the way, muddgirl, I was told the lyrics to a rather rude version of The Sign when I was a tiny chap by my elder brother but sadly I've forgotten some of the rude words - were you ever told of this work of wonder?
posted by Matt_MP 13 December | 15:49
"Against All Odds" - Phil Collins

"My Humps" - Black Eyed Peas

Any of the songs sung in Gaelic on that (dreadful) PBS "Celtic Woman" concert.
posted by Atom Eyes 13 December | 15:51
I've never felt what you call guilt
I still believe "do listen to what thou wilt"
posted by Wolfdog 13 December | 15:52
Though know I shall join the club!

Thanks so far guys!

Um, yeah, the honeymoon is over ... ther's no 'k' in now, hansonlover.

/howsthat?
posted by danostuporstar 13 December | 15:59
Tub Thumping - Chumbawumba
Toxic - Britney Spears
Mmm Bop - Hansen
Informer - Snow (hey, it's the 'a licky boom boom down' song!)
Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child

Ah it feels so good...

Someone once wrote me an e-mail, btw, and told me it was against the rules to tagline my own quotes on MeFi. He seemed quite peeved about it.
OMG. Please email me and tell me who? That's hilarious that someone would be peeved over something so stupid. I love metafilter.
posted by iconomy 13 December | 16:01
Gasolina by Daddy Yankee
posted by drezdn 13 December | 16:02
Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith.

It happened to be the song that was queued up in my tape deck as I departed for my first real vacation without my family. And I happened to be driving to someplace blissfully warm. I can't help getting happier everytime I hear it.
posted by Mitheral 13 December | 16:05
Someone once wrote me an e-mail, btw, and told me it was against the rules to tagline my own quotes on MeFi. He seemed quite peeved about it.

You are not alone. I too have gotten an unkind anonymous email or three in my time...
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 16:27
Toxic by Britney is an absolutely classic pop track and there's no shame in owning it. And I'll have no dissing of anything from Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation album. Purleeze - it was the album that built up to them releasing Pump, the last, most probably ever, thing that they released.

Check out Why You Like Take That (disclosure: written by my brother, contains "the C word")

So - no one own anything by the Spice Girls?
posted by TheDonF 13 December | 16:28
So - no one own anything by the Spice Girls?

I don't their music that much, but I admit to having a major case of the hots for Scary Spice for awhile.
posted by jonmc 13 December | 16:32
Someone once wrote me an e-mail, btw, and told me it was against the rules to tagline my own quotes on MeFi. He seemed quite peeved about it.

It's not against the rules, but it is kind of obnoxious. It's like saying, hey look guys, look at the funny thing I just said! Aren't I funny? I'm so funny. It's better to let other point it out.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 December | 16:37
*squirms in chair*
posted by danostuporstar 13 December | 16:44
The idea that someone would get so peeved over it tickles me.

Hmm I've never gotten an anonymous email from anyone, or an unfriendly email, goml. I really want to get one now. You guys have all the fun.
posted by iconomy 13 December | 16:55
Um... pretty much anything by Angels and Airwaves.

YES, I KNOW.
posted by Greg Nog 13 December | 16:56
I've never got an anonymous e-mail. I got an unanonymous one, once, where someone accused me of being a manhater (basically). Ah, good times.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 December | 17:00
Someone IMed me once at chewed me out for googling the answer to a question and then mis-applying my ill-begotten knowledge. I had to defend my poorly-remembered freshman engineering course. I felt a bit embarrased for the other person.
posted by muddgirl 13 December | 17:04
It's not against the rules, but it is kind of obnoxious. It's like saying, hey look guys, look at the funny thing I just said! Aren't I funny? I'm so funny. It's better to let other point it out.

Well, I only did it when I had a point to make. As above. It wasn't the humor, it was the message, heh.

I got fan mail a couple times on my MeFi comments!
/NOW I'm bragging
posted by shane 13 December | 17:08
Someone once wrote me an e-mail, btw, and told me it was against the rules to tagline my own quotes on MeFi.


Well, they're wrong.

Hi Matt, I'm sorry I didn't drop you an email and let you know about your post on AskMe. I usually email newer members, just so they know what's up. No harm no foul, I hope.

I really like all of Melanie's stuff, she sings this great dorky song about Animal Crackers. I put it on mixtapes for my sister and it's like this dorky inside joke, so I guess it's not totally secret, but still....
posted by jessamyn 13 December | 17:08
Baby Spice is still around at the moment in the UK, she's on a celebrity dancing competition thing and had a new album out last week. This month's round of "Spice Girls To Reform" rumours are bouncing around as well. Which is always a bad thing.
I may or may not own one of their albums
posted by TheDonF 13 December | 17:13
Hmm I've never gotten an anonymous email from anyone, or an unfriendly email, goml. I really want to get one now. You guys have all the fun.

I tried to email iconomy a picture of the creepy centipede from MeFi recently, but there was no adress on the profile, so I sent it to Taz instead. She probably thought I was nuts... She's right...
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 17:25
No! I didn't get that! I'm very disappointed.
posted by taz 13 December | 17:33
seanyboy: why would you be embarrassed to admit that you like Cerys Matthews' Chardonnay? There's nothing wrong with liking Cerys, or is there?

TheDonF: Shampoo were wicked awesome -- well, they were back in 1995 :7 (I must have been 12 then)

Mine are:
Vanessa Paradis - Sunday Mondays
France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son

Other than that... I'm not ashamed of the music I like listening to. And liking the music I listen to.
posted by Daniel Charms 13 December | 17:43
And here's my attempt at derailing this thread: I once posted an "X is dying" troll (it must have been Slashdot that was dying) on Slashdot. Someone replied with an angry email, telling me that my calculations were way off and that I was a retard. Obviously, he didn't get the joke.
posted by Daniel Charms 13 December | 17:59
File that one under "not paying attention to the question the examiner asked and answering the one I wanted to hear."

So...
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack.
Wu Tang Clan - Gravel Pit

Oh, and I really like Bright Eyes. Please tell nobody. In my defence I had no idea what he represented when I started listening.

I am not embarrassed at all by my liking of Britney. Toxic is as good as it gets pop-wise.

And I too had the Scary Spice crush. Local lass made good and all. I'm still pissed at bloody Eddie Murphy.
posted by seanyboy 13 December | 18:04
Very little embarrasses me.
posted by eamondaly 13 December | 18:06
Neil Diamond's "Hello Again." It makes me weep.

(I'm also fond of his remake of the The Jazz Singer.)

*pulls blanket over head*

welcome!
posted by Pips 13 December | 18:18
I tried to email iconomy a picture of the creepy centipede from MeFi recently
*giggle*...
posted by iconomy 13 December | 18:27
"Daniel" by Elton John.

Welcome, Matt! I whuffle you!
posted by Specklet 13 December | 18:29
for ico & taz
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 18:31
Thank you!!

See, taz?? See? HUH?
posted by iconomy 13 December | 19:17
Matt: This is whuffles, in case you're wondering! Also, I've just added a definition of it to Urban Dictionary, which is currently being checked by the editors, apparently.
posted by TheDonF 13 December | 19:25
Actually, this is whuffles, although I really like Tridode's definition and will put it on the wiki page...

I'll have to tell my mom that not only have I been getting everyone on Metachat to use the word "whuffles" it now may get into the Urban Dictionary. She's the one who first called the phenomona by that name, about 33 years ago.
posted by Specklet 13 December | 19:34
Specklet: I was really pissed off when I saw this web site called the Bitchun Society a few months ago. I accuse them of trying to steal your word "whuffle" - they use "whuffie". Now certain fonts make small letter "i" look like an "l". No, I don't have a point.
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 19:44
*whuffie wuffles for goml*
posted by Pips 13 December | 19:52
(gomi goml?)
posted by Pips 13 December | 19:53
You tell 'em goml!
posted by Specklet 13 December | 19:56
Welcome to Metachat, Matt!

I like cheesy songs and I am not embarrassed by this fact. My music taste is so very proletarian that I'm sure that I'd be hounded out of Metachat if the true scope of my love for cheesy music was known. Ah well, we can't all be perfect.

I'm glad I haven't received any mean emails from Metafilter. I would probably cry like a wee girl.
posted by deborah 13 December | 20:51
Dexy's Midnight Runners Come On Eileen.

I've had quite a few good private e-mails and one really creepy one over some perceived insult.

And welcome Matt.
posted by arse_hat 13 December | 21:44
PIPS!!!

Specklet, I even mentioned it on my vox blog when I saw it.

For the new bunny: This is the most embarrassing thing I have in my library.
posted by getoffmylawn 13 December | 22:09
Other than that... I'm not ashamed of the music I like listening to.


Bah, scrap that. I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I like Alphaville's "Forever young" and "Big in Japan" (and also "Sounds Like a Melody"). And "Take On Me" by A-Ha.
posted by Daniel Charms 14 December | 03:44
Welcome to the not greatest show on earth, Matt_MP.

My guiltiest musical pleasures are mostly so old, nobody here will remember them. Some of these tunes are covered endlessly, but the versions I'm referencing are my guilty pleasures. They're mainly the earworms of my youth, so I hope by mentioning them here, they become yours too. 'Cause misery loves company, dontcha know?

I heard most of these the way $INSERT_PREFERRED_DEITY intended: Over the crackly, lofi AM radio waves, pushed through a single 6x9" dashboard speaker, behind small block Chevy and Ford engines, and from crappy on-air monitors in AM radio station transmitter shacks, down by Southern rivers, where I worked as a night engineer for stations with directional antenna arrays. And that's still how I hear 'em today, in my head, with the warm wind created by old hot rods pushing through summer nights whistling in through turned out vent windows, and the rumble of cheap glaspacks and crunching gravel behind me...

Ya can't download that to an iPod.

"I Just Want to Stop" Gino Vanelli
"Freeway of Love (Pink Cadillac)" Aretha Franklin
"Take the Money and Run" The Steve Miller Band
"Mercury Blues" The Steve Miller Band
"Mustang Sally" Wilson Pickett
"Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Knight & The Pips (What? You never stood in front of the mirror, lip synched this, and were the 4th Pip?)
"I Thank You" Sam and Dave
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" Sly and the Family Stone
"Crossroads" Cream
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" A Taste of Honey
"I Feel the Earth Move" Carole King
"My Boyfriend's Back" The Angels
"Leader of the Pack" The Shangri Las (embedded sound file in title link)
"Livin' Lovin' Maid" Led Zeppelin
"I'm A Man" Chicago
"Beginnings" Chicago
"Little Deuce Coupe" The Beach Boys
"Maybelline" Chuck Berry
"Dead Man's Curve" Jan & Dean
"Roll Over Beethoven" Chuck Berry
"Do You Believe in Magic" The Lovin' Spoonful
"Summer In the City" The Lovin' Spoonful
"I Can't Help Myself" The Four Tops
"Stagger Lee" Lloyd Price
"Crystal Blue Persuasion" Tommy James and the Shondells
"Mony, Mony" Tommy James and the Shondells
"Shotgun" Junior Walker and the All Stars
"What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" Junior Walker and the All Stars
"Tracks of My Tears" The Miracles
"Brick House" The Commodores
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" The Temptations
"Stand By Me" Ben E. King
"Louie, Louie" The Kingsmen
"Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley
"White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane
"Bo Diddley" Bo Diddley
"Moondance" Van Morrison
"Summertime" Janis Joplin
"All Along the Watchtower" Jimi Hendrix
"Whippin' Post" Allman Bros. Band
"Long Train Runnin'" The Doobie Brothers
"You're No Good" Linda Ronstadt
"A Little Help From My Friends" Joe Cocker
"Mockingbird" Carly Simon and James Taylor
"I Put a Spell on You!" Screamin' Jay Hawkins
"Green River" Credence Clearwater Revival
"La Grange" ZZ Top
"Hold On Loosely" .38 Special
"More Than a Feeling" Boston
"Free Bird" Lynyrd Skynyrd (like you never played air guitar to this, Bunky...)
posted by paulsc 14 December | 05:18
Great list, paulsc... great comment.

I had written an earlier long comment when jon first posted this, but lost it in a FF crash (been happening a lot since I upgraded to 2.0), and I just didn't have the heart to reproduce that list. At any rate, I think most of them have been mentioned here, and for the most part, I'm not even sure which ones I should feel guilty about. :)

Nevertheless, here's one that hasn't been mentioned that feels like a guilty pleasure:

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight (senduit)
posted by taz 14 December | 06:40
Welcome, Matt_MP! Many songs I love are here, and might I add: "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin. And I like Hanson's "Mmm Bop", too.
posted by redvixen 14 December | 19:55
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