Most "embarrassing" song.....

[Haroldo]

@Haroldo Get over yourself. I poked holes in an analogy. Not equated plumbing with guys singing to sell beer. You seem to be doing that with your level off offendedness.

I'm not offended in the least (tho' you seem to be). I realize what you were doing with your rhetoric and applaud it. As the sheriff in Cool Hand Luke said, 'What we have here is a failure to communicate.' And if I played a role in that, my apologies.

I'm serious here - what constitutes 'embarrassment' in this context?

 

[Haroldo]

That's another brick in the wall of hits for Joe Osborn

Yerp. It's frequently the case when you look under the hood of a Very Popular Tune, you find one of your heroes.

 

[david osborn]

When I played Top 40/Disco in the 70's I played a lot of embarrassing songs. Maybe the worst was Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers. The only saving grace in that song is that it is SO corny that we used to crack up every time we played it. The Audience LOVED it and would sing along.

Donna Fargo, giged with her for a year.. The happiest girl in the whole u.s.a., and funny face... It was the terriblest stuff I ever had to do, when in Nashville..... Do what they do or don't work

 

[richntiff]

We Got The Beat by the Go Go's....my, then, female singer complained about not having "female" songs to sing. So the rest of us learned it as a joke before our next rehearsal. We cracked up...she didn't find much humor in our joke.

We do that tune in one of my bands and it kills. Absolutely kills. Every. Single. Time. The dance floor is rocking. Every. Single. Time. I'm not embarrassed when 21-50 yo beautiful women are shaking their booties in front of me because I'm playing a Go-Go's tune.

 

[THUNDERGODX]

SEVEN NATION ARMYdrool
BORING-MONOTONOUS-NO DANCE INDUCEMENT POTENTIAL.
AND--
WE PASSED OUT KAZOOS TO THE CROWD. THAT WAS THE EMBARRASSING PART.

 

[dragon68]

Do y'all live down the street from me? In any direction? "
I swear there's 6 Hispanic oompaloopma bands, (as opossed to German oompaloopma bands, but none in our neighborhood. I can polka AND skip/hop polka quite well) and they all play THAT and just THAT.

Hispanic Oompapa music is better known as "tejano". (Pronounce the 'j' like an 'h'.) I describe it as Mexican Polka.

I learned of tejano when I lived in San Antonio, which has a very large Mexican population and a lot of Mexican heritage. (That's why I refer to is as Mexican polka.)

For the record, I can't stand tejano, nor polka, for that matter.

 

[Wood and Wire]

That was t for a gig/band or w/e, but for no valid reason other thanthan the one in your head, what's the song you probably don't want to admit you learned.
Most recent the better! (c'mom it'll help me feel better about all the junk I'm playing due to where I am, that I HATE, but is helping this or that, and then some that are just downright silly cause I am downright silly)

3 songs immediately spring to mind, that were popular at the time, when I started playing as a teenager.

Two of them, I straight up hated, the third is an undeniably great pop record - although my Indie-Thrash / Fraggle-Rock band I was in, hated the fact that I knew how to play it, let alone acknowledged it's greatness :

1) Things that make you go Hmm (C&C Music Factory) it's a stupid sequenced bass line, but I thought it was an amusing technical exercise, to see if I could pull it off as a beginner.

2) I'm too sexy (Right Said Fred) I found it hilarious to randomly chuck that slap bass solo into our songs, during rehearsals - hey, I was a teenager, a novice, and an idiot.

3) Groove is in the heart (Dee-Lite) I make no apologies for this, it's a great bass part, and my stupid teenage band should have been more open minded.

 

[dragon68]

Not much embarrasses me song-wise, but there was this one original a band I was in played back when I was like 19ish. The song was called "Sped", and was supposed to be about a race car driver or something, and the rest of the band seemed not to notice that the name was also a derogatory term for people with learning disabilities. This was back when people felt a lot more comfortable throwing that kind of talk around, too. It wasn't even that good of a song, though it did at least give me an opportunity to use a wah pedal a bit.

When I was in high school, a "sped" was one of the groups that just hung out and smoked cigarettes. I've never heard of "sped" referring to somebody with learning disabilities.

 

[bholder]

When I was in high school, a "sped" was one of the groups that just hung out and smoked cigarettes. I've never heard of "sped" referring to somebody with learning disabilities.

"Special Education", hence "sped". I had not heard it either, but I can see it happening out there.

 

[dragon68]

I'd estimate 95% or higher of our lot are male.

Where (or what) is BFE Nebraska? (I'm a mid-west boy by birth and culture.)

BFE Nebraska is short for "Bum Fornication Egypt, Nebraska". Substitute a different "F" word in the middle.

edit: "BFE.... it's not the middle of nowhere, but you can see if from there."

 

[bholder]

BFE Nebraska is short for "Bum Fornication Egypt, Nebraska". Substitute a different "F" word in the middle.

Sounds lovely. Ever consider a career in real estate?

 

[Haroldo]

BFE Nebraska is short for "Bum Fornication Egypt, Nebraska". Substitute a different "F" word in the middle.

Thanks, but that doesn't really narrow things down now, does it?

But in other Nebraska bass playing news, I'm happy to have discovered one of the bass playing heroes of my youth, Bugsy Maugh, is in the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame. Love the guy's playing and his singing.

 

[Medford Bassman]

"The Horses" by Daryl Braithwaite. We had to learn this for a wedding because the groom and his family were from Australia.
Here is the video

The band still talks about this one when we drink

 

[Haroldo]

"The Horses" by Daryl Braithwaite. We had to learn this for a wedding because the groom and his family were from Australia.
Here is the video

The band still talks about this one when we drink

I'd go with ol' Jimmy Barnes, myself.



P.S. Another Australia / Wisco connection, I see. Lived in both Madison (and Green Bay) and Oz years ago.

 

[No Treble]

I've been playing that Metal song by Tenacious D.
That's not the embarrassing part.
It's if my husband knew how half the smart house works ... And knew where the spare camera was

I can't HELP but channel my inner JB.

Which puts me in a fit of giggles after when I realized I did it AGAIN

METAL! It comes from HELL!
Techno tried to DEFILE THE METAL, but techno was proven WRONG!
Grunge tried to destroy the metal, as they were thrown to the ground!
Funny stuff there. Definitely dig Jables and Kage!
I saw an interview with JB and I forget who was doing the interview. He was asked about why Tenacious D was never a serious band, and JB replied that they tried to make one love song, and it was "a hot blast of cheese" in his serious face.

OOps! I forgot while giggling, that I was going to post an embarrassing self-chosen song to learn:
Magic by Olivia Newton-John. It's not bad bass playing, but dang. Really? Why that one?

 

[Wood and Wire]

"The Horses" by Daryl Braithwaite. We had to learn this for a wedding because the groom and his family were from Australia.
Here is the video

The band still talks about this one when we drink

It's like Daniel O'Donnell trying to be Mr Mister, covering The Commodores - Nightshift, with a somehow less "cool" Michael Bolton outburst.

It actually makes this look serious :

 

[dbsfgyd1]

That was t for a gig/band or w/e, but for no valid reason other thanthan the one in your head, what's the song you probably don't want to admit you learned.
Most recent the better! (c'mom it'll help me feel better about all the junk I'm playing due to where I am, that I HATE, but is helping this or that, and then some that are just downright silly cause I am downright silly)

Build Me Up Buttercup....is one of probably thousands....Baby, I
want you to Love Me (Lobo), Oh, It’s So Nice To Be With You....Man I was glad to get out of the 70s.....

 

[dindinbre]

Remember the part where I probably have it on a playlist?
Ok I don't. But I have several EE bands, and love the ethnic sounds of EE, esp Serbian music.
Granted,i prefer it with modern overlays like.... Starts with a G.. ALLL I can come up with is Ghoti Hook but that is NOT it at ALL. Or though Cuban, the orginal Voltaire (yes, I was a goth back when, met him at a Con b4 I knew what a con was), and Serj (met him a year b4 too, super sweet guy, but this is when only fringes knew of them and they needed fans lol)

That ^^^^^^^^ Idk if I could take a whole song, unless Weird Al was the one on squeeze box (though that's one of those w/o the keys, a little one... Like in American Tail) and started singing soon

I can recommend you a lot of folk music The second song is to be honest a bit too extreme for someone who is not used to shredding accordion Guy who played accordion on that record is insanely good. This song is a bit more appealing with the most epic music video ever

 

[BurtMacklinFBI]

"Special Education", hence "sped". I had not heard it either, but I can see it happening out there.

Correct. It's one of those terms that's been part of popular slang long enough that some people probably use it without realizing exactly what it means, but it's a contraction of "special ed".

 

[HeavyBass]

We do that tune in one of my bands and it kills. Absolutely kills. Every. Single. Time. The dance floor is rocking. Every. Single. Time. I'm not embarrassed when 21-50 yo beautiful women are shaking their booties in front of me because I'm playing a Go-Go's tune.

I agree. I think the times I had the most women dancing right in front of me & looking at me as if I’m a rock legend was when we covered a song by the GoGo’s. It seemed ridiculous at times, but who am I to judge?