Own up, what are the strangest things in your collection? By strange I don't neccessarily mean obscure, more the type of album no-one would expect you to own. And maybe you don't even want to admit...

My shameful secrets:
Take That - Take That and Party
Bizarrely enough I asked for this for my 13th birthday and I didn't even like TT. I even hid the album in a secret cupboard for several years because I was so ashamed. So why did I ask for it? I can only think it must have been cos other friends liked them, but even then most people I knew preferred East17. Still baffles me that I own TTAP.

The Simpsons - The Simpsons Sing The Blues
Of course this was in the days when no-one had sky and yet we all decided we loved the show. I'd only seen a couple of eps: The Telltale head and Bart the General, which you could rent from our local video shop (or rather the video section in the local newsagents, which also sould ex-chart 7 inches). SO I didn't even know who half the characters singing were. And I still could probably remember most of the words. It's probably amusing once, but it's still pretty rubbish. And yet I listened to it a lot back in the day.

The Super Mario Bros Soundtrack
Seems an odd choice until you realise it has two (count em) Roxette tracks on. Then it all falls into place.

Urban Cookie Collective - High on a Happy Vibe
I loved them at the time, random choice in itself for me. But surely no-one else in the world bought the album?!?!

The early 90s had a lot to answer for...

Omg...ok here goes
Motown
Friends
Elvis
Muppets..Kirmet the frog & miss piggy
Cindy Lauper
John Lennon
Wombles....oh yes uncle bulgaria

Ive got lots more...just can't remember them all..and i think they will be enough there for a **** take....:hihi:

I have lots. They are sealed in a big box never to be re-opened....

On vinyl I have in my collection 'The W**ker's Album (Misprint)' by Ivor Biggun :shocked:

Probably not available anymore but there are some very very funny songs on it! Ivor Biggun was better known as 'Doc Cox' from BBC1's 'That's Life' programme.

you dont even want me to go there

i have the weird, the obscure, the normal, the cult, the classic and the stuff i shouldnt like but strangely........do :P

Tunes from the toons - excerpts from things likes Dastardly and Muttley - actually I really like this album.
Songs from the shows/The greatest musicals album ever - useful for work.
Wombles greatest hits - Aw. This lad at primary used to come round my house to copy out the wordsas he was obsessed by it!
Tone Loc Funky cold medina album (Can't remember what it was called - only ever played that record)
Pop party volume 2 - needed it for school and i remember going to Asda and buying it with gritted teeth as there were about six other cds out that week that I wanted.
I've got others that tend to make it to the bottom of the pile but most have been brought for a good reason, either I liked them or needed them for work.

I own nothing by the devil woman Celine Dion and her prince Chris de Burgh so I have nothing to hide.

The one that comes to mind is in my vinyl collection....

"The Point" by Harry Neilson, which I bought after the story of Oblio and Arrow was shown on TV.

Battle Hymns For Children Singing by Haysi Fantayzee;

The Official Walt Disney World Album which we bought whilst in Florida in 1980;

I also used to own Sentimental Journey by Reginald Dixon, he of Blackpool Tower Ballroom organist fame. Mysteriously, its whereabouts to the present I know not (although I recall we hired a few skips when we moved house in 1981).

I reckon at some point I also owned a Baba Papa album.

Alas, to my credit I have never owned any albums by Chris De Burgh or Flanagan and Allen.

i found so solids album the other day in my house!

"wtf's that doing here"

don't hate me... I hate myself

On vinyl I have in my collection 'The W**ker's Album (Misprint)' by Ivor Biggun :shocked:

Probably not available anymore but there are some very very funny songs on it! Ivor Biggun was better known as 'Doc Cox' from BBC1's 'That's Life' programme.
Funnily enough, I sang that very song last night in the pub :hihi:

I may possibly have an Another level cd :rolleyes:

I actually own a Sterephonics album. I know.... I'm really, really, truly sorry.

I hate it though, am I redeemed?

The worst three I can think of are
Spice Girls album
Aqua's album
and X files sc-fi theme tunes album :loopy:

Can not remember where they have come from, but could have been the stupid Brittania music rip off thing I was once a member of.

On the obscure front, "Whoops I'm an Indian" by Hal Willner, followed closely by an album by some guy called Yani who is a kind of 2-bit Vangelis. Most of my mates will know that I have very eclectic tastes, so I don't think they'd be too surprised by anything...I'm too enthusiastic to have any guilty secrets.

Possibly Saints & Sinners by All Saints - brilliant pop music, I maintain.

'The Smurfs go pop!' has a prize stand in my collection.

It feel so good to get that of my chest!

Wilf

"We're in it for the Corn" by the Hickoids. Punk-country. Quite good actually.

Tone Loc Funky cold medina album (Can't remember what it was called - only ever played that record)


loc'ed after dark the albums called, if its the same one ive got, 1989 classic late old school hip hop, love it :)

you know which cheesy single (7" vinyl pop pickers) i own and look up to the most from the 80s?

glen (hoddle) and chris (waddle) - diamond lights :P

awesome

80's cheese of the highest order

Most bizarre 7" I own is "Lets Make a Daft Noice for Christmas" by the Goodies

More embarrassingly theres an album apiece by INXS and U2 which I will never again listen to.

The Collected Broardcasts of Idi Amin :D

Radio 4 around 1974

'The Smurfs go pop!' has a prize stand in my collection.

It feel so good to get that of my chest!

Wilf

As a potential volunteer Copper, I hereby arrest you for crimes of bad music ownership :D

I mean come on, the Smurfs?! WTF?! :shocked:

Note to the Mods - the naughty words are in context of the thread

I had the Aqua album too, and Gina G...

They're all on cassette though, so adly I can't play them on my new stereo :( How will I cope?!

I've got a sound engineers studio test album that was made in about 1968. It's to test the panning and stereo properties of studios. It mostly consists of an american hippy going 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 with a sine wave in the background.
It is as boring as it sounds and I've got no idea how I've ended up with it. I did once play it at a free party and it didn't go down to well which surprised me.

At a recent exhibition I put on I found a 'BBC Studio Halloween Sounds' cd.

That's pretty impressive.

I've got a few of the old bbc sound effects albums. Sound effects of death and horror volume 5 is the best. If any body need the sound of a blokes head been cut off I'm your man

As a massive Black Beauty fan as a child
I am the the proud owner of the theme music on vinyl:D
Also have a Blue Rondo ala Turk album from the 80s which I bought for one song only Klactovesedstein (awwwwwww takes me back to being 16 again:partyhat:)the rest of the album is a bit s**t

I had the Aqua album too, and Gina G...

They're all on cassette though, so adly I can't play them on my new stereo :( How will I cope?!

Gina g!! foook me were is she now!!!

i used to want her babies!

I have several Camberwich Green and Trumpton albums, along with Scooby Doo, Playschool, Play-away, Pinky and Perk, The Smurfs (with Father Abraham) and Wombles. Not parting with them tho!

Music wise, probably the wierdest one is Alien Sex Fiend ......... Liquidhead in Tokyo. Absolute rubbish!!!

I have a "Top of the Pops" album, you know the ones with the half naked chicks on the front?

I didn't realise for years that they weren't even sung by the original artists - they are truely awful to listen to now.

Anyway, it had a terrible version of "I Don't like Mondays" on it - imagine someone else trying to sound like Bob Geldof....?

Boroughgal,
I recall those dreadful 'Top of the Pops' albums made by cheap session musicians but packaged to appear as if by the original artists. They usually featured a semi-naked young woman in 'hot pants' or similar. I remember a friend playing me one with a 'version' of The Osmonds' 'Crazy Horses', and the screaming Organ sounded more akin to a Stylophone. The singer who was doubling for T.Rex's Marc Bolan sounded in his late fifties at least.

I have several Camberwich Green and Trumpton albums, along with Scooby Doo, Playschool, Play-away, Pinky and Perk, The Smurfs (with Father Abraham) and Wombles. Not parting with them tho!

Music wise, probably the wierdest one is Alien Sex Fiend ......... Liquidhead in Tokyo. Absolute rubbish!!!
lol i love alien sex fiend :)

saw em at dracfest in whitby a fair few years ago.

#fly my rocket up uranus


#CAMEL

very strange band

i have a shaped picture viynl of benny hill somewhere:rolleyes:

I have a "Top of the Pops" album, you know the ones with the half naked chicks on the front?

I didn't realise for years that they weren't even sung by the original artists - they are truely awful to listen to now.

Anyway, it had a terrible version of "I Don't like Mondays" on it - imagine someone else trying to sound like Bob Geldof....?

Lol!

I have still got loads of them! They got usurped when the Now albums came out. And I have the aforementioned one. They went with the Pan's people dancers that came on when people could not be bothered to go on TOTP. Imagine them women now dancing to the Arctic Monkeys! Probably would do it in donkey jackets around a steel post whilst one of them had a whippet to trail round.

lol i love alien sex fiend :)

saw em at dracfest in whitby a fair few years ago.

#fly my rocket up uranus


#CAMEL

very strange band

At the time of purchase I loved them too!! Now I listen and it's just c**p!! Having said that, I still have it because I NEVER throw any of my vinyl away! I also have several Sex Pistol LP's where the sound quaility is so poor they are dreadful to listen to. (never trust a hippy)