If Jenna Jameson delivered your first real kiss while Mr. DJ was crankin’ Creed; if you won the lottery to the tune of Rascal Flatts; if you discovered you could fly but only when you sang a Hoobastank song, would you look back to it with love or hate?
Not everyone I know has a MOGger’s taste in tunes. Truth be told, many don’t. And so it is with great misfortune that a handful of my romantic exploits have been accompanied by debatable music. (To wit: They aren’t necessarily ugly. Taste is relative, after all.)
Hang on to your lederhosen, I made a list:
Air Supply, Making Love Out of Nothing at All. My biggest grade school crush handed me a piece of folded paper one day. My heart leapt, I opened it and found the lyrics to this song. Like, why?
Dan Hill, Sometimes When We Touch; John Waite, Missing You. Speaking of Ms. Jameson, my first girl crush, in high school, loved to sing these songs in second voice. Well, she was with the Glee Club.
Rex Smith, Simply Jesse. I was 18 and wretchedly infatuated with my summer professor. It was midnight, we were creating an installation art of four beetles (Get it?), and he suddenly sang. In retrospect, how scary.
When in Rome, The Promise. Boy meets girl, girl likes boy, boy likes girl’s best friend. I joined an organization just to get closer to this guy in university, and all I got was friendship and a dance, remixed.
Blessid Union of Souls, Home. Same story, different best friend. We did have a whole night of dancing to New Order but, still, he got me this album as a Christmas present. I was too nice I said thank you.
Eventually I wisened up and chose more wisely. Memorably, there were The Stone Roses guy, the Radiohead guy, the Rachel’s guy, the Galaxie 500 guy, and the Buena Vista Social Club guy, just to end on a redeeming note.
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Hmm. As a "Stone Roses" guy I recall nothing of this. :P
Great post. One that sticks in my craw was an extremly fun weekend hanging with the guys at a ski resort on a beautiful fourth of July in 1999 while mountian biking. I will never forget how sick I was of the song "Allstar" by Smashmouth. They must have played it over the speakers that were mounted to the ski lift stands several times that day...what a buzzkill.
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Oh Poe! haha! But as you say, you're much wiser now. Smashing new avatar pic by the way, been meaning to say that!
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hahha, sounds irony but in a good way! The Radiohead guy, i just cant handle anymore.....
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Marigold, LOL. You know, the Stone Roses guy ran away with my entire CD collection, seriously. Be careful, I am watching you. =p
Allstar, yeah. It has the magical effect of bringing out the Bobble Head in you when played. And isn't it creepy that everyone seems to know the words to that one?
FlowerPower111, omigod, Goo Goo Dolls. What's with the Zoolander look on the vocalist, huh? Okay, wait, I'm really the sweetest person in real life but stress at work brings out my inner meanie. So be it. (8
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kris, aww no one's ever called my avatar smashing before, haha. What, no contribution? You've had to have at least one boyfriend/crush/fling/one-night stand with bad taste in your life...?
gere, aha, so you've had a Radiohead guy and it didn't really work? Now, someone tell me, how come Radiohead guys seems to inspire more irony than the other guys? What's that about?
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Darn, well, I tried to think of one and I couldn't. All my exes had great taste in music - didn't change the fact that they were arseholes though, haha! Yep. And at some point I said to myself, "I gotta stop dating musicians. What am I, a masochist?" Haha, a generalization, yes, but for me it's been all too true.
Here is a very unfortunate episode - PJ was dead to me for many years because my friend/room-mate played one of her albums, and more to the point one of her songs, over and over and over....damn him. But I still love them both.
OH wait! I do remember one now....a guy I dated in high school, was really into Zappa, and I never really did get Zappa. Not my cup of tea. Then he developed a crush on the woman who lived downstairs - who was into Zappa - and said "I'm gonna marry that woman". Ah yeah. And ya know what? He did! And they had 2-3 kids. And then got divorced last year.
:) How's that?
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You stopped listening to P J Harvey for years?!? * eyeballs bleed out * That is more horrible than anything I've said in this post! Damn, I love that woman too much.
Zappa, I'm not so hot about either. Cool guys who are arseholes, good god, aren't they all. (8
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OH I know! PJ is my favorite rockin' gal. At least I was able to start listening to her again, and with enough enthusiasm to make up for the dry spell!
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how come this post is tagged midnight movies and lion the girl?
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hmm, is that a trick question...? 3) the answer, let's just say, has to do with six degrees of separation.