Embarrassing things you aren't too embarrassed to admit liking

[Meursault]

For my money: Marilyn Manson.

BRTD recently posted a criticism of the YouTube celebrity TheAmazingAtheist for "still listening to Marilyn Manson", as if he had room to criticize anyone for their tastes.

I listen to Manson, too. I like him quite a bit more than Nine Inch Nails or TReznor more generally; Trent's good at brilliantly scoring bad poetry. Manson, on the other hand, writes quite excellent, evocative and politically charged lyrics, like the track "Burning Flag" off 2000s Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death:

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The same record (my favorite from Manson) is homd to a gorgeous, thunderswept homage to political martyrs, "The Fall of Adam":

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[traininthedistance]

"We Built This City" has to be a pretty good trump card here.

Probably not objectively the worst thing I enjoy, but one of the most stereotypically embarrassing for sure.

[7,052,770]

I don't know how embarrassing this actually should be, but Family Matters is one of my favorite tv shows of all time...

[Lief 🗽]

"We Built This City" has to be a pretty good trump card here.

Probably not objectively the worst thing I enjoy, but one of the most stereotypically embarrassing for sure.

Nothing embarrassing about 1980s pop rock. It was arguably our civilization's greatest achievement.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Pawn Stars.

[rejectamenta]

I don't listen to Marilyn Manson, but I think there are a lot of bands that are unfairly pegged as the sort of 90s suburban teen-archist junk we'd like to forget. While I doubt anyone is seriously willing to go to bat for Korn, I personally wrote off Type O Negative for a long time having figured them as broody, slightly before my time nonsense.. and then I found Carnivore, which is considerably more in line with my usual tastes, and with that my entire perspective of what Peter Steele was actually doing changed. I can't think of two bands that jump between depression, prehistoric violence, humor and giddy word play so seamlessly as TON/Carnivore.

Actually, before either of them, Steele and Josh Silver had a horror-punk tinged heavy metal band called Fallout. Their only release was a single leading with the song Rock Hard, which has a little fun subverting the more obvious first parsing of a rock song called Rock Hard. It ends with the airy, piano-driven (and still generically-rawkstar titled!) Batteries Not Included, which rhymes iconoclastic and polyplastic (all mechanic... pro-satanic!!) without even blinking. Sample my machinery!

EDIT: Ministry, too. Total Beavis and Butt-head band with awesome riffing. Lyrically Al fell down the tired BU$H BLOOD FOR OIL hole, but Rio Grande Blood is a monster.

To answer your question, Manowar

[Mopsus]

While I doubt anyone is seriously willing to go to bat for Korn,

You should have more faith there, Thomas!

[rejectamenta]

While I doubt anyone is seriously willing to go to bat for Korn,

You should have more faith there, Thomas!

"Imagine Jim Morrison of the Doors fronting the White Zombie and performing Cure songs. " :x

[Mopsus]

While I doubt anyone is seriously willing to go to bat for Korn,

You should have more faith there, Thomas!

"Imagine Jim Morrison of the Doors fronting the White Zombie and performing Cure songs. " :x

Believe it or not, he actually intended that as a compliment.

[Meursault]

Type O Negative should hardly need defending. Even if you take them seriously, which the band only rarely did (most of the funeral dirges about the death of Pete's relatives or his drug abuse on World Coming Down, say, which also is probably the favorite of hardcore TON fans), the band itself was absurdly talented. Peter Steele had a way of making his bass licks sound like Jimi Hendrix playing a guitar - the psychedelic interlude on "Less Than Zero", say - and he had tremendous vocal range for a natural bass. Nothing embarrassing at all, imo, and one of my personal Top Ten.

[rejectamenta]

I agree 100%, I just meant to share an anecdote about preconceived notions and how wrong they can be.

[Knives]

Katy Perry

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The unmentionable horse show, though I despise the overwhelming majority of its fanbase for obvious reasons.

[Del Tachi]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate. 

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Sonichu

[courts]

The unmentionable horse show, though I despise the overwhelming majority of its fanbase for obvious reasons.

i'm not embarrassed to admit to liking ponies. although yeah, certain people need a trip to the glue factory.

[Dr. Cynic]

Not at all embarrassed to admit that I really like professional wrestling and have been watching it since 1990.

[Gustaf]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate. 

No. I really have no idea why some posters on here think that. Sure, it isn't a MANLY drink, but it's certainly not feminine. I'd argue it's one of very few gender-neutral drinks in that sense.

[Maxwell]

Nicki Minaj

[Fed. Pac. Chairman Devin]

I have a big crush on Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and Nicki Minaj.

[courts]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate.  

No. I really have no idea why some posters on here think that. Sure, it isn't a MANLY drink, but it's certainly not feminine. I'd argue it's one of very few gender-neutral drinks in that sense.

i remember starting a thread on that not too long ago when wormy said the same thing to me. really bizarre isn't it? i hope that's not actually a widespread thing, i've never heard anyone born in the '90s besides him say that irl. not that i worry about being seen as 'girly' obviously

[MaxQue]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate. 

No. I really have no idea why some posters on here think that. Sure, it isn't a MANLY drink, but it's certainly not feminine. I'd argue it's one of very few gender-neutral drinks in that sense.

The whole idea than some drinks/aliments are manly or feminine is quite silly in itself.

[Indy Texas]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate. 

No. I really have no idea why some posters on here think that. Sure, it isn't a MANLY drink, but it's certainly not feminine. I'd argue it's one of very few gender-neutral drinks in that sense.

I like G&Ts. I don't see why that would be embarrassing.

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Would a gin and tonic fit into this category?

Younger blokes seem to consider the drink a bit effeminate. 

No. I really have no idea why some posters on here think that. Sure, it isn't a MANLY drink, but it's certainly not feminine. I'd argue it's one of very few gender-neutral drinks in that sense.

The whole idea than some drinks/aliments are manly or feminine is quite silly in itself.

What about those testosterone slushies that some athletes drink?