h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Or to bring a conversation to a halt!

I bought Bob the Builder to keep Westlife off the Christmas no.1 spot, and I'm sticking with that story!
I also now regret buying a single by Warren G. featuring Sissel and, more recently, 'Electric Avenue'.

I thought you had to buy Bob to keep Eminem off number 1?

That might have been his version of 'Mambo No. 5', an ill-fated project if ever there was one.

You know something, I think you are right!

*deep breath*

I have to confess to buying:

Shampoo - Trouble
Both Scatman's hits.
Whigfield - Saturday Night

and others. Will post a comprehensive list of the crap I own when I get over the shame of this post.

I found "Doop" by Doop in a bargain basement recently.. it's class! I stand by my purchase!! Do the Charleston!

My worse one must be a whole album of orchestral covers of Prince songs... it was dead cheap, but it's terrible, I've never even listened to anything but a few seconds of a few songs when I first bought it. A prime example of "it's so cheap I have to get it!" bad bad buying

Queegle

We also got that recent Blondie song that went to Number 1, which I'm not proud of. I don't think I've even listened to it.

What a thread! It's got everything!

I am gutted to hear about Scatman John.

What on earth did happen to Shed Seven? I remember lyrics being their strong point - 'Let's all go to the Early Learning Centre with the money that I lent yer.' Also, I think 'Going for Gold' was meant to be poignant but it only ever brought Henry Kelly and his tepid and deeply unfair international quiz to mind.

This question is too tricky for me to answer - though I do struggle to remember exactly why I thought it necessary to own one, let alone four, 'Stars on 45' singles.

I am proud of loving Busted to bits, Natalie, if that makes you feel better about 'Stars on 45'!

I have a whole rack back home that holds all the CDs that my brother and I bought but never listen to any more.

Abi!! Well, if it's going to be a competition...

I seemed to have a bit of a thing for medleys. I don't think it can actually get much worse than 'Hooked on Classics' - a collection of orchestral snippets set to that clap-clap-clap-clap syncopated drumbeat.

Thankfully I had passed this phase by the time the far inferior Jive Bunny came along.

Still disturbed by the Scatman John news.

My worst album was probably the Queen album from about 1994 on tape. Like every child, I enjoyed the classic Queen stuff and thought naively that the most recent one would contain the same or similar.

Shed 7? Well the last I heard was that they decided that it would be a really good career move to all start taking heroin, 'cos it was in you see. And then start bragging about it. The disinterest from the record buying public to this news was overwhelming.

Oh, and I don't have any crap singles. I've sold them all on eBay

Its like that headline in MM (or was it NME)after the lead singer went to the wrong town for a gig.

"You can't get thicker then a s**t Rick Witter!"

I bought three Whigfield singles. But I didn't buy Saturday Night (although my sister did)

Surely 'Saturday Night' is the only defendable single to own by Whigfield?

Well, I quite like her double-a-side christmas single Big Time/Last Christmas

i found jellybean, "who found who" at a school disco once

One birthday some friends and I stopped in a record shop on our way to a party of sorts at Laserquest so I could choose some singles as presents. The selection was poor and I got three that were rubbish. The only one I remember the title of is 'Stand By Me' by Oasis. The others were Cast and George Michael. *Shudder*