If you were going to stand up and tell a group of strangers about yourself, what would you tell them? Would you go all out and tell that story about you, Macca, the bottle of tequila and that time you ended up at that place, and you tried that thing you'd been talking about all night, and the security guards got so angry but you couldn't understand why and...
Maybe you'd go with your deepest fears and feelings, about how you're afraid of the dark and that the bogeyman might come grab you in your sleep, and it's no good saying there's no such thing as the bogeyman because you know about this friend of a cousin who's schoolyard chum was taken back in the 80s and...
Or are you going to give the Readers Digest condensed version - plain, simple, uncontroversial?
Something similar can be said about your choice of music. If you were to play a group of songs from your collection to aforementioned group of strangers, what would you play?
Would you go with the flow, playing stuff that can be found on 106.2 KRAP FM every other day of the week?
Would you throw in some little-known group from western Kyrgyzstan that produce really deep music that you have to strain to understand?
Or, and bear with me here - would you play something completely embarrassing? Would you bust out B*witched's C'est La Vie because you had a crush on the girls in the film clip? Would you admit to liking most of The Carpenters back catalog? (As an aside I remember reading a quote from Alice Cooper saying that every serious musician had at least one Carpenters record, but can't for the life of me find it in 0.02 seconds worth of serious Googling.)
Let's face it, everyone's got their own embarrassing favourites - with the possible exception of my mother, who once had John Denver's Annie's Song absolutely blaring through the speakers when I rocked up with a group of friends after a 1400km road trip from Canberra.
So the big question is: what's your embarrassing favourite? Come on, don't be shy...
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