Naff childhood songs you listen to but turn down at the lights

[Mulva]

Apologies if this has done through songs that are your guilty pleasure...looking to share songs that take you back to a certain time and/or place in your youth, but they are songs that are well outside your usual music tastes and could be considered a bit suspect or embarrassing. Stuff that you listen to purely to reminisce rather than because the singing or lyrics or music itself is good, and you wouldn't listen to it with friends in the car unless they are your closest and have shared memories of that song.

Might just be me and because I am turning 50 this July?? Like there's lots of old music I like from my youth and 20s and have no shame in playing, like Zeppelin, Angels, AC/DC, INXS, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Powderfinger, Fooeys etc - but this is about the songs that are very niche, likely wasn't your choice to listen to at the time, it is what others subjected you to. As these are 'bad' songs there is no expectation that you click all or even any of the following links.

Among the 'good' songs in my earliest memories, there is also 'bad' stuff like the Grease soundtrack and Leo Sayers Greatest Hits, and weirdly I get flashbacks from Captain & Tennille "Love Will Keep Us Together)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o and Donna Summers "I Feel Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0

Reckon nearly everyone of my vintage would recall the theme to the show 'Minder' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRR-x9JZ_Oo which takes me back to certain house lived in for 2 years in small country town when I was 10, along with Billy Field "Standing on the Outside" (You weren't in Love With Me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMer297X_LI

Same place, eldest sister had Suzi Quattro Greatest Hits on high-rotation, so there is the obvious "Devil Gate Drive", "Can the Can", "48 Crash" and "Daytona Demon", but more vivid memories for me come from the funky 'Your Mamma Won't Like Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZEy-2iztE and the mellow duet "Stumbin' In" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGaF4tKUl0o

Same sister was also into The Stranglers, so several of their songs take me back to various times and places in the 80s...obviously there is "Golden Brown", but for me the first 10 seconds of "Skin Deep" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9mEFn38to immediately brings back not only a time and place, it brings back the smell of the bee-hive in the wall cavity of the scout hall that we dangerously raided, and the smell of the burning porno mags we thought had smoked the bees. "Always the Sun" also takes me to another time in 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQTL-ws6p4

Other sister was into Joe Jackson, so my playlist now has "Real Men" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA65lg1HWt4 and "Steppin' Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg and "Breaking Us in Two" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IGRNWVQkc

Year 11 was when I have to take responsibility for some of my own choices - I'm ok with entire Beastie Boys License to Ill album that I taped off a tape I borrowed from the library (and got on CD in late 90s)...but have to fess up to listening to some Sigue Sigue Sputnik like "Massive Retaliation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE28b0fX0tk and "Rockit Miss USA" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTbFulJdbk

Year 12 there is They Might Be Giants "Don't Let's Start" which I'm sorry I can't (won't) explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAmFTmCs3IY

1991, Drooper B&S Ball at Roseworthy, they had Big Audio Dynamite "Rush" on high rotation, literally playing it every hour and sometimes 2 or 3 times back to back...and when they would play it everyone would go even more mental than what was already the most mental B&S I can (and can't) recall. There was a drooping cock about 3 or 4 metres long suspended from the roof of the marque, it would occasionally shoot water out the end and given we were in a paddock in winter it created a massive mud-bog...few times I had to be showered in my tux from head-to-toe by a beer-gun-guy, which was fine until I didn't make it into my swag but slept in the back of mate's mum's Escort panelvan that was bare metal, soaked head to toe in clothes wet with beer, middle of winter. Following morning we got into footy clubrooms in town, no hot water but showered anyway, no towel only a handtowel we found under a bench that was dirty and dried stiff and I think was the "magic wet towel" that a country footy-trainer thinks fixes any injury. 3 of us used it before returning for the recovery.

Not long after that, every friggin' club in Adelaide, Utah Saints with Kate Bush "Something Good" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMWhpg0iXU

And around then too, Transformers on Friday night at the Bridgeway, the last-song-of-the-night-lights-come-on song was Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons "Oh What a Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

Sorry for massive post. Anyone got a weird/dodgy/random playlist they want to admit to?