Music/Bands you liked when you were younger --- now find annoying (1 Viewer)

[Ned]

I'm sure this just comes with age, but I'm finding more and more music that is annoying that I used to like when I was younger. Take Beastie Boys, for example. I can barely stand listening to them now when they come on my random rotation or on sirius. It doesn't matter how nostalgic one of their songs may be, they drive me nuts. Depeche Mode is another one.

In general I still like metal/rock, but I'm finding more and more that it can be exhausting to listen to. I need to slow down....

What are some of yours?

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Steve Miller Band

 

[rockaction]

'90s pop punk with bad leads. Cannot stand. Stop playing crappy leads. Stop.

 

[dutch]

Aerosmith, The Doors and Bad Co. all sprang to mind immediately.

 

[Guest]

The White Stripes. I just found out Jack White is a real jack-wagon.

 

[El Floppo]

You know what I hate- that rock music.

 

[General Malaise]

Steve Miller Band

Yup.

Also:

Cat Stevens

Jimmy Buffet

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I would say U2 but I still like most of their stuff before Aqualung Baby. Anything after that can smooch my grundle.

I saw Jane's Addiction 3 times between 1988-1990. I can't change the station quick enough when they come on the radio now.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Creedence

Aerosmith

New York Dolls

Bob Seger - anything after Live Bullet

REO Speedwagon ...but been that way for years (really anything besides Ridin the Storm Out)

 

[Amused to Death]

Phish. Saw a ton of shows in the '90s but have no desire to listen anymore.

On the flip side, as I approach my late 40s I'm listening to a lot more metal - including death metal.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I would say U2 but I still like most of their stuff before Aqualung Baby. Anything after that can smooch my grundle.

I saw Jane's Addiction 3 times between 1988-1990. I can't change the station quick enough when they come on the radio now.

Jethro TU2?

 

[B-Deep]

I would say U2 but I still like most of their stuff before Aqualung Baby. Anything after that can smooch my grundle.

I saw Jane's Addiction 3 times between 1988-1990. I can't change the station quick enough when they come on the radio now.

was that their Jethro Tull collaborative album? that's an acquired taste right there

 

[B-Deep]

I would say U2 but I still like most of their stuff before Aqualung Baby. Anything after that can smooch my grundle.

I saw Jane's Addiction 3 times between 1988-1990. I can't change the station quick enough when they come on the radio now.

Jethro TU2?

DAMN!!!!

lol

 

[B-Deep]

Rush

 

[dutch]

Phish. Saw a ton of shows in the '90s but have no desire to listen anymore.

On the flip side, as I approach my late 40s I'm listening to a lot more metal - including death metal.

Me too. In fact, I've got my son listening to early Metallica and we overheard him singing Master of Puppets to himself while he was in the shower the other night. My wife just shook her head, pointed at me and said "that's all you".

 

[Insein]

Limp Bizkit First album is still decent but I can't stand everything else. Used to love them.

I find Nirvana just OK now as opposed to the GOAT back when I listened to them in 8th grade.

 

[headcrack]

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

[Horses Mouth]

Phish. Saw a ton of shows in the '90s but have no desire to listen anymore.

On the flip side, as I approach my late 40s I'm listening to a lot more metal - including death metal.

I know what you mean. I used to drive across the country to see Phish. Now they are coming here to Miami for the NYE run and the tix are cheap on stubhub and I'm not sure whether I have the energy to go.

 

[butcher boy]

Pearl Jam.

 

[skol asylum]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

 

[butcher boy]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

I find the pretentiousness unbearable now.

 

[nirad3]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

I find the pretentiousness unbearable now.

But does that denigrate the quality of their music? Maybe the current stuff, but the old stuff is still the same awesome it was 20 years ago.

So yeah, for me... "none". I liked it then for a reason, just because I'm older doesn't mean I somehow don't like good music anymore.

Weird.

 

[johnnycakes]

Blue Oyster Cult.

 

[skol asylum]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

I find the pretentiousness unbearable now.

Pretentiousness? Huh? These seem like about the nicest bunch of down to earth guys you could find. I have no idea what you mean. I mean who else goes out and does 35 song long shows for the fans? Can you name even one?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Led Zepplin

 

[Ilov80s]

I don't know about annoying, but I am over the Beatles and Zeppelin. If I never heard them again, I wouldn't care.

 

[skol asylum]

I'd say there is probably alot of music i don't listen to because of overplay but not because i don't like it.

 

[AAABatteries]

I don't know about annoying, but I am over the Beatles and Zeppelin. If I never heard them again, I wouldn't care.

Unpossible

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I saw Jane's Addiction 3 times between 1988-1990. I can't change the station quick enough when they come on the radio now.

Heard "Been Caught Stealin'" the other day and spent a good amount of time trying to rationalize their success.

 

[Ilov80s]

I don't know about annoying, but I am over the Beatles and Zeppelin. If I never heard them again, I wouldn't care.

Unpossible

Great band. Love their stuff. I just played it to death as a kid and teenager. Its boring to me now.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Metallica

Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath

Wilson Phillips

Slayer

 

[skol asylum]

Metallica

Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath

Wilson Phillips

Slayer

Is this that sesame street game? One of these things is not like the other...i'll guess Metallica.

 

[Reginald Cornsilks]

Nirvana grates on me now

 

[Spike]

The Who falls into this bucket for me.

Conversely, I didn't like The Rolling Stones when I was young but now really like them a lot.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Led Zepplin

Well Dan, we can now add music along with fake football to the list of things at which you are ridiculously, really super awful.

 

[Andrew74]

Creedence

Shut your mouth, you #######!!!

 

[GoFishTN]

Creed.

 

[skol asylum]

Creed.

I loved My Own Prison when it came out.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

The Eagles - I can't stand them now

Steve Miller Band - WTF was I smoking in my younger days

Led Zeppelin - Used to like them but cover bands bore me now

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Same here on Pearl Jam.

 

[Bonfire]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

I find the pretentiousness unbearable now.

+1

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Steve Miller Band - WTF was I smoking in my younger days

There's a lot of great songs that have been overplayed to the point where I think I'll survive somehow if I never hear them again. But they're still great songs.

Steve Miller's 70s stuff ain't those.

"Rockin Me", "Jet Airliner", "Take The Money And Run", "Jungle Love" et al are just bad. Oh, they SOUND good - Big Music in the 70s would spend obscene amounts of money on production (& coke), but the songs themselves are sloppy and bad. And, worse, they're boring.

I think I knew this as a teenager, but bought the damned records anyway because that's just what you did. You had to at least have Fly Like An Eagle in your collection if you were a rock fan, just like you had to have Fragile and ZoSo. Then I did it all over again in the 80s with CDs.

Remember the opening credits of the Mary Tyler Moore show where she's in the supermarket? She grabs a steak, looks at it with an expression like "wtf am I even doing and why do I even care?". Then she tosses it in the cart in disgust anyway. That was me buying SMB's Greatest Hits on CD.

 

[zamboni]

I would agree on CCR and would add Kiss.

For nostalgia's sake, there are a few old standards I like to hear (Love Gun, Detroit Rock City, Rock Bottom), but for the most part the gimmick is long gone.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I would agree on CCR and would add Kiss.

For nostalgia's sake, there are a few old standards I like to hear (Love Gun, Detroit Rock City, Rock Bottom), but for the most part the gimmick is long gone.

zam! What's happening, my friend?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Led Zepplin

Well Dan, we can now add music along with fake football to the list of things at which you are ridiculously, really super awful.

Don't try to tell me Dyer Maker doesn't want to make you shoot your radio

 

[zamboni]

I would agree on CCR and would add Kiss.

For nostalgia's sake, there are a few old standards I like to hear (Love Gun, Detroit Rock City, Rock Bottom), but for the most part the gimmick is long gone.

zam! What's happening, my friend?

Been mainly Shark Pooling it these days, but that will end soon with the season almost done.

Think I'm getting too old for the FFA unless we have some more of these types of threads.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Pearl Jam.

Unpossible

I find the pretentiousness unbearable now.

+1

+2

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Led Zepplin

Well Dan, we can now add music along with fake football to the list of things at which you are ridiculously, really super awful.

Don't try to tell me Dyer Maker doesn't want to make you shoot your radio

Stairway to Heaven makes me want to kick puppies

 

[Tom Servo]

Led Zepplin

Unpossible.

 

[zamboni]

Led Zepplin

Unpossible.

Yeah, strikes me as odd, too. There are certain songs that I don't like ("D'yer Maker") or are tired of ("Whole Lotta Love" for one) and make me immediately change the station or scroll past. But overall, Zep will forever be a band to savor.