I have a small list of music that I can no longer listen to, if they pop up on the radio I turn it off or if I happen to hear them some other way I find some other way to block it out. The list goes like this:

Stairway to Heaven
Satisfaction
Smells like Teen Spirit
All of Queen's catalog
Life Is A Highway
Enter Sandman/Nothing Else Matters, really any Metallica that had no input from Cliff Burton
INXS,Midnight Oil,Cold Chisel,AC/DC with Brian Johnson etc...
Wonderwall
Any of Dark Side of the Moon
Smash by the Offspring

This is all stuff I used to love listening to (except the Metallica Black album, which is an abortion of a recording). Maybe I got old.

If I hear any of the above I want to smash things with large rocks. I saw a band the other week and walked out when they played Stairway.

A girl I work with recommended Hinder to me. She knows I like grunge. I haddnt heard of them, but knowing that the only station she listened to was easily the most annoying station in the country full of Nickleback and Creed type of pretenders, I knew better than to take a recommendation of watered down post-grunge. I recommended she listen to the Melvins if she liked Hinder, which only got a confused look. I dont think she ever listened to the Melvins.

>>This is all stuff I used to love listening to (except the Metallica Black album, which is an abortion of a recording). Maybe I got old.<<


Yup!

I could never stand any Nirvana song and I still can't. I immediately change the station. Most of Queen's stuff as well. Beck's - Loser. Most of Foo Fighters stuff.

I immediately change the station for U2, which is my #1 all-time most hated band.  I'll walk out of a store for a U2 song.

I used to like a number of 90s grunge bands, but I basically can't listen to any of them anymore - aside from pre-Nevermind Nirvana.  Also can't stand most of the precursors like the Pixies or Sonic Youth anymore.

I can't stand Social Distortion, Rancid, Green Day, or any of the wave of punk bands that came along in the early 90s anymore.  Basically if it was on the radio and is still played on the supposed modern rock stations now I don't like it anymore.

I don't like listening to NIN or Ministry anymore, though I still love a lot of industrial music and have developed a broader interest in electronic music.

My interest in heavy metal has gone from very broad to basically grindcore or black/doom or death/doom crosses.

I think some of the things I don't want to listen to anymore has been because my relationship to music has changed - it's less of a social thing for me now.  I've had a growing indifference to either looking for edgy stuff or for using music as a point of reference to relate to other people.

I stepped back 40 years. I have the stuff I like on my phone, but for travelling or just for background music I put the entire Billboard Top 100 from 66-80 on my old Gen I Nano (still going strong and cost me nothing).

Listening to the Easybeats again?

I never like NIN... Trent always seemed too nice... I dont think much music from the 1990's has aged well at all. That's part of the unlistenable list, how music ages... about the only music from those years that gets a regular listen by me now is by Mark Lanegan.

The 90's were HIGHLY listenable ...

Yes, i do in fact have some Easybeats on my phone AND my iPod.

I wore out my vinyl copy of this song when I was just a mere kid:


Bl'ast! - It's in My Blood

A whole lot of Metallica.
Anything "new" by Avenge Sevenfold, because they decided to sound just like Metallica.

Always hated Creed. And Nickelback

Oh yeah, and Soulja Boy pisses me the fuck off

Anything by Aerosmith after "Toys In The Attic". Just sucks ass. And WTF is up with Steven Tyler? He turned into an old woman... I swear it's like looking at Janis Joplin aged 70... Bad enough that he sold out to Simon Cowell but his music is shit since he got sober. May as well be backing Miley Cyrus. Ew.

A whole lot of Metallica.
Anything "new" by Avenge Sevenfold, because they decided to sound just like Metallica.

Always hated Creed. And Nickelback

Oh yeah, and Soulja Boy pisses me the fuck off

... anything Metallica from (most of) The Black Album forward is untolerable
... NickelBack is OK, they have 2 or 3 decent songs; but that's it

*intolerable

*Nickleback

I can't believe I wrote untolerable ....
... hahahha!

I used to like Metallica even through the Black Album to Load and Reload.  Even had the Binge and Purge Box set.  Tossed it all in the trash can the day I saw Ulrich and Hetfield whining like a couple of fucking sellout pansies over Napster.  Haven't been able to listen to a Metallica song since.  It just ruined it for me, even the good stuff from back in the 80's.

I never really liked Nirvana but didn't particularly hate them, either.  The only song that ever really impressed me was the cover of "In the Pines" that Cobain did on their MTV unplugged album. 
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Unplugged)

Being a musician, I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to music, and there's not much that I absolutely won't listen to.  I even found a way to enjoy the goddamn christian rock my boss played over the sound system at the computer shop back in 2000.  Or well, at least tolerate it.

But yeah, any country music recorded after 1969, or anything from Cake or The Flaming Lips (or any 90's band like them) is an instant power-off switch on the radio.

"...is an instant power-off switch on the radio."


The "power on" switch on my radio hasn't been touched in years.

I used to like Metallica even through the Black Album to Load and Reload.  Even had the Binge and Purge Box set.  Tossed it all in the trash can the day I saw Ulrich and Hetfield whining like a couple of fucking sellout pansies over Napster.  Haven't been able to listen to a Metallica song since.  It just ruined it for me, even the good stuff from back in the 80's.

Being a musician, I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to music, and there's not much that I absolutely won't listen to.

I literally stream a channel and play every song that comes on sometimes ...
I love jamming Metallica, I don't listen otherwise ...
... I'm odd; I'm a professional musician that rarely listens to music; haha!

That's not what makes you odd, Dave!

I dont think much music from the 1990's has aged well at all. That's part of the unlistenable list, how music ages... about the only music from those years that gets a regular listen by me now is by Mark Lanegan.

I think the biggest problem is that rock music hasn't changed at all.  Almost every new band I hear on the radio is straight-up ripoff of an early 90s band with improved production value.  I think it's less that it didn't age well and more that it's across the board fatigue with the style of music.

I think the biggest problem is that rock music hasn't changed at all.  Almost every new band I hear on the radio is straight-up ripoff of an early 90s band with improved production value.  I think it's less that it didn't age well and more that it's across the board fatigue with the style of music.

Isn't it all, though?

I remember flipping through my dad's numerous The Ventures LPs and finding a compilation of surf rock anthems. Holy shit were there a bunch of surf bands back in the 1960s. The ones I remembered from the compilation were Sandy Nelson, The Bel-Airs, and The Rivieras, with other British-invasion bands such as The Zombies. I started noticing a lot of similarities between the groups: the twangy reverb on guitar, the start-and-stop drumming, and the Beach Boy harmonizing. There was little original space between the songs of the bands.

My own theory to this "fatigue," as Emp explains it, can be summed up with the analogy "beating a dead horse." Well, bands were literally beating a dead music form after Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Hendrix, Zepplin, Deep Purple, et al. They were simply recycling every musical quality like a player piano performs the spool of sheet music it is given. The instrumental formula stays the same with many bands: lead guitar, bass, rhythm guitar, drums, and vocals, hardly breaking the mold or introducing new instruments into the fold. Until bands start to understand that playing rock 'n' roll, metal, alternative, punk, or jazz is incredibly repetitious, music will never break new creative ground.

As for the thousands of spin-off bands, I assume that these are bar bands/hometown hero types that put their faith in the local fan base for support. I've been in numerous bands and nearly all of them stayed within the confines of the region. Most of us were dirt poor and couldn't tour, but a few of the bands did small southern US tours and had a bit of success with different venues. One of the bands I played with did nothing creatively new. The guitarist was fixated on the e-bow (an electronic contraption that when put on a particular string(s) will make it reverberate as if you were using a violin bow) which almost every band was incorporating during that time. We were taking our cues from bands like Malady, City of Caterpillar, Pg. 99, Mogwai, and Death from Above 1979. 

In the sixties early seventies the people had something valid to rail against.

But we lost.

Certainly, all music is derivative.  But I feel like there was less continuity in the past - you'd his a point where a slightly different style of music came into the spotlight.  Or maybe I'm just remembering more diversity on the radio dial, instead of having only two channels to choose from.

Ah Emp it's all about money. From the early days of radio it's been a few producers banking on the music they can loot from talent, they promote it for profit and if your sound doesn't fit their model it never gets played.

In the sixties they hated the music, but that is what the people wanted so they sold it. Up to a point. Seems today they want to regurgitate all the old safe shit on radio, you don't even hear a fraction of the bands or their music on radio in most areas.

Now almost all public radio station get their programing from a central router over the internet like cheap ass franchise clones.

That's not what makes you odd, Dave!

Dare I ask ...

... and my take on being a "musician" or "performer" or "singer" and you have to
use an AUTOTUNER, you get paid minimum wage (or lowered scale)!

http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/17/milli-vanilli-lip-sync-video/

Gotta say I agree.

Now I have "Blame it on the Rain" stuck in my head...

Clapton. There are lots more, but Clapton comes to mind immediiately.

I respect Clapton as a musician, however, I can't listen to anything of his ...

Milli-Vanilli; the only group in history to have their Grammy revoked (for life) ...

I could never listen to Clapton. 

He just doesn't have the voice for the style of music he wants to play.

I like his music fine, I just can't still listen to him now that I know he's a racist cock.

I didn't know that.  Which race does he hate?