# Bands YOU once loved, but now hate so very much **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830 "2008-11-08T18:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/21 "2008-11-09T16:52:18Z")
**Ted Nugent.** For some reason my teenage self thought Ted was awesome. These days, I can still stand to listen to his self-titled debut album, but “Cat Scratch Fever”? “Wango Tango”? What the hell was I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/22 "2008-11-09T18:05:23Z")
The Beatles. During the late 70’s when I was in high school and the musical landcape was rather bleak, I loved their music. These days, when they pop up on my iPod or the radio they just sound kind of…shrill. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/23 "2008-11-10T01:19:10Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > Huh? U2 and REM are both still making music, and in fact REM put out their best record in a decade this year and played some of the best live shows of their career. I can understand if they don’t appeal to you anymore, but they haven’t called it quits yet. _checks [allmusic.com](http://allmusic.com)_ Huh. Well, I’ll be. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/24 "2008-11-10T04:51:56Z")
Actually, I can think of very few bands I once loved but now hate. There are a lot of songs that I’ve heard so many times I can pretty much go without ever hearing them again. Like The Beatles for example. Now do you mean our enjoyment of the bands themselves or their newer material? For example, I liked Pearl Jam until No Code, which I found mostly forgetable. Truth be told, I only liked Ten, Vs and a few tracks from Vitalogy. So I stopped listening to any newer Pearl Jam but I still like the older stuff. In the 90s, everyone hated 80s metal like Bon Jovi or Def Leppard but now people like 80s music again. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/25 "2008-11-10T09:35:29Z")
Tears for Fears did not age well. One of their songs came up in my favorites playlist and I skipped that sucker after two notes. Michael Jackson was my first album and I must have played Thriller til the cassette wore out. But I didn’t even bother importing that one into my itunes. And not because of his personal life. Of my oldest stuff, I still love me my Indigo Girls and Cyndi Lauper. I’m not as into Billy Joel, but the songs still work for me. I still like some of the other old stuff, but most of the rest were singles. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/26 "2008-11-10T09:44:17Z")
I can only imagine how sick of those songs the performers\* themselves\* must get. Mick Jagger probably wants to make so much money off their concerts to compensate for having to sing: “Satisfaction” even though \*he \*probably tired of it somewhere in the seventies, so, thirty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/27 "2008-11-10T14:20:54Z")
Nickelback. They had one song that was catchy and that I liked. I didn’t know that’s the only song they knew, and they’ve been remaking it for years now. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/28 "2008-11-10T19:51:29Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Tears for Fears did not age well. One of their songs came up in my favorites playlist and I skipped that sucker after two notes. Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Mr. Mister, Wang Chung, Flock of Seaguls, Eddie Money, Bryan Adams etc etc. Unless I’m in an 80s mood, I can’t bear having them in my playlists. I think it’s that polished 80s syth/rock pop sound that just somehow does not mesh with anything alt-rock. If some old Cure or U2 or The Clash gets in there, no problem. Then again, I never was in love with that stuff during the 80s anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/29 "2008-11-10T19:59:48Z")
I love the eighties and never stopped, but hearing anything by The Cars is like chewing a piece of week-old gum. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/30 "2008-11-10T20:11:28Z")
**Pantera** - I was young and disgruntled. ‘Shedding Skin’ is still a good song, but the rest is so incredibly dated. **Slayer** - growling about Satan and war just kinda makes me laugh now. **Megadeth** - Did not age well. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/31 "2008-11-10T20:51:54Z")
I was a Kiss Army kid. Well, not officially a member, but my friends and I loved Kiss. We even dressed up as them for Halloween a couple of years. Not to go trick or treating: just because. We were about 14 - 15 at the time. I have never bought anything on CD from Kiss, but I will definitely listen if they come on the radio. (Maybe because I haven’t owned any of their stuff in 20ish years.) I saw one of their reunion tours in about 1995 or 1996 maybe? It was fantastic! Fire, explosions, blood, 3 chords of loud rock: what’s not to like? I find it difficult to have previously liked a band and then not like them anymore. I can get over-saturated with hearing the same song(s) all the time but, once a fan always a fan. In my 20s I thought The Doors were where it was at. I still like their music, but have resigned myself to the fact that Morrison was not some sort of mystical genius; no, he was a well-read, self-indulgent army brat who probably accidentally overdosed on heroin. But, ya’ know the music is still very good. Some pretentious, crappy poetry, but some good rocking tunes too. I never got into anything recorded past about 1980. A bit of Van Halen and the like maybe, but the 80s killed rock for me, which is why I mostly listen to talk/news radio these days. Sometimes I’ll flip over to the classic rock station and laugh because something like “Stairway to Heaven” or “Hotel California” is on and I’ve heard it about 3 million times and I’ll flip back to talk radio. Other times something like “My Woman from Tokyo” will be on and I’ll crank it! I’m rambling now, aren’t I? ---
**Author:** ![ChadVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ChadVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChadVader)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/32 "2008-11-10T20:54:48Z")
The Doors Pink Floyd U2 Pixies Nirvana Alice in Chains Pearl Jam Modest Mouse At The Drive In ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/33 "2008-11-10T21:26:14Z")
The Cars and Journey, off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/34 "2008-11-10T22:00:23Z")
My two big ones are Bruce Springsteen and U2. I still enjoy their early stuff, but neither of them has produced a single album I can listen to since the late 80s. Also, I very much enjoyed Chicago in high school and early college. Now, whenever any their songs come on, I really can’t understand why. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/35 "2008-11-10T23:53:04Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > I can only imagine how sick of those songs the performers\* themselves\* must get. Mick Jagger probably wants to make so much money off their concerts to compensate for having to sing: “Satisfaction” even though \*he \*probably tired of it somewhere in the seventies, so, thirty years ago. **Journey’s** _Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’_ has how many "Na Na Na Na Na"s at the end of the song? How many concerts? How many "Na"s? ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/36 "2008-11-11T00:00:24Z")
I LOVED Alice in Chains when I was in Grade 9 and I thought I’d love them forever. Except I started listening to Pearl Jam the next year and moved on. 😛 I still listen to them, but they’re a bit too heavy and dark for my tastes now. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/37 "2008-11-11T00:18:03Z")
> [@FallenAngel](#): > > Also, I very much enjoyed Chicago in high school and early college. Now, whenever any their songs come on, I really can’t understand why. There were two sides to Chicago, at least during albums I-VII; the hit-making machine, to be sure, but there was a fairly strong avant side to their music-not quite prog or fusion, but somewhere in that zip code. I liked both sides, but as I said what spoiled them for me was when they went completely mainstream (and sappy) thanks mainly to Peter Cetera soaking up the void left by Terry Kath’s death, and that left a bad taste in my mouth WRT all their stuff present or past, and I moved on. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/38 "2008-11-11T01:35:00Z")
When I was a teenager I loved Kansas, a band I now realize is among the most pretentious ever. (And I loved them in the 80s, well past their prime.) I can still listen in very small doses, but mainly for nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/39 "2008-11-11T01:59:18Z")
I’d say a particular type of mid nineties alternative that seemed to be at every party when I was in my early twenties. Bands like Garbage, Urge Overkill, and probably a few others. I heard a Garbage song the other day, from back in the day, and it just sounded so weak. There’s also a few groups/performers I’ve dropped because they went political (shrill-ly so), such as Steve Earle and Pearl Jam. I can’t even listen to their pre-politics records now. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830/40 "2008-11-11T02:47:34Z")
Another one I forgot to mention earlier is the Eagles. I’m sick of most of their songs. I don’t hate them enough that I’d get kicked out of a taxi for demanding that the driver change the station if an Eagles song is playing, however. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-once-loved-but-now-hate-so-very-much/471830.md?page=3)