For me it’s Nevermind by Nirvana. I listened to it so much in my youth and it’s been in heavy regular radio rotation for so long that I can’t stand listening to anything off the CD anymore, even though I really liked it and still think it’s a great CD. When one of the songs comes on the radio or whatever I cringe because I know it’s 3 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Actually, come to think of it, I feel this way about most Nirvana, but most strongly about Nevermind
I feel similiarly about AIC Dirt, but not as strongly. Great CD but WAY played out.
Anything by Zeppelin. Deep down, I know they had some good music, but the combination of the countless teenage hours I spent listening to them coupled with how irrationally overrated they are leaves me unable to listen to them anymore.
Scratch that…I fucking hate, hate, hate them anymore. It’s a bit unfair, but since I’ll always connect listening to them with my early teens, I now find Zep worship to be a major sign of immaturity (and not the good kind, either).
I get infuriated anytime a rock station does on holiday weekend countdown of the “X number of greatest songs of all time”, and puts that overblown POS Stairway To Heaven at #1. Give me a fucking break…the only reason people vote for that to be #1 is because it’s always been #1, and they’re too fricking stuck in the damn past to get over it.
It really takes me an extra amount of effort for me to respect someone once I know they’re a huge Zep fan*. Hell, I once broke up with an otherwise very nice girl because she insisted on calling them “The Mighty Zep” <shudder>.
*No worries, What Exit…you’re the only one here that I know to be a big fan, and you do not fall into any category of my prejudices here.
Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, particularly “Head Like a Hole”, which I listened to so much it doesn’t even sound like music to me anymore. That album was the soundtrack to my early teen years, I swear. It only got a rest when The Downward Spiral was released.
I gotta agree with you here.
One of the reasons I avoid guitar stores during the weekend is I can’t stand the constant drone of pre-pube kids playain “Stairway”ad nasuem.
If I never hear** Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”** again, I’ll die happy.
Great album. Cant listen to it. Ever.
Paul Simon’s album Graceland. I used to love that album. Then, a friend of mine in high school, the only one in my crowd with a car of his own, got it stuck in the tape deck of said car. A tape deck with an auto-reverse feature.
I rode in that many times over the course of one particular summer, much of the time stuck in traffic on the NJ Turnpike or LIE or Cross Bronx Expressway or Belt Parkway or any of the other asphalted heat trapping parking lots connecting the cities and attractions of my area of the country.
This car was possessed only of 4/75 air conditioning. (That would mean “open all four windows and drive at 75 MPH” in case you’ve never heard that term.) So I got very hot, very uncomfortable and very, very familiar with Graceland.
I heard that tape way too many times. Just the opening riffs to “Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes” now causes me to twitch involuntarily and grit my teeth.
I usually don’t listen to albums over and over and over again…even my favorites. I have sort of a mental “copy” of the album after a listen or three, and that’s good enough. Occasionally, I’ll pull out an old favorite to hear what it “really” sounds like, as opposed to the way I remember it.
Sometimes remixes/re-issues are pretty spectacular and worth a getting reacquainted with. I hadn’t listened to Dark Side of The Moon from beginning to end for a more than a decade when the 30th Anniversary Edition came out. I don’t have a 5.1/SACD system, but it sounded so good, I fell in love with Pink Floyd all over again.
For me it’s the Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen. I was completely, insanely obsessed with this album when I was in high school (which, uh, I still don’t quite understand because it’s all about an extremely dysfunctional relationship, and I had never experienced anything remotely resembling the pathologically twisted mutual torture session that is chronicled in those songs). I listened to it several times a day (in completion) for over a year, and it’s easily the album I’ve played the most in my life. Now, ~15 years later, I can tell you I think it’s a fantastic album, and with great enthusiasm, but please don’t ask me to listen to it again. It’s just too…ugh. It’s like eating marshmallows after having spent a year gorging yourself on them.
Hey, at least you had a quality album to listen to. The tape this happened to in the car I was hanging out in was stuck on Cher. The one with “Bang Bang.” And, as I recall, a bunch of folk songs…
The #1 for me is Sublime, and especially 40oz to Freedom. They were the soundtrack of my teen years and I’m kind of pissed at myself for playing them too much. Great music but it’s burned in my head now to the point that it somehow sounds corny or convoluted when I actually hear it.
To slightly lesser extents than Sublime:
-311’s older albums
-Several Bob Marley albums but especially Legend. I burnt out on that one before I bought any others and then ended up burning out on 4 or 5 more
-Dark Side of the Moon
-Wu Tang’s Enter the 36 Chambers
-Johnny Cash’s Greatest Hits
-KRS One’s self-titled album, Return of the Boom-Bap, and I Got Next
-Cypress Hill’s first two albums
-Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy
-The Voodoo Glow Skulls’ first two albums, especially the second one, Firme
-Pantera’s first 3 albums, but especially Vulgar Display of Power
-Metallica’s Master of Puppets
-Primus’ Sailing the Seas of Cheese
-Tool’s Opiate
I wish I could listen to most of these albums again for the first time. I listened to a lot of music as a teenager; not nearly as much anymore.
I’ve been thinking of starting a thread asking if anyone can listen to STH and enjoy it anymore. It’s just way too overexposed. But does that mean that Hal is right, that it’s a piece of shit? I argue against that position.
Take food for example. If you take the worlds best chocolate and force feed it to someone every meal until they become sick at the thought of it does it mean that it’s a POS? No.
STH is a voted a great song because it is. You just need to step back from the maze to get a little perspective.
I will add that I have been overexposed to it too many times. It’s hard for me to enjoy it now.
[sup]It’s still a great song[/sup]
please no one take offense (my husband and brother already deem me insane for this), but i just can’t take the beatles anymore!! i’ve been hearing their music over 40 years, and no mas!!
Totally agree. I find it a little irritating when people say a song sucks because it is overplayed. First of all, don’t listen to the radio and you won’t have that problem. Second, the reason it is so overplayed is because it is a great song. It isn’t the band’s fault that everyone and their mother loves a particular song and plays it over and over again ad nauseum.
True dat. I honestly have not heard Stairway in years and years. It hasn’t been 10 years, but more than 5 I’m sure. If you listen to the classic rock station that has been playing the same 50 rock songs on a loop since the Carter administration, that’s your fault, not the song’s. Even my dad who listened to that stuff my entire life has finally started to get sick of it in the last few years.
That’s the way I feel about Early Beatles. I can’t stand anything from their first two or three albums cause it was endlessly played on “oldies” stations in the 80s and early 90s.
I actually really like the famous but not overexposed middle period pieces such as Nowhere Man and Fool on the Hill.
Maybe in another 20 years I might be ready to Meat the Beatles again but not now.
