# Music you loved as a kid and now can't stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170 "2009-05-21T14:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/21 "2009-05-23T17:30:07Z")
> [@bleu\_ewe](#): > > Seriously though. When I was a kid? Hmm. No Doubt, Evanescence, Green Day, Blink 182, MXPX, Garbage, Radiohead, The Killers, Pink, Queen, The Ramones. The Killers? Pink? Blink 182? Those bands came in in the early 2000s. I guess I forgot that young people have a much more condensed timeframe when it comes to pop music. In middle school I really liked heavy metal like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and so on. Now that music seems utterly ridiculous. It’s still sometimes fun to listen to though. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/22 "2009-05-23T17:44:21Z")
In an opposite way, I hated Def Leppard back in my teens,now I hear “Bringing on the heartbreak” on the radio,and I think its not such a bad song. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/23 "2009-05-23T18:10:24Z")
> [@RedRosesForMe](#): > > Nirvana. I’m truly ashamed that I once thought the incoherent ramblings of a drug addict were insightful poetry. > > :o Yeah, same here. I thought it was super meaningful, important music. Ugh. Now my reaction is whiny, can’t sing for toffee, pretentious, etc. I still like Tool, though. (I considered Nirvana and Tool my two fave bands at one point.) ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/24 "2009-05-24T05:28:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Nirvana. I’m truly ashamed that I once thought the incoherent ramblings of a drug addict were insightful poetry. (Weird Al) It’s hard to bargle nargle zous with all these marbles in my mouth (/Weird Al) > [@](#): > > John Denver. What’s wrong with John Denver? I love him…I still think that the Christmas episode of the Muppet Show is the best ever. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/25 "2009-05-24T09:43:25Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > Here’s my chance to tell this story… > A couple of days ago, I was going over my daughter’s piano lesson pieces with her, and when we were done I started playing a little “Stairway to Heaven”. > Later that day, she said to me, “Daddy, can you teach me that song you were playing, ‘ **Spareribs to Heaven** ’”? Now were talkin’ **TEXAS BBQ** 😃 I still listen to everything that I liked before…all be it in moderation. Too much new stuff to hear. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170/26 "2009-05-24T12:05:51Z")
I was always the kind of person who didn’t pay much attention to music beyond the superficial “It’s got a beat, and you can dance to it.” I didn’t even try to figure out what the lyrics were, let alone attempt to understand what it was they were talking about. For that reason, almost all the music I used to like, I still like, and the music I used to dislike and dismiss as shit, I can see is still shit. It’s also very satisfying when others wake up and now agree with me. > [@RedRosesForMe](#): > > Nirvana. I’m truly ashamed that I once thought the incoherent ramblings of a drug addict were insightful poetry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-loved-as-a-kid-and-now-cant-stand/497170.md?page=1)