Ever listen to a song and be so moved by it that you were compelled to listen to it 40,000 times, back to back, for an extended period of time?
And then later the you hear the song and it just isn’t the same anymore because you’ve killed it by exhaustion?
Sometimes a song can recover from this abuse,to rise again once in a awhile in all its prior glory, but usually it is never the same to hear that song again.
I’ve killed way too many wonderful songs.
I used to play “Friday I’m in Love” by the Cure every Friday and dance all around my room in circles. But two years of this weekly tradition was just too much for the poor song. I can’t listen to it anymore.
Ive also killed
“Paint it Black”- Rolling Stones
“Washington DC”- Magnetic Fields
“Just Like Heaven”- The Cure
“Home”- Depeche Mode
“Pink Glove”- Pulp
“Swamp Thing” - The Chameleons
“Life During Peacetime”- The Hidden Variable
“Joga”- Bjork
“Ocean”- Sebadoh
I think in my teenage days I killed just about every Nirvana song there was, but it perhaps has been long enough for the songs to be resurrected. I’m afraid to try.
Oh my god! I didn’t realize anyone else was a song killer.
Here are my songs:
Paint it Black (I still like it but don’t LIKE it like it)
Cell Block Tango (from “Chicago”)
Smells like Teen Spirit
Lithium
(Yeah, all the Nirvana songs)
Another Brick in the Wall
Words (the Monkees)
Do you also have the experience where you don’t listen to a “dead” song for many months, years even, and then you all of a sudden like it again?
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan. I killed that way before Lilith Fair started so you can imagine…
1200 Curfews - Indigo Girls. I raved about it to a close friend who later ‘disappeared’ (I fear she may have committed suicide). Not to say that the album or I had anything to do with that, but the whole thing made such an impact on me that I now cannot listen to any Indigo Girls without feeling really down. I’m starting to get over it, though.
One album I’m in the midst of killing is Parachutes by Coldplay. I’ve just seen them in concert so I’m still in a high. Must moderate…
I’ve killed too many songs to mention. Pretty much any song that I’ve adored between the ages of 12 and now. Currently, I’m trying to kill “Anything” by Bif Naked, “Nothing But You” by Kim Ferron, and “Temptation Waits” by Garbage.
Sometimes the songs regain some conciousness, sometimes they seem to be gone for good.
And one song that I liked when I was 15 seems to have entirely regained it’s allure.
“Chill”, from Dr. Mario. Now I’m working on “Fever” from tne same game (It’s much more dynamic than “Chill” and the midi I have has an added part that wasn’t in the original game).
Basically I’ve killed everything I’ve ever liked. So far I’ve killed
All Creed
All Korn
All Slipknot
311’s first cd
“Now” by Taproot
“Click Click Boom” by Saliva
“Dig” and “Death Blooms” by Mudvayne
“Pain” by Soulfly
“Breakdown” by Tantric
“Here’s to the Night” Eve6
“Courage” by Alien Ant Farm
“Rexall” by Dave Navarro
“Moonbaby” by Godsmack
I’m a terrible person…
~Kittie
I recently completely killed Judith by A Perfect Circle, which has got me worried about the status of 3 Libras… I have to listen in moderation, dammit!
There are tons of them actually. I’ll restrict the list to the ones I liked the most at the time,
Metallica - Hero of the Day Red Hot Chilli Peppers - “Other Side” and “Under the Bridge” Guns and Roses - November Rain Ice Cube - You Can Do it Amanda Marshall - “Ride” and “believe in you” UB40 - The Way you do the things you do.
I was horrified when I killed Brick by Ben Folds Five, and thought I couldn’t live with the guilt until a friend of mine resurrected it for me. (Thank you, Eric, if you see this.)
Hmm…I believe I also killed Ventura Highway by America, but it might be still twitching a bit.
Oh, and I killed my Savage Garden collection a few months back. Rest In Peace.(I mean it…that had better stay dead or else.)
I’ve killed loads of songs in my time, but the two that spring immediately to mind are “Female of the Species” (Space) and, more recently, “Yellow” (Coldplay).
After much careful thought, I’ve come to the realization that I have not killed any songs! Amazing. It’s not like I listen in moderation, however. For example, every time I turned on the computer last week, I would listen to “Careful With the Mic” by Clutch on a loop. I still love it. Also, for a week, I would listen to “More Than Words” by Extreme on repeat before I fell asleep, and that’s still my favorite song.
The radio has killed:
Every Nirvana song they play.
“Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns 'n Roses.
“Ride Wit Me” by Nelly.
“Put it on Me” by Ja Rule.
“Miss Jackson” by OutKast.
(I used to be on a ghetto music kick. Thank goodness that’s over, although I still really like “Big Pimpin’.”)
“Stella Maris”, Einstuerzende Neubauten. Such a beautiful song, I usually played it on repeat and sang along silently, both the parts that Blixa Bargeld sang, and Meret Becker (I’m male, and can almost imitate her singing voice. Scary.). I killed it. The first time I heard it, I almost broke out in tears. Now… Nichts. It’s dead.
Both “Unforgiven” and “Unforgiven II”, by Metallica. Those, in my humble, former-Metallica-fan opinion, are pretty much all that’s worth listening to in Metallica. So, until I gave away my CDs to my cousin, I’d play those ad nauseum.
“Leid und Elend”, KMFDM, and “Dogma” is dying fast.
“Fuer Elise”, Beethoven. I whistled it constantly, and it died a slow death. Pity.
There’s more dead songs in my murderous wake, but those listed are my worst atrocities.
I’ve never had one spoiled, but I have had plenty that went physically into the ether, usually tape that finally unraveled or discs that got one-too-many scuff marks on my car floor mats.
“drops of jupiter” by train
“smooth criminal” by alien ant farm/michal jackson
“dream on” depace mode
anything on korn’s first 2 albums, and POP by U2…also, “elegantly wasted” by inxs…but i can still listen to their other albums
I don’t understand…how did you do it? I can, and often do, fall in love with a song, and listen to it on a loop, for hours at a time, and I’ve yet to play something so much that I like it less. I often play new cds as much as 40 times the first week I get them…
Like Chum said, though, the radio has over-played a few songs I sort of liked (the ones I love though, whoo hoo, three times on different stations in an hour, bring it on!) until I could no longer stand them.
Semisonic- closing time
Goo Goo Dolls- Iris
Filter- Take A Picture (or whatever it’s called)
Creed- Arms wide open
(Thank you, Eric, if you see this.)