What was the first music you ever hated?

Black Sabbath should’ve covered it in their prime.

As a kid I hated every song where Garfunkel sang lead and kinda still do-- esp Scarborough Fair and Bridge

They made us sing a lot of cringey boomer stuff in elementary school chorus. One of the first ones I can recall being utterly revolted by was "Crocodile Rock." I had naively, unapologetically enjoyed some *terrible* music as a child (Hootie and the Blowfish, for example). But "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first times I can recall feeling like "WTF is this bullshit." I felt *embarrassed* singing it.

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

Same. See also Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Way It Is for the same reason.

The songs I hated as a kid were the idiosyncratic ones that didn't fit my limited idea of what a good song should be, like "West End Girls" having a singer with an unusual voice. I often ended up liking those songs later on for those same idiosyncrasies

oh also The Buckinghams - "(Hey Baby) They're Playing Our Song".

And 'Brown-Eyed Girl'? What's remarkable or interesting about having brown eyes? May as well call it 'Girl With Ears'.

^funny!

margaritaville

You myyyyyy--aaiiiyyy......girl with ears

They made us sing a lot of cringey boomer stuff in elementary school chorus. One of the first ones I can recall being utterly revolted by was "Crocodile Rock." I had naively, unapologetically enjoyed some *terrible* music as a child (Hootie and the Blowfish, for example). But "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first times I can recall feeling like "WTF is this bullshit." I felt *embarrassed* singing it.

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Now you know the reason why I know all of the lyrics to Billy Joel's "Allentown," Madonna's "La Isla Bonita," and John Parr's "Man in Motion." Our closeted middle-school chorus teacher made us sing all of these! It was...really something. I kind of wish there were videos available of our chorus concerts.

Also, at the end of 5th grade, two teachers were retiring, and our chorus teacher rewrote the lyrics to "Always Be My Baby" so that it became "Always Be My Teacher," and I start crying laughing thinking about singing "Oooh teacher cause you'll always be my teacher." Having a hard time even typing it lmao.

Probably some cheesy Eurodance a la 2 Unlimited which I quite like now.

The big choral number i remember them have everyone (I don't think i was in the choir.... if there was a smaller one) do in elementary school was "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". I didn't hate it per se, but it was certainly robbed of its power more than a little with the monotone of a big group of 7 year olds.

This is weird, isn't it? Everything in Newfoundland is a war memorial.

Y'know what, fuck that song.

in a follow up to my earlier post.
this is the track that to this day still makes me recoil in pain.
was on the radio all the time, and then mum got the album and played it incessantly.
i absolutely fucking hate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsgXJQ0ebU

I don't think I really hated any music before I started loving a type of music. That type of music was metal/grunge, and I had a good two or three years of hating anything I considered antithetical to it - see my above post.

I see now of course that metal and pounding Eurodance do have some things in common.

I see now of course that metal and pounding Eurodance do have some things in common.

mark e, yeah, that's pretty bad. And I really love a lot of Windham Hill cornball shit.

I can't think of anything that I viscerally hated as a kid. I had a phase around the age of 8 where I pretty much only liked showtunes and Andrew Lloyd Weber, and felt a weird embarrassment about anything that I heard on the radio or TV. I think pop and rock felt high-pressure in some way, and that I'd be putting myself on the line if I admitted to liking any of it.

most of my teenage ire was directed at otherwise harmless alternative bands I didn't like that got played on Post-Modern MTV, because sitting through them was wasting precious time... I had to fight to be able to stay up to watch it every damn night and once you boiled away all the useless ads and Kevin Seal nattering you only got to see about five videos. eventually I got wise and learned how to program the VCR.

There are several things I can think of from before I was ten:

-corny MOR country on my Mom's radio like Don Gibson and Mac Davis

-"cute" Christmas songs like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (I liked most actual carols)

-a horrible lugubrious musical rendition of the Lord's Prayer that was played in my elementary school every day over the intercom while all the kids stood

The common thread here is enforced repetition. I hate to overlisten to a piece of music when I've had my fill.

The common thread here is enforced repetition.

absolutely

a horrible lugubrious musical rendition of the Lord's Prayer that was played in my elementary school every day over the intercom while all the kids stood

Resisting the temptation to embed Cliff Richard's "The Millennium Prayer", no-one needs that

My prime overexposure/hate years, just starting to listen to a lot of radio, were 1975-1981. I hated Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do," all disco (which I've since repented of, long live disco), the Boston-Kansas-Foreigner-Styx-Triumph-Toto-Journey monolith, Barry Manilow, and most of all, Supertramp. I will never not hate Supertramp.

I hate/d Supertramp, but didn't realize who they were until I was in my late teens.

Bob Seger "Old Time Rock and Roll"

Oh jeez, Bob Seger. The outro in "Against the Wind" seemed five minutes long and it was on once an hour during my first job, stocking shelves at Fred's Dollar Store.

AGAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINST THE WIND

Billy Joel's "Allentown," Madonna's "La Isla Bonita," and John Parr's "Man in Motion."

I like *all* of these, and I don't even like Billy Joel. Fun fact:

David Foster and John Parr were contracted to write a song for the film, but Parr struggled with inspiration for the lyrics. Foster showed Parr a news clip about the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen, who at the time was going around the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries. His journey was called the "Man in Motion Tour." Parr decided to help the campaign by writing words that would fit vaguely with the film, but which directly referenced Hansen's efforts.

"cute" Christmas songs like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

there it is

see also: Jingle Bells

Yeah, tbh hating Bananarama's "Venus" was a subset of generally being biased against bombastic female-fronted mid-80s pop as a child - "How Will I Know?", "These Dreams", etc, but I did like "La Isla Bonita". Also Miami Sound Machine and, um, Tiffany.xp

I liked all the folk songs and Christmas songs that people are mentioning, though.

I started paying attention to pop around 1994-1995 when I was about six years old and I remember there being things I wasn't really interested in - boy bands, whatever gruff American nonsense was in The Rock Chart on The Chart Show, ballads in general. But there wasn't anything I actively hated until The Spice Girls.

My stepdad was very indie purist and I had been brought up with the myth that playing instruments was real and authentic and the only legitimate way etc. My favourite albums were from Bjork and Garbage. And as an eight-year-old boy the idea of Girl Power was not for me - I didn't understand the sentiments of the Just Seventeen problem-page lyrics, the music sounded cheap and unsophisticated, and everyone being so into it when I wasn't made me double down on my dislike of it. Then All Saints arrived and I loved them in the very obvious binary-of-false-opposites you find throughout pop history - they were cool, edgy and very much Not The Spice Girls. I'm embarassed now by how much I disliked them, even though I still think a lot of their singles are particularly not good, because I disliked them for terrible reasons that don't withstand any scrutiny.

La Isla Bonita

Heh, I also liked this one despite my irrational dislike of all things Madonna at the time. You'd think I would have at least appreciated Ray of Light, which should have been right up my alley during my trip-hop/downtempo phase. Not that I've become a bona fide Madonna fan in the interim, mind you, but it's so much easier to give credit where credit is due as you get older.

A lot of the ones i thought of have been mentioned already. 'Feels So Good' gives me bad memories of shopping trips to boring places with my mom in the late 70s. 'Let Me In" was the first song I can think that I found really unpleasant and vaguely embarrassing to listen to but I was still kind of morbidly fascinated with. I really like REM but hate 'Losing My Religion' so much that I've never bothered to listen to Out of Time.

Hated Kriss Kross and their dumb pants schtick!

xp wise choice, and I say this as an REM fan

poor Out Of Time, it's so great aside from some overplayed singles

(which I totally get hating)

Interesting. I love "Losing My Religion" and thought it was a return to form after shit like "Stand".

otm

I didn't mind Losing My Religion, but I think that Out of Time is their worst album. Shiny Happy People is middling and the other singles are awful. Half a World Away is the only song I still listen to.

Probably something from what I think of as the Beige Era of pop music ('85-ish), maybe like 'Broken Wings' or something by Glen Frey. I loved early- and late-'80s pop, but man was there ever a lot of dull AC shit right there in the middle. I always thought of it as 'music they play in furniture stores'.

P.S. Out of Time is indeed (aside from those overplayed singles) fantastic.

Helen Reddy at the 1977 Houston Rodeo, that one of my mother's boyfriends dragged us to.

I'm not sure I actually liked any music before Gary Numan hit US airwaves in 1979.

at least you saw Helen Reddy at her peak

First I really truly hated was "Bittersweet Symphony," which was nails on a chalkboard to start with and then 18 months later got played once or twice an hour at the grocery store where I worked senior year. A couple of times a month I'd work a Friday or Saturday overnight for a $50 bonus and get hit with "Bittersweet Symphony" and a double dose of Sixpence None The Richer every hour for eight hours spent almost entirely alone.

No wonder you turned out the way you did.

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As a young kid, I paid a lot of attention to the Australian top 50 chart, even though it was an exercise in futility. So, I’m gonna go with Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.” Even at eight or nine years old I had big hate for anything that so much as mentioned religion. The film clip with its extreme close-ups and ye olde-time sepia tone really bugged me too. The song’s biggest crime was just getting in my face when all I wanted was for Oasis clips to show up on TV on Saturday morning.