bands you stopped liking after you saw them live

Great idea for a thread, the kind of thing that happens to everyone sooner or later. (except calstars)

Titus Andronicus for me - I loved & played the hell out of everything up through The Monitor, but saw them around that time and the show totally soured me. Patrick Stickles' onstage schtick was just ridiculously annoying to me, corny messianic rockstar moves and super affected punk rock posturing, like making a big show out of ostentatiously slurring every lyric to the point where every song was just him moaning blah-blah nonsense noises. At the time I thought those first two records were incredible feats of lyric-writing and I couldnt understand why they would take their strongest element out of the mix like that. When combined with the crowd, largely macho jock dudes who screamed with joy every time someone onstage took a drink of beer, it all just seemed very childish, like being at a dumb frat kegger, and they just sounded silly to me ever since.

I’d be interested in hearing more about how fans of Pavement’s records were turned off to the band after seeing them play in the CR era.

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Sunday, 20 October 2019 23:31 (yesterday) link

I walked out after a handful of songs, which no one in the band seemed to know how to play and Malkmus was peak aloof/bored with the whole affair, it was deeply off-putting at the time. I think it would bother me less now.

I saw a Mike Watt show that he has since apologized for that was beyond embarrassing, he was falling down drunk & I was such a huge fan it took a long time for me to get back on the boat, as it were.

Shouts tho to Nels Cline who attempted to single-handedly save the show through guitar heroics and he almost did, man was he fucking pissed.

"Alvvays" I just saw them open for the National and I loved them live. Maybe it's me, or maybe it was the show.

Here's one: Squarepusher. Man that was boring.

Warpaint

If you’re into an act enough this doesn’t exist

― calstars, Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:42 PM bookmarkflaglink

Take it to the Bands you stopped LOVING thread

Didn't really affect my appreciation of his records, but I was really excited to see Shlohmo after Bad Vibes came out, and he played a pre-recorded dj set. It was awkward, but did kinda have an idgaf punk rock vibe too I guess.

wasn't overexcited by the 2010 reunion and what remained of my interest soon evaporated after seeing a couple of shows at which I was increasingly irritated by the overlong, formless "epics" and Gira's increasingly messianic demeanour.

ha, I think I saw them in 2011, and me and my friend actually left in the middle of the show. I was texting with a friend having an emotional crisis and my friend was so irritated with the show itself, she was like, "fuck this, this is horrible, let's go to a bar." and I was totally fine w/that.

but I was fairly lukewarm on them (Swans) prior. ... C@lvin Johnson on the other hand ... though that was more about him being a jerk to me, personally, as the venue manager/booker.

Sigur Rós

The Police, their first show of the reunion tour 2007-2008.
i don’t mind when a track plays randomly here and there but i don’t think i ever consiously put on any albums ever since.

Warpaint

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

First time I saw them, left three songs into the set (in part because Cate Le Bon had been so transcendent opening). Saw them at a festival last year and they were great and I look forward to seeing them again.

back on the boat

;)

What’s bad about warpaint live? Stella rules

HEALTH. Felt like they were faking it the whole night

yeah i saw alvvays last year and thought they were super tight with some decent patter - but i also barely go to shows anymore so maybe my sensors are less finely tuned.

mine was Modest Mouse in Milwaukee in 2007. my buddies and I had been fans since middle school so this was a pretty big moment. of course at that point Mouse were sort of a different band, they'd kicked the alcoholism and assholery but that was what made them interesting (at least, when you're young you find that sort of thing fascinating). I dunno, just wasn't feeling it and I don't know if the band was either. Didn't help that it was at Eagles Ballroom where every band sounds like shit thanks to the 40 foot ceiling. had an epiphany mid-show that the bulk of Modest Mouse album titles were just dumb contradictions that could only sound deep to a middle schooler. in retrospect it probably wasn't a bad show and they did play a number of classics but I just felt like I was done with the band then.

(I did like "Satellite Skin" a lot, though)

Built to Spill. I always liked Keep it Like a SEcret and Perfect from Now on, but when I finally saw them (not even sure when, it was probably about 14 or 15 years ago) they were a goddamned wanky jam band and I hated them.

Haha, so true. I wasn't a superfan when I saw Built To Spill, but I found the corny jam quality fairly offputting.

Whitney. Jocks on drugs, with the lead singer seemingly perpetually on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Really obnoxious stage patter, too. It just all rubbed me the wrong way

wire

the whole thing was grim

really? when did you see them? they've always been fantastic live when I've seen them. even with the new guitarist.

Animal Collective. Actually I don't and never really did like them, but seeing them live made me dislike them even more.

Royal Trux. Wasn't a huge fan, but what a mess. Ariel Pink.

I can agree with some of the "should I bother with live music at all" comments above. These days I spend a lot of time at gigs both slightly enjoying the music but also thinking about when I can leave.

Animal Collective. Actually I don't and never really did like them, but seeing them live made me dislike them even more.

― akm, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:16 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh god, I was so bored at their show in south street seaport however many years ago...

its such a bummer when this happens in general, i really hate the feeling

Damon and Naomi. Both of them whiney and complaining through their whole set.

These days I spend a lot of time at gigs both slightly enjoying the music but also thinking about when I can leave.

glad to hear it isn't just me

for me these days: home listening + early bedtime >>> live shows, 99% of the time

I want to go see Tool when they come play over here but I'm going to hate their fans so much I'll probably blame the band so I think I'll just stay at home.

calstars at 10:23 21 Oct 19

What’s bad about warpaint live? Stella rules

I mean, this was opening for Nick Cave, so bigger place and it felt like the sound mix was not doing them any favors

but overall, they just kind of sounded like shit? the mysterious murky vibe I loved came off as muddled and just...bleh

though it's quite possible they improved or it was a bad night or the mixed sucked (though Bad Seeds sounded great)

I've never been to an actual Warpaint show, but I've watched tons on youtube and they have plenty of great shows. But I can also see how if they were having an off-night, it would all kinda fall apart.

i mentioned this on the albini thread recently, but major assholery from him at a shellac show a few years ago made it p much impossible for me to enjoy any of his stuff since

Damon and Naomi. Both of them whiney and complaining through their whole set.

awww, i saw them years back playing in a basement bar and it was a really lovely experience, magical almost

One that's actually kind of a funny memory in hindsight for how ridiculous it was is The Duchess and the Duke (does anybody remember them?). The guy was incredibly drunk & nasty & berating the crowd for being too noisy, despite the fact that he was playing unamplified and the super-respectful crowd was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The set ended when he ended up falling asleep onstage while singing a song, mid-verse. Never seen anything like it.

a friend of mine saw warpaint several years ago and he said he really hated their live set, it was jammy and lame. I never got to see them until they opened for Depeche Mode and they suffered the same problem mentioned above: murky bad sound, but it was in a bloody arena so not really their fault.

whats wrong with 'jammy'

It can be kind of dull if you aren't into that kind of thing

Richard Ashcroft.

I mean, it was probably a really good gig if you like him, I was sort of ambivalent to him solo, was OK with his Verve stuff. But. To me it was interminably boring. The highlight was Liam G wandering on during the tenth minute of Richard's "New York" song. I can't help thinking Liam was thinking the same thing.

i mentioned this on the albini thread recently, but major assholery from him at a shellac show a few years ago made it p much impossible for me to enjoy any of his stuff since

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:10 AM (two hours ago)

steve albini was acting like an arsehole? can't believe this

Not sure warpaint has the chops to be jammy , much less in a good way. Theresa in particular looked like she had just picked up a guitar for the first time about a week before I saw them back on the s/t tour

Sorry I meant “the fool” tour almost ten years ago damn

Completely forgot that the first concert I ever saw was an example of this: U2 on the Popmart tour. Technical issues meant the show started almost two hours late, our seats were so far back that it felt like I was watching a music video rather than a live band. The crowd was not into any of the new songs and I realized that Pop really sucked. Quickly after that I turned on them, All That You Can't Leave Behind was their first album I didn't purchase. Coincidentally I went through a reappreciation phase about ten years later when I saw them the second time. Pop doesn't really suck, it just half sucks

After i saw Odd Future Wolf in 2010 I only ever listened to Earl Sweatshirt once after that.

I was bored by the show to where I questioned if I liked them as much as I thought.

but I think it had more to do with the fact that some young kid behind me in line saw my Wu shirt and snidely said "oh wow, Wu-Tang was all the way back in the 90s!" and hip as I tried to feel the rest of the night, I felt like Colonel Sanders attending a high school dance.

The trick to feeling young again isn't going to shows by [current year] artists. It's attending classical concerts.

i really liked the dutchess and the duke the couple of times i saw them. yeah, they were drunk but they totally didn't fall asleep; they had issues, for sure. but they laid down an almost "exile" vibe. those records will be rediscovered some day. (xpost)

damon and naomi were fantastic when i saw them. charming too. though even that wasn't enough to actually get me to listen to their records.

xp: wire played mostly pretty average new stuff and really seemed like they didn't want to be there, it's somehow retroactively made listening to their 70s albums more boring to me.

The Mars Volta in 2003. Incredibly boring, I never got to appreciate their albums since.

The trick to feeling young again isn't going to shows by [current year] artists. It's attending classical concerts.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:47 AM bookmarkflaglink

Or jazz clubs.

or, in 2019, p much any rock act that isn't a festival headliner

I was bored by the show to where I questioned if I liked them as much as I thought.

Its interesting to me how many of these stories dont involve the band playing an awful show or saying/doing something bad, but just being boring enough that it provides a moment to hit pause and closely reexamine your fandom