What was the first music you ever hated?

i was really enamored with anything that was musical and that came my way and was basically just following social cues as to what to hate until maybe ... the fateful year of 2000 when uncle kracker released "follow me," which quickly crystallized my ability to hate things on their own merit.

This was 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for me. Even at a young age it sounded pompous, overblown and overlong. (Still does.) Hated the video too.

i still hate hair metal

I remember wishing in 1971 that people would stop playing and singing Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World"

that gets the nod because it slightly predates Bread's "Baby I'm-a Want You"

probably YMCA

i hate whatever youse boys like

‘A Whole New World’ almost ruined Aladdin for seven-year-old me. To this day, there is no music I hate more in the world than that of ‘musicals’. It’s not learned behaviour, it’s 100% innate.

wait why? how old were you? I guess when you're young certain songs do that..."She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals definitely hit me in a weird spot when I was 7

― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:31 (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I was like 8

I was physically terrified of Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army and would run away whenever it played.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" filled me with such existential terror as a child that i had to run out of the room when it came on the radio, no lie

Oh, I forgot about summer camp. Two singalongs a day, with handclaps and "huh!s" and cutesy add-on lyrics, permanently ruined a whole bunch of hippie campfire staples for me when I was twelve. "Leavin" on a Jet Plane," "Country Roads," "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Circle Game," that sort of thing. I probably would have ended up hating most of them anyway, but that certainly accelerated it. The only song we did that was good enough to make it through that treatment undamaged was "Paradise" by John Prine.

i can't musically explain that but there are particular late 60s chord choices that have a similar unconscious psychic effects yeah

as a kid I had to turn off The Buoys' cannibalism ballad "Timothy" as soon as it came on and I would still be traumatized hours later

i'm sure there were others before but first i can recall is "Let Em In" - Wings
don't really mind it now

I also hated "Let Em In" as a kid, for this reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBDcb7kq_g

Now I like the song, for the same reason!

Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC. Still loathe that one

i once spent a dinner time in a working man's club in Hull when pubs used to shut at 3 o'clock and this lad kept playing "Dreadlock Holiday" on a loop, fuck knows how much it cost him.

It's kinda racist.

I don't remember really disliking any music as a youngster but the chorus from the version of "dizzy" by the wonder stuff and vic Reeves got lodged in my 7 year old brain one night and I didn't get to sleep for around 6 hours, and felt a bit mentally unwell so that's the first song I remember having an aversion to

I've just listened to it on youtube and one of the commentators notes that the final chord change scared them as a child.

this song was a menace

it was rubbish tbf

Stock Aitken Waterman, hands down. I was about 10 or 11 when their stuff was all over the radio. Used to almost throw up when I heard that horribly tinny and cheap keyboard sound that they used all the time. If anything I hate their stuff even more now.

Having said all that, Pete Waterman will ultimately be spared the guillotine because he also produced Say I'm Your Number One by Princess, which is one of the greatest pop songs of the entire 1980s.

conversely I really enjoyed the production on SAW stuff as a little kid, "I should be so lucky" is one of the first songs I can remember enjoying

Def Leppard

it's kind of nostalgic to see somebody moaning about SAW in 2020 so fair play, get to fuck jon but that Princess tune is a banger

obv gtf fgti too but this is a first hates thread so i'm telling myself you still understand "Photograph" you monster

DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby

HUH HUH

it's kind of nostalgic to see somebody moaning about SAW in 2020 so fair play, get to fuck jon

Sorry, I must have misread the thread title as "What was the first music you ever hated" or something equally incorrect.

i'm sorry i didn't mean to be mean about it i'm just defending my chunky bois

and you're right about the point of the thread

BUT

so many great SAW tracks

i mean you're otm about "Say I'm Your Number One" but gdamit

Alternate answer: American Pie

Thanks, jon123 - I know you won't appreciate it but I'm now having a wee boogie to 'Love In The First Degree' at 1:48am here

no SS Papparazzi no credibility

Alternate answer: American Pie

― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:46 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This one is another contender - but the Madonna version 0 which my uncle had on single and I feel like he used to play it on repeat on car journeys

p sure I've heard people say they hate Madonna's "American Pie" more times than I've actually heard the record (which was not a single in the US although it charted modestly anyway)

Bananarama's cover of "Venus" stands out in my mind.

the star spangled banner

and all the other patriotic garbage they made us sing in grade school in the very early 80s

one day that garbage is gonna

nah

i think every band noise is implicated there to some extent

Did you just hate how it sounded or was there something about American patriotism that turned you off at a young age?

Dreadlock Holiday for me too! Long car rides parents controlling the tape player.

i can't remember when patriotism writ big made me feel sick but the tie to uncoditional love is rock and roll maybe? "Queen are fasicsts" is kinda silly but "Queen realised gigs are fascist" is kinda true?

On a Star Spangled Banner tip, God Save The Queen (not The Sex Pistols song)

Much as I used to hate it, that hate seems like love compared with the loathing I have for it now.

Also Disco. I was very wrong and have repented.

you usually get hit with the fascism of music as a kid a fair way before you think about fascism

and there are still dopes out there arguing strongly that "liking music" = succumbing to a brainwash

isn't the fuckedest thing about US Freedom that it's the replacement bug for monarchy worship?

and i prefer the American fallacy but they're world-fucking mistkaes

My dad insisted we only listen to Radio 3 when I was growing up, so probably Mozart is the first thing I remember loathing with a passion, seeing as how I wanted to listen to wholesome stuff like, er, Gary Glitter. Still hate Mozart btw, it's inculcated into my neural architecture now and there's no changing it.

My Grade 4 teacher had us sing "God Save the Queen" as well as "O Canada". ('God Save" was officially still our anthem until 1980 iirc; this was years later but he was v big on our colonial ties - also made us research Guy Fawkes.) I loved it tbh.

xp :(

i'm sorry sund4r i wish youse indepedence ASAP :(

altho i'm glad "O Canada" exists because Joni and no other reason

ffs tho nobody needs a Queen

except etc

lol yes
or gender-neutral inclusive Andy

I don't think I have ever hated any music as much as I hated "Mandy"

The Muppet Show was syndicated so it was on whenever a particular channel wanted to put it on.

Can we do this thread about first music you ever loved or has that already been done?

speaking of album covers, my dad's copy of Strangers IV: Rattus Norvegicus used to really creep me out. There's these two really weird looking dudes who somehow don't look real and a stuffed wolf's head

"Can't think of anything I hated before the age of 14 or so, though I was very into music and am sure there was something. "

Same here. Each time this thread comes up to top of new answers I try to think of something I actually hated as a kid instead of being merely indifferent to. I got nuthin.

despite loving all kinds of beats, ska really bugged me for years, could not get into it, 'primative reason' became the band that allowed me in on the ska train, though the dub and reggae vibes helped

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams. One summer in middle school I was grounded for a month because I had snuck out of the house and spray-painted the neighborhood. (EID)IDIFY seemed like it was on the radio twice an hour and for some reason there was some different song I was desperately trying to catch and record. There had been music before that I had made fun of, because you're supposed to make fun of Milli Vanilli or Warrant. Sure, Ice Ice Baby was stupid, but Bryan Adams was my first experience with actually feeling rage at a song's existence.

― peace, man, Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:29 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was reflecting on this and actually went back a little further in time. When I was in 5th grade, the Beaches soundtrack came out. While mega-hit Wind Beneath My Wings was definitely over-played and annoying, the track that got a lot of attention from girls in my school was Otto Titsling, a burlesque romp about the invention of the brassiere. I - a Guns 'N' Roses and Motley Crue fan at the time - found myself scandalized by this song, partly due to the chesty content and partly due to Midler's leering voice. At recess, girls would sometimes break out into chants of "over-the-shoulder boulder holder," which was one of the song's big pay-off lines. I remember being real uptight and angry about this song.

spray-painted the neighborhood. (EID)IDIFY

originally misread that you were busted for spraypainting the letters "(EID)IDIFY" around the neighborhood, like you hated it so much it and thought it would enrage others

also I want this to be the name of a prince cover version with drawings of eyes in place of the letter

(E👁D)👁D👁4U actuall

No, I just wrote the word fuck, but spelled with a "ph" instead of an "f". It was really pathetic and I probably deserved the Bryan Adams after that.

oh yeah one thing I'm not really into is prog after a certain time when it has started just doing things for showing off sake and not really feeling it. Mainly listen roughly 70-73. I think it would have to be really special for me to listen after taht.
I don't like things that fit the designation New Wave as opposed to post punk or whatever other specific individual designation much either.
Corporate pop pap etc etc

Growing up in the 90s with mainstream alternative rock radio I was on board with pretty much everything until nu-metal started taking over - Papa Roach, Incubus, Limp Bizkit etc. That was more anger inspiring and disappointing than anything going on with other genres I didn't care about/listen to.

"Cut my life into pieces / This is my last resort" - radio off

You didn't give a fuck if he cut his arm bleeding?

skip, though it wasn't the first music that I hated, I can attest to also hating nu-metal. I was a punk kid, really into grindcore and more extreme forms of hardcore etc. I didn't have many friends in my middle school except a few skater boys and "alt" girls (I was a fat gay kid who read a lot of books lol), and when Korn and all that became popular, the boys were like "THIS IS SO COOL AND EXTREME IT'S LIKE WHAT YOU LISTEN TO, TABLE" and I was like, "no." But it was because they were wrong! My favorite bands were Born Against and Los Crudos! And nu-metal is just...it's awful, the revival of it was fun but not because the music was ever good.

Part of this is that I had a distinct sense of what I considered "fake" or "insincere" from a very young age, so nu-metal and Marilyn Manson and such always just seemed like utter trash to me— who would buy what these dudes were singing/screaming? I couldn't, and still can't.

"You didn't give a fuck if he cut his arm bleeding"

I never knew until now that was the next lyric... LOL.