What was the first music you ever hated?

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

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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

Second verse that no one sings about confounding their politics and frustrating their knavish tricks esp classic xps

yeah exactly, do you do the verse where they want to kill the Scots etc?

"Rebellious Scots to crush..."

hmmm.

Sund4r, i think it was just hearing it so often combined with an intuitive notion that pomp and circumstance was just wrong.

it was definitely the patriotism that turned me off. that was only a few years after the hostage crisis and i was mercilessly bullied for being from iran (nvm that we had preemptively fled as enemies of the new regime and all ...)

i didn't really have problems with america per se at the time but overt displays of patriotism just reminded me i was "other" or whatever ... we didn't become citizens until 84 and i do recall the LA olympics that year being one of the first times i felt any national pride, though that might have been more local southern california pride than anything else

i am more tolerant of the american project now but overt patriotism generally still feels gross to me and patriotic music is no exception (also the star spangled banner always struck me as weirdly tuneless)

i'm English and i still won't stand up for that booshi

i'm a white Anglo and have always been sympathetic/cuddly to the US project TLG but flag-fucking music has always hurt nme in my heart as long as i can remember

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

I honestly don’t remember really “hating” any music until I was a young adult and subjected to bands like RATM and a few others I can’t stand.

"Break My Stride" is the first song I recall actively disliking. Now I'm merely ambivalent.

I really, really, really hated "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne, et al., but that was a couple years later.

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.