What was the first music you ever hated?

eddie money - “take me home tonight”

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:39 PM

oohhh if i were a little younger, this would be a serious contender.

elton john, in general, is someone with whom i've never heard a single song and thought, "ahh, well that's not too bad!" not like seething hatred most of the time, but i dislike everything i've ever heard. everything.

Foreigner

The Macarena.

I was in Grade 5, and during our class's Halloween party there was this one kid who was in control of the CD player, and he basically just kept playing the song over and over again. And this was still half a year before the English Bayside Boys mix would blow up in America.

Now I'm just kind of indifferent to the song, but I don't ever go out of my way to listen to it.

context on Foreigner:

A: overplayed (especially in 1979)
B: sexist & gross (even to 13-year-old me in 1979)
C: clearly Bad Company Lite (even to my 13-year-old ears)

Another hair metal, especially "Pour Some Sugar on Me"

this is a really good question! i'm trying to pin it down. at first i thought, "dashboard confessional"?

it is a really good question! I had to think for a couple of hours. I have also hated bad reggae opening bands, but that was later in life

My dad loves Bob Dylan, and I just absolutely could not deal with it as a child. I got over it somewhere in my mid twenties.

I wonder how many of these are *stuff my parents played*. My first was def opera -- my parents played it around the house a lot and I remember those big, shrieky voices filling the whole house on weekend mornings and feeling assaulted by it.

i keep coming around to this wonderboy idea that maybe i don't truly hate any music, and i want to slap myself

but really, i tend to just forget or ignore bad music. and then if it's truly, TRULY bad, it becomes interesting again and possibly funny. so...?

check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYvGfF1Gkg

I have a few that stick out also from my mom playing classic rock radio in the car -- Black Water by the Doobie Bros, pretty much any Boston

ooh black water’s a good one. also “your mama don’t dance”

(loggins & messina)

I remember a good friend put on The Downward Spiral in his room all the time when we were playing N64 and I didn't have the heart to tell him but I fuckin' hated it. Instead I just made fun of all the songs..."hey pig PIGGY PIG oink OINK OINK OINK"

a decade later I was at a bar, maybe cuz I was drunk but someone played "Reptile" and I was like what da fuck....this is really good!???

Re: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," it came out when I was 9 going on 10 and finding my initial footing into what I thought was cool. I liked Nirvana and Aerosmith, the "grunge" on the radio, etc.

The sappy blech of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" made my skin crawl then, and it does similar now. Awful song that really wastes John's talent and subtlety in favor of a histrionic cryfest.

I wonder how much Elton John's terrible material at the time has prevented me from ever watching The Lion King. I've seen all the other movies from Disney's animation rebound in the late 80s/90s, but never that one.

Tbf, it's also a terrible movie

eminem

i found "stan" and "kim" nightmarish as a 10 year old and i was disturbed that this was considered "popular music."

Absolutely hated 'Dancing in the Streets' when I was wee, I got extremely anxious and annoyed when I heard it. Still do tbf. Also: Tina Turner and Joe Cocker, couldn't stomach their voices.

Possibly 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' but having been only 4 at the time I could be seriously falsely remembering here and in fact thought it was absolutely the shit.

More likely Renee & Renato's 'Save Your Love'. Certainly by the mid-80s I took against a lot of slushy pop ballads (to the extent that a more interesting question for me personally might be what was the first romantic ballad I didn't hate).

'Dancing in the Streets'

Obviously I mean the Bowie and Jagger version of this. And I love Bowie, but it took a while to just get over this one lock this one up and throw away the key.

My wife has totally suppressed the memory that all those gloppy Disney ballads from The Little Mermaid, Lion King, Aladdin, et al were actual inescapable pop hits.

Is your wife Superwoman?

“A Whole New World” rules and always has

FP'd for deliberately rekindling another man's latent trauma.

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

No this is for real! Aside from an early memory (age 4) when my parents put on Glenn Gould's first Goldberg recording and I remember feeling like the sound of percussive piano noodles was harsh and ugly on my toddler's ears (so I chewed on the paper cassette sleeve in protest), Def Leppard (age 9) was the first time I really hated something.

My Grade 4 teacher let us play music off a little boombox during recess and I brought it my favourite (at the time) cassette-- Zukerman and Midori playing the Bach Double. My classmates thought it was hilarious and there was a bartering with the teacher as to what days we'd listen to rock music and what days we'd listen to classical. I think I ended up winning one day out of five. My classmates teased me about their victory, and played INXS "Kick" and Def Leppard "Hysteria", turning it up really loud and grinning at me to irritate me. INXS wasn't irritating, but Def Leppard extremely was, especially at high volumes coming out of the boombox.

I can't think of anything else that I actively "hated" for many years. I remember my friends in first year college talking about how they hated, for example, Placebo's "Pure Morning" and I made a case for its redeeming qualities. "Dots And Loops" was the first adult album I really hated, I guess, largely because my first exposure to Stereolab was "Switched On" (which I adored) and I felt "Dots And Loops" had all the comparative charm of this lounge cover of Wonderwall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ

pinchas some zukerman on me

beautiful story btw

first 'new from a store' record i got was the Hectic EP by Operation Ivy when I was 10 or 11. not sure I had heard ska music before, and had a visceral negative reaction to it. I thought I was getting a cool record that would link me to cool older kids, but I remember thinking it sounded like silly circus music that clowns would dance to.

Tbf it was.

http://www.ssgmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Isocracy-06.jpg

Johnny Fever, I've also never seen the Lion King. I actually wrote a poem about it that was published a while back, lol.

Haha, I loved Hysteria obv but that story more than makes up for it.

Hysteria was one of those records that was so ubiquitous I heard it all the time yet never heard anyone playing it on purpose. Like, I dunno, Paula Abdul or something. But I guess that was just a facet of the way music consumption worked back in the day. The choices were made for you.

(Obviously you could make your own choices, too, as always, but there was some stuff you were just going to hear no matter what.)

I am guessing you were older than 9.

For me, as a 9yr old Ultravox fan in 1981, it was Shaddap You Face by Joe Dolce.

fgti's story reminds me of how, in the sixth grade, our music teacher would let the class take turns brining in a song they liked to listen to and discuss during class. One girl (super-religious, and from what I later heard, pregnant by 14), brought in "Dear Mr. Jesus," the result of which was a room full of 11-year-olds laughing uncontrollably at a song about child abuse.

jfc wow

Just a little follow-up to that Def Leppard story, the other kids would make fun of me by singing in operatic voices. It wasn't a bullying situation, I was well-enough liked, but it wasn't pleasant. One of the other kids in the class, one day, in an ingratiating move, took me aside in the cloakroom and said, in a hushed tone, "just so you know, I kinda like opera sometimes", and even at 9 my mind was hissing "the Bach Double isn't opera you idiot"

"Bennie and the Jets". I hated its sluggishness & its lack of resolution after "you know I read it in a magazine", like it should burst after that but it doesn't, it just drops back into the lope. nowadays I dig it though, was just a kid thing.

i remember hating the banana splits for doing songs that the beatles could otherwise have done. i guess i thought there were only a finite number of songs. i hadn't totally thought everything through.

i guess i thought there were only a finite number of songs.

well, a smaller finite number. like, the banana splits were needlessly using up songs.

i love that, such a great example of kid-logic

I think it was the Alison Moyet cover of "That Ole Devil Called Love". At the time, young Siegbran was not ready for smooth vocal jazz in his life (yet).

most frustrating thing about the banana splits was that you saw them whizzing around in beach buggies in the opening sequence but the beach buggies never appeared in the actual show afaict* at least I don't remember seeing them again

same with the pink panther show, why didn't we ever see any more of that amazing pink racing car thing?

*lol I might be totally confusing this with the monkees tbh

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

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someone also mentioned "a whole new world" and aladdin and i think that's my real answer. i felt pretty visceral hatred for a lot of songs from animated disney films from the moment i heard them. i kind of knew instinctually that they stood for everything i despised aesthetically - music that is inseparable from whatever plot mechanics it is attached to, andrew lloyd weber-style melodies and harmonic development (the equivalent of thomas kinkaide paintings, to me), music organized around reinforcing the middle class american nuclear family as the mystic construct we should all aspire to perpetuating, etc.