History CreatorBacklash / Music

* Music/KingCrimson refuse to play anything from their first few albums live for fear of "...becoming old dinosaurs." Aside from official pronouncements, the period between ''Islands'' (4th album) and ''Lark's Tongues in Aspic'' (5th album) marked the permanent departure of lyricist Peter Sinfield, along with every other band member (and writer) save Robert Fripp himself, and the adoption of a completely new musical style, with a different instrumental line-up. It would be reasonable to infer that royalty considerations, difficulty in adapting the music for the new lineup and desire not to revisit an era that was so carefully abandoned have all played a part. This has not stopped Fripp from overseeing extensive remasters of the early albums. He'd probably deny that money was the prime consideration...

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* Music/StephenSondheim has often expressed disdain for his ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' lyrics, especially "I Feel Pretty". In ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'', he commented to the effect that the song in question sounded more like Music/ColePorter than anything an urban Latina would be likely to sing.
** It's been said that he wrote the deliberately silly "Lovely" in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' as a TakeThat to his own lyrics for "I Feel Pretty".
* One of the reasons Music/TomLehrer had such a short "active" musical career was that he quickly learned he was bored stiff by the idea of performing the same set of songs over and over and over. Some of his performances only happened because he wanted to visit the place where they were located. (Australia being a major example.)
* Novelty songs, when they are recorded by artists who primarily do serious work, almost invariably become a major thorn in the side of that artist. Nobody likes seeing the serious compositions they worked so hard to bring to life ignored in favor of some silly thing they did as a joke.
** Chris Rice has expressed great disdain for his frequently requested "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFJ_rykyA4 Cartoon Song]]".
** Music/SteveTaylor, another Christian artist, didn't dislike his song "Lifeboat" until his audience kept screaming for it every night of that album's tour. Since the video featured Steve wearing drag to play the teacher, that was expected of him to do on stage as well, [[SarcasmMode which Steve greatly enjoyed]].
* Frank Loesser was rather annoyed about "Thumbelina" being one of the most popular songs he'd written.
* Eric Boswell (1921-2009) was rather annoyed about [[SoMyKidsCanWatch nativity hit]] "Little Donkey" - he'd composed many other songs, many of them witty, satirical, irreverent and rooted in his [[OopNorth native Northern England]]. Plus, people kept assuming that he must have been old when he wrote it in 1959, and hence must have died in the mean time. He did admit liking the way that the royalties covered all his bills, though.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner Anton Bruckner]] composed a symphony that he was so disillusioned with that he didn't see fit to assign it a number, and simply wrote "gilt nicht" ("doesn't count") on the score. It was later known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._0_%28Bruckner%29 Symphony No. 0]].

* Music/VanessaCarlton was sick of only being known for the traveling piano in her music video for "A Thousand Miles", so she had the video for "Nolita Fairytale" start with the piano getting destroyed by a passing taxi. (She [[https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a43139/vanessa-carlton-a-thousand-miles/ is fine]] with the song these days.)
* While it wasn't commercially successful at first, Music/{{Weezer}}'s ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' gradually developed a large cult following and is still the favorite album of many of their fans. However, after the band returned from a lengthy hiatus in 2001, Rivers Cuomo took to disowning it due to its CreatorBreakdown fueled lyrical content and initial commercial failure, refusing to perform any of the material live, and comparing it to "getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself". In more recent interviews he seems to have more positive things to say about it though, and a song or two from it will still make setlists.

* Music/PetulaClark was not the biggest fan of one of her big American hits, "My Love." She does perform it from time to time at concerts, though, usually as part of a medley of '60s hits or in a different style.
* Be careful in mentioning "Boom Bang-A-Bang" or "I'm A Tiger" to Lulu.
* Or "Monsieur Dupont" to Sandie Shaw.

* Music/PinkFloyd:
** Roger Waters and David Gilmour both expressed disappointment with ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'', with Gilmour calling it "horrible" and Waters referring to it as "a disaster".
** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' got to number 1 in the UK album charts and was taken on tour with a full brass section. But, as the 1970s progressed, the band went off the title piece entirely. Their public statements on it [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Heart_Mother#Quotes (see the Other Wiki)]] indicate that they consider it badly done, meaningless and pretentious. They have also stated that during that period (between the departure of Music/SydBarrett and the completion of ''Music/{{Meddle}}'') they had no idea of what they were doing or where they were going. Music/RogerWaters has stated that he wouldn't perform it again even for a million pounds. David Gilmour's attitude towards the suite has since warmed, and in 2008 he guested on a performance of the suite by a tribute band, the suite's co-songwriter Ron Geesin and an orchestra.
** The band suffered varying levels of this with "Money", the hit single from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', Roger Waters being most affected. It wasn't for any of the usual reasons, more that it was symptomatic of a major change in the relationship with the fans. Prior to ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', the audience would keep quiet during the quiet pieces and applaud at the end. After the huge success of the album, their vastly increased audiences were a lot louder and rowdier, and spent a lot of time shouting requests to play "Money". (This ultimately led to the incident on the ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' tour when Roger Waters spat on a particularly loud and rowdy fan. And the fan ''liked it.''). They probably got over it by 2005, when they performed "Money" as one of the five songs performed during their Live 8 Reunion.
** David Gilmour hated nearly all of 1983's ''Music/TheFinalCut'', partly because some of the tracks on that album were rejected songs from ''Music/TheWall'' and party because Roger had all but taken over at that point. He liked several of them though, and included 'Fletcher Memorial Home' on their self-picked greatest hits double-album.
** Music/RogerWaters has mentioned he dislikes the very 1980s production on ''Radio KAOS'', saying he was led into directions he was uncomfortable in as he was distracted by "all that Music/PinkFloyd litigation".
--> ''Between (guitarist/producer) Ian Ritchie and myself, we really fucked that record up. We tried too hard to make it sound modern. I allowed myself to get pushed down roads that were uncomfortable for me. I should never have made that record.'' - '''Roger Waters'''
* Music/{{Air|Band}} have expressed displeasure with "Pocket Symphony", blaming their work on Charlotte Gainsbourg's debut for taking up all of their creative effort.
* Music/{{aha}} dislikes their most well-known song, "Take on Me". Magne Furuholmen stated, "We've done better songs. It's great to be recognized, shame it's 'Take On Me.'"
* Music/SimpleMinds:
** For the longest time, the band disliked "Don't You Forget About Me." In fact in the original recording Jim Kerr intentionally slurred his vocal in parts because he hated some of the lyrics ("I'll be around, dancin' you know it baby" for instance). Jim has come to appreciate the song since then, mainly because he loves the crowd reaction it gets and because he has since rerecorded the song to his liking (For instance the Special Mix by Hu-Mate which appears on Live And Rare).
** They have never been fond of their debut album, ''Life in a Day'', because they felt it didn't really capture their sound, coupled with how poorly it charted. They recorded the album ''Real to Real Cacophony'' very soon after as a way to make up for it. It was even less successful.
* While "853-5937" was one of Music/{{Squeeze|Band}}'s biggest U.S. hits, both Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook (the band's only constant members and songwriters) hated the song and prevented it from being on any compilations.
* Music/{{Heart|Band}} never wanted to record Creator/RobertJohnMuttLange's "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You," but their record label insisted. It became a major hit, so they played it on that tour, but they have not played it since. Ann Wilson has stated that it grossed her out.
** In fact, Heart very rarely plays any of their 80s output because of all the pressures the record label put on them to record music they didn't like. The only exceptions are "Alone" and "These Dreams", their only two chart-toppers.
* Jeff Lynne, leader of Music/ElectricLightOrchestra, came to detest the music he wrote for the movie ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', due to how the music was used. He seems to have lightened up about it, though, as he covered Xanadu's theme for the compilation album ''Flashback''.
* Music/RandyNewman expressed regret for writing "Short People", calling it a novelty song and noting that the song's message (a satire against prejudice) was being interpreted literally by listeners.
* Music/SirMixALot, who wrote "Baby Got Back", has admitted to being incredibly annoyed by the song, as he has re-written it at least 3 times for different shows and has virtually eclipsed the rest of his career. He has since embraced the song's ubiquity, probably because [[MoneyDearBoy it still makes him a lot of money]]. However, he's also had great fun lampooning it--for example, appearing on ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' and [[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129487951 trading jokes with host Peter Sagal]] in 2010 (in relation to a bit about pre-crash Washington Mutual bankers performing "Baby Got Bucks").
* Music/IronMaiden hasn't played any song from ''No Prayer for the Dying'' since Music/BruceDickinson's departure in 1993, other than "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" (and this one hasn't appeared since 2003!). Likewise, the only track from ''Fear of the Dark'' that survived in setlists was the title track (another, "Afraid to Shoot Strangers", was sung by Blaze Bayley during his tenure, and then by Bruce himself in the Maiden England tour).
** On the subject of Blaze Bayley, you're unlikely to hear many songs from his albums ''The X Factor'' or ''Virtual XI''. Bruce did sing some of them in the concerts between his return in 1999 and recording ''Brave New World'' the year after, but that's it.
** Steve Harris also despises the first two albums that the band released. They still play songs from them, but that's not to say they won't call it the "Jurassic period" or something else along those lines.
*** Paul Di'Anno, who sang on those first two albums, initially looked to be having a promising career out of the band with his projects Battlezone and Killers, but due to various personal problems, they didn't last very long. From the 90s onwards he's been playing the material from the first two Iron Maiden albums because that is what most crowds want to hear. He is completely sick of the songs and freely admits to it in interviews, but notes that he can always make good money touring them. Consequently, many live videos of him doing the songs feature him slurring or getting the crowd to sing certain lyrics. However, Di'Anno's newest band, Architects of Chaos, has gone down well with fans who have noted Di'Anno's enthusiasm for his new music, so he may be able to distance himself more credibly from Maiden in future.
* Music/MeatLoaf:
** For over 20 years, he refused to perform the song "For Crying Out Loud", even when taking audience requests. In 2003 he sang it on his ''Live from Melbourne'' album, introducing it by saying he hadn't wanted to perform it for years, his current band hadn't practiced it, and he was out of practice with it. His reasoning was revealed during the Last At Bat UK Tour: He felt that it was Jim Steinman's greatest musical masterpiece, and always felt that when he sang it live that he never did it justice.
** He refused to sing "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" when it was requested, but would sing it when he felt like it.
** The album ''Midnight At The Lost And Found''. The only track from that album that he's ever really played live is the title track, and the album is mostly forgotten by most people anyways.
** He did not play anything from ''Bad Attitude'' since 1984/5 other than its biggest hit, "Modern Girl," which reappeared on the 1998 Best Of tour before being dropped again. A few songs from 'Blind Before I Stop' (the TitleTrack and "Masculine") survived for a few years, but neither of those were performed since at least 1990. Even 'Midnight''s title track was never played after 2003.
* Singer-songwriter Music/MandyMoore regrets her teenage IdolSinger years, and has said that she will provide refunds to anyone who bought her first two albums. Her music nowadays is indie folk-pop. Apparently she actually ''did'' refund someone's money for the album ''So Real'' when they called her bluff on a radio show.
* Music/KellyClarkson has been complaining about [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio]] including the song "Already Gone" on her album ''All I Ever Wanted'', because the final cut ended up sounding like "Halo" by Beyonce. Both songs were written by the same songwriter (Ryan Tedder) and have ''the same backing track''.
** Kelly Clarkson also dislikes "A Moment Like This" since the American Idol executives forced her to record it. Similarly, she also dislikes "My Life Would Suck Without You" since she was forced to collaborate with producer Dr. Luke, whom she'd had bad experiences with in the past. For the latter, Kelly Clarkson also refused to take a co-writer's credit.
* Latin singer Music/RickyMartin hates "Livin' La Vida Loca." Whenever he performs it now, he does it in a different style.
* From Music/LosCampesinos:
** Most of the band, especially lead singer/songwriter Gareth Campesinos!, have developed a turbulent relationship with their earliest music, including their debut album ''Hold On Now, Youngster...''. The general trend is that they considered it [[SweetnessAversion too "twee" for their tastes]] -- their first single, "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives", has only been performed a handful of times (including as an encore for the concert recorded for their 2013 live album ''A Good Night for a Fist Fight'' -- even then, the final verse was cut as Gareth finds it embarrassing), and Gareth has dismissed "The International Tweexcore Underground" as "abysmal". The band has mellowed out over the album in years since, and a few fan favorites remain on their live setlist (including their BlackSheepHit "You! Me! Dancing!").
** Gareth and Tom Campesinos! have also expressed some regrets at ''Hello Sadness'', [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkmv7w/los-campesinos-rank-their-first-five-records even ranking it even lower]] than ''Hold On Now, Youngster''. While it still contains personal favorite songs, they think as an album, it was too streamlined and engrossed within its [[BreakupSong "breakup album"]] identity, believing they were overcompensating following their previous "tryhard" record, ''Romance is Boring''. Gareth notes that in hindsight, some of the free B-sides released following the album should've made it on the album over some in the final product.

* Music/DevinTownsend:
** Most famously, he has distanced himself as much as he can from his former Extreme Metal group Strapping Young Lad, stating on his website that he only ever thought of them as a parody of death metal, and had gone through several {{Creator Breakdown}}s as a result of having to summon up the original anger he felt when writing ''Heavy as a Really Heavy thing'' and ''City''. That said, he's still friends with the band members, and has occasionally played what he calls "cover" versions of two of SYL's most popular songs: ''Love'' and ''Detox'', often with a skit pointing out that he doesn't feel the same way about the music as he did back when he recorded it.
** he also came to dislike the song ''Lucky Animals'' from ''Epicloud'', but for a much more benign reason: his kids and his friends' kids learned the song and began singing to him ad nauseum.

* Music/TheLemonheads' cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson": It was a single due to ExecutiveMeddling and became one of their biggest hits, but even at the time it came out they refused to play it live. They've since done live performances of the entire ''It's a Shame About Ray'' album and left it off (though it was technically tacked onto that album as a bonus track to begin with).

* Frankie Palmeri of Music/{{Emmure}} has said that he thinks that their 2012 album ''Slave to the Game'' sucks outside of a few songs.
* Music/{{Helloween}} refuse to play any songs from the albums ''Pink Bubbles Go Ape'' and ''Chameleon'', both of which were released after Kai Hansen left the band, but before Michael Weikath got fed up with Michael Kiske and kicked him out of the band. Fortunately, the fans don't ''want'' them to play any songs from these albums.
** Speaking of Kiske, he openly hates metal (despite being one of the most iconic voices of PowerMetal) and only produces light acoustic music these days. He will, however, appear as a guest on some power metal albums, particularly for Music/GammaRay and Music/{{Avantasia}}.
** Kiske's backlash arguably doesn't apply so much any more, considering he's taken part regularly in a few projects which have been hard rock driven with some power metal roots and Unisonic (a hard rock band which he formed that also includes Kai Hansen) have done covers of Helloween's "I Want Out" and "Future World" live as encores for their sets. That said, his own songwriting is still mostly acoustic music (although his last solo record dates back to 2008, which was before Unisonic were formed).

* Music/SergeiRachmaninoff reportedly hated his Prelude in C-sharp minor, as he wrote it when he was just 19 and still finding his voice as a composer, and yet people were constantly requesting it as an encore at his concert performances for the next fifty years. Most casual listeners would probably be surprised to hear that he ended up writing a full set of 24 preludes in all the major and minor keys (with two exceptions - the G minor and G-sharp minor preludes - the C-sharp minor is performed and recorded more often than all of the others put together).
** [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]] has a story in his autobiography about moving into the apartment next door to Rachmaninoff, being driven crazy by his constant piano practice, and having the management be too much in awe of Rachmaninoff to do anything about it. His solution? Constantly repeat the first four notes of the Prelude in C sharp minor on his harp at maximum volume, and wait for Rachmaninoff to ask for a different apartment because he can't stand to live next to "that mad harpist".
** In an interview, Music/SergeiRachmaninoff once said that his favorite performance of the C-sharp minor prelude was Music/DukeEllington's. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize... Duke Ellington never played the C-sharp minor prelude.
* Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky reportedly hated ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', which is quite possibly his best known composition.
** He also reportedy hated his ''1812 Overture'' and felt it was undeserving of such massive popularity.
* After Lifehouse had a hit with "Hanging by a Moment", it was common at that time for the members of the band to express their anger in interviews about how everyone would leave right after they played that song. Since then, they've had a number of other hits so it didn't happen much longer, but the song is now always near the end of their sets.
* Charlie Simpson, leader of the British post-hardcore band Fightstar, would like to pretend he was never a member of the boy band Busted. He did make an exception in 2010 to vigorously deny that he would be joining his ex-bandmates for a forthcoming reunion.
** However, he has grown to appreciate his time at Busted when he finally joined his ex-bandmates in 2015 for a comeback tour and has said that he's not doing the comeback [[MoneyDearBoy for the money]] but because of how much he missed recording and performing music with his fellow bandmates. He has said that though Busted's comeback is long-term, it will not prevent him from continuing to performing music with his own band Fightstar.
* Outside of some Beethoven covers, Vanilla Fudge isn't too fond of their experimental second album, ''The Beat Goes On'', a project [[ExecutiveMeddling force-fed by producer George "Shadow" Morton]]. Bassist Tim Bogert has even gone so far as calling it "the album that killed the band".
* Anthony Kiedis, lead vocalist of the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers doesn't like "The Greeting Song" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' very much - it only exists because Rick Rubin told him to write a song about girls and cars.
** For some time Anthony didn't like performing anything from "One Hot Minute". Originally, this was because Music/JohnFrusciante made it a condition of his return to the band. After John left for the second time, Anthony was still not interested due to associating the album period with his relapse into heroin use. Due to excessive fan demand and the desire of Josh Klinghoffer, the band brought back "Aeroplane" on 'The Getaway' tour in 2016.
* Music/ElvisPresley had a well-documented dislike for many of the songs he was required to record during his movie contract (and for most of the films, too). The book "Elvis: The Illustrated Record" quotes him as once saying during a recording session "What can you do with shit like this?" and refusing an audience request to perform "Viva Las Vegas" during one of his Vegas concerts. Indeed, except for a few exceptions, most notably songs from ''Film/BlueHawaii'' such as "Can't Help Falling in Love" and several songs from his 1950s-era films, Presley generally refused to perform movie songs during his live concerts. He also tended to shuffle off most of his '50s hits either in medley form or in very truncated, almost joking fashion ("Hound Dog" being the prime example), though this is less likely due to distaste for them as it was a desire to focus on more current music.
** Elvis was also furious when he heard of the existence of ''Music/HavingFunWithElvisOnStage'', an album that Colonel Parker brought out behind his back and was nothing but cobbled together stage banter without any actual music. He ordered to have this cheap cash-in to be retrieved from the stores immediately.
** Had Elvis been alive when the bootleg album ''Elvis' Greatest Shit'' was released, it's unlikely he'd have disapproved of the content.
** On a more serious note, Elvis was largely disillusioned with his own career and the state of the world in general and the music industry in particular when he realized people would rather listen to him rather than Fats Domino just because he was white.
** Elvis didn't exactly ''hate'' "Way Down", but he remarked to Colonel Tom Parker that "This song is only good because it's funny. If it wasn't funny, then it just wouldn't be any good".
* The members of Autopsy had mixed success with the band, so they reformed into HardcorePunk band Abcess, just as their early material was being VindicatedByHistory. They were less than pleased when all people wanted to talk to them about was the band they just left, causing them to take shots at their old material.
* Timo Tolkki expressed in an interview his dislike towards the self-titled album for Music/{{Stratovarius}}.
--> "[[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=70528 That record was just put together from bits and pieces; I really don't like that record. It wasn't how it's meant to be done with us.]]"
* Music/DavidBowie [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Down#Quote_from_Bowie_on_Never_Let_Me_Down didn't think well]] of 1984's ''Tonight'' and especially 1987's ''Never Let Me Down'', which followed in the stylistic footsteps of ''Music/LetsDance'', his biggest-selling album. ''Never Let Me Down'''s supporting Glass Spider Tour turned out to be the only time he performed songs from it live. "Loving the Alien" (''Tonight'') and "Time Will Crawl" (''Never Let Me Down'') are apparent exceptions, since the former and a rerecording of the latter made his compilation ''[=iSelect=]''; the former also appeared in a stripped-down arrangement on the Reality Tour.
** His most-analyzed lyrics, "Ashes to Ashes" from ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'', seem [[TakeThatMe to express discontent with practically all his previous work]]:
--->''I've never done good things,''\\
''I've never done bad things,''\\
''I've never done anything from out of the blue ...''
** And then the line that repeats over the coda, "Mama always said / To get things done / You better not mess with Major Tom", also seem to express resentment over the veneration of [[Music/SpaceOddity "Space Oddity"]] within his oeuvre.
** Asking Music/DavidBowie what he thought of his novelty single "The Laughing Gnome" was only wise if the questioner was tired of life. Or, if he was in an amiable mood, only wise if the questioner wanted to hear a torrent of never-ending sarcasm.
* Although it was released on an EP, the lead track of which was 'Bad Days', Music/{{Space}}'s record company sent [=CDs=] of their cover of 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' to radio stations, and it ended up being the song that featured in a car advert, got played on the radio and on TV, and had a video made for it. The band were not pleased and felt that the record company had manipulated them. 'Dark Clouds' also incurred CreatorBacklash, probably because it came out around the time Jamie Murphy was having a nervous breakdown and Tommy Scott had lost his voice, plus Tommy sees it as being 'too wacky'. Before they split up, they played a garage rock version of 'Dark Clouds' at a couple of their gigs.
* Music/{{Blur}}, particularly [[TheQuietOne Graham Coxon]], are not particularly keen on ''The Great Escape'', the album which served as a rival piece to Music/{{Oasis}}' ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory''. Damon Albarn said it was 'messy' and one of what he considered to be the only bad albums Blur had done (the others being ''Leisure'', and later ''Think Tank''), and "Country House" became an embarrassment. It probably doesn't help that the album is associated with the Oasis rivalry and the burgeoning 'lad' culture of the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they decided to go in a more lo-fi direction for the follow-up, ''Blur''. (That being said, they did play some songs from it at their more recent comeback gigs, including "Country House".)
** Damon Albarn himself has no good things to say of ''Think Tank'', due to [[TroubledProduction how troubled its recording was]], the fact he had to finish it without [[BestFriend Coxon]], and his own meltdown resulting in a six-year hiatus for the band.
** And he has even less good things to say from "No Distance Left to Run", from ''13''. In order to ''make that song'', he had to ''[[CreatorBreakdown come to terms with the end of his relationship with Justine Frischmann]]''.

* Music/TobyKeith:
** In a 2005 interview with ''Billboard'', Keith said that he wasn't fond of "Upstairs Downtown", the second single from his second album ''Boomtown''. He said he didn't think it had potential as a single, and that he would have preferred to release the album's title track.
** He has supposedly said that he regrets covering Music/{{Sting}}'s "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" as a duet with Sting himself.
** He stated that "Red Solo Cup", his 2010 novelty hit, was "the stupidest song I ever heard in my life."
* Chase Rice [[http://www.rollingstone.com/country/features/chase-rice-talks-new-album-bro-country-past-w488916 said]] in an interview with ''Magazine/RollingStone'' that he is ashamed of his tenure with Creator/ColumbiaRecords, despite it producing the major hits "Ready Set Roll" and "Gonna Wanna Tonight". Rice said of the album that "I was just throwing a bunch of stuff on a wall and seeing what stuck. There is some stuff on there that is the same old shit and I'm tired of that." Those two songs were also the subject of critical derision for being "bro-country" right before that trend started to fade away (coincidentally, Rice was also a co-writer on the TropeMaker, Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine's "Cruise"). His 2017 album ''Lambs & Lions'', his first for Broken Bow Records, has been more warmly received and Rice says that album is more true to who he is as an artist.
* Before becoming one of the biggest {{record producer}}s and songwriters in Nashville in TheNew10s, Shane [=McAnally=] was a recording artist, having done one album for Curb Records in 1999. The album included one Top 40 hit on the country charts, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". This part of his career is almost entirely forgotten about nowadays, and given his repeated attempts to scrub it from his Website/{{Wikipedia}} article, he probably would prefer it stay that way.
* David Nail supposedly disowned his debut single "Memphis", which would have been on an album for Creator/MercuryRecords that ended up [[MissingEpisode never getting released]] due to a management change.
* Steve Azar, much like the above-mentioned Joe Nichols, recorded an independent album in 1996 before having his BreakthroughHit in 2002. In his case, the album was called ''Heartbreak Town'' and mostly consisted of slick mainstream country-pop unlike the rock and delta blues influences of his later albums.
* Early in his career, Music/LukeCombs sang a duet with another country music artist who chose to incorporate the Confederate flag into the music video. In response, Combs took his name off the song and later expressed regret for appearing in the video.
* Highway 101's little known debut single "Some Find Love" did not chart and was excluded from their debut album. According to the members of the band, this was because it had a much more pop-influenced sound that they instantly disliked.

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* Music/StephenSondheim has often expressed disdain for his ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' lyrics, especially "I Feel Pretty". In ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'', he commented to the effect that the song in question sounded more like Music/ColePorter than anything an urban Latina would be likely to sing.
** It's been said that he wrote the deliberately silly "Lovely" in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' as a TakeThat to his own lyrics for "I Feel Pretty".

* One of the reasons Music/TomLehrer had such a short "active" musical career was that he quickly learned he was bored stiff by the idea of performing the same set of songs over and over and over. Some of his performances only happened because he wanted to visit the place where they were located. (Australia being a major example.)

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* Novelty songs, when they are recorded by artists who primarily do serious work, almost invariably become a major thorn in the side of that artist. Nobody likes seeing the serious compositions they worked so hard to bring to life ignored in favor of some silly thing they did as a joke.
** Chris Rice has expressed great disdain for his frequently requested "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFJ_rykyA4 Cartoon Song]]".
** Music/SteveTaylor, another Christian artist, didn't dislike his song "Lifeboat" until his audience kept screaming for it every night of that album's tour. Since the video featured Steve wearing drag to play the teacher, that was expected of him to do on stage as well, [[SarcasmMode which Steve greatly enjoyed]].

* Frank Loesser was rather annoyed about "Thumbelina" being one of the most popular songs he'd written.
* Eric Boswell (1921-2009) was rather annoyed about [[SoMyKidsCanWatch nativity hit]] "Little Donkey" - he'd composed many other songs, many of them witty, satirical, irreverent and rooted in his [[OopNorth native Northern England]]. Plus, people kept assuming that he must have been old when he wrote it in 1959, and hence must have died in the mean time. He did admit liking the way that the royalties covered all his bills, though.

* ''Music/AmericanPie'' made Music/DonMcLean a success and then just as quickly killed his career. [=McLean=] got so annoyed that the one song was all anyone ever wanted to hear from him that he began refusing to play it in concert; naturally, attendance dwindled to almost non-existent levels. [=McLean=] was also rather irritated at constantly being asked to interpret the song's admittedly obscure lyrics.
** "[[MoneyDearBoy It means I never have to work again]]" is apparently his favorite response to that question.
** [=McLean=] started singing the [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Weird Al"]] parody [[ApprovalOfGod of his own song]] ("The Saga Begins") during concerts after that song came out.

* Music/{{Eminem}}:
** Eminem became so sick of "My Name Is" that after a while, he would only play snippets of it at his concerts - often stopping the song to declare that he was sick of it. He eventually clarified that he thinks it's a great record, but resented how it overshadowed his more personal work, particularly "The Way I Am".
** By 2002, Eminem was highly critical of ''The Slim Shady LP'', complaining that his beat-riding and technical ability on it was "horrible" and that the [[NerdyNasalness high-pitched, nasal voice]] he used to portray Slim Shady sounded annoying and stupid. [[MagnumOpusDissonance It's generally considered to be one of his three best albums, if not his best.]]
** Eminem also complained that "The Real Slim Shady" was too cheesy. It ended up becoming one of his {{Signature Song}}s.
** Eminem created his Slim Shady alter-ego in order to 'have an excuse to rap pissed off' but developed a love-hate relationship with the character - being Shady offstage and on for several years, while [[CreatorBreakdown experiencing the pressure of fame for the first time]] and binging on psychedelic drugs, left him LostInCharacter and behaving in irresponsible, violent ways. He was also genuinely upset about the fact that his use of bigotry as VulgarHumor was hurting the feelings of women and gay people. He toned down appearances from the character on and after ''Music/TheEminemShow'', and even killed him off in "When I'm Gone", emerging a couple of years later with his hair its natural dark colour again. However, the next album he released was ''Relapse'', in which Shady comes back from the dead, [[{{Horrorcore}} worse than ever]]. Since then, he's concluded that his "evil twin" will always be a part of him and that he loves him, but their relationship isn't always that easy.
*** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' has only a few Shady appearances, and they portray him in a LighterAndSofter way. On the album's lead single, "Without Me", Marshall opens the song by complaining that people only want Slim (before [[PanderingToTheBase snapping back into character as Slim]]).
----> ''I've created a monster\\
'Cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more\\
They want Shady, I'm chopped liver!''
** In particular, Eminem has a habit of insulting ''Relapse'', his ConceptAlbum in which he played a SlasherMovie-inspired version of Shady who rapped [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent in a number of vaguely offensive accents]]. In "Not Afraid", the first single from his ''Recovery'' album has the lyrics "Let's be honest, that last ''Relapse'' CD was "ehhhh" / Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground".
*** Another track from ''Recovery'', "Cinderella Man", has the following lyrics: "Fuck my last CD, that shit's in my trash."
*** Also on ''Recovery'', in "Talkin' 2 Myself", he states that "[[CanonDiscontinuity Those last two albums didn't count]] / ''Encore'' I was on drugs, ''Relapse'' I was flushing them out".
*** ''Hell: The Sequel'''s "The Reunion" is a satirical story about Slim ''abusing his girlfriend'' by forcing her to listen to ''Relapse'' in the car. She whines about the accents, he assures her his rapping is 'mad tight'. Eventually she takes out the CD and snaps it in half, which leads Slim to jam down the accelerator in rage and crash his car.
*** Also on ''Hell: The Sequel'', in "I'm On Everything", Slim reverts to his ''Relapse'' Jamaican accent, then says, "I’ll send a fuckin' axe at you if you insist on a fuckin' accent[[note]](axe-sent)[[/note]]"
*** "Heat" opens with Em asking a girl if she's his ''Relapse'' album because "you've got an ass thicker than those accents".
** On ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'':
*** "Bad Guy" and the following skit, "Parking Lot", both express shame about "Criminal", a button-pushing homophobic song that he made in response to being forced to tone down some homophobia in the second verse of "My Name Is". In "Bad Guy", Eminem is murdered by a LoonyFan who plays him "Criminal" to taunt him before murdering him in the names of Stan and the bisexual hip-hop artist Music/FrankOcean - tacitly admitting hip-hop should really belong to the people he made fun of. In "Parking Lot", we return to the skit in the middle of "Criminal", only [[DownerEnding Slim gets hemmed in by cops and shoots himself]], as a metaphor for how there actually were consequences for the stuff he said on "Criminal".
*** "Headlights", where he admits he came to ''hate'' "Cleanin' Out My Closet" (One of his biggest hits off of ''Music/TheEminemShow'', where he constantly jabs and declares ''hatred'' at his mother for his crappy upbringing) after his overdose in 2008. "Headlights" itself is Eminem actually apologizing to his mother for his horrible attitude ''and the song he made to diss her over ten years ago''. He eventually grew to hate the song so much that he flat out refused to perform it ever again, citing his moderating views of his mother as the reason. While he continues to own how much his childhood sucked, he's less inclined to take it out on his mom, nowadays feeling that she did the best she could in a bad situation, and in many ways had it just as bad as he did.
** Surprisingly averted with ''Revival'', as despite being his most reviled album since ''Encore'', Em himself has not expressed dislike for it (though he's admitted he was unsure about it) and has more or less implied that he did not intend for it to turn out as mediocre as it did, saying, "I spend a lot of time writing shit that I think nobody ever gets." That said, he did take the poor reception to heart, convincing him to write, record and release an entire new album mere months later, which became ''Kamikaze''.
** Eminem's opinion on ''Recovery'' has also soured:
*** On "So Far..":
---->''Another one, after ''Recovery'' was so coveted, but what good is a fucking recovery if I fumble it?''
*** In a 2017 radio appearance to promote ''Revival'', Eminem expressed annoyance that ''Recovery'' [[AudienceColoringAdaptation typecast him]] as having 'gone serious', despite returning to comedic rap on later albums (and even on ''Recovery'' itself, which ended with a HiddenTrack as TheStinger in which the PutOnABus Slim Shady returned). He complained that if you do a new album, people think that's ''all'' you are, forever, and that due to ''Recovery'''s [[ToughActToFollow outsized influence]] some of his fans now didn't understand he was a funny artist or think he lost his sense of humour.
*** On ''Kamikaze'', Eminem expresses distaste for his ''Recovery'' sound and persona numerous times - promising the listener that you'd swear he forgot he wrote "Not Afraid"[[note]]An inspirational and happy song in which Eminem adopts a new [[TheParagon Paragon]] persona to encourage his fans through their darkness, swearing off drugs, drama and shock comedy albums[[/note]], and by bashing a particular FollowTheLeader subgenre of rap that he describes as "a ''Recovery'' clone of me". ''Recovery'' is DamnedByAFoolsPraise on "Killshot", as Music/MachineGunKelly thinks it's Eminem's last good album, despite not being able to count how many albums ago it was. Eminem proceeds to tear into him for his [[InUniverseFactoidFailure arithmetic]], but also his terrible taste in music and [[MisaimedFandom lack of understanding of Eminem's work]].
** Perhaps some of the most infamous examples are the racist freestyles that a teenaged Music/{{Eminem}} recorded, after being dumped by a black girlfriend. To this day, he hates the fact that those tapes ever saw the light of day and even made a song ("Yellow Brick Road") to officially apologize for ever creating them.
** [[WordOfGod Eminem himself]] has confirmed ''Infinite'' as his personal OldShame, citing that he had not found his style yet (and it shows, notably, his [[RefugeInAudacity Slim]] [[EvilIsCool Shady]] persona is nowhere to be found on the album) and that he [[FollowTheLeader sounded too much like Nas]].
** In his song "When I'm Gone", Eminem expresses distress over the kind of person he was when he created the Slim Shady character and says he doesn't want to perform that kind of material any more. At the time, he referred to it as 'the death of Slim Shady'. The character was retired for a while, but it didn't stick.
** Em also seems to be disappointed with his "comeback" CD, ''Relapse''. On "Not Afraid", he actually apologizes for it. However, [[CultClassic fan]] and [[VindicatedByHistory growing critical]] approval for the album has led to him looking on it more fondly in recent years, with him revisiting the ''Relapse'' subject matter in 2017's "Framed" and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent rapping style]] in 2020's "Discombobulated".
** After facing a backlash against his use of a homophobic slur to refer to Music/TylerTheCreator on ''Kamikaze'', Eminem declared that he wouldn't use those words again. Since 2018, he has stopped using them in live performances and also omits other homophobic material (like the verse in "Marshall Mathers" in which he called Music/InsaneClownPosse gay). Mind you, Em had faced backlash from queer-rights organizations since day 1 but initially blew them off, but public attitudes towards LGBT+ people had changed drastically between 2000 and 2018.

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* Music/KanyeWest is not fond of "Gold Digger", telling BBC Radio in 2013 that he "never really liked that song" and only made it under label pressure to have a radio programming 'hit, further elaborating that "I'm going to take music and try to make it three dimensional… I’m not here to make easy listening, easily programmable music."
** More controversially, he has also frequently criticized his fifth album, ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'', often cited as his MagnumOpus and one of the greatest albums of all time, revealing in a 2013 video interview with SHOW Studio that "''Dark Fantasy'' is almost like an apology record [...] ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' and ''808s & Heartbreak'' are so much better and stronger."
*** Further discussing lead single "POWER" in a 2020 interview with GQ, he adds that it "was the least progressive song that I ever had as a single [...] I always felt like "POWER" was my weakest [lead] single that I ever had, because I felt like it was bowing to the expectations. "POWER" represents the "ultimate Kanye West song" rather than something new. Versus "Love Lockdown"? "Can't Tell Me Nothing"? "Diamonds [from Sierra Leone]"? "Follow God"? I always do the songs that people never heard before. But you had actually heard "POWER" before. You heard "Crack Music." You heard "Amazing." You heard that song before! It's just a mix of things I had already done before."
* Music/BeastieBoys explicitly refused to ''ever'' play "Fight for Your Right" at concerts because the very crowd that they were criticizing with the song [[MisaimedFandom adopted it as their anthem]].
** They also don't seem too fond of their debut, ''Music/LicensedToIll'' (which "Fight for Your Right" came from), in retrospect. (Much in contrast to the rest of the world; it's still probably their most well-known album). They've mentioned in interviews that they're embarrassed about some of the misogynistic lyrics (joking or otherwise), and it's the only older album in their catalog that they chose not to remaster in 2009. In fact, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" again.
** They also seem to hold disdain for their days as a punk band, given how they collected it all in an album called ''Some Old Bullshit''.
** They consider their first proper rap single "Rock Hard" amateurish in terms of lyrics and vocal delivery - Adam Horowitz reads the lyrics aloud in the audiobook edition of ''Beastie Boys Book'' and can't get through it without laughing. Interestingly, they still wanted to include it on two-disc compilation album ''The Sounds of Science'', presumably because it was important to the evolution of the group... But {{Music/ACDC}} wouldn't clear the [[{{sampling}} sample of]] "Back in Black" that was central to the song.
* Music/{{Cage}} recorded a violent, drug-oriented album called ''Movies for the Blind''. Though considered a underground HipHop CultClassic by fans and critics, he dismissed it as being too random and fragmented, and said that it glorified drugs.

* Elly Jackson of Music/LaRoux has shown regret over the success of her SignatureSong, "Bulletproof". In an interview she declared she "wasn't keen on it", and that she "wouldn't want to have a hit like that again" due to the fact that it has no personal meaning to her. She also hates the song's SurrealMusicVideo and wishes she could "erase it".

* Music/GustavHolst had this kind of feeling towards ''The Planets Suite'' because it overshadowed his other compositions. He even refused to write a piece for Pluto after it was discovered. He ended up being vindicated in that choice since [[ScienceMarchesOn Pluto is no longer considered a planet.]]
* According to Website/TheOtherWiki, Edvard Grieg referred to his famous "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the incidental music to ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' as an "infernal thing reek[ing] of cow-pies and provincialism." He also had an OldShame in the form of a symphony in C minor.

* A much older example: Music/FryderykChopin never wanted his Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor to be published because of its [[FollowTheLeader similarities to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata]], and asked his friend Julian Fontana to burn it (the Impromptu, not the Sonata). However, after Chopin's death Julian published it anyway and since then it's become one of Chopin's most well-known melodies. One can only wonder what Chopin would be thinking from beyond the grave...
** He wasn't too keen on publishing his "Rondo in C major" either, which remains his only two-piano composition. Chopin wrote it at the Warsaw Conservatory in 1828 and took it in his portfolio to Paris, but considered it little more than something to pad his resume, so to speak. That it didn't reach the printing press until six years after his death is a testament to his dissatisfaction with it.
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven is said to have been exasperated with the success of ''Moonlight'' Sonata, saying "Surely I've written better things".
** Beethoven hated that his Septet overshadowed his First Symphony, which premiered the same night. To his further chagrin, it became one of his most popular pieces, with ensembles all across Europe performing it (violinists loved it because it showed off their skills) and it cast a long shadow over his career. Beethoven made no secret of his wish to burn every copy and passionately turned down a commission later in life to compose another piece in a similar vein. He would be pleased to know that the Septet has, over the years, become one of his more obscure songs.
** Wellington's Victory became a source of shame for Beethoven as well, though at first he defended it from its critics, telling one "What I shit is better than anything you could ever write!" Over time though, he grew to share their distaste for it, agreeing that it was a case of style over substance. Still, because it was a battle piece, Wellington's Victory became extremely popular, practically resolving Beethoven's financial woes overnight, but he still hated that it was performed as often as it was.
** On the flip side, he was quite fond of the Grosse Fugue finale to his String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130, but his audience was less enamored by it. When he heard that they had applauded the Presto and Alla danza tedesca at the premier instead, to the point where they had to be encored, he reportedly snapped, "Yes, these delicacies! Why not the Fugue?" and then called the listeners a bunch of "Cattle!" and "Asses!"

* Camille Saint-Saëns thought that his ''Carnival of the Animals'' would be so popular that it would make him a one hit wonder and thus ruin his standing as a serious classical musician. He only allowed one movement (The Swan) to be published in his lifetime. He consented for the whole work to be published after his death, and not only did it prove extremely popular, but also gained widespread critical praise for its genius. Today, Saint-Saëns is a classical TwoHitWonder, known for virtually nothing else besides "Carnival Of The Animals" and "Danse Macabre". You probably know at least some of it, even if you think you don't: Many parts of it, particularly The Aquarium movement are now {{Standard Snippet}}s.
** "Danse Macabre" gets musically referenced in Movement XII of "Carnival Of The Animals," which is called "Fossils," suggesting that Saint-Saëns saw the piece he was most famous for becoming just another overplayed favorite of old geezers. "Fossils" also includes allusions to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," "Au clair de la lune," "J'ai du bon tabac," Partant pour la Syrie," and "The Barber of Seville," songs from his childhood that had indeed become fossils during Saint-Saëns' lifetime.
* Robert Schumann despised his own "Andante and Variations" for two pianos, two cellos, and one horn for failing to capture the magic of his "Piano Quartet" and "Piano Quintet" just a few years earlier. That, and his friends apparently butchered it every time they attempted to play it at his house. Mendelssohn somehow talked him into releasing a two-piano arrangement, but Schumann absolutely refused to publish the original during his lifetime. His widow, Clara, and Brahms eventually rescued it from the scrapheap and gave it the public premiere it deserved in 1868.
* Darius Milhaud's "Scaramouche" was a rushed job he barely completed over a summer when he was absolutely swamped. He only finished it on time by recycling some of his previous music and working it into the new piece. When it exploded into popularity like nothing he had written before, Milhaud was more than a little perturbed, even refusing to publish it for a short time afterward.

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* This general concept is parodied amusingly in the Music/BarenakedLadies song "Box Set": "I never thought I'd be regretful/Of all my past success/But some stupid No.1 hit single/Has got me in this mess..." Which is ironic, in hindsight, as that's what "One Week" turned out to be: their stupid No.1 hit single. Not a bad song, but definitely atypical. BNL's reaction? Call their greatest hits collection ''Disc One'' after another line in "Box Set" ("Disc One, it's where I've begun/It's all my greatest hits"), try to name one of the new songs on that collection "One Weaker" ([[ExecutiveMeddling it didn't stick]]), mock it on their next album, ''Everything to Everyone'' ("Kinda like the last time/With a bunch of really fast rhymes/If we're living in the past, I'm/Soon gone."), and move on. They still play "One Week" at concerts, but they often swap it out for an acoustic version.
* Music/{{Devo}} dumped the albums, ''Shout'', ''Total Devo'', and ''Smooth Noodle Maps'' in the crapper, and haven't performed a thing from any of them since reuniting in 1995.
** Devo's also lambasted their brief foray into CD-ROM gaming, "The Adventures of the Smart Patrol".
** Comments on the ill-fated [[{{Disneyfication}} Devo 2.0]] project with Creator/{{Disney}} have been more about how absurd it was, and that being the reason why they did it.
* Patrick Stump, lead singer of Music/FallOutBoy, played with this trope in a 2013 interview with ''Rolling Stone'' after the band reunited; the backlash wasn't for the band itself or even for the music, but more for the scene they became associated with:
--> "I never wanted to be in an {{emo}} band, and somehow I ended up in one of the biggest emo bands, and for a long time I hated it more than anybody."

* Music/BobbyMcFerrin has completely disowned "Don't Worry, Be Happy" because of MisaimedFandom: he intended it as satire, but most fans of the song took it at face value. When he signed up with a new record contract, he went through great trouble in negotiation to insure that he never, ever, ever, ever has to play that song ever again.

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* Music/{{KISS}} tries to forget the existence of the ConceptAlbum ''Music/MusicFromTheElder''. One of the songs was included in the MTV Unplugged by request of the fans. The band tried playing some of the others in recent years... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72y_iGy3vA only to discover they had long forgotten the lyrics.]]

* They also don't seem too fond of their debut, ''Music/LicensedToIll'' (which "Fight for Your Right" came from), in retrospect. (Much in contrast to the rest of the world; it's still probably their most well-known album). They've mentioned in interviews that they're embarrassed about some of the misogynistic lyrics (joking or otherwise), and it's the only older album in their catalog that they chose not to remaster in 2009. In fact, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" again.

* The Music/BeastieBoys started refusing to play [[Music/LicensedToIll "Fight For Your Right"]] at concerts because the very crowd that they were criticizing with the song [[MisaimedFandom adopted it as their anthem]].
** They have also apologized for that entire album (''Music/LicensedToIll'') due to its misogynistic, homophobic, and generally irresponsible lyrics. Their work has become a bit more classy since then. This has led to other protests about missing the point that their early lyrics were satirical and exaggerated, and they're not fun anymore.

* David Johansen, lead singer for seminal proto-punk band Music/NewYorkDolls, recorded the highly popular pop tune "Hot Hot Hot", under the pseudonym "Buster Poindexter". He refers to the song as "the bane of my life"; because of the way that it has so overshadowed all the work he has done before and since, eclipsing an otherwise substantial musical career.

** In particular, Eminem has a habit of insulting ''Relapse'', his ConceptAlbum in which he played a SlasherMovie-inspired version of Shady who rapped [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent in a number of vaguely offensive accents]].
*** "Not Afraid", the first single from his ''Recovery'' album has the lyrics "Let's be honest, that last ''Relapse'' CD was "ehhhh" / Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground".

*** "Headlights", where he admits he came to ''hate'' "Cleaning Out My Closet" (One of his biggest hits off of ''Music/TheEminemShow'', where he constantly jabs and declares ''hatred'' at his mother for his crappy upbringing) after his overdose in 2008. "Headlights" itself is Eminem actually apologizing to his mother for his horrible attitude ''and the song he made to diss her over ten years ago''.

** It's possible Eminem's opinion on ''Recovery'' has also soured:

*** On ''Kamikaze'', Eminem expresses distaste for his ''Recovery'' sound and persona numerous times - promising the listener that you'd swear he forgot he wrote "Not Afraid"[[note]]An inspirational and happy song in which Eminem adopts a new [[TheParagon Paragon]] persona to encourage his fans through their darkness, swearing off drugs, drama and shock comedy albums[[/note]], and by bashing a particular FollowTheLeader subgenre of rap that he describes as "a ''Recovery'' clone of me".
*** ''Recovery'' is DamnedByAFoolsPraise on "Killshot", as Music/MachineGunKelly thinks it's Eminem's last good album, despite not being able to count how many albums ago it was. Eminem proceeds to tear into him for his [[InUniverseFactoidFailure arithmetic]], but also his terrible taste in music and [[MisaimedFandom lack of understanding of Eminem's work]].

* Music/ArethaFranklin admitted that she didn't like her performance of "My Country Tis of Thee" at UsefulNotes/BarackObama's first inauguration. She always hated singing in the cold because the air strained her voice (even though her hat took on a [[MemeticMutation memetic life of its own]]), and she only agreed to it due to the historic significance of the event.

** She also didn't like (though always performed) "Don't Play That Song For Me (You Lied)", remarking once, tongue in cheek, in concert, that she'd rather sing it as "Please re-record that song for me", because she felt it was rushed and smacked of "One-takeitis".

* Music/{{Eminem}}:
** Perhaps some of the most infamous examples are the racist freestyles that a teenaged Music/{{Eminem}} recorded, after being dumped by a black girlfriend. To this day, he hates the fact that those tapes ever saw the light of day and even made a song ("Yellow Brick Road") to officially apologize for ever creating them.
** [[WordOfGod Eminem himself]] has confirmed ''Infinite'' as his personal OldShame, citing that he had not found his style yet (and it shows, notably, his [[RefugeInAudacity Slim]] [[EvilIsCool Shady]] persona is nowhere to be found on the album) and that he [[FollowTheLeader sounded too much like Nas]].
** In his song "When I'm Gone", Eminem expresses distress over the kind of person he was when he created the Slim Shady character and says he doesn't want to perform that kind of material any more. At the time, he referred to it as 'the death of Slim Shady'. The character was retired for a while, but it didn't stick.
** Em also seems to be disappointed with his "comeback" CD, ''Relapse''. On "Not Afraid", he actually apologizes for it. However, [[CultClassic fan]] and [[VindicatedByHistory growing critical]] approval for the album has led to him looking on it more fondly in recent years, with him revisiting the ''Relapse'' subject matter in 2017's "Framed" and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent rapping style]] in 2020's "Discombobulated".
** In 2014's "Headlights", he took this trope InUniverse. Having begun to try to reconcile with his mother, he put his 2002 classic "Cleanin' Out My Closet" into this category. He cringes to hear it, and will never perform it again.
** After facing a backlash against his use of a homophobic slur to refer to Music/TylerTheCreator on ''Kamikaze'', Eminem declared that he wouldn't use those words again. Since 2018, he has stopped using them in live performances and also omits other homophobic material (like the verse in "Marshall Mathers" in which he called Music/InsaneClownPosse gay). Mind you, Em had faced backlash from queer-rights organizations since day 1 but initially blew them off, but public attitudes towards LGBT+ people had changed drastically between 2000 and 2018.

* Music/WuTangClan members RZA and GZA had solo careers prior to the group's formation as Prince Rakeem and The Genius respectively. Both have expressed disdain over the image they were given and honestly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPB9inzOPU you can't]] blame them.

* Music/{{Rush}} is on record as saying they'd love to forget their first live album, ''All The World's a Stage''.
** Neil Peart has also expressed a desire to distance himself from Ayn Rand, whose influence was notable (but not absolute) in some of the band's early work. Notably "The Trees" and to a lesser extent the album "2112" have themes that resonate with Objectivists.

* Music/{{Radiohead}} grew to hate their first hit song "Creep" from ''Music/PabloHoney'' because people would show up to their concerts exclusively to hear it, acting indignant until they play it and leaving immediately afterwards. They continued to play it reluctantly, usually stating how they have no respect for the people that want to hear it right before. They eventually cut the song from their playlist altogether for a long period of time, and wrote "My Iron Lung" about it (sample lyrics: "This/This is our new song/Just like the last one/A total waste of time/My iron lung")

* Eric Prydz does not like his BreakoutHit "Call On Me", and has very rarely discussed the song in interviews or in public. The song's bizarre history helps explain his feelings towards it: It was originally a set filler track by Together (consisting of DJ Falcon and [[Music/DaftPunk Thomas Bangalter]]), who declined to release it despite its popularity on the bootleg circuit. The record label Ministry of Sound sought to get around that by seeking a producer who could release a pop-friendly version of the track with its samples cleared, and Eric Prydz agreed to do so [[MoneyDearBoy for a decent payday]]. Despite the song being a major hit, Prydz has preferred to distance himself from it thanks to a feeling that it isn't really his song, and the fact that its a BlackSheepHit compared to the rest of his discography.

* Music/TheKillers, "Get Trashed" a song recorded by the band before the release of their breakout album ''Hot Fuss'' and seemingly expunged from their canon. Its atrocious, sounds like it was recorded on a tin can, and Brandon's vocal deliver is awful in it (fortunately he got a lot better in their future work). Its almost a meme in the "Victims" fandom that "Get Trashed" is absolutely the last Killers track ''anybody should seek out''.

* Music/{{Lorde}} is quick to disown her breakout single "Royals". In a 2014 interview with ''The Daily Record'', she said it sounded "horrible" and "none of the meoldies are good," comparing it to a ringtone from a Nokia cell phone in 2006.

* Music/{{Nirvana}} came to regret the sound of their breakthrough album ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', feeling that the mixes -- which they loved at the time -- were an act of selling out on their part. They considered themselves a punk band and felt that ''Nevermind'' was "closer to a Mötley Crüe record than it is a punk rock record", according to Kurt Cobain.

* Music/KurtCobain often mentioned in interviews that he thought "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' was one of the worst songs he wrote and [[MagnumOpusDissonance wondered why even one of what he considered his better songs]] (like "Drain You", which was played at every Music/{{Nirvana}} concert from its writing until the day he died) wasn't a hit like "Teen Spirit".
** Cobain also hated the polished sound of ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''.

** In fact, Heart very rarely plays any of their 80s output because of all the pressures the record label put on them to record music they didn't like. The only exceptions are "Alone" and "These Dreams".

* In 1967, rock/soul icon Music/VanMorrison's debut album with Bang Records was a MoodWhiplash mixture of uptempo rave-ups and brooding lyrically adventurous songs. Morrison and producer/label owner Bert Berns had major artistic disagreements. Berns wanted Morrison to be some sort of a cross between Mick Jagger and Neil Diamond. Morrison was moving into a more poetic, jazz-influenced direction. To make matters worse, without Morrison's permission they tried to jump on the 1967 psychedelic bandwagon by calling the album ''Blowin' Your Mind'' and releasing it with an ugly, would be-"trippy" cover. When Berns, who had chronic cardiac issues, died suddenly, Morrison wanted out of his contract. The label said he owed them about three dozen songs, so he recorded a bunch of deliberately, unreleaseably awful songs ("The Big Royalty Check," "Ringworm," "Want a Danish," "Here Comes Dumb George"). This ended up backfiring on him in the early '90s when the cash-strapped rightsholders began licensing them out...on "Greatest Hits" compilations, no less.

** By TheNewTens, the band seemed to have made peace with "Creep" now that they've long escaped its shadow and are known for much more than only it. The song now makes occasional appearances in their setlists, and it's typically very warmly received by audiences.

** He also hates one of the earliest hits from his {{Creator/Dr Demento}} days, "It's Still {{Music/Billy Joel}} to Me". This is because rather than being a good-natured parody of Joel's songs/style (as is Al's forte), it's a very mean-spirited and cynical tirade against the singer's music, image, and commercial success. Regarding it as an OldShame, Al hasn't performed it since [[TheEighties 1980, the year it came out]]. Ironically, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Joel himself loved the parody]], [[ApprovalOfGod and even performed it at a few of his concerts]]!

* Music/{{Metallica}} once admitted to not much liking ''...And Justice For All'', feeling they (especially Kirk Hammett) were trying too hard to be taken seriously as musicians (both musically and lyrically) with the album. This was one of the reasons why the band opted for a lighter and more radio-friendly style during TheNineties and also why "One" was the only track off the album that was frequently played live. They seem to have completely changed their minds about the album ever since, as James has gone on record to state that it's his favorite Metallica album overall. Even the TitleTrack, who Hammett said that fell a bit for them due to [[EpicRocking its length]] ("I couldn't stand watching the front row start to yawn by the eight or ninth minute.") re-emerged in concert.

* Speaking of "bro-country", Jody Rosen of ''New York'' magazine, who coined the term, later expressed disdain for creating the term, and in particular how it came to be a derogatory term for any output by a male country music artist in TheNewTens.

* Most of Sawyer Brown's material for Capitol Records in TheEighties and early '90s has gone out of print. This may be because they started out as a very lightweight bubblegum country-pop band who dressed in pink and emphasized their dance moves, and didn't take on their [[GrowingTheBeard more mature, polished image]] until around 1991, shortly before moving from Capitol Records to Curb Records. Outside a few tracks, such as their 1989 cover of Music/GeorgeJones' "The Race Is On", the tender Christmas release "It Wasn't His Child", and the three singles from their last Capitol album — which was a commercial comeback after a slump for most of 1989-91 — their Capitol-era releases are particularly hard to come by nowadays.

* Richard Young, the rhythm guitarist of Music/TheKentuckyHeadhunters, said that he was not happy with the band's third album, 1993's ''Rave On!!'' This was their first album [[TheBandMinusTheFace after the departure]] of brothers Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps, then the lead singer and bassist respectively; taking their places were Mark S. Orr and Anthony Kenney. While Kenney had played in a prior incarnation of the band in TheSeventies, Orr was widely derided by fans, critics, and even the rest of the band for his more raspy singing style. He only stuck around for one more album (''That'll Work'', a collaboration with blues pianist Johnnie Johnson) and a cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" for a tribute album to Music/TheBeatles before Doug rejoined in 1995, assuming his brother's former role as lead vocalist and largely returning the band to their signature sound. It does seem that the band has reconciled with Orr, as they covered a track from ''That'll Work'' on a second collaborative album with Johnson in 2015, and Orr wrote the track "Beaver Creek Mansion" on the next album.

* Before becoming one of the biggest {{record producer}}s and songwriters in Nashville in TheNewTens, Shane [=McAnally=] was a recording artist, having done one album for Curb Records in 1999. The album included one Top 40 hit on the country charts, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". This part of his career is almost entirely forgotten about nowadays, and given his repeated attempts to scrub it from his Website/{{Wikipedia}} article, he probably would prefer it stay that way.

* ''Cold Lake'', the 1988 album from {{Thrash|Metal}}/GothMetal innovators Music/CelticFrost, was a bizarre foray into [[TheEighties Eighties]] HairMetal that the band has refused to re-issue.

* The last verse of "I'm Not A Loser" by Music/{{Descendents}} gives us several blatantly homophobic lines such as "you fucking homo" and "you suck, Mr. Buttfuck." The band has since apologized for those lyrics, claiming they were just ignorant kids at the time (in their defense, societal attitudes and information related to homosexuals have changed a lot since the TheEighties, when the song was written).

* Long before he launched himself to stardom on British television, Creator/RickyGervais was a 22-year old performing in an [[TheEighties 80's]] [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/electropop duo called Seona Dancing. The group had a pair of (extremely) minor hits and featured Gervais dressing like Music/DavidBowie while sporting massive hair. The band's debut single "More to Lose" was a massive, era-defining hit...[[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in the Philippines]], but bombed spectacularly in the UK. The duo's music video for the second track, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhSqmfRTfY Bitter Heart]]", was filmed for 300 quid in a scummy parking garage near the Creator/{{BBC}} offices. Predictably, TV interviewers mentioned it in every interview he did soon after the video was discovered. Gervais is reportedly still embarrassed by it, and many note that for a guy who seemed oddly resistant to being famous when he first debuted in ''Series/TheOfficeUK'', he sure tried his best to become a superstar as a young man.

** Ironically, in the "Hot Hot Hot" music video, Johansen seems to treat his time in the New York Dolls as this. He opens the music video by talking about how he used to be a member of the Dolls, shows the viewers old Dolls vinyls ([[VindicatedByHistory with bargain basement price tags]]) to showcase the "crazy outfits" he used to wear before mentioning that he's now interested in a "more refined and dignified situation". However, that monologue is also interpreted as Johansen saying that he wants to do something different thanks to [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny how extensively the Dolls' act was being copied]] by all the hair metal bands that were all the rage at the time.

* Lindsey Buckingham decided not to follow up Music/FleetwoodMac's ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' (1977), one of the biggest selling albums of all time, with an album [[StrictlyFormula simply repeating the formula of the previous release]]. Instead, taking much of the control of production work, he and the band recorded the deliberately edgy, experimental, often new wave-influenced 1979 double album ''Music/{{Tusk}}'', an album which, while successful, failed to go near the heights of ''Rumours'' in sales or popularity [[note]]The then-inflated cost of $15.98 at a time when single-albums were sold at $8.98, and an embarassment when the record company premiered ''Tusk'' by playing it in its entirety on radio, causing home tapers to get the album for free, didn't help sales[[/note]]. Most of the blame was, however, placed on Lindsey's production and arrangements. ''Tusk'''s single-length followup, 1982's ''Mirage'', brought the band back to the more radio-friendly ''Rumours'' sound and style, somewhat to Lindsey's chagrin as he feared the band were on a standstill and weren't able or willing to progress. Though 1987's ''Tango In The Night'' stayed in the pop vein, Lindsey, again taking control of the production, used more of his experimental tendencies in the album, which made it a more satisfying experience for the guitarist.

** Conversely, Jimmy Page has derided "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" as filler. The song reportedly offended his girlfriend. This is perhaps why the 1990 self-titled box set, which Page picked the songs for, features "Heartbreaker" but not "Living Loving Maid", even though they're SiameseTwinSongs on ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' and classic rock radio is very fond of playing them one after the other.

* While "853-5937" was one of Music/{{Squeeze}}'s biggest U.S. hits, both Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook (the band's only constant members and songwriters) hated the song and prevented it from being on any compilations.