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Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#1: May 17th 2013 at 6:45:47 AM

This is for those who, after listening to a certain band/artist/genre, decided to not listen again to what they listened to, and even backlashed said stuff/people. It may be partial or total.

In my case, I had an early good initial background (The Doors, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, etc., which remain today in my music library), but then, around the age of 12, I usually listened to U2, Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane, and Coldplay. I even used to think that Coldplay's album X & Y was awesome (I was naive). But, then, there was a record that changed me almost overnight: ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''.

The impression that record caused me (and especially songs like "Heroin" and "Venus In Furs") led me to look at what I listened to, and thinking, "why the hell did I listened to this?".

Only U2 got rescued from the general deletion of music that ensued (and only after a long period in a "limbo"). Nirvana was, in the end, just a phase (regardless of their quality). Jefferson Airplane and Coldplay, however... I just ended up hating them (with arguments over time). And I still do.

The Velvet Underground (and later, Kraftwerk, Happy Mondays and Kate Bush, among many others), caused me to start loving plenty of music, regardless of genre (although the more usual Rock music got less appealing to me over time, apart from a very small group of people).

Sorry for the long story. So what's your story?

edited 17th May '13 4:42:00 PM by Quag15

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#2: May 17th 2013 at 7:21:19 AM

Well, when I was a kid, I listened to old Funk and Soul music on music choice. Then when I got a bit older, I started listening to mainstream rap music. Then I made another 180 and started listening to underground rap and old music again.

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#3: May 17th 2013 at 4:38:58 PM

I'll admit I liked pop punk, metalcore, industrial RAWK, and some nu/alternative "metal" way back. Abandoned them and never looked back.

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#4: May 17th 2013 at 4:50:51 PM

The most extreme example I can think of is for a while I listened to country-and-western music constantly, mostly because it was what my mother liked to listen to on the radio. Then I began to hear way too many depressing songs over and over again, and, I kid you not, actually got depressed for a period of time. That I was going through puberty, in winter, didn't help at all. Nowadays I usually only turn to country when it's Johnny Cash, actual folk music, or more pop than country (in other words, easy on the guitar and violins).

To a lesser extent, anything after 1999 that wasn't country didn't please my ear for quite a while, and I restricted myself to mostly '70s and '80s tunes. Then my tastes diversified greatly, but to this day, Dire Straits and The Cars are the only bands I've followed to any great degree.

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#5: May 17th 2013 at 10:58:16 PM

Went from post-punk/noise nerd to house/disco lover

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#6: May 17th 2013 at 11:20:36 PM

I listened to some metal when I was younger, added classic rock, and then a lot of goth. And then I decided I hated all three genres. Now I have only a little of any of those genres.

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#7: May 18th 2013 at 8:58:02 AM

[up][up] Well, that puts you in good company with most of the people that made post-punk and early noise records, honestly, although it is an interesting turn nonetheless.

I used to have a certain disdain for a good chunk of metal and electronic dance music. This has changed significantly.

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#8: May 18th 2013 at 1:49:37 PM

Turning from Christian music when I was really young to punk rock to heavy metal.

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#9: May 18th 2013 at 7:56:28 PM

[up][up] Yeah, it's interesting how many noise musicians have a passion for disco and house. I know for a fact that William Bennett of Whitehouse fame works today mainly as an italo-disco DJ.

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#10: May 18th 2013 at 8:29:58 PM

I used to hate hip-hop and rap with a passion...I honestly couldn't tell you why though. Possibly going through my rockist phase then. Anyway, I slowly defrosted on that, and now one of my favorite artists is Kanye West.

Also, side note that isn't really related to the thread, it seems like most of the musicians I like a lot are douches in their personal lives, but brilliant when it comes to their music [lol]

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#11: May 20th 2013 at 12:10:51 PM

Not on a genre, but on an album. The album Stargazer by Black Majesty. When I first heard it, I gave it a 4.5/5 rating. A few days later, I wrote a review...

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#12: May 21st 2013 at 12:21:10 PM

I went from rap (before 2009) to emo (in 2009) to metal and K-Pop (after 2009)

FingerPuppet Since: Sep, 2012
#13: May 23rd 2013 at 12:57:59 PM

When I was in my mid-teens, I was really into post-rock. I still listen to a few bands of the genre, but I don't follow it nearly as closely as I used to after hearing one too many Explosions In The Sky knockoffs. Nothing against EitS; I still do listen to them on occasion, but they definitely inspired the most uninspired bands of the genre.

There was also a period where I used to think of punk rock as "simple music for simple people" that only had a couple good bands in the entire genre, but after getting into Hüsker Dü, I went through a phase where I listened to a lot of punk. I still do, but again, I'm not quite as punk-crazy as I used to be.

A more gradual shift I've noticed is that I'm listening to more and more electronic music over time. I used to primarily listen to rock and its subgenres, but now I'd say I'm close to 50/50 between them. Looking at my last month's listening habits on last.fm, I have a near even split on the number of artists, but only three guitar bands are in my top 10.

edited 23rd May '13 12:58:25 PM by FingerPuppet

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#14: Feb 6th 2014 at 2:17:32 PM

I have one about once a fortnight. Most recent was a sudden switch from listening to a lot of rocky stuff to listening to a lot of minimalist type stuff.

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#15: Feb 6th 2014 at 3:19:17 PM

When I was 11 in 2006, I began to watch MTV. MTV in Malaysia still played a lot of music videos. I'm not sure about its condition now. My parents bought me a radio. I started listening to the latest mainstream Top 40 music regularly then. Never missing a hit song. In 2009, I got jaded of the music. Suddenly, pop punk went out of style and urban R&B took over. I'm not saying that I like pop punk. I think it's better than the latter.

A few months later, I went to look up some alternatives to listen to. I first loved Oasis. I think this was about the time when they were about to break up. NME and the other sites were talking about it. Then, I decided to listen to classic rock and gained interest to older music. A year later, being introduced to Arcade Fire, Bjork and LCD Soundsystem by a friend led me to the world of alternative music.

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#17: Feb 6th 2014 at 7:11:21 PM

Well, when I was young, I started out with Kenny Loggins. From there, I moved to Clay Aiken, then somehow, in order, to The Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas, Daughtry, David Cook, then Three Days Grace. As far as like favorites went. So yeah, I don't know exactly how I got there, but that's my life in music.

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#18: Feb 7th 2014 at 8:07:54 PM

Blake Shelton. He started out really strong; "Austin" is a killer song, and almost everything on Blake Shelton was amazing. The Dreamer wasn't as good, but I liked all three singles, and could never figure out why "Heavy Liftin'" and "Playboys of the Southwestern World" bombed. Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill was probably his best and countriest album, and its lead single (which also flopped), "When Somebody Knows You That Well", is quite possibly my favorite song of his.

But after that, he just seemed to wander away from a more traditional leaning sound, and started putting more pop elements in his songs. Sure, he was still doing good stuff, like "She Wouldn't Be Gone", but he was also balancing it out with lightweight novelty fluff like "All About Tonight", "Honey Bee", and "Boys 'Round Here" that nearly anyone could've turned into a hit.

Now, his biggest offense is being bland and personality-free on a lot of his songs. "God Gave Me You" has God-awful generic production that smothers its mostly solid lyrics; "Over" has equally bad production and a monotonous, two-note melody; and "Sure Be Cool If You Did" was just forgettable.

And he can still do good songs, too. "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking", "Drink on It", "Mine Would Be You" — all great. But overall, the quality, and amount of personality in his work, have both dropped considerably.


Another 180° for me was Martina McBride. I loved everything on her first three albums, back when she sounded more country and "Independence Day" was her only belt-y song. I was mostly fine with the fourth album, when she started going more pop and focusing more on her belting — "A Broken Wing" and "Whatever You Say", though belt-y, are still two of my favorites. (However, I didn't like "Valentine".)

But "I Love You" is just generic and banal, and it doesn't help that she sings it in the cutest, most childlike delivery she can muster. Then all she wanted to sing about was bleeding-heart, Lifetime movie stuff like "Concrete Angel", "In My Daughter's Eyes", and "I'm Gonna Love You Through It"; generic, you-go-girl crap like "This One's for the Girls" and "Ride"; or "I'm so happy with my domestic life" stuff like "Blessed", "How I Feel" (the whole chorus is just "That's how I feel when I'm with you" repeated three times — and to think this song had FIVE FREAKIN' WRITERS), and "I Just Call You Mine".

I have liked some of her songs in the past 10 years — "God's Will", despite its clumsy opening lines, has more heart and realism to it than most of those kind of songs (for that I thank songwriter Tom Douglas, who also made "Love's the Only House" into one of Martina's only good "Lifetime movie" songs), "Trip Around the Sun" with Jimmy Buffett was outright amazing, "Anyway" somehow managed to work as a motivational song (I really can't put my finger on what she or the writers do differently on that one), "Wrong Baby Wrong" was surprisingly bluesy, and "Teenage Daughters" had more humor and a totally different vocal delivery. Otherwise, I haven't cared much for her since the witty uptempo "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" way back in 2001.


Also, when I was a kid, I used to ignore everything that wasn't country, unless it was something my mom also listened to, because of my limited knowledge of whatever else was out there. Among the non-country stuff she listened to was Bob Seger, Eagles, and Jim Croce.

Then, when I first got exposed to non-country songs, most of them were on Letterman ca. 2002-03, and he only ever seemed to have on screamy raging post-punk bands, rappers who seemed to have nearly 2/3 the song beeped out, or whiny emo acts singing about cutting themselves (ohai, Garbage). And I figured that, if that's what's out there that isn't country, then I'm better off sticking to what I know.

It's only been in the past 5 years or so that I've started exploring some other genres. A lot of my recent finds have been just randomly picked up, mostly from acts that Todd in the Shadows has praised.

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#19: Feb 9th 2014 at 3:44:55 PM

I was a teen-pop fan up until around 12 years ago and despised any form of harder metal (for instance, Sepultura was my main option when I had to use an example of piece of crap music). Nowadays it's pretty much the opposite (and I listen to stuff way harder than Sepultura)... Of course, that took a few years to happen, but it did happen.

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#20: Feb 15th 2014 at 6:55:59 PM

I listened to a lot of Rn B and pop music. The former was my parent's influence, and the latter was my friend's. I outgrew both. (Though I still listen to a bit of either from time to time if I like it enough.)

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Surenity Since: Aug, 2009
#21: Feb 21st 2014 at 2:09:37 AM

Normally, even when I more or less stop listening to any new music from a genre, I don't stop liking what I used to like. Exceptions are most of the angsty nu-metal of the early 2000's, which I stopped liking when I got into European black metal and haven't gone back to again since moving on to other genres. I do still find a few songs from Linkin Park listenable, but I'm sick to death of any of their big hits. Can no longer stand Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm, Sum 41, Jimmy Eat World, nor a bunch of others. Most of this was recorded over on my mix tapes in later years.

And as hard as it is for me to admit, I did like Eminem when he first came out. Can't stand him anymore.

edited 21st Feb '14 2:10:23 AM by Surenity

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#22: Mar 3rd 2014 at 7:55:39 AM

I used to think the Beatles were horribly overrated and that I disliked most of their songs with few exceptions. It turns out that I just don't like the albu Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but that I like most other Beatles songs.

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