What are the bands you liked at first, and now can't stand?

[bif]

I'll start it off with Led Zeppelin. I thought they were brilliant back in '68 or '69 when their first album came out. Now I just cringe when I hear their stuff. There are so many others, but they come to mind first.

[Cat Atomic]

1. U2.

[CanuckAmok]

17. I'll second them.

I loved the first LP. Wore it out.

Everything else they've released is such predictable, self-indulgent twaddle.

[mac56]

2. America.

I thought their first album was superb. Now I cringe whenever I hear the opening chords of "Horse With No Name".

[Intelsucks]

3. Beethoven. He was great 200 years ago. Now he sucks.

;-)

[bif]

22. Come on, I said bands!

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[RandomKoolzip]

4. I have an embarrassing confession...

The VERY FIRST time I heard "Mr. Jones," by the Counting Crows, I really liked it. I even bought the album because of hearing that song ONCE, before it was a hit, on college radio. Then I saw the video.



I liked REM at first (first two recs), then they became more horrible than I could ever imagine.

[Whitacre D_WI]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, RKZ. What I meant to say way "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Missssterr Jones and me tell each other fairy tales, oh no no, she's lookin' at me.



You have broken poor Bob Pollard's heart.



Although you know what? I really liked (and still do!) the Spice Girls. So I s'pose I shouldn't cast no stones....

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Well, at the time I was in a big Van Morrison phase....

And I heard this song on college radio, thru a lot of static, and I was stoned, and I was in a REALLY good mood....regrets? I've had a few.

Bob Pollard hates me now.....shit, I just screwed the pooch!


THE SPICE GIRLS? What are you, a fucking scotchgard huffer?

I keed.

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. They were, by far, the most punk rock of the prefab singing groups.

The band I was in during college did a rip-roaring cover of "Wannabe," which we segued right into Thee Mighty Caesars' "Lie Detector."

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Oh, I Still Like Them

So, i forgive you if you forgive me for not hating them yet.
The Professor

[Kolesar]

5. I used to think I was a fan of Journey

...shudder...To quote Butthead on one of Mike Judge's great rock video voice overs: "what the hell is this crap?!".
Don't stop...bee-lieving...o wow a wow a woah!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Actually, The Pre-Steve Perry Stuff Was Great

Then the first Perry era album was good. Then they made the same album over and over. Dreadful.

The Journey death moment. "The road ain't no place to raise a family." All the treacly nonsense about how tough life is on the road, WHILE THEIR GETTING ON A GULFSTREAM IV! Puhleaze!
The Professor

[Richardo]

6. Chicago - but it's *their* fault, not mine...

The post-Terry Kath band devolved into the Peter Cetera Treacle-Fest. Now it's the post-Peter Cetera Treacle Fest.

But the first few albums :kick: ed ass, musically and politically...

[kmla]

10. So true...

Degenerated from a great blues-rock based band to a cheesy-ass wedding ballad spewing bunch of Stepford musicians.

But that's just MY opinion...}(

[Fenris]

12. Chicago was great at first

But then Terry Kath had to kill himself (accidentally, I might add) and then it became the bland horn supergroup Chicago instead of the socially conscious Chicago.

[Loonman]

8. Sonic Youth

I loved the "Ciccone Youth" CD because of it's awesome parody and weirdness power.

Then I heard that they actually ARE that bad at playing their instruments.


Can't play for shit? Say you use "alternative tuning"!

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
:puke:

[Coventina]

11. Duran Duran

Yep, I was a "Durannie" back in H.S.
I wore the John Taylor fedora and everything.
I thought they were musical geniuses.
Now I can't listen to them at all.

[NightTrain]

14. God, there are so many....

As a youngster in the '70s and early '80s, I was an avid listener of Top 40 radio. Through sheer repetition, I got to like "artists" like Olivia Newton-John, Neil Diamond, REO Speedwagon, Survivor, James Taylor, ABBA, the Bay City Rollers, Shaun Cassidy, Air Supply, and dozens more. But twenty-plus years on, I can't stand any of that shit!

Nowadays, when I listen to '70s music, it's almost always R&B or punk. As for the '80s, I usually stick to new wave and rap.

[Richardo]

20. Homer (looking at tatoo on this arm): "Starland Vocal Band?! They SUCK!"

:D

[blackcat77]

15. Guns n Roses nt

[MrSlayer]

16. Metallica... no question.

These guys were one of the best Heavy Metal outfits in the world before they decided to sell out and write commercial radio garbage beginning in 1991. I hate them passionately now.

R.I.P. Cliff Burton

[CanuckAmok]

19. It's true.

I still like their more recent stuff (except St. Anger--nobody likes that!), but I heard "Master of Puppets" on the radio yesterday, and the first thing I thought is "wow, how the mighty have fallen!". The newer stuff just doesn't compare, does it?

[XNASA]

18. You mean liked as a kid? Cause that's no fair.

As a 12 or 13 year old, I liked Grand Funk. It only took me about 6 months to realize that they sucked.

As a 15 or 16 year old I went through a Prog-Rock phase where I liked ELP and Yes. It took me about a year to realize that they sucked.

But since I've been about 17 or 18, I can't think of any artist that I've had to change my mind about. Honestly. It's been 30 years now and I really haven't gone down a wrong path musically, at least in my own opinion.

Well, there was that summer that I was into Oasis. But their first two albums "were" good.