Bands you claim to like, but can't stand listening to outside of a few moments in the soundtrack of a movie.. or from a jukebox at the bar/pub

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I recently discovered, thanks to ILM, that there's a bunch of stuff I claim to like that I don't really like anymore much at all. I just traded in 22 CDs of late 80s/early 90s stuff like Ciccone Youth and... shit, to be honest with you, I can't even remember them. Yet, I had a problem letting go of them. Oh yeah, Frank Black's "Teenager of the Year" was one of them.

Anyway, the list so far of stuff I "like" (but not really):

Sonic Youth (I truly feel that I like this band, but can't be bothered to listen to much other than DN for the last many years... and I truly hate Dirty and everything thereafter, except Diamond Sea)
Pixies & Frank Black
The Stooges
Mudhoney (okay, I don't really say I like this band, but I feel an affinity for Touch Me, I'm Sick and Superfuzz/Big Muff, in general. They're SORT of cool.)
Black Sabbath
Ramones, sort of... but I would put them on if I wasn't always looking for new stuff. Still, I'd say I like the Ramones, yet I've listened to them approximately nonce in the past year...
Sex Pistols
Swans

What else? There's got to be tons.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Apparitions, Scurvy, Lungbutter

― Oliver, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sigur Ros. That one's pretty obvious, tho'.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't really understand this whole idea of saying you like something but not really liking it, but I especially don't understand it in the case of Sigur Ros. Given all the hype, wouldn't the reverse- - claiming to hate them while actually liking them-- be a lot more fun?

― charlie va, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The idea is not to be a fakeass liar, the idea is that you have a really strong attachment to the music and you think it's good... or maybe better put, it WAS good. However, you don't find it very pleasing to listen to anymore, but that doesn't mean it is suddenly NOT good. It's like when the new wears off your crystal chandalier. The chandelier is still worth the same amount, whether or not you are sick of it. It's very simple and common. If you feign incomprehensibility one more time, I'll have to assume you're full of crap.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that wasn't meant to sound so hostile. I gotta check my writing over better.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, the thread DOES say "can't stand". Give him a fucking break.

― Josh, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SHUT UP!!

― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks, Josh.

― charlie va, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ahem, and I quote:

that wasn't meant to sound so hostile. I gotta check my writing over better.

And, for the record, I "like" bands that I can't "stand" to listen to anymore. Like I said, beyond a random occurance at a bar or a movie, certain CDs that I like I'm just never in the mood for.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zorn.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"fuck off, I'm not trying to sound hostile" = my new wordview.

― Tim, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Portishead - I used to love them when "Dummy" came out but I can't bloody take their music (neither the old nor the new, is there any new?) any more.

Stereolab. Was a big fan in the early 90s but their music truns me off now. So predictable, so boring, so going nowhere.

Cocteau Twins. Here I am not 100% sure. They used to be one of my favourites. "Heaven or Las Vegas" was a dream. They could be a candidate for this thread in the future. Maybe not.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I get (for once ha) what Nude Spock is after. There are CDs in your collection, perhaps, that you would almost unconsciously think yeah thats good about, that you would perhaps even call great or classic without thinking, but when it comes down to it do you actually like them anymore? "Like them" perhaps meaning "ever want to play them". And I'm not talking about something like a heavy drone or noise record which you might play once a year or even less but still enjoy - particularly I'm thinking of records that there's really no reason for not playing a lot....except that secretly you think they're boring.

A quick scan of my shelves and a handful of these leaped out for me - my Big Star 3-in-1 pack; Massive Attack's Blue Lines; anything I own by the Manics. The Manics in particular I can't imagine ever playing again but I'd probably still defend those CDs, hmm.

Mind you it is transitory - six months ago I would have said Roxy Music and for the last couple of weeks I've been playing little but.

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Excellent question. I used to wonder if I was the only one who felt this way about certain albums.

The Sex Pistols would have been my first answer up till a month ago, when I started getting back into them again. Now I think I'd actually say the Clash...I do expect to like them again at some point, but not right now.

Other candidates: A lot of Beatles, all of Nirvana, The Stooges, Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, Pet Sounds, Rod Stewart, most Bob Dylan, Joy Division's Closer, most of the bands from the Nuggets compilation, What's Going On, Robert Johnson, Stone Roses, Neil Young, and Van Morrison.

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Photek (too dry), Sugarcubes (excluding Birthday), Chemical Brothers (some fine moments but....) 'Ladies + General We are now floating in Space'(when the rot set in) .

― stevo, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok Tom, second try: Pixies, Breeders and Dinosaur Jr. for a start. Classic but only in my head now. Even the Buzzcocks I don't want to hear anymore really. Though I think they are the apotheosis of punk. Sebadoh. Maybe not really classic, but still Lou Barlow is the godfather of "lo-fi" isn't he? But the early Stereolab in the end is classic for me. But only in theory, that's what this is about, no?

Maybe a good definition of this kind of music would be you would not listen to it voluntarily at home but you would be pleased to hear it somewhere else like in a bar, at a record shop or at a friend's place, at a party. There is a big difference in these two different settings for listening to music. At home I am much more a snob and very difficult to please. Often it happens to me that I do not know what to put on the cd player. In that scenario I can look at all cds I own (probably around 1500 cds) and cannot find one which would satisfy me. Which would be the one of the moment. Sorry I am getting carried away. This could well become a new thread.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crap. What I wrote before is more or less covered in the bloody long title of this thread already. I really hate long titles as I do not read them till the end.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My take on this thread is that there are plenty of artists that I try really hard to like and others that I don't give the time of day. This is not always based on anything particularly rational. So, it does happen from time to time that I buy a record and wonder afterwards why I bothered. I decided some time ago, for example, that it was time to explore drum and bass, so I bought a CD by Clifford Gilberto, the title of which escapes me. It's not terrible, but I've hardly listened to it. It's just so far down the pecking order of things to listen to.

― Daniel, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aphex Twin (hit & miss to the point of annoyance) Fugazi (too few fine moments) Chemical Brothers/ Prodigy (it got old real fast) Sigur Ros (starting to hate them) Will Oldham (he never managed to hit the spot)

― Alacran, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alex in manhattan, you've described my situation perfectly every time I sit in front of my CD shelves. Sometimes I get real close and individually graze the CDs with my index finger, hoping it will help my concentration. Typically, I go with the newest stuff I've purchased or Rolling Stones. Boring, yes. And somehow I still call myself a fan of music.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I came to the Cocteau Twins and Heaven and Las Vegas a couple of years ago at about age 16 and it underwhelmed me, thought it was far too new agey and not at all effects-laden jangle I'd been expecting. But that ones grown and I do think it's rather good now.
There are lots of bands I like but don't listen to much, if ever, because there isn't really enough time if you want to listen to new stuff or old new stuff. Unfortunately, you can't have everything all the time.

― Bill, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I alway swear to everyone that Chet Atkins is the greatest guitar player on the planet, a good person, etc. But then when he passed away recently I noticed I don't own any records by him, and I don't feel the need to buy one. I just thought extolling his virtues to anyone who'd listen would make me seem ironically "cool".

― Andy, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are only so many hours in the day/week/month/year. As your collection grows, you're gonna lose interest in some of the records or simply never be in the mood for them. If this means you don't like stuff you say you like it is a bit daft.

I can only presume you wanted a clear out or was a bit skint.

There are records I bought that I wish I hadn't, but I like to keep them in amongst the good stuff.

What I don't understand is favourite records that I have never owned. Reign in Blood, Never mind the bollocks, Singles going steady and Man Machine are all just deteriorating taped copies. And Revolver is something I have only ever heard in other peoples houses

― Sonicred, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just had this conversation with my wife about the Beastie Boys yesterday.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Third for Sigur Ros. It's brilliant! One of the best records of the year! Shall I put it on, then? Umm ... surely there's something else around here.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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