What was the first music you ever hated?

What was the first song or maybe which band was the first one you ever really hated? I mean actually positively loathed with an intense passion. Can you remember why? How do you feel about that music now?

"Sweet Love" by Anita Baker used to bug me whenever it came on the radio. The most boring adult music imaginable, I likely thought at the time. Of course, as someone who grew into boring adulthood, I like it now.

opera and i still hate it!

Snap - The Power for pushing Dub Be Good To Me off the chart number one. I didn't really understand how the charts worked at the time and figured DBG2M was so good it should never not be number one

I grew to like it though

I remember changing the dials with deep irritation every time Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" was played. As it was a massive hit that made it even more irritating.

When I was a kid my dad would play Van Morrison - mostly "Madame George," I think - and I would always make a big fuss about how much I hated it. It was just too intense and weird for me and I couldn't handle it. Then one day when I was in middle school, my dad picked me up from school and a Van Morrison song came on and I had this sudden epiphany: "Oh, he's using his voice like a musical instrument!" And the euphoria of having an actual musical insight of my very own suddenly flipped me from hating Van Morrison to loving him.

captain & tennille 'muskrat love'

also anything with a harpsichord

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Chris De Burgh's 'Lady In Red'.

Run Joey Run.

xp Up until then, there was music that I was indifferent to, but that song was the first one I outright hated.

the pop country boom of the early nineties. garth brooks, alan jackson, brooks + dunn, etc.

i hated it because it was extremely popular with everyone i knew and it was the least soulful music i had encountered in my young life up until that point. it was so omnipresent that my mother was "forced" to buy me a ticket to see garth brooks because everyone else we knew was also going and there was no one to watch after me, as i was too young to stay home by myself. it was abysmal. even new kids on the block the year previous was better and that's one of the worst things i've ever seen.

Backstreet Boys, 4th grade. mostly because girls dug them and they didn't dig me. really love those songs now though!

the pop country boom of the early nineties. garth brooks, alan jackson, brooks + dunn, etc.

i think this is the answer for me too. my mom loved it therefore it made me cringe. still won't touch most of the men but i've flipped over to loving shania twain.

my late childhood / early adolescence is really the story of me loving something first and then hating it tho

I remember changing the dials with deep irritation every time Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" was played. As it was a massive hit that made it even more irritating.

I was physically terrified of Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army and would run away whenever it played. Now I think it's great but wow was I ever scared of it as a kid

most of the stuff i loved first i now love unreservedly (sade, the jets). there was a period when i was 12-15 when i had a few friends who were into bad post-grunge and most of that stuff (think silverchair, candlebox, bush) i wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole now.

Good question--doubt I can remember, and I liked almost everything off the radio in the late '60s and early '70s. Whatever it was, I'm sure it turned up on a K-Tel collection.

Richard Clayderman.

My parents had this one album that had this song that was all over Radio 2 for months on end.
Christ I really ended up hating that.

I still listen to most things I've listened to since I was a kid, but there was a period in the '80s where Bon Jovi, New Kids on the Block, and Melissa Etheridge just drive me up the wall. 1988?

I've always had this visceral aversion to Can't Help Falling In Love.

I was physically terrified of Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army and would run away whenever it played. Now I think it's great but wow was I ever scared of it as a kid

wait why? how old were you? I guess when you're young certain songs do that..."She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals definitely hit me in a weird spot when I was 7

I was very frightened of Ghost Town when I was young but it is quite spooky.

My Dad told me that when he was little he was terrified of 'All Creatures Great And Small' because creatures are scary

I HATED West End Girls when it came out (in the USA). The "rapping" sounded so weak to me. Of course PSB later became one of my faves.

One other one was from when I spent a summer (age 13) in London, and Never Gonna Give You Up was huge. I went back to California, thinking "glad I'll never have to hear that shit again!"

"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" by John Parr. It epitomized the overproduced half-baked cheeseball corporate schlock that I felt was keeping the many interesting newer groups of the time off the radio. It was the opposite of what I wanted to hear.

first song i can remember reacting poorly to without the influence of my parents' opinions and before i started hating music based on inherited hangups and projections: "lullaby" by sean mullins. i was like... why is he speaking

'glad I'll never have to hear that shit again!'

I put on an exaggerated hatred of Altered Images' Happy Birthday first time I heard it as a very young kid - hands over ears at this awful voice etc - and then I distinctly remember feeling like a fake every subsequent time I had to do the same despite not finding it too bad actually.

I think maybe the first song I heard on the radio, not played by my parents, and actively HATED was "Everybody Hurts."

I distinctly remember hating all music for kids when I was a kid. Viscerally.

i was really enamored with anything that was musical and that came my way and was basically just following social cues as to what to hate until maybe ... the fateful year of 2000 when uncle kracker released "follow me," which quickly crystallized my ability to hate things on their own merit.

This was 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for me. Even at a young age it sounded pompous, overblown and overlong. (Still does.) Hated the video too.

i still hate hair metal

I remember wishing in 1971 that people would stop playing and singing Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World"

that gets the nod because it slightly predates Bread's "Baby I'm-a Want You"

probably YMCA

i hate whatever youse boys like

‘A Whole New World’ almost ruined Aladdin for seven-year-old me. To this day, there is no music I hate more in the world than that of ‘musicals’. It’s not learned behaviour, it’s 100% innate.

wait why? how old were you? I guess when you're young certain songs do that..."She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals definitely hit me in a weird spot when I was 7

― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:31 (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I was like 8

I was physically terrified of Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army and would run away whenever it played.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" filled me with such existential terror as a child that i had to run out of the room when it came on the radio, no lie

Oh, I forgot about summer camp. Two singalongs a day, with handclaps and "huh!s" and cutesy add-on lyrics, permanently ruined a whole bunch of hippie campfire staples for me when I was twelve. "Leavin" on a Jet Plane," "Country Roads," "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Circle Game," that sort of thing. I probably would have ended up hating most of them anyway, but that certainly accelerated it. The only song we did that was good enough to make it through that treatment undamaged was "Paradise" by John Prine.

i can't musically explain that but there are particular late 60s chord choices that have a similar unconscious psychic effects yeah

as a kid I had to turn off The Buoys' cannibalism ballad "Timothy" as soon as it came on and I would still be traumatized hours later

i'm sure there were others before but first i can recall is "Let Em In" - Wings
don't really mind it now

I also hated "Let Em In" as a kid, for this reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBDcb7kq_g

Now I like the song, for the same reason!

Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC. Still loathe that one

i once spent a dinner time in a working man's club in Hull when pubs used to shut at 3 o'clock and this lad kept playing "Dreadlock Holiday" on a loop, fuck knows how much it cost him.

It's kinda racist.

I don't remember really disliking any music as a youngster but the chorus from the version of "dizzy" by the wonder stuff and vic Reeves got lodged in my 7 year old brain one night and I didn't get to sleep for around 6 hours, and felt a bit mentally unwell so that's the first song I remember having an aversion to

I've just listened to it on youtube and one of the commentators notes that the final chord change scared them as a child.

this song was a menace

it was rubbish tbf

Stock Aitken Waterman, hands down. I was about 10 or 11 when their stuff was all over the radio. Used to almost throw up when I heard that horribly tinny and cheap keyboard sound that they used all the time. If anything I hate their stuff even more now.

Having said all that, Pete Waterman will ultimately be spared the guillotine because he also produced Say I'm Your Number One by Princess, which is one of the greatest pop songs of the entire 1980s.

conversely I really enjoyed the production on SAW stuff as a little kid, "I should be so lucky" is one of the first songs I can remember enjoying

Def Leppard

it's kind of nostalgic to see somebody moaning about SAW in 2020 so fair play, get to fuck jon but that Princess tune is a banger

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

DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby

HUH HUH

it's kind of nostalgic to see somebody moaning about SAW in 2020 so fair play, get to fuck jon

Sorry, I must have misread the thread title as "What was the first music you ever hated" or something equally incorrect.

i'm sorry i didn't mean to be mean about it i'm just defending my chunky bois

and you're right about the point of the thread

BUT

so many great SAW tracks

i mean you're otm about "Say I'm Your Number One" but gdamit

Alternate answer: American Pie

Thanks, jon123 - I know you won't appreciate it but I'm now having a wee boogie to 'Love In The First Degree' at 1:48am here

no SS Papparazzi no credibility

Alternate answer: American Pie

― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:46 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This one is another contender - but the Madonna version 0 which my uncle had on single and I feel like he used to play it on repeat on car journeys

p sure I've heard people say they hate Madonna's "American Pie" more times than I've actually heard the record (which was not a single in the US although it charted modestly anyway)

Bananarama's cover of "Venus" stands out in my mind.

the star spangled banner

and all the other patriotic garbage they made us sing in grade school in the very early 80s

one day that garbage is gonna

nah

i think every band noise is implicated there to some extent

Did you just hate how it sounded or was there something about American patriotism that turned you off at a young age?

Dreadlock Holiday for me too! Long car rides parents controlling the tape player.

i can't remember when patriotism writ big made me feel sick but the tie to uncoditional love is rock and roll maybe? "Queen are fasicsts" is kinda silly but "Queen realised gigs are fascist" is kinda true?

On a Star Spangled Banner tip, God Save The Queen (not The Sex Pistols song)

Much as I used to hate it, that hate seems like love compared with the loathing I have for it now.

Also Disco. I was very wrong and have repented.

you usually get hit with the fascism of music as a kid a fair way before you think about fascism

and there are still dopes out there arguing strongly that "liking music" = succumbing to a brainwash

isn't the fuckedest thing about US Freedom that it's the replacement bug for monarchy worship?

and i prefer the American fallacy but they're world-fucking mistkaes

My dad insisted we only listen to Radio 3 when I was growing up, so probably Mozart is the first thing I remember loathing with a passion, seeing as how I wanted to listen to wholesome stuff like, er, Gary Glitter. Still hate Mozart btw, it's inculcated into my neural architecture now and there's no changing it.

My Grade 4 teacher had us sing "God Save the Queen" as well as "O Canada". ('God Save" was officially still our anthem until 1980 iirc; this was years later but he was v big on our colonial ties - also made us research Guy Fawkes.) I loved it tbh.

xp :(

i'm sorry sund4r i wish youse indepedence ASAP :(

altho i'm glad "O Canada" exists because Joni and no other reason

ffs tho nobody needs a Queen

except etc

Second verse that no one sings about confounding their politics and frustrating their knavish tricks esp classic xps

yeah exactly, do you do the verse where they want to kill the Scots etc?

"Rebellious Scots to crush..."

hmmm.

Sund4r, i think it was just hearing it so often combined with an intuitive notion that pomp and circumstance was just wrong.

it was definitely the patriotism that turned me off. that was only a few years after the hostage crisis and i was mercilessly bullied for being from iran (nvm that we had preemptively fled as enemies of the new regime and all ...)

i didn't really have problems with america per se at the time but overt displays of patriotism just reminded me i was "other" or whatever ... we didn't become citizens until 84 and i do recall the LA olympics that year being one of the first times i felt any national pride, though that might have been more local southern california pride than anything else

i am more tolerant of the american project now but overt patriotism generally still feels gross to me and patriotic music is no exception (also the star spangled banner always struck me as weirdly tuneless)

i'm English and i still won't stand up for that booshi

i'm a white Anglo and have always been sympathetic/cuddly to the US project TLG but flag-fucking music has always hurt nme in my heart as long as i can remember

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

I honestly don’t remember really “hating” any music until I was a young adult and subjected to bands like RATM and a few others I can’t stand.

"Break My Stride" is the first song I recall actively disliking. Now I'm merely ambivalent.

I really, really, really hated "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne, et al., but that was a couple years later.

eddie money - “take me home tonight”

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

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

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

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

Foreigner

The Macarena.

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

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

context on Foreigner:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

check this out.

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

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

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

(loggins & messina)

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

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

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

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

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

Tbf, it's also a terrible movie

eminem

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

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

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

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

'Dancing in the Streets'

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

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

Is your wife Superwoman?

“A Whole New World” rules and always has

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

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

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

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

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

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

pinchas some zukerman on me

beautiful story btw

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

Tbf it was.

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

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

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

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

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

I am guessing you were older than 9.

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

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

jfc wow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:39 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

"Beauty and the Beast" is another big one - i HATED that song

I'm not surprised, most kids tend to prefer peppy songs over syrupy love ballads

100% on both the banana splits beach buggies and the pink panther's pinkousine panthermobile never appearing in the actual shows. we woz robbed!

"Beauty and the Beast" is another big one - i HATED that song

Have you spent the intervening years... "learning you were wrong"? (sorry, couldn't resist!)

lol

I'm not surprised, most kids tend to prefer peppy songs over syrupy love ballads

― Siegbran, Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:28 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

love ballads were my favorite though! "make it real" by the jets was one of my first obsessions.

I hated both tbh.

even at 9 my mind was hissing "the Bach Double isn't opera you idiot"

Did you play violin already?

I don't think I had that much of an awareness of European classical music at that age, beyond "Ode to Joy", which we sang in Grade 4 and I liked, and the things our music teacher played in class in Grade 5, which everyone liked bc she was awesome.

I loved the Pastoral Symphony and the Brandenburg Concertos and Ravel’s Bolero. My parents took me to see The Magic Flute but I have no recollection of it, and Mozart has never been a favourite of mine to this day (ditto opera).

i loved the enormous '90s diane warren ballads as a kid, partic celine dion's "because you loved me," which i might struggle to get through now

I had a lot of hate for country and metal when I was young, not specifically because of the music itself but because the majority of people who listened to it in my vicinity were overwhelmingly racist. I'm now an adult and, while I'm heartened to see people attempting to rehabilitate these genres, I've found enough enjoyable music elsewhere that I don't feel the need to really explore either.

celine dion ballads in general were so big and operatic you could kind of lose yourself in the broadness of their emotions and i just loved inhabiting that kind of melodrama as a really boring kid xp

DJP, I hated Guns N' Roses for the same reason— a classmate of mine in elementary school would wear this GNR bandana that had some confederate flag stuff on it, and I remember distinctly when a teacher told him to "take that racist trash off your head in my classroom." Made a big impression on me.

Fwiw I’ve always viewed country as more racist than metal because the latter is an essentially international genre.

yes but which of those genres has a subgenre that's openly white supremacist

i guess the answer is prob both

I liked Guns 'N Roses initially and then "One In A Million" happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_music#White_power_country_music

like i said

yes but which of those genres has a subgenre that's openly white supremacist

i guess the answer is prob both

Maybe not "hate" but I remember hearing Phil Collins' "Groovy Kind Of Love" while waiting for my mom to get her hair cut at age 11 or so and thinking "wow, I'm pretty sure this is a bad song". That same day also exposed me to "Solsbury Hill" for the first time and I thought "ah this is very good, isn't it"

On the opposite tack, I loved "Kokomo" when it came out and still am kinda surprised (Mike Love animosity aside) that it hasn't had a reappraisal

ive gotten into more than one irl argument with people saying "country music is racist" while literally wearing the apparel of euro metal acts with uhh shall we say edgy racial politics. that disconnect is always weird to me

I've def seen videos of neo-Nazi rewrites of popular rap songs.

In Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing' there are weird glottal-sounding timbales - I guess because they have some sort of phaser or envelope follower effect - that made me want to gag as a kid and the song's production still makes me queasy.

I really hated The Monkees' "The Day We Fall In Love" Davy's mawkish love song glopping up the otherwise impeccable More of the Monkees album.

Oh, and "Stay Awhile" by The Bells skeeved me out too.

my earliest memories of hating music (there were probably earlier instances but I can't recall them now):

"Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks — I grew up listening to a lot of country radio but stopped listening to it because of this song
The Backstreet Boys
*NSync
Britney

sorry, ILM ;_;

^^^ Those are the first acts I remember detesting as a tween. Felt downright oppressive at the time, like the sound of bullying. I’ve whined about this in other threads already but thus began my lifelong skepticism towards poppiness (and poptimism).

first thing i remember really hating was 'you are the sunshine of my life' by stevie wonder. i still have vivid memories of being 3 or 4 and being stuck in the living room with that song seemingly always on the radio while my mother was elsewhere in the house with the vacuum cleaner on and just feeling alone and helpless and tormented by what seemed to be a completely random melody, a tune that made me feel so unsettled and uneasy, everything shifting up and down all the damn time like the deck of a ship in a storm. was also vexed and fearful as to what the ominous sounding 'apple of the eye' might be. terrifying stuff, the whole thing was as awful, oily and confusing as the taste of medicine. put me off stevie for the longest time tbh

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

Loved Britney and the Venga Boys and also Man is the Bastard and Limpwrist. 8th-9th grade was a really weird time.

Which is to say that I didn't have the same experience as a lot of young teen or tween males with BSB or NSync and stuff because I was attracted to them

This is purely anecdotal, of course, but my wife found them just as oppressive, perhaps even more so.

I knew a 12 y/o boy in the early 2000s who was figuring out music and very concerned with being seen as a red-blooded straight usa male, and he eschewed any music sung by males as being 'gay', because his logic was that they were singing their love songs you, the listener. So to burnish his he-man image among his peers group he made a point to conspicuously flaunt his CDs by Cher, Britney, and Xtina, which is what he imagined all straight men should be listening to. I hope he's doing ok today.

Flawless logic tbh.

dudes rock

More general, but as a very young kid I just could't listen to vinyl records which were akipping because they had a rift in them. This was probably the most intense hatred back then rather than one particular song or artist.

Somewhat older, I used to despise everything on Barbara Streisand's "Guilty" album when I was about 20 pr 11.

10 or 11 I mean.

Not a whole lot of hated music comes to mind, which is nice. As a kid, Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You". I've come around to not hating it, due to aging and thinking Maya Rudolph is excellent. In college, Judas Priest's "Parental Guidance" drew the line for the before/after of my fandom. Pandering and idiotic. Adulthood, Bowling for Soup, after getting their 3rd album to review it. Aggressively moronic and amateurish. Couldn't find anything positive to say, and round-filed it.

Music from the motion picture Grease.

In college, Judas Priest's "Parental Guidance" drew the line for the before/after of my fandom. Pandering and idiotic.

A truly awful song, but they've done good stuff since.

I got really offended by Candy Flip's cover of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' when I was 9.

'That's a Beatles song! Don't people know they're copying the Beatles? They're trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes!'

I knew a 12 y/o boy in the early 2000s who was figuring out music and very concerned with being seen as a red-blooded straight usa male, and he eschewed any music sung by males as being 'gay', because his logic was that they were singing their love songs you, the listener. So to burnish his he-man image among his peers group he made a point to conspicuously flaunt his CDs by Cher, Britney, and Xtina, which is what he imagined all straight men should be listening to. I hope he's doing ok today.

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he's living the dream as a power bottom tbf

Music from the motion picture Grease.

Oh yeah. Summer Nights was the bane of my childhood.

"You Light Up My Life"

AC/DC as a kid in the early 80s. I still just can't understand how anyone can like it. Plodding, boring, lyrically inane.

🤦🏻‍♂️

was made very queasy by green day as a kid-- insisted BJA's voice "sounds like mosquito repellent smells"?-- but was also fascinated i think

Which is to say that I didn't have the same experience as a lot of young teen or tween males with BSB or NSync and stuff because I was attracted to them

yeah i'm p sure i had a crush on JT? some confusing memories from the time. ended up getting sublimated into something apparently

One of the other kids in the class, one day, in an ingratiating move, took me aside in the cloakroom and said, in a hushed tone, "just so you know, I kinda like opera sometimes", and even at 9 my mind was hissing "the Bach Double isn't opera you idiot"

lmao, novel quality imo

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

lol @ this being exactly the same explanation given by every millennial who loves graceland

anyway i think my answer is leonard cohen? seemed like some kind of prank. love leonard cohen obv.

I keep thinking Brian Jonestown Assacre when people type BJA

quite a bit older, but I hated garage (or more specifically the chart pop version) when I was a student. Just didn't understand why it was good: flimsy skittering mid-paced beats I found hard to dance to; stupid lyrics that seemed only to speak of rough nights out spending money on expensive drinks etc. And the people I knew who were into it were just dicks.

sort of feel bad about that early assessment because I kind of get it now, having heard it away from WKD-encrusted dance floors, but I still really don't like things in the vein of 'Re-ewind','Neighbourhood' and others

I hated "Moondance" when I was a kid, it seemed like such a "dad" song, like something my gym teacher would listen to. Now I love it, of course. In fact, I've come around to most everything I hated as a kid. I guess love is stronger than hate.

Except Journey. I hated them then, I hate them now. So, maybe Journey is stronger than love.

"You Light Up My Life"

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

YES. I had to sing this in a 4th grade choir performance, so I heard it over 100x during the rehearsal process. When I found out years later the song's about God that somehow added insult to injury.

speaking of god: kumbaya and how great thou art

Embarrassingly, it was Sly & The Family Stone “Family Affair”, which was shortly followed by The Move “California Man”. I thought they were sloppy, ugly and incompetent.

I also hated "family singalong" folk tunes, like "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Molly Malone." And no I NEVER sangalong.

As a kid, there was a lot of music that did nothing for me, but I didn't hate it. I remember TV specials wheeling out Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen and I'd just be bored. There were songs that were massively overplayed, like "U Can't Touch This", that got annoying just by their omnipresence. I suppose I hated "Witchy Woman" and "Take it Easy" when I heard that hits album at 16 or so. And I still hate them.

This is sort of an adjacent question to the main one, but when did certain songs start to be overplayed? The first time I remember thinking, "maybe this song is being played too much" was with "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione in 1978... and then later that same year, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. I didn't mind either of those songs, although I eventually tired of "Feels So Good" because it had an extended afterlife, being played in hair salons, doctors' waiting rooms etc. ad nauseam, plus it had a forced cheerfulness to it.

Wow, didn't expect the first answer here to be one of the best songs ever. Though the explanation makes sense. Curious what I would've thought about "Sweet Love" as a kid, can imagine storing it alongside "Careless Whisper" and "Baker Street" (sophistication itself!) as "the music I'll listen to when old" (and being mostly right).

I don't really remember disliking anything until middle/high school, when I started to connect music to bad things in life (homophobia, social anxiety, George W Bush) so that most popular things, however quaint in hindsight, felt horrible and oppressive. Then there was that obligatory teenage phase where I was suddenly dismissive of artists I'd previously loved and would subsequently love again. Remember being all negative about MBV and The Aislers Set, for a brief period.

Cinderella. high pitched shrieky vocals scared me as a kid cos I thought they were demons

In 1982 Charlene's single "I've Never Been To Me" topped the Aus charts for 6 weeks. Aged 12, it provoked such a visceral hatred in me that I felt I'd been betrayed by the charts, and it took a while to realise that I didn't have to like the top ten uncritically.

One thing I remember hating a lot was REM, specifically Losing My Religion. Just sounded so dull, monotone and adult. Seemed to define the adult contemporary sound that bored the shit out of me at that age. It was everywhere too, so its popularity seemed to increase that prejudice in my mind.

I now like REM, but still LMR seems quite suspiciously poor, on a musical level to me, even though I now appreciate its drama.

not my first, but i do recall hating stipe's voice, particularly as rendered on 'to the one i left be-hiiiieeend'

XXP, re Charlene: best spoken section section EVAH, though!

what about:

HEE HAW

i've been crowdsourcing this

N!N!N! the spoken section was the roiling kernel of my hatred, especially because it said "make love", I mean GROSS!

Haha. Yep.

I'm struggling to remember much I've truly hated. The best I can offer is Kiss. I probably did *say* I hated them as a 5 y/o, possibly just to be contrary. (They were super-huge in Aus, circa 1980.) Or maybe I just found Gene Simmons genuinely unsettling at that age.

Yeah Kiss were legit terrifying as a kid, and the kids who liked them seemed like they were in a secret cult or something. Not like ABBA where everyone went nuts for them.

At uni I had to endure a lot of bad student nights, simply because it was what people did: Cheesy tunes nights, karaoke nights, Ibiza trance nights, 'indie' nights where they would play three Limp Bizkit songs in a row etc...

I grew to hate 'Mustang Sally' (the Commitments version) and 'Brown Eyed Girl'. What were these terrible songs with shite lyrics that everyone seemed to enjoy and know the words to? I still think they're terrible.

I've never seen The Commitments but there's something about that sweaty, parpy 80s/90s blues-revival sound that I can't stand.

And 'Brown-Eyed Girl'? What's remarkable or interesting about having brown eyes? May as well call it 'Girl With Ears'. And the 'sha-la-la-la' chorus, don't get me started.

I heard something off Astral Weeks the other day which wasn't terrible, so maybe I should check it out but that song stopped me ever checking out anything else by Van Morrison. That said, if all I'd ever heard by Joni Mitchell was 'Big Yellow Taxi', I wouldn't have ever bothered with her either.

Thinking about it, perhaps one of the reasons I never really got the deal with Amy Winehouse is because her music makes me think of Mustang Sally

brown eyed girl has the lyric about having sex in the green grass behind the stadium. to me this doesn't even seem partially hidden from public view and is kind of a shocking lyric.

i picture, like, shea stadium.

I associate that song very deeply with nerd summer camp dances. A bunch of hated songs were 'canon' at those dances: "Brown Eyed Girl," "It's the End of the World As We Know it," "American Pie," etc.

I will be completely honest in saying that I kind of hate Brown Eyed Girl, but that American Pie has...sigh...a deep emotional effect on me.

yeah, i agree with that. when i was a kid "american pie" and "hotel california" were very lyrically mysterious to me. i wanted to understand the metaphors.

so i'll always have a soft spot for them. brown eyed girl is not lyrically mysterious.

astral weeks is something i always wanted to like more than i do. i like the lester bangs essay on it.

Music you prefer to read about than listen to is probably another thread! Is there a thread on that subject lurking in the archives?

Oh yeah, Joni Mitchell can fuck off too

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams. One summer in middle school I was grounded for a month because I had snuck out of the house and spray-painted the neighborhood. (EID)IDIFY seemed like it was on the radio twice an hour and for some reason there was some different song I was desperately trying to catch and record. There had been music before that I had made fun of, because you're supposed to make fun of Milli Vanilli or Warrant. Sure, Ice Ice Baby was stupid, but Bryan Adams was my first experience with actually feeling rage at a song's existence.

Maybe not "hate" but I remember hearing Phil Collins' "Groovy Kind Of Love" while waiting for my mom to get her hair cut at age 11 or so and thinking "wow, I'm pretty sure this is a bad song".

Groovy Kind of Love was one that my friends and I would definitely clown on in elementary school.

Everything I Do was so tedious. It and 'I Would Do Anything For Love' seemed to dominate the landscape for an eternity in the early 90s and both songs felt never ending

Yeah, the Meatloaf song was irritating because it meant that MTV was going to be completely useless for the next 10 minutes.

"Poptimism" really a function of the decline of the monoculture huh

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague) at 8:11 17 Nov. 20

i can't musically explain that but there are particular late 60s chord choices that have a similar unconscious psychic effects yeah

imo "brown eyed girl" is a good song with good lyrics

"california dreamin'"'s chord changes sounded positively evil to me so i have always loved it

Black Sabbath should’ve covered it in their prime.

As a kid I hated every song where Garfunkel sang lead and kinda still do-- esp Scarborough Fair and Bridge

They made us sing a lot of cringey boomer stuff in elementary school chorus. One of the first ones I can recall being utterly revolted by was "Crocodile Rock." I had naively, unapologetically enjoyed some *terrible* music as a child (Hootie and the Blowfish, for example). But "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first times I can recall feeling like "WTF is this bullshit." I felt *embarrassed* singing it.

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

Same. See also Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Way It Is for the same reason.

The songs I hated as a kid were the idiosyncratic ones that didn't fit my limited idea of what a good song should be, like "West End Girls" having a singer with an unusual voice. I often ended up liking those songs later on for those same idiosyncrasies

oh also The Buckinghams - "(Hey Baby) They're Playing Our Song".

And 'Brown-Eyed Girl'? What's remarkable or interesting about having brown eyes? May as well call it 'Girl With Ears'.

^funny!

margaritaville

You myyyyyy--aaiiiyyy......girl with ears

They made us sing a lot of cringey boomer stuff in elementary school chorus. One of the first ones I can recall being utterly revolted by was "Crocodile Rock." I had naively, unapologetically enjoyed some *terrible* music as a child (Hootie and the Blowfish, for example). But "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first times I can recall feeling like "WTF is this bullshit." I felt *embarrassed* singing it.

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Now you know the reason why I know all of the lyrics to Billy Joel's "Allentown," Madonna's "La Isla Bonita," and John Parr's "Man in Motion." Our closeted middle-school chorus teacher made us sing all of these! It was...really something. I kind of wish there were videos available of our chorus concerts.

Also, at the end of 5th grade, two teachers were retiring, and our chorus teacher rewrote the lyrics to "Always Be My Baby" so that it became "Always Be My Teacher," and I start crying laughing thinking about singing "Oooh teacher cause you'll always be my teacher." Having a hard time even typing it lmao.

Probably some cheesy Eurodance a la 2 Unlimited which I quite like now.

The big choral number i remember them have everyone (I don't think i was in the choir.... if there was a smaller one) do in elementary school was "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". I didn't hate it per se, but it was certainly robbed of its power more than a little with the monotone of a big group of 7 year olds.

This is weird, isn't it? Everything in Newfoundland is a war memorial.

Y'know what, fuck that song.

in a follow up to my earlier post.
this is the track that to this day still makes me recoil in pain.
was on the radio all the time, and then mum got the album and played it incessantly.
i absolutely fucking hate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsgXJQ0ebU

I don't think I really hated any music before I started loving a type of music. That type of music was metal/grunge, and I had a good two or three years of hating anything I considered antithetical to it - see my above post.

I see now of course that metal and pounding Eurodance do have some things in common.

I see now of course that metal and pounding Eurodance do have some things in common.

mark e, yeah, that's pretty bad. And I really love a lot of Windham Hill cornball shit.

I can't think of anything that I viscerally hated as a kid. I had a phase around the age of 8 where I pretty much only liked showtunes and Andrew Lloyd Weber, and felt a weird embarrassment about anything that I heard on the radio or TV. I think pop and rock felt high-pressure in some way, and that I'd be putting myself on the line if I admitted to liking any of it.

most of my teenage ire was directed at otherwise harmless alternative bands I didn't like that got played on Post-Modern MTV, because sitting through them was wasting precious time... I had to fight to be able to stay up to watch it every damn night and once you boiled away all the useless ads and Kevin Seal nattering you only got to see about five videos. eventually I got wise and learned how to program the VCR.

There are several things I can think of from before I was ten:

-corny MOR country on my Mom's radio like Don Gibson and Mac Davis

-"cute" Christmas songs like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (I liked most actual carols)

-a horrible lugubrious musical rendition of the Lord's Prayer that was played in my elementary school every day over the intercom while all the kids stood

The common thread here is enforced repetition. I hate to overlisten to a piece of music when I've had my fill.

The common thread here is enforced repetition.

absolutely

a horrible lugubrious musical rendition of the Lord's Prayer that was played in my elementary school every day over the intercom while all the kids stood

Resisting the temptation to embed Cliff Richard's "The Millennium Prayer", no-one needs that

My prime overexposure/hate years, just starting to listen to a lot of radio, were 1975-1981. I hated Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do," all disco (which I've since repented of, long live disco), the Boston-Kansas-Foreigner-Styx-Triumph-Toto-Journey monolith, Barry Manilow, and most of all, Supertramp. I will never not hate Supertramp.

I hate/d Supertramp, but didn't realize who they were until I was in my late teens.

Bob Seger "Old Time Rock and Roll"

Oh jeez, Bob Seger. The outro in "Against the Wind" seemed five minutes long and it was on once an hour during my first job, stocking shelves at Fred's Dollar Store.

AGAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINST THE WIND

Billy Joel's "Allentown," Madonna's "La Isla Bonita," and John Parr's "Man in Motion."

I like *all* of these, and I don't even like Billy Joel. Fun fact:

David Foster and John Parr were contracted to write a song for the film, but Parr struggled with inspiration for the lyrics. Foster showed Parr a news clip about the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen, who at the time was going around the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries. His journey was called the "Man in Motion Tour." Parr decided to help the campaign by writing words that would fit vaguely with the film, but which directly referenced Hansen's efforts.

"cute" Christmas songs like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

there it is

see also: Jingle Bells

Yeah, tbh hating Bananarama's "Venus" was a subset of generally being biased against bombastic female-fronted mid-80s pop as a child - "How Will I Know?", "These Dreams", etc, but I did like "La Isla Bonita". Also Miami Sound Machine and, um, Tiffany.xp

I liked all the folk songs and Christmas songs that people are mentioning, though.

I started paying attention to pop around 1994-1995 when I was about six years old and I remember there being things I wasn't really interested in - boy bands, whatever gruff American nonsense was in The Rock Chart on The Chart Show, ballads in general. But there wasn't anything I actively hated until The Spice Girls.

My stepdad was very indie purist and I had been brought up with the myth that playing instruments was real and authentic and the only legitimate way etc. My favourite albums were from Bjork and Garbage. And as an eight-year-old boy the idea of Girl Power was not for me - I didn't understand the sentiments of the Just Seventeen problem-page lyrics, the music sounded cheap and unsophisticated, and everyone being so into it when I wasn't made me double down on my dislike of it. Then All Saints arrived and I loved them in the very obvious binary-of-false-opposites you find throughout pop history - they were cool, edgy and very much Not The Spice Girls. I'm embarassed now by how much I disliked them, even though I still think a lot of their singles are particularly not good, because I disliked them for terrible reasons that don't withstand any scrutiny.

La Isla Bonita

Heh, I also liked this one despite my irrational dislike of all things Madonna at the time. You'd think I would have at least appreciated Ray of Light, which should have been right up my alley during my trip-hop/downtempo phase. Not that I've become a bona fide Madonna fan in the interim, mind you, but it's so much easier to give credit where credit is due as you get older.

A lot of the ones i thought of have been mentioned already. 'Feels So Good' gives me bad memories of shopping trips to boring places with my mom in the late 70s. 'Let Me In" was the first song I can think that I found really unpleasant and vaguely embarrassing to listen to but I was still kind of morbidly fascinated with. I really like REM but hate 'Losing My Religion' so much that I've never bothered to listen to Out of Time.

Hated Kriss Kross and their dumb pants schtick!

xp wise choice, and I say this as an REM fan

poor Out Of Time, it's so great aside from some overplayed singles

(which I totally get hating)

Interesting. I love "Losing My Religion" and thought it was a return to form after shit like "Stand".

otm

I didn't mind Losing My Religion, but I think that Out of Time is their worst album. Shiny Happy People is middling and the other singles are awful. Half a World Away is the only song I still listen to.

Probably something from what I think of as the Beige Era of pop music ('85-ish), maybe like 'Broken Wings' or something by Glen Frey. I loved early- and late-'80s pop, but man was there ever a lot of dull AC shit right there in the middle. I always thought of it as 'music they play in furniture stores'.

P.S. Out of Time is indeed (aside from those overplayed singles) fantastic.

Helen Reddy at the 1977 Houston Rodeo, that one of my mother's boyfriends dragged us to.

I'm not sure I actually liked any music before Gary Numan hit US airwaves in 1979.

at least you saw Helen Reddy at her peak

First I really truly hated was "Bittersweet Symphony," which was nails on a chalkboard to start with and then 18 months later got played once or twice an hour at the grocery store where I worked senior year. A couple of times a month I'd work a Friday or Saturday overnight for a $50 bonus and get hit with "Bittersweet Symphony" and a double dose of Sixpence None The Richer every hour for eight hours spent almost entirely alone.

No wonder you turned out the way you did.

'cause it's a

As a young kid, I paid a lot of attention to the Australian top 50 chart, even though it was an exercise in futility. So, I’m gonna go with Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.” Even at eight or nine years old I had big hate for anything that so much as mentioned religion. The film clip with its extreme close-ups and ye olde-time sepia tone really bugged me too. The song’s biggest crime was just getting in my face when all I wanted was for Oasis clips to show up on TV on Saturday morning.

There were some other chart songs from the time period that I disliked, but in hindsight they were just too much for my smalltown brain to handle. I’m talking about Mousse T’s “Horny” and the “I Love the Nightlife” remix from Priscilla: Queen of the Dessert (which introduced me to Hugo Weaving in drag).

Can't think of anything I hated before the age of 14 or so, though I was very into music and am sure there was something.
I really hated "Horny" too though, re cooldix above, and moat of the other music played at clubs when I was first going out in 96-97, I would single out the chorus of "Remember Me" by Blueboy (ging-gin-gi-gin-gin-gin-gi-ging...) as one of the reasons I felt I had to dye my hair black.

generic metal, generic other stuff.
Can't think chronologically if there is something taht sticks out as me didlsiking intensely asa kid.
THink I was open for most stuff of quality.
Even if one is borrowing ideas from elsewhere and one can add something intense and original to it or make it work well with some form of originality as in not a direct clone or watered down xerox I can quite like it.

Have probably liked some stuff over the years that is a little close to more originally creative work if I have missed the original becaus eof point of contact.

well still finding more music in a lot of genres from acoustic roots forms to intense electric stuff plus some electronica etc including loads of jazz etc. What do I not like ? identikit versions of passed down music that is just ticking the boxes for the vague memories of those with little interest in music. I think it needs to have some reason to exist and there are recordings of so much great stuff that does things to yer synaesthetic synapses and heartstrings and fun things like that that one should just dispose of the generic. like.

I was scared by my brother's copy of The Who's "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" when I was a young kid (about 3/4 y/o I think). All the songs seemed to be about unhappy children, esp. "I'm a Boy", and even "The Kids Are Alright", which I thought was about parents leaving their kids home alone. Even the cover was deeply unnerving to me. And the title, I guess.

When I was little I loved The Muppet Show. I remember watching it with my dad who normally had no sort of patience for cartoons or silliness. As soon as it was over, MASH began which would send me into a crushing valley of despair. The "Suicide is Painless" intro sounded SO SAD and everything was green and brown and serious, pushing me to run from the room while complaining.

Now I like the song and the show, but that's my first negative reaction to a song.

Good one, Cow Art. Funnily, I always loved the MASH theme, and then was too young to understand any of the jokes, so was often disappointed in another way.

i remember feeling spooked by the MASH theme too, but also being fascinated with the emotions it provoked. see also 'Seasons In The Sun' by Terry Jacks

i had an aversion to Seasons in the Sun but it was mostly inspired by my father complaining loudly about how awful a song it was anytime it came on. he would sing along to just about any song on the radio in the car, but that one, he wouldn't change the station, but he would refuse to sing along.

Oh yeah, the X-Files theme song was incredibly spooky to me as a kid. I couldn't handle it.

I seem to remember The Muppet Show and then M*A*S*H as well but just looked it up and it says that when M*A*S*H was on Monday nights it was on at 9PM whereas I believe The Muppets where at 7:30PM.

The Muppet Show was syndicated so it was on whenever a particular channel wanted to put it on.

Barry Manilow/"Mandy", hated passionately as soon as I gained consciousness of music and my own name, sometime in the late 70s.

Not only did I loathe the song, I instantly hated anyone who called me by that name. Did not know until TODAY that it was originally "Brandy"!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy_(Scott_English_song)

It's more fun as 'Brandy', you can imagine it's by an alcoholic: 'Oh Brandy, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking'

lol yes
or gender-neutral inclusive Andy

I don't think I have ever hated any music as much as I hated "Mandy"

The Muppet Show was syndicated so it was on whenever a particular channel wanted to put it on.

Can we do this thread about first music you ever loved or has that already been done?

speaking of album covers, my dad's copy of Strangers IV: Rattus Norvegicus used to really creep me out. There's these two really weird looking dudes who somehow don't look real and a stuffed wolf's head

"Can't think of anything I hated before the age of 14 or so, though I was very into music and am sure there was something. "

Same here. Each time this thread comes up to top of new answers I try to think of something I actually hated as a kid instead of being merely indifferent to. I got nuthin.

despite loving all kinds of beats, ska really bugged me for years, could not get into it, 'primative reason' became the band that allowed me in on the ska train, though the dub and reggae vibes helped

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams. One summer in middle school I was grounded for a month because I had snuck out of the house and spray-painted the neighborhood. (EID)IDIFY seemed like it was on the radio twice an hour and for some reason there was some different song I was desperately trying to catch and record. There had been music before that I had made fun of, because you're supposed to make fun of Milli Vanilli or Warrant. Sure, Ice Ice Baby was stupid, but Bryan Adams was my first experience with actually feeling rage at a song's existence.

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I was reflecting on this and actually went back a little further in time. When I was in 5th grade, the Beaches soundtrack came out. While mega-hit Wind Beneath My Wings was definitely over-played and annoying, the track that got a lot of attention from girls in my school was Otto Titsling, a burlesque romp about the invention of the brassiere. I - a Guns 'N' Roses and Motley Crue fan at the time - found myself scandalized by this song, partly due to the chesty content and partly due to Midler's leering voice. At recess, girls would sometimes break out into chants of "over-the-shoulder boulder holder," which was one of the song's big pay-off lines. I remember being real uptight and angry about this song.

spray-painted the neighborhood. (EID)IDIFY

originally misread that you were busted for spraypainting the letters "(EID)IDIFY" around the neighborhood, like you hated it so much it and thought it would enrage others

also I want this to be the name of a prince cover version with drawings of eyes in place of the letter

(E👁D)👁D👁4U actuall

No, I just wrote the word fuck, but spelled with a "ph" instead of an "f". It was really pathetic and I probably deserved the Bryan Adams after that.

oh yeah one thing I'm not really into is prog after a certain time when it has started just doing things for showing off sake and not really feeling it. Mainly listen roughly 70-73. I think it would have to be really special for me to listen after taht.
I don't like things that fit the designation New Wave as opposed to post punk or whatever other specific individual designation much either.
Corporate pop pap etc etc

Growing up in the 90s with mainstream alternative rock radio I was on board with pretty much everything until nu-metal started taking over - Papa Roach, Incubus, Limp Bizkit etc. That was more anger inspiring and disappointing than anything going on with other genres I didn't care about/listen to.

"Cut my life into pieces / This is my last resort" - radio off

You didn't give a fuck if he cut his arm bleeding?

skip, though it wasn't the first music that I hated, I can attest to also hating nu-metal. I was a punk kid, really into grindcore and more extreme forms of hardcore etc. I didn't have many friends in my middle school except a few skater boys and "alt" girls (I was a fat gay kid who read a lot of books lol), and when Korn and all that became popular, the boys were like "THIS IS SO COOL AND EXTREME IT'S LIKE WHAT YOU LISTEN TO, TABLE" and I was like, "no." But it was because they were wrong! My favorite bands were Born Against and Los Crudos! And nu-metal is just...it's awful, the revival of it was fun but not because the music was ever good.

Part of this is that I had a distinct sense of what I considered "fake" or "insincere" from a very young age, so nu-metal and Marilyn Manson and such always just seemed like utter trash to me— who would buy what these dudes were singing/screaming? I couldn't, and still can't.

"You didn't give a fuck if he cut his arm bleeding"

I never knew until now that was the next lyric... LOL.