who?
― H.P, Thursday, 2 May 2024 04:31 (one month ago) link
who who who?
yes quite
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 May 2024 04:37 (one month ago) link
Why you hate dogs?
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:43 (one month ago) link
I love dogs, but even I get very annoyed when they get out so I can understand the sentiment Lavator
― H.P, Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:46 (one month ago) link
blur
― devvvine, Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:51 (one month ago) link
albarn faux cockney park loif-ing, probably the most inhospitable sound in existence
― devvvine, Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:58 (one month ago) link
Man, I dunno. I'm not sure how unhearing stuff I don't like would improve my life in any way. I've worked in local radio and there's a lot of repetitive playlisting of lousy pop songs I've had to endure, but if I got rid of that artist, e.g. Ed Sheeran, they'd only have filled it with some other shite
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:59 (one month ago) link
I'd almost rather unhear something I really like so I can listen to it with fresh ears perhaps
Oh that's a good answer!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:20 (one month ago) link
Lou Reed. I love Metal Machine Music but I would gladly sacrifice it if it meant that everything else, from the Velvet Underground to Lulu, vanished forever too.
This is the ilm-iest challop I’ve seen in a long time, congrats!
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:49 (one month ago) link
If this is about unhearing the entirety of an artist's catalog and also never hearing them again - Billy Joel. Nothing I've heard of his has ever brought me joy; it's kinda like that Nick Cave quote about the Chili Peppers. Drunken singalongs of Piano Man have put a damper on otherwise acceptable parties I have attended. And Billy Joel megafans always seem so incredulous that I don't like him.
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:13 (one month ago) link
U2 if it meant all their progeny go with it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link
xp
yeah, Nick Cave is a good one. Him and his Lightning Seeds can fuck right off.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
Queensryche
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:28 (one month ago) link
would like to unhear my own music so i could be less self-conscious about it
would also like to unhear eminem. could've learned a language maybe instead of memorizing the lyrics to the marshall mathers lp, unfortunately i was 13 years old in 2000
― ivy., Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:30 (one month ago) link
I don't remember nowI don't remember how it started...
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:32 (one month ago) link
Oooh, Eminem is another good one.
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:33 (one month ago) link
i like the lou reed answer because to me, it's more about musicians i've had a complicated relationship. often the musicians themselves, not the music. music that i liked but i kind of hate that i liked.
so zappa, austin's pick, is a good one for me. i was a hardcore zappa fan for, like, a decade, and i _still_ listen to his music a fair bit, usually when i'm talking about how much i hate frank zappa, which is even more irritating. i'll talk about how badly zappa sucks and then listen to, well, one of the two "hot rats" deluxe sets, because they're his least "problematic" stuff.
there's also magma, who i was a hardcore fan of for maybe 15 years and then i found out christian vander wasn't an ironic fascist, he was an actual fascist. and again, i still really love that music and listen to it.
there's the grateful dead, who aren't actually very problematic at all, but who i hated for decades and then i just broke when i moved to oregon and spent two years painstakingly cultivating a collection of my favorite live dead performances, and then my hard drive crashed and i lost the whole thing. i do kind of regret spending three years of my life listening to nothing but dead bootlegs. well, no. i don't _regret_ it. i radically accept it. it was just where i was at that time in my life.
phish, on the other hand, phish is a better candidate. the thing about the dead is that they do actually have good songs. they're not all good, mind you, but a lot of them are. phish songs are just about the worst bullshit ever recorded by anyone. just the apex of cringe. i fucking love their jams, though. i can't help it. i genuinely think the two forms of instrumental interplay they've developed over decades of playing together are... you know, it's not something anybody else has been able to develop within the "rock" idiom the way phish has. their music hasn't been a constant part of my life, i don't love them the way i loved zappa or magma, but it's an important part of my life. i woke up from my GRS and one of the first things i listened to was the july 14, 2019 performance of "ruby waves" (i hate that i have to talk about them like that), so now it's not just transcendent but transcendent in a way that has _profound personal meaning_ to me.
i mean that's something, like. you ever think about the idea that terrible music can have profound personal meaning? i once knew someone and the metallica song "king nothing" was so important to him, so important to helping him frame his relationship with his abusive father. what the fuck am i going to say to that? it's a terrible song. a fucking terrible song, but i mean, it's deeply meaningful to this guy, so the fact that it's fucking awful isn't _relevant_. art, you know? art.
anyway. right now my pick would be radiohead. because jonny greenwood's a terf. i mean there are other reasons, i don't mean to dismiss all of the other very very good reasons to wish one had never heard radiohead. with me, you know. i'm a trans woman, he's a terf, that might _sound_ like the pitch for a high-concept romantic comedy but it's not. i've loved their music since, like, 1998. whether it's "good" or "bad"... music kept me alive for decades, before transition it was the only way i could _feel_, and radiohead was one of the most important bands to me during that time. i don't know what to _do_ with that now.
should i wish i'd never heard led zeppelin? they were the first band i loved. jimmy page is... i mean, we all know what jimmy page is and nobody talks about it, because he's Too Big to Fail, because his music is too important to acknowledge what he did. i fucking hate that. i hate that so fucking much. i've loved their music since i was 12.
fuck it. i'm gonna listen to the july 14, 2019 version of "ruby waves". i don't listen to it often because it's fucking 45 minutes long.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:34 (one month ago) link
Can't think of anyone tbh
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:34 (one month ago) link
^big primal scream fan
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:35 (one month ago) link
Where would I be without Boaby?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:37 (one month ago) link
randy newman. except for will sasso on mad tv as randy newman. that i would want to hear forever. even if i didn't know what was so funny about it because i didn't know what randy newman sounded like because i had magically unheard randy newman.
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 May 2024 04:12 (nine hours ago) link
Yeah, basically the only reason I wouldn't choose to unhear Randy Newman is that it's so much fun doing a Randy Newman impression. My brother and I were absolutely dying one weekend improvising tracks from a theoretical Newman Sings Newman album (wherein Randy Newman sings in-character songs as Newman from Seinfeld).
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:45 (one month ago) link
i would like to unhear all of the instruments other than the vocals in Six Feet Under albums so all of their songs sound like an old stoner yelling and barking angrily on his front porch about stupid shit
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:46 (one month ago) link
There are a couple Cat Power songs that really bum me out whenever I think of them and it'd be nice not to have to think of them ever again, but I don't know if it'd be worth unhearing all other Cat Power songs just to unhear them. Maybe.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link
I do not believe that U2 has added any musical value to my life, and anything half decent they've ever done has been ripped off from someone better, so them.
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:29 (one month ago) link
i'd like to hear U2 but with Gary Shandling singing
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:35 (one month ago) link
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:38 (one month ago) link
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:35 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
cosign, but just go a step further and cut out U2, and we're good
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:53 (one month ago) link
Steely Dan tbh
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:00 (one month ago) link
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who haven't got a single song that would be better than sitting in silence for the same amount of time
― a3poify, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:34 (one month ago) link
never forget...
Defend The Cringe-Worthy: G Love & Da Special Sauce
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:40 (one month ago) link
Easily it is Elbow's One Day Like This
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link
Don't moveDon't talk out of timeDon't flipDon't worryEverything's just fineJust fine
Don't grabDon't flipDon't hope for too muchDon't flipDon't flipOr flip just don't flip
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:45 (one month ago) link
Oh entire careers. Yeah, see ya Elbow
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
Perhaps not the best note to open my time on this forum with but I really like Elbow
― a3poify, Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:06 (one month ago) link
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:41 (one month ago) link
xp hmmm. thinking about it, i think that's actually a pretty good note to open on!
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being able to not remember what steely dan sounds like is one hell of an achievement. wish i could manage it!
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:43 (one month ago) link
Aerosmith (1987-present)Drake
― Chris L, Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:55 (one month ago) link
xp hmmm. thinking about it, i think that's actually a pretty good note to open on!-being able to not remember what steely dan sounds like is one hell of an achievement. wish i could manage it!
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link
Timbuk 3
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
It just doesn’t stick with you in the same way… also nowhere near as common as Journey
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
Journey was my first thought tbh bc I have been plagued by ear worms of “any way you want it” and “wheel in the sky” that drove me to my breaking point. I do have a decent journey memory or two tho and I want to keep those. No Steely Dan song has ever accompanied me on my life’s important moments and I don’t like anything about their music.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:31 (one month ago) link
good call, steely dan also a viable candidate for me. not out of dislike though; more indifference. but like... angry yawn energy.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link
Sixpence None The Richer - I don't hate them but the grocery store I worked at in high school had "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes" on the store radio twice an hour each and parts of them will still pop into my head randomly two decades later
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:59 (one month ago) link
I don't know what Steely Dan sound like, for many years I had them confused with Duran Duran
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
Hungry Like the Years
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:01 (one month ago) link
stelly dane rulez yo guyz droolz!
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
the thread's premise is fascinating, to unpop one's cherry poppin' daddies cherry - but how?!
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:28 (one month ago) link
Soft spots for certain things he's written but probably Andrew Lloyd Webber for me overall
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:31 (one month ago) link
"unhearing" is different from "not hearing" or "forgetting". To unhear a song, your eardrums would need to actively play the song out of phase with the song's source. So as your lover leans in for a first kiss, they faintly hear "zoot suit riot" emitting from your ears.
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:36 (one month ago) link
“what a wonderful world”“life in a northern town”
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
If I'd never heard Judas Priest I probably wouldn't have shot myself in the head.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:41 (one month ago) link
Train.
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:42 (one month ago) link
^good call, especially “meet virginia”
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
if I could unhear a lyrical theme, it'd be "superman", which would cover the Five for Fighting and 3 doors down songs
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:29 (one month ago) link
yeah but you’d miss out on that goldfinger jam
― ivy., Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
Aw, I still like "Life In A Northern Town".
It's Bob Dylan for me. Love his songwriting, hate his voice.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
I think I might choose to unhear all the songs from Rent.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 3 May 2024 04:11 (one month ago) link
If you get rid of Superman you'll never be able to listen to the classic Black Lace song ever again. OR the adult version Supercock
― a3poify, Friday, 3 May 2024 07:03 (one month ago) link
All of the late 90s, early 00s UK Indie Landfill/BritRock shite, King Adora, Hell is for Heroes, Symposium et al.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:34 (one month ago) link
but nobody can even remember any of their output? even when their songs had just finished.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:58 (one month ago) link
if I could unhear a lyrical theme, it'd be "superman", which would cover the Five for Fighting and 3 doors down songs― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton)
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton)
mel torme singing "sunshine superman". i can't do without it.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:51 (one month ago) link
I think the entire output of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a great answer to this. I too wish i could unhear "Masquerade" in particular. Absolutely loathe that song.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link
He’s got some hits, I like most of Phantom, but most of his oeuvre clings like unwanted barnacles to my consciousness
For a while I was seeing somebody who was super passionate about Drake. After I broke things off with him, I said “thank god I don’t have to keep pretending to like Drake, it’s exhausting”
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:00 (one month ago) link
Would have to think about who specificallybut my answer to this would prob be someone whose music had an outsized impact on my life that turned out to be for the worse, *because i loved it so much*, and forgetting it would amount to like a do-over
rather than something that annoys or offends me.
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:10 (one month ago) link
I love 70s ALW, but Phantom just irks me.
also his use of recitative was often lazy and mishandled. I adore "Evita" but they beat the same melodic motif to death in it.
School of Rock was good but he reused a lot of his old ideas on it (shocker!)
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
i could NOT live without Jesus Christ Superstar in my life but i could live without the rest of ALW. though i do have a nostalgic fondness for Evita because i saw it on Broadway with my sister. #originalcast #pattilupone4ever #mandywasgoodtoo
― scott seward, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:45 (one month ago) link
You know what, lets turn this around - indeed maybe it should be in a new thread - but whose music would you like to unhear so that you could REDISCOVER them all over again with fresh ears?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
yeah I was intrigued by that post as well
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link
Limp Bizkit (shudder)
― acombinationofseveralwords, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:52 (one month ago) link
I wish I could hear again for the first time: Disco Inferno D.I. Go Pop; Bruckner’s 9th Symphony; “West End Blues” by Louis Armstrongs’s Hot 5; “Ascension” by John Coltrane; the list could go on.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:45 (one month ago) link
those are really good ones but otoh i'm glad i heard DI Go Pop when it was new, i'm glad i got to experience the shock of it in the context of its times. and also... it did influence my subsequent listening and inform my tastes, i might not even be the same person without it. it's nice to have lived a life with that as a constant companion. it's an interesting paradox!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 4 May 2024 18:30 (one month ago) link
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, May 3, 2024 4:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
that's what I thought the point of the thread was at first. dangerous game though, I do pretty often listen to stuff I really loved back in the day and wonder if it's something I would get into had I just been hearing them for the first time now. I hear a lot of good music that I just don't pursue for whatever reason. I'm reasonably sure that if I heard Can for the first time all over again I'd geek out pretty hard
― frogbs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link
tbf the thread had a title before it had a point, but I like the positive spin you're putting on it :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 4 May 2024 18:49 (one month ago) link
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin)
This is a great answer. Music or artists I find obnoxious I can just ignore, the thrill and excitement of hearing music I love for the first time again tho… that would be something.
Then again, I imagine that albums that were magical to me idk 10 years ago would probably impact me way less now that I’m older. They’d probably have to be somewhat recent albums to not create a butterfly effect in my music taste.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 4 May 2024 18:54 (one month ago) link
right this is kind of the thing, like I wanna say it would be cool to hear all the YMO stuff for the first time again but this would affect like half of my record collection. had I not gotten into them who knows maybe I'd be a metalhead or something
― frogbs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link
I think I might choose to unhear all the songs from _Rent_.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
I want to be a wise guy and say "Anything that was ever meant to make me a better person," but I know I could immediately refute that with a couple of hundred counter-examples.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:23 (one month ago) link
in terms of music i want to unhear in order to hear again for the first time... basically everything i hold dear, on repeat. i'd go into hounds of love with a clean slate every single time if i could.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:39 (one month ago) link
don't really need to unhear anything so i can hear it with fresh ears again, a record is a hard thing to pin down, it sounds different every time you hear it, or you change and it changes along with you.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:55 (one month ago) link
all Mike Patton, but if it can only be one Faith No More
― encino morricone (majorairbro), Sunday, 5 May 2024 03:15 (one month ago) link