whose recorded music would you most like to unhear?

stelly dane rulez yo guyz droolz!

the thread's premise is fascinating, to unpop one's cherry poppin' daddies cherry - but how?!

Soft spots for certain things he's written but probably Andrew Lloyd Webber for me overall

"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.

“what a wonderful world”
“life in a northern town”

If I'd never heard Judas Priest I probably wouldn't have shot myself in the head.

Train.

^good call, especially “meet virginia”

if I could unhear a lyrical theme, it'd be "superman", which would cover the Five for Fighting and 3 doors down songs

yeah but you’d miss out on that goldfinger jam

Aw, I still like "Life In A Northern Town".

It's Bob Dylan for me. Love his songwriting, hate his voice.

I think I might choose to unhear all the songs from Rent.

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

All of the late 90s, early 00s UK Indie Landfill/BritRock shite, King Adora, Hell is for Heroes, Symposium et al.

but nobody can even remember any of their output? even when their songs had just finished.

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)

mel torme singing "sunshine superman". i can't do without it.

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.

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”

Would have to think about who specifically
but 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.

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!)

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

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?

yeah I was intrigued by that post as well

Limp Bizkit (shudder)

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.

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!

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, 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

tbf the thread had a title before it had a point, but I like the positive spin you're putting on it :)

I'd almost rather unhear something I really like so I can listen to it with fresh ears perhaps

― 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.

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

I think I might choose to unhear all the songs from _Rent_.

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.

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.

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.

all Mike Patton, but if it can only be one Faith No More