music you can't listen to because reasons

Unfortunately, I can't (can't) listen to Tusk all the way through because of memories of a girlfriend who passed away. Can't make it through Willie's version of "Always On My Mind" for the same reason

but I can still bop the PSB

beyonce

"because I hate it" does not apply here

These songs are direct lines to bad times had in nightclubs and I cannot bear to listen to them ever:

Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Blue Boy - Remember Me
Super Furry Animals - Northern Lights
Beck - Sexx Laws

I got really stoned and watched “Call Me By Your Name” with a man I had fallen in love with and we spent the entire time giggling at how bad it was, and later that night he looked at me and told me I was the love of his life and I felt the same way, and even though we hated the movie he fell hard for “Love My Way” and he played it nearly constantly, I heard that song every day and was reminded of how happy I was that one night.

Anyway that’s all over and done with and I can’t listen to that song, ever

For no reason I can figure out, there's no direct memory connection or anything, I don't even think she liked them, but Talking Heads' "Heaven" reminds me of my aunt, with whom I shared a birthday. She died several years ago (liver cancer) and ever since I have a very difficult time listening to that song. Sometimes I do it just because it hurts to do it, if you see what I mean. And/but like I said, I have no idea what bent part of my brain has connected that song with my memories of her.

early Stars, up until just recently

my ex-wife really liked the dismemberment plan

so it's actually quite nice that i never have to listen to fucking travis and his annoying voice ever again

Lol "music I am glad to no longer have to hear" should be its own thread

New Order's "Temptation" seems to always get played at any after-party I go to, and I hate it because it was played at the funeral of a friend's infant niece.

That is a very strange choice for that occasion.

Mine is Gillian Welch, ex-wife as well. Fortunately she didn’t have much interest in most of my collection.

ruby tuesday

my friend in college would play it on repeat once a year on the anniversary of her high school best friend’s suicide :/

it’s the only Stones song I skip out of sheer muscle memory

I'd love a "music you must listen to because reasons" thread. Somebody I personally despise once told me that the worst song he'd ever heard was "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, that he couldn't hear it without getting upset and angry. I listen to it once a month or so just to add to the pollution of his world

"Day After Day" by Badfinger because it was a favorite song of a good friend who died young (early 20s) in a car crash

Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Super Furry Animals - Northern Lights

Oh no :(
Those are so good

I think they both conjure an atmosphere very effectively, which is not helpful in this case.

Good timing for this thread. A couple days ago was the 12th anniversary of my cousin dying at 21 of prolonged tachycardia caused by mono. About a week before he died, House MD had aired its fourth season finale, in which a major character dies of something very similar, and it's syrupy and schlocky and sentimental and they play this fucking Iron and Wine song at the end - "Passing Afternoon" I think it's called. So it all got tied up together in my head and I remember lying awake the night I got the news with that fucking song playing over and over again in my brain. Some years I make myself watch that stupid-ass episode and listen to that goddamn Iron and Wine song as, like, some kind of ritual remembrance thing. This is one of those years.

We sang "Let it Be" at his funeral, and the store where I worked at the time had "Casimir Pulaski Day" on a mix they would play constantly, and I still can't stand to hear either of those songs.

It could be argued that all of these are just bad songs that nobody should listen to anyway.

I work in commercial radio. We have the radio on all day every day with the same roster of maybe 15-20 songs being played. It has ruined so many songs I previously liked, I can barely count, including ‘Together In Electric Dreams’ and ‘Give It Up’

there was a ferry disaster in the uk in the late 80s and a charity cover version of Let It Be was released, it was a very poor choice of song when there were accusations of a cover-up going on at the same time

I have a monthly show on local radio and have had a look at their playlist for when a senior royal dies, think you could probably guess what's on it.

Yeah, never the best choice of lyrics for a tragedy. Always makes me think of that Paul Simon line, "I know they said let it be, it just don't work out that way."

I was coming up on ecstacy in a cab about 15 years ago when Daniel by Elton John came on the radio,my friend sang along to it and knew all the words. He explained that him and his brother used to sing it to their mother after their infant brother Daniel died. I find the song too sad to enjoy now

”Casimir Pulaski Day”

I only know the Big Black song by this name, which gives your story a slightly different feeling in my mind...

I listened to Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” with a friend who was dying of brain cancer, and he died the next day, but I still listen to that song to bring him to mind and if I cry, of course I should cry.

A few years back I heard 'Little April Showers', which I had definitely not heard since I was very little and it induced some sort of miniature emotional meltdown, no idea why but I'm not going back there, as beautiful as the song is.

Spent a day on a coke binge while my girlfriend travelled to Amsterdam to see Future Islands, I would join her later. I was not able to attend and left her seeing the band, luckily she met a friend there though. But she refuses to listen to Future Islands for one second ever again. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm clean 2 years now though. And we're still together.

I had to skip “st elmo’s fire” by Michael franks the other day because too emotional

seems like a perfect song to play at my eventual wedding and blubber uncontrollably

After my brother died, I spent close to a week playing "Sometimes It Snows In April" repeatedly and sobbing. It's been 32 years and I still can't even think about that song without tearing up, let alone listen to it.

I thought to myself, well if it's not Brian Emo then it has to be the movie one and I'm not one to tell people what and what not to listen to, but...

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thanks for the display name, me!