What's your personal musical 'kiss of death'?

Inspired by Spiritualized seminar no. infinity yonder - I scanned the phrase "Perhaps it's a grower".


"Perhaps it's a grower".


The perfect phrase encapsulating the most-likely-by-overwhelming-margin scenario - the poster (I think Bill) will listen to this CD exactly three more times, then either withold comment and line up their next heroes very cautiously in order not to be seen to have had one's equilibrium destroyed (placing the CD in second-tier-of-prominence visually but mentally noted as the 'never play but remember to dust regularly' pile), or deliver a Stalinist-trial style self-denunciation, making a scorched-earth advance as one wanders into any territory where the physical laws of the entropic universe you are leaving are inverted, or at least refracted sufficiently to alter its creator. "Perhaps it's a grower" = "The situation re my coolness (or confidence in one's own taste and thus one's self-perception or whatever) in continuing to like this band is not necessarily to my advantage". Y'now. I know this because that was my initial reaction upon buying Primal Scream's 'Exterminator'. (Actually, that was the SECOND worst initial reaction. The worst was to 'Celebrity Skin'. [Hey Jerry - that was me who asked you that question 'Is CS the worst album ever made in the history of music' at Borders!] I think it was "CAN...WE...GET...THIS...OFF! UUUUUURRRRGGGHHH! (makes bored whines that would have shamed me at age seven)", then I sat there afterward shaking as if emerging from a South American interrogation for a few minutes, smoking 3 cigarettes in 2 minutes. But I don't denounce Hole at every opportunity, preferring to keep quiet, whereas I feel the need to denounce Primal Scream at every opportunity however irrelevent (like now), overcompensating for a fea of being perceived to backslide.) Anyway, that's the phrase tha does it for me.

So what's yours?