records you don't listen to anymore because they remind you of difficult times

I was thinking about that while listening to Unknown Pleasures. Not my case. But there's so much negative energy in this album that depending on the period of your life it must be difficult to go back to Joy Division after some years.

John Mayer's Continuum because it reminds me of one of my better relationships that didn't work out (I bought the album the day we started seeing each other)

I was listening to the Verve's Northern Songs when my tinnitus set in... I doubt I will ever want to listen to that album again

Oh man :(

my dad listening to Najee reminds me of how sometimes and in some things his tastes were absolutely mad

I'd imagine that Over by Pete Hammill is one of those records for many people

i get a little shiver of revulsion hearing any song where I could imagine reagan/bush/bush.jr being the producer behind the console. theme to top gun especially conjures up images of reagan and bush in matching sunglasses and ponytails high-fiving and "i smell hit!" banter

My car broke down on the Pennsylvania Turnpike while listening to Konono No.1. i cannot listen to that anymore.

i do not have this relationship with any music and i want it to stay that way. sometimes when i listen to certain things it can make me remember bad times but it's never been to the point where i do not want to hear something anymore

^^
it is a pretty indirect connection to me, at least, so even if something is redolent of another time, which a bunch of stuff is, it doesn't necessary mean there's a pavlovian response.

there is that nice elliott smith song about the records on the floor that you can't listen to anymore.

Got in from buying Manic Street Preachers' A Design From Life to find out a friend had just committed suicide. A very similar thing happened with Radiohead's The Bends. My Dad got diagnosed with cancer when Hurt by Johnny Cash was in the charts. He was a big fan and it was one of the only things we've ever had in common. I find it difficult to listen to any of these songs, the Manics especially, given that it almost seems 'designed' to make you cry in the first place.

conversely, I don't listen to The Pogues's Waiting for Herb anymore because it reminds me of the time I first listened to The Pogues's Waiting for Herb

I wrecked my car (p badly) while listening to Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, but I'm over that.
Mostly I like the intense association more than I fear it, so I avoid certain songs/albums, but would never swear off anything forever and ever because the powerful association is more useful to me than the music is.

"And Your Bird Can Sing" but I don't want to talk about it.

I think I bought the Descendent's "Somery" and DJ Shadow's "Preemptive Strike" at the same time in early 1998 when I was particularly depressed. I just think of feeling awful and having a shitty long commute through suburban Detroit in awful grey January weather and I don't honestly know if I've listened to either since around that time.

I first bought Faith No More's Angel Dust the first week I'd ever taken antidepressants ever and was classically conditioned to feel depressed when I heard it for a while but after a while I just realized it was a dope assed album and said fuck it....

can't name names here because of superstition/horrible memories but i have a few of these

One artist was playing when i got in a car crash and since I do 95% of my listening in cars that artist is out

Another 2-3 artists I was listening 2 a lot when a very young family member died, can't go there still

Last, 2 artists big-upped by the person who brought me the most grief I ever experienced a few years ago, those artists are also indefinitely banned

oh man, so many

The Holy Bible. Not really because I relate to any of the lyrics, more to do with the fact I was listening to that record a hell of a lot during a time when a lot of shit was going down personally.

i feel like a cliche but Blood on the Tracks took a decade or more to go back to after a certain break up (i'm a wuss as well) and i still have trouble getting into it

Lots of these, but offhand I had the Todd Terje Remix of M's Pop Muzik stuck in my head during a very anxious driving test and hearing it still makes me a little iffy.

I think I bought the Descendent's "Somery" and DJ Shadow's "Preemptive Strike" at the same time in early 1998 when I was particularly depressed.

― joygoat, Monday, January 7, 2013 9:02 PM (Yesterday)

If you could Cheer Me Up!

Totally did not work.

I was only able to start listening to "Tell It To My Heart" again somewhat recently as I was watching that video the last time I threw up for reasons that weren't alcohol-related (1987).

I'm really struggling to think of something for this thread. My music collection = my diary, but somehow tunes that remind me if the bad times still get a play every so often because nostalgia is a weird, masochistic emotion sometimes and it's somehow easier for me to recount a terrible experience through a record than some other way.
I can't stand to even think of the taste of peppermint tea however as it was all the much-liked diabetic mother of an ex girlfriend was allowed to intake before she died and now I feel extremely uncomfortable and sad when I see people drink it.

Ah fuck, how could I forget: Lay Lady Lay and by extension all other Bob Dylan. Some love sick mate of mine played this track over and over again during my first ever drug experience on hundreds of magic mushrooms which turned into a full on Event Horizon, wall crawling madness, bad trip, which took me about six months to recover from. Not that I hold it against him. The mumbling horror show cunt.

Yeah, I have a lot of music that's very "of its difficult time", but unless I listen to it obsessively, it doesn't tend to transport me back to that mindset. And I've been on a kick lately wherein I'll actively listen to music that I know has historically made me melancholy in an effort to not let that music dictate my mood in a negative way.

I hit a bird with my car while speeding down the highway blasting "I Touch Myself". It was 5 years or so after the song had been a hit. It came on the radio and I thought "I haven't heard this song since middle school!" I didn't even like it then, but the combination of nostalgia and irony got to me. I hit the gas hard going up the exit ramp onto the freeway and immediately hit the bird. Its corpse was wrapped around my radio antenna and I had to just basically stare at it the whole drive home. That song takes me to a bad place now.

basically any/everything released in 1995

any Patsy Cline. Any Billie Holiday.

a bummer, because I like them all a lot.

In that vein Nirvana and the whole "grunge" thing summon memories of an unhappy and frustrating period for me. And perhaps appropriately most of those problems were self-inflicted

The Chills-Submarine Bells. Bought it for a girl who subsequently dumped me shortly thereafter. I was wrecked for months

Superchunk - Cup of Sand comp was on during a car crash. Was a tiny accident but it made me cringe to listen to that for awhile due to the association. I don't think it'll bother these days, but I haven't revisited either way in quite awhile.

Ween's "Reggaejunkiejew" was playing for me when I hit a patch of black ice on the interstate, watched a semi start jackknifing, panicked and hit the brakes, slammed into the side of some car, turned around, hit the front of another car, then hit the railing. Luckily no lasting damage to myself but I did have one busted-ass Ford afterwards. Kinda hard to hear these days without thinking of that.

foolishly followed a girl to Dubai who'd decided she wasn't into me but failed to let me know before I left the UK. got there, found out and decided to stick it out for a month anyway, partly out of curiosity for the place and partly in the hopes that she might change her mind. anyone who's been there will know you need a ride to get around from one mall to another (f-all else to do or see apart from the beach) so it was taxis all the time. the radio in the taxi was the soundtrack to the trip. ryan seacrest delivering the hits. flo rida - good feeling, gotye - somebody that i used to know and rhianna - we found love. those last two really stung.

I did get in a car accident to The Coup's "Everythang" in 2003 but fortunately it wasn't serious, I was just annoyed that the impact didn't happen on the beat, threw my dancing off a bit

There are songs I associate with bad times, but that doesn't put me off listening to them. If anything, listening to those songs is a way of coping with the bad situation.

black sabbath - master of reality. takes me back to :{ adolescent days. which is a damn shame because it's an awesome album.