Bands you used to love back in the day but can't listen to now

Offset

I find it a bit sad when I fall out of love with a band I'd previously adored, but that can be the nature of love I guess.  Let me set the ball rolling (ahem):

• The Rolling Stones
• The Doors

Can't listen to either of them these days,.

munckee

There’s a few indie bands I never listen to anymore, ash, cast, Travis spring to mind. 

BillDL

Snap!  (Stones, Doors) There are also a few others for me, but I will have to go through the CDs on the bottom shelf of my rack to remember what ones they are.  I threw away dozens a few months ago after giving them another listening to and saying "Nah!".

Kilgore

I wouldn't say I dislike it as such but there is a lot of music from my youth, often angst ridden stuff, that I simply can't relate to now that I'm in my 50s.

stickyfiddle

Led Zepellin
Pink Floyd
JJ72

(one of these things is not like the others..!)

BillDL

Robert Cray.  I used to love his playing and singing and even went to see him in concert, but now his syncopated stuttering guitar playing jangles my nerves.

mikeyrob73

Lost Prophets 

lustycourtier

Ryan Adams. Paul Draper. Same reasons sadly. 

goldtop

ELP
Motorhead
ACDC
Japan
Ted Nugent
Status Quo

darthed1981

stickyfiddle said:

Led Zepellin
Pink Floyd
JJ72

(one of these things is not like the others..!)

Yeah Led Zep were always rubbish

rlw

SRV

Danny1969

All hair metal ... cept VH but then I never considered them hair metal 

Sassafras

All those 80s and 90s bands that used chorus as if their lives depended on it.

Sassafras

I used to listen to a lot of jazz/funk but I never get the urge to listen to it anymore.

Devil#20

Status Quo. Their first 2 or 3 albums were good but they became same old same old 12 bar blues crap. A bit like England (aka London FC). Winging it since 66.

Philly_Q

As mentioned in the comedically crap guitar playing thread, Vinnie Vincent Invasion.  I still like a lot of hair metal from those days, but some bands I like less than I did (e.g. Ratt), others I like more (e.g. Warrant).  The more schmaltzy, AOR stuff I now find hard to listen to.

I used to buy some blues and blues-rock stuff but wouldn't now, I find it very tedious.

I can't think of much else, but I probably have hundreds of albums I haven't listened to for 20 years that I wouldn't like if I played them now.  There might also be a few gems which would suddenly click for me now... but I doubt it.

digitalscream

I struggle to listen to Queensryche, mainly because it's difficult to square the great lyrics with the asshat that Geoff Tate became - it just doesn't seem like it's the same person. Which is a bit shit, because they're about the only band whose lyrics I ever paid attention to.

Philly_Q

digitalscream said:

I struggle to listen to Queensryche, mainly because it's difficult to square the great lyrics with the asshat that Geoff Tate became - it just doesn't seem like it's the same person. Which is a bit shit, because they're about the only band whose lyrics I ever paid attention to.

I'm similar with Ted Nugent - I was never a huge fan and I guess he was always an asshat, but the person he is now puts me off his music.  I still think his early albums are good though...

I went off Queensryche once Chris DeGarmo left.  It may be a totally false impression, but it seemed to me that he was the real talent of the band.  They may have done great stuff since he left but I haven't wanted to listen to it.

HAL9000

Hendrix
Deep Purple

ICBM

Whitesnake. Even the early stuff… I never liked them after the Marsden/Moody era anyway, but I can’t listen to any of it any more, Coverdale’s lyrics are mostly appalling.

Possibly ELP - I still have the ‘Best Of’ (with the pseudo Japanese cover) which I really like, but the original albums themselves are just full of so much pretentious corny drivel.

I can’t actually think of much else - if anything, I now like a lot of music that I didn’t at the time.

equalsql

Extreme.
 I was blown away by Nuno at the time, still am really, but I find the production on their albums to clinical and grating, especially the drums, as I've gotten older. The 80s was all about tight, over the top synth basses and gated snares etc, all quantized to death and those  production techniques were still floating around in the early 90s when the band were at their height.