Bands that other people have turned you off.

[The Curmudgeon]

Not really sure how to complete that sentence there. Off of? Off from? Well, you get the idea.

Basically, bands you liked/loved that you just can't listen to anymore because of outside sources. The band still make good music and the records you loved are still great, but you know good and well you'll never play them again because of the poison that is other people.

Step forwards Mrs Curmudgeon and the Pixies. I used to love the Pixes (still do, really) but after introducing Mrs C to them and then being force fed their entire back catalogue, night in, night out, for what seemed like eight years straight, there's no way in hell I could ever willingly listen to a Pixies record again. Thanks a LOT, wife.

Then there's Queen. Always have a soft spot for Queen, hard not to love them really. But their over exposure and brutal mis-use on TV crud like X Factor, with brilliant, vital songs being turned into watered down karaoke cheese-fests by idiots who wouldn't know a rock song if it bit them on their asses. I can no longer listen to Queen's hits without shuddering.

But that's just me. How about you?

[trashcanman]

I'd kill for a wife who listens to The Pixies. She collects those terrible "NOW That's What I Call Music!" compilations and pays actual money for Black Eyed Peas records. But nobody has ever overplayed any music I loved and made me not want to hear it any more, no. They just play the same music I can't stand over and over and over...

[The Curmudgeon]

I didn't know you could get those Now That's What I Call CDs over in the US. I thought they were a British thing only. They've been around in the UK for about 30 years now (just checked, since 1983). Mrs C used to collect them too, actually, until digital downloads made the entire series somewhat redundant. The newer ones always have genuine pop songs and hits on the first disc and then faceless, instantly fogotten chart dance shit on the second disc. And hey, Mrs C actually bought "I Gotta Feeling" from BEP the other week. Are we married to the same woman?

[trashcanman]

The NOW albums only showed up in the late 90's here, I believe. They're perfect for those people that absolutely MUST have Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears on the same disc.

[Ben]

People have almost completely ruined Nirvana for me. I used to be a huge fan, and I still own their entire discography, but I rarely ever listen to them on my own.

Most people don't actually ruin music for me if I'm already a fan, though. What often happens to me is a friend will recommend a band/artist, and I'll consider checking them out only to find out another friend with shit taste in music not only listens to said band/artist, but owns all their CD's, b-sides, tour t-shirts, etc. Completely kills it for me.

[trashcanman]

Now that you mention it, Nirvana was kind of killed for me by extreme overexposure too. I wasn't crazy about them or anything, but I enjoyed a lot of their stuff until I couldn't get away from it. I've only started appreciating them again n the last few years after avoiding them for a decade or so. Now that I don't rely on radio and MTV anymore, I don't have the overexposure problem.