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KvP:
Hey hey.

The AV Club has an "ask the editors" sort of feature and this week the topic was "Music you can't listen to anymore" and it seemed like a good enough topic for a thread here.

If you're like me (and you are because you're all nuts) you latch on pretty hard to your music thus as it becomes a part of you, you become a part of it. So who you were, what you experience when you're putting that song or album on repeat bleeds into the stuff.

When I was entering 8th grade puberty had set on for a few years prior but at that particular point, the hormonal floodgates opened and I went from a shy, reserved kid to a bugged-out, long haired, pasty spaz. And all my emotions became 14x bigger than they had been previously, it was like a face blast of sad or happy or mad or whatever. Feeling the imminent need to be social despite having social skills in a school full of kids going through similar hormonal implosions was about as bad as you can imagine. And for that entire year or so I listened to the Matrix Soundtrack and Deftones' White Pony. After that I couldn't listen to either, I still can't to this day without reverting back to the sort of confused animal terror that peels the paint off the walls. The good news is that becoming deadened to the Deftones prevented me from getting much further into the nu-metal scene that was all a-rage at the time. I can proudly say I've never owned or enjoyed a Limp Bizkit or Korn record. But as I got into high school I got into early 90's industrial metal which is basically proto-nu metal.

Let's hear yours. I want to read depressing shit.

Fishboy:
Well I can no longer get as much enjoyment from the flaming lips song the W.A.N.D. That song used to be a favorite of mine, but one time when I was listening to it, high as a fucking kite (natural high, not drug assisted), I crashed, hard (is that the proper terminology? I do not know, thats just what it was like) and freaked out completely. ever since then I could not listen to that song to its full effect, I usually just skip it when it comes up.

I find it hard to listen to the dark side of the moon for almost the same reason, there have been a few times when listening to it was just fantastic, and now listening to it in anything other than ideal circumstances, otherwise it feels as though I am sullying that memory.

Thats about it other than a few other things which I would really rather not say.

De_El:
My first year of high school was especially bad. High school is a bad time for a lot of people, but my first year was my worst, possibly the worst year of my life to date, although I'm sure I have plenty more time for other years to bump it from the top spot.  Anyway, I had always been bad at making friends, and at the very beginning of freshman year I was pretty emotionally hollow, as being dumped by my first girlfriendthe previous summer was for some reason especially hard on me.  So at the time when everyone was getting to know each other and as social groups were coalescing and quickly hardening, I was holed up within myself, resisting friendly new faces and not so friendly ones, bitterly hating them all pretty much alike.  At the time I was into some pretty silly stuff, like, say, Deftones, Marilyn Manson and Cradle of Filth, but what I especially latched onto at the time, oddly enough, was one album by a band called The Jazz June, They Love Those Who Make the Music. I listened to it pretty much constantly that year, and it quickly became the proverbial soundtrack to my life, not to mention the first time I began to do terrible things to myself. I listened to it to cheer myself up when I got sick because I hadn't eaten in a day and a half or so.  Luckily the album seems to be relatively obscure as I haven't heard it since I deleted it from my computer a few years ago.

On a slightly related note, I'll always remember that the day that same girl dumped me, my first ever girlfriend, she did it right after we finished watching the movie Coffee and Cigarettes, which she said she could barely sit through as it was so boring.  One could hardly expect a 13 year old girl to appreciate Jim Jarmusch, but I do take some small satisfaction in knowing that while I was starting to have a real interest in good movies, her taste in them was rubbish.

Alex C:
I have an incredibly mundane yet incredibly sad story for this, but I'd rather not go into it.


Let's just say I don't like listening to just about anything by the Eagles, both for reasons of taste and because my stepfather is a scumbag.

Big Happy Captain:
My ex got me into Imogen Heap. I can't really listen to her anymore.

Thing is, I was the one who broke things off with her. I've never felt heartbroken by the ordeal but thats exactly what I hate. Whenever Imogen Heap comes on I think about how much time I wasted on a girl I didn't love.

We had a pretty bad relationship as well so a lot of memories come up which depress me.


I also can't listen to the album Nostromo by SleepResearch Facility, or I freak out. Bad trip..

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