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Avec:
I've personally downloaded Fergie's My Humps single off of limewire.

No more shall be spoken of.

onewheelwizzard:
I had an interesting moment sometime last summer when I realized that music I'd previously thought I couldn't enjoy anymore was actually losing its negative charge and I could enjoy it on the terms I enjoy music now, instead of reverting back to when I was blaring it through my crappy packaged-with-the-cheap-CD-player headphones for a significant portion of an uncommonly unpleasant summer between junior and senior years of high school.

The song in particular was "Gonna Leave You" by Queens of the Stone Age, and the story goes a bit like this: that summer, my best friend had become really enamored of his girlfriend at about the same time that I got to be really good friends with her.  However, she had rather strict parents, so the only time they got to spend together was time spent with me as well ... her parents wouldn't let her hang out with boys outside of the house, or for that matter one-on-one in her house, but if there were more than one it was fine (because presumably no shenanigans would be expected then ... I think she had to lever for that, at that).  So basically, since I hung out with them on very close to a daily basis, I was their excuse for getting frisky.  I spent many an awkward hour attempting/pretending to tune out of them making out across the room by playing my burned Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss mix CDs at top volume (for a while I actually did succeed, but it didn't last long).  The shitty thing I started to do, though, was to sing softly along to the breakup-themed songs (specifically "Gonna Leave You," "Another Love Song," and "You Can't Quit Me Baby"), just loud enough for them to hear me.  Basically I was really attracted to her, and developing a really strong connection to her, and very much unhappy with the situation of being her boyfriend's best friend, and my way of expressing this to them was not something I will ever be remotely proud of.

"Gonna Leave You" was the song that I was particularly unfond of by the time that situation resolved itself (Nick Oliveri's lyrics are hardly a friendly message to send to someone you presumably value highly).  I did not listen to that song very often after that, and I enjoyed it less each time until stopping for a while altogether.  However, listening to it 5 years later, I've found myself really getting into it and remembering why Queens of the Stone Age were my favorite band for so long.  The people involved are still my best friends, so I guess that probably has something to do with it.

Caspian:
Thinking about it, there's three bands I can't listen to anymore.

I enjoyed Limp Bizkit (among various other dodgy bands) back in year 8. However, while I still find Blink 182, Offspring and Korn relatively enjoyable (really enjoyable if I'm drunk) I can't take any of this band. Mostly it's because I hate Fred Durst.

Sufjan Stevens and Death Cab for Cutie were my favourite bands for perhaps one month back in '06. I had an extremely brief and bizarre indie kid phase, probably because of some girl issues at the same time. The only thing remaining from that phase is this comic. The things love can do to you, eh? Needless to say I haven't listened to that shit since.

look out! Ninjas!:
I can't really think of any music I can't listen to now because of something than just growing out of it and knowing that, in hindsight, it was pretty shit. Limp Bizkit is a good example; I was eleven or something and they said fuck a lot and that was enough for young me.

This has only happened at one or two points in my life in which I grew out of a lot of music at once.

Thrillho:
It's for slightly different reasoning than most people I think - but I can't listen to Muse any more.

I never thought they were genre-blending super-genii, I still defend them against Radiohead comparisons and I still think a couple of their tunes - 'Stockholm Syndrome' and 'Knights Of Cydonia' - are great. But I went to a gig of theirs in 2003, when I was 15, my first major gig ever, and it was so loud that I've had tinnitus ever since. Now I'm so bitter about it that I can't stand to listen to their music any more.

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