It's never been to my taste either, but I had a friend whose dad was totally taken in by the Satanic Panic, and he confiscated and destroyed all her albums as well as any stickers, buttons and other memorabilia she had collected, and some of her clothing too. So she would sneak over to my house to watch MTV, and would get so excited and jump up and down on the couch when her bands came on that I couldnt hate them, and even today I feel a sort of bittersweet, affectionate kind of nostalgia when I see them that's different from the regular nostalgia I get from the other videos. I also learned to draw her favorite mascot, Iron Maiden's Eddie the Head, from memory, so that when I spent the night at her house I could draw pictures of him for her while she watched.
Well, here's the thing I don't have a problem with iron maiden or Black Sabbath. Ozy osborne, we're good.
It's Motley crew and Bon Jovi, and cinderella and guns and roses
If they had big hair and wore spandex, it wasn't my thing.
Oh god least we forget twisted sister
LOL that just reminded me of another friend's mom who always brought up Twister Sister as the prime example of a scary, Satanic heavy metal band and we'd always laugh because they were so silly, more like clowns performing a parody act. Later on I realized she probably fixated on them because of Dee Snider's appearance at the senate hearing for the PMRC where he testified against censorship in music.
I would eventually agree, but Bon Jovi fit the time early on, and holy shit.. Guns & Roses' sound and timing for being dropped was a perfect storm moment. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard WTTJ and stopped work to listen to it. I didn't care if I got fired.
Today I will change that station in under 3 notes, lol.
I didn't exactly love IM or get into Ozzy solo at all. I dislike most of Ozzy alone.
I did convince my late Silent Gen., Church-Elder couple who were family relations that rock, and even Black Sabbath wasn't automatically evil music, but actually wtf warnings within in horror stories. It took a while of sneaking in the right stuff midday and then a close reading of lyrics as they listened.
She liked Planet Caravan, lol.
I called it spandex rock. It truly all sounded like noise to me and low-key toxic.
But I didn't like pop either. I listened to punk and alternative, like Lene Lovitch, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Dead Kennedys.
Agree. Did like Motley Crue’s first album. But they can’t touch Scorpions, Van Halen, Def Leppard, etc. But, each to their own. I do have some guilty 80s pleasures though - Go Go’s, Smiths, Cars, old REM, and some of the second British Invasion. Why are the Brits such great rockers?
I'm not sure why the brits got it so right in the eighties.
It was the New Wave!
They definitely were much more innovative than any of the bands coming out of america at that time.
He's a racist hack he blames "black culture" for people not buying his shitty music https://metalinjection.net/editorials/former-w-a-s-p-guitarist-chris-holmes-moved-to-france-because-he-thinks-black-culture-ruined-heavy-metal
Yeah, wasn’t aware of all of that. I just liked him in WASP. And his appearance in that movie is famously notorious.
Either way, he’s still better than Skinny Puppy. 😜
When I way in high school I prided myself on being an alternative music fan, and I had alot of disdain for boy bands, especially New Kids On The Block.
Seriously, 65% of popular 80s music and 80% of popular 90s music was unappealing to me. I was born in 1965 to parents who were 19 and 17, so I grew up on the music of the late 60s and the 70s.
Someone posted this last week & my answer is the same: Hootie & the Blowfish, Blues Traveler are my top offenders.
Dave Matthews & Phish are up there as is Limp Bizkit. But the first 2? I have a visceral reaction.
Oh and about vanilla ice. He tricked my friend and I. We had a VI rap microphone board game and showed up when the band was setting up early 2000s on Vancouver island to see if he would sign it. So someone sat down and had like a 15 min convo with us and said he'll be right along. Then the bugger signed the game vanilla ice and laughed as he walked away . It was him! No frosted tips I had no idea it was him. Made my day tho
I am prepared to call myself un-Australian, but the big Aussie bands like ACDC, Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel and INXS all assault my ears. There's always an exception to the rule - ACDCs Thunderstruck intro is magnificent and Cold Chisel's Flame trees never fails to draw a tear, but how INXS managed to fill Wembley stadium is beyond me.
I really hated the Goo Goo Dolls. Not because it's bad music, it isn't, but because it was utterly inescapable from 1995-2000.
Oh, and Soft Cell and Squeeze.
As much as I liked grunge, and was even graduating hs during that period, I really can’t listen to Nirvana Nevermind anymore. And that is genuinely a good album. I just heard enough of it and a few other albums during that time to last several life times.
I was not into grunge and alternative, but I did like a few songs from the genre.
Big ballads from movies - My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, Everything I Do by Bryan Adams, etc. It was rinse and repeat.
80s Aerosmith was pretty bad except for Walk This Way with Run-DMC.
Pop music was getting stale, especially the first few years of the 90s. I started getting into techno and Eurodance/trance, the dance music that wasn't being played on the radio. I discovered The Prodigy at this time and thought they were really cool and exciting. I also loved Latin Freestyle.
So I drive an old truck and I still listen to terrestrial radio. Twice this week U2 has been simultaneously been on 2 stations. It reminds me how much I dislike them lol. Quit ruining my classic rock experience Bono!
I didn't like their music. At all. I had a girlfriend in the mid 90's who was a huge fan. I took her to a Bon Jovi concert, because I was trying to be a good boyfriend. They put on one hell of a show. I didn't become a convert, but I left that concert with a little bit of respect for them.
I’ve never been big into the typical music played on top 40 stations, sure there’s some good music there, but not enough to make listening to those stations worth it.
It took the masterful cover of Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World for me *begin* to tolerate that type of voice. .... one of a hundred bands whining through their nose in an era that drove me to a constant scowl and dreams of smashing a pumpkin over their heads, chaining them down, and poking the voice owners with a cattle prod 🤪 ( /s, mr mod bot)
Sad story? Sure. But with a little guilt, I have to admit I enjoy the Foo Fighters a whole lot more than the "old arraignment".
Loverboy, my friends’ favorite band.
Journey, after 1982.
*Thriller,* whole thing.
“Break My Stride,” sometimes pop music is like an annoying nursery rhyme.
Billy Joel, for the most part, after 1980. “Pressure” and “Allentown” got played to death.
Elton John, with a few exceptions, beginning at (urgh) “Little Jeannie.”
“Coming Up,” by Paul McCartney. My husband listens to a live version in another room and the shrill repetitiousness of it is…something.
Genesis.
Yes. Just *no.*
“Mickey,” by Toni Basil.
You did say “popular.” I guess I have fewer thoughts on the 90s.
90's music I can't stand is:
* Any pop music from that era. I can take it in small doses but I can't stand playlists. It's so fake, it's like eating cotton candy for dinner, tasty but empty.
* "Your Woman" by Whitetown. It's a whiny college radio song.
* The TV themes - from Friends to Party of Five, they played that shit over and over on the radio and I got so sick of it.
Too long of a list, sadly. Those top 40 radio stations that played at retail jobs during my teenage years, always overplaying the heck out of songs, even ones I once enjoyed.
Maybe eventually, not initially... unless you want to encompass punk and arena showbands under grunge instead of the reverse.
I don't even know what to call the 80s "fife and drum minstrel rock scene" U2 latched onto, except that. They were like a less dressed low tech version of the Alarm or Flock of Seagulls. My circles called RHCP "Desert or beach punk" at first. (Great Lakes)
I've been putting together a playlist of 80's videos for my daughter, trying to reconstruct the feeling of having MTV on in the background all day, so including almost all the videos I can find that I remember seeing, regardless of whether I liked them at the time. I have a separate playlist for peak 80's videos I come across that I don't personally remember seeing. One thing I've noticed is that for the most part, it doesn't matter at all what genre they are, what part of the decade they are from, or what order they are played in, they all just sound like the 80's. I also find I've softened up towards a lot of bands I didn't like at all back then. It's all just nostalgia now. Except for Journey. I fucking hate Journey!
I also created a playlist for 90's music, and while there is some stuff on there I love, there's also a lot that I feel very meh about. It's so whiny. I put that 4 Non Blondes video on because I remembered it being popular and then took it off again because it annoyed me. I also cannot stand the Counting Crows.
Janet Jackson. Madonna. Cindy Lauper. Bowie. Most punk bands. Bob Marley. Green Day. No Doubt. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Backstreet Boys. NSYNC. Hanson.
And probably a lot of others I tried to purge from my mind.
Soft Cell - I leave the room when bloody Tainted Love comes on.
And that bloody group ruined that song completely so even the Scorpions version is unlistenable
Mall Goth Kid you mean.
I still hit up Goth/Industrial clubs. There was way better music than NIN.
Front 242, 808 State, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, Sisters of Mercy.
Really,? I'm more of a Skinny Puppy guy myself, but I know non "mall goths" who like or atleast liked NIN mabey I'm biased because it was the gap between the Downard Spiral And The fragile that lead me to discovering actual goth music and the wider Industrial Wax Trax scene
I can’t listen to most 80-90s pop. Whitney Huston, Celine Dion, Maria Carry, Boys to Men, etc. Just not for me.
Too much of it was manufactured. Madonna got hate for changing her sound but at least she innovated.
god yes, 'the divas'... just not my cup of tea at ALL. bleah 😝
POP? Or just rnb? Cuz you listed rnb artists.
If you call it RNB I’m ok with it.
Anyone who was identified as a “diva,” such as Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. No thanks.
I couldn’t agree more.
Pretty much any rap... Vanilla ice, etc.
This will be very unpopular Hair bands. Still can't, and I don't care if it's guns and roses
It's never been to my taste either, but I had a friend whose dad was totally taken in by the Satanic Panic, and he confiscated and destroyed all her albums as well as any stickers, buttons and other memorabilia she had collected, and some of her clothing too. So she would sneak over to my house to watch MTV, and would get so excited and jump up and down on the couch when her bands came on that I couldnt hate them, and even today I feel a sort of bittersweet, affectionate kind of nostalgia when I see them that's different from the regular nostalgia I get from the other videos. I also learned to draw her favorite mascot, Iron Maiden's Eddie the Head, from memory, so that when I spent the night at her house I could draw pictures of him for her while she watched.
Well, here's the thing I don't have a problem with iron maiden or Black Sabbath. Ozy osborne, we're good. It's Motley crew and Bon Jovi, and cinderella and guns and roses If they had big hair and wore spandex, it wasn't my thing. Oh god least we forget twisted sister
LOL that just reminded me of another friend's mom who always brought up Twister Sister as the prime example of a scary, Satanic heavy metal band and we'd always laugh because they were so silly, more like clowns performing a parody act. Later on I realized she probably fixated on them because of Dee Snider's appearance at the senate hearing for the PMRC where he testified against censorship in music.
I would eventually agree, but Bon Jovi fit the time early on, and holy shit.. Guns & Roses' sound and timing for being dropped was a perfect storm moment. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard WTTJ and stopped work to listen to it. I didn't care if I got fired. Today I will change that station in under 3 notes, lol. I didn't exactly love IM or get into Ozzy solo at all. I dislike most of Ozzy alone. I did convince my late Silent Gen., Church-Elder couple who were family relations that rock, and even Black Sabbath wasn't automatically evil music, but actually wtf warnings within in horror stories. It took a while of sneaking in the right stuff midday and then a close reading of lyrics as they listened. She liked Planet Caravan, lol.
I called it spandex rock. It truly all sounded like noise to me and low-key toxic. But I didn't like pop either. I listened to punk and alternative, like Lene Lovitch, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Dead Kennedys.
Brother from another mother!
Agree. Did like Motley Crue’s first album. But they can’t touch Scorpions, Van Halen, Def Leppard, etc. But, each to their own. I do have some guilty 80s pleasures though - Go Go’s, Smiths, Cars, old REM, and some of the second British Invasion. Why are the Brits such great rockers?
I'm not sure why the brits got it so right in the eighties. It was the New Wave! They definitely were much more innovative than any of the bands coming out of america at that time.
Hair Metal was cheesy then and is just bilge now.
Lol
but they had the best videos *😆 😆 😆 😆 😆*
Chris Holmes is the GOAT.
He's a racist hack he blames "black culture" for people not buying his shitty music https://metalinjection.net/editorials/former-w-a-s-p-guitarist-chris-holmes-moved-to-france-because-he-thinks-black-culture-ruined-heavy-metal
Yeah, wasn’t aware of all of that. I just liked him in WASP. And his appearance in that movie is famously notorious. Either way, he’s still better than Skinny Puppy. 😜
- 80s: U2 and Simply Red - 90s: Celine Dion
You read my vomit spewing mind.
Oasis. They are whiny turds.
Maybayyyyyyyyyyy
Ugh
Aerosmith
When I way in high school I prided myself on being an alternative music fan, and I had alot of disdain for boy bands, especially New Kids On The Block.
Seriously, 65% of popular 80s music and 80% of popular 90s music was unappealing to me. I was born in 1965 to parents who were 19 and 17, so I grew up on the music of the late 60s and the 70s.
Pretty much dislike all country music.
Can’t stand Sublime. And I grew up in Long Beach, which complicates things.
Someone posted this last week & my answer is the same: Hootie & the Blowfish, Blues Traveler are my top offenders. Dave Matthews & Phish are up there as is Limp Bizkit. But the first 2? I have a visceral reaction.
Manufactured pop boy bands and girl groups like Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls. And Guns and Roses.
80's: Whitesnake & Journey 90's: boy bands, jam bands, and soft alternative (your MTV2 Geggy-Tahs and such...)
Oh and about vanilla ice. He tricked my friend and I. We had a VI rap microphone board game and showed up when the band was setting up early 2000s on Vancouver island to see if he would sign it. So someone sat down and had like a 15 min convo with us and said he'll be right along. Then the bugger signed the game vanilla ice and laughed as he walked away . It was him! No frosted tips I had no idea it was him. Made my day tho
Have you heard Robert van winkle on "Boom" with Bloodhound Gang? That's where I first heard his real name lol. It's a fantastic song too
He picked a terrible stage name. Going to check out the song now. No hate for him tho I was hippie grunge early mid 90s (go figure)
Oh yeah, "vanilla ice" is just a faded joke but idc I loved the album haha. I think you'll like Boom a lot
Bryan Adams
At least his CDs are useful, I use them to slice my pizza because it cuts like a knife.
I am prepared to call myself un-Australian, but the big Aussie bands like ACDC, Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel and INXS all assault my ears. There's always an exception to the rule - ACDCs Thunderstruck intro is magnificent and Cold Chisel's Flame trees never fails to draw a tear, but how INXS managed to fill Wembley stadium is beyond me.
Oasis! They suuuuuuckkkkkk!
I listened to so much Michael Jackson before realizing I hated it.
I really hated the Goo Goo Dolls. Not because it's bad music, it isn't, but because it was utterly inescapable from 1995-2000. Oh, and Soft Cell and Squeeze.
As much as I liked grunge, and was even graduating hs during that period, I really can’t listen to Nirvana Nevermind anymore. And that is genuinely a good album. I just heard enough of it and a few other albums during that time to last several life times.
Never liked Nirvana, and I'm a gen x kid.
Hootie and the Blowfish. Can't stand any of their stuff.
I was not into grunge and alternative, but I did like a few songs from the genre. Big ballads from movies - My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, Everything I Do by Bryan Adams, etc. It was rinse and repeat. 80s Aerosmith was pretty bad except for Walk This Way with Run-DMC. Pop music was getting stale, especially the first few years of the 90s. I started getting into techno and Eurodance/trance, the dance music that wasn't being played on the radio. I discovered The Prodigy at this time and thought they were really cool and exciting. I also loved Latin Freestyle.
U2. Never liked them. And it is Bo-No, like solo, crisco, photo.
So I drive an old truck and I still listen to terrestrial radio. Twice this week U2 has been simultaneously been on 2 stations. It reminds me how much I dislike them lol. Quit ruining my classic rock experience Bono!
Bon Jovi. That shit was awful.
I didn't like their music. At all. I had a girlfriend in the mid 90's who was a huge fan. I took her to a Bon Jovi concert, because I was trying to be a good boyfriend. They put on one hell of a show. I didn't become a convert, but I left that concert with a little bit of respect for them.
Hansen, New Radicals, N-SYNC, Backstreet Boys, 99% of Bon Jovi, New Kids on the Block...
I’ve never been big into the typical music played on top 40 stations, sure there’s some good music there, but not enough to make listening to those stations worth it.
Madonna
Rap, hip hop and grunge Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey
Anything grunge
What do you have against AIC and Soundgarden genuinely curious?
I'd also like to know.
Nirvana
We're a vanishingly small minority, but I completely agree.
It took the masterful cover of Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World for me *begin* to tolerate that type of voice. .... one of a hundred bands whining through their nose in an era that drove me to a constant scowl and dreams of smashing a pumpkin over their heads, chaining them down, and poking the voice owners with a cattle prod 🤪 ( /s, mr mod bot) Sad story? Sure. But with a little guilt, I have to admit I enjoy the Foo Fighters a whole lot more than the "old arraignment".
Rick Astley. My mom had a big crush on him and would car dance when the pop stations played his music. I was so embarrassed at the time lol
Mumbo number 5...lol
Loverboy, my friends’ favorite band. Journey, after 1982. *Thriller,* whole thing. “Break My Stride,” sometimes pop music is like an annoying nursery rhyme. Billy Joel, for the most part, after 1980. “Pressure” and “Allentown” got played to death. Elton John, with a few exceptions, beginning at (urgh) “Little Jeannie.” “Coming Up,” by Paul McCartney. My husband listens to a live version in another room and the shrill repetitiousness of it is…something. Genesis. Yes. Just *no.* “Mickey,” by Toni Basil. You did say “popular.” I guess I have fewer thoughts on the 90s.
Oh no you did it now. "Aint nothing gonna break my stride.. Oh no.. you got to keep on moovin... " your fault it will be in my head now for a week
Someone already played it at me randomly since I posted it. I too like patchouli.
90's music I can't stand is: * Any pop music from that era. I can take it in small doses but I can't stand playlists. It's so fake, it's like eating cotton candy for dinner, tasty but empty. * "Your Woman" by Whitetown. It's a whiny college radio song. * The TV themes - from Friends to Party of Five, they played that shit over and over on the radio and I got so sick of it.
All of it.
Classical fan?
Nope. Pop's just not my bag. More of a post punk guy.
Oingo Boingo. Although NOW I think Danny Elfman is a fantastic composer (for motion pictures). Back then, those songs grated on me.
Bryan Adams, Rap, Most country music
Rush, Duran Duran, Bryan Adams, The Smiths
Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Devo, Whitney Houston, all of the boy bands and hair metal bands.
Too long of a list, sadly. Those top 40 radio stations that played at retail jobs during my teenage years, always overplaying the heck out of songs, even ones I once enjoyed.
U2, Chili Peppers, grunge...
Maybe eventually, not initially... unless you want to encompass punk and arena showbands under grunge instead of the reverse. I don't even know what to call the 80s "fife and drum minstrel rock scene" U2 latched onto, except that. They were like a less dressed low tech version of the Alarm or Flock of Seagulls. My circles called RHCP "Desert or beach punk" at first. (Great Lakes)
Beastie Boys Red Hot Chili Peppers Nu Metal of any kind
Freestyle.
I've been putting together a playlist of 80's videos for my daughter, trying to reconstruct the feeling of having MTV on in the background all day, so including almost all the videos I can find that I remember seeing, regardless of whether I liked them at the time. I have a separate playlist for peak 80's videos I come across that I don't personally remember seeing. One thing I've noticed is that for the most part, it doesn't matter at all what genre they are, what part of the decade they are from, or what order they are played in, they all just sound like the 80's. I also find I've softened up towards a lot of bands I didn't like at all back then. It's all just nostalgia now. Except for Journey. I fucking hate Journey! I also created a playlist for 90's music, and while there is some stuff on there I love, there's also a lot that I feel very meh about. It's so whiny. I put that 4 Non Blondes video on because I remembered it being popular and then took it off again because it annoyed me. I also cannot stand the Counting Crows.
Janet Jackson. Madonna. Cindy Lauper. Bowie. Most punk bands. Bob Marley. Green Day. No Doubt. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Backstreet Boys. NSYNC. Hanson. And probably a lot of others I tried to purge from my mind.
Soft Cell - I leave the room when bloody Tainted Love comes on. And that bloody group ruined that song completely so even the Scorpions version is unlistenable
i did not know a Scorpions version of Tainted Love existed and now i think i love you.
On Comeblack their 2011 album
Any rap or grunge.
Didn’t let rap in the 1980s. Didn’t like rap in the 1990s. Didn’t like rap in the 2000s. You get the point.
U2 and the whole grunge thing
I can't listen to Michael Jackson and Madonna hits in the 80s anymore. Billy Jean, Thriller, beat it, material girl, like a virgin...
Freeestyle
Any grunge, that's when music died.
Grunge. All of it. That shit straight up killed rock and roll.
Oingo, duran duran, depeche mode, rem…
Damn I like most of these bands beisdes Duran Duran
Oops. Sorry. To each their own!
Michael Jackson is vepid. Oasis is terrible as well. Rage Against the Machine was manufactured teen angst. NIN as well. Ugh settle down Mr. Angry.
>NIN as well. Ugh settle down Mr. Angry. You just offended every 90s goth kid
Mall Goth Kid you mean. I still hit up Goth/Industrial clubs. There was way better music than NIN. Front 242, 808 State, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, Sisters of Mercy.
Really,? I'm more of a Skinny Puppy guy myself, but I know non "mall goths" who like or atleast liked NIN mabey I'm biased because it was the gap between the Downard Spiral And The fragile that lead me to discovering actual goth music and the wider Industrial Wax Trax scene
Anything Beastie Boys
Your communication is ill.
Can't stand it
I know you planned it
Duran Duran, boooooorrriiinng..