Bands you used to love and now wonder what in the HELL you were thinking...?

I'm listening to Tangerine Dream on Youtube and this thought came to me.

Go.

Foghat

I was SO excited to buy a C&C Music Factory cassette with my lawn mowing money. I wore that sucker out. It was an instrumental part of wooing girls when I was in 6th grade.

I found a Meat Puppet cassette from my teenage years not long ago. Man that's some weird stuff.

i remember what the hell i was thinking when i listened to everything i've ever been into... the only stuff i come close to regretting was the stuff when i was 10 years old or so and didn't know anything about music other than what i saw on MTV. and since i turned 10 years old in 1985, i thought some weird stuff was "normal".

Uriah Heep.

Soon you will pass this stage and appreciate them again. I listen to American Top 40 replays from the 70s and 80s while I work and find that I still enjoy most of the songs that I loved then cringed about. Twisted Sister, K.C & The Sunshine Band, Miami Sound Machine and many others. But Captain and Tennille...THEY make me realize I had a stupid streak in the 70s. Listen to "Muskrat Love"...I dare ya!!

Bruce

(Manilow ROCKS!!)

ACDC.

But I'd happily visit with Brian Jones at a track event.

In the garage, I tend to listen to a lot of bad music that I didn't like in the 70's. It's still bad music, but it reminds me of when I was eight years old and I like that.

914Driver wrote: Uriah Heep.

You shut your whore mouth!

Easy livin' is a great song.

System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine. I still like most other metal and rock I listen to in high school but the frenetic screaming I can't lesten to now and once I got into the real world my politics pretty much flipped to the opposite of theirs.

Anything Ozzy Osbourne. I probably had every album, went to Ozzfest twice (1999 w/ Black Sabbath, 2000 with Ozzy's band), and now I can't stand the guy.

Prodigy, Godsmack.

I have the opposite problem, I am finding myself liking songs that I hated when I was younger.

And I still like old Ozzy, pre- Blizzard of Oz Ozzy. New stuff: meh, not so much. Plus he's crazy, so I don't want to spend an afternoon shooting the breeze with him. Now Brian Johnson would probably be a hoot to hang out with.

Aerosmith and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I understand why I used to like them, but for some reason I now find their music cliche and irritating.

In reply to EastCoastMojo:

Same here.

I do have tons of CDs I've bought either because of a single song, or someone I trust said they were good, or the album cover and/or band name was cool, that turned out to be absolute crap. Occasionally I'll wonder if the disc was really as bad as I remember...most of the time the answer is still "yes".

Dead Kennedys! Honestly, what adolescent can listen to "Too Drunk to Berkeley" and not giggle his arse off?

U2. I dig Joshua Tree and still flat love Achtung Baby, but haven't listened to them in years. Almost embarrassed to admit it.

Fishbone

ANY ska cover band or song.

Ever.

Sooooooo embarrassed.

It pains me to say it, but the Dave Matthews Band. Tried to listen to them a while ago and I'm not sure why I ever bought the CD.

I used to love INXS, I'm not really comfortable admitting that.

Welcome to wherever you are was a great record. I can't listen to it with out thinking about the shameful train wreck that that band became. (In more ways than the demise of MH).

The DeFranco Family. I was n the sixth grade.

I have to add tripping daisy as well.

Blink 182