Music you loved but makes you shudder now.

[Mushy Mushy]

For me I loved:

- Roxette
- Bros
- Martika
- Wham




My god, what was I thinking?!

[chk071]

Helloween, The Scorpions, and Queen... but then, i was young and needed the money. A few years after that i woke up and listened to Death Metal and Grindcore.

[mcnoone]

I can't think of any.
I can still listen to what I listened to then, and like it now.
Even John Denver and Neil Diamond.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I used to shift musical tastes pretty dramatically when I was younger, and I would go through the embarrassment over what I had loved beforehand. For instance, when I got into the whole acid jazz vibe, I shuddered at all the dark, depressing crap I used to listen to e.g Bauhaus, Cure, Joy Division, Smiths etc.

It took me a long time to go full-circle and embrace everything that I had once loved, once again. Now, I just accept that I like(d) whatever I like(d) for a reason, and there was no embarrassment in any of it. I also feel blessed to have so much varied inspiration from which to draw

[Cinebient]

Gabba! What was wrong with me?
Terrordrome, Thunderdome etc. Now it just hurts me!

[chk071]

I used to shift musical tastes pretty dramatically when I was younger

Same here. And even today, it changes slightly after some years. But rather because a genre becomes somewhat tiring when you listen to it exclusively the whole time. The more diversity, the better i think.

[recursive one]

Anything metal (or, broadly, anything with distorted guitars and shred solos). Used to be a metalhead in my teens but now just can't stand the sound of high gain guitar.

Then it was trance of Tiesto/Van Buuren kind.

[GaryG]

I'm not sure If I ever really 'loved' it but... I used to like a lot of Prog rock in my teens and, while I still have nostalgia (I guess) for most of my main crushes (Rush etc), I do wonder about the related stuff I bought. Y'know, Pink Floyd solo albums, Mike Oldfields 80s stuff, Camel... Dumped it all in a heartbeat when I discovered noisy american guitar bands were actually a whole lot more fun.

[Googly Smythe]

For me I loved:

- Roxette
- Bros
- Martika
- Wham




My god, what was I thinking?!

I... still love Martika.
And... Roxette.

[Ciberithm]

I went through a phase in the early 90's where I listened to country music. That lasted about 3 weeks. How embarrassing.

[Aloysius]

I used to hate The Smiths. Now I really like 'em.
I used to hate Van Morrison.
I always like Bros.
I used to hate Pink! I still hate Pink!

[aMUSEd]

I think if anything my musical tastes have grown and widened, nothing I liked when younger that I don't like now but on the other hand I am less prejudiced against genres like dance music and country and western, which are things I used to just avoid.

[stonestreet]

I can't think of any.
I can still listen to what I listened to then, and like it now.
Even John Denver and Neil Diamond.

I used to think like this then one day on a long drive I put Barkley James Harvest cassette into the player...."Please sweet Jesus hear me cry..." It got too much I hit the eject button and threw that cassette into the back of the car, never to be played again.

[do_androids_dream]

I grew up listening to - but never loved - The Beatles. But now, I just can't stand hearing them - the more I hear them the more I realise they were, at best, the ultimate novelty/gimmick band. I just find them icky now to say the least and the fact that McCartney clearly still thinks he's the greatest musician to walk the Earth makes it ten times worse lol.

For a lot of other things (not just bands) it's more like things that I used to detest and now really love.

[do_androids_dream]

- Martika
- Wham




My god, what was I thinking?!

I still think Martika's awesome. And although I didn't like Wham, George Michael is an incredibly talented individual who I've always liked for distancing himself from the music industry and being able to pretty much perform every role in his music - writer/producer/mixer etc.