Have you ever....

[sonickteam2]

Heard so much talk and talk and talk about one band that even though you initially really liked them, you have resigned to never listening to them ever again, and feel that soon you will be saying how terrible they are and wishing throat infections on thier lead singer?

[eltee]

Listening to old Creed albums are ya?

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by abulum:
  Listening to old Creed albums are ya?

what? nobody talks about how great Creed is....

[HoyaSaxa03]

hence the humor

[eltee]

Man, don't leave me on the same side w/ Paranoid.
 Okay, so then you've been listening to too much Interpol then?
 Sheesh. Since you missed Coachella, I think it's only timely and worthy of you to visit DC for a show.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by abulum:
  Man, don't leave me on the same side w/ Paranoid.
 Okay, so then you've been listening to too much Interpol then?
 Sheesh. Since you missed Coachella, I think it's only timely and worthy of you to visit DC for a show.

hahaha, sorry girl.
 
  oh, and I am NOT coming to DC until Ted Leo does!
 
  and thats final.  

[eltee]

Well I guess we get crap on a crap stick until then? Especially since you are now in escrow?    Ah, kidding, mate.
 Yeah? Well, I might see you at Leo...No boycott of MD for me, but I'm skipping that f'n show in Bowie.
 Back to topic - somewhat...good luck w/ your voodoo.

[sonickteam2]

its called Bloc Party voodoo.  i hate em i hate em i hate em.
 
  there.

[eltee]

Well, like I said you need a break. Put them down for...a year will do.
 However, completely understandable. I've never called anyone "Current Little Darlings [of the industry]" until they came aboot.

[xcanuck]

Originally posted by sonickteam3:
 
  oh, and I am NOT coming to DC until Ted Leo does!
 
  and thats final.      

heh - not even for Sloan?? (who I'm seeing tonite in SF!)

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by xcanuck:
  heh - not even for Sloan?? (who I'm seeing tonite in SF!)

just cause i am Canadian , doesnt mean i have to see every crap Canadian band that comes to town....
 
  (just kidding, Sloan isnt crap, but i dont care ferrum)

[Frank Gallagher]

I got sick of hearing how Interpol were the bestest ever, by more than a handful of members of this very message board, so I went out and bought the damn album without listening to it, thinking to myself, "how bad can it be? They can't all be musical idiots"....WRONG The charge on my check card had not even made it to the bank before the pile of shite was on the hard shoulder of the Dulles Toll Road.

[godsshoeshine]

arcade fire

[eltee]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  I got sick of hearing how Interpol were the bestest ever, by more than a handful of members of this very message board, so I went out and bought the damn album without listening to it, thinking to myself, "how bad can it be? They can't all be musical idiots"....WRONG The charge on my check card had not even made it to the bank before the pile of shite was on the hard shoulder of the Dulles Toll Road.

I'm lucky, didn't buy the album. But I did go to the show...add in the zoned audience I don't see / hear the fuss.

[bearman🐻]

I dig Interpol a lot, but there are a ton of other bands I just don't get...Bright Eyes being an example.
 
 But the question was about bands you initially liked/loved and then couldn't listen to. I was a huge Oasis fan from 1994 to about 1997, but the inflated hype around them really ruined it for me. Be Here Now was a crap album, and after that I just couldn't dig them. Smashing Pumpkins were the same. Loved Gish and Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie had some good songs. Then I saw them 1 night before the infamous OD in NYC and I just thought "why am I even here?" I never quite got over that experience of watching them suck so bad when the other times I saw them they were great. I guess it's the fine line between how gracefully an artist copes with success vs. how badly they sell out/inflate. And I hate to use that term, but bands CAN be famous and not sell out. Look at Radiohead, adored by fans and critics.
 
 And then there are those bands who never sell out...they just get hyped so badly that after a while you don't want to touch their records because of all the negative associations that go with liking them. Let's face it, most of us are musical snobs to some degree. Interpol has been hyped a lot, and I can see why people are tired of them. I totally feel that way about Franz Ferdinand and a lot of "those" bands. After a while, I just don't feel like listening to them because everyone is saying how great they are. I feel the same way about movies...when everyone tells me I HAVE to go see it, then I feel hesitant to go.