Drjohnrock

I can understand how someone would lose interest in Herman's Hermits. FWIW, Peter Noone had a short lived band circa 1980 called the Tremblers. A lot of what I heard from them sounded somewhat like Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. But this cover of Elvis Costello's Green Shirt rocks out pretty well:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Ds5tVS_lA

SweetHeartHolly

I will admit that I did buy cassette singles of the first two songs from the Dixie Chicks. "I Can Love You Better" and "There's Your Trouble" that is, but not long after that something about them started rubbing me the wrong way. I tried giving them the benefit of the doubt until their performance took place during the CMA awards show in late 2000. That was the first time that I heard their song named "Sin Wagon" and in my opinion, it couldn't be anymore sacrilegious when they start singing "I'll Fly Away" at the end of the song. To me, what they became known for later only dug their hole deeper especially when they started trashing Toby Keith.

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly (a girl who forever misses him)

P.S. To this day, I still won't listen to them and to this day I still don't feel like I have missed out on anything.

jadis

One time a friend got me into Butthole Surfers, who he said were one of the great alternative bands. I really liked Locust Abortion Technician and Hairway to Steven until in 2-3 months or however long, I could no longer get what I had ever seen in them. Still don't. Their music does nothing to me. But for a really short time I liked something about it...

Psy-Fi

I had a similar experience with the Butthole Surfers around the time that 'Locust Abortion Technician' was released. I had heard of them before, and I had heard a few of their songs, but I didn't pay much attention to them until a friend of mine started raving about them when that album came out. I ended up buying a copy of that album and then the 'Hairway to Steven' album when it was released and I even went to see them play live a couple of times. My fascination with them didn't last much beyond that and I couldn't care less about them now but I still have those albums in my collection even though I haven't listened to either of them since the early 90's and may never bother to listen to either of them ever again.

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mjolnir

I hate to say it, but both The Prodigy and PWEI (Pop Will Eat Itself) seem to have devolved into punk rock instead of electronic sampler breakbeat dance and rap.

I still like their old classics, but PWEI tanked really early so I only like Cure For Sanity and I don't particularly like their early work either. But it's wierd because Cure For Sanity is one of my all time favorite albums. They never matched it before or after. Their more recent rockish stuff sounds like a bunch of drunken frat boys who lost all self awareness.

With the Prodigy, they use too much distortion and are trying to sound like punk rock or something, but I'd much rather have The Prodigy Experience and all the fixins (remixes).

They used to wield wonderful synths and drum machine syncopated programming like nobody else. Their use of sampling was also astoundingly good. Like PWEI, the Prodigy sound was my all time favorite and my friends seemed to envy my remix collection of Prodigy music which they had never heard of since they knew more RnB and HipHop than Rave. But I was into the Rave and Dance and Industrial courtesy of my college buddies.

I used to be glued to their output, and to be fair Invaders Must Die was still pretty good, but I wish they'd put away the overdrive and fuzz and "i'll break your neck"-attitudes and move on.

Peace be with y'all.

I still love "Out of Space" and "1000x No!"

Everybody that's in the place, let's go let's go let's go let's BASS!!

lynette

Kanye West. I used to love his older albums like Graduation and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but with all the controversies and his recent direction, I’ve lost some of that connection.

Buckeye Randy

Interesting. I wonder how many fans factor in an artist's personal decisions in listening to their music. Thank you for bringing this up.

Springsteen cancelling a show because of state legislature in North Carolina over transgender bathrooms rubbed many people the wrong way.

Jerry Lee Lewis lost some fans when he married his 13 year old first cousin.

I work with a guy that loves any artist that is openly gay. How is that really different from people not buying music by artists that are gay?

Taking the topic into the arena of sports. I'm a fan of the Cleveland Browns but it's tough when the team signs and seemingly supports Deshaun Watson. The dude has over two dozen sexual assault cases and a new case that just came to light. I have a wife and daughters, how can I support a team with no moral compass? It's tough!

Building on Lynette's original post. Has anybody quit listening to an artist because of non music related things?

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

For a short period when I was about 14-15 I liked Styx and bought a few of their albums. But within a couple years or so I changed my mind. Even now I'm really kinda "meh" about them and scratch my head as to why I liked them.

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jadis

I wonder what it says about them that we've had this similar curve of appreciation. They clearly have something, but not sure what it is.

Reyansh23

Hi Guys, I'm sorry to hear that. I’ve never been a fan of Corgan's voice, so I never really gave the band a chance. On the other hand, I used to enjoy Godsmack when they first emerged, which kind of nullifies any vindication I might have felt for not liking the Pumpkins.