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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What's the first record you can remember disliking?

(i'm sure i've asked this before, but maybe not here)

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

probably something that was #1 and after seeing it on TOTP. It might've been 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' but I really can't remember if that was love or hate. I THINK I hated 'The Birdie Song' too but that may have a come a bit later. 'Happy Talk' is another I'm unsure about so for now I will have to say Renee & Renato.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I assume it is very often big hits: the reason I asked is because I suddenly realised the next record on Popular is my own answer.

("Mull Of Kintyre". I was 4 and a half).

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

^^^^THIS

(as they say)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Bon Jovi's Living On A Prayer. I was, of course, wrong.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That is quite late! I envy your state of grace in which all records sounded good :)

I was wrong about LoaP too.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is, isn't it? I think I must have been thinking of You Give Love a Bad Name. I remember watching it and mum telling me that they were all on drugs, those rock stars. I had lots of stuff that I didn't like before - it took until Walk This Way to convince me about Rap - but don't like = don't care about.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

I used to get those two mixed up at school disco's... you know, the run on the dancefloor moment at the start of a song, only to realise that it's the wrong song.

In hindsight they're quite difficult intros to mix up really. But, y'know, I was 11.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

YGLABN and LOAP are both off "Slippery When Wet", so are contemperaneous.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

When I was fairly small I hated 'The Laughing Policeman' because of the loud abrasive laughter, and I hated 'Grocer Jack' because it's so bloody miserable.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"the laughing policeman" is pretty much the first record EVERYONE disliked -- the earliest version was recorded in like 1880

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The first song I truly LOATHED and actually turned off the telly (!) to avoid was Bryan Adams' Everything I Do I Do It For POO. However I was rather cruel about Mistletoe & Wine because Mum liked it and it was therefore Well Sad.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

I think it might have been 'Seven Tears'.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Embarrasingly enough I loved that. My big sister nearly killed me when I recorded it from the charts over one of her favourite songs.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

I forgot about this. This is definitely a winner for me.

methusaleh and his wax cylinder antics

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the first record i bought but didn't like was "mad dog" by john entwhistle

pleistocenius

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

obv i mean john entwhistle's OX

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the first UK number one which shook my "all numbers score 10+ BY DEFINITION" theory was "down under" by men at work which STILL REALLY ANGERS ME

Re: methusaleh and his wax cylinder antics

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I remember liking that - almost certainly for the 'Vegemite sandwich' bit

my mate

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

THAT IS THE BIT I HATE WORST!

Re: my mate

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

oh the toddler / teenager/20-er divide

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

The Reflex by Duran Duran. Still fills me with rage now.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

I liked it enough to buy it at the time.

Still, I never did quite work out what The Reflex actually was.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

clearly it is an only child waiting in the park in charge of finding treasure in the dark

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

exactly.

[pastels-badge.livejournal.com]

My sister contends that the whole song is about masturbation. It kind of makes sense if you assume Simon LeBon is insane.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I remember songs I love from much earlier than songs I hate - the first number one I remember hating was Begin the Beguine from 1981, when I was nearly 7.

I didn't REALLY start hating songs until I really got into music, and then it was most ballads I hated (I Know Him So Well, The Power of Love are examples that spring to mind)

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

OMG Julio's version of Begin the Beguine was disgusting.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I want to hear this xyzzzz___ version of Begin the Beguine! ;)

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

YouTube

[nem0.livejournal.com]

"Afternoon Delight." I'm not sure why, but every time it came on the radio, I plugged my ears until it went away.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Either Zambesi by The Piranhas or DISCO by Ottawan. Obviously there's chronology there but I can't decide which one I hate more.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I loved both of these.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

there's very few 80s #1 hits i actively dislike now - maybe no more than 20

[sbp.livejournal.com]

My mum tells me that I didn't like "Heart of Glass" when it first came out because Debbie Harry was wearing an asymmetrical dress. But I really hated "I Don't Like Mondays" from about the same time, and it still irritates me to this day.

How about "There's Noone Quite Like Grandma?"

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

The first RECORD I disliked was Revolver by the Beatles but not because of the music, but because I thought (rightly) the cover was scary.

Hmm, I've had to struggle to think now! I must have actively disliked some things. Apparently as a baby I once tried to eat my one of my dad's Bob Dylan 8-track cassettes.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there must have been something I strongly disliked before this but the first song I can remember having a 'GET THAT OFF THE RADIO I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT' internal reaction to was "You're Gorgeous" by Babybird.

The first song I can remember liking is "Walking On Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox, which was obviously much earlier so I suppose there must have been songs I very strongly disliked from around then but my hate for Babybird sort of throws everything else into 'vague dislike.'

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I can't remember any song specifically -- tbh I can't remember the last song I disliked -- but I do remember I was very disapproving of rap when I was about seven. I was also a Republican. I could have gone so horribly, horribly wrong.

The first song I remember loving was "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys, also when I was about six or seven, probably.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Soul II Soul - Back to Life

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

dude WHY

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

It was number one for ages, and I was becoming a rock person...oh, and I just want to be 'different'. I don't hate it that much now.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

'wanted' I meant, I'm not at all into the wanting to be different thing these days.

[pastels-badge.livejournal.com]

I really first became aware of popular music that was not Madonna when I was around nine, when I spent a year listening to Casey Kasem's Top 40 every night. The first song I remember really hating was called "Boom Boom Boom Let's Go Back to My Room" which not only offended my prudish preteen sensibilities and took valuable time away from The Jets and Atlantic Starr but also is really a terrible song.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Blimey, I've no idea. I've just spent 15 minutes trawling through everyhit for 1972 and 1973 but can't see a SINGLE record I dislike. I wasn't particularly enamoured of the Pipes & Drums Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' take on "Amazing Grace", but does that even count?

[koganbot]

I loved "Modern Major-General" and "When I Was A Lad"* on my parents' record Martyn Green's Gilbert And Sullivan (though most surely I did not know that the song's name was "When I Was A Lad" because I just now had to look at my copy of the record to recall the song's correct name, since as far as I and anyone is concerned the real title is "The Ruler Of The Queen's Navy"; it's the "Caught Out There" of Gilbert & Sullivan song titles). So the answer would be "some song on that album that was not one of those or one of the other ones I liked on that album, so wasn't 'I've Got A Little List' or 'Willow, Tit-Willow' or 'The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring,' either." I never listened to side two, since it sounded too much like opera, so "Something on side two" might be the answer, except, since I never listened to side two, I doubt that I ever developed a specific dislike. "I've Jibe And Joke" on side one might be my answer, then, since it was dull (for me, at the time) and had to be endured in the passage from "The Queen's Navy" to "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring."

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

The one which springs to mind is "Shaddup You Face" (Joe Dolce?) - I remember the kids at school singing it and thinking it sounded like complete drivel, then hearing it and realising it was ever worse than I'd thought - earworm-drivel! Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love Of All" s also a top contender.

These are records I remember disliking independent of any parental influence or knowledge. I do also remember being annoyed by what I considered (at the age of 5, I think) to be the very silly lyrics of "Radio Ga Ga" & "I Want To Ride My Bicycle" as played by my dad on the car stereo.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

One of my earliest experiences disliking a song would have to be something from Dr. Demento -- what springs to mind now is the Frank Zappa song "Flakes," which I just knew as the "I am a moron and this is my wife" song. It was simultaneously unpleasant and boring (of course lots of the songs were unpleasant, but in a more morbidly fascinating way).