Do you avoid certain music because of it being associated with your past?

[HEyHEY]

You know, like, let's say you got into a bad car accident when "The gambler" was playing. Would you change the station whenever that song came on?
Or maybe the music from a bad time in you life... like you listened to alot of U2 during a depressed period... will you avoid listening to U2?

[fizzgig]

1. i did for a long time

but it wasn't music associated with a bad time, it was music from a good time that later went horribly wrong.

i listen to it now and remember the good times rather than how it all ended.

[Cabcere]

2. Somewhat.

For me it's mostly music I associate with old boyfriends, love interests, etc. that went sour. You know, "our song" type of deals. Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" used to make me cry because of that, but I find I'm slowly getting over it. It still makes me kind of sad to listen to it, but I've found if you can sort of re-program yourself and listen to it in a different context, it helps sometimes. :)

[HEyHEY]

3. That song makes me cry cause it sucks so much

But yeah, it's weird how the tune can trigger all the emotion and stuff from a certain time period.

[Cabcere]

6. LOL!

Well, we were in high school...really, what do you expect? :shrug: ;)

[HEyHEY]

7. True dat

You know, it's funny.. you'd think high school heartache would go away when you hit like... 19, but it doesn't sometimes. In fact I don't think it will go away until I get the chance to piss on her grave ;-)

[Cabcere]

11. You'd think.

Hey, maybe she'll end up with my old ex? :rofl: THAT would be karmic justice, I think...sounds like they deserve each other! :P

[idgiehkt]

4. The Wall

I went almost 15 years without listening to it. Now I can listen to it, but not a whole lot.

[HEyHEY]

5. The whole album? Or just part of it?

[idgiehkt]

13. the whole thing

I used to sit in the dark and drink and cut my arms up to that music. (I'm talking 20 years ago).

Now it doesn't have a strong effect on me as much but it really can bring my mood down

[HEyHEY]

14. yikes

Yeah, I'd avoid that album too

[idgiehkt]

17. Hey You is the worst song on that album for me

I don't know why.

[lettre de cachet]

22. Same here

Many groups are depressing, but they achieved a level of....blankness is the only way I can describe it, that no other group did. I can handle Another Brick, but anything else played from that album gives me an immediate sense of "Oh no, I'm not going back there".

[AlCzervik]

8. country music, all of it reminds me of a terrible time in my life.

[HEyHEY]

9. The older, good, stuff? Or the newer, shit, stuff?

[AlCzervik]

12. i guess the older stuff really, anything with really twangy type sounds

the newer stuff i haven't given a fair shot. Steel guitars in particular really bother me.

[billyskank]

10. Funny thing

When I quit smoking four years ago, I started listening to music that I had used to listen to long ago, before I started smoking. (I started late). I was trying to remind myself of times before I started puffing the evil weed.

I did manage to stay quit, too.

[Saphire]

15. Steve Miller Band. cant listen to anything they sing......

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. No, but I do avoid some music because of its association with stupid people.

:rofl:

[ikojo]

18. For a very long time I would not listen to music my mom

listened to because it reminded me about her partying and drug use. I was a little kid and didn't like that at all.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

19. Dave Matthews Band "Crash"

because it was when I was deeply lost in depression during my freshman year of college - I would always have my walkman on and this song would be playing on the radio whenever I was on the train riding back to my dorm on Sunday nights - back to a place that I hated and just did not want to be. Just thinking about it makes me shudder.

[crim son]

20. Yes. I bought an iPod and filled it about eighteen months ago.

None of the music on there can I stand to listen to because of negative associations.

[TheBaldyMan]

21. just the stuff I used to avoid anyway, it was crap back then, it's still crap now

It is played on VH1 nowadays rather than MTV, or whatever young people listen to for the latest groovy beat music.