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Re: Music RUINED by (or associated with) a partner’s/roommate’s/etc. actions

12 by Happyman
Dead Meadow are heavily associated with an entity i had. Then later a partner and the relationship our entities had while doing all the drugs and making ourselves as fucked up as possible for fun while breeding and collecting more entities. Dead Meadow were a great soundtrack for it, but I'd have a hard time listening to them without feeling a very specific and unpleasant yet alluring darkness.

Dead Meadow for years 24/7, it felt like. Like it was the soundtrack to a mission only we understood and that I can no longer remember.

Clipse and Whitehouse as well, to a lesser extent.

Re: Music RUINED by (or associated with) a partner’s/roommate’s/etc. actions

14 by Charlie D
My aforementioned aversion to Radiohead due to my alcoholic ex-housemate has already been linked up top.

There's also that it took me seventeen years before I dared listen to The Cramps again thanks to my first ex-gf, who loved Bad Music for Bad People (it was played on every road trip) and was verbally abusive to me, was low-key racist, and would hit her kid...

The first time she hit him, with a closed fist, I was too shocked to say anything; I'd never seen anybody hit a kid before. (Yes, I know, I should have left or called the cops or something.) The second time she hit him, I stood up and barked, "Don't fucking hit him!"

She never hit him again (at least that I know of, no telling what she did while I wasn't around) but shortly after that is when I started getting the weekly drunken phone calls from her dad in Florida telling that if I ever hurt his daughter, he'd kill me.

Nearly a decade later, I was able to rinse some of the bad taste out of my mouth with a laundry room one-night stand with a lovely young woman in a Cramps t-shirt. Fast forward another seven years and there's a podcast covering the abbreviated history of The Cramps and I'm at the record store right after work buying Psychedelic Jungle and A Date With Elvis out of the used bin. I've listened to them each once while baking bread over the winter.

I really do want to like them more but I can't totally disassociate them from that memory, which is super crummy.
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Re: Music RUINED by (or associated with) a partner’s/roommate’s/etc. actions

15 by enframed
Charlie D wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:07 am My aforementioned aversion to Radiohead due to my alcoholic ex-housemate has already been linked up top.

There's also that it took me seventeen years before I dared listen to The Cramps again thanks to my first ex-gf, who loved Bad Music for Bad People (it was played on every road trip) and was verbally abusive to me, was low-key racist, and would hit her kid...

The first time she hit him, with a closed fist, I was too shocked to say anything; I'd never seen anybody hit a kid before. (Yes, I know, I should have left or called the cops or something.) The second time she hit him, I stood up and barked, "Don't fucking hit him!"

She never hit him again (at least that I know of, no telling what she did while I wasn't around) but shortly after that is when I started getting the weekly drunken phone calls from her dad in Florida telling that if I ever hurt his daughter, he'd kill me.

Nearly a decade later, I was able to rinse some of the bad taste out of my mouth with a laundry room one-night stand with a lovely young woman in a Cramps t-shirt. Fast forward another seven years and there's a podcast covering the abbreviated history of The Cramps and I'm at the record store right after work buying Psychedelic Jungle and A Date With Elvis out of the used bin. I've listened to them each once while baking bread over the winter.

I really do want to like them more but I can't totally disassociate them from that memory, which is super crummy.
That sucks, man. For you, the kid (probably her life sucks, too), but man, The Cramps were one of the best bands ever, and very nice people.

What is the podcast about The Cramps? I would like to hear that...

I cannot think of any artist that was ruined for me by anyone. Probably indicates something wrong with me.
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Re: Music RUINED by (or associated with) a partner’s/roommate’s/etc. actions

16 by Garth
When I was young and still trying to figure out music I had a friend I jammed with. He was a really good guitar player but even at that early stage I knew all I really wanted to do was try to make original music and all that dude wanted to do was get high AF and play Led Zepplin. It seemed like he knew them all. He'd start in and literally would not stop playing so I could either A.) try to play along or B.) literally sit there through the entire song not playing anything so bleh fuck this. I'm sure it didn't help that I was way way not good so it was a struggle just to keep the beat going anyway. I still don't know why I put up w/ it for so so long.

I still kinda hate Led Zepplin as a result, which sucks because I have nice memories of being teenage high on ditchweed and listening to 4 on repeat and even now I can't enjoy it.

Just checked, still ruined.

Re: Music RUINED by (or associated with) a partner’s/roommate’s/etc. actions

18 by Krev
enframed wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:01 am
Charlie D wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:07 am My aforementioned aversion to Radiohead due to my alcoholic ex-housemate has already been linked up top.

There's also that it took me seventeen years before I dared listen to The Cramps again thanks to my first ex-gf, who loved Bad Music for Bad People (it was played on every road trip) and was verbally abusive to me, was low-key racist, and would hit her kid...

The first time she hit him, with a closed fist, I was too shocked to say anything; I'd never seen anybody hit a kid before. (Yes, I know, I should have left or called the cops or something.) The second time she hit him, I stood up and barked, "Don't fucking hit him!"

She never hit him again (at least that I know of, no telling what she did while I wasn't around) but shortly after that is when I started getting the weekly drunken phone calls from her dad in Florida telling that if I ever hurt his daughter, he'd kill me.

Nearly a decade later, I was able to rinse some of the bad taste out of my mouth with a laundry room one-night stand with a lovely young woman in a Cramps t-shirt. Fast forward another seven years and there's a podcast covering the abbreviated history of The Cramps and I'm at the record store right after work buying Psychedelic Jungle and A Date With Elvis out of the used bin. I've listened to them each once while baking bread over the winter.

I really do want to like them more but I can't totally disassociate them from that memory, which is super crummy.
That sucks, man. For you, the kid (probably her life sucks, too), but man, The Cramps were one of the best bands ever, and very nice people.

What is the podcast about The Cramps? I would like to hear that...

I cannot think of any artist that was ruined for me by anyone. Probably indicates something wrong with me.
It really does suck when the ruined band are decent people. By all accounts I've heard, Lux and Ivy were/are extremely nice. Lux commanded such power on stage that it would have made sense for him to be kind of a dick, but he was not.
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