Songs you can't listen to

[TBman]

Originally Posted by Mycroft

The OP never said that "Tears in Heaven" was a song he hates, just that it provokes such a song emotional response that he can't listen to it. Read and take the entire post in its entirety. Yet "hate" is what a lot of people seems to have taken from his post. Lots of music doesn't "do" it for me. Doesn't mean that I hate it.

I think that his original intent would have made a much more interesting thread.

OP here - agreed, but then again a lot of the "off topic" posts are a fun read in their own way,

[Neil K Walk]

There are many songs that impacted me profoundly so that they would qualify as making the gist of the OP - but truth be told I love a good cry so I listen to them whenever I'm feeling blue and actually playing them is therapeutic for me because they let the emotions pour out of me where usually I would be unable to. "Tears in Heaven" is one of those songs, as is "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens, "Vincent" by Don MacLean, "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg, "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley and a number of others that simply don't pop into my head as I type this.

That being said, there are some songs that I used to love but then fell way out of love with them. They still show up in my iTunes shuffle and I get that same uncomfortable feeling that I get whenever I thing of my ex girlfriends. You know the feeling; it's usually accompanied by the phrase "what was I even thinking?"

[UncleJesse]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Mics are pretty special also looks like a pair of New Telefunken U47's

Lady GaGa is a fantastic singer but that affectation she's putting on her voice is not my favorite. It's like she's doing an impression of old-timey singing.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by UncleJesse

Lady GaGa is a fantastic singer but that affectation she's putting on her voice is not my favorite. It's like she's doing an impression of old-timey singing.

Ok, I don't know her singing or her , well enough to speculate if it's affectation over artist interpretation ...... And don't see the relationship of that to the quality of the mics .???????????????????

[Laughingboy68]

Originally Posted by KenL

Chet Atkins once said that it is his favorite song. High praise indeed!

And speaking of Chet, Still Can't Say Goodbye is definitely on the list of too-emotional-to-get-through songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxfPE7ievbk

[fitness1]

Originally Posted by Coler

I'm thinking Barry is coming from the perspective of songs you can't listen to because they are so emotionally affecting.

Oh, I see that now.

In that case, since today Mom is being buried next to Dad, this one:

[darkcloud]

As a little kid I thought it was about poor Puff being abandoned. Too young to know or understand the real meaning. I still avoid it to this very day.
I know I know…pretty pathetic😂

[Dru Edwards]

Don't Worry be Happy, Bobby McFerrin. Never liked that song.

[ewalling]

- Octopus's Garden
- Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da
- Hotel California
- American Pie
- Layla

[Mark Stone]

Originally Posted by TBman

Tears in Heaven.

I listened to it once when it first came out and turn it off immediately every time I heard it after that.

Even though my son is 26, I still can't bring myself to listen to it again.

I had a song I could not listen to at all, because it caused such an emotional response. It reminded me of a very painful time in my life. If I was anywhere (restaurant, club, office building anywhere - ) I would have to get up and leave the room if the song played. A friend of mine suggested something that I at first thought was crazy - buy the record (yeah, record -- it was a while back) and play it over and over. The result was that, after only a few days, I was able to separate the song from the event, emotionally.

[Inyo]

Originally Posted by Zissou Intern

Anything by Lady Gaga.

Originally Posted by Street Glider

That's a shame. She's really quite talented...

Originally Posted by Street Glider

Any time I hear the first four notes of "Sweet Home Alabama" I want to ram screwdrivers into my ears...

That's a shame. Lynyrd Skynyrd is really quite talented...

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Inyo

That's a shame. Lynyrd Skynyrd is really quite talented...

Well Lynyrd was a no talent hack But the band was very talented and lock tight.
In case you do not know
There a great documentary out on Netflix "If I leave here tomorrow "

[DBW]

Just remembered another one today- Anything by Michael Bolton. It makes me cry.

[biotechmgr]

Originally Posted by KESTLY

I don't know the official title, or who sings it, but it's the one that goes, "I would walk 500 miles...I would walk 500 miles, etc." Wretched.

I'm Gonna Be - The Proclamers

[biotechmgr]

For me there are two categories- songs that make me cringe and songs I have just tired out.
Too many to list but one that sticks out is Freebird -
Too long, too droning, too much airplay.
That should draw some fire