[Music] What music/entertainment have you experienced repeatedly despite not ever liking it?

[Brok]

Monty Python. Couldn't get into it at the time. A lot of re-runs on at the moment, still can't.

 

[BBassic]

I mean... it is rarely annoying. If I watch "Scrubs" or "Friends", more often than not I find myself wanting to go out and strangle people and this is rarely the case with Simpsons, but its not really "fun" - I never laugh and barely smile when watching it - and its not all that "edgy" (with the odd edge here and there) so its kind of pointless. Dont like it, dont dislike it but it could be easily argued that the 500 hours or so I've spent watching it could have been used in a more productive or entertaining manner.

Early Simpsons was pretty edgy, for the time.

It could sometimes be a pretty scathing piece of satire targeting the idea of the American family, corporations (including the one that now owns it) and politics. George Bush even made mention of it in a speech saying he wanted American families to be more "like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons."

Now though it's just trash which is sad to see.

 

[Swansman]

Early Simpsons was pretty edgy, for the time.

It could sometimes be a pretty scathing piece of satire targeting the idea of the American family, corporations (including the one that now owns it) and politics. George Bush even made mention of it in a speech saying he wanted American families to be more "like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons."

Now though it's just trash which is sad to see.

I can easily see how it was edgy in the US but here, a tradtionally social democratic country with zero family values, very little patriotism, very little religion, quite anti-US... a lot of the shock/edge factor was just never there.

 

[Mellotron]

Far be it from me to criticise your choice of wife...but Steps!?

I know. A childhood guilty pleasure for her, only I don't think she feels any guilt over it.

Ruins my Spotify stats at the end of the year as well, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Something like;

Top 5 Artists -

1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. STEPS
5. Scott Matthews

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I know. A childhood guilty pleasure for her, only I don't think she feels any guilt over it.

Ruins my Spotify stats at the end of the year as well, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Something like;

Top 5 Artists -

1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. STEPS
5. Scott Matthews

 

[Icy Gull]

Queen, I get it but it does not float my boat in fact it doesn’t even launch it.

I am obviously talking about the band, just to be clear!

 

[pearl]

Holby City ended HURRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BBassic]

I know. A childhood guilty pleasure for her, only I don't think she feels any guilt over it.

Ruins my Spotify stats at the end of the year as well, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Something like;

Top 5 Artists -

1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. STEPS
5. Scott Matthews

I met my girlfriend in 2018 and when Spotify did their Decade wrap-up of the 2010s "my" artist of the decade was Lizzo.

In two years my girlfriend listened to Lizzo more than I listened to all of my favourite music across ten years.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

To answer OP's original question: the DJ segment of a wedding reception is usually pretty grim

 

[zefarelly]

Question Time

No idea why I get drawn to it when it just annoys me.

 

[Bodian]

I know. A childhood guilty pleasure for her, only I don't think she feels any guilt over it.

Ruins my Spotify stats at the end of the year as well, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Something like;

Top 5 Artists -

1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. STEPS
5. Scott Matthews

Just get a separate account. You know it's worth it for your self-pride alone!

 

[usernamed]

I think most of the things that I’d put in this category are things that were there through no fault of my own.

Particularly living through the seemingly never ending periods where these songs were on constant rotation:

Frankie - Sister Sledge
Everything I Do - Bryan Adams
I’d Do Anything For Love (Except Eat Less Fat) - Meat Loaf

Even now, hearing any of those audio dog turds causes a mild twitch to instantly develop.

There was a time when radio programming could be influenced so heavily that it was like a military dictatorship forcing the glorious leader’s words into every mind several times a morning.

More recently of course, there was the period where no bar, restaurant or passing car would dream of having anything other than Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” playing, but if there are others that are equally overplayed my mind has mercifully blanked them from memory.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Doors I keep it because I'm sure I'll get it one day, it's OK. A Love Supreme I'll keep it until I grow up (68) but had to get rid of Miles Davis A kind of blue can't grow old enough quick enough! I know I don't need to be told.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I buy a lot of music and like buying used cds in 5 for a pound type deals just to hear them, sometimes finding some gems, more often only playing them once. I've recently picked up a load that I've been working my through and had Sarah Mclachlan's first album 'Touch' on today. On listening to it, I realised that I'm not much of a fan. Nothing unusual there, but this felt like a familiar experience. I've just looked and I actually own five of her albums. I couldn't name one of her songs and have realised that whenever I've been trawling charity shops and seen her records, my synapses have short circuited upon reading her name and I've just thrown them in the yes pile. I thought she had been in a band that I liked, but I've just looked her up and she never was. I've obviously had her confused, I think with either Natalie Merchant from 10,000 Maniacs, or Maria McKee from Lone Justice, or possibly both. Despite not liking her music at all, I've ended up with a record collection that makes me look like a huge fan (or, more likely, just an idiot with a hoarding problem).

My idiocy got me thinking about other music/films etc that I have repeatedly dedicated valuable time to that I don't really like. A lot of the time this happens because of friends: I have seen The Wolfhounds on several occasions because either my mates wanted to go, or because they were supporting a band I liked. Other than 'The Anti Midas Touch', I've never really liked them, but I've been to see them more often than quite a lot of bands that I like a lot. I've also seen the 1990s Rebacca De Mornay film 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle' three times, despite thinking it a load of guff from the first viewing. Each time this was because of the Video shop choices of friends, all of whom also ended up regretting that they bothered with it despite shouting down my protestations when the choice was being made.

So the question is what music, film, TV, art, drama, comedy etc have you wasted a good deal of your time on despite never really liking it. Can anyone beat my five albums owned by somebody they really have no time for? (Watching the Albion play since the beginning of February doesn't count).

What an interesting post. No, I can't say I have ever done anything like that.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I know. A childhood guilty pleasure for her, only I don't think she feels any guilt over it.

Ruins my Spotify stats at the end of the year as well, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Something like;

Top 5 Artists -

1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. STEPS
5. Scott Matthews

Blimey, is that the Scott Matthews I am seeing tonight in Bexhill supporting Robert Plant? Does that mean I'm in for a real treat?

 

[jakarta]

Top of the Pops was dogshite from when I started to watch it (early 1970's) to when I grew up and stopped bothering (early 1980's).

Very (VERY) occasional decent song but 90% plus dross...

 

[zefarelly]

Doors I keep it because I'm sure I'll get it one day, it's OK. A Love Supreme I'll keep it until I grow up (68) but had to get rid of Miles Davis A kind of blue can't grow old enough quick enough! I know I don't need to be told.

I had a doors Album, seemed like I should have it in my collection, no idea where it came from, I don't like/get them . . . Got rid a few years ago.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Top of the Pops was dogshite from when I started to watch it (early 1970's) to when I grew up and stopped bothering (early 1980's).

Very (VERY) occasional decent song but 90% plus dross...

Best, only time I watched TOTP early 70s, even better for my dad's face and exasperation when he saw Sweet or Slade, priceless memories.

 

[The Clamp]

Sex and the city.

Girlfriend. One telly. No internet. Pre-smartphone. Small first flat.

Funnily enough I got to quite like it, Stockholm Syndrome.


The best of Queen.

CD got stuck in the car stereo for about 4 weeks in the late 90’s.

 

[boik]

Question Time

No idea why I get drawn to it when it just annoys me.

Any phone-in or similar programme just winds me up. Why give people who know nothing about a subject airtime?