Music you have overplayed, resulting in burnout?
 

A topic that came to mind earlier when I was commenting on another thread. I'm sure we all have something that we just can't bring ourselves to listen to voluntarily, due to overplay.

Could be an album you spent a whole summer playing on repeat, or even an artist's discography you became obsessed with at one point, and enjoyed it to death.

My burnout list includes both. When I was a tween, I became obsessed with Metallica, and AC/DC and played most of their albums to death over a 2 year period. I have also had other periods of my life in which I over played an artist, song or album.

Examples of which include;

*Most albums by Metallica.
*Most albums by AC/DC (especially Back in Black, and Stuff Upper Lip.
*Stunt by Barenaked Ladies.
*Throwing Copper by Live.
*Every Pearl Jam album.
*Four by Blues Traveler.
*Clayman by In Flames.
*Out of Time by R.E.M.
*Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson.
*Every Korn album.

That's pretty much it off the top of my head. I've been able to gradually come back and listen to some of those as I've gotten older, and I don't quite have that kind of experience with music I listen to now.

I'm interested to know what the fine people of MB have experienced in terms of music burnout, and how it got to that point.

Also, I've been using Spotify to check out a lot of the music being discussed here, and have discovered that I like some of it, lol.

Anyway...

A Moon Shaped Pool. It's my album of the year but I'd be happy if I didn't listen to it for about a month.

I still haven't listened to that one yet, I've heard nothing but good things though. Maybe I'll find some time this week, or go to work and make my residents listen to it, lol

The Beatles.
Listened to them a lot as a kid and just can't anymore.

It's pretty good. I'd also throw pg.lost's Key in my list as well. I listened to that for years after it's release, and nowadays I hardly listen to it. Though it's still in my top 10 albums, for sure.

All Seether albums that aren't Disclaimer 2. All great albums, but I over listen to them all.

Off the top of my head I wouldn't label anything I have as, "overplayed".

I seem to be mostly immune to this phenomenon, because I'm an intense perfectionist and I only want to listen to the best possible music at all times. It's why I have I have 37,000 scrobbles on last fm, but I've only played 475 different artists.

I have noticed overtime that some of my most loved songs are noticeably less enjoyable, which has spurred me to avoid playing many of them whenever possible.

I haven't had that problem yet

Actually, there's nothing in this category for me. I realized as a really young kid that anything I heard too often would drive me crazy, so I made it a point to not listen to anything too often. I don't oversaturate the same albums, the same artists or even the same genres.

That has even affected my career choices as a musician . It's why I've taken a journeyman/gun-for-hire, studio musician, etc. approach where I've worked in a bunch of different genres.

I don't think that has ever happened to me. I mean, Metallica (for example) don't really get in contact with the stereo much anymore, but I think that has more to do with growing out of them. Finding new things too. There's more interesting metal out there, simply.

I have had a hook caught in my head to such a degree that it started bothering me, though - which is kind of a related issue to the burning out on an album idea.

A similar situation for me is when someone picks up a guitar and starts playing the opening riff to Smoke on the Water. I almost want to be like "f*ck, seriously?"

It's not so much the song itself that gets me annoyed, but the fact that nobody ever plays beyond that part and some people just repeat the riff for like 5 minutes straight.

Then there's the time I heard some kid repeatedly singing the line "came in like a wrecking ball..." At least finish the chorus for f*ck sake...

every korn album they got like 11 albums ...I still haven been really to burnt out on them cus there is so much songs

Oh yeah I don't need to hear that riff from Smoke on the Water again. Ever.

Yeah, I've heard a few of their early songs. It's interesting to hear how stripped down their sound is compared to everything else they've done, especially post-Faith album. I have a friend who hates the cure, I played him some of the older stuff explaining that they were kinda sort of punk at one point. He thought it was ok.

I'm not sure if I did this to myself with The Wall in high school or if I just kind of grew out of that album. It could go either way, since I've lost my fondness for some of their other albums that didn't get nearly as many spins.

Also, people who play Smoke on the Water are the scum of the earth.

Saying That here must've taken balls!

Did you mean to post this on a different forum?

Beetles aren't that great. Don't get the obsession with them.

They were incredibly popular at the time and solidified a sizeable group of people who will firmly believe that no other group except for The Beatles ever existed and that they invented everything about modern music. Oh, and they had cute haircuts.

I understand all that. I just don't get why that obsession with them exists. The music I find bad. I like a few of the big hit songs and that's it. The rest of it sounds like garbage. Eh just me I guess.

beatles did make some killer pop songs early on and killer rock songs in the mid of there career

but I used to say The last shadow puppets made some rock pop songs on the same level has beatles so ..... Same with silverchair

The Indians did it first and better.

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Emphasis on better.

It's all art. Ravi Shankar and Pandit Pran Nath just make better art.

I don't, but look at the classic rock tally. No matter where you go, Beatles will be overrated.

Seems like a lot to listen to, but it didn't take long to get thru it

Sometimes I get burnt out on albums on the first listen and never listen to them again.

That's how I feel about the new blink-182

There was this time when I was severely depressed that I downloaded Show me the meaning by Backstreet boys and played it over and over for about a month till I got over the incident. But, I found pace in it.

Also, I put them on the list with everything pre-2007 in mind. I think I started getting burned out after See You On The Other Side, and haven't given many listens to their albums they've released since. And I wasn't really sure how to feel about their dubstep one.

Like Jason Biggs in saving Silverman?

Sometimes I get burnt out by an album I haven't heard yet.

That's true I suppose. Doesn't invalidate my comparison though.

REM - Automatic for the People
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Garbage - Version 2.0
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

All of these I became obsessed with for a period. All of them I killed by over playing.

i honestly miss discovering an artist that i like so much, i spend weeks and weeks listening to only that band/singer/whatever until i get really sick of them.

i used to go through that a lot but i haven't in such a long time and it sucks :-(

Yeah, the best part was knowing that **** by heart.

The thing with the Stone Roses is that simply listening to their debut album makes some people feel amazing. I remember it happening to me. It was almost euphoric.

If that doesn't happen to you then I can see how they come across as boring.

So basically, if someone doesn't enjoy the album you could see how they don't enjoy that album?

Revolutionary.

I'm not entirely sure who counts as "Madchester" (for example, I saw one list say New Order counted, but only that one list seemed to say that, and I'd think they'd be on every list if they were commonly considered to be a Madchester band), but per the artists who seem to be frequently listed as Madchester, I think I've only heard Stone Roses and EMF. At that, I haven't the foggiest idea what Stone Roses sound like, because they didn't seem very interesting to me when I checked them out on youtube, and I never bothered with them after that, plus EMF I only know because of "Unbelievable," which was huge in the US in the early 90s. I wouldn't know another song of theirs.