Are there any songs that you can't listen to.....?

That's the good thing about most music; it tends to outlast even the worst of memories. I had a real bad breakup right around 94, the time when the first album by Rage Against The Machine was started to get a lot of attention. As time moved further away from the original event, I could listen to the album without the connection being made. Perhaps you can credit Clear Channel for cramming it down my throat. That being said, I'm not thrilled to hear anything by Deftones as of now.

80'S MAN (RATT-N-ROLL) - That's OK. It's amazing how the same song can be a reminder of a festive occassion to one and bring back pain and heartbreak for another. Sorry to hear of that.

I could listen to: First Breath After Coma- Explosions in the Sky Untitled 4- Sigur Ros Tracy- Mogwai Jeremy- Pearl Jam Fearless- Pink Floyd There Are Some Remedies Far Worse Than The Disease- This Will Destory You Forever..... I can't listen to: East Hastings- GY!BE Static- GY!BE I Gaer- Sigur Ros Sleep is Wrong- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum My Iron Lung- Radiohead Too often. :( Great Question! :) BQ: Ba Ba- Sigur Ros

Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry used to be one of my favorite songs, and it still is to some extent, but I was listening to it in a very stressful situation once, and now my stomach is in knots as soon as it starts.

Ditto the entire Rosie O'Donnell Christmas CD. I listened to 6 times on the way to and back from a swim meet one time, which is stressful in itself, even if you are not singing "Ay Ay Ay It's Christmas" in your head the entire time. And to make it all the more stressful, I was sort of stressed out by trying to impress one of the various people I was in the car with. Bad memories are attatched to that entire hateful CD. Not to say that I would enjoy it otherwise of course.

This is a GREAT question. There are a number of songs attached to bad memories (I've had a pretty wild,rough ride through life so far) but like someone mentioned above me I played those particular songs over and over for the sole purpose of making them lose their power over me. the first I can remember "desensitizing" my self to was Crimson and Clover" Tommy James and the Shondells.Wait!! No I can go further back than that! "I Can't Stop Loving You" Ray Charles.

Many years ago I had developed a friendship with a fine, fine young woman (read: I wanted to win her heart) and she was a big music fan like me. She liked the band Foreigner; after I first heard/saw the video for "I Want to Know What Love Is" I decided that would be my own song about the two of us. Some years later she severed our relationship quite firmly, and I came to hate that song - along with some of the other music we both enjoyed. I've reclaimed that music again for myself, and I find that it's easier to maintain perspective on that sort of thing now.

For me, it was more like a group of songs. When my relationship ended with the first girl I ever loved, I had a difficult time listening to pretty much any alternative rock song that came on the radio during the time that we were together, which was from late 1998 to early 2000. When she and I were together, we'd listen to the radio a lot, and we went to a few radio festivals. It took about a year before I could hear those songs again without getting sad. Ah, to be 17 again...

A few examples...

"What's This Life For", "One", and "Higher" by Creed

"Shimmer" and "Sunburn" by Fuel

"Whatever" and "Keep Away" by Godsmack

"The Dolphin's Cry" by Live

"Take A Picture" by Filter

"Freak On A Leash" and "Falling Away From Me" by Korn

"Learn To Fly" by Foo Fighters

"Into The Void" by Nine Inch Nails

ect.

Angel Eyes by the Jeff Healey Band. I actually threw a radio against the wall once that was playing that (I don't listen to radio anymore so I don't come across it nearly as often). The song is attached to a very bad relationship and because of that, the song brings back memories I have no desire to revisit.

Any song from any place where I've worked that had a soundtrack where I'd hear the same 20 crappy songs all day every day for months and months. "Heaven" by Los Lonely Boys especially sticks out, 'cause I think that was on a few different stores.

Mercy Me's "I Can Only Imagine". It was played at my grandpa's funeral, and it was the song my family was singing in the ICU while he was lying on the hospital bed, dying. The worst part is...I wasn't there. So everytime I hear that song, it's just a bitter reminder that I never got to say good-bye.

I heard "Wish You Were Here" on the way to the hospital the night my father died in 2003.

I love Pink Floyd but I can't hear that song without crying every time.