Things you love and can't stand anymore

[dfan]

I recently realized that there are a fair number of things that I think are totally awesome but never really want to see or hear again, largely through overexposure I guess. That is, any reference to them is more likely to make me roll my eyes and think "Not that again," rather than think "Oh yeah, I love that," even though I do.
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[davidglasser]

And British!

[joenotcharles]

Spinal Tap is definitely on my list, mainly because when I finally got around to watching it I kept waiting for the awesome, and the only bits that really stood out were the horrible cliches about things going to 11.

[dfan]

I think you misread - this is supposed to be a list of things you love but are sick of, not a list of things that other people love that you don't like.

[joenotcharles]

I think I WOULD have loved Spinal Tap if I'd seen it before everyone trampled it into the ground.

[algorithmancy]

I definitely burned Spinal Tap out long ago.

The big problem with Python and Hitchhiker is the 80/20 rule. 80% of the references reference 20% of the material.

I gross out easily, and there were a couple movies (e.g. "The Cook, The Thief..." ) that I was glad I saw but would never see again.

There are almost certainly huge swaths of the Beatles oeuvre that I roll my eyes at.

There's definitely some records that I've burned out. I limit my listenings of Ruby Vroom to a few a year now.

[haineux]

Weird Al.

Interesting you mention this, I've been having the same exact feeling recently. For instance, I agree that Weird Al and Monty Python are in fact brilliant and funny and great. But I can't stand them. I might hurt myself fleeing them.

The Beatles come and go. For a couple of decades they were intolerable. Now I am mostly OK with most of the catalog most of the time. Any overdose might put them right out for another few years, though.

Yep, Spinal Tap should be on the list, but isn't. Luckily, I haven't heard your catalog too much. I hope you are never afflicted with unbridled success forcing you to sing "You're an organism" ever day for the next 20 years.

[dfan]

I hadn't even thought of rock music. I guess if any rock songs fit in that category they would be Beatles songs, but I'm still all right with them. In fact, I kind of refreshened my appreciation of them a few years back by listening to their first few albums for practically the first time and discovering all sorts of early songs I hardly knew (like "Little Child" and "Hold Me Tight").

I actually have a song half-written called "Albatross" about having to play your one hit song every set, but it's basically fictional...

[huskyscotsman]

Wow, that's the perfect title for that song.

[iterum]

I'm not sure. I certainly could come up with a list of "things that I think are totally awesome but don't really want to hear other people talk about or, god forbid, quote from again," and Python and Hitchhiker's would be on that list, but I can still enjoy them on my own if I go long enough between doses.

Hmm.