Bands/artists you’ve fallen out of love with … and why

Discussion thread ~ not an argument thread. Appealing to your measured rationale along with subsequent visceral loathing.

The rules, if rules are a thing here … you must have loved or at least really liked the artist(s) and then come to really dislike them.

I’ll start below.

U2

I’ve seen this band live three times, the first time being Twickenham 2005 on the Vertigo tour, which I have to say was awesome. This was the day before I flew to Egypt for a diving holiday with a massive hangover.

Got into U2 rather late, as has been my trend with music over the decades. I initially did NOT like U2 but they grew on me and by the time of The Unforgettable Fire I was fully engaged. With the Joshua Tree I was hooked.

But Bono is (imo) a pompous virtue-signalling prick, their musical creativity has taken a dive like a hungry Peregrine falcon and the dumping of that totally crap album into everyone’s iTunes library just finished me off.

So in short, brilliant early and mid career material, but annoying, pompous, over-bloated and crap later on.

Radiohead

Loved Pablo Honey, Bends, Ok Computer, then it all went tits up and i hated them

@diver

i try to imagine what it must have been like to be eighteen years old, know how to make a guitar cry and sing, be elevated by yer fandom to GOD status
then ten years later complain about folks while using slurs to describe immigrants and STILL play guitar better than anyone on the planet
except for maybe carlos santana or derek trucks

when i see, hear, read about, or play eric clapton's music i am conflicted

@rookie54 said
@diver

i try to imagine what it must have been like to be eighteen years old, know how to make a guitar cry and sing, be elevated by yer fandom to GOD status
then ten years later complain about folks while using slurs to describe immigrants and STILL play guitar better than anyone on the planet
except for maybe carlos santana or derek trucks

when i see, hear, read about, or play eric clapton's music i am conflicted

@Wycombe-Al said
Radiohead

Loved Pablo Honey, Bends, Ok Computer, then it all went tits up and i hated them

@diver that was me with Coldplay, tried to like first album but it was crap