What Music Do You Most Miss Listening to?

I was sorting out Spotify playlists from all of my liked tracks and it dredged up a lot of painfully beautiful nostalgia from what feels like a past life now. So many songs I may never listen to again, or for the foreseeable future. So many memories indelibly chained to certain periods of my life that were so influential to the person that I’d become.

Some of my favorite bands that are too loud to really enjoy (and tracks):

1) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (A Perfect Teenhood; Homage; Mistakes and Regrets; Totally Natural)
2) AFI—early, punk/goth years (Wake-Up Call; Of Greetings and Goodbyes; Totalimmortal)
3) Wand (Melted Rope; Cave In; Flesh Tour)
4) White Stripes (basically all of theirs)
5) Boris (N.F. Sorrow; SO FUN; Tiptoe, still makes me cry)
6) Against Me! (Problems; Baby, I’m an Anarchist)
7) The Misfits/Danzig (One Last Caress; Halloween; Mother)
8) Lil Wayne (too many to mention)
9) Big Wild (Show Me Love EDM remix, holy shit was this a masterful EDM remix of what was already a beautiful song...audial euphoria)
10) Yung Lean (Sandman; Kyoto; Leanworld; Ghosttown; Helt Ensam)

I can still listen to a lot of Beach House’s tracks, they’re probably my favorite band right now. Unfortunately, Dive—the song that got me hooked on their detached shoegazey euphoria feel is too jarring when it drops. Fuck I miss so many songs.

 

I’d say the songs I miss most are some more scratchy and mechanical songs by Grimes, especially “we appreciate power” which is a hyperacusis nightmare, and much of Garbage’s discography. Honestly I never realized how important music was to me until it hurt to listen. I’m grateful that I can still stand to sing!!

Fortunately one of my all time fav albums, Mika’s “no place in heaven”, is very gentle on the ears.

 

All music is horribly distorted to me .

I miss so much music: Magnolia Electric Co, Lydia Loveless, Michael Kiwanuka, Mr. Bungle, July Talk, Grimes, Nils Frahm, 70s Glam Rock, 80s hair metal, alt country, regular country, folk, foreign music, electronica, punk, soundtracks, cheesy pop, classical. All of it.

Even my earliest childhood memory is my mom playing "Thriller" on vinyl and dancing (only time i ever remember her dancing). My memories have been associated with music ever since.

I hope regenerative medicine can help because i truly don't know how to be in my early 40s and faced with the possibility of never hearing another song again.

 

Mayonaise (Remastered)

 

”Music” of silence.

 

Progressive and thrash metal. Post-rock.

I'm gradually finding myself able to resume listening to other genres but the distortion and complexity of those styles is just too much.

Luckily I enjoy many genres and have been discovering psybient, downtempo and piano chillout styles.

 

I’m sorry I have the same problem. Do you have any hearing loss?

 

I have severe loss over 12000 Hz bilaterally but i also have other hearing problems like needing captions to understand the TV when there is background noise.

My problem is definitely not just OHC loss above 11000 Hz.

When did yours start?

 

I like listening to classical music. I used to listen to a lot of loud rock and pop on my stereo but now I find it quite dull and distorted due to hearing problems.

Classical music is full of textures, layers and it used to irritate me when I had excellent hearing, there was so much there.. and now I think I should have listened a lot more to it...

 

Not bad. You like Dinosaur Jr.?

 

There is a lot of classical music that I love. My problem with it as a hyperacusis sufferer is that the dynamic range can be so vast, that it's sometimes necessary to have your finger near the volume control in order to hear the quietest pianissimos, but then be ready to turn down again before the fortissimo passages.

 

Yes, I know! It has a lot of dynamic range. It would be a lot more obvious on a live performance.. for instance, how a triangle or a trumpet sound clearly above all the other instruments.

 

I think "A Concerto for Triangle and Trumpets" would be the worst!

 

Hahaha yeah, I think so!! For instance Lutoslawski produced pieces where the trumpet is prominent and "answers" other instruments... a lot of high and lows, so interesting but hard to listen to with hyperacusis.

 

Wish I could hear Tame Impala the same way as before. Listening to Beach House now (Lemon Glow). I'm lucky now that my hyperacusis and tinnitus are getting better it seems, albeit at a glacial pace.

 

Beach House is so fucking good dude. Best of luck with your tinnitus.

 

80's metal & new wave.

 

Everything I used to listen to, lots of alt rock, indie rock, synth pop/rock, psychedelic rock, as well as some chill hop and vapor wave and lots and lots of 70s/80s music, just isn't the same with tinnitus that doesn't get masked easily.

 

The irony is that my religious blasting of Tame Impala 24/7 for the last 5 years is probably the reason why i’m on this forum. Miss jamming to them the most

 

Hopefully in ~5 years we'll have a treatment that works. That's my hope. I honestly wish my problem came from listening to too much music instead of the stupidity by which I actually lost my hearing.

 

I miss playing Innerspeaker on car journeys. Ugh TI is one of my faves.

 

Taste! One of my favorite albums of all time.

 

One random song I really miss is Spanish Sahara by Foals. Not the same if your brain isn't quiet.

 

I suppose I'm in the minority where I'm not a fan of music. I don't dislike music but it wasn't something I actively pursued to listen. I've always preferred silence or zen like settings even before tinnitus.

But if I have to pick something I miss the most is Variation of Pachelbel's Canon in D by Robin Goldsby. It's very hard to listen to it now because the music is soft and mellow whereas my tinnitus is just screeching right over it.

 

My favorite band!

FOALS - White Onions [Official Music Video]

 

I regret not having listened to more classical music when my hearing was excellent. Classical music has a lot of layers and textures that I cannot appreciate anymore.

 

I used to fuck heavy with noise rock. Lightning Bolt, xbxrx, Melt-Banana, Pink & Brown, etc. Now my musical diet consists of almost exclusively hip-hop. I miss my dissonance.

 

Gawd, I miss listening to Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, and Tool. I saw AFI mentioned earlier, and I love their old stuff, too. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to listen to any of that again thanks to hyperacusis .

Since I can’t listen to anything right now, I also really miss listening to relaxing music like Lord Huron on long drives or camping trips or reggae rock bands like Stick Figure and Rebelution.

 

Hendrix, Van Halen, Floyd.

 

I noticed that distorted electrical guitars began to sound like sh!t lately. In other words, basically the whole catalog of contemporary western pop music sounds like sh!t.

It is strangely reassuring that I'm not only imagining this.