Bands Or Songs You Can't Listen To Anymore After Breakup?

I think anyone who attaches memories and people to songs goes through this. It happened to me just recently and it wasn't only music but movies and tv shows, cartoons included haha. Now it's a little hard for me to listen to bands like Bayside, NFG, HTL, Say Anything and lots others that we just always had in common. He was the first person I knew that could match my quite varied music library so for a few days even looking at my ipod was hard.
One night I started talking to someone about how even watching a simple cartoon was beginning to be unbearable and then I got some of the best advice to date. They told me it was gonna be hard for a while but what I should try to do was watch and listen to NEW things that I liked, stuff that I could never attach to a memory of them. I started listening to a lot of old stuff that he called my guilty pleasures and couldn't stand, until I started singing a song to myself and couldn't help scrolling to that band and realized I was enjoying that music again.
So don't worry about not being able to listen to your favourite band again mate, with some time you will. One thing you should totally do though is if you own an ipod or such erase any playlist you made for them or by them, it'll make it easier.
Good luck

anything romantic I will not listen to after a break up like about a guy telling a girl how prety she is or something lovey dovey I don't know something I don' want to think about and I'm not usually listening to that crap anyways, I'm more into alternative rock or instrumental

When I was still getting over a break-up I wouldn't listen to anything that reminded me of the relationship, but as time has passed and I've gotten over my exes the songs don't bother me much anymore. One of my exes listened to underground electronic bands. He introduced me to a lot of different artists. It's been over a year and now when I'm going through my iPod and it lands on one of them I hear the music for what it is and why I appreciate it, rather than memories of us. There are exceptions though. Some songs that I associate in a sexual manner with my exes I can't stand to listen to. It's disgusting to me. I have no interest in them and I feel disrespectful to my boyfriend for having the reminder even pop into my head.

Radiohead is at the top of my list. Which really sucks, seeing as I only began to like them shortly before we broke up. Then there's a playlist of 100+ songs from him that I can't get myself to listen to.

Absolutely. Wilco, Radiohead, and Neutral Milk Hotel were all pretty much eradicated from my music library after my breakup last December. I was with this guy for 10 months and we're both really into music. I just now started to be able to listen to Radiohead again. I still can't listen to the other two. I just get angry and turn them off.

If you really like the music, you'll be able to disassociate the person from the band with time. If not, find a new favorite band! There's so much music out there you're bound to find something great with a little time spent looking!

Haha well I do it backwards. Now that I've been broken up with by the best boyfriend I ever had, I listen to certain songs that say what I want to say.

"Cry" by Mandy Moore
"All at Once" by Whitney Houston
"I'll Be" by Edwin McCain

Any one of these songs leads to me to an absolute emotional breakdown. Yay for me...

I had that problem before but now I even use those same songs and pass it onto my new love but I never associate it with the previous person- especially when I'm over them. If I'm not over the person then I usually will not pass the same song to the new love. I do stop listening to a couple of artists just because I do associate it strictly to that person but if it's a song I like so much enough to give it to someone else (which is kind of silly to say I'm giving it to them), it means I'm over that 1st person and I want to share that same strong feelings I had to a new person... If that makes any sense.

But yea, there are definitely songs I keep for the former person that I don't listen to much and probably don't really like it anymore. lol If I liked the band before knowing the ex, then it's ok because I feel like that's MY band.

i have this problem a lot. a boy that I liked but didn't end up going out with ruined a lot of songs for me.
such as: "uneasy hearts weigh the most"- dance gavin dance
"reprogramming mental preprogramming"- dance gavin dance
"composing"-boys night out
"you belong with me" -taylor swift
"my best friends girl friend" -melody fall
"lovers & liars" -matchbook romance
"safe to say" -vanna
"hammers and hearts" - daphne loves derby
"where we are now"-vanna
"tell me where you are"- hit the lights
"bobby and bonnie" -houston calls
"elegy" -the hoodies
"this isn't working out" -skies alive
"the mix tape" - jack mannequin
"disquiet"- a perfect kiss
"best of me" -the starting line

it also doesn't help if you make them a mix tape... TnT

Oh yes, had this problem. I won't go into the specific bands, but there were a few an ex was really into and I strongly associated with him. I couldn't listen to them for a while after we broke up, but then I decided I wasn't going to let the breakup get in the way of music I really liked. So I actually forced myself to listen to the bands again, and listen to them a lot.

Eventually I got to a point where I just enjoyed the music and they didn't remind me so much of him. Now they still do on occasion as they'll bring up a memory, but the relationship was so long ago it doesn't matter, and I can just let it be what it is - a memory of a different time in my life - and go on enjoying good music! :)

-anything by kings of leon..because my ex got me liking them (especially the song "use someboday")
-the song "crazy for you" by new found glory (yes, it's the remake of madonna's version) because the song describes how we first pretty much got started. I wanted to cry every time I heard that song for a LONG time. but I love it so much.
-the song "never say never" by the fray. because that was the song I listened to on repeat after the break up.
anyway, songs are the least of my worries, since it's been 4 months since the breakup and every time I see my ex (which is everyday) I still feel pangs of pain. I regret EVER dating him. and I wish I could rewind my life and do everything over again...without him in my life.

I've never date anyone, but there are a few friends I've lost, and there are some songs/albums I have a hard time listening to now. It's getting easier, though. There was a girl I was best friends with. She was the coolest, most accepting person I've ever known. She never judged me or thought I was weird, and just loved me for my differences. Anyway, one day, she said she was going to a Motley Crue concert (I was jealous). A few days later, she contacted me and said she was living in Wisconsin (we were in Illinois). She had never told me she was leaving, and I was heartbroken. I tried to keep the friendship by MySpace, but she'd never write back. I'm slowly starting to let go, and it's becoming easier for me to listen to Motley Crue.

umm... almost every friggin song?
which leads me to tell you about, "everything reminds me of her" by elliott smith

i can't even listen to one riff from a blink 182 song without wanting to break down

Yes! Music is my life. After it didn't work out between me and a guy, I can't listen to any song by Boys Like Girls... which isn't a huge loss. They're not my favourite but every single time I hear their song "love drunk", I almost cry. Sad but true.

I have the exact same problem. There are four bands I can't really listen to anymore. They always make me really sad, so I have just chosen not to listen to them anymore =/

Oh god yes! Journey, The Goo Goo Dolls, that If I were a boy song, The spill Canvas, Taylor Swift, some slow jams and sh*t. I either listen to punk rock or the sound of my engine these days when I'm driving. I can't even watch some TV shows still!

oh man, the ONE song that hits the spot each time I hear is is
With or WIthout You- by U2 ... man that song is deep...

I'm not a U2 fan at all but that song really described how I felt at some point in my life... crazy!

On My Own from Les Mis.

She was a Broadway hopeful. She broke my heart. When she sang this song I felt emotions I didn't know existed.

This one. link

Best of my love

The Eagles

taylor swift
sigh

I know what you asked but here is something TO listen to, A little piece of heaven - A7x

If it means a lot to you - A day to remember

I wish that song could be erased from history alongside 'all around me' by flyleaf.

Wont help though, even new songs I hear for the first time make me think of her. I guess only angry heavy metal/rock music is safe now lol.

latiff - I never hurt you

was me and my girlfriend song but she hurt me and then used this song as a practical joke trying to refer it as a b/s song

Well I don't have any now, though I did used to. My ex had gotten me into Greenday (yea, wasn't to aware of em at the time) however, after we broke up I found it hard to listen to any song of there's just cus it reminded me of her (they were her all time favorite), granted that was 2 years ago and I can listen to em with no problems at all.

yeah, it kills me to listen to Bright Eyes now.. the music makes me happy, but the memories make me sad, so its like picking a scab I guess..

actually in my opinion this never gets better, like you, I am a very musically oriented person, and when I listen to Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals CD, it still makes me have pretty vivid memories of a girlfriend I had back in the day who cheated on me.. again, love the music, hate the mood it puts me in..