Unlistenable

His radio show has devolved into something borderlining on unlistenable, which is too bad because, at the beginning, it had promise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And "unlistenable" is what I thought about the rest of the album when I first put it in my ears and then hid it under my bed from my parents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So it might be more a matter of identifying the particular kinds of unfavourable adjective that are most prone to subsequent reconsideration - "unlistenable" certainly springs to mind, perhaps because the gauntlet it throws down is so easy to pick up - and learning to keep an eye out for them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remember working with a guy who was just adamant that any MP3 file recorded at less than 224 Kbps was "unlistenable". ❋ Unknown (2009)

suggesting in a review of Neil Young's Le Noise that the fact that this record had already been dubbed "unlistenable" by one "august rock critic" might actually be a good sign - had a series of intriguing ramifications that reached beyond the cut and thrust of everyday pop debate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even after discarding the obviously unlistenable recordings, he still had a mountain of stuff. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

It featured an excruciatingly unlistenable "modern" live violin solo, full of jagged ups and downs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Then there's "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World," the musical currently playing at Playwrights Horizons through July 3, which draws not only from one of the most obscure recording acts of the 20th century, but also one of its most unlistenable. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

Perhaps to make Canadian radio unlistenable for happless Yanks on vacation across the border? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Guest singers range from John Legend to E-40, the results of these collaborations range from extremely good to almost unlistenable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He encountered jazz as a teenager in the not exactly golden age of the 1980s, when its practitioners were busy either upholding tradition or smashing it to unlistenable smithereens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In many ways Emmy & Tim are the non-American answer to She & Him, the key difference being that their single isn't unlistenable horseshit and is, in fact, splendid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And who better to face those bloodthirsty tentacle-wavers than bloodless cold killing machines who spend their off-time composing unlistenable math rock concertos for robo-mandolin? ❋ Unknown (2009)

When people criticized us, they said one of two things: either our music was unlistenable, or things would never get as bad as our lyrics suggested. ❋ Tim Mohr (2011)

[Trump]’s pontifications are unlistenable. ❋ Nonsum Barnett (2020)