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does anybody still listen

my mucic collection contains pretty much everything ive ever liked with over 2500 titles but over the last few years ive got selective & only keep about 500 or so in rotation,mostly jazz & blues,last week i decided to get the entire collection out & check it out.

i spent the day listening to stuff from my youth like alice cooper & black sabbath,queen & deep purple & king crimson & the likes,wow i forgot how much i had enjoyed most of this music,it hit me while alice cooper was playing(i love the dead)at how truly ground breaking alot of this stuff was for its time & how much i liked listening to older 60's & 70's rock music.

i was curiouis if anybody else's tastes had changed from the music that made them take up this hobby or if you still listen to everything you've liked in the past,for me im going to start listening more to the rest of my collection,right now i got grand funk spinnin & im pretty happy to be hearing it too.

mike.
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rsjm80
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Bigjoe, Nice thread! I agree I to have dug back into some of the older music again such as; the 1st Blue Oyster Cult, Who's Next, Arageddon to name a few, and I greatly agree that that was innovative music from back then. Now my tastes has changed to softer music but as I listen I stll enjoy it all.
jay_douglas_2879b79
239 posts
 
spent sunday morning with "atom heart mother" and "the sopwith camel" on vinyl. reading the paper doesn't get much better than that.
aroc
760 posts
 
That's almost reason enough to get a sea of CD magazine changers or a hard disk player. That way you can easily force yourself to listen to to stuff (especially B-sides) to albums that you have forgotten. Just put the "whole thing" on shuffle.

As for me, I still listen to a lot of stuff of my youth. But even at 27, there are some titles that still haven't gotten play in a while. But every once in a while I do queue them up.

For the most part right now I'm trying to make my way through the 100s of classical records that I haven't yet heard, yet are taking up most of the floor space in our basement.
bgrazman
226 posts
 
I do the same--heavy rotation plus "an oldie"--

But, when I just want to listen, what I do is go to a marker that I keep in my collection (like a book mark) and listen & move the marker... it helps me rediscover a lot of the one-offs and things I probably wouldn't listen to regularly.

My collection isn't as extensive (2500 CD, 600 vinyl), but it probablys gets completely heard every 3-4 years.
hooper
396 posts
 
My musical tastes have changed slightly over the years--that sometimes happens as you age and expand your musical palate--and I find myself listening to more classic R&B/soul (Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, etc.) and a wee bit more classical. But, otherwise, I stick to the stuff that got me through my youth and twenties and thirties--stuff like the Stones, Elton, Beatles, Big Star, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Badfinger, etc. I have almost 3,000 CDs (and counting), and I regularly listen to only a mere fraction of those. Maybe my collection would benefit from a little culling, but I can't stand selling any of my CDs. I keep expecting to listen to all of them eventually. Maybe, it's a pipedream, but it wouldn't be the first time I had one of those. :)
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