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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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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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r_f_sayles
872 posts
 
Hooper, I implore you to consider, if you ever rid youself of some of that old stuff, one day you may regret it. And regret falls hard on an avid collector. In my case it’s all pretty much vinyl and all those old psych rock and folk Lps (of my youth) are growing to be worth a fortune on ebay and the like. To think about the chance that I would have cleared them out years ago and now be looking to replace them would be fiscally if not logistically impossible. I’m glad it never came to that and I hope it never does. Musical tastes are not exactly evolutionary; I find them to be kind of convoluted in that we keep coming back around to where we started. For me Fairport Convention, 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Bevis Frond, The Kinks, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Zappa, The Animals, The Byrds, (somebody stop me!) just to name a few, are all still very relevant today and fun. Enjoy!
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philjolet
2,306 posts
 
I try to listen to todays pop and rock music but always go back to King Crimson and the like for their far superior music. I think todays musicians try so hard to be different they forget their roots.
hooper
396 posts
 
R_f_sayles:

Your advice is duly noted and appreciated. Some of my CDs are pretty valuable--though not as valuable as equivalent LPs in mint shape--and I have no real plan to get rid of them. In my impetuous and drug-addled youth, I used to turn my CDs over regularly because I was disappointed at how large and unwieldy my collection was getting. Now that I own a house, those concerns are mitigated somewhat, but I wish I had some of those discs back. When I see how much they're commanding on eBay, I almost puke.
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