You used to love it but now.......................


Here's a fun question or maybe even a thought provoking one.

I guess we've all been listening to music for a very long time,what music/artists did you used to love or listen to a lot but now you struggle to sit through?
Not stuff you always hated.
Nor stuff that's been over-exposed,there's a whole list of great music that loses it value due to just being played far too much either by yourself or via the radio.
I'm not even talking about stuff that in hindsight you realise you probably overrated although that may play a part.

I listen still to a lot of stuff I liked 25 years ago and still get a kick out of it,some of it makes me misty eyed and nostalgic,some of I still enjoy the energy,an awful lot I've replaced on CD in recent years,hundreds of records actually.
Despite the fact that I can now hear influences, flaws,imperfections,naivety, even some crassness in the music that I didn't at the time,there is still a powerful effect from an awful lot of it.

However I seem to work on some kind of internal sub-conscious clock because some stuff I absolutely adored just leaves me cold now but I have the feeling at some other time in the future I may latch back onto it but not now.
Anybody guess why that is?

The bands/albums at this moment I'm struggling with are Sychronicity by the Police,Ocean Rain by Echo and The Bunnymen both records I liked a lot at the time but are a drag for me at this present time.The main band to show this effect are U2 who I loved at one time but I can barely stand to listen to them now,15 years ago or so I must have played The Joshua Tree to death and yet now I get nothing out of it,it just falls flat.

Who does this to you and anybody work out why this happens to you?
Or am I a bit nuts?
ben_campbell
Well, since Britney Spears' one day tryst I've lost all respect for her and her music just doesn't sound the same. Its somehow lost that Mickey Mouse sentimentality.

The slut!

I haven't been so disappointed since Pee-Wee Herman's solo at the movies.

Sincerely
I remain,
Something really wierd happened; I grew up. Most of my older rock music that I grew up with and used to love, I have grown out of. Jazz and Blues continue to fill up my collection and I end up taking most of my rock to the local exchange store. Really sucks to think that we grow up and now tell the kids to "Turn that sh*t down".

Good Listening,

Steve Bachman
I used to listen a lot to Yes, ELO, Pink Floyd and Genesis (Selling England by the Pound saw a tremendous amount of time on the Technics) in my youth. I still have a few of these albums others having been lost, stolen, damaged. Frankly they just don't sound that great and the music just doesn't turn my crank after a long workday. I certainly have no desire to get any of this material on SACD. Maybe it's due to a change in co-stimulalatory materials; Ben Webster and single malts now seem to go better than Moody Blues and...well you know.

Funny thing is that I still listen to the same amount of "classical" music (40%) as compared to 30 years ago. I guess that's why they call it classical.
Strangely is a lot of the music mentioned Floyd,Yes and Genesis which still hold a lot of magic for me despite my older ears.
Zeppelin I've simply never tired of nor have I stopped listening to them for any amount of time in the past 25 years probably more so than any other band.
My tastes have expanded but these bands and that era hold strong for me possibly because it relates to my teenage and very early 20's.
I Finally pulled the plug on Zepplin and sold my whole collection same goes for Pink Floyd, and If I never heard another Boston tune it would be to soon. I still love Jackson Browne, caught him live last year at a small venue, still lots of magic there. I recently aquired the re-mastered Peter Frampton live. That's sill a fun one from time to time.

I know what your saying though, lot's more Jazz and easy listening stuff these days. Say have any of you folks picked up the new Mavericks CD? I had never heard of these guys but am enjoying this album a lot. As they say it burns from the first note.