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
I used to have almost everything Led Zeppelin did, including bootlegs. I have long since thrown it all away. I did buy a copy of III a year ago or so, but one listen was enough.

I can't stand the thought of even hearing the Eagles, much less owning any of it. "Desperado" is still a great song though.

I still think Ronnie James Dio has the best voice in heavy metal, but there is little or attraction to the idea of listening to Dio, Sabbath, or Rainbow.

Then there are lots of LPs I bought at the same time as these that I still spin regularly.

No accounting for taste...
Tired of Led Zep...are u kiddin me? IF I grow to old listen them...somebody take me behind the wood shed...stuff that doesnt age too well...80s alt...such as Cure,Echo,Sisters of Mercy,...basically goth pop...which (ironically) is having a rebirth of sorts...go figure...
Embarassed to admit it, but...

ANITA BRYANT works my last nerve.

Otherwise I seem to be OK.
Thinkin' of Beatles that were in my main listening repertoire when I was a kid. Now I hate them since they actually started pop music
Not so long period of time I was listening to heavy metal stuff like Metallica, Iron Maden, Guns and Roses, but now I feel no interest there whatsoever.
Back in the 80's I was into the whole chipmunk macrobiotic diet and the accompanying new-age theme-songs that went along with it, complete with a heaping helpin' of the likes of Enya, Lorenna Mckennit, and the whole Windham Hill/Private Music gang. Must of been a sharp blow to the back of the head in a motorcycle accident or something, but I've since been cured of that proclivity, and it is now more likely to induce the flight response in me if I hear that kind of music being played in a public place (you sure as hell won't find it spinning on my CD player any more). If I hear "Oronoco Flow" one more time I'm sure I'll make national headlines.

Around the same time I was listening to a whole lot of atonal and avant garde music(Stockhausen, Takemitsu, Orff, etc.) , which no longer appeals to me as it did then. I don't think it would bring up the same violently nauseous feelings that Enya has the potential of, but I also don't think it would capture me as it once did.

Things change.

Marco