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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
jax2
3,031 posts
 
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
jndean
132 posts
 
I can still listen to the Eagles but mainly for the first few minutes of Hotel California with the drum and guiter riffs. Don Henley has some good new stuff -Inside Job. I find it hard to listen to the 60's and 70's oldies on my system due to compression but it's ok in the car for short periods. I can no longer listen to the Beatles or 80's and 90's music. Still like CSN&Y and America.
I have moved to classical and jazz and female vocals as Diana Krall, Alison Krauss, Karrin Allyson, Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit, Patricia Barber, Natalie Cole, Holly Cole, Bonnie Raitt, and Joni Mitchell.
I have become old and sentimental.
John Dean
richingoth
326 posts
 
Too many to name.
imin2u
392 posts
 
I still love the unique bands. The ones' whose sound has never been copied like Jethro Tull. The inspirational mixed with pure genius like Kate Bush. Or the beginnings of something I'll love the outcome of. For example, I love Wilco but realize that an older love named Dumptruck started the loose, bizarre, country-alt-pop thing.

If anything, I find most of the popular stuff of yesteryear pretty horrible. The funny part is that I didn't like it when it was popular. I liked it once it wasn't popular. And now look back on it as a big mistake. Would anyone like a Billy Joels Greatest Hits CD? Don't all raise your hands at once. How about Fleetwood Mac? Or the Eagles? Or any other late 70's band I hated in High School, like in college, loved with better hifi equipment, and now find completely boring.
rosstaman
455 posts
 
I loved Jethro Tull. Seen them a dozen times. Best show was with Electric Light Orchestra. Now, everytime I try to play any of their albums or cd's, I terminate the session after a few tunes. But, for their time, they were one of the most creative rock bands to emerge.

For those of you who have seen them in concert, you'll know what this means: "Don't let anyone ever tell you that Jethro Tull doesn't have their sh_t together."
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