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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
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."
flemke
596 posts
 
I bought all the Zep stuff on CD and played it once. I just could not get into it. I would go for a jog with my headphones and physical graffiti. Still didn't move me. Then I bought a scout turntable and zep zoso. This is what I grew up with. As time goes by the vinly zep collection will grow.

I do agree that U2 is like nails on a chalk board.

Tim
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glen
714 posts
 
Talking about Tull, I just picked up Ian Andersons Rupi's Dance. I thought it was pretty good! I also scored the Tull Christmas CD but probably won't try it out for at least 11 more months.

By the way this thread is hilarious everyone's being way to honest. And in keeping with this I'll confess I'm having a hard time with the beatles these days, I sold about half of my beatles CD's last year.
duanegoosen
355 posts
 
Seems like alot of stuff is better as a memory, (playing it on the system isn't as good as having it play back in the head). Sometimes this might be because the analog versions got vandalized when they were turned into cds. The old musical tastebuds (and other skull contents) don't stay the same either. Most hair farmer metal (even the Shrapnel label stuff) doesn't spin the propeller anymore. Late Return to Forever, Dixie Dregs, Herbie Hancock/Rockit. Some Philip Glass and Tangerine Dream, alot of Private Music label and Windham Hill releases are getting the old shoe treatment.
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