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What Recordings Of Yours Did Not Age Well?

I happened to be scrolling through Napster in the Red Garland section and found "Red Alert", an album that I bought on vinyl in 1978 when I had a Sansui 771 receiver, Technics turntable with Shure V15 Type III, and generic 12 inch 3-way speakers.  I remember that I'd heard a tune from the album on the local FM jazz station and went out and bought the album the same day.  I hadn't listened to the album in 30 years.  I cued it up on Napster and sat down and listened to it.  Tidal and Amazon do not have this recording.  It was a pleasant listening experience, but nothing that would make me want to buy it today if I didn't own it....and if I never hear it again, I won't miss it.  For the life of me I can't remember what tune on the LP convinced me to buy it.  Back in 1978, I was very discriminating how I spent my money on recordings because I was recently out of college....and a music purchase had to really count.

Do you have any recordings that didn't age well in this regard?

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stuartk
2,879 posts
 

@sns :

70's rock is what hasn't aged well for me. I'm drawn to much more complex music these days, jazz, classical, electronic now far more appealing to me. 70's rock is nostalgic for me, used to romanticize those days, now I recall the druggie days much less fondly. Funny, I love the 50's and 60's music, evokes feelings of more innocent times.

My drug days were actually pretty "innocent'-- I never got into anything hard and outgrew what I did do in my early twenties. I had friends who weren't so lucky, though. Eventually lost my best friend to meth.  

In my early twenties, I began an exploration of Jazz that's continued to this day  (I'm 65, now).  I still enjoy some 70's Rock but it only comprises a small fraction of my listening time. Aside from Jazz, I enjoy various types of acoustic music. Never did get into Classical, though. While I appreciate the skill/complexity involved, it doesn't engage me emotionally or rhythmically.  

jim5559
604 posts
 

Funny, as i grew up EVERY rock LP turned in to crap!

wlutke
727 posts
 

ELO, Styx, Boston, Blondie

cd318
2,636 posts
 

@jim5559 

"Funny, as i grew up EVERY rock LP turned in to crap!"

 

Yes, this is the genre that gives me most playback problems.

I don't know of it's memory playing tricks or perhaps my Heybrook speakers were much better than I thought, or maybe it's the vinyl/CD transfer issue but too many favourites just don't have the same impact today as they had back when.

For example I'm finding it hard to get this Buffalo Tom classic to play back with the same impact as I remember from the 1990s.

 

 

edcyn
1,876 posts
 

Back in my crazed, buy a record a week days, I regularly went to the various used record stores to off-load the stuff that I couldn't bear to look at on my shelves. I have little memory of what they might've been.

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