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does anybody still listen

my mucic collection contains pretty much everything ive ever liked with over 2500 titles but over the last few years ive got selective & only keep about 500 or so in rotation,mostly jazz & blues,last week i decided to get the entire collection out & check it out.

i spent the day listening to stuff from my youth like alice cooper & black sabbath,queen & deep purple & king crimson & the likes,wow i forgot how much i had enjoyed most of this music,it hit me while alice cooper was playing(i love the dead)at how truly ground breaking alot of this stuff was for its time & how much i liked listening to older 60's & 70's rock music.

i was curiouis if anybody else's tastes had changed from the music that made them take up this hobby or if you still listen to everything you've liked in the past,for me im going to start listening more to the rest of my collection,right now i got grand funk spinnin & im pretty happy to be hearing it too.

mike.
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robm321
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What feels most comfortable to me is rock and heavy metal (old heavy metal, which by todays standards is more like easy listening). The new metal has just become rediculous kid stuff (to me anyway, IMHO), but getting into classical and jazz for the last several years makes it hard to go back to the 12 bar blues over and over with usually mediocre lyrics. It's just monotonous and boring compared to more complex and disciplined music. I do go back and just enjoy it, but it gets old quick now.
mitch2b35
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Robm321
thats exactly how I feel.
I grew uplistening and loving led zep, stones pink floyd but after getting into Miles davis, Beethoven I get bored of the old stuff pretty quickly.
It makes me wonder how the original band members feel about there
own stuff.
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r_f_sayles
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I don't know... I've been listening to "classical" music since I was a child. I have an aunt that was a piano recitalist and great musical mentor and have enjoyed classical works immensely thoughout my life. And yet I can honestly say that every time I hear the 13:06 minute version of Red House from Hendrix in the West (1972) it gives me shivers. Nothing else does that to me in that particular way. Of course there are about a zillion other pieces of music that move me equally in their own way. Take as an example Ali Akbar Khan's -Indian Achitexture this 2Lp set on Waterlily Acoustics records is an education in (Hindustani) classical music and an excellent meditation. This one always brings me down to earth after a tough week. Bottom line, there is just so much great music out there, I could never limit my listening to a single genre. Enjoy!
wildoats
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Someone mentioned a cd changer. I have a Pioneer 100 disc player(they have 200 also). It may not be audiophile, but it still sounds really good to me. It's the greatest thing for discovering songs you maybe forgot about. I find myself running to see what album a song is off of. It's like listening to the best radio station ever, with great sound. It's over a 1000 songs chosen randomly by the player. You keep putting different cd's into the changer when the mood shifts. You never know what's coming up next. Great for parties! Maybe a dac connected to the transport would help too.
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bigjoe OP
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wow,some of the stuff i found in my collection really needed to stay buried,last evening i was listening to the allman bros when i stumbled on somthing i had not heard in years,dr timothy leary's (the incredible lightness of being molecular)wow what was i thinkin when i bought that mess,i guess it sounded better when i dropped acid but sober that album is a mess.

im still lookin for an album i have by charles manson that i know i have but havnt seen in years,i think the album was white too,my kids have been trippin out on some of the old 60's stuff ive been diggin up.
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