Does time change your opinion of an album?

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I recently ran across a couple of songs from ELO's Balance of Power album ('86), 'Sorrow About to Fall' and 'Is It Alright', and they sounded really good (great even). They were on someone's MP3 player, and I recognized them, though it took me a few minutes. See, I owned this album when it was released (cassette) and I was underwhelmed with it. In fact, I may have played it three or four times and then gave it away. My downslide with ELO came around the Secret Messages period, so I had no patience for this album.

But after revisiting Balance Of Power, I find its better than I remember, though I'm not sure why.

Has anyone else had this happen?
 
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I recently went through a bunch of audio tapes that I collected during the 80s and compared them to CD and digital versions. Underwhelmed is a very apt word to describe the level of fidelty you will find from the majority of those prerecorded cassettes made during the 80s. Very weak bass and overall fidelity is the pits. These tapes were made primarily for playing in the car and on boomboxes...'nuff said.
 
This has happened to me many times in both directions - new-found appreciation for an album I previously dismissed, and total intolerance for stuff I used to like.
 
No. (10 minutes later.) Well, yes.

On a more serious note: of course it does. It is my belief that most any even reasonably good album can be appreciated if given the chance and enough spins.
 
It has happened to me a few times.
I find it very interesting.

I believe it has to do, ultimately, with the evolution of our individual lives.

The perception we had yesterday and all that we intake, today, lend assistance to what we will like/dislike, tommorrow.
I think it's constantly perpetuating throughout our life and will do so until our end.


Regards,
John.
 
Sometimes time does change a album for the good or the bad.

I have had both happen a few times. Some I used to like, I don't anymore and got rid of them.
 
Ditto most of the other responses. Often, I find some of the rock stuff I used to like hard to take but like jazz I used to not have the patience for. All that smooth jazzz (triple Z jazz) from the '80s sounds I used to listen to sounds really facile and shallow to me now.
 
RichPA said:
This has happened to me many times in both directions - new-found appreciation for an album I previously dismissed, and total intolerance for stuff I used to like.
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Ditto. Although as I get older, with few exceptions, I've become intolerant of the head-banging stuff I used to listen to and play when I was in bands.
 
Perhaps to some extent we are more interested in listening to music that is popular among our peers when we are young and growing up. In the process we can be tolerant of a lot a lot of music that really isn't that great. When we get older and don't care about what the kids are listening to or even what our peers consider cool, then we can really be honest with ourselves about what we like to hear.
 
Audioreality said:
It has happened to me a few times.
I find it very interesting.

I believe it has to do, ultimately, with the evolution of our individual lives.

The perception we had yesterday and all that we intake, today, lend assistance to what we will like/dislike, tommorrow.
I think it's constantly perpetuating throughout our life and will do so until our end.


Regards,
John.
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:thmbsp: Well said.

mindset at the time. I searced for cactus one way or another. Man that was an album that got the h*ll played out of it. Found it on Cd 30 or more years later, just did not cut it. At one time in my life I was into it, just not now. Funny, For a rock + roll person I liked Tom Jones Delihla and still like it.
 
"Does time change your opinion of an album?"
Definitely. I still have a few albums I got when I was maybe 18, 20 years old or so. Pink Floyd comes to mind immediately, as a prime example. At the time, I was like, "Whoa, this stuff is cool, man!" Now, 30 years later, I'm like, "Whoa, I used to think this stuff was cool!" Time, education, and maturity all help to redefine one's tastes.
Tom
 
I find it does. Not only albums but entire genres of music I never listened to or appreciated in my youth.

I p/u another copy of the first Monkees album (I sold my original copy in the early 70s) and enjoyed it, something I'd never have the guts to say in the late 60s or 70s.
 
I'm 42 years old. IMHO, AC/DC sounds as valid today as it did when I was 16.
However, much of the music of my youth seems to have lost something in the transition.

Some bands seem timeless to me; Led Zep, 'Floyd, the Doors, etc. Others that I held dear way back when seem almost laughable now. I find myself listening to more and more jazz as of late.
 
Absolutey. How about an artist? An entire genre? Yes and yes on both accounts.

And like Rich already stated, it can work both ways, and it does with me. For example, as a teen I listened to quite alot of Journey, REO Speedwagon and Foreigner. We ate that stuff up and thought it was the coolest music. Now, save for a few cuts, I find the music from these bands very juvenile, even bubblegum-ish.

On the other hand, for years I never liked Bob Dylan dismisssing his music entirely. Now I own 10 ceedees and absolutely love everything I've heard.

Never cared for jazz either, even as recent as my late 30's. Now I have close to 500 ceedees with an insatiable appetite for more.

Cheers
 
I used to listen to most of those bands that I now collectively refer to as ".38 Journey Wagon". :nono:

Now back in 1979 my favorite band was of course Pink Floyd. One day a friend loaned me her 8-track copy of Get The Knack by, The Knack. I thought this was pretty darn good stuff. Fast foward to 2004. Snooping around a record shop I discover a NM copy of this thing. Took it home and gave it a spin. All I could do was shake my head and wonder what was I thinking in 1979? :dunno:
 
Filmboydoug said:
I used to listen to most of those bands that I now collectively refer to as ".38 Journey Wagon". :nono:

Now back in 1979 my favorite band was of course Pink Floyd. One day a friend loaned me her 8-track copy of Get The Knack by, The Knack. I thought this was pretty darn good stuff. Fast foward to 2004. Snooping around a record shop I discover a NM copy of this thing. Took it home and gave it a spin. All I could do was shake my head and wonder what was I thinking in 1979? :dunno:
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Don't feel bad. I had that release in 8-track at one time when it first came out. It isn't in my collection anymore. :D
 
Ivorytooth said:
Don't feel bad. I had that release in 8-track at one time when it first came out. It isn't in my collection anymore. :D
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Aw, come on guys, that album isn't that bad, I've heard a lot worse and who can refuse the pantings of a teenage guy lusting for teenage girls. I think Good Girls Don't is pretty good but it needs one more stanza to finish the story. Does he get lucky :banana:

I listened to an old Judas Priest album and THAT was bad :thumbsdn:
 
datsunmike said:
I listened to an old Judas Priest album and THAT was bad :thumbsdn:
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Which one? That sequence from Sad Wings of Destiny to Hell Bent for Leather I consider a run of perfect 10 albums!
 
Which Priest album? Turbo kinda sucks listening to it now, but the guitar-synth craze was a faux pas for more bands than I would care to admit. I can say I've bought CDs of albums I had owned on vinyl years ago, that I never really could 'get into'. Now that I'm finding them on vinyl again - I'm re-enjoying the hell out of them! I think the medium is almost, if not more, important than the source material.
 
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