I used to listen to this? And liked it?

[Sharpstik]

Anybody remember Bachman Turner Overdrive? Laughably bad music that I actually thought sounded good when I was a kid.

I do. And I'm callin' ya out

Their first album from 1973 is terrific. But in that year 6 of us piled into a Camaro
for the 4 hour trip to Ocean City Maryland and that record played continuously for the entire way. I hated it. But not now.

 

[Glen B]

I used to listen to ABBA back in the day. :headscrat

 

[RickB]

Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies....."The Sub-Sylvian Litanies"

WTF ?

I can't believe that I used to listen to such stuff...

And, you really had to be stoned to like Captain Beefheart.....then again, I haven't listened to it in over 30 years, so no telling what I would think today...."Pappy with a Khaki sweatband....."that damn poem still rumbles around in my noggin over forty years from when I first heard it...and Hawkwind, what was up with that?

I used to listen to nothing but rock, and currently being 60, I was around when most of the acts that happened to bring this genre to popularity were formed, lived, and sometimes, died...

Today, I find too many things just reek of angst that I can no longer relate to...the themes and premises of many of the songs from back in the sixties, seventies, and eighties have no more of a bearing on my life or interests and just leave me cold...

Plus, the better my stereo got the worse much of these recordings sounded, so it was a good thing that I started to diversify my musical tastes....

Today, Classical and Jazz are the two mainstays of what I listen to, but will dip an occasional toe into the waters of such things as Texas Hellkitten Radio or some of the New Age and Classical Guitar streams I get through my Squeezebox Touch...

Yep, things have changed since my steady diet of Zep, Flyd, AC/DC, Iron Butterfly, Budgie, Nugent, Lee Michaels, etc....

But, I did listen to "Brain Salad Surgery" last week while cleaning the house and enjoyed it, I guess, mostly for reminding me of the ELP concert of the same that my best friend and I attended....good times!

Oh well, Hobo chang ba.....

Next up: Unknown Hinson
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[cfinchrist]

Lyrics to me are rarely good in any modern music. For example...Jack Johnson. i.e.- " I was sitting in the living room near the bread box close to the window with the light on and the cheese whiz on the cracker on the plate on the table made me look towards the curtain with the stain and the blue sky and the fresh air then I saw old linoleum etc...." No those are not his lyrics but they could be. Endless drivel in my opinion.

 

[45rpm]

Many many years ago in High School, I thought ELP was the bomb! Literally listened to Tarkus, Pictures for days at a time with my like minded pals.

Now, I cannot listen to them without laughing, especially at Sinfield's inane lyrics.

No disrespect intended to ELP fans or Keith's obvious talent, it's just now I find all the the bombast quite silly.

ELP could be over the top...actually, they were most of the time. Peter Sinfield was not the best lyricist ever (don't even bother with "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" - it makes me crack up laughing).

But there was lots and lots of talent in that trio, and most of the time they did a hell of a job exploiting it.

 

[ofajen]

I have had the same experience. I think it's important to differentiate between "it sucks" and "I'm tired of it". We should be careful about dismissing music just because it doesn't work for us.

Good post, along with your follow up. After thirty years, I'm just glad that I can still stand to listen to most of my recordings of my music, even the naive stuff from the earliest years in college. My recording chops have come a long way, but where there were good musical thoughts and moments in the early recordings, those still come through, despite the audio limitations. And sometimes there is a charm or quality that is different from what I do these days. Times change and we do, too.

Cheers,

Otto

 

[ofajen]

Lyrics to me are rarely good in any modern music.

Peter Gabriel made a very insightful remark in a 1980 BBC documentary on the making of his fourth solo album, generally known as "Security." His comment was that "there are great songs with appalling lyrics, but there are no great songs with appalling music."

Cheers,

Otto

 

[NavinJohnson]

all things must pass. trying to hold onto things without change is pissing into the wind. now expecting change, being ready for it and welcoming change is a great way to go. as i get further down the road there are many things i used to love that i could take or leave now. music without words seems to hold on a little longer for me now, maybe since i can interpolate my own words or feelings without guide. there is standards i still hang onto, and music i dearly love now that i fully expect to be sick of in a short time. also as my system improves it is much easier to weed out the non hackers. so im ready and willing to change.

things that i fully expect to never change include- a bad ass car, a nice -CLEAN- house, hot girlfriend, great stereo, awesome tool collection, smooth golf swing, and a comfortable bed. these are crucial to my survival

 

[musichal]

things that i fully expect to never change include- a bad ass car, a nice -CLEAN- house, hot girlfriend, great stereo, awesome tool collection, smooth golf swing, and a comfortable bed. these are crucial to my survival

"all things must pass. trying to hold onto things without change is pissing into the wind..."

...the irony.

From next post:

This stuff was marginal back in its day but I find pretty much unlistenable now.Deep Purple-Rainbow-Judas Priest-Iron Maiden and any post Ozzy Sabbath.I still like some 70s hard rock-Heavy Metal these have pretty much fallen out of my listening circle.Oh I forgot to add BTO to that list.

Yeah, about the metalist I can tolerate now is Dream Theater, am not so metallic anymore.

 

[superdog]

This stuff was marginal back in its day but I find pretty much unlistenable now.Deep Purple-Rainbow-Judas Priest-Iron Maiden and any post Ozzy Sabbath.I still like some 70s hard rock-Heavy Metal these have pretty much fallen out of my listening circle.Oh I forgot to add BTO to that list.

 

[Frank_Black]

In case no one's posted it yet: What does a Deadhead say when he's not high?
"Hey, this band really sucks!"

I've gotten rid of a number of LPs over the years, miss none of them. Mostly those were the marginal ones anyway, that I bought for whatever reason (usually one song that I liked or something) and never listened to all that much in the first place. Others I've kept for years and years and still play and enjoy.

A few years ago after not listening for a while, I got out one of my Styx albums and had that thought ("How did I ever listen to this stuff?"), but lately I've listened more closely and like it just as much -- all of it, not just the Styx. I've even gone back to stuff I didn't like that much and thought was pop fluff when it was new -- Wham, for one -- and, after buying the LP at an estate sale or something, fell in love with it. I'm even looking into old Who and Deep Purple and junk to see what it's like.

But mostly what I really liked then I still really like, even though it's not in heavy rotation any more.

 

[dspear99ca]

Lyrics to me are rarely good in any modern music. For example...Jack Johnson. i.e.- " I was sitting in the living room near the bread box close to the window with the light on and the cheese whiz on the cracker on the plate on the table made me look towards the curtain with the stain and the blue sky and the fresh air then I saw old linoleum etc...." No those are not his lyrics but they could be. Endless drivel in my opinion.

Hey that's funny. Or sad. Maybe both. I was reading along thinking "Do I know that Jack Johnson song?" The inane lyrics didn't set off any alarm bells...

We're growing up, guys (and girls). Some of us are downright old. Themes that resonate with 13-19 year-olds, you know, the ones we used to be like when we smoked a lotta pot (and/or other substances), sat in dark rooms and listened to Pink Floyd or Spirit or The Doors or the Grateful Dead because, well, we had nothing better to do... these themes just don't cut it with me now that I'm approaching 50. The term "relevance" springs to mind.

I am sometimes nostalgic, and throw on some Dead, and enjoy it, but in a different way from the ten-foot-tall and bulletproof me that ragtagged up and down the East Coast following shows one summer. I'd have to say, upon reflection, that something of the emotional impact of music is lost to those of us who are unable to lose ourselves in it, forget our responsibilities and crank it up for awhile. I get in trouble when I turn it up too loud for extended periods, but I do it anyways and hope I never stop.

Having said that there's a lot of new-ish music that I DO really like... certainly not all of it but I can't say I liked everything on the radio (remember the radio?) when I was young(er). Think "Karma Chameleon". Personally I think that electronically "enhanced" voices are a bastardization of all that is holy, but hey, that's just me...

And don't go dissin' George Michael.

 

[iloveamps]

Personally I think that electronically "enhanced" voices are a bastardization of all that is holy, but hey, that's just me...

X2! I could not agree more!

 

[withmusic]

X2! I could not agree more!

X3:thmbsp: Couldn't agree more. Let's see any of today's groups do what The Mama and The Papas did! Or Crosby Stills and Nash or Peter Paul and Mary....! I just got done watching some old shows with them and back then there was no such thing as electronic enhancement. They were the real thing!

 

[Paulpt]

That happened to me with Camel (not the cigarettes). I used to love this band. A friend gave me one of their CD's, which I have not heard in ages) and I skipped every song, found it sooo boring.
On the other hand I am discovering some music that I did not appreciate much then and I am liking it now.

Still I can't find any new band that I can say I like.

 

[tarior]

I used to think Phish was something. Then I didn't smoke pot anymore. I tried to give them a listen again only to discover that it was lackluster to say the least.

Yeah. It's kinda like listening to Butthole Surfers when you're not on mushrooms. Oh, wait, did I just say that out loud?

I've tried listening to a lot of the music I liked when I was in my early 20s, and when doing so I think to myself "****, was I depressed or what?"

 

[45rpm]

I've tried listening to a lot of the music I liked when I was in my early 20s, and when doing so I think to myself "****, was I depressed or what?"

The same goes for stuff I used to like when I was 13 or so.

I used to like Simple Plan. I still can't fathom how.

 

[onwardjames]

Another way to look at this conundrum...

a few years back, a friend of mine smiled and said..."I wanna play ya something..."

We'd been drinking, but that doesn't explain how wonderful I felt upon hearing Ron Strykert's guitar licks at the beginning of "It's A Mistake" by Men at Work.

Totally bought up all their stuff, amazing work.
Same goes for Tears for Fears. I can't imagine how I didn't see the brilliance of these albums.

 

[szeppelin75]

I feel this way about most of the pop/glam metal i listened when i was 15/16 and about a lot of punk i listened when i was 16/18, and oh yeah about a lot of the music from the 90s.

Someone mentioned TV shows, i used to love Party of Five when i was a a young kid, now i find it stupid like most stuf i watched when i was younger.

 

[Khodabear]

Yeah. It's kinda like listening to Butthole Surfers when you're not on mushrooms. Oh, wait, did I just say that out loud?

I've tried listening to a lot of the music I liked when I was in my early 20s, and when doing so I think to myself "****, was I depressed or what?"

I still like Avalanche