I used to listen to this? And liked it?

[NavinJohnson]

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

...the irony.


i would say that my musical taste has evolved more than changed. i wouldnt appreciate the stuff i like now had i never become tired of before's music. :scratch2: plus my nicer system shines a much better light on tunes than the old all in one system from my younger days.

i still dearly love music. just other music. just like i used to love my truck, now i lean towards something a little more gas friendly.

 

[tarior]

I still like Avalanche

Try listening to Pioughed or Locust Abortion Technician when you're straight. It just doesn't come across the same way.

 

[Scuzzer]

Try listening to Locust Abortion Technician when you're straight.

I like it and I doubt I've ever heard it high. I will agree it's more fun after a few beers.

 

[tarior]

I like it and I doubt I've ever heard it high. I will agree it's more fun after a few beers.

I still like to listen to Independent Worm Saloon after having a few. I don't touch any thing else, haven't since the 90s.

 

[nbarber]

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]

I was a HUGE Butthead in my teens and early twenties, put on Powerless Psychic the other day for the first time in close to 20 years and decided to never listen to another Buttholes record again. I remember them being GREAT and have a lot of good, albeit spotty, memories tied to the band and don't want to destroy them.

 

[shelly_d]

For me it's Emmerson Lake and Palmer's Pictures At An Exibition. Used to love it. Borrowed it from my Library 2 weeks ago and put it on. Absolutly Dreadful.

Shelly_D

 

[goldwax]

Funny, just a couple hours ago I was starring at the ceiling. I couldn't sleep. Among other things I was thinking about my vinyl collection. Thinking about how just the other day I got my turntable and gear clicking. Sounding better than it had in years.

Yet I was in a funk, brooding. That damn vinyl. I've dragged some of it around for decades. It's been with me through countless moves, too many romances, and will probably be with me for at least one more breakup. The sooner the better that.

But as I tossed and turned every disk i thought of putting on the table for a spin, well it's not like I leaped out of bed to throw on The Cars CandyO.

But every now and then I pull something out I haven't heard in years. Sometimes I just shake my head. Yes for much of that old music the bloom is defiantly off the rose. And then I laugh. Was I stupid for liking, hell loving that music back then. From this perspective yes, but hey. I just turned 52 the other day. If 17, or 26, or even 35 for that matter doesn't look stupid from here what would that mean?

That would mean I hadn't grown, I hadn't learned, I hadn't lived. So ya, some of that stuff is kinda cheesy, but some of it still moves me. some of it is Classic, it's art.

As for the cheesy stuff , my son, he's 16, he likes some of it. And sometimes so do I. I may be 52, my tastes may have changed, but when I'm in a store, and I see a Hot Wheels display, I still check out the cars.

I think I'll put on some Cheap Trick.

I read an article the other day about how people think they don't change over time, but it turns out they do. http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/...stantly-changing-even-if-we-think-theyre-not/

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

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.

You're killing me!:lmao:

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

I find myself enjoying music now that I got sick of years ago and the same time enjoying new stuff. Don't try to figure me out. If I can't, you certainly won't.

 

[dread31]

This might be sacriledge, but.................

DSOTM.

I still think it's the greatest album ever made. I have it on RTR, Lp (twice), cassette, CD and SACD. I've listened to it probably hundreds of times since 1974........................

And, that's the problem.

Last several times I put it on I either fell asleep or wandered off to do something else.

Too much of even the greatest things in life make one jaded.

Regards,
Dave

 

[goldwax]

The older I get, the more I appreciate and enjoy Bowie.

 

[superdog]

For me it's Emmerson Lake and Palmer's Pictures At An Exibition. Used to love it. Borrowed it from my Library 2 weeks ago and put it on. Absolutly Dreadful.

Shelly_D

That's how I felt listening to it for the first time a couple of months ago.Dreadful.

 

[Roypercy]

I know for me, the pop/rock music I listened to always served as the soundtrack to whatever was going on in my life at the time. Now that I'm 53, I have a life that needs a different soundtrack than it needed at 20. Probably a good thing. I've also listened to a hell of a lot more music now than I had back then; more choice makes us more discriminating. Heck, when I was 18 I thought Gallo Hearty Burgundy was pretty good wine, but I hadn't tasted any good wine yet to compare it to.

I recently ordered a CD of Boston's first album in a burst of drunken nostalgia, but by the time it arrived I'd sobered up (obviously!) and realized it was not "A Great Album", not even "A Good Album" according to my current tastes, but I'm glad I have it. It's a link back to a person I used to be, and a time I had in my life. And hey, sometimes I still put on "More than a Feeling" and it brings a smile to my face.

Oh, but to answer the original question: London Symphony Orchestra version of "Tommy". At 17 I thought it was way better than the Who's original version (?!?) Bought the CD a few years ago and could not believe I had ever sat through this neutered, muzak-sounding, pretentious mess.

 

[Battra92]

You know what's funny? I found my cassette tapes (some of them anyway) from when I was a kid and I was really quite groovy. I had B.B. King, Chick Corea, Dave Brubeck and the gateway drug to Jazz himself: Vince Guaraldi. I was a hip kid.

That said, I do wonder why I owned "Wrestlemania: The Album." Kids will be kids, I guess.

 

[P. Shivers]

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.

You just described the experience I had at a Medeski, Martin & Wood concert in the mid '90s. I went with some friends, having never heard the band before. I must have been the only person in the club who wasn't high, and it was the most boring concert I've ever been to. Endless noodling.:thumbsdn:

As to bands I once liked, but no longer can listen to, most are from the mid 1970s, i.e. Styx, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Rush, and especially ELP.

 

[JoeESP9]

You just described the experience I had at a Medeski, Martin & Wood concert in the mid '90s. I went with some friends, having never heard the band before. I must have been the only person in the club who wasn't high, and it was the most boring concert I've ever been to. Endless noodling.:thumbsdn:

As to bands I once liked, but no longer can listen to, most are from the mid 1970s, i.e. Styx, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Rush, and especially ELP.

Isn't what MM&W play considered to be "smooth jazz"? Isn't it otherwise known as Jazz Lite or Black Urban Music? I just call most "smooth jazz" boring.

 

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by dspear99ca:
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!

When will the yodeling robot helium voice thing finally die?

 

[Battra92]

Originally Posted by dspear99ca:
Personally I think that electronically "enhanced" voices are a bastardization of all that is holy, but hey, that's just me...

When will the yodeling robot helium voice thing finally die?

My wife was big into X-Factor this time around so I got to see this little exchange:

Basically, all you have to do is look cute, throw up a bit and feel sorry for it afterward.

I don't think there's a lot of "Get off my lawn you damn kids" in the 30 year old me because I'm finding myself enjoying a lot of new music that isn't on the Adult Contemporary charts or the Top 20 songs selected by Clear Channel and record labels.

There's a lot of great and talented people out there who don't get radio play on that one blasting Clear Channel station - you know the one who does those CA-RAY-ZEE prank calls in the morning. There's also more than that country station where the DJs probably have never heard of Hank Williams Sr, Bill Monroe or Jimmy Rodgers. At least with the internet, it's so much easier to discover new artists.

 

[JoeESP9]

I would have loved to see that X-Factor coverage. I don't watch it or any of those quasi talent shows.

 

[deadphish]

I can't butter the 250 classic rock songs that the local Clearchannel station plays on a constant loop, heard em too much as a youngster, but I can still spin rock from that era. Just the deeper cuts.

And I find Phish to be neither embarrassing nor silly. Seen em a modest 30 times, first show was in '92. Caught one of the NYE MSG run last weekend, went with a bro I first met at a phish show almost 20 years ago. Took a lot of self control not to take offense at my boys being called such about 8 pages back.