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I used to listen to this? And liked it?

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What a fabulous photograph, :thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp:

In the Foreground a stack of, I think, National Radio R-1230-/FLR, I have never had my hands on an example I'll bet they where great if the examples of my NC-183D, and NC-300 are the bench mark. I don't know what is perched on top them, SSB adapters? Then farther back R390A/URR's, There are continuous arguments which is better the R390/URR, or the R390A/URR the bottom line is these two receivers are the best, and I mean best vacuum tube general coverage receivers ever made. I have an example from the last large contract that was awarded in 1967 to Hammarlund Manufacturing who then had their subsidiary EAC, Electronic Assistance Corporation build them. And finally the Hammarlund SP600's (R-274?) These examples don't have the fixed channel controls on the upper right hand side "J" models perhaps. My SP600 is the more common diversity model the JX-17 built in 1953, it needs a overhaul it works but is kind of deft not uncommon with this rig as they age.

While the collecting and restoration of vintage hifi audio equipment is a very satisfying thing to do. Ex military radios have a history it is one of those; if the radio could only talk stories. I know the life of My R390A it spent it's operational life in a Titan missile battery in South East Wyoming. The SP600 is a Navy unit and there is no telling what it what was used for. :D
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I have a couple Motorola/Collins R-390A on the floor in the radio room, one more a parter for the other, waiting for me to get 'into' them again. My sentimental fave is my BC-1004-C /Hammarlund 210X Super Pro, a class-act TOTL late '30s all-wave communications set co-designed with input from the Army Signal Corps that saw wide service in WW-II.This set was my dream radio aspiration from my kid-hood in the 1950s.
 
I have no criticism for anything that people enjoy, but I had to laugh at the original post as I had an almost identical experience.

Back in the day I never cared for the MOR bands like Styx, Journey, REO, Foreigner and such. Boston was a bit of a guilty pleasure. I was, however, into prog and as such I had a couple of Kansas albums that I enjoyed.

Last year I acquired a a bunch of reel tapes that someone had recorded their records on. One had both Kansas' PONR and Boston's first album. I listened to both and kind of enjoyed the Boston from a nostalgic point of view. But, I really disliked the Kansas album in part for the same reasons the OP cited and in part due to a disturbing and uncomfortable blandness. I have the same reaction to Journey.

However, I realize that this is due to my own personal issues as many would have a similar reaction to my currently beloved Carpenters, Donna Summer and the aforementioned ABBA. Vive la différence!
 
beatcomber said:
I don't get excited by Dead Kennedys anymore, but the Ramones sound better than ever!
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I don't think I'll ever get the Ramones out of my system.

Those guys really had it.

Gabba Gabba Hey!

If you haven't already, check out Joey's solo album, "Don't Worry About Me"
Great stuff
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Chipmunk Song - Christmas Don't Be Late


What can I say. It won three Grammy Awards in 1958; Best Comedy Performance, Best Children's Recording, and Best Engineered Record (non-classical)!!!!!


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Interesting topic / used to LOVE Bob Seger .....the first Live Bullet Album still ranks # 1 for me for 70's live rock....... had a listen a yr or so ago of some of his later stuff.....didnt do it for me .......Dilemna : best live band Ive ever seen ....now theyve announced a spring tour ...... should I stay or should I go ? (I know , cheap exit)
 
superdog said:
That's pretty much what I have come to with the Who.Even Whos Next doesn't hold up to me anymore.Tommy and Quadrophenia are pretty much all I can handle anymore.
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I've found that my favorite track on Who's Next has become My Wife. Goin' Mobile is way back in the dust somewhere in second place.

The rest were killed by overplay.
 
I've always had very eclectic tastes in music, and still do. What I find, though, is that I go through "periods" or "cycles" where I tend to gravitate for a while to one type of music more than others, then after a while I move on to something else. Eventually, I'll "come back" to the stuff that I'd drifted away from earlier. I sort of rotate through genres and artists, both in the short-term and over the longer-term.

Over decades, though, things have shifted somewhat. I noticed recently that I just don't get any "buzz" from some of the early Beatles songs that I once liked. They seem to have lost a lot of their drive, their energy. :dunno: They seem truly out-dated for me, something which wasn't true even just a few years back. I do remember as a kid actually noticing the (performance) sloppiness in some of them, but it didn't detract from the music for me --now it tends to. Maybe I'll go back to liking them after a few more years, but I doubt it. The feeling is strong enough that I passed up (at least for now) on getting the new vinyl releases. I just don't want to listen to them that much.

I still like "Dust in the Wind", though! :D (No sense of profound depth to the lyrics, just enjoy the song.)


Conversely, the songs I couldn't stand years ago, I still can't stand. Typically these are songs that didn't particularly appeal to me to begin with, but which received massive over-play when they came out, until I felt beyond "sick" of them. Michael Jackson's "Ben" or Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" still makes me want to run screaming from the room, hands clamped firmly over my ears!

There was ONE such song that I heard about a year ago in a cover version, and I actually didn't mind listening to it in the cover version. I can't recall now just what song it was, but it surprised me that I could listen to it without wanting to :puke: That was the sole exception that I can recall.
 
Personally, I have a 'ten year' rule. If I don't like an album, I keep it for ten years, and if I still don't like it. I dump it.


It sounds like a dumb rule, but you'll never know how many groups/albums I really didn't like at first, and then over varying periods of time from months to years later, I grew to appreciate them.

So far I can name on one hand the albums that I've bought that I got rid of becuase they sucked.

1. Saigon Kick. (this band epitomized what sucked about hair bands)
2. Soundtrack to 'coneheads'

Any van halen album after DLR.
there's more but I can't remember off the top of my head.

groups/albums I thought sucked at first but grew to love;

Pearl Jam vs & 10. I bought them both new, took me years to get beyond that 'jeremy' song to enjoy them.

alice in chains; took me about two years to see how good they really were.

David Byrne, took damn near ten years to appreciate

Phoebe Snow; overdosed on her greatest hits album on one long drive from northern Utah to Southern California, took me fifteen years to begin to appreciate her again.

Tool; almost ten years from their first album untill I finally 'got' it. Now I consider tool and APC some of the very best of prog rock ever.


Dave Matthews Band; I first heard them open for the dead, and thought the fiddler was too loud and sucked. ten years later I got into them, now I can't stand most of their music aqain, mechanically good, but boring to me, even though Leon Mobley plays with them (or did last I checked)
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There's more, but that's a start.
 
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When I was in my teens in the mid/late 80's I liked rock music from the 60's and 70's. Now I pretty much dislike all that stuff except for Floyd, Zeppelin, Stones, Doors, Hendrix, anything else from that time I don't want to hear again. I just got rid of a bunch of LP's from that era.
 
djnagle said:
This is what I listened to for four years.
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Looks like you were in Viet-Nam...comm equipment...humming sounds loud fans and hot hot hot...Radios receiving stuff from outer space, etc...Never had the pleasure to work in an HF station like that...we had tropo and microwave in the late 60's. Page Communications was getting big before we scooted out of Viet Nam.
 
rlovison said:
Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Chipmunk Song - Christmas Don't Be Late


What can I say. It won three Grammy Awards in 1958; Best Comedy Performance, Best Children's Recording, and Best Engineered Record (non-classical)!!!!!


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This still gets heavily played at my house! :D
 
Wigwam Jones said:
And, nothing. Nada. No joy. No rediscovery. I'm underwhelmed. It's not even good music. The lyrics are lame, the hooks are boring, even the mastering is lousy.
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I know what you are saying.but then i look at it as a peice of history,my history,I remember listening to this album over and over in my teens pondering the meaning.If it were me buying it, i would have gone as high as 78 cents,just kidding
 
Damn...I've been thinking of all those LPs from Back Then...And, I thought I Had It...Until, I just put on Bachman Turner OverDrive 'Not Fragile'...And, I Still Like It...It brings back Memories from 40 Years Ago...God...Has it been That Long Ago?
 
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