You used to love it but now.......................


Here's a fun question or maybe even a thought provoking one.

I guess we've all been listening to music for a very long time,what music/artists did you used to love or listen to a lot but now you struggle to sit through?
Not stuff you always hated.
Nor stuff that's been over-exposed,there's a whole list of great music that loses it value due to just being played far too much either by yourself or via the radio.
I'm not even talking about stuff that in hindsight you realise you probably overrated although that may play a part.

I listen still to a lot of stuff I liked 25 years ago and still get a kick out of it,some of it makes me misty eyed and nostalgic,some of I still enjoy the energy,an awful lot I've replaced on CD in recent years,hundreds of records actually.
Despite the fact that I can now hear influences, flaws,imperfections,naivety, even some crassness in the music that I didn't at the time,there is still a powerful effect from an awful lot of it.

However I seem to work on some kind of internal sub-conscious clock because some stuff I absolutely adored just leaves me cold now but I have the feeling at some other time in the future I may latch back onto it but not now.
Anybody guess why that is?

The bands/albums at this moment I'm struggling with are Sychronicity by the Police,Ocean Rain by Echo and The Bunnymen both records I liked a lot at the time but are a drag for me at this present time.The main band to show this effect are U2 who I loved at one time but I can barely stand to listen to them now,15 years ago or so I must have played The Joshua Tree to death and yet now I get nothing out of it,it just falls flat.

Who does this to you and anybody work out why this happens to you?
Or am I a bit nuts?
ben_campbell

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I Finally pulled the plug on Zepplin and sold my whole collection same goes for Pink Floyd, and If I never heard another Boston tune it would be to soon. I still love Jackson Browne, caught him live last year at a small venue, still lots of magic there. I recently aquired the re-mastered Peter Frampton live. That's sill a fun one from time to time.

I know what your saying though, lot's more Jazz and easy listening stuff these days. Say have any of you folks picked up the new Mavericks CD? I had never heard of these guys but am enjoying this album a lot. As they say it burns from the first note.
Talking about Tull, I just picked up Ian Andersons Rupi's Dance. I thought it was pretty good! I also scored the Tull Christmas CD but probably won't try it out for at least 11 more months.

By the way this thread is hilarious everyone's being way to honest. And in keeping with this I'll confess I'm having a hard time with the beatles these days, I sold about half of my beatles CD's last year.