Has your choice of what you listen to changed?

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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,567
    Most certainly. I still listen to the big alt rock sounds of the 90s and 00s. Still love a bit 60-80s hard rock too. Overall I’ve probably mellowed a little, but generally listen to a more diverse list than I used too. However, that list comes from music of the past, not necessarily new music. I’ve found I’m more interested in music I missed or wasn’t that interested in at first I.e Tom Petty, Peter Gabriel, Kyuss, Arctic Monkeys. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    2 people here have mentioned Petty.  I bought his 2 box sets and listened from front to back and realized there is a bunch of filler on all those albums and no way I could spin any front to back repeatedly.

    What are you hearing that im missing?
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,971
    tempo_n_groove said:
    2 people here have mentioned Petty.  I bought his 2 box sets and listened from front to back and realized there is a bunch of filler on all those albums and no way I could spin any front to back repeatedly.

    What are you hearing that im missing?

    I mean, the ones I would generally play back to back are his "solo" albums.  Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers.   Wildflowers is so good, there's a 2nd disc that's almost as amazing as the first disc (that only came out a few years ago).

    When I was younger, the thing that got me into Petty was the original single CD greatest hits package.   I spun the shit out of that thing.

    I also personally find it hard to get into to new things now.   I guess there's something to the, if you got into it in your teens it'll stick with you for life thing.   Also had more time back then. Bombarded by the radio playing and trying new things, listening to album over and over until it stuck with you.. etc....
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    Zod said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    2 people here have mentioned Petty.  I bought his 2 box sets and listened from front to back and realized there is a bunch of filler on all those albums and no way I could spin any front to back repeatedly.

    What are you hearing that im missing?

    I mean, the ones I would generally play back to back are his "solo" albums.  Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers.   Wildflowers is so good, there's a 2nd disc that's almost as amazing as the first disc (that only came out a few years ago).

    When I was younger, the thing that got me into Petty was the original single CD greatest hits package.   I spun the shit out of that thing.

    I also personally find it hard to get into to new things now.   I guess there's something to the, if you got into it in your teens it'll stick with you for life thing.   Also had more time back then. Bombarded by the radio playing and trying new things, listening to album over and over until it stuck with you.. etc....
    Pettys greatest hits is the best of all his albums where say Hard Promises has like one hit. Now Damn the Torpedoes has a few good ones and the other songs in between are vibe killers.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    tempo_n_groove said:
    2 people here have mentioned Petty.  I bought his 2 box sets and listened from front to back and realized there is a bunch of filler on all those albums and no way I could spin any front to back repeatedly.

    What are you hearing that im missing?

    I'm always a bit hesitant to think of lesser songs as filler.  I'm sure there are plenty of LPs for which an artist or band threw in filler because they couldn't come up with enough songs to make an album.  But for the most part, I try to give artists the benefit of the doubt figuring that they actually thought the song they came up with were at least decent and worked to do their best to make good recordings of them.  This is especially evident when a band has songs that didn't make the cut but end up on reissues and you find they are actually really good songs.
    But yeah, Petty for me always had songs on albums that didn't work for me.  The same is true for some of my other very favorite artists- Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Dinosaur Jr, Steve Wynn/ The Dream Syndicate, Paul Westerberg/ The Replacements, and Juliana Hatfield. 
    The Petty album that works best for me is Damn the Torpedoes.  And to me, Full Moon Fever is a great album.  But we all hear differently.  Some will like Wildflowers better, or maybe Hard Promises.   And I'm OK with having albums that have a few songs that I'm crazy about but not a fan of the rest.  Petty's Echo is like that for me.  I wouldn't be without it because it has some of my favorite Petty songs, but also a bunch that I could care less if I never hear again.
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,108
    Im stuck in the past and that's the way i like it. Im just not into new music or should i say bands. Im a simple man


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    lastexitlondon said:
    Im stuck in the past and that's the way i like it. Im just not into new music or should i say bands. Im a simple man

    Nothing wrong with that!  Music is great that way- we all get to choose and nobody gets to tell us our choice is wrong.  Music is one of the most democratic things in the world that way!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,971
    I'm also stuck in the past.  In the later 90's and early 00's when new music stopped interesting me, my solution was to go back in time rather than forwards.  Instead of embracing new music, I started listening to music that was even old.  It's when I started to appreciated Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc..
  • brianlux
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    edited March 2024
    Zod said:
    I'm also stuck in the past.  In the later 90's and early 00's when new music stopped interesting me, my solution was to go back in time rather than forwards.  Instead of embracing new music, I started listening to music that was even old.  It's when I started to appreciated Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc..

    Sometimes going back is almost like going forward.  Like a couple of years ago when I came across a copy of The Shadows first album.
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      I had heard a couple of their songs long ago when their first album came out, but they never registers much with  with my then ten year old brain.  Now I listen to them and realize how big an impact they had on rock.
    Though it might be considered cultural appropriation today, their song "Apache" really demonstrates their influence:



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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  • BSully
    BSully Indiana Posts: 1,506
    I like this topic. 
    I easily fall into the "Or listen to old stuff plus new things you've found you like?"

    My playlist on Spotify is very heavily weighted with the normal 90s grunge rock like PJ, AIC, and Soundgarden, but I also have plenty of stuff that I have picked up along the way like Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and Shinedown.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    edited March 2024
    BSully said:
    I like this topic. 
    I easily fall into the "Or listen to old stuff plus new things you've found you like?"

    My playlist on Spotify is very heavily weighted with the normal 90s grunge rock like PJ, AIC, and Soundgarden, but I also have plenty of stuff that I have picked up along the way like Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and Shinedown.

    A couple more new-to-me bands to check out, cool!  Thanks!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    edited March 2024
    lastexitlondon said:
    Im stuck in the past and that's the way i like it. Im just not into new music or should i say bands. Im a simple man
    Wo-man, lol.

    Umm you did go see a brand new band called The Smile...
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    brianlux said:
    Zod said:
    I'm also stuck in the past.  In the later 90's and early 00's when new music stopped interesting me, my solution was to go back in time rather than forwards.  Instead of embracing new music, I started listening to music that was even old.  It's when I started to appreciated Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc..

    Sometimes going back is almost like going forward.  Like a couple of years ago when I came across a copy of The Shadows first album.
    Primary
      I had heard a couple of their songs long ago when their first album came out, but they never registers much with  with my then ten year old brain.  Now I listen to them and realize how big an impact they had on rock.
    Though it might be considered cultural appropriation today, their song "Apache" really demonstrates their influence:



    If thats cultural appropriation then im cutting the lights out right now...  No need to go any further w humanity, lol

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    Zod said:
    I'm also stuck in the past.  In the later 90's and early 00's when new music stopped interesting me, my solution was to go back in time rather than forwards.  Instead of embracing new music, I started listening to music that was even old.  It's when I started to appreciated Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc..

    Sometimes going back is almost like going forward.  Like a couple of years ago when I came across a copy of The Shadows first album.
    Primary
      I had heard a couple of their songs long ago when their first album came out, but they never registers much with  with my then ten year old brain.  Now I listen to them and realize how big an impact they had on rock.
    Though it might be considered cultural appropriation today, their song "Apache" really demonstrates their influence:



    If thats cultural appropriation then im cutting the lights out right now...  No need to go any further w humanity, lol


    Haha, I hear ya.  I dig the song, but I cove my ass a bunch these days.  :lol:  Besides, for all I know, the lead guitar player might be at least part Apache or other tribe.  He looks like he could be related to Link Wray.  In any case, great song, right?!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    Zod said:
    I'm also stuck in the past.  In the later 90's and early 00's when new music stopped interesting me, my solution was to go back in time rather than forwards.  Instead of embracing new music, I started listening to music that was even old.  It's when I started to appreciated Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc..

    Sometimes going back is almost like going forward.  Like a couple of years ago when I came across a copy of The Shadows first album.
    Primary
      I had heard a couple of their songs long ago when their first album came out, but they never registers much with  with my then ten year old brain.  Now I listen to them and realize how big an impact they had on rock.
    Though it might be considered cultural appropriation today, their song "Apache" really demonstrates their influence:



    If thats cultural appropriation then im cutting the lights out right now...  No need to go any further w humanity, lol


    Haha, I hear ya.  I dig the song, but I cove my ass a bunch these days.  :lol:  Besides, for all I know, the lead guitar player might be at least part Apache or other tribe.  He looks like he could be related to Link Wray.  In any case, great song, right?!
    I enjoy early finger picking songs like that.  The whole surf vibe thing.  Bill Haley comes to mind.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    Appropriation, lol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    edited March 2024
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Appropriation, lol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4

    At least "Apache" sounds like something Native American- like rather than screaming white guys.  (I should know better than to say such a thing.  Let the flaming begin.  :lol: )
    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Appropriation, lol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4

    At least "Apache" sounds like something Native American- like rather than screaming white guys.  (I should know better than to say such a thing.  Let the flaming begin.  :lol: )
    heheeh.  Funny that the Cochise song is in a new movie Rebel moon too.  
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Appropriation, lol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4

    At least "Apache" sounds like something Native American- like rather than screaming white guys.  (I should know better than to say such a thing.  Let the flaming begin.  :lol: )
    heheeh.  Funny that the Cochise song is in a new movie Rebel moon too.  

    Got a theme goin' on there!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,994
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Appropriation, lol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4

    At least "Apache" sounds like something Native American- like rather than screaming white guys.  (I should know better than to say such a thing.  Let the flaming begin.  :lol: )
    heheeh.  Funny that the Cochise song is in a new movie Rebel moon too.  

    Got a theme goin' on there!
    Gotta roll w it Brian!

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