What have you stopped listening to?

[stratman]

In the process of ripping my CD collection to my server, something peculiar has occured. I've run accross a few CDs that I can't bring myself to listen to anymore, these use to be favorites, but now, either I outgrew them or something. Here's the list I have so far of unberable CDs.

Cinderella, any 80's hair band.

Pseudo-Jazz/world music. Deepforest being one.

Orange and Blue album from Al DiMeola.

Hall and Oates- especially "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" track.

Lightning Strikes Twice-Larry Carlton, really unbearable and sad too for
Carlton along with Ritenour are my two favorite
studio guit players.

The Rippingtons- Welcome To The St.James Club-I still like Tourist In Paradise

Anything by INXS

Soundgarden, Pearl Jam anything "grunge" or Seattlish sounding.

As the ripping continues I know I'll probably find something else. Strange how these things happen.

So what have you stopped listening to?

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Every so often, I sift through my CD collection and weed out the things I no longer like. Hard to remember what they all were.
Except for a few perennial favorites (eg BOC, Satriani), I have stopped listening to hard rock/metal at all. I sold my Who boxed set when I realized there aren't but a handful of songs by them I still like. A few things in the jazz category became really boring, and on the opposite extreme I no longer enjoy noisemongers like Butthole Surfers or Nine Inch Nails.

 

[Pyrrho]

When I switched from LPs to CDs some years ago, I switched emphasis. I had more rock LPs than any other category of music, but I have more classical CDs than any other type of music. I would rather not admit to what I listened to in my misspent youth. I still listen to some of the same music, as I repurchased all of the Beatles music I had on LP on CD, and even extended my collection of their music. But much of the music from the 70's and early 80's I left behind me.

It is a commonplace to observe that most popular music is "disposable music", which does not usually have a very long shelf life. Still, some people have a nostalgic fondness for their youth, and hang onto old crap long after most people have moved on. But I am glad that I have found something better to listen to. It is good to try out different and varied things, as one might discover something that one overlooked previously, or that, for whatever reason, one was not prepared to appreciate when younger. In my case, I now also listen to old jazz that I never really gave a chance when I was younger. Much of the music I listen to is far older than I am; it is not the age of the music that makes it either good or bad.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Good point about pop music being "disposable". The best way to summarize how my tastes have changed would be to say that I have shifted from what is "of the moment" to music that will stand the test of time. If I can't imagine listening to something in 10 years, I probably won't like it much now, either.

 

[majorloser]

My boss.

 

[3db]

I have a few albums that I would call a purchasing mistake such as

Stingray "self titled" some K-tel/polytel crap but I would never go so far as to say, I'd throw out an erra or fad of music. Umm INXS "Kick" would be another mistake. I never did take a shining to that album.

Big Hair bands were mentioned. I would think that includes band like Tears For Fears. I still like their music and always will. B'52s is another that I really like and won't get tired off.

Be careful of the term, popular music. If thats the case, the Beatles, teh Stones, the Who would all be turfed out. I know its now known as classic rock but in its day it was popular music. I put todays bands such as "The Artic Monkey's, "Arcade Fire" as popular music. I can still see me playing their stuff 10 yrs from now if I remember.

 

[stratman]

I have a few albums that I would call a purchasing mistake such as

Stingray "self titled" some K-tel/polytel crap but I would never go so far as to say, I'd throw out an erra or fad of music. Umm INXS "Kick" would be another mistake. I never did take a shining to that album.

Big Hair bands were mentioned. I would think that includes band like Tears For Fears. I still like their music and always will. B'52s is another that I really like and won't get tired off.

Be careful of the term, popular music. If thats the case, the Beatles, teh Stones, the Who would all be turfed out. I know its now known as classic rock but in its day it was popular music. I put todays bands such as "The Artic Monkey's, "Arcade Fire" as popular music. I can still see me playing their stuff 10 yrs from now if I remember.

Actually Tears For Fears is more synth-pop than "hair." Cinderella, Poison, Motley Cru, Bon Jovi, were "hair" bands. B-52s were at the time pop/new wave. INXS came in on the Duran Duran/second wave sound that stradled pure synth sound and the more guitar dominated sound of later bands trying to shed the labels attached to general pop music in the 80's.

 

[MDS]

Actually Tears For Fears is more synth-pop than "hair." Cinderella, Poison, Motley Cru, Bon Jovi, were "hair" bands.

I have them all and will not be getting rid of them.

When I started the process of ripping my CDs a long time ago I also pared down the collection by selling the ones I knew I would never want to hear again (even if I only got $1). Please don't just discard them as there are always people like me looking for something that someone else no longer cares for. I also consolidated a few by buying a newer greatest hits collection that had the one or two songs I was missing and the other songs I already had so I would have all of the songs I wanted by a particular band on one disc.

But I also discovered the opposite of songs/discs that I no longer wanted. I discovered many other songs that I didn't really know about that I now like. I would listen to the entire CD several times in the background as I was doing something else so as to not concentrate on it critically. If I thought I could rate it at least a 2 on a scale of 1 - 5 (meaning I wouldn't mind if I heard it every once in awhile), I saved it. Some songs just grow on you after a period of time.

I've discovered that I have quite a few CDs that were bought for one song that I now realize have 5 or 6 songs that are actually very good.

 

[Exit]

I won’t listen to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Billy Joel, Springsteen, Phil Collins, The Police, Sting, and a lot others that have been played to death over the years.

 

[Nomo]

I haven't thrown any CDs away but ones that I had in LP version but have not upgraded to CD for lack of interest include:

Yes
Judas Priest
Rush

Those are the one a had a good collection of anyway. I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that come to mind today.

 

[obscbyclouds]

I won’t listen to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Billy Joel, Springsteen, Phil Collins, The Police, Sting, and a lot others that have been played to death over the years.

This is the same with me, I way overdid it with classic rock and such in high school/college. I'll add to that list Led Zep, AC/DC, Deep Purple and Boston.

 

[skizzerflake]

So what have you stopped listening to?

My curse is that the answer is nothing. Since I hit about 13, there isn't anything I ever liked that I don't still like. Some of it may have been back-burnered for a while, but this results in an ever expanding collection of CDs and records. I can't cut loose any of them. Maybe when I retire, I will spend a couple years ripping cds and records to a 50 terabyte music server.

 

[3db]

My curse is that the answer is nothing. Since I hit about 13, there isn't anything I ever liked that I don't still like. Some of it may have been back-burnered for a while, but this results in an ever expanding collection of CDs and records. I can't cut loose any of them. Maybe when I retire, I will spend a couple years ripping cds and records to a 50 terabyte music server.

I'm with you on this. I made a few purchasing mistakes but I never not play music because of a genre gone past.

 

[3db]

Actually Tears For Fears is more synth-pop than "hair." Cinderella, Poison, Motley Cru, Bon Jovi, were "hair" bands. B-52s were at the time pop/new wave. INXS came in on the Duran Duran/second wave sound that stradled pure synth sound and the more guitar dominated sound of later bands trying to shed the labels attached to general pop music in the 80's.

Ahh Thanks for the clarification Stratman *L* I never bought into the "hair" band stuff because I never liked them from the start. There was one Bon Jovi 45 I did buy, "Wanted Dead Or Alive" I think its called. I still to this day like this song becuase its well written and well played.

One artist whose music I like but whose lyrics I tire of very quickly is Melissa Ethridge. I have one of her albums and the music is great. But after the 3rd song, I'm tired of hearing the whiny cheating dyke theme that runs throughout the album.

 

[Davemcc]

I still like all the music I've ever liked, generally to the same degree as I liked it originally. That is to say, I'll play certain tracks as frequently or as infrequently as I ever did. It takes me a long time to warm up to new music, but once I do it's generally for good. I change things up pretty frequently depending on mood and might pull up a track just because I haven't heard it in a while. I'm not limited to any particular genre and I might segue from classical to metal, jazz, 70's easy listening or even disco on the same day. A couple notable exceptions to this general rule are the Barenaked Ladies, which I used to listen to a lot and AC/DC which I find too raw, too harsh these days. On the other hand, I have enjoyed my renewed association with Bad Company.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Rush used to be one of my favorite bands, but I only rarely listen to them anymore. If I gave up my CDs of them, however, I would miss them.
I used to like all Pink Floyd, but will no longer listen to anything from The Wall on.
I really liked Peter Gabriel's Up. The last time I tried it, though, I found the lyrics too depressing (the music remains outstanding.)
I went through a punk phase. Today, I can't think of a single punk CD I would listen to (I still like new wave, though.)

 

[Pyrrho]

... Be careful of the term, popular music. If thats the case, the Beatles, teh Stones, the Who would all be turfed out. I know its now known as classic rock but in its day it was popular music. ...

If you look carefully at my introduction of the phrase, I said "most popular music is "disposable music"" [emphasis added]. I never said, nor did I intend to ever say, that all popular music was "disposable music". If we look back to the past, I believe many classical composers were popular, as, for example, Mozart. However, I think he, though not my favorite composer, is justly regarded as great and "timeless".

For rock (of all types of "rock"), I think the Beatles is probably the best example of a "timeless" band, though not all of their work is equally deserving of such an expression, and I can certainly understand someone saying that they have already heard it too much and no longer wish to hear it at all. I sometimes go through periods when I do not listen to them, but I find that, eventually, I return to listening to them. I also don't think they are as deserving of the expression as Mozart, though that will best be settled after a couple of hundred years from now.

Anyway, to the point at hand—"popular music", in itself, says nothing about the quality of the music, only that many people like it. Sometimes, people like good music, and other times, they do not. (By "good music", I mean, of course, what all right thinking people mean—music that I like! ) Most music is produced to make money (that is why there is a price tag on the CD and the concert ticket), not to be thought great in a 100 years when it can no longer matter to the makers of it. So the focus is generally on the moment, which explains why a lot of music isn't timeless at all (not to mention the fact that is seems easier to make a momentary success than to create something that will be still thought great in the distant future).

 

[3db]

(By "good music", I mean, of course, what all right thinking people mean—music that I like! ) Most music is produced to make money (that is why there is a price tag on the CD and the concert ticket), not to be thought great in a 100 years when it can no longer matter to the makers of it. So the focus is generally on the moment, which explains why a lot of music isn't timeless at all (not to mention the fact that is seems easier to make a momentary success than to create something that will be still thought great in the distant future).

Ok Throw away bands like In Sync, etc, bands there created artificially, songs written for them, just to make the charts is what I'm hearing from you. If thats what your saying, I agree whole heartedly with you. That will not stand the test of time.

 

[3db]

Rush used to be one of my favorite bands, but I only rarely listen to them anymore. If I gave up my CDs of them, however, I would miss them.
I used to like all Pink Floyd, but will no longer listen to anything from The Wall on.
I really liked Peter Gabriel's Up. The last time I tried it, though, I found the lyrics too depressing (the music remains outstanding.)
I went through a punk phase. Today, I can't think of a single punk CD I would listen to (I still like new wave, though.)

Pink Floyd's the wall is a masterpiece and is by far my favourite album of theirs. The music accentuates the potent and interspective lyrics that this album contains. I know everyone has their own likes and dislikes. This is one album I never get tired of.

Rush was Canad'a single biggest export *L* but I never did get into their music. All top quality musicians but for me, I just didn't like their sound.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Pink Floyd's the wall is a masterpiece and is by far my favourite album of theirs.

By far my favorite PF albums are the first two (Piper and Saucer.)