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aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu May 12, 2016 3:25 pm

do_androids_dream wrote:I grew up listening to - but never loved - The Beatles. But now, I just can't stand hearing them - the more I hear them the more I realise they were, at best, the ultimate novelty/gimmick band. I just find them icky now to say the least and the fact that McCartney clearly still thinks he's the greatest musician to walk the Earth makes it ten times worse lol.

I always thought that, except for a few tunes I quite like ('Something' is probably the best, oh and 'Here, there and everywhere' but sung by Emmy Lou Harris)

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu May 12, 2016 3:29 pm

Back in the 80s, a friend introduced me to Zebra, a 3-piece progressive metal band. I thought they were the coolest band ever for about 2 months, which was really weird because I listened mostly to punk, goth, new wave, synthpop, etc. at the time. I came across those Zebra albums in a box in my garage a few years ago and gave a few songs a quick listen. I have no idea what I was thinking - their music really doesn't appeal to me at all and the singer's squealy voice really annoys me now.

There were a few other obscure bands (e.g., A Flux of Pink Indians) that I listened to occasionally in my youth, but I really don't enjoy now.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Thu May 12, 2016 4:42 pm

I used to love Bauhaus but now and for a long time I always clicked the iTunes "next" button when their songs play. But I don't know why I just don't exclude them from the "Play ALL" playlist.

Also, I have their "Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape" CD and for at least five years now I haven't loaded that in the CD player either.

I could just sell or exchange that for another used CD. But I don't. It's probably because when I did that in the past with other CDs I ended up regretting it.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu May 12, 2016 4:58 pm

harryupbabble wrote: Also, I have their "Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape" CD and for at least five years now I haven't loaded that in the CD player either.

I just listened to that at work a few days ago. Anyway, it's funny seeing Bauhaus mentioned so many times already. I think I actually listen to them more frequently now than I did when I was young.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu May 12, 2016 5:28 pm

i'm "profoundly disaffected" from the entire medium of recorded playback, ..i was 10 in 1980 so sort of lived my teens from the cassette trade era into the cd and eventually digital era, so i've trucked through a lot of music.. back in the early 80's tucson had some of the best "independent media" in the u.s. .. kxci and tccc (one of two indy cable tv in the u.s.) ..i've got maybe half a dozen artists i'd still voluntarily expose myself to playback by, but not for long..

morrissey had some good moments. bauhaus, at least they were alive. you'd have to understand where they were from to relate to the darkness. the beatles.. always despised the saturation, idolatry, but i think for a few moments back then, they were allowed to be alive on a recording, but not much. eg. donovan, i still enjoy "the naturalist's wife" or "little boy in courduroy" but the contrivancy is more apparent with each passing day, in it all. all of the stinking contrivancy and patronising that reduced this culture to shame.

i was thinking, i didn't really want to pick one, because certainly down the line someone will try and torture me with it. but shucks.

portishead.. take a capable vocalist, couple with the appeal of anew technological medium, but i don't need the emotional dredging.. persevering in this oppressive world is hard enough without celebrating beign a victim.

fifteen, twenty years ago, everyone was still talking about portishead like gods.. "triphop" - today, we've all become well accustomed to downsampling.

hopefully, you can pick up on this going into new recording products..

..the entire industry is there for a reason, to encourage and discourage.. money belongs to money, it always has.. within that, there are a very few rare individuals who truly have compassion for the circumstances of their audience and intend to enable their cogency instead of disable, entrap and exploit it..

..some of the best moments in recorded music have come from "antimusic" - those who disenchant the paradigm of recorded entertainment.. and reveal it for what it is.. industrial music, negativland.. john trubee and the ugly janitors of america (what a name huh) "the communists are coming to kill us!" severed heads "clifford darling please don't live in the past".

meanwhile people are still living most of their lives and giving their attention to trash and garbage, years in unfulfilling absorbtion, getting their "fill" of being this or being that.. okay you're very metal..

i look forward to the day i can eventually retire my affectation for this..

that day has not arrived yet.

do you remember my song from 2004, "planet rock" where i coined, "in dust realisation.."

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Thu May 12, 2016 5:49 pm

Southern rock specifically lynrrd skynrrd and
Marshall Tucker Band.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:43 pm

Guns N Roses

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:46 pm

V0RT3X wrote:Guns N Roses

They always made me shudder.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:57 pm

Mushy Mushy wrote:Wham

They got their moments, just listen to Blue that is one fine early chill out tune

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu May 12, 2016 8:07 pm

I spent too much money on Drum'n'Bass platters at the end of the 90's, which I regret now

Roni Size

By that time the genre had become stale and rather shite

And what was I thinking buying Björk, the most overrated artist ever

musical android · Post by **musical android** » Thu May 12, 2016 8:54 pm

Black Flag with Henry Rollins, and for a moment Uriah Heep! Otherwise I feel pretty clean and can look back at my youthful ears with no regrets...

acYm · Post by **acYm** » Thu May 12, 2016 9:42 pm

Numanoid wrote:I spent too much money on Drum'n'Bass platters at the end of the 90's, which I regret now

Roni Size

By that time the genre had become stale and rather shite

And what was I thinking buying Björk, the most overrated artist ever

You think that's bad? I spent a fortune on 04-09 era d&b .wavs

At least I still like a good deal of it. Liquid used to be real good stuff.

+1 for Bjork, nothing worse in the world than "friends" trying to make you "understand" her "genius".

radel1102 · Post by **radel1102** » Thu May 12, 2016 10:44 pm

Guns'n' Roses and a lot of other glam bands

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Thu May 12, 2016 11:15 pm

acYm wrote:+1 for Bjork, nothing worse in the world than "friends" trying to make you "understand" her "genius".

Although I do like a fair amount of her work I do fear the fan who just doesn't let you off the hook if you don't agree, fully, with the gushing idolatry.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Thu May 12, 2016 11:59 pm

I honestly thought Sebastian Bach of Skid Row was the BEST EVER SINGER IN THE WORLD OF ALL TIMES.

Still the whole hair rock scene is so deeply embedded in me by all the fantastic of what was being a teenager, that I refuse to denounce GnR, Metallica and the rest. It was the soundtrack to amazing friendships, first loves and endless nights of singing around campfires. Bach does sound like a pretentious little shit now tho.

Music you loved but makes you shudder now.