Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
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Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
U2.
I was a huge U2 fan for 20 plus years. Saw them live 5 times.
I stopped listening at some point, however...and they completely dropped off of my radar.
For some reason I decided to spin War today and it’s a damned good record. I might reconsider my stance on relegating them to my musical past.
I have not been impressed by their recent music. They’re trying way too hard to sound like themselves, but I think they might be salvageable.
I was a huge U2 fan for 20 plus years. Saw them live 5 times.
I stopped listening at some point, however...and they completely dropped off of my radar.
For some reason I decided to spin War today and it’s a damned good record. I might reconsider my stance on relegating them to my musical past.
I have not been impressed by their recent music. They’re trying way too hard to sound like themselves, but I think they might be salvageable.
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I go through phases with REM and Butthole Surfers. Both bands are bands I prefer in the 80s, like some 90s stuff, and then are...not what I’m looking for after.
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I followed up War with October. I’ve forgotten how good that LP is. You can hear the post punk influence. Production is raw, but powerful.
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Definitely REM with me. I struggle with their post Document stuff.
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Re: Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
The Scorpions
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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You're goddam right! If there is a smart man's metal act, that act is The Scorpions. Great name, great look, and they were a bunch of krauts. Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker were born to be the German representatives of 70s/80s metal. There is no way that Spinal Tap gets written without the existence of Animal Magnetism's cover art.
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They are absolutely perfect through Document. Then the next three albums have moments I really like but are less than the whole. Then Monster happens and I’m done. But I keep trying.WestwayKid wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 9:10pmDefinitely REM with me. I struggle with their post Document stuff.
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I agree here to a point, REM had some good moments. I can't get past how... soft they were. I forget who said it but some respected rocker once said, "I was just always waiting for them to just rock and they never did.". That said, I did a lot of fiddling with girls in high school with Out of TIme playing in the background. Wholesome stuff.Wolter wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 10:50pmThey are absolutely perfect through Document. Then the next three albums have moments I really like but are less than the whole. Then Monster happens and I’m done. But I keep trying.WestwayKid wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 9:10pmDefinitely REM with me. I struggle with their post Document stuff.
Re: Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
Probably lots of stuff. Wolt mentioned Butthole Surfers who I haven't listened to in forever.
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This happens to me all the time, but after I listen to the old albums, I'm usually set for another 5 years.
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Re: Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
Pixies are a band that I'll listen to obsessively for a couple weeks, then nothing for years. No idea why.
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Re: Bands you used to like...stopped listening to, but might consider again?
Clash 2 every 10 years.
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I can listen to everything from Murmur through Document start to finish. As you said, it's a prefect run of albums. Green through Automatic I can listen to all the way through, but there are some songs that are clearly not as good. I could then take Monster and everything after and make one playlist of the songs I like...but I'd never listen to those albums all of the way through.Wolter wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 10:50pmThey are absolutely perfect through Document. Then the next three albums have moments I really like but are less than the whole. Then Monster happens and I’m done. But I keep trying.WestwayKid wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 9:10pmDefinitely REM with me. I struggle with their post Document stuff.
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Hello,BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 11:05pmI agree here to a point, REM had some good moments. I can't get past how... soft they were. I forget who said it but some respected rocker once said, "I was just always waiting for them to just rock and they never did.". That said, I did a lot of fiddling with girls in high school with Out of TIme playing in the background. Wholesome stuff.Wolter wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 10:50pmThey are absolutely perfect through Document. Then the next three albums have moments I really like but are less than the whole. Then Monster happens and I’m done. But I keep trying.WestwayKid wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 9:10pmDefinitely REM with me. I struggle with their post Document stuff.
I felt the same way about REM. They had gotten too soft and artsy (pretentious). Listen to the first three tracks of Accelerate. This was a short comeback.
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Of their 21st c records, the only REM song that I can say that I like is "Imitation of Life." Cool, trippy video, too.
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