Breaking up with your favorite bands

[swan]

bands you swore off entirely and never looked back: Flaming Lips
bands you simply grew away from with age: Sublime
bands you no longer follow, but you still remember the good times: Ben Harper
bands you'll stick by no matter what: Radiohead

[LoathedVermin72]

These categories seem a bit vague to me.

They're a bit cut-and-dry -- they oversimplify the oftentimes transient role music tends to play in a person's life, coming and going in a way that listener doesn't always have as much control over as the categories suggest. I don't know that any band cleanly falls into the first category for me -- that idea of consciously "cutting ties" with a band in a way that rules out any kind of natural growth away from them seems kinda dumb, as if one day you just decide you don't want to be the kind of person who listens to, say, Pink Floyd anymore, which I don't really understand. There are a lot of bands that fit in some joint configuration of the second and third categories. There are a lot of bands I'll probably always keep up on, but "no matter what" is a pretty big commitment.

I've been surprised by how many artists I've thought I was "done with" only to find myself interested again years later for entirely new reasons (The Grateful Dead are a great example of this in my life right now), and many times I've written things off for reasons that seemed extremely important at the time but seem increasingly stupid as time goes on (I have always enjoyed Def Leppard and Aerosmith and bands from that era of my childhood, and there was a time when I felt I shouldn't listen to music like that because of some high-minded principles about art that I couldn't care less about now). Most commonly I simply find something that once sounded great to me now sounds less great -- is this inherently the same as "growing out of" something? It's hard to say.

Basically, at time present I have no desire to hear anything by thr Doors, Coldplay, or the Dave Matthews Band ever again, and will probably buy every Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, or Brad Mehldau album released between now and my death or theirs. However, I expected the same of Elvis Costello, and then he collaborated with Marcus Mumford. The future's uncertain and the end is always near.

yeah that's what I meant to say

[Strat]

Ill throw on "big ones" and half a ball of a time!

[Norah]

greatest hits or gtfo, strat

[Kevin Davis]

These categories seem a bit vague to me.

They're a bit cut-and-dry -- they oversimplify the oftentimes transient role music tends to play in a person's life, coming and going in a way that listener doesn't always have as much control over as the categories suggest. I don't know that any band cleanly falls into the first category for me -- that idea of consciously "cutting ties" with a band in a way that rules out any kind of natural growth away from them seems kinda dumb, as if one day you just decide you don't want to be the kind of person who listens to, say, Pink Floyd anymore, which I don't really understand. There are a lot of bands that fit in some joint configuration of the second and third categories. There are a lot of bands I'll probably always keep up on, but "no matter what" is a pretty big commitment.

I've been surprised by how many artists I've thought I was "done with" only to find myself interested again years later for entirely new reasons (The Grateful Dead are a great example of this in my life right now), and many times I've written things off for reasons that seemed extremely important at the time but seem increasingly stupid as time goes on (I have always enjoyed Def Leppard and Aerosmith and bands from that era of my childhood, and there was a time when I felt I shouldn't listen to music like that because of some high-minded principles about art that I couldn't care less about now). Most commonly I simply find something that once sounded great to me now sounds less great -- is this inherently the same as "growing out of" something? It's hard to say.

Basically, at time present I have no desire to hear anything by thr Doors, Coldplay, or the Dave Matthews Band ever again, and will probably buy every Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, or Brad Mehldau album released between now and my death or theirs. However, I expected the same of Elvis Costello, and then he collaborated with Marcus Mumford. The future's uncertain and the end is always near.

yeah that's what I meant to say

the people's champ must be everything the people can't be

[Strat]

greatest hits or gtfo, strat

the red one? and miss deuces are wild? Get out of here.

[The Argonaut]

For category four, bands you'll stick with no matter what, does that means bands you maybe should break up with but never will? Or bands that you won't break up with because there is no reason to, they were always great and they always will be?

[VinylGuy]

Pff Metallica. Saw them in 1999 and that was it. I didnt even went back to their old material.

[gardenparty]

bands you no longer follow, but you still remember the good times: Ben Harper

I put the same on this one but almost put them in the "grown out of" option.
Used to love him and then the songwriting just became extremely corny and dull.

Had a free ticket to see him and the Innocent Criminals at the Hollywood Bowl last weekend. Was hoping it would re-spark the flame but it was a horrible show. Adult contemporary garbage.

I do think he may have something left but it will need to find me instead of the other way around.

[ilpazzo]

bands you swore off entirely and never looked back: RHCP, Green Day, Weezer
bands you simply grew away from with age: The Doors, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Live, Anything labeled "Nu Metal"
bands you no longer follow, but you still remember the good times: Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, GnR, Metallica, White Stripes
bands you'll stick by no matter what: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Zepplin, Queen, Dio Era Sabbath
band I strangely seem to grow closer to with age: Mudhoney

[Fuzzcharger]

band I strangely seem to grow closer to with age: Mudhoney

I've had this a lot the last 10 years over Mudhoney. I struggled to get into them with the lack of melody in the 90's and then it just clicked. I thought their last album was really good too.

[CopperTom]

bands you swore off entirely and never looked back: I never liked a band and then hated them later.

bands you simply grew away from with age: Wierd AL, U2

bands you no longer follow, but you still remember the good times: Counting Crows, Sigur Ros

bands you'll stick by no matter what: Pearl Jam, Radiohead, The Doors, Led Zeppelin

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[bodysnatcher]

In my freshman drawing class in college, we had a project where we were supposed to draw "doors" so that we could study ambient lighting and shadows from backlit rooms. The final day comes where we all hang up our drawings for critique, and this one chick had drawn a portrait of Jim Morrison

[tragabigzanda]

[ilpazzo]

band I strangely seem to grow closer to with age: Mudhoney

I've had this a lot the last 10 years over Mudhoney. I struggled to get into them with the lack of melody in the 90's and then it just clicked. I thought their last album was really good too.

Vanishing Point is FANTASTIC.

[epilogue]

These categories seem a bit vague to me. Maybe I'm too young for this?

Yeah, me too.