Red Mosquito

Kevin Davis wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote: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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote: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

cutuphalfdead wrote:greatest hits or gtfo, strat

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

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

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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

Fuzzcharger wrote:

ilpazzo wrote: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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:These categories seem a bit vague to me. Maybe I'm too young for this?