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07-20-2012, 03:43 PM | #102 (permalink) |
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"The Night Chicago Died" was very big in the US. It was seriously all over the place, and a few K-Tel Pop Music collections. I could relate to that kind of taste change in my evolution...yeah I liked it when I was 7.
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07-20-2012, 04:20 PM | #104 (permalink) |
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There are bands who I stopped liking due to a style change or losing the uniqueness, but I still respect them highly for at least a string of good albums and singles that make up for all the crap after that (yes, I mean U2, Simple Minds, and a couple of others from that era). Then there are bands that make me go "What was I thinking?!!!!!" only to arrive at the answer that I was a teen stuck in Small Dot, MI, and trying to find alternatives from the Styx and Journey my classmates listened to. A lot of the change into not liking a few bands by '84 was thankfully due to discovering far better music and even Hardcore Punk through a few new friends and not just getting tired and not finding anything else...in other words, evolution.
A Flock of Seagulls. Yes, them. OK, "Wishing" still is pretty damn good (their fluke good song), but I took a very brief re-visit and discovered why I seriously had to move on in music by 1984. True, they were on Bill Nelson's label for a record (possibly the only other good one they had), but once they "flew" into the Pop world and MTV/US hype, they really turned into the band that I'm certainly embarrassed to say I liked at one time in life. At least Modern English had a good album in After the Snow before they went into their ultra crap days with the guitarist trying out the Captain Hook look (the mistake that was Stop/Start...), A Flock of Seagulls don't have enough good songs to make a good full album in my opinion. Do I have to mention Men at Work? Yeah, they knew how to play and had a couple of decent songs ("Overkill" being THE one, maybe "It's a Mistake" being the other one), but my BS detector was not working to it's fullest then. I got the singles one by one 82-3, but their quirkiness was pretty forced by the summer of my last interest in anything they did. When a fall-off from fame is with a record that does not do anything for me, such as "Everything I Need" from the Two Hearts album, I knew that I was not missing anything at all in my evolution and finding my way with my music listening. I still need to find a Late 80's example to show that my BS detector was not fully operating at 100 percent, though. I need to really dive into my memories for the rest of the story. Expect total CHEESE! Compared to many of the bands listed here, I liked some real crap. Some of the bands mentioned in other posts in this thread...and I mean some...are still with merit. (There are also a few "why did I listen to it?!!!" thread winners here, but you know what I mean). Maybe sounds that are best filed under Guilty Pleasures now, but trust me, there was a lot that went into the Cutout Bins with ease I could also state a few big Top 40 songs pre-1982 that could top most of the bands listed in this thread, but I don't really want to dive into a bunch of serious crap. I put that down to childhood, and that's that. Last edited by Screen13; 07-20-2012 at 04:31 PM. |
07-20-2012, 04:38 PM | #105 (permalink) |
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My generation's possible equivalent, Hot Butter's "Popcorn." True, it's an Instrumental and introduced The Moog to the US Top 40, but damn was it bad! I used to like that one, and now the only way I could even stand it is with the rare viewing of the Shriek of the Mutilated VHS to remind me of how cheesy it was.
I never liked Rick Dee's "Disco Duck," but I could vote that an another should have been long forgotten happening from my day. Anderea True's "More More More" would possibly be another one, although at a slower BPM. |
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07-20-2012, 06:19 PM | #107 (permalink) |
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Well I like to just kinda forget about my taste from ages 10-13, since it was full of Linkin Park, Green Day, P.O.D., 3 Doors Down, and bands of that nature. That also was my classic rock phase, well up to 14 and I feel the same way about those bands, I was into Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, The Clash etc. and I don't listen to them anymore either.
My biggest recent(ish) example is Bloc Party/Arctic Monkeys/Kaiser Chiefs/that british indie stuff that I listened to from 14-15. Bloc Party used to be my favorite band around Silent Alarm and their EP, after that though, they just got progressively worse and by the time Intimacy came out I had completely lost interest (even though I did download the album).
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07-20-2012, 06:33 PM | #108 (permalink) |
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One band that I used to really love but don't anymore is AFI. I was obsessed with AFI from when they released Sing The Sorrow up until when they released Decemberunderground. Sing The Sorrow was an album that I lived inside for months, the album booklet has had it's fair share of wear and tear from reading all the lyrics and looking at all the artwork. I moved on from them a long time ago but I still stick on either Sing The Sorrow, Black Sails In The Sunset or The Art Of Drowning once in a blue moon for the nostalgia.
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07-20-2012, 08:03 PM | #109 (permalink) |
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Block Party became a big thing for a short time not too long ago. Green Day was for a while, their first 3 albums. U2 was a big favourite of mine for a couple of years. They put on a good concert. Now I don't even touch their albums anymore. The Black Keys though not a bad band... can't listen to them anymore.
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07-20-2012, 10:16 PM | #110 (permalink) |
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Most New Romantic synthpop bands for me, a la Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and the Human League. I don't hate any of these bands, it's just I've realised that there is a lot more to music than frilly haircuts and feelgood pop.
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