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D'ya find yourself revisiting the music of your youth? or do you just leave it there and are constantly movin' on music wise
I have recently found myself knee deep in Zep...Santana...Focus....Mahavishnu orchestra.....Hendrix....I have just bought up the 1st six Santana albums again ( expect tae see them in my CDs for sale ad ) these Santana six are so removed from all the Santana stuff that came later....just thinkin' out loud folks
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This afternoon I went through side 1 of the album for the first time. Lots of stuff was already in my fingers... Led Zeppelin and Hendrix-y type shapes.
I've re-acquired most of the music I liked when I was a kid. Some I still liked, some I didn't and got rid of again.
I've also found that I now like a lot of the music I hated at the time - often while actually knowing it was good, I just didn't get on with it at all... eg the late-70s Bee Gees, and Steely Dan.
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I still listen to all my old cds, if not my albums so much, and I'm currently listening to BB King at Cook County Jail.
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I’ve also been revisiting my old late 60’s and 70’s albums recently, Alice Cooper’s ‘Killer’, Slade Alive, and Caravan’s ‘For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night’ spring to mind. Over Christmas I pondered on the reasons with my son, who finally decided that it was because “They just don’t make it like that anymore.” I guess that’s true of each generation of music.
I remain open to new stuff but I just don’t get as incredibly excited about it as I did when hearing, say, Van Halen’s first, Zeppelin, or Uriah Heep Live.
To be honest, if I never heard 99% of today's chart singles ever again, I don’t think it would bother me one bit.
Good music used to be recommended by word of mouth or the loan of LPs. That doesn't happen as much these days.
I do think a lot of modern music is over processed and over produced. They can't seem to leave well alone and they've never heard the expression 'less is more'.
There is some good new music that is refreshing to hear but a lot of it turns me off quite fast.
I typed "my top songs of 2017" into Spotify the other day:
I got back the 100 tracks I've listened to most.
80 artists.
10 artists were proper old school -- i.e. from the period of my life when I was 15-25.
Then there's this big void... (coincided with marriage as it happens), there are about 3 from that period I reckon.
And the music starts again from 2003!
Then again, I’ve just been upstairs getting ready for New Years celebrations whilst listening to Pearl Jam at the Newcastle Riverside in 1991 so, y’know...
I’ve never had any time for chart pop, and the belief that “music’s getting worse” is, I think, wrongly based on the shite that commercial radio pumps out. The charts have always been bollocks, back to when they were first invented.
I like 6Music - Craig Charles champions new artists relentlessly and if you like funk then it’s a smorgasbord every Saturday evening. Huey Morgan is rapidly becoming one of my favourite DJs due to the sheer variety of music he plays, new along with old.
Basically, the music scene has never been richer and, whilst I’ll still cheerfully listen to Appetite for Destruction for the 1,234,665th time, I love to hear new material as well. It’s a balance.
In the same vein as Sassafras...I never left behind the music from my youth..it stands as a reference point by which all else is measured. What is now back catalogue used to be brand new to me.
Does anyone remember the excitement of coming home on the bus with the very latest album tucked under your arm? I can remember it like it was yesterday...and it was 40 odd bloody years ago...
Some of the newer stuff I'm sure will also become classics in the same way....
As for whole artists, hasn’t that always been the case? It’s surely not possible. The brighter the star burns and all that.
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