Bands/music from your youth you've left behind

Cheesehead · May 8th, 2008, 08:07 AM

Beatles and Stones never get old for me, but I was watching a Pink Floyd special last night and it made me think about music I used to listen to that just doesn't do it for me anymore. Floyd would probably top my list:

- Pink Floyd
- Rush
- Police (saw them last summer and it was just okay for me)
- XTC (and most everything from the 80s; they were okay but some of the other 80s stuff I listened to was god awful - the Cure?

)
- Most classic rock, with the exception of Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Allman Brothers, and Hendrix, maybe a few others

serialsteve · May 8th, 2008, 08:19 AM

-Cheap Trick
-Kiss
-Van Halen (the real stuff w/DLR)
-Nugent (70s stuff)
-Aerosmith (70s stuff)

Dennis68 · May 8th, 2008, 08:21 AM

I never tire of most 50's Rock and Roll. And each decade after served up something that I latched onto, even if for just a while.

It's hard to not like some of the core 60's and 70's music that followed my favorite decade. Bands with songs that I still play. Most 80's stuff and any ballad hair band rock stuff was quite easy to forget. To name some from the late 70's early 80's that no longer do it for me would include Def Lepard, Iron Maiden and The Cars. There are others as well I left behind as well.

Not too many bands since have I really attached to - with very few exceptions. One of the better bands I still enjoy that came out of the late 80's is The Jayhawks. Gary Louris' new stuff since they disbanded I like too.

emu! · May 8th, 2008, 08:27 AM

Pretty much all rock and roll I used to listen to seems imature to me now-a-days. And the country music I used to make fun of now makes me happy.

Jelly · May 8th, 2008, 08:33 AM

Metal - pretty much left it behind completely thank goodness. But that heavy sound lingers in my musical taste. For example I can hear some Black Sabbath in Jack White's songs and I really like it.

But punk, rock-n-roll, Hank Williams, even 80's music, I don't mind hearing that. But I don't dwell there.

I am lucky that I do like to keep moving on in my tastes. All of the music in my recently played list on iTunes was made within the last two years (well ok except that Elvis Presley song, and there's Fats Waller and Cab Calloway on there too)

tcadam · May 8th, 2008, 08:34 AM

Boston.

Jelly · May 8th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

...some of the other 80s stuff I listened to was god awful - the Cure?

)...

Really? I think of the Cure as one of the gems of that era, not one of the, well, you know

lunchbox · May 8th, 2008, 08:40 AM

All the punk and metal I listened to when I rebelled against my folk's (They are ministers) Now they laugh because all I listen to is the country and hillbilly stuff they grew up on and love. Can anyone say FULL CIRCLE.

1293 · May 8th, 2008, 08:46 AM

I haven't left anything behind. My brothers are 9 and 12 years older than me, so I had them as influences rather than my peers. I started getting records when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was mostly Beatles, Neil Young, Cream, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, Herbie Hancock, Dead, Who, Zeppelin - all stuff I still listen to.

Jelly · May 8th, 2008, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunchbox

...Can anyone say FULL CIRCLE.

May the circle be unbroken

tiktok · May 8th, 2008, 08:50 AM

Stuff I used to love (and still love the material from the "good" era) but which now I don't even bother checking out the new releases because they've let me down too many times:

U2
REM
The Cure
Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
The Who/Pete Townshend
Mike Oldfield
Paul McCartney

Conversely, acts which have defied the odds and continue to put out new music I love after several decades of good stuff:

Mark Knopfler
Richard Thompson

GoldieLocks · May 8th, 2008, 12:40 PM

I never thought I would grow out of some bands but I did:

Judas Priest - Used to be my fav band. Can't listen to em' at all now.

Jethro Tull - Ian gives me the creeps now.

Molly hatchet - sounds like a bad tribute band.

On the bright side: I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan right now.

Frontier9 · May 8th, 2008, 12:46 PM

Anyone remember Aztec Two Step?

Man, what was I thinking???

TelZilla · May 8th, 2008, 12:50 PM

I used to have fights in 7th grade with a kid who said the Stones were the greatest rock n roll band ever. I said the Who.

He was right.

I also went through a huge Springsteen phase in my early 20s. Now I only really like the Wild the inniocent and Born to Run, and selected songs from the River. Some of it just seems overwrought and corny to me...

I used to listen to tons of Devo. I don't any more, but I still love them when I do. A HUGELY ubderrated band in terms of their influence. And Are We not Men and Freedom of Chice have some tasty guit sounds on them. Seriously.

mudbean · May 8th, 2008, 12:50 PM

Chicago.

I grew up playing the Trumpet, and they were my heroes. Really lost the edge after Terry Kath killed himself in '78. Pretty much nuthin but sappy ballads after that.

mud

CatfishStudios · May 8th, 2008, 12:53 PM

I was heavy into punk...no longer...the longer ive been a musician the more my taste develops..I listen to nashville pickers now, and blues greats, and eat up jam bands if they are good....things change

Rattlecan Black · May 8th, 2008, 12:56 PM

Mostly the metal for me too. Bands like The Scorpions, Dio, Judas Priest, Megadeth, and the hair bands fell by the wayside for me, not that I was a real metal diehard. But, I do find it interesting as I get older I hear the influences of older bands on the newer ones.

jonzer · May 8th, 2008, 12:58 PM

I listened to Kiss like crazy when I was a kid...had all the posters, albums, etc. The only thing I can listen to now is Ace Frehley's solo album.
Also in the 80's I listened to every single hair metal band that came out...now it's just total garbage. I think the only song that doesn't gag me from it is Great White's "Rock Me" as I'll hear that in a bar now and then.

I can still listen to AC/DC's Back In Black. I can still listen to Van Halen (DLR era).

mudbean · May 8th, 2008, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frontier9

Anyone remember Aztec Two Step?

Man, what was I thinking???

Hey, c'mon, they were O.K.! They used to come thru town every year (sometimes twice) in the '80s when I lived in Ithaca, NY (beautiful town, BTW). Played at The Haunt, downtown. I was a Dead taper in those days, and I went in early one time while they were setting up and met Neal & Rex - both really sweet guys - they let me plug right in to their soundboard for a tape of their gig, on the condition I'd give them a copy their next time thru ... which I gave them, and they were thrilled.

I liked 'em - pretty music.

mud

octatonic · May 8th, 2008, 01:10 PM

Nick Cave.
Used to love him but can't really listen to it these days.
His christianity was always interesting (or at least not intrusive) when he was 'troubled' by it all.
In his middle age he seems to have made peace with it (which is fine) but his music has lost its edge.
I'm happy he has found some peace, but I don't really want to be subjected to it.

I don't listen to the Cure anymore either- I still think they are wonderful, but I guess I over-saturated on it.

A lot of the hard rock (Guns N Roses, Def Leppard spring to mind) just sounds juvenile to me these days.
Most metal bands, however, do not- I still listen to loads of metal.

I think my taste has matured in a way that I am less interested in the "middle of the road".
I can enjoy death metal, industrial metal, post-prog hardcore and all the extremes, but garden variety 'hard rock' sounds like unchallenging, boring music for toddlers in comparison.

ajgus · May 8th, 2008, 01:14 PM

I was a teenager in the early '90s so I was huge into the whole Seattle scene. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc. They don't get much rotation now-a-days, though...

beach bob · May 8th, 2008, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TelZilla

I also went through a huge Springsteen phase in my early 20s. Now I only really like the Wild the inniocent and Born to Run, and selected songs from the River. Some of it just seems overwrought and corny to me...

I used to listen to tons of Devo. I don't any more, but I still love them when I do. A HUGELY ubderrated band in terms of their influence. And Are We not Men and Freedom of Chice have some tasty guit sounds on them. Seriously.

Jaysus, Nick; I think you're my long lost twin! I'm just the same. Also noted you're in Clevo; I grew up in that area -- maybe that has something to do with it. Bruce still has his moments (on occasion), but I don't find anything essential about him anymore. Many moons ago he was pretty amazing, but the whole troubador thing leaves me limp. There's thirty unsigned guys in Austin that do that better. Plus Bruce's voice is shot.

& Devo was really inventive; we loved em in collage. I still can hear their stuff and smile.

As for what's left behind? I do it all the time... I seem to go through stages, mining a genere for 4 to 10 years, then moving on to another style. In HS I was a rust belt rocker; Seger, Bruce, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick. Then by college I was into art rock (ELP, Crimson, Genesis) and new wave, and some punk. Then all sorts of research into vintage Dead and Allmans and the like, plus jazz. Then it was New Orleans & related: brass bands, N.O. funk, zydeco (& a little Cajun), & traditional jazz. N.O. band Galactic was a doorway to the jam bands, some of which I like, and many of which I decidedly do not. Then I started going to bluegrass (& beyond) festivals (cuz I didn't know crap about the genre), and turned to acoustic string music of all types. Along the way I developed a love for non-NashVegas country music, which I used to hate. All the preceding has now led me to Americana, and the rather amazing group of singer songwriters out there today. Some of these have led me to some of the current / still rocking rock bands like the Bottle Rockets and the Drive By Truckers, and back to loud music in general. Which led me to a recent Tele purchase, and a 5E3 clone

So you see that in the end, it really IS about the Tele

The net result is I have a LOT of CDs laying around... drives the wife nuts. I can't get rid of all the prior eras of music, cuz I still like it all, mostly. Only some of the smoove jazz and the weird nuwave bands is truly embarassing. But they sit; only rarely do I give em a listen.

Fret Wilkes · May 8th, 2008, 01:41 PM

Ten Years After

I heard the album "A Space In Time" last weekend. What a blast from the past (mine)!! I used to love Ten Years After and that album when I was a kid. I was shocked how well I remebered it after not hearing it for 30 some odd years.

The beginnings of my record collection beyond The Beatles was formed by the Woodstock album. I pretty much bought music from all the represented artists. It was great pace to start.

Fret

boris bubbanov · May 8th, 2008, 01:53 PM

I listen to XTC as much as I ever have; never get tired of them. My girlfriend does go heavy on the Cure, but most of the time I'm still enjoying it.

As for records I bought, that I could not listen to now, just a few early singles by The Royal Guardsmen, Freddie and the Dreamers, and 2-3 others. Ohhh, 77 cents down the drain!

No, I'm actually shocked at how mature my music choices were. That's my only bragging right, to have been listening to Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks and the Buffalo Springfield and such artists when other kids bought the Monkees, Ray Stevens, The Association, Bobby Goldsboro, The Carpenters and other stinking waste.

As for individual albums, sure I've 2-3 mistakes. Like buying Neil Young's Trans before listening to any of it. Urgkhh!

May 8th, 2008, 08:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cheesehead Tele-Holic Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Age: 44 Posts: 921 6 Photos	Bands/music from your youth you've left behind Beatles and Stones never get old for me, but I was watching a Pink Floyd special last night and it made me think about music I used to listen to that just doesn't do it for me anymore. Floyd would probably top my list: - Pink Floyd - Rush - Police (saw them last summer and it was just okay for me) - XTC (and most everything from the 80s; they were okay but some of the other 80s stuff I listened to was god awful - the Cure? ) - Most classic rock, with the exception of Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Allman Brothers, and Hendrix, maybe a few others __________________ "This is blues power!" Albert King

May 8th, 2008, 08:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
Dennis68 Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hudson Valley Posts: 757	I never tire of most 50's Rock and Roll. And each decade after served up something that I latched onto, even if for just a while. It's hard to not like some of the core 60's and 70's music that followed my favorite decade. Bands with songs that I still play. Most 80's stuff and any ballad hair band rock stuff was quite easy to forget. To name some from the late 70's early 80's that no longer do it for me would include Def Lepard, Iron Maiden and The Cars. There are others as well I left behind as well. Not too many bands since have I really attached to - with very few exceptions. One of the better bands I still enjoy that came out of the late 80's is The Jayhawks. Gary Louris' new stuff since they disbanded I like too. __________________ -Dennis

May 8th, 2008, 08:33 AM	#5 (permalink)
Jelly Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 1,414 10 Photos	Metal - pretty much left it behind completely thank goodness. But that heavy sound lingers in my musical taste. For example I can hear some Black Sabbath in Jack White's songs and I really like it. But punk, rock-n-roll, Hank Williams, even 80's music, I don't mind hearing that. But I don't dwell there. I am lucky that I do like to keep moving on in my tastes. All of the music in my recently played list on iTunes was made within the last two years (well ok except that Elvis Presley song, and there's Fats Waller and Cab Calloway on there too) __________________ "I got on a bus and I went to Fresno because I thought Merle Haggard lived there."

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lunchbox Tele-Meister Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Venice, Fl Age: 39 Posts: 467	All the punk and metal I listened to when I rebelled against my folk's (They are ministers) Now they laugh because all I listen to is the country and hillbilly stuff they grew up on and love. Can anyone say FULL CIRCLE. __________________ TWANGALICIOUS!!!!

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tiktok Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 3,177	Stuff I used to love (and still love the material from the "good" era) but which now I don't even bother checking out the new releases because they've let me down too many times: U2 REM The Cure Bob Dylan Van Morrison The Who/Pete Townshend Mike Oldfield Paul McCartney Conversely, acts which have defied the odds and continue to put out new music I love after several decades of good stuff: Mark Knopfler Richard Thompson __________________ It takes two people to paint a perfect painting: one to paint it, and the other to shoot him when it's done. http://www.myspace.com/travishartnett http://www.myspace.com/sugarcanemutiny http://www.myspace.com/davidbavas

May 8th, 2008, 08:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
serialsteve Tele-Holic Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 525	-Cheap Trick -Kiss -Van Halen (the real stuff w/DLR) -Nugent (70s stuff) -Aerosmith (70s stuff)

May 8th, 2008, 08:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
emu! Tele-Holic Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Runnin' from the law Posts: 822	Pretty much all rock and roll I used to listen to seems imature to me now-a-days. And the country music I used to make fun of now makes me happy.

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tcadam Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Delaware Age: 41 Posts: 276 1 Photos	Boston.

May 8th, 2008, 08:46 AM	#9 (permalink)
1293 Tele-Afflicted Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,432	I haven't left anything behind. My brothers are 9 and 12 years older than me, so I had them as influences rather than my peers. I started getting records when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was mostly Beatles, Neil Young, Cream, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, Herbie Hancock, Dead, Who, Zeppelin - all stuff I still listen to.

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GoldieLocks Tele-Holic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abbotsford B.C. Posts: 782	Old music? I never thought I would grow out of some bands but I did: Judas Priest - Used to be my fav band. Can't listen to em' at all now. Jethro Tull - Ian gives me the creeps now. Molly hatchet - sounds like a bad tribute band. On the bright side: I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan right now. __________________ "How little I know inspires me tremendously! I'm a huge fan of other people's playing." Bonnie Raitt

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Frontier9 TDPRI Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Sunny New Jersey Posts: 79	Anyone remember Aztec Two Step? Man, what was I thinking???

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TelZilla Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cleveburg, USA Age: 38 Posts: 1,579 6 Photos	I used to have fights in 7th grade with a kid who said the Stones were the greatest rock n roll band ever. I said the Who. He was right. I also went through a huge Springsteen phase in my early 20s. Now I only really like the Wild the inniocent and Born to Run, and selected songs from the River. Some of it just seems overwrought and corny to me... I used to listen to tons of Devo. I don't any more, but I still love them when I do. A HUGELY ubderrated band in terms of their influence. And Are We not Men and Freedom of Chice have some tasty guit sounds on them. Seriously. __________________ Thanks,Nick Witless and Affected. Always.

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mudbean Tele-Holic Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SoCal Semi-Desert Semi-Paradise Age: 49 Posts: 857	Chicago. I grew up playing the Trumpet, and they were my heroes. Really lost the edge after Terry Kath killed himself in '78. Pretty much nuthin but sappy ballads after that. mud __________________ *Everyone brings joy to my room ... some by entering, some by leaving.* www.mudbean.com

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CatfishStudios Tele-Holic Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon , United States Age: 32 Posts: 713	I was heavy into punk...no longer...the longer ive been a musician the more my taste develops..I listen to nashville pickers now, and blues greats, and eat up jam bands if they are good....things change __________________ “Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”-Jerry Garcia

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Rattlecan Black TDPRI Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 20	Mostly the metal for me too. Bands like The Scorpions, Dio, Judas Priest, Megadeth, and the hair bands fell by the wayside for me, not that I was a real metal diehard. But, I do find it interesting as I get older I hear the influences of older bands on the newer ones. __________________ I'm not looking for El Dorado.

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jonzer Tele-Holic Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 981	I listened to Kiss like crazy when I was a kid...had all the posters, albums, etc. The only thing I can listen to now is Ace Frehley's solo album. Also in the 80's I listened to every single hair metal band that came out...now it's just total garbage. I think the only song that doesn't gag me from it is Great White's "Rock Me" as I'll hear that in a bar now and then. I can still listen to AC/DC's Back In Black. I can still listen to Van Halen (DLR era). __________________ http://816rocks.com/

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octatonic Tele-Afflicted Join Date: May 2007 Location: London Posts: 1,282	Nick Cave. Used to love him but can't really listen to it these days. His christianity was always interesting (or at least not intrusive) when he was 'troubled' by it all. In his middle age he seems to have made peace with it (which is fine) but his music has lost its edge. I'm happy he has found some peace, but I don't really want to be subjected to it. I don't listen to the Cure anymore either- I still think they are wonderful, but I guess I over-saturated on it. A lot of the hard rock (Guns N Roses, Def Leppard spring to mind) just sounds juvenile to me these days. Most metal bands, however, do not- I still listen to loads of metal. I think my taste has matured in a way that I am less interested in the "middle of the road". I can enjoy death metal, industrial metal, post-prog hardcore and all the extremes, but garden variety 'hard rock' sounds like unchallenging, boring music for toddlers in comparison. __________________ “Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.” - Henry David Thoreau.

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ajgus Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: chicago Posts: 1,539	I was a teenager in the early '90s so I was huge into the whole Seattle scene. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc. They don't get much rotation now-a-days, though... __________________ "Is anyone here a Marine Biologist?!!!"

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Fret Wilkes Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Harmony, R.I. Age: 51 Posts: 863 21 Photos	Ten Years After I heard the album "A Space In Time" last weekend. What a blast from the past (mine)!! I used to love Ten Years After and that album when I was a kid. I was shocked how well I remebered it after not hearing it for 30 some odd years. The beginnings of my record collection beyond The Beatles was formed by the Woodstock album. I pretty much bought music from all the represented artists. It was great pace to start. Fret __________________ See, I didn't reconize ya when ya first drove up till ya stuck yer hand out and wove then I seen right off who ya was and knowd ya. Epiphany: The Ignore List can make the TDPRI and even BETTER place to be!

May 8th, 2008, 01:53 PM	#24 (permalink)
boris bubbanov Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA + in the past Posts: 6,397	I listen to XTC as much as I ever have; never get tired of them. My girlfriend does go heavy on the Cure, but most of the time I'm still enjoying it. As for records I bought, that I could not listen to now, just a few early singles by The Royal Guardsmen, Freddie and the Dreamers, and 2-3 others. Ohhh, 77 cents down the drain! No, I'm actually shocked at how mature my music choices were. That's my only bragging right, to have been listening to Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks and the Buffalo Springfield and such artists when other kids bought the Monkees, Ray Stevens, The Association, Bobby Goldsboro, The Carpenters and other stinking waste. As for individual albums, sure I've 2-3 mistakes. Like buying Neil Young's Trans before listening to any of it. Urgkhh! __________________ Bubban0v