Entertainment For Lively Minds
Music we didt like then but we do now (and the other way round)
Posted by Steve Turner on 6 November 2011 - 6:45pm.
The Mahavishnu post got me thinking that I love their albums more now than when I first heard them at 16. I think in their case the music was too complex for my young ears to fully appreciate. I also had a roadblock on any form of Reggae possibly because it wasn't cool amongst my elitist friends. Now I love it.
Similarly My life in the bush of ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno sounds much better now than when I first bought it.
Contrary to this I can no longer listen to Deacon Blue, most hard rock that I liked and almost anything with a syn-drum.
Oh and today I heard the Cranberries for the first time in years and they sounded abysmal. Did I really used to like them? What was I thinking?
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Reggae...
interesting! I always thought I didn't like Reggae, but Stick of this board made me a "short history of Reggae" recently. Turns out that actually I didn't know any Reggae (my knowledge begun and ended at Bob Marley), and I do rather like it.
As for Cranberries... I could never stand them, but that's not changed!
Fergus Sings the Blues
Deacon Blue ... what's not to like?
"...in bars of 12 or less"
The old 11 bar blues :-)
The Smiths...
When the band was still extant, I thought Morrissey was a twat. Hearing aids, gladioli, banging on about vegetarianism, oh woe is me, depressing, doom-laden sixth form poetry for saddo loners with really bad acne who look like Mr Logic from Viz.
Later in life (thanks lovely Rachel) I started to listen to the music and realized that The Smiths were one of the greatest pop groups of all time. However I still harbour the belief that Morrissey is somewhat prone to twatery.
Couldn't agree more.
I might have misseed the humour in the lyrics/persona. I'm still not sure though.
I'm guilty of that too
I had them resolutely filed under "twats" from day one*. But thanks to my kids playing The Smiths to death some years ago, I've grown to appreciate just how good they are.
If only we could overcome all our irrational prejudices quite so easily. ;-)
*See also The Cure.
Similarly I despised Genesis
because in the late 70s I thought they epitomised 27-minute-long prog concept 'suites' and I loved post-punk. Then, in the mid-80s they became pop chart-fodder and were fronted by Phil 'nonce-sense' Collins, who spent his time trying to turn them into a very bad RnB band (with synthesisers).
Then someone sat me down and made me listen to the Gabriel/Hackett years and I realised that inside the crust of crud was a nugget of gold - and it sounded like this:
I don't think I've heard that for 25 years...
and it sounds *way* better than I remember! I think I might have to give those early Genesis records another listen...
and then I listened to OMD again the other day
oh dear, oh dear - I may even have had a T-shirt: THE HORROR, THE HORROR