admitting you were wrong: music you used to like and now hate

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mms

sometimes
It does...

Although it might equally have been something else or some other Wire song I was thinking of. Not that it matters, it's no condemnation. Lots of rock and roll is about recycling riffs.

Saw this tour at Brixton Academy. I think Blur had a film of someone (or was it a dog?) having a shit playing backwards.

yeah this gives me nightmares i think it was damon albran, they were terrible, the crowd was unforgiving. i guess they had the last laugh.
 

petergunn

plywood violin
oh man, pretty much everything on the first boston album is classic!

smoking! smoking! something something something gonna keep on toking!
smoking! smoking! c'mon now mama i;m not joking yeah!


that record is pretty awesome... that said, i bought my copy for 10 cents...
 

Pangaea

Active member
I really think this question should be a compulsory part of any interview with a dubstep/grime/funky DJ or producer given that the standard answer to questions concerning musical background seems to be that they were listening jungle and/or garage since the moment they were born. That might be true, but it's become such a standard answer now that it's not that interesting. You'd get a much better insight into someone's musical development if they had to give an answer like the ones people have put in this thread.

:D

In my mid-teens I bought records like this

 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
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This is the first cassette I ever had bought for me. I also had a Bros badge.

If 'Boom! Shake The Room!' hadn't come along I would probably be into JLS nowadays.

Fuck you, Fresh Prince.
 

Dr Awesome

Techsteppin'
Who remembers these guys?

I'm sure they must either be growing new ones in a vat or they're shelving botox in an effort to look young.
Maybe the reason they pander to young children is to steal their bile and kidneys for giant dialysis machines doing the same thing?
 

petergunn

plywood violin
no more like 16




i did a radio show about all the boston bands i listened to in Jr High and High School (12-18 years old)... alot of memories... i bought the Bosstones cassingle of Where'd You Go partially b/c it was a cool item in my Jr High and partially b/c they did a thrash cover of Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith (my fav!) on the b-side...

Upsidedown Cross was what all the deliquent skateboard kids listened to when i was 13... SCARY! Concussion Emsemble were such a fun live band... 4 drummers! i don't know if they ever made any mark whatsoever outside of boston, but they were amazing...

when i started getting into hardcore Sam Black Church and Tree were THE bands in boston in, say, 93-96... their popularity was equivilant to the popularity bands like SSD and Slapshot had in the 80's... actually of my fav shows i ever saw was Slapshot and Sam Black Church in 1996... bands like Chloe, Slughog, 6L6, Honkeyball, and Otis were more or less just popular in Boston... as an underage kid not all of these bands played all ages shows, but i still would buy the 7"s after reading about the bands in local zines...

http://www.viva-radio.com/index.php?contributor=148

show is called "high school memories"



jonathan richman- government center
mighty bosstones- what'd you go?
slapshot- chip on my shoulder
concussion emsemble- voodoo
upisdedown cross- upsidedown cross
god told me to- river phoenix
wifebeater- pills
tree- freedom rock
honkeyball- bruce lee
chloe- first born
6L6- yeah right
otis- officer down
sam black church- the way we were
blood for blood- i am the enemy
psycho- dead wrong
slughog- swine
post mortem- everybody loves the fish
stompbox- no wood/alcohol (gang green cover)


i don't mean to pull a Luka, but i don't think i ever listened to anything i can't stand now... well, as an adult... as a 10,11,12 year old i bought a lot of shitty hair metal like Motley Crue and Warrent... also was listening to Aerosmith, Metallica, and AC/DC...
 

Leo

Well-known member
Aye, but part of its appeal is that it's so bad, not musically, but more in a cultural sense if you get what I mean.

yeah, you and peter gunn are both right. you have to marvel at the sheer bombastic arena-rock excess and clean (antiseptic, really) sheen of the sound...but you also have to give them credit for the hooks. of course, most of the times i heard it was as a teenager smoking pot, so perhaps that has clouded my judgement.
 

cobretti

[-] :: [-] ~ [-] :: [-]
yeah, you and peter gunn are both right. you have to marvel at the sheer bombastic arena-rock excess and clean (antiseptic, really) sheen of the sound...but you also have to give them credit for the hooks. of course, most of the times i heard it was as a teenager smoking pot, so perhaps that has clouded my judgement.

The music itself is great, but almost everything it's associated with is so terrible. It's almost a victim of its own success, the good bands just spawned so many imitators that that watered everything down, and reduced that type of rock to forumulaic pish. Still great for a steaming wail though.

Is there a thread like this for music you like now, but 99% of people will think its shit? (Cue jokes about several rolling genre threads)
 
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