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

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Edward, oh please!
Music works within a whole load of contexts and those contexts shift.
I'm constantly revising my opinion about stuff. Constantly being proved wrong about stuff.

really?
I don't relate to this at all. I just like it or i don't based on how it sounds and how that makes me feel. I don't see how someone else could "prove me wrong" about my opinion.

Of course it's true that *I* change over time and therefore become open to new things and bored of others. I guess that's what your 2nd sentence above says.

Having said that I'm still waiting for my Dubstep epiphany (it'd be sooooo much easier to just like it) and it never seems to happen....

Don't be surprised if it doesn't. Why should it?
Just cos other people like something, why should you?
I know you're only joking I suppose...

Big regret - when I was about 22 I decided that music should be "serious" and got rid of loads of my uk hardcore rave records :-(
By the time I was 27 I wished I still had them, of course they cost a lot more to buy now!
This was an example of me "thinking" about music instead of feeling it. I liked cheesy hardcore but thought I shouldn't and that "proper techno" was more worthy.

Much happier to not give a shit and turn of my thinking brain and just let my feet and emotions decide.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
sounded like visionaries to an impressionable teenager, especially linked with the Designers Republic branding

oh god all that horrible IDM i was so into just 6 years ago... :eek: only a handful are genuinely good from hundreds of releases i treasured...
 

mms

sometimes
Used to love... Sigur Ros... now, I couldn't listen to them. Perhaps it was that tom cruise preening vehicle that finally turned me off. The whole thing is just too disney?

As for Gang gang dance, I'll definitely defend them, despite the earth mother bizness. I used to worry about that aspect of them when I first heard them (I have pretty low hippy tolerance), but somehow it doesn't bother me anymore. I guess there's so much else going on, lots of interesting rhythmic and sonic stuff.

gang gang dance aren't really like this though, they don't come across like this live, it's just the girls voice is a bit unusual, they're much much better than some brighton band with earth mothery leanings, i think it's an easy thing to read into them but they seem to have actually made a break from this, and you're getting confused.

i have foolishly got rid of lots of records i wish i'd kept, things i'd got totally sick of, anything on mo wax or clear records, some hip hop and reggae.

when i was a teenager the first guitar music i really got into in any way apart from thrash and death metal, (which i guess i liked cos of the speed and consistency, lack of artistic pretense) was shoegaze, which apart from a few key records now sounds gloomy and poor. I think i was smoking alot of weed and trying to impress six form girls mainly who were into it.
apart from that i pretty much like variations and growth from what i liked or wanted to hear more of when i was about 13 or 14.
 
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gek-opel

entered apprentice
gang gang dance aren't really like this though, they don't come across like this live, it's just the girls voice is a bit unusual, they're much much better than some brighton band with earth mothery leanings, i think it's an easy thing to read into them but they seem to have actually made a break from this, and you're getting confused.

i have foolishly got rid of lots of records i wish i'd kept, things i'd got totally sick of, anything on mo wax or clear records, some hip hop and reggae.

when i was a teenager the first guitar music i really got into in any way apart from thrash and death metal, (which i guess i liked cos of the speed and consistency, lack of artistic pretense) was shoegaze, which apart from a few key records now sounds gloomy and poor. I think i was smoking alot of weed and trying to impress six form girls mainly who were into it.

Lizzie Bougatsos from GGD definitely isn't an "earth mother" type singer- there are elements of psychedelia in the whole band though- rhythmic psychedelia, an element of the ecstatic, certainly. Her actual vocals sound to me half way between Kate Bush at her most witchy and some deleriously inauthentic fake-out of middle eastern and south east Asian pop vox.
 

mms

sometimes
Lizzie Bougatsos from GGD definitely isn't an "earth mother" type singer- there are elements of psychedelia in the whole band though- rhythmic psychedelia, an element of the ecstatic, certainly. Her actual vocals sound to me half way between Kate Bush at her most witchy and some deleriously inauthentic fake-out of middle eastern and south east Asian pop vox.

yep. i've been trying to get their new single to no avail.
they're rhythmically and sound wise often quite close to something like aphex etc i think.

i was listening to alot of my older grime records earlier this week and thinking how amazing they were and it was helping put me off dubstep a bit.
 

gek-opel

entered apprentice
I've managed to get hold of it. Its a bit disappointing in comparison to "God's Money"... From what I have heard the EP consists of excerpts from aborted recording sessions for their new album, where their ambition was to "sound like Timbaland", (listening to the EP it sounds less like Timba than their last album did, so I can see why they gave up on the sessions...)
 
An awful lot of anticon stuff, and most "underground" rap in general. Aesop Rock, El-P, etc- what was I doing? Most of it just makes me cringe now.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
An awful lot of anticon stuff, and most "underground" rap in general. Aesop Rock, El-P, etc- what was I doing? Most of it just makes me cringe now.

same here. no funk no swing headache-rap. i like the production and beats on some of it (fun crusher) still, but the MC's are in-fucking-tolerable.
 

mms

sometimes
An awful lot of anticon stuff, and most "underground" rap in general. Aesop Rock, El-P, etc- what was I doing? Most of it just makes me cringe now.

this stuff always made me fume. that cloudead could actually be taken seriously rather then be seen through as the horrible pretentious stuff that it is, and having nothing whatsoever to do with hip hop. having said that and with that idea in mind the last odd nosdam record was really great, like god speed with a home studio set up and a brave face.
 

mms

sometimes
oh god all that horrible IDM i was so into just 6 years ago... :eek: only a handful are genuinely good from hundreds of releases i treasured...

you can do that though, esp after the 'event', old metalheadz records - some of em sound like music for testing car speakers and not much else.
 

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
I was, like so many people, tricked into believing that Modest Mouse were anything other than the empirical definition of shit music.

Thankfully I came around.
 

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
really?
I don't relate to this at all. I just like it or i don't based on how it sounds and how that makes me feel. I don't see how someone else could "prove me wrong" about my opinion.

Of course it's true that *I* change over time and therefore become open to new things and bored of others. I guess that's what your 2nd sentence above says.



Don't be surprised if it doesn't. Why should it?
Just cos other people like something, why should you?
I know you're only joking I suppose...

Big regret - when I was about 22 I decided that music should be "serious" and got rid of loads of my uk hardcore rave records :-(
By the time I was 27 I wished I still had them, of course they cost a lot more to buy now!
This was an example of me "thinking" about music instead of feeling it. I liked cheesy hardcore but thought I shouldn't and that "proper techno" was more worthy.

Much happier to not give a shit and turn of my thinking brain and just let my feet and emotions decide.

I absolutely agree with you here. The idea of having someone prove you right or wrong about your musical taste is absurd.

.... unless of course we're talking about Modest Mouse. If you like them, seek help. :)
 

mms

sometimes
I was, like so many people, tricked into believing that Modest Mouse were anything other than the empirical definition of shit music.

Thankfully I came around.

i don't and have never understood indie rock, apart from about two bands, i just fail to see why anyone would ever want to listen to it, nothing will change that, and i'm exposed to alot of it, it's all as loathsome and bland as the next pile of honky dribble.
 

Benny Bunter

Well-known member
Devendra Banhart - listened to his first two albums loads, but now he just gets on my tits.

Who knows, maybe if I hadn't read any interviews with him, saw that godawful Vetiver live or if he hadn't done that fuckin' cheese advert I might still like him.

Definitely with yez on the sigur ros u-turn, although I only ever really liked the 1st song on their first album - suddenly it seemed to be on every advert and shitty TV program going...

hmm, I can see a theme emerging here...
 

tht

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mos dan

fact music
I'm still waiting for my Dubstep epiphany (it'd be sooooo much easier to just like it) and it never seems to happen....

just to say that from my experience, if this is to happen to you it's definitely going to have to happen in a club :)
 

mos dan

fact music
I was, like so many people, tricked into believing that Modest Mouse were anything other than the empirical definition of shit music.

Thankfully I came around.

lol. you know what did it for me? (after suffering with the same delusion for a month or so) when i realised that their biggest hit was a rip off of 'she's a star' by james. that was an incredibly rude awakening.
 
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