But just to be clear, in my first post I was asking about albums that you've slagged off and then realized were pretty good years later.
I can't really think of any. There's been quite a few albums that I was really disappointed with or didn't like straight away but within a relatively short time grew to really dig. Can't say any took years though. Even now, but especially back then, if I didn't like or was disappointed in an album, I'd listen to it over and over and within a few weeks, I'd be hooked. The one time that didn't happen was back in 1980 when I tried ever so hard to like Bad Company's "Straight shooter". It just wasn't happening. So don't be sending it to me for my birthday ! I'll just swap it !!
Thinking about it, when the Spice girls first hit, I so wanted to dislike them because all the teenage girls I was working with at the time were into them. But at a kids' party I was helping out at, I heard their first album and not knowing it was them, but thinking the songs were good, I enquired as to who were these songs by.
I got a shock at the reply ! So I had to modify my view of them.
But not so much that I went out and bought it.
I can't say my tastes have changed at all.
My tastes have progressed. If I go back to 1970, there's been an adding on of stuff which, between '76 and '92 was at it's zenith and has slowed down considerably since then.
Am I supposed to switch to easy listening or something? At what age are you supposed to start liking and playing old folks music?
I always did. In my family, I was the great eclectic. I liked the classical stuff of my Dad, the easy listening {stuff like the Seekers} pop of my Mum, the soul I heard at weddings and gatherings
and thevarious pop stuff {David Cassidy, David Essex, Carly Simon, The Bay City Rollers, Gary Glitter} that my sisters and friends liked. I was a right magpie. Still dig them too {though I can't listen to Gary anymore.....}.
I hope I die before I get there.
That can be arranged !
My songs are getting dumber and more juvenile as I get older.
I sometimes feel that. I'll look at some of my lyrics and think, this isn't what you'd imagine a near 50 year old would come up with or when my friends have been recording and we do the mad vocals or sound effects, we have a hard time not cracking up. But I think music and subject matter and ways of conveying such took a very important turn after the advent of Bob Dylan's lyrics and the song "Yellow Submarine". After them, serious writers could come up with all kinds of jocular material {"Boris the spider"} that stood on a par with more serious material and wouldn't be regarded as 'novelty' stuff.
And after the 60s, older people found they still could write about things that younger people could identify with.
I'll say this: my kids don't really like my music, which is fine.
My kids are the opposite. They go around humming my pieces and they often pop in when I'm recording or submixing or mixing for a listen. When my older son wanted one of my songs on his ipod, I didn't try to talk him out of it !
Kids aren't supposed to like their parents's music.
I see it the other way actually. I have long felt that some of the music our parents listened to kind of filtered in by osmosis and familiarity bred liking.
My Dad was a rare man for his time. A Nigerian in mid 50s Birmingham and alone among his peers and pals as a lover of classical music. When we kids used to be in bed and my Mum, being a night nurse, was out at work, he'd settle down and spend the evening listening to his classical stuff. He was taping reel to reel off the radio from before I was born ! So over 13 years or so, I'd be hearing this music without really taking conscious notice of it. But I obviously took it in because I never disliked it or made fun of it. And by the time I was 12, 13, I genuinely liked some of those pieces. By the time I was collecting my own stuff, I'd have the odd bit of classical and now I have quite a bit of it. That came from my Dad.
it's always good to have the attention of the younguns
I think children of just about every era since the dawn of the 20th century have actually been pretty versatile in their music tastes. Although it's long been fashionable to criticize various genres, I've never yet come across a kid that only liked one genre and in the plethora of interviews and biogs that I've read over the years, it's almost always struck me the kind of music the bands/artists we love {and hate !} dug as kids. Even with the punks, you'll find loads of the Brits were into glam and prog, while many of the Americans were into psychedelia, folk rock and poetry.
Robgreen said something in another thread about how he thinks people gravitate back to what they liked in their teens and I think that's pretty spot on. I've turned over alot of stones in my life and now find myself listening to the same albums I liked when I was 14.
There's very, very little music I've stopped liking since I first heard it. I tend to be someone who, if I liked something, I mean, really liked something, regardless of the age I was at the time I first heard it, I still like it now. My record collection goes back to when I was 2 & 3 with "Get off of my cloud" by the Stones and the songs that appeared on the Monkees TV show and songs like "My boy lollipop", "Baby love" and stuff that reminds me of my Mum because she used to listen to that kind of chart stuff on her radio with the holes and brown leather case.......
I think that's pretty common. Pretty much everyone finds their musical identity in their teens, and they stay there for a long time.
I think that's true. Alot of our identity in a number of important things comes into sharp focus in our teens. It's when we become really independent thinking beings ~ with something to say and different, thought out ways of saying it.
Personally, everything I listened to in my teens, I still listen to and enjoy today.
I just don't like the evolution of their music. Miles away from their early stuff.
That's fair.
Like I said earlier, I don't really believe in the concept of selling out. But I absolutely believe in the evolution of artists' music. It's their right and their freedom to evolve as they see fit. It's not something that one can plan. It's also my right and my freedom to not go with the evolution.
