Kevin's Watch

You really can't go home again. Well, actually you can, but do you want to?

-This one really pains me. I used to love Triumph. I thought they were the second coming of Led Zeppelin. I'd go on and on about what underrated musicians they were. I went to the concerts. I bought the albums. I haven't listened to them much over the intervening years, but I've always carried the torch. So I downloaded a ton of their stuff on iTunes and went, "Whoa?!?".

As a guitar player, Rik Emmett is phenomenal. He's every bit as good as I remember him. Gil Moore is a great drummer still. But oh God is the songwriting bad. It's just painful how inane the songs are. Great melodies with good voices singing lousy lyrics interwoven with brilliant guitar work. Sad thing is that I can't turn off the lyrics and just enjoy the music.

Whitesnake
The Cars


I didn't exactly love them, but I did buy their music when I was 14. I recently bought "Slide It In" for the nostalgia factor, and couldn't get through a whole song. And the Cars are just goofy. 80's bubblegum pop.

The Who. God, they suck. If it weren't for those few incredibly great decades, they'd have been a total wash.

Moody Blues.

I used listened to them all the time.
20 years ago I found it moving and relaxing.
I had every album they had.
But I hadn't popped a CD in in several years.
I did recently and now it boring and kinda dumb.

Most of the songs from the '80s I enjoy.....for about 2 minutes, then it's just endlessly repetitive.

Cail: you are absolutely right. they were suppose to be the second coming of Rush, but their songwriting is pretty bad. And although I agree with how great Rick Emmett is, I don't think Gil was great --- average at best.

For me it is Saga. I still have all their albums and actually bought the last two that came out, but they just don't have the magic they did for me back in high school.

Bah, Rush needs no replacement. I didn't hate Triumph personally, but they had about as much chance of replacing Rush as Red Rider had of replacing Pink Floyd. I think the record labels and radio dj's did those two bands a huge disservice by hailing them as that, too.

I've been listening to the same tunes since I was in high school so this is a tough thread for me but I do have something...

When I was a kid the only album I had was a Disney sing along of the animated film "The Jungle Book". I heard a few songs recently and found "The Bare Necessities" to be strangely childish, like trying to watch an old Godzilla movie, however I still remember most all of the lyrics. On second thought maybe I need to add it to my mp3 collection...hmmmm.

The Eagles. Maybe I just played their stuff too much, but anytime an Eagles song comes on the radio, I hit "seek."

Geez, I hate to admit this:
The Fixx, when they were popular.
Now, I cannot stand to hear anything from them.

The Eagles - seen them during "Hotel California" Tour (1980?) and thought they were great then.
But due to outragous ticket prices and constant radio play
(Usually the same three songs), I've lost interest in them.

Yeah, both The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac have completely lost their luster for me. I can still listen to some of the really obscure stuff (like "King of Hollywood"), but I'm completely burned out on the mainstream stuff.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Steely Dan too.

Pretty much burnt out on Zeppelin after my jock days in highschool. Still go back to them every now and again. Same thing for Floyd, Radiohead, and Gustav Mahler. But I think those latter three are going to feel fresh to me again, if I just give ‘em time.

I still love the Fixx but, don't ask me why, dumb old Rolling Stone and a couple of other critics dubbed them "Bowie-clones" when they first came out. The same thing happened to America as "Neil Young-clones"--I still haven't been able to figure out that idiocy for 30+ years running...

I guess I must have listened to too much of the Rolling Stones and Doors back in the day, except for a few songs like Monkey Man, Sympathy for the Devil and Roadhouse Blues, I've been rather burnt out on them for the last 15 years...

I was about to say that several of the bands that I used to love then grew sick of have come back around for me now and again.

I used to love ELO, and then grew embarrased. When Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind came out and was playing Mr. Blue Sky, it made me really want to hear some again. It surprised me that it suddenly sounded so good again.

I listened to Chris DeBurgh quite a bit once upon a time, and listened to my tape that I made that was essentially my version of a best of. It sounded really good, despite some of the cheesy lyrics here and there. But I still won't admit I listened to him after the Lady In Red song. Oh...wait...I just did....

The Pogues go through periods for me. They never sound bad or embarrassing, but I've overplayed the hell out of 'em. Still, whenever I run across someone who hasn't heard them, it always sounds good again when I play them for the newbie.

It's hard for me to get excited about the Dead Milkmen anymore. Loved them to death for a while, but now...I dunno...
Still, I do have fun doing "Punk Rock Girl" at karaoke.

I think Morrissey's voice now annoys the hell out of me. I've gone back to hearing the 3 notes he sings per song that bugged me a bit when I first started listening to him. Now, I just think the music behind it all when listening to the Smiths is brilliant. And sometimes not even then.

Used to love Depeche Mode. I think it died somewhere around Music for the Masses. Now I find it hard to enjoy them, particularly since I "cheered up." Martin Gore's songs still do it for me a bit, and would love to do "A Question of Lust" at karaoke. But I think "Somebody" is dead to me. I performed it in front of my school, and in the band I was in back then, so I think practicing it killed it for me.

Lord Foul wrote:Pretty much burnt out on...Gustav Mahler...

I burned out on Mahler, too. His music just takes a lot out of me, but then, that was the reason I was drawn to him in the first place. I'll get back to him eventually, but right now I'm too busy enjoying stuff by contemporary composers - mainly Steve Reich.

Back when Soundgarden was the reigning champion of grunge metal (or whatever other arbitrary label you want), I totally loved their sound, totally loved their songs. But then one day came that I realized their music no longer moved me. Not sure how that happened, Soundgarden just had their place and time in the spotlight for me, and then it passed.

Korn. I can't listen to them now without thinking "How highschool."

Yeah, I was one of those kids...

Okay, I don't like to say stuff hasn't aged well, but I am willing to say I've changed enough over the years to where I don't like some stuff anymore, or not as much as I used to. Here are some of the bands I used to like better than I do now, or I didn't care about then, but despise now:

.38 Special
Journey
John Fogerty
CCR
REO Speedwagon
Kansas
Huey Lewis & The News
John Mellencamp
Sex Pistols
Ramones

And here's some bands that I liked early on (and still like the early work of), but thought went straight down the toilet as time passed:

ZZ Top
Boston
Styx
Starshit (I love Jefferson Airplane, tho)
Bruce Springsteen
The Cars
Heart

dANdeLION wrote:Okay, I don't like to say stuff hasn't aged well, but I am willing to say I've changed enough over the years to where I don't like some stuff anymore, or not as much as I used to.

Ramones

I agree, I can't really name anything that fits in with the thread title. Some bands I've just gotten over, and with some, I'm not entirely sure why I liked them to begin with. I don't think that good music ever becomes dated. Buddy Holly's been around forever, and I still like his songs. Here are a few that I've gotten over/sick of:

Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Eagles (wow, I really can't stand them anymore)
Rush
Pearl Jam
Marshall Tucker (good gawd! What was I thinking?)
Smashing Pumpkins
Joe Satriani

Honorable mention: Tom Petty. Not sure why, but I'm just tired of him. I guess I just listened to him too much.

As far as the Ramones go, I like them, but I don't think they're the be-all and and end-all of punk (the same goes for the Sex Pistols). They really should've quit after their 3d album. They wrote 3, maybe 4 different songs. I don't know why it was necessary to record each one 50 times. After the 5th or 6th time, I think everyone got the idea.

dANdeLION wrote: Huey Lewis & The News

Why do I always long for beautiful sunny days in the summer when I hear Huey Lewis & the News?

Tom Petty.

I like Petty, but I have absolutely no idea why. I mean, the man can't sing for shit, yet he's been around for years. Makes no sense to me.