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Yester love - albums that you've 'worn out'

13:18 / 27.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Rizla in the 'Pixies' thread:
a year or two ago, I spent a month jumping around listening to nothing but Pixies and revelling in their general greatness. Which made it one of the most fun months ever, but sadly means I'm sick to death of all their albums, having listened to them 800 times each..

I've done this before. The Stone Roses, for example. I hate to think of the amount of time I spent listening to that record - it formed the soundtrack for my last two years at secondary school and I know it inside out. For some reason, this now leads to the point where I just can't be bothered putting the damn thing on the stereo any more.

Screamadelica has also suffered the same fate, although to a lesser degree.

I came late to the Manics, but The Holy Bible was a constant presence in my life for a while - there's a period of about two months in my life where I listened to nothing else. At all. I can't even go near that record now.

Does this mean that these albums aren't as good as I once thought? Have they failed to stand the test of time? Or is it that I've tied them up in the past - does the amount of time I spent with them in the past mean that they're forever destined to be associated with that past?

Because there are other albums that I've listened to just as much (The Fatima Mansions' 'Viva Dead Ponies', for one) that haven't suffered the same fate.

Yet.

13:29 / 27.07.01

The inexorable exhaustability of beautiful things. Drinking, women, music... all fall before the restless human desire for novelty and progression. 'Tis a terrible thing. Take solace in the fact that things lose their oldness and become (nostalgic) new best friends ('old is the new new'). For years I couldn't listen to The Beatles or The Stones, but now it's like rediscovering perfection, a kind of deja vu/new thing. Why not explore the dark waters of Frank Black's solo career or The Breeders if you're missing those crazy Pixies?

16:12 / 27.07.01

The truly great albums are one's that you can play everyday for a year, and they still sound fresh. I won't bother listing them, as that would kind of reverse the objective of this thread..

I've completely worn out my favourite records by the likes of ..Trail of Dead, At The Drive-In, Urusei Y, iDLEWiLD, Primal Scream etc. just through continuous full volume exposure.

Most of the dumber punk stuff I like (The Vandals, The Donnas, Bouncing Souls etc.) is pretty disposable - half a dozen listens and it's filed away forever more. This isn't neccessarily a bad thing.

Hip-Hop on the other hand can stand up to millions of listens, as it's a lot more dense and the albums are generally much longer.

Ganesh

18:56 / 27.07.01

I 'discovered' Kate Bush when I was seventeen or eighteen, and bought all her albums in quick succession, played them until they were raw, and got well overfamiliar with them. It's been two years now; they're just about ripe for another listen...

22:06 / 27.07.01

Hip-Hop on the other hand can stand up to millions of listens, as it's a lot more dense and the albums are generally much longer.

Mister, I've got 2 words for you: Paul's Boutique. Holy fuck, it's almost criminal how much I love that damn CD. The real shame is that I don't listen to more hip-hop.

For almost a year I listened to "London Calling"--constantly. And I still have Cheap Trick's @ Budokan in my car.

Plus the infamous Replacements' C.B.G.B.'s gig where they do everything from the Green Acres theme song to covering the Beatles' "Let It Be" with the words to "Fuck School" to covering "Take A Walk On The Wild Side" with the lyrics as "We thought we could pull the wool over all of you/looks like it worked & we made some money tonight/So, hey babe, let's take a walk to the Bank"

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

01:42 / 28.07.01

And it would also be obvious that I have worn out my copy of the Old 97's, Too Far to Care. Every time I listen to it, I still get the goosebumps I got when I first heard it. Never ever ever gets old.

01:42 / 28.07.01

I'm with Rizla on the typical punk thing, I used to be all into anything that was Oi! but burnt myself out on it rather quickly, then it became garage rock, but none of the bands are as good as the Stooges or the Makers or ? & the Mysterians (the three main bands that garage bands try to be nowadays). As of late, I've come to realize that the only band that I want to listen to that sounds like the Dead Boys is the Dead Boys, same for the Exploited (actually, it goes doubly for the Exploited, as the bands that try to be them are far more annoying), same for Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks. A while ago I burned myself out on the Dead Kennedys, but recently I've begun to love 'em again. I have completely burned myself out on the Stray Cats though, don't know why, just can't dig 'em that much anymore.

23:01 / 28.07.01

>>Makers<<

What did you think of RockStarGod?

And if its garage you want look for the Sonics.

06:05 / 30.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Biologic K-9:
>>Makers<<

What did you think of RockStarGod?

And if its garage you want look for the Sonics.

I love RockStarGod.

My main beef with the Sonics is that they do too many goddamn covers, which they did address in the liner notes for Boom. Their originals are fucking incredible though, and the way Jerry Glosdale sings sends shivers down my spine. For some reason, I forgot them though, cuz there a lot of bands trying to be the Sonics too, and none of them can touch them. I'm a bit suprised that more bands don't go for the Back From the Grave Crypt Records sound, though.

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:05 / 30.07.01

I'd worn out Tom Waits' Small Change. I love the guy, but had played this particular CD so much, during a particularly bad time of life, that it was just too much of a downer to listen to - things like "I Wish I Was In New Orleans" were just killing. But I've come 'round to it again; the rapiness of voice is just brilliant.

17:51 / 30.07.01

pulp.

although it's been a while and i'm ready for them again.

z3r0

11:07 / 31.07.01

ok computer, nevermind, a bunch of really old floyd albums, ten, the great eastern (delgados). from the top of my head.

11:14 / 07.08.01

Unfortunately, I can no longer listen to Everthing Everything (a live Underworld CD). Just too many times...

<shudder>

12:56 / 07.08.01

OK Computer
The Janes Addiction "Live" album - though I still love their cover of "Sympathy for the Devil"
Most My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult albums
New Order Substance: 1987 - eeeeyugh. Definitely worn it out.
Morissey "Bona Drag" - Sorry 'Nesh!
Lauryn Hill "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"
Cornershop "When I was Born for the 7th Time" - But really I still love that album
I have worn out both Check Your Head as well as Paul's Boutique but really I couldn't ever stop loving them...

23:48 / 07.08.01

And an album that has sustained me and 1,000's of others through the horrible adolescent years: The Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes. My first copy was recorded in a campground rec room with the boombox mic on and I can still hear phantom billiard balls break in the background everytime I dust it off. Get the CD for the song that should be played to every 13 year old girl: "Gimme The Car"

"Come on, dad/give me the car tonight/Come on, dad, give me the car/I got this girl I wanna fuck/Come on, dad, gimme the car"

00:47 / 08.08.01

Stone Roses - self titled. Though I must say I haven't put it on for a long time either. I am utterly sick of Fool's Gold though.

11:24 / 08.08.01

quote:Originally posted by Margin Walker:
Get the CD for the song that should be played to every 13 year old girl: "Gimme The Car"

only available on the american issue

have yet to get sick of that album, but i certainly don't play it as much as i used to

04:58 / 15.08.01

flood by they might be giants is all wore out in my opinion and rearly do i even pull it out (while appolo 18 which i bought the same day still is as fresh as it ever was) and curretly i burned myslef out on the ENITIRE devo catolouge, and will only listen to the disc i made of soundtrack and video game music every now and again... oh yeah and i just got off a huge XTC kick and am burnin' myself out on the America's #1 Sweetheart - Heartbreak in the Land of Teenage Crushes EP that is fortified w/ many a demo, for a woppin' 19 tracks, yeah i think i have a week maybe 2 left on that one

The Return Of Rothkoid

07:08 / 15.08.01

quote:Originally posted by eeevil kookybunny:
only available on the american issue
Or the Australian one. Heh.

I think everyone gets sick of that album after a while, don't they? I've certainly not listened to it for ages - it wasn't one of the CDs I chose to bring over with me. Although that being said, their version of "Children Of The Revolution" could well bring me back to the fold...

11:51 / 15.08.01

quote:Originally posted by radjose:
curretly i burned myslef out on the ENITIRE devo catolouge,

Is that including the live performance of "Going Under" on Now It Can Be Told?

Cuz for me that's still HOT.

22:04 / 15.08.01

yeah it's cuz i listened to it ALL for like a month, nothin' but DEVO in a few weeks or so it'll be all good again, but constant devo for my work shift of 10hr day 4days in a row and in my car yeah i burnt myslef out momentarily... leave it to you grant to pick the ONE song that has an interesting personal back story... fuggit YOU GET TO HEAR IT my band has decided to cover that song, not Goin' Under BUT THE LIVE VERSION THAT YOU SPAEK OF! oh yeah, and i lost the pass to my old acount i had here BACK in the day, (X-12) and you once said you'd check out my band, thus you get that story yee haw for you!

12:39 / 16.08.01

"It isn't easy being a Devo fan nowadays..."

01:14 / 17.08.01

damn damn damn... what's that quote? uh uh, the 3rd letter from general boy? guh... grrr... i no thinky... "there are two types of people in this world, those that get devo and those that don't" i may be paraphrasing but one of the few good things i ever heard come outta rollins' mouth

Graham the Happy Scum

12:56 / 17.08.01

Boy, didn't I get bored with Amnesiac fast... I'm half thinking of doing a burn of the best songs from those two and any decent b-sides that come out and pretending that's the definitive Radiohead 2000.

[ 17-08-2001: Message edited by: gths ]