Instant like and sub! Loving this video, man. It's normal, after a while you get tired of some bands, some music.. had it too couple times, I sometimes come back to them bands I got tired of 🙂👍🏻
Thank you! The funny thing is except for Mötley Crüe, I've gone back and listened to the bands I listed in this video and I enjoyed hearing them again. It brought back so many memories. Phish would be the top contender to get back into rotation. Divided Sky!
@@progrockjock hah that's rad, man.. I'm also a musician and musical taste might be different than with casual listeners but interesting at least how it could differ 🙂
I think this kind of thing happens to everyone. There are bands I love and listened to a lot that I no longer listen to. I still love them, but they've become markers for various time periods in my life. I still love them, but I am just in a different space then I was back then. Sometimes I might pull out an album and listen to a song or two every now and again, but these bands aren't in the regular rotation any more. There are some bands that I loved, and listened to that I no longer have a desire to listen to at all. Many times I'm unsure why I don't care to listen to them anymore. As far as not listening to an artist because of sins from their past--I get that. I generally have been able to try to separate the art from the artist, mostly because I'm not always keeping track of the day to day lives of various musicians, etc. Unfortunately, some artists have some really unsavory things they've said and done in their lives and it's difficult to support them in anyway. I'm more apt to separate the art from the artist when people are looking to change and be better. I think many of us are all looking for forgiveness from others in various aspects of our lives. But man, some people, I don't know . . . So I get how you might not want to listen to some bands with sordid pasts. Anyway, you kept it classy and professional throughout.
Thank you! I appreciate your words and I hear what you're saying. I remember a record shop owner saying that if we didn't like the new Ministry record at the time (Psalm 69), it wasn't because Ministry changed, it was because we did. I also remember another record shop employee giving me a funny look when I said that I was disappointed in Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy" and responding, "well, what did you expect, Sgt. Pepper's??" 😂 As for the things Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars said, I was disappointed, but I need to remind you that I live in the great state of Georgia. Around here, all of us are guilty of saying some unsavory things, so I honestly didn't hold all that against the Crüe. I had actually tuned out from them before seeing those video clips. I actually became a guitar snob towards the close of the 80s, so if the band didn't have a phenomenal guitarist like Marty Friedman, I wouldn't think they worth listening to anymore. I know I was wrong to think this way and of course, I don't think this way today. Plus, Tommy Lee is an absolute badass, so he makes up for where the rest of the Crüe falls short.
@@progrockjock I had my guitar snob days too. Then I got old and mellowed out a bit. These days I just love music for the music, and try to appreciate facets and aspects of talent I couldn’t really see when I was young. Anyway. Thanks for the vid! Keep it up!
I go through phases where I bring up old favorites- I somehow found the hard rock/metal ban Orange Goblin, been my workout go to with some others- a song of theirs from a few years back gets me energized “one room, one axe, one out” They transition so well and go from catchy riffs to slight skate punk, you can hear the passion But, I love mellower bands like stick figure, elovators, and country music like Cody Jinks Anyway thanks for your video, love your range of taste-
Thank you for your words and for sharing some of your favorites! Per your mention, I decided to listen to some Orange Goblin and Cody Jinks, who has an amazing voice -- THANK YOU!!!
I never got into the hair metal bands of the 80s and, as hard as I tried, I just could not get into very much that came out in the 90s. Like you, most of what I listen to nowadays came out before 1990, and I am also a big Genesis fan. There have been several bands I stopped listening to over the years mostly because I either burned out on them, grew out of them, or just came to a realization I was making an unsuccessful effort at liking them because of their technical abilities. Lately, I've been "rediscovering" The Alan Parsons Project, I liked their stuff back in the day but never really got into them until recently. So, sometimes it also happens the other way around.
Your experience with Pearl Jam is mine with Deftones. I tried so hard to get into them because I know they have some genre defining stuff but I just never could; which is funny because I love loathe which is a band heavily inspired by them
Ha! Oh, those mellow dramatic Deftones...I saw them back in 1998 or maybe 99. The audience went bat-s#@t crazy over them and I was kind of impressed with their performance, so I decided to check them out when they released White Pony. I wore that album out but haven't listened to it in ages or really decades. Deftones should've been on this list rather than Band of Horses but there can be a sequel.
I used to like Extreme a good bit. Then one day I started Pornograffiti and said “why was I into this?” I think I listened to them for Nuno rather than the songs… Found your channel with this video, cool stuff!
Oh, wow! I was having a conversation about Extreme just a few days ago!! I also bought their first album on cassette but burned out during Pornograffiti, as well. I also still like Nuno. I saw him a few years ago on the Generation Axe Tour and he was great!
It is kind of interesting how the well runs dry for artists. There is a fertile time when all their youth, energy, hunger, and influences collectively shapes the sound of the times they are in. Dave Matthews Band, Phish and PJ for me.
Motley Crue's best album is with John Corabi singing on it.. it's an absolute masterpiece. It's the self- titled 1994 album. It's really heavy... and produced by Bob Rock. But yeah, Motley Crue has been a joke in recent years.
I agree with you a lot of points of this. I especially think that with that list, a lot of bands got so burned out to hear anymore was do to be always played on the raido all the time . I myself never was a person that listened to radio friendly bands kinda like the foo fighter i a lot respected as musicians, however, so burned out of them.
I liked 311 up until From Chaos, Soundsystem was the album that came out when I first got into them and heard them on the radio as a young whipper snapper. Music is awesome, Grassroots is great, tbh I'm with you on Blue, there's a few songs I like on there, but I can skip a LOT of them. Transistor I think was great, very musical, but after Soundsystem when they did From Chaos, I just wasn't as into it anymore. I didn't buy Evolver, heard it from a friend and just did not like it or the direction they've been going in.
I was blown away the first time I heard "Welcome" on college radio back in 1993. I immediately bought their album and saw them live soon after. 311 used to mingle with the audience/fans before and after every show back in those days. I'm with you about Transistor. I only heard a few tracks from that album but it almost brought me back to them. I don't blame them or any other band for their sound changing so much on that 3rd album though. The reason I say "any other band" is because by the late 1990s, I would learn more about what really goes on behind the scenes for signed bands and it's just not good. Things are so much better now, thanks to modern-day technology. Anyone can put their music out there and let the court of public opinion decide. This platform is the perfect example.
311 is still one of my favs... I do l have a hard time with Pearl Jam now though. I didn't think you came off rude at all, actually, seemed quite respectful
I have so many memories attached to 311's first 3 albums. They used to come down to Atlanta a lot in the early 1990s and they would hang with a lot of us locals. SA and Tim are 311's saving grace, believe me. It was a true pleasure to be around those dudes. I gave Grassroots a listen after initially filming this video back on March 11th and it STILL holds up. This was the main reason I held off on posting the video.
Great topic I always get sick of bands I totally can’t understand how everyone but me listens to the same 20 bands My list is flexible But mostly Hendrix Rush Lynyrd skynyrd Eagles Basically any hard blues rock how they play funky yet rock out ( most of my friends play this style ) play that funky music whiteboy and any song close to that, and nirvana And a lot of alternative A lot of new and old country About how they daddy would whoop them with his big strong hands from working so hard all day lol
I don't think that list was mean at all. I'll totally agree about CrU and 311. I can listen to Ten but that's the only PJ album. Don't know enough fish and will have to check out the Horse band you mentioned. As far as Beastie, I honestly never liked them. We move on mang.
Phish just isn't Phish anymore, and I know that people said that when they came back in 2009, and now I know they were right then and even more right now.
With Phish, I just started hearing their influences too much to ignore. They are great musicians and I would kill to sing/perform "Watcher of the Skies" in Genesis's honor, as well as in their presence. I'm happy they got to do that.
I don't know, dude. Interesting video, and you're obviously a thoughtful guy, but I think you're greatly overanalyzing and feeling lowkey guilty about a fairly common ebb and flow of taste. To be honest, I think the more discerning, intelligent people get into different stuff over the years. (And as there's only so many hours in a day, that naturally means other things are gonna get left behind.) When I see old friends on FB that I haven't seen in literally 25yrs, and they're rocking the same Exodus and Celtic Frost t-shirts they were back then...maybe a little itsy bitsy part of me thinks their loyalty is cool, but the larger part of me thinks they never had any interest in expanding their horizons. Or, to be fair, they could be doing where I'm at now: reconnecting with stuff I was into years ago and had gotten out of. I mean, I don't THINK that's what they're doing, these dudes. I think they've been pretty much the same people since Lincoln High, but it's possible. There are years and yyyyears where I have no idea what they were up to. There's bands I ADORED, then totally got out of, hard. Some I can now appreciate again, after years of not digging them. Some I still really don't feel at all. Like, most metal. It's hard to picture myself as a metalhead. But for a couple years there, I dressed straight out of River's Edge, had a bunch of thrash cassettes. Now, other than maybe early Metallica and a few Anthrax tracks, I couldn't listen to that stuff for five minutes. Most of it seems so generic and monotonous. I'm like, I used to really DIG this? Then I was super into 10,000 Maniacs and REM and They Might Be Giants, all that early alternative/ college rock stuff. And I can't say I really dig any of it now. I can appreciate that Peter Buck was an innovative guitarist, but I tried listening to an REM mix a couple years back and I had to bail after a couple songs. It did NOTHING for me. On the other hand, I loved Morrissey and the Smiths when I was like eighteen. Then for YEARS I didn't listen to him. Around the time of Morrissey's You Are The Quarry album, I got super back into him. Me and my girlfriend (who is a literal OBSESSED Morrissey fan) have seen him live like eight times in the past few years. (Oh, side note: probably the best of those late 80's college rock-type bands, in my opinion, was Throwing Muses. I had kind of forgotten about them, and they never really got the success of, like, the Pixies or REM, but they're so good. Thanks to Spotify I've totally gotten back into them. If anyone reading this long-ass tome wants to check them out, I'd start with their album The Real Ramona.) I don't know. People change. And sometimes they then change back. Now with Spotify, I'm bumping all the classic rock stuff I had the albums of when I first got into music. I'm lowkey obsessed again with Zeppelin and the Who. And the Stones! I loved them when I was a literal CHILD, then for years the "cool" me never gave them a second thought. Now I love them again. Sticky Fingers is like the greatest album ever. Tastes change. Who knows? Maybe I'll try REM again in the future and totally reconnect with it. I mean, haha, I doubt it, but it's possible. My point, like nine paragraphs ago (😊sorry) was don't feel compelled to honor any of the opinions you expressed in this video. A lot of music, why it connects, is about where you're at at the time. I'd say that's what it's MOSTLY about, to be honest.
I'm just about speechless right now! The parallels almost make me feel like you may have looked into my music collection! Every band or musician you've mentioned I have been into at some point and have seen many of them live. Sadly, I have yet to see Morrissey but maybe someday, sooner than later, I hope. I love Kristin Hersh's voice, as well as Tanya Donelly's but I wasn't really into Belly when Tanya went on her own. Have you ever noticed that 4AD doesn't put out anything that sucks?? You ever listen to Red House Painters? Seriously, I could go on right now but my response would be thrice as long as your comment 😂 However, I will write more back later. Thanks for your words!
@@progrockjock yeah, Kristin's great. She actually answered me once, back when TH-cam had private messages. I wish I'd printed it out. I was new to Spotify and had written asking how she felt about people listening that way rather than physical media. She was very gracious; basically, she said she's happy to have anyone listen any way they can, but she said for most artists Spotify pays literally like a tenth of a penny per listen. I don't know if it's gotten any better, but I confess over the years it and TH-cam have become the main ways I listen to music. I resisted for a while. But it's just so damn easy! EVERY album, pretty much, from back in the day, I can just pull it up on my phone. Every Dylan album, every Kate Bush album. Every single Beatles album. On my phone. I like to imagine a day when I'll have physical copies again, but I don't see it happening any time soon. I don't even have an actual stereo anymore. It's all Spotify. I have to be honest: I love it, haha. I really don't WANT all those CDs again. (Physical books, I'm fighting the good fight. I'll do the audiobook if it's something I've already read-read. Like, I just listened to We Need To Talk About Kevin, but there's an old paperback around here somewhere. Albums, though, I've pretty much accepted it's Spotify. The temptation is just too great.) Wrong by Nomeansno, for a long time that wasn't on there; just saw that it is now. I think that's the only one I ever searched for that wasn't on there...oh, the FIRST Throwing Muses, with "Call Me" and "Hate My Way"; I don't think that's on Spotify. Some licensing issue with 4AD, funnily enough. Someone put the whole album here on TH-cam though. I never much got into Belly either. I love the couple Tanya songs per TM album. They're usually poppier, less dark. But, yeah, I didn't really want a whole ALBUM of them, haha. I never listened to Red House Painters. The name has popped up a time or two. But I'm gonna make a point of checking them out on your say so. 😁
I don't know why I went on that whole Spotify confessional thing. Haha. I think I had assumed you were a "vinyl rules!" guy, but I listened again and you don't actually say anything like that. Yeah, definitely some parallels, dude. I don't know much of the Gabriel-era Genesis (though I do dig his solo stuff), but A Trick Of The Tail, their first one without him, I believe, is a favorite of mine. "Squonk" and the title track are two of my favorite songs from anyone ever.
I have some classic vinyl records. Most we inherited from my mom after her death. I definitely don't prefer vinyl or any other form of media over the iPod or MP3, but I don't have or use a Spotify account. I used to DJ with CDs in the mid-to-late 90s and the vinyl snobs came out of the woodwork to give me grief about it, but I stuck to my guns. Technology obviously prevailed and I'm glad it did.
I would've saved a pdf of Kristin's response! She's so cool in interviews!! I think about all of the opportunities (ie. Photos with Mike Mills and Stipe with the B52s, hanging backstage at Lollapalooza 93 & 94, other bands I toured with and opened for before they became successful) I took for granted, but still have a lot of stuff I don't feel comfortable showing because I worry about about people thinking I'm name dropping...like I just did. That's why it was hard for me to talk about 311. We were all kids back then, so it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. All I can say is that it's a small world and the musical world is even smaller. I have so much music on my hard drive that I could probably compete with Spotify....ok, maybe not, because I don't carry any modern-day pop music but maybe SomaFM 😂 The only reason I don't use Spotify is because I want all of my desert island music with me if I really end up on a desert island...but there's no power on a desert island either, so...anyway, I'm with Kristin Hersh: Get your music heard by as many people as possible. If only Nick Drake could see the effect his music has on people now. I'm not an avid reader but Phillip K Dick is another example of genius who didn't get to live to see the popularity of his novels. I'm with you on the CDs but I still have all of mine sitting in my basement but all of my cassettes are upstairs with the vinyl. Once I move all of those rare vinyls and cassettes to digital, I'm opening the ultimate online record store!
How bout just songs ??? I hate when my aging rocker friends start getting into blues … then slide guitar then play Amazing Grace 😡….extra hate it if they play it at some ones wake Sooo gay
Had no idea about commentary from Mars/Sixx. Frankly, after Dr. Feelgood it was over for them. Now they are an absolute joke of a bad lounge act hanging on. Vince at 350 lbs mumbling lyrics like a drugged out Elvis, can't believe people still pay money to see them.
😂...honestly, I probably shouldn't have mentioned what Mars & Sixx said because I feel like it took away from the real reason I stopped listening to them, which was long before hearing the unsavory things they said. When I saw the videos of them saying that stuff, I thought to myself, "I'm glad I quit listening to those guys!"
Sometimes you grow out of some bands and rediscover others. Variety is the spice of life.
Instant like and sub! Loving this video, man. It's normal, after a while you get tired of some bands, some music.. had it too couple times, I sometimes come back to them bands I got tired of 🙂👍🏻
Thank you! The funny thing is except for Mötley Crüe, I've gone back and listened to the bands I listed in this video and I enjoyed hearing them again. It brought back so many memories. Phish would be the top contender to get back into rotation. Divided Sky!
@@progrockjock hah that's rad, man.. I'm also a musician and musical taste might be different than with casual listeners but interesting at least how it could differ 🙂
I think this kind of thing happens to everyone. There are bands I love and listened to a lot that I no longer listen to. I still love them, but they've become markers for various time periods in my life. I still love them, but I am just in a different space then I was back then. Sometimes I might pull out an album and listen to a song or two every now and again, but these bands aren't in the regular rotation any more. There are some bands that I loved, and listened to that I no longer have a desire to listen to at all. Many times I'm unsure why I don't care to listen to them anymore.
As far as not listening to an artist because of sins from their past--I get that. I generally have been able to try to separate the art from the artist, mostly because I'm not always keeping track of the day to day lives of various musicians, etc. Unfortunately, some artists have some really unsavory things they've said and done in their lives and it's difficult to support them in anyway. I'm more apt to separate the art from the artist when people are looking to change and be better. I think many of us are all looking for forgiveness from others in various aspects of our lives. But man, some people, I don't know . . . So I get how you might not want to listen to some bands with sordid pasts. Anyway, you kept it classy and professional throughout.
Thank you! I appreciate your words and I hear what you're saying. I remember a record shop owner saying that if we didn't like the new Ministry record at the time (Psalm 69), it wasn't because Ministry changed, it was because we did. I also remember another record shop employee giving me a funny look when I said that I was disappointed in Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy" and responding, "well, what did you expect, Sgt. Pepper's??" 😂
As for the things Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars said, I was disappointed, but I need to remind you that I live in the great state of Georgia. Around here, all of us are guilty of saying some unsavory things, so I honestly didn't hold all that against the Crüe. I had actually tuned out from them before seeing those video clips. I actually became a guitar snob towards the close of the 80s, so if the band didn't have a phenomenal guitarist like Marty Friedman, I wouldn't think they worth listening to anymore. I know I was wrong to think this way and of course, I don't think this way today. Plus, Tommy Lee is an absolute badass, so he makes up for where the rest of the Crüe falls short.
@@progrockjock I had my guitar snob days too. Then I got old and mellowed out a bit. These days I just love music for the music, and try to appreciate facets and aspects of talent I couldn’t really see when I was young.
Anyway. Thanks for the vid! Keep it up!
I go through phases where I bring up old favorites- I somehow found the hard rock/metal ban Orange Goblin, been my workout go to with some others- a song of theirs from a few years back gets me energized “one room, one axe, one out”
They transition so well and go from catchy riffs to slight skate punk, you can hear the passion
But, I love mellower bands like stick figure, elovators, and country music like Cody Jinks
Anyway thanks for your video, love your range of taste-
Thank you for your words and for sharing some of your favorites! Per your mention, I decided to listen to some Orange Goblin and Cody Jinks, who has an amazing voice -- THANK YOU!!!
@@progrockjock no worries- Cody is great 👍🏼
I never got into the hair metal bands of the 80s and, as hard as I tried, I just could not get into very much that came out in the 90s. Like you, most of what I listen to nowadays came out before 1990, and I am also a big Genesis fan. There have been several bands I stopped listening to over the years mostly because I either burned out on them, grew out of them, or just came to a realization I was making an unsuccessful effort at liking them because of their technical abilities.
Lately, I've been "rediscovering" The Alan Parsons Project, I liked their stuff back in the day but never really got into them until recently. So, sometimes it also happens the other way around.
Well said. I really like Alan Parsons Project as well!
Your experience with Pearl Jam is mine with Deftones. I tried so hard to get into them because I know they have some genre defining stuff but I just never could; which is funny because I love loathe which is a band heavily inspired by them
Ha! Oh, those mellow dramatic Deftones...I saw them back in 1998 or maybe 99. The audience went bat-s#@t crazy over them and I was kind of impressed with their performance, so I decided to check them out when they released White Pony. I wore that album out but haven't listened to it in ages or really decades. Deftones should've been on this list rather than Band of Horses but there can be a sequel.
I used to like Extreme a good bit. Then one day I started Pornograffiti and said “why was I into this?” I think I listened to them for Nuno rather than the songs…
Found your channel with this video, cool stuff!
Oh, wow! I was having a conversation about Extreme just a few days ago!! I also bought their first album on cassette but burned out during Pornograffiti, as well. I also still like Nuno. I saw him a few years ago on the Generation Axe Tour and he was great!
It is kind of interesting how the well runs dry for artists. There is a fertile time when all their youth, energy, hunger, and influences collectively shapes the sound of the times they are in. Dave Matthews Band, Phish and PJ for me.
I totally hear ya!! The "hunger" is the main thing a lot of these bands lose once they get a taste of mainstream success.
Motley Crue's best album is with John Corabi singing on it.. it's an absolute masterpiece. It's the self- titled 1994 album.
It's really heavy... and produced by Bob Rock.
But yeah, Motley Crue has been a joke in recent years.
I agree with you a lot of points of this. I especially think that with that list, a lot of bands got so burned out to hear anymore was do to be always played on the raido all the time . I myself never was a person that listened to radio friendly bands kinda like the foo fighter i a lot respected as musicians, however, so burned out of them.
I liked 311 up until From Chaos, Soundsystem was the album that came out when I first got into them and heard them on the radio as a young whipper snapper. Music is awesome, Grassroots is great, tbh I'm with you on Blue, there's a few songs I like on there, but I can skip a LOT of them. Transistor I think was great, very musical, but after Soundsystem when they did From Chaos, I just wasn't as into it anymore. I didn't buy Evolver, heard it from a friend and just did not like it or the direction they've been going in.
I was blown away the first time I heard "Welcome" on college radio back in 1993. I immediately bought their album and saw them live soon after. 311 used to mingle with the audience/fans before and after every show back in those days. I'm with you about Transistor. I only heard a few tracks from that album but it almost brought me back to them. I don't blame them or any other band for their sound changing so much on that 3rd album though. The reason I say "any other band" is because by the late 1990s, I would learn more about what really goes on behind the scenes for signed bands and it's just not good. Things are so much better now, thanks to modern-day technology. Anyone can put their music out there and let the court of public opinion decide. This platform is the perfect example.
Realizing that i no longer listen to some of those either. Regarding Pearl Jam, i couldn’t get into their stuff but i wanted to.
311 is still one of my favs... I do l have a hard time with Pearl Jam now though. I didn't think you came off rude at all, actually, seemed quite respectful
I have so many memories attached to 311's first 3 albums. They used to come down to Atlanta a lot in the early 1990s and they would hang with a lot of us locals. SA and Tim are 311's saving grace, believe me. It was a true pleasure to be around those dudes. I gave Grassroots a listen after initially filming this video back on March 11th and it STILL holds up. This was the main reason I held off on posting the video.
Great topic
I always get sick of bands
I totally can’t understand how everyone but me listens to the same 20 bands
My list is flexible
But mostly
Hendrix
Rush
Lynyrd skynyrd
Eagles
Basically any hard blues rock how they play funky yet rock out ( most of my friends play this style ) play that funky music whiteboy and any song close to that, and nirvana
And a lot of alternative
A lot of new and old country
About how they daddy would whoop them with his big strong hands from working so hard all day lol
😂...thank you! You make some great points here! My list should've been longer.
I don't think that list was mean at all. I'll totally agree about CrU and 311. I can listen to Ten but that's the only PJ album. Don't know enough fish and will have to check out the Horse band you mentioned. As far as Beastie, I honestly never liked them. We move on mang.
Thank you! I dig the touch of Tony Montana at the end, mang!
Phish just isn't Phish anymore, and I know that people said that when they came back in 2009, and now I know they were right then and even more right now.
With Phish, I just started hearing their influences too much to ignore. They are great musicians and I would kill to sing/perform "Watcher of the Skies" in Genesis's honor, as well as in their presence. I'm happy they got to do that.
For me Metallica is one i grew out of i don't hate them just not interested anymore right now sevendust is one of my favorites
So true. Metallica should be on this list!
I don't know, dude. Interesting video, and you're obviously a thoughtful guy, but I think you're greatly overanalyzing and feeling lowkey guilty about a fairly common ebb and flow of taste.
To be honest, I think the more discerning, intelligent people get into different stuff over the years. (And as there's only so many hours in a day, that naturally means other things are gonna get left behind.) When I see old friends on FB that I haven't seen in literally 25yrs, and they're rocking the same Exodus and Celtic Frost t-shirts they were back then...maybe a little itsy bitsy part of me thinks their loyalty is cool, but the larger part of me thinks they never had any interest in expanding their horizons.
Or, to be fair, they could be doing where I'm at now: reconnecting with stuff I was into years ago and had gotten out of. I mean, I don't THINK that's what they're doing, these dudes. I think they've been pretty much the same people since Lincoln High, but it's possible. There are years and yyyyears where I have no idea what they were up to.
There's bands I ADORED, then totally got out of, hard. Some I can now appreciate again, after years of not digging them. Some I still really don't feel at all. Like, most metal.
It's hard to picture myself as a metalhead. But for a couple years there, I dressed straight out of River's Edge, had a bunch of thrash cassettes. Now, other than maybe early Metallica and a few Anthrax tracks, I couldn't listen to that stuff for five minutes. Most of it seems so generic and monotonous. I'm like, I used to really DIG this?
Then I was super into 10,000 Maniacs and REM and They Might Be Giants, all that early alternative/ college rock stuff. And I can't say I really dig any of it now. I can appreciate that Peter Buck was an innovative guitarist, but I tried listening to an REM mix a couple years back and I had to bail after a couple songs. It did NOTHING for me.
On the other hand, I loved Morrissey and the Smiths when I was like eighteen. Then for YEARS I didn't listen to him. Around the time of Morrissey's You Are The Quarry album, I got super back into him. Me and my girlfriend (who is a literal OBSESSED Morrissey fan) have seen him live like eight times in the past few years.
(Oh, side note: probably the best of those late 80's college rock-type bands, in my opinion, was Throwing Muses. I had kind of forgotten about them, and they never really got the success of, like, the Pixies or REM, but they're so good. Thanks to Spotify I've totally gotten back into them. If anyone reading this long-ass tome wants to check them out, I'd start with their album The Real Ramona.)
I don't know. People change. And sometimes they then change back. Now with Spotify, I'm bumping all the classic rock stuff I had the albums of when I first got into music. I'm lowkey obsessed again with Zeppelin and the Who. And the Stones! I loved them when I was a literal CHILD, then for years the "cool" me never gave them a second thought. Now I love them again. Sticky Fingers is like the greatest album ever.
Tastes change. Who knows? Maybe I'll try REM again in the future and totally reconnect with it. I mean, haha, I doubt it, but it's possible.
My point, like nine paragraphs ago (😊sorry) was don't feel compelled to honor any of the opinions you expressed in this video. A lot of music, why it connects, is about where you're at at the time. I'd say that's what it's MOSTLY about, to be honest.
I'm just about speechless right now! The parallels almost make me feel like you may have looked into my music collection! Every band or musician you've mentioned I have been into at some point and have seen many of them live. Sadly, I have yet to see Morrissey but maybe someday, sooner than later, I hope. I love Kristin Hersh's voice, as well as Tanya Donelly's but I wasn't really into Belly when Tanya went on her own. Have you ever noticed that 4AD doesn't put out anything that sucks?? You ever listen to Red House Painters? Seriously, I could go on right now but my response would be thrice as long as your comment 😂 However, I will write more back later. Thanks for your words!
@@progrockjock yeah, Kristin's great. She actually answered me once, back when TH-cam had private messages. I wish I'd printed it out. I was new to Spotify and had written asking how she felt about people listening that way rather than physical media. She was very gracious; basically, she said she's happy to have anyone listen any way they can, but she said for most artists Spotify pays literally like a tenth of a penny per listen. I don't know if it's gotten any better, but I confess over the years it and TH-cam have become the main ways I listen to music.
I resisted for a while. But it's just so damn easy! EVERY album, pretty much, from back in the day, I can just pull it up on my phone. Every Dylan album, every Kate Bush album. Every single Beatles album. On my phone.
I like to imagine a day when I'll have physical copies again, but I don't see it happening any time soon. I don't even have an actual stereo anymore. It's all Spotify.
I have to be honest: I love it, haha. I really don't WANT all those CDs again. (Physical books, I'm fighting the good fight. I'll do the audiobook if it's something I've already read-read. Like, I just listened to We Need To Talk About Kevin, but there's an old paperback around here somewhere. Albums, though, I've pretty much accepted it's Spotify. The temptation is just too great.)
Wrong by Nomeansno, for a long time that wasn't on there; just saw that it is now. I think that's the only one I ever searched for that wasn't on there...oh, the FIRST Throwing Muses, with "Call Me" and "Hate My Way"; I don't think that's on Spotify. Some licensing issue with 4AD, funnily enough. Someone put the whole album here on TH-cam though.
I never much got into Belly either. I love the couple Tanya songs per TM album. They're usually poppier, less dark. But, yeah, I didn't really want a whole ALBUM of them, haha.
I never listened to Red House Painters. The name has popped up a time or two. But I'm gonna make a point of checking them out on your say so. 😁
I don't know why I went on that whole Spotify confessional thing. Haha. I think I had assumed you were a "vinyl rules!" guy, but I listened again and you don't actually say anything like that.
Yeah, definitely some parallels, dude. I don't know much of the Gabriel-era Genesis (though I do dig his solo stuff), but A Trick Of The Tail, their first one without him, I believe, is a favorite of mine. "Squonk" and the title track are two of my favorite songs from anyone ever.
I have some classic vinyl records. Most we inherited from my mom after her death. I definitely don't prefer vinyl or any other form of media over the iPod or MP3, but I don't have or use a Spotify account. I used to DJ with CDs in the mid-to-late 90s and the vinyl snobs came out of the woodwork to give me grief about it, but I stuck to my guns. Technology obviously prevailed and I'm glad it did.
I would've saved a pdf of Kristin's response! She's so cool in interviews!! I think about all of the opportunities (ie. Photos with Mike Mills and Stipe with the B52s, hanging backstage at Lollapalooza 93 & 94, other bands I toured with and opened for before they became successful) I took for granted, but still have a lot of stuff I don't feel comfortable showing because I worry about about people thinking I'm name dropping...like I just did. That's why it was hard for me to talk about 311. We were all kids back then, so it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. All I can say is that it's a small world and the musical world is even smaller.
I have so much music on my hard drive that I could probably compete with Spotify....ok, maybe not, because I don't carry any modern-day pop music but maybe SomaFM 😂 The only reason I don't use Spotify is because I want all of my desert island music with me if I really end up on a desert island...but there's no power on a desert island either, so...anyway, I'm with Kristin Hersh: Get your music heard by as many people as possible. If only Nick Drake could see the effect his music has on people now. I'm not an avid reader but Phillip K Dick is another example of genius who didn't get to live to see the popularity of his novels.
I'm with you on the CDs but I still have all of mine sitting in my basement but all of my cassettes are upstairs with the vinyl. Once I move all of those rare vinyls and cassettes to digital, I'm opening the ultimate online record store!
How bout just songs ???
I hate when my aging rocker friends start getting into blues … then slide guitar then play Amazing Grace 😡….extra hate it if they play it at some ones wake
Sooo gay
Had no idea about commentary from Mars/Sixx. Frankly, after Dr. Feelgood it was over for them. Now they are an absolute joke of a bad lounge act hanging on. Vince at 350 lbs mumbling lyrics like a drugged out Elvis, can't believe people still pay money to see them.
😂...honestly, I probably shouldn't have mentioned what Mars & Sixx said because I feel like it took away from the real reason I stopped listening to them, which was long before hearing the unsavory things they said. When I saw the videos of them saying that stuff, I thought to myself, "I'm glad I quit listening to those guys!"