Best Ever Albums

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Tha1ChiefRocka — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:03:19 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 06/08/2017 03:03

Does anybody else have an artist that they enjoy for about a month at a time, but then never listen to again until it strikes your fancy in the future?

Muse and Incubus have always been bands that I listen to, but only for short periods. Sometimes I cannot stand their music, and other times I can be ok with it. Neither one is ever on constant rotation, it just comes as an insight and I listen to a couple of their albums for a few weeks and it's like my appetite is sated. Then I go back to thinking both are pretty "meh".

thinking about this

glynspsa — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:35:40 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 06/07/2017 23:35

it came to me, i feel that way about U2 i used to like them and think they were pretty cool. now i like a couple songs but mostly they make me laugh and not in a zappa or tenacious d way but in a laugh at their cheesiness kind of way.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

AfterHours — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:32:12 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 06/07/2017 22:32

Not embarrassed at all, but I did used to rank The Beatles' Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, A Hard Days Night, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, The White Album, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Radiohead's OK Computer, Kid A, The Bends, Bright Eyes' Fevers and Mirrors and Lifted is the Story... all in my All Time Top 30 (or so) Rock Albums (about 15 years ago).

Those might be surprising for those who are familiar with my tastes.

I still feel most of those are pretty darn good, but very far from my top 30.

I do think lyrics matter

glynspsa — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 08:57:29 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 06/07/2017 12:57

I love Dylan and Robert Hunter though neither can sing particularly well, but both can write some amazing lyrics. I can also like a song with no lyrics so i can be attracted to different songs for different reasons. i don't think things have to be mutually exclusive. I guess I am embarrassed that I kind of would tap my feet to some Bieber songs when my young daughter was into his music.

Honestly

glynspsa — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 08:46:46 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 06/07/2017 12:46

Led Zeppelin is kind of that way, not embarrassed that i liked them i just don't really like them anymore and really liked them at one time. i have kind of the opposite opinion of neil young who i used to be luke warm to but know i really dig.

I also can no longer listen to early RUN DMC I used to love them but Its just not holding up for me. Still give them mad points as an influential artist and influential albums but i have trouble listening to some of them now. the beastie boys on the other hand have held up over time as has Public Enemy from the heyday of old school.

i am embarrassed that i liked and still like the spin doctors pocket full of kryptonite album. i actually really like that album.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

bobbyb5 — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:11:50 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 06/07/2017 10:11

[quote="stangetzaway"]It's a worthwhile pursuit to look at albums/acts that seem to be better/worser as we age. The obvious candidate for me is The Doors. Used to love them as a teenager, especially the debut album. Listening with older ears and Jim Morrison comes across as pretentious and some of their songs are silly

What i learned as i got older is that lyrics are irrelevant to music. Almost all lyrics all silly. I can still love The Doors even tho Jim Morrison was ptetentious. People think what theyre responding to in music is whats being said. Thats an illusion. Music is sound, not poetry. We could listen to our favorite songs thousands of times, but would we read the lyrics over and over again a 1000 times if they were printed in a book? Of course not. Would we even be impressed the first time? Probably not. Most lyrics are doggerel. And even when theyre good, it doesn't make the music good also. Would the Doors be a better band if Morrison was TS Elliott.? Would their music be better. No. When youre a teenager, it seems like the lyrics are why you love a certain artist. But its just the illusion that music creates. Thats the magic of music. I dont love my favorite albums any less since i grew older and realized that the lyrics werent as good as i once thought they were.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

stangetzaway — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 05:47:23 GMT

Author: stangetzaway

Posted: 06/07/2017 09:47

It's a worthwhile pursuit to look at albums/acts that seem to be better/worser as we age. The obvious candidate for me is The Doors. Used to love them as a teenager, especially the debut album. Listening with older ears and Jim Morrison comes across as pretentious and some of their songs are silly. I remember being angry the Rolling Stone Record Guide panned their catalogue and giave most of their albums 2 stars. I' m more on RS's side now but that's not to say me enjoying them whilst I was young in any less valid than not liking them in my 40's. I think we can connect differently with music as we age. Having said that 30 years ago 3 of my favourite 5 albums were Blonde on Blonde, The White Album and London Calling and they still are.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Liedzeit — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 03:40:59 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 06/07/2017 07:40

Romanelli wrote:

And there's something good in every album.

Really??
I cannot see anything wrong in discussing things. And the question of what makes musical taste (and changes in musical taste and thus - embarrassment) I find especially interesting.
What you like in music has much to do with your self image. To a large degree we like what our peers like. Or we like something because the parents hate it. Or you see yourself as a loner, so you pick music, that no one else has ever heard of. That is very natural. The love for music is still genuine.
Punk is a very good point. When punk emerged it was very often a very conscious decision to go for it. And when you did, you felt obliged to dislike your Crusaders. Of course, it is possible to fall in love with Sex Pistols and remain a loyal Olivia Newton-John fan. But I’d say it is very unlikely.
One little story. I knew the drummer of a well-known German punk band and I once saw him in a discotheque tapping his feet to some Jackson Browne song. I asked him about this and he literally turned red. He said he "used" to like Jackson Browne and I had to promise him never to tell anyone. (It is more than 30 years ago, so I think it is okay to tell now.)
And one more thing. I think it is great that people pick popular records for this thread. It would be very boring if someone tells us that he used to like the Bay City Rollers.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Ben4 — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 21:59:23 GMT

Author: Ben4

Posted: 06/07/2017 01:59

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The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem

As a fourteen year old trying to be edgy I loved this album. Looking back it is just absolute rubbish. Sure he is a good rapper, as in he can say words fast and rhyme words together well, but I feel like he has nothing intelligent to say ever. Like the song Stan. It is well written, but is the purpose of the song? Like what is the moral of the story? I think a lot of these songs give off the impression of having intellectual substance to them, but there isn't that much under the surface. I would take this over any of his later stuff though, when he started taking himself more seriously.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

craola — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:51:14 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 06/07/2017 00:51

Romanelli wrote:

Forgive me for wanting to discuss the topic instead of just listing albums. It's all yours.

you know what, forgive me. i read animosity into your comments that wasn't there and thought you were trying to kill the thread.

i re-read your comments, and you're in the right, so my apologies.

bobbyb5 wrote:

I didn't know people would start getting shitty with each other. Geez.

i mean... internet.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

bobbyb5 — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:32:24 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 06/06/2017 23:32

Oh my fucking goodness. When i posted this topic i thought it would just be fun. I didn't know people would start getting shitty with each other. Geez.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Romanelli — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:25:32 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 06/06/2017 23:25

Forgive me for wanting to discuss the topic instead of just listing albums. It's all yours.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

craola — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:35:15 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 06/06/2017 22:35

meh. i guess embarrassed is a bit of a strong term, but you all get the point. i wouldn't mention it here if i was truly "embarrassed", but you all get the point that we're not talking red in the face.

i don't like the album i posted. i used to like it. i don't now.

nah man.

i used to like The Wheels On The Bus. if i still liked TWOTB at the age of 19, i'd look kinda silly, and i would look back at my 19 year old self and shake my head. i suppose i wouldn't be embarrassed by it... but i'd get a good chuckle at myself?

NMH - that album got me sucked in at one point in my life, and i think it's a silly album now.

but y'all take this stuff way too serious.
light-hearted topic.
it's just music.
they're just opinions.

my brother can't stand beethoven or mingus or the radioheads etc. just give'm taylor swift and he's happy.

so yeah... aeroplane over the sea. *embarrassed* oh the shudders. i think it's a pretty lame album. didn't use to.

way to kill another fun, light-hearted topic again, guys. tomorrow you'll complain about dead forums.

edit: yeah that last comment was rather nippy/unnecessary, and i appreciate trying to discuss the topic... i just think there's a more productive conversation to be had about the albums then to move to dismissing the topic? my two cents. then again, i only posted an album and didn't add any discussion with it.

Guilty

Musicbuff123 — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:22:58 GMT

Author: Musicbuff123

Posted: 06/06/2017 22:22

I was in a post punk phase and was ashamed that I owned Michael Jackson off the wall and Crusaders albums. A bit embarrassed now but not so much

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Daydreamer — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 17:39:19 GMT

Author: Daydreamer

Posted: 06/06/2017 21:39

I really can't believe this discussion and the things some people say here.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Romanelli — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 17:16:46 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 06/06/2017 21:16

Liedzeit wrote:

Romanelli wrote:

...but why would you be embarrassed for having liked...anything?

You are joking? Unless you are saying the word embarrassed has no usage at all. If I see the record collection of someone and notice there are a couple of Springsteen albums, I think what a poor, pathetic bloke. And then I remember that I do own them myself (and did even like them). That is called embarrassment. Or is it not?

Just my opinion. It has usage. I'd be embarrassed for feeling such strong hatred for music that I had, at one point, actually found myself able to enjoy. There was a reason why I enjoyed it...and it wasn't because I was pathetic or stupid. I'd be embarrassed for feeling such strong hatred about ANY music. I love music. And I'd be embarrassed for thinking someone else is pathetic because of the music they happen to enjoy. Who am I to pass that kind of judgement on others? But, hey...that's just me...

And it's not like the albums mentioned are clunkers. I find it kind of odd that the first 4 albums mentioned in this thread happen to be in the top 25 of all time on the BEA overall chart. I'd be embarrassed to say that OK Computer, Born To Run, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and The Wall cause me shame for having once liked them. But, hey...that's just me...if 7+ years on BEA has taught me anything, it's that being open minded about music can be an amazing thing. And there's something good in every album. Sometimes you have to search for it, but there's always something there that's not terrible.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Liedzeit — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:56:14 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 06/06/2017 20:56

Romanelli wrote:

...but why would you be embarrassed for having liked...anything?

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Romanelli — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:45:33 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 06/06/2017 20:45

Liedzeit wrote:

For once, I have to disagree. Does that mean one could only be embarrassed by, lets say David Hasselhof? Or David Cassidy?
I always hated Michel Jackson for example, can’t stand his music. But of course it is "well made". But, boy, would I be embarrassed had I once liked him.
Sometimes your love just cools of, but for me in the case of Springsteen, I just cannot understand, how I could have liked him once. It is so ... overblown, if this is the word.

...but why would you be embarrassed for having liked...anything?

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

craola — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:19:52 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 06/06/2017 20:19

Romanelli wrote:

It appears to me that we may be mistaking the word embarrassed for kinda-burned-out-on

Everything listed here is fine and good music. Why would you be embarrassed about liking music that's well written, well played...well made?

i guess i'm embarrassed because over the years, i no longer believe that album was well-written, well-played or well-made? like... not in the least.

Re: What album did you once love but now are embarrassed by?

Tha1ChiefRocka — Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:57:49 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 06/06/2017 19:57

While I'm not exactly "embarrassed" to have once like these, I definitely don't listen to them anymore. When you are a kid in the late 90's early 00's this is what you like.

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Human Clay by Creed

Silver Side Up by Nickelback

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Come Clean by Puddle Of Mudd

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[url=https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=3539]Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth

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Enema Of The State by Blink-182

and anything by the Spice Girls

I actually still unironically enjoy Smash Mouth.