Songs You Could Have Sworn Were Better

Anonymous · 2010-11-09T15:56:15-05:00

Every now and again I choose to listen to a song I used to like a lot when I was younger but seldom ever listen to now. Some of these are enjoyable and I wonder why I haven't listened to them for so long. However there are many which leave me cold. Ones which I could have sworn were much better. The latest one in a long line of these is Spiraling by Keane. When this was first released I remember being blown away. The weird synths and the "woos" worked like magic to my ears. I was hooked easily. It had a decent beat and the lyrics were able to please my demand for lyrics which I thought "meant something" at the time. Listening to it today first of all it sounds a lot slower than I imagined it. Where I used to imagine lots of colour now seems like empty space. The title, Spiraling, is a word that certainly brings to mind activity and I could easily imagine reds and lime greens spinning in tune with synths. However there is not a lot going on in the song, something which I should forgive considering Keane's band arrangement. Both the bass sound (piano? synth? bass guitar??? I can't tell!) and the drums do little to attract the attention between those weird keyboard noodles. And then there is that spoken word part... I remember this part being unbelievable. Where whats his name gave some sort of speech about life, choices and everything else. It's hard to believe that this was inspiring. When I listened to it today it strode past as if in a hurry leaving me thinking "is that it?". I think it may be because I have listened to so much different music since 2008 and it just doesn't seem interesting anymore. I'm not even sure why its even there. Can't hear what I heard in it before at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpxZwzlYMk4 Well that was a rather long winded way to ask the question :roll: Are there any songs you could have sworn were better last time you heard them? Not counting those you played/are currently playing to death, I'm talking about the ones you forgot for years.

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itsit wrote:

I also used to be gobsmacked at Hyperballad by Bjork, the song would actually get me teary eyed. But now when I listen to it, it just seems uninspiring and rather flat.

Bah! preposterous I say! You know what? When I listen to you, you sound boring and flat. No really what I mean is the problem lies with you not the song. I mean for god sake it came out before you were born - how have you had time to love it then not like it???

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Jhereko wrote:

itsit wrote:

I also used to be gobsmacked at Hyperballad by Bjork, the song would actually get me teary eyed. But now when I listen to it, it just seems uninspiring and rather flat.

I don't know, I had a short infatuation with it then, I stopped liking it.
And since when have you had to of been alive while a song has been out to like it?

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Pretty much anything by Hot Hot Heat. I made a comment pretty much detailing this on their first album, but it's just so weird how engrossed I was with that 2002-2004 indie pop/rock shit like them, All-American Rejects, OK Go, Fountains of Wayne, Razorlight, The Datsuns and Snow Patrol.

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Actually, disregard all I said, I listened to it again just now and while it's not what I would regard as a brilliant song, it's good. I was holding it up to standards way too high, it's certainly better than most the other stuff on Post.

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Well this is not a song but Smash by The Offspring and hence all the songs on it. I can't even name which song because I liked them all then but now other than the hits which get a dusting every once in a while because they are still crowd pleasers and get some airplay at parties but otherwise I can't be bothered to listen to it for its own sake. Maybe getting the girl of my dreams improved my self esteem too much but I could`ve sowrn this was better.

Ah! To be young again - oh wait! I already was no longer young in 1994!?!?!?! Dang!

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i was in the car once and i was probably really high and strangelove form depeche mode came on and i thought it was god but then i listened to it on youtube later and it wasnt god.
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anything that's repeated too much, in radio play or personal play, becomes boring after awhile... except for the select few... which I would say are less than 200 songs

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