Getting Tired of Albums - Music - Forums : Best Ever Albums

Applerill

Autistic Princess <3

Gender: Female

Age: 32

Location: Chicago

Okay, so I think most of us have gone through this at least once: We go and fall in love with an album, playing it twice a week for over a year. Then, one day, we pick it up again, and realize that we're so used to it that it doesn't have the same "feel" as before.

What do you do at situations like this? Do you take it off your list, or do you keep it there for nostalgia?

Personally, I think that, if I loved it for a year or more, than it's a great album, whether I still love it or not. That's why an artist like Vanessa Carlton can be an #3 on my list, even with all the great music I've discovered (you guys should be lucky I've kept N Sync off the list; Celebrity was the first album I ever personally owned, and I loved that to death in 1st-3rd grade).

What about you?

telefunker

Gender: Male

Age: 40

i don't really listen to eminem, dr dre, nwa, backstreet boys or the cure that much anymore.. and i haven't listened to murmur in maybe a couple of years.. but i find that every time i do go back i find that i still like it, maybe not as intensely and perhaps in some cases with an element of nostalgia, but i've yet to be repulsed by my tastes 😎
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Kiki

I listened to Everything Must Go today. It sounded as great as ever 😄 Been listening to it since 2007.

Anyway, albums that do come to mind include Billy Talent, Billy Talent II and Billy... 😕 Talent III...

I remember listening to Billy Talent III none stop when I got it September last year. A few months later I never listened to any of the tracks again.

Blur Modern Life IS Rubbish also comes to mind - apart from For Tomorrow (Blurs best song) I never listen to the tracks any more. If I had joined a year earlier that album would be in my top 20 easily.

RaineyWins

Age: 32

Location: Ireland

I try to listen to Pet Sounds and Is This It once a week, I will never get tired of them two albums, they are just perfect, for me..

But I used to be very indie, but now, I do like it, but not that much, artists like Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Killers, I never listen to anymore, I have just got tired of that genre as a whole..

40footwolf

Gender: Male

Age: 34

RaineyWins wrote:

I try to listen to Pet Sounds and Is This It once a week, I will never get tired of them two albums, they are just perfect, for me..

But I used to be very indie, but now, I do like it, but not that much, artists like Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Killers, I never listen to anymore, I have just got tired of that genre as a whole..

Those, um...aren't indie bands. "Alternative Rock", is what you're looking for.
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Freddie55

Gender: Male

Location: Toronto, ON

🤣 I first listened to the albums on my list from the 60s and 70s in the 60s and 70s. Back then I would listen to them everyday for weeks when I first bought them. Then over time it became once a week, then once a month .... Heck, I could only afford to buy an album a month. When I play them now (and it is rarely) they conjur up all kinds of wonderful memories and I love them for the place they had in my life. Most of the albums from the 80s, 90s and 00s on my list are relatively new to me and I discovered them during the past three years. Thus, I don't have the same rich connection with them that I have with earlier era albums. I think that each of us probably feels more connected to the albums we first listened to during our teen years.

Charicature

Age: 50

Location: Vermont

an_outlaw wrote:

Blur Modern Life IS Rubbish also comes to mind - apart from For Tomorrow (Blurs best song)

So YOU say 😉 I've always been partial to "End of A Century" and "Yuko and Hiro", though I'm also quite fond of "Chemical World" from MLiR.

Anyway, I've really had the opposite effect. Albums that I bought like Fountains of Wayne, Villains (The Verve Pipe), and On (Echobelly) that I bought in the 90s and really didn't think were all that great then and barely listened to them again over the next decade...then in the last couple of years I listened to them and thought "these are actually GREAT albums". Others that just sort of fell to the wayside over the years because I had new stuff that I liked better and just sort of forgot about them turn out to also sound incredible when I finally give them another shot - the two Better Than Ezra albums I own, Star (Belly), Pocket Full of Kryptonite (Spin Doctors) and Saturation (Urge Overkill) are good examples of these. Especially Urge - I forgot how good that album really was. There are also a couple of albums that didn't impress me at first and so I shelved them both for 6 months and gave them another listen and found I loved them - those would be Fresh Wine For the Horses (Rob Dickinson) and Virginia Creeper (Grant-Lee Phillips). Likely expectations played a role in my initial lack of interest.

As for albums I own that I don't like...typically these are albums I never liked much to begin with and so I never actually got "tired" of them. Once I fall in love with an album, I'm loyal to it.

Though I will say there's a few that I have on casette that I no longer care for because my tastes were honed after I bought them (I won't say changed as they were still raw at the time I was listening to these). I'm almost ashamed to admit owning them, but the debut from Color Me Badd as well as Cathy Dennis' first two albums (though I'll never disavow my love for the song "Too Many Walls") and Jewel's Pieces of You are examples of my listening past. I guess ultimately Jewel would still be okay in small doses, but not an entire album at once.
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Charicature

Age: 50

Location: Vermont

40footwolf wrote:

RaineyWins wrote:

I try to listen to Pet Sounds and Is This It once a week, I will never get tired of them two albums, they are just perfect, for me..

But I used to be very indie, but now, I do like it, but not that much, artists like Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Killers, I never listen to anymore, I have just got tired of that genre as a whole..

Those, um...aren't indie bands. "Alternative Rock", is what you're looking for.

Likely confused because of The Killers' song "Glamourous Indie Rock and Roll" 😉
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HyperBully

Gender: Male

Location: US

I used to listen to a lot of Led Zeppelin and Beatles and what not, but bands like those are just so overplayed that I moved on to other things. I still like them, but not to the same degree. Maybe if I weren't to listen to them for years I would come back with a renewed appreciation, but you can't turn on a radio without hearing it so that's kind of difficult.

purple

Many albums are great enough to play for a couple weeks straight and think they're jesus christ on a disc. However, it's the albums that persist through the years (emphasis on yearssss) and define your life changes and that you love to and dance to and drink to and enjoy yourself to that should be on your list.