the worn out factor
this thread is inspired by my mother-in-law who explains the fact that their exceedingly old tv won't get channel 2: "we watched it too much" - plain and simple.
there are some things you can't listen to anymore because they are just worn out. this probably happens alot around the holidays when you can't move without hearing....you know what...
mebbe that modern english hit that won't ever fade or such.
thank my stars i wore out kiss alive when i was 15.
i'll leave it to you to drag more current stuff into the theme...
there are some things you can't listen to anymore because they are just worn out. this probably happens alot around the holidays when you can't move without hearing....you know what...
mebbe that modern english hit that won't ever fade or such.
thank my stars i wore out kiss alive when i was 15.
i'll leave it to you to drag more current stuff into the theme...
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Only thing I can think of that I've pretty much left behind that I used to play a lot of is: Grunge. Played Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice, etc. regularly for a couple of years, then stopped and I can't remember the last time since then I've listened to them.
re: beatles - my guess is things which are "mccartney" might wear out faster than lennon. i know it's sloppy to throw out "ebony + ivory" but i can't think of anyone whose name has been linked to such revered status would slip that low.
ok i lied. elvis would do ultimate great stuff right alongside ultimate trash (poke salad annie...gator got y'er granny).
Even Homer nods.
I'm surprised by what holds up. Just downloaded "Wake of the Flood" down from Amazon, and it gave us part of a wonderful evening.
Many years ago (hi frogkopf) I was at one of the best rock concerts I've ever jumped up and down to: The Faces with Stewart, just after they'd formed. Stevart's served up too much warm soup in the intervening years for me to want to go back there.
But the real jawbreaker these days is most small-group jazz (set Monk and Coleman to one side) of the 60s. My solo, now your solo, now his solo, now his sola, finish. Boredom assured. I was so much older then ...
huh? some big label pulled his vids from youtube!
I think that listening to a record more than a few times in a year is a mistake. Everything you do, see, and hear rewires your brain to some extent. Repetition reinforces the new wiring, and feeding the exact same information into your brain over and over is very different from reciting your ABCs, or seeing multiple live performances. When you listen to radio, over time whatever's in the playlist gets burned into your brain, reinforced more strongly than anything you've learned in school, more than the items you need to pick up on the way home, more than your first kiss. I no longer allow anyone to mess with my mind in this manner, myself included.
Substitute "burned in" for "worn out". Is it not the case that you can hear these recordings in your head? Do you remember the songs you purposely learned and sang in grade school as vividly? At all? When these worn out recordings come on doesn't something in your mind scream "Not again!--I have that." I used to think it was clever to recognize a record from the first few seconds. Now I think it shows something's terribly wrong! Reinforcing one thing requires that other things become less important, less accessible. Why is some piece of shlock from the 80's so readily at hand, while important events from the same period are hazy? I've been stupid. Most of my life I've allowed a stream of filler to be plastered over my experiences. I've played albums until all the magic wore off. When The Clash urged me to smash my radio, I should have taken their advice then and there. I shouldn't have built a record collection. I should have sold or traded albums I'd had a while and got different ones. If I had I could pick up an album like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and get blown away all over again.
I think that listening to a record more than a few times in a year is a mistake.
I don't. Sometimes I hear something new in it, that I didn't catch before.
Everything you do, see, and hear rewires your brain to some extent.
True. This is true of seeing or hearing something only once, as well as repeatedly.
Repetition reinforces the new wiring, and feeding the exact same information into your brain over and over is very different from reciting your ABCs,
How? I don't get your point in this part of your post.
reinforced more strongly than anything you've learned in school, more than the items you need to pick up on the way home, more than your first kiss.
I can't wait until the dementia hits and I can remember my first kiss better than I remember what I had for lunch. Joking. Can't agree with you here...time's effect on the mind can take away many firsts. You don't remember your first step, or your first word, or your first doctor visit, either, I'll bet. You don't need to. But I do remember my first romantic kiss, thanks for reminding me about that.
I used to think it was clever to recognize a record from the first few seconds. Now I think it shows something's terribly wrong! Funny, I always thought it was a special talent of mine. Nothing wrong with it...I'm rather proud of it. Not everyone can do this, you know.
Reinforcing one thing requires that other things become less important, less accessible.
Not necessarily. People grow and change, and letting things go can be freeing. I wish I could let those cigarettes go, for instance. The time you spend doing things is what makes them important, to paraphrase The Little Prince.
Rush is another band from my teens that has been worn down to a nub.
It was pretty exhausting playing that air guitar, wasn't it?
I only have that on vinyl, so haven't listening to it in a loooong time. I think it's strange that he even wrote that title song. It's an old man's song, yet he wrote it while young. It has meant different things to me over the years, and has merit. It reaches across the years; young people hearing it think they'll never end up that way, and older people know the sorrow of it.
Maybe Mutex is onto something - haven't heard it for years, so it's OK now.
edit - I listened to 'I Melt With You' also - just saw a rerun of Pretty In Pink.
I dunno, y'all. This never gets old when I have a happy memory of the song....the Yes songs I can do without, because those people and that situation didn't work for me. I'm glad I left them behind.
So thought I, and I just did, and it brought back a bunch of bad teenager feelings. I'm off to listen to Morcheeba.
Fuck that Rush. They are just worn out.
still the same, there is a harsh truth to his position...as in memorizing ABC's - that is actually a building block for opening many other doors. but collectively being able to identify "melt with you" in the first 3 seconds is...what? a huge social waste of time.
there are some crappy finite numbers out there that make you rethink everything on its present course - (for example, some really bad cable travel channel show rips off the 1000 places to see b4 you die idea - but gives the very telling statistic of "you have 88 weeks of vacation over your life - that's it") mutex alludes to the finite as well - you listen to the white album 100 times in your life + you've shunned 99 other rekkids you could have explored. or you could have used the time to learn to play an instrument...or this or that. it is all finite.
of course, there is the intertwined evil twin thread looming in front of mutex > what music will never get worn out. my guess is beethoven's 9th gets the high honor.
looming.
It's not a waste of my time. I don't care what you say. A lot of people can't do this. Yeah, dismiss it as a party trick.
I got the gift.
I'm so happy you replied - those doofy guys I remember fondly from my teens also salute you, I'm sure.
Warhammer? What's that?
Taco Bell is way healthier than McD, ya know.
My son is a gamer and Mountain Dew came out with some special gamer cans this year. Vile stuff. I took a sip.
"beth" is inconsequential to the kiss repertoire...so, of course i'm petty when you toss it out like a nite of good lovin'.
since y'er around + i need to bug the female types on this...as it's gone too far without explonation - namely > what gives with women in elevators??? seriously, i can understand getting forward in a bar - but the elevator??? - come clean.
I know I'll never walk into the Marquee again and hear Eric lift me off the floor with this - but then since that night, I've heard this. I know I'll never quite get the lift out of this as I did on the day a mate brought it round to my birthday party, and we heard it for the first time. Tempus bleeding fugit, my good doctor.
things out of it each time. I'm sure there are things I just overdid and couldn't listen to again (although none come to mind right now), much like overdoing a favorite food (I can never eat fritos corn chips again). Still, for me it's mostly rediscovering something in light of everything I have heard since - the new stuff giving me new context for the old stuff. Or maybe I just don't like to admit to myself that I ever liked any bad music.
Things I've worn out: Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Rush, and Soundgarden. There are only rare instances where I can even be nostalgic about hearing these bands. Normally, I'll get through the first minute of a song before I feel fatigued and start looking for something else.
"The Joker"