Are there bands you still really admire/like but you just don't listen to any more?

axisus

I was looking through records the other day and it occurred to me that I just don't seem to have the desire to put on Led Zeppelin albums these days. I was a massive fan in my youth, still wear T-shirts and I still think they have great material, but .... I don't know, it's like they are never the band for the moment any more. I still play other 70s stuff a lot, bands like Rush, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Queen etc. but Led Zep just no longer seem to attract my interest. 

Any significant bands moved out of your play zone?

stickyfiddle

Oh totally. I used to be a huge indie obsessive (teenagers in the late 90s..) then got into Zep and Pink Floyd and heavier stuff, then moved onto Springsteen & alt country and Soul, each time leaving some of the older things behind. 

I've just picked up on Pink Floyd again about 10 years after I stopped listening to them. I never should have! 
(sorry @fretmeister!)

Telejester

In my teens during mid 80s I couldn't get enough Metallica. You couldn't pay me enough to listen to them these days

Kilgore

Most of them.

fretmeister

I don't listen to a lot of Iron Maiden or AC/DC anymore. Those bands were a huge part of my youth but I hardly ever put them on.

If they come up on a shuffle then I don't fast forward and I enjoy the nostalgia, but I don't pick them anymore - and that includes the older albums that are career highlights for them.

thecolourbox

I used to listen to a lot, and therefore probably too much, Velvet Underground and The Doors. And as such, they are never something I think to choose when I listen to music before sleeping. Though I'd still class some of their tunes as absolute all time favourites. Heroin, After Hours, Waiting for the Man, Candy Says. The End, When the Music's Over, People are Strange.

When I was 17, Franz Ferdinand's debut album came out and I was absolutely obsessed for a good 12 months. But their second album came out, and I never really bothered for some reason. Only so  much quaver chord bashing you can listen to I guess

Philly_Q

My music listening in recent years has tended to revolve around bands I liked, or liked a bit, from the '70s and '80s.  I pick a band, and listen to everything they recorded, usually in chronological order.  If I like what I hear, I often get obsessed and feel obliged to buy everything on CD.

The last couple of years it's been Judas Priest, Triumph and Kansas.  This year it's been Black Sabbath (I already had nearly all their stuff), Thin Lizzy (who I'd barely listened to beyond the live album and singles), Dio (easy, they only did ten albums) and currently UFO.

Bands I haven't listened to for a while tend to be ones where I went through this listening-and-collecting process a long time ago.  So that would include the aforementioned Led Zeppelin, Rush, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Metallica plus some others like Scorpions, Wishbone Ash, Aerosmith.  With most of those bands I know I'd enjoy them if I listened to them now, in fact I'm probably due a Led Zeppelin or Rush binge - I certainly need to listen to all the Rush albums before the 2027 tour.

In terms of actually going off bands, there's Aerosmith - loved them for a while but I just can't stand them any more.  Partly because Perry and Tyler are dicks, and the records got so boring in the later years.  I see there have been a couple of re-releases recently but I've no wish to buy them.  And AC/DC... I have all the studio albums, I think I'm missing some live stuff, but they've descended into a paint-by-numbers self-tribute act in recent years (decades really) and I rarely feel like listening to them although I know I'd still enjoy the early stuff with Bon Scott.

And Deep Purple... I don't have anything like a complete collection other than the late '60s and '70s stuff.  The '80s reunion albums never really grabbed me and nor did the more recent ones with Steve Morse.  I find Ian Gillan a bit annoying but oddly enough I've recently bought boxed sets of all the Gillan (the band) and Ian Gillan Band albums.

One band I've never done this process with is Rainbow.  They were actually the very first hard rock/heavy metal (as we'd have called them at the time) band I got into around 1979, but I've never bought the albums on CD.  I think because with all the line-up changes and shifts of musical style it really became a completely different band over less than a decade.  I love the albums with Ronnie Dio but I've really no wish to hear anything from the Joe Lynn Turner period.  Perhaps I should.

So what's next?  Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes?  Maybe too prog.  Pink Floyd?  Nah.  Uriah Heep?  I like a lot of their stuff but the material is definitely patchy.  Michael Schenker Group?  Hmm, that would be a task, he's ludicrously prolific but maybe spreads himself a bit thin...  We'll see.

(Sorry, long post...)

theatreanchor

SO many. The Beatles are probably the biggest one. Pumpkins another. 

Philly_Q

^^ Oh yeah, Smashing Pumpkins.  Actually I haven't listened to anything grunge-adjacent for a very long time.

guitars4you

Yes

I I could not say I still admire them but it may well be 30 years since I last played one of their albums - But I still have Steve Howe’s The Clap on one of my playlists 

InactiveX

Pete Townshend

Jimmy Page

Gary Glitter

octatonic

Pearl Jam, most other bands of that time other than Tool, AIC and Soundgarden.
I love it when I hear the music but I just don't reach for it.

Most prog too, except for bits of King Crimson. I still listen to Peter Gabriel a lot. A lot.

ewal

Kilgore said:

Most of them.

This. I've never really listened to older music in my collection. I'm either musically shallow and/or get bored of things quickly.

boogieman

Hendrix. I’ve got a hell of a lot of his stuff but honestly can’t remember the last time I played any of it. 

joshphase90wah

I went for a 15 year phase of deliberately avoiding rock, metal punk etc that I listened to when I was a kid and immersed myself in blues, jazz and classical guitar. I then went back and re listened to all those Led Zep, Sabbath, AC/DC, Slayer and Iron Maiden albums and it was a real joy to get back to those bands that inspired me to pick the guitar up in the first place.

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

Hendrix. I’ve got a hell of a lot of his stuff but honestly can’t remember the last time I played any of it. 

Yeah, likewise, now that you mention it.  About 10 years ago I bought a a bunch of the original (pre Experience Hendrix) albums on CD, but I don't think I've ever played them.

LionAquaLooper

Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Deftones

...and many others.  I listened to their old stuff so much that they don't do anything for me anymore.

boogieman

ewal said:

Kilgore said:

Most of them.

This. I've never really listened to older music in my collection. I'm either musically shallow and/or get bored of things quickly.

I think it’s the familiarity with the material that often kills it, but sometimes going back to an album or artist you haven’t heard in ages can spark a new bit of interest. I “rediscovered” early Pink Floyd a little while back… albums like Umma Gumma, More, Obscured by Clouds. All good (well mostly, let’s not mention some of the more indulgent guff on Umma Gumma). I probably hadn’t listened to them in nearly 50 years, I’d just got so used to playing Dark Side, Meddle, Animals etc. 

Open_G

The Levellers. In the early 90’s I adored them. As much as I would probably still enjoy them in a nostalgic sense. I can’t remember the last time I played a track.