Over the last year I've been thinning the herd of CDs and music DVDs at home and got rid of a good bunch of them, and paired it down to the "best of". While I'm still listening to these, what I thought were "best of" my collection, a lot of them don't sound as good to me as they did 20 years ago.
Stone Temple Pilots is one example. Went through a few of their albums earlier, and wasn't as blown away as I thought I should be, or was 10 years ago even. So these might get culled from the "best of" as well. All my Metallica and Megadeth stuff has gone.
Same with Doves. Now Doves have some brilliant brilliant songs, but I find it hard sometimes to get through their albums in one go, so they had to go to the charity shop as well!
Blur is also hovering on the out tray...
I know as we get older, our musical tastes change, but I'm still a guitar man at heart, so arguing with myself these days as to whether what I was into back in the 90s was good or not good....
At this stage, I might pair my collection down to 10 CDs!
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On the other hand, I hummed and hawed about Faith No More for years, and revisited them lately, and they´re / were bloody brilliant.
Going through the Blur stuff now to see if they will be saved from the final cull.
I revisited it a while ago after not hearing it for years, such a unique collection of songs by a band at a crossroads in their career, its originality means it hasn't really aged.
With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
@skay About half of each album post Parklife, skipping The Great Escape, is really good. Think Thank has some brilliant stuff on it, but some other stuff which is meh, to me....
Only recently got into the Cure and Depeche Mode, so time passed can also work the other way, and things I would have hated in the past are now on regular rotation.
With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
But I'd never throw any music away, maybe thats why I'm feeling cluttered?
Yeah, the 80’s saw the first widespread use of the glossy high concept sound. Quite effective in the hands of someone like Trevor Horn eg. Lexicon of Love. So many bands were using synths then that they laid their own feel on the production.
Not sure about the 90’s, they were a bit of a blur.