Details you missed all that time

That still happens to me when I listen to Floyd.

you change, therefore the way you listen to music changes, which makes the music change and you notice things you never noticed before.

Having started listening music in the 60s on a turntable which played only 45rpm and radio, moving to various equipment and finally on my Marshall headphones, I think it's obvious that I discover new things everytime. Hearing some things was almost impossible before...have you ever tried The Dark Side of the Moon on a Readers Digest integrated system?

^That's so true. On a lot of things my first listen was on cassette tape. Or I'd quickly move a record to tape to keep the record pristine. Sometimes I'd listen to things through a set of good head phones and really discover something new. At least one of the keyboard bridges in Genesis' The Lamia have numerous independent melodies stacked on top of each other with little separation. I listened to it with head phones once trying to focus on each individual melody then rewound it to focus my listening on another. I'm not sure how many melodies there actually were. I wasn't able to distinguish all of them.

I remember a Zappa interview back in the 80s. He was saying just how we are here that he especially music that has new things to discover. He rated his own album, Sheikh Yer Bouti, rather low in this regard, preferring some of his other work (and for the life of me, I can't remember what old work of his he had singled out).

Edited by HackettFan - October 14 2015 at 18:43

Yes, it's true that the digital revolution did make a big difference - but so did being able to afford decent stereo equipment.  I shudder now to think of how tinny everything must have sounded on my very cheap 1970s record player - yet I loved the music anyway. I do still, it just sounds so much better now.

This happened to me many times over the course of many spins of various Tangerine Dream albums.

I listened to The Sky Moves Sideways for the first time in probably nearly two years on the sound system I set up about a year ago. Not sure if it was the fact it was a different pressing or that but it sounded way different. Lots of little things I missed all over the place. 

Meltdowner wrote: That still happens to me when I listen to Floyd. I only noticed that note on Mood for a Day when I learned how to play it

Not so much what I'd missed but what I noticed: the line "They're going to change you into a human being" from Genesis' Supper's Ready on the recent remasters is different sounding than as I originally heard it way back when on vinyl and cassette. It was much more appealingly spirited on those versions.

Happens now and then when I play something and listen with my Shure headphones since they can pick up things I don't hear on the car stereo and home system.