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I can't say there are any Prog albums I won't listen to from start to end. I can't stand to hear most all 80's metal anymore (except for Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and Accept (up to Metal Heart)). I was actively playing during those years, and I heard so much of it that it lost all appeal. Anything Blue rock is another I won't even listen for longer than a minute. 
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I gotta say every RUSH album except A Farewell To Kings.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2020 at 07:40
^ I gravitated circa early 90's from almost exclusively Post Punk (which I grew up with) to the past: Prog, Psychedelia, Jazz, Classical, Noel Coward (yes really), Eastern European Folk Music, Dub and North African Folk Music. The reasons for the looking backwards are maybe obscure but I guess I just never felt an intuitive  connection to Grunge, EDM, House, Ambient/Trance, Rap or what passed for contemporary Pop in my lifetime. Unlike many others on the site however, I don't consider this a qualitative judgement. As I've grown older I've learned that the things I can justify reasons for not liking, are usually things that I encountered first hand e.g when I still listened to the radio or even cared about keeping abreast of musical developments. It's not an exact science but I reckon we are all irrelevant and completely clueless farts around 40. YMMVOuch


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SteveG Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2020 at 05:58
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Very little of the music I enjoyed at 20 fails to give me pleasure at 57. The only exceptions might be some brief dalliances with Frippertronics, Philip Glass, Tangerine Dream and Rush (apart from Moving Pictures)
Same here Iain. Just curious, how have your tastes changed over time. I still like a lot of the old prog and rock standbys, but I could never listen to the old standards like CttE, DSotM, etc. these days. I just got burned out on them years ago.
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Very little of the music I enjoyed at 20 fails to give me pleasure at 57. The only exceptions might be some brief dalliances with Frippertronics, Philip Glass, Tangerine Dream and Rush (apart from Moving Pictures)
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Once I also happened to discovered Rick Miller and was absolutely happy, listening to ~3 his albums a day, but in a fortnight it has all worn off and I never turn it on since then.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Jeffro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2020 at 04:12
Some of the Spock's Beard albums no longer have the same punch or enjoyment that they used to have. It's not that I don't like them anymore, it's just that I have little desire to hear them again.

However, I can say that about a lot of stuff I used to listen to in the past. I was a huge fan of both Iron Maiden and Queensryche but mostly they don't do much for me anymore. Triumph is another one. 

It's not that I actively dislike the music. In fact when I do listen to it I enjoy it, it's just that these days I'd rather find something new to listen to than rehash that stuff.
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Styx - The Grand Illusion
Kansas - Point of Know Return, Leftoverture
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Ommadawn (I much prefer his early 80s stuff)
Genesis - TLLDOB (bits are great, but the concept sucks)
ELP - Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition
Queen - all albums after A Night at the Opera
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2020 at 03:21
One word more on Tangerine Dream. Perhaps I can generally say that for me the live albums have worn out somewhat, whereas many of their studio albums haven't. Same with Encore and Poland. I wonder whether this has to do with the fact that their live attitude is somewhat different to their studio attitude. The material that they played live originally, at least in the old days, was not reproducible and was probably really more played in order to be listened to and appreciated on the spot, the very same moment it happened, not meant to be played again and again and again over 40 or so years to come. So I'm not criticising these albums, I'm just saying maybe it's no surprise that these don't work that well being played repeatedly over a long time. I know some love their live material most though, even on record.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2020 at 23:47
Although IQ are one of my favourite bands I would say Subterranea would be the obvious one. I find long double albums of this nature somewhat arduous nowadays but at one time it was my favourite album. I think the fact I don't listen to complete albums on headphones any more plays a part. It does give you that immersive experience but I no longer crave that. The way I digest music has changed a lot with the advent of streaming so I like a variety of music to listen.

As far as bands go the Flower Kings are another obvious one and partly for the reasons detailed above. I now only care for Banks of Eden and could happily get shot of everything else including the latest. 
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I no longer listen to Led Zeppelin....after years of over-play on Chicago FM radio, their catalog sounds dated to me.  Also, I don't much care for blues-flavored rock as I used to.  
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Oh you had to bring up Tangerine Dream, did you? Oh I saw them on the Optical Dream tour and that one has a special place for me that the other ones can never displace, heheheheh :)

Some folks have a strange and weird attitude towards TD ... my thoughts always were that this was not pop music, and neither was it ... just another song ...even though one could consider that idea and option.

TD, unlike a lot of bands, changed with the times and the equipment they had ... they helped develop those things they called "echo chambers" and then them things that became very important and valuable ... sorry word for it fails me, but the thumping stuff ... that no one could even come close in quality and variety even today ... it's almost like some folks are scared to even try!

For TD, it wasn't so much about the sound, as it was about what the thoughts and the ideas were in the sound ... and they worked on developing that non-stop ... and even in the last days of EF, this was visible ... something that today, the new version of TD can only do a technical variation on the sound, and not find an "inner movie" that carries it for you and I ... thus, I'm not sure that the new TD, even though it is very modern and up to date when it comes to the music and the use of the equipment, I am not sure that they "color" an inner scene in your mind ... and this is a HUGE thing for a lot of electronic music ... even KS is about developing the sound to help it create and maintain the thematic content, although I am of the opinion that for a while he got stuck in the electronics of it, instead of letting the music fly like he did in his series (WORKS), which were prettier and more enjoyable to my ears, than some of the other, way more technical stuff that he did on regular albums beyond that time!

This is the hard/harsh part of enjoyment and music ... how did you get it "started", and how has that thought/idea changed? ... it wasn't the music ... it was YOU!


Edited by moshkito - January 06 2020 at 20:01
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Slartibartfast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2020 at 17:41
Oh you had to bring up Tangerine Dream, did you? Oh I saw them on the Optical Dream tour and that one has a special place for me that the other ones can never displace, heheheheh :)

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 06 2020 at 17:43
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2020 at 16:11
As a teenager the Eloy material between Inside and Silent Cries was among my favourites, and these albums have worn out in the meantime, I now only enjoy very few tracks of these. Their albums from Colours onwards have stood the test of time much better. Another favourite from those times was Tangerine Dream's Ricochet, which I would now rate clearly below Zeit, Atem, Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear, Tangram; I probably just overplayed it, and it has no potential to surprise me anymore, whereas many of the others still hold their secrets. Barclay James Harvest and Alan Parsons Project also were much bigger in the day and have almost completely disappeared from my listening (I still fully enjoy Supertramp of these melodic crossover bands).    


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2020 at 15:19
Well...there are several classic rock things I don't really get into anymore....Springsteen, Petty, etc...and other mainstream acts but I can't say I dislike any prog I bought in the old days.

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I am with Moshkito on this completely.  None.  If I enjoyed it back in the ealy '70's, I still enjoy it to this day.  Now because of the huge amount of good music out and because I keep my collection in roation.  I don't listen to the older stuff as much, but I still do. And I am not all that strict in my rotation schemes.  I will listen to whatever the hell I want to if I get the hankering to.  You could probably lock me up in a prison cell in solitary confinement and you would never be able to shut off the music in my mind. Torture me would be playing current pop music at me thhough.  Now I am worried that I have given the torturers who are after me ideas...

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The entire 80's & 90's Genesis catalog starting with Duke. Haven't listened in years and have no desire to. In fact, I must have sold these tapes and cd's, because they don't even exist in my collection.   
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2020 at 10:14
Hi,

None really ... I still enjoy Quatermass as much today as I did when I first heard it what ... 45 years ago?

I would imagine that I do not enjoy things like Genesis as much these days, but I can tell you that when I put on the album (CD these days), it's fine ... I don't remember anything else except the feelings that the album brought up ... 

I always gave a "dedicated" listen to just about anything I had, so I really can not tell you of any album I have that I no longer enjoy ... it would not be there in the first place.

Just because I got older, doesn't mean I can not appreciate something 45 years old, or something from last year ... or vice versa ... so, to me, the suggestion is, that many folks do not really spend the time listening to an album with a good "intent" ... like they are looking for something else, and when you do that, the album loses a lot of its own personality and beauty ... I spend my time looking for that, instead, not thoughts that it sounds like, or it is not, or whatever other silly ideas we keep using to not appreciate the human spirit!
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