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Old 03.22.2012, 01:14 PM   #1
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Some of them. I mean, looking at the TOP 10 Albums thread--currently preceeded by a MBV reissue thread--got me thinking about albums that are certainly good, maybe even great, but which I am sick of.

How many times can one listen to MARQUEE MOON or ENTERTAINMENT! or [fill in the many blanks] before the magic wears off? Even when I hear the opening bass riff of Davis' "So What" I sort of groan, even though it is, obviously, a stellar recording that opens a stellar album.

I'm just bitching and I doubt I'm alone. So let's make this more interactive:

List Five Classics You Admit Are Good/Great And You Never Need to Listen to Again

(Notice I didn't ask for links to the threads where this has been done before, but feel free to add them anyway. Then fuck yourself and participate in this glimmering new one.)
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Old 03.22.2012, 02:21 PM   #2
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Yeah, I didn't want to start another "Classics you don't and never did like" pissing contest.

I mean to refer to the things that were good/great when you first heard them, and they're probably still objectively great, which is exactly why you played the hell out of them in the first place. I'm interested in the position of saying, "Yes, it's great. But PLEASE don't put it on the stereo. I couldn't bear to listen to that VU masterpiece for the ten trillionth time."
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Old 03.22.2012, 03:29 PM   #3
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Classic? What is that?
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Old 03.22.2012, 03:40 PM   #4
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classics are the ones that this doesn't happen with
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Old 03.22.2012, 10:08 PM   #5
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Hmmm....really? Like never again? Idunno...
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Old 03.23.2012, 12:49 AM   #6
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The cool thing about timeless badass tunes is that whenever I tire of them...I can take a break. And whenever I return to them, sometimes years later, I remember how fucking amazing they are and they'll sound new to me again. Television's "Marquee Moon" is a prime example of this. So is virtually everything by Nirvana (a band I usually spend a week out of the year re-absorbing/getting excited about before I bore of them again).

A lot of those old guys paved the way so much shit it's unreal. Like w/ Television...a lot of folks like to talk about them as being this prototypical punk rock band. Whenever I listen to them, they sound more post-punk to me. An evolved form of punk before punk happened. So damned far ahead of their time. I still, whenever listening to them, will pick up on suttle things I don't remember from previous listens. Modest Mouse/Pavement/Fugazi could never do that for me. Whenever I go back and listen to them they sound just as boring as they ever did.
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Old 03.23.2012, 08:30 AM   #7
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classics are the ones that this doesn't happen with

Dammit that is funny, ending preposition and all
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Old 03.23.2012, 08:45 AM   #8
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The cool thing about timeless badass tunes is that whenever I tire of them...I can take a break. And whenever I return to them, sometimes years later, I remember how fucking amazing they are and they'll sound new to me again. Television's "Marquee Moon" is a prime example of this. So is virtually everything by Nirvana (a band I usually spend a week out of the year re-absorbing/getting excited about before I bore of them again).

A lot of those old guys paved the way so much shit it's unreal. Like w/ Television...a lot of folks like to talk about them as being this prototypical punk rock band. Whenever I listen to them, they sound more post-punk to me. An evolved form of punk before punk happened. So damned far ahead of their time. I still, whenever listening to them, will pick up on suttle things I don't remember from previous listens. Modest Mouse/Pavement/Fugazi could never do that for me. Whenever I go back and listen to them they sound just as boring as they ever did.

That's a great answer. Maybe THE answer.
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Old 03.24.2012, 06:06 AM   #9
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There are no classics that i have found great I will ever listen again. Of course there has been years that I havenīt listened some great album, but if I listened it again after long time, it has sounded great again. Of course there are classics I havenīt ever liked.
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Old 03.24.2012, 07:58 AM   #10
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I give up classics for a while when I get sick of them. Eventually I return to them and love them again. But for now here's my list:

The White Album
Kind of Blue
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main St
Aja

I have listened to those albums way, way, way too much.
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Old 03.24.2012, 08:09 AM   #11
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^i always return to Sticky & Exile every once in a while and love them like the first time.
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Old 03.24.2012, 08:12 AM   #12
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Me, too, but sometimes I have to stay away from them for a long time.
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Old 03.24.2012, 11:56 AM   #13
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yeah, but what's up the pavement dissing. if don't like pavement then you take music too seriously.

seriously, check out these lyrics:

"can you treat it like an oil well"

"maybe he is, maybe he's not"

genius.
not the biggest Pavement fan besides S&E, but they had their moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB8SK9PkOxk
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Old 03.24.2012, 12:09 PM   #14
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i became a music fan after hearing Nevermind & OK Computer. then i found Sonic Youth. saved me from the shitty kind of alt rock.
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Old 03.24.2012, 12:26 PM   #15
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Most of Zeppelin - I can't really explain this one. I used to listen to them every day when I was younger.

Same!

Nowdays I can only listen to a few songs.
BUT I do listen to Prescence and ITTOD a lot, since they're not really "classics"..
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Old 03.24.2012, 12:51 PM   #16
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Albums I don't wanna listen to for a looong while

Let It Be - Beatles
The Wall - Pink Floyd
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Old 03.24.2012, 12:54 PM   #17
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i became a music fan after hearing Nevermind & OK Computer. then i found Sonic Youth. saved me from the shitty kind of alt rock.

I love you. I do.
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Old 03.24.2012, 12:58 PM   #18
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I love you. I do.
that's exactly what i was aiming for when i made that post.
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Old 03.24.2012, 01:00 PM   #19
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that's exactly what i was aiming for when i made that post.
You're a total fag. That's why I love you.
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Old 03.24.2012, 01:03 PM   #20
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Is this about music we've become tired of, or people?

I could never grow tired of the classic people.
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