Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it

Boston: limited catalog and way overplayed.

Gotta say Fleetwood Mac stock overall is down for me of late but still love a lot of their stuff and Lindsey Buckingham in particular.

Other than that I like most everything better today than before because my system is better and everything sounds better and even new and fresh in many ways. Especially the case with nicely remastered older R&R and R&B tunes.

Remastered Chuck Berry sounds absolutely kick-a-- these days. Never thought that before though I knew the tunes were classics.

I struggle with Miles Davis surprisingly sometimes these days, but have not given up there.

I'm also rediscovering a lot of tasty tidbits from that era that I used to think to be largely lost musically, the 80's.

And Duke Ellington is still a motherlode for me that I have only touched upon to-date.

"Most of the music from the 60's, 70's and 80's, it's all old news now! "

So is Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

Still classic music though!

I think that as youthful idealism fades out with age, musical tastes for things like Jackson Browne and Cat Stevens and a lot of old hippy-like ideals tends to fade as well.

Its something worth trying to hold onto though. Idealism beats cynicism any day in my book! After all, not all hippies turned out to be superficial phonies, right?

A little cynicism to temper the idealism is usually a good idea too.

So no reason to categorically reject any kind of music in my mind. We need it all, like yin and yang.

Peace!

Glad nobody has listed "The Moody Blues", at least not yet.

Love Alan Parson's more than ever!

I predict you guys who liked but now hate ELP will regret it someday!

You might need a better stereo to appreciate it.

That or try some of the special conditioning you might have applied back then when you liked them again and see if that helps.

Zing!!!

BTW I was down on ELP for a long time but came back around a few years ago.

How could I have been so foolish?

"YES, OTOH, is on my list of music that I loved when I was younger but sounds a bit soulless to me now"

News flash:

Yes never had any soul to start with.

Well, maybe with "owner Of A Lonely Heart", but even that's a stretch.

I've seen them 5 times in concert and still consider them to be classic and worth fresh listens though.

actually, i think chris squires bass often imparted a unique flavor of soul into a good bit of yes' music.