Cfrock
Keep it strong
I don't think it'd be a stretch to say that all of us have had our musical tastes change over time. Maybe there was a band or singer you used to absolutely love, but now think are actually a bit rubbish. Perhaps there was a band or singer you used to absolutely hate, but now think they're actually pretty good. Has this happened for you, and, if so, who was it and why?
To get the stone rolling (Music jokes! How droll!), I used to adore Muse, back around 2007-08. Loved them. Went to see them live (which I have only ever done for two other acts because I hate live concerts) and had all their albums, etc. I was proper geared up for The Resistance in 2009, bought it (bought it) the day it was released, and then...
... And then I realised that between their (then) five studio albums, I liked exactly eight songs of theirs. The Resistance was a pathetic album that opened with the only good song they had recorded for it, Uprising, and then was just a mire of boring tracks that sounded like copy/paste efforts of their earlier work. I went back to those previous albums to remind myself of why I was excited for The Resistance in the first place and realised that I had only ever listened to their debut, Showbiz, once because it is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. Black Holes And Revelations is their best effort, but even that boasts only three songs worth listening to.
I can't exactly explain why my opinion changed so much so suddenly. I liked them one day, thought they were awful the next. Maybe I was just taken in by the fact that Muse were the first band I 'shared' with my friends. Before them, no one I knew really shared my taste in music, but then we had this 'great' band we could all enjoy and it was fun, for a while. Maybe The Resistance just shone a light on how bad they really were, took it to that point when I had to stop kidding myself and admit that I didn't like them. Maybe that's why, anyway.
How about you though? Who've you come to love? Who've you come to hate? And more importantly, why?
To get the stone rolling (Music jokes! How droll!), I used to adore Muse, back around 2007-08. Loved them. Went to see them live (which I have only ever done for two other acts because I hate live concerts) and had all their albums, etc. I was proper geared up for The Resistance in 2009, bought it (bought it) the day it was released, and then...
... And then I realised that between their (then) five studio albums, I liked exactly eight songs of theirs. The Resistance was a pathetic album that opened with the only good song they had recorded for it, Uprising, and then was just a mire of boring tracks that sounded like copy/paste efforts of their earlier work. I went back to those previous albums to remind myself of why I was excited for The Resistance in the first place and realised that I had only ever listened to their debut, Showbiz, once because it is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. Black Holes And Revelations is their best effort, but even that boasts only three songs worth listening to.
I can't exactly explain why my opinion changed so much so suddenly. I liked them one day, thought they were awful the next. Maybe I was just taken in by the fact that Muse were the first band I 'shared' with my friends. Before them, no one I knew really shared my taste in music, but then we had this 'great' band we could all enjoy and it was fun, for a while. Maybe The Resistance just shone a light on how bad they really were, took it to that point when I had to stop kidding myself and admit that I didn't like them. Maybe that's why, anyway.
How about you though? Who've you come to love? Who've you come to hate? And more importantly, why?