Tired of classics
 

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.)

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."

Classic? What is that?

classics are the ones that this doesn't happen with

Hmmm....really? Like never again? Idunno...

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.

Dammit that is funny, ending preposition and all

That's a great answer. Maybe THE answer.

There are no classics that i have found great I will ever listen again. Of course there has been years that I haven´t listened some great album, but if I listened it again after long time, it has sounded great again. Of course there are classics I haven´t ever liked.

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.

^i always return to Sticky & Exile every once in a while and love them like the first time. :)

Me, too, but sometimes I have to stay away from them for a long time.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB8SK9PkOxk

i became a music fan after hearing Nevermind & OK Computer. then i found Sonic Youth. saved me from the shitty kind of alt rock.

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"..
:cool:

Albums I don't wanna listen to for a looong while

Let It Be - Beatles
The Wall - Pink Floyd

I love you. I do. :eek:

that's exactly what i was aiming for when i made that post.

You're a total fag. That's why I love you. :)

Is this about music we've become tired of, or people?

I could never grow tired of the classic people.