Albums You Loved Years Ago...

This is an album I remember getting as a new release on cassette when it came out in '87. I loved it, Played the heck out of it. Fast forward to 2010 and I finally score a reasonably priced remaster and cross it off the want list. I play it through a few times and enjoy it; but I can't see/ hear what I was crazy about back in the day. This album was in regular rotation in my Walkman along with Ratt, Whitesnake, Dokken, and QR; and I still love and go back to those albums all the time.I played "Perfect Timing" this morning and it's still the same conundrum. I just don't get it.

Any albums you guys (and gal) feel fit this category for you?

Carmen - Fandangos In Space

I had this on vinyl in the early 70s. I think I liked the combination of flamenco and progressive vibes. But listening to it now, not only does it sound pretty dated but it's also quite boring after a while. This track still isn't half bad though.

Not going to be a popular choice but.



Not saying that I don't like it but at the time it came out it was my favorite IM album, now I think it's inferior by some margin to the four that preceded it

I was a huge fan of Extreme's S/T and Pornografitti when they came out. I recently listened to both albums and neither did anything for me.

I still like some of Pornografitti (Get The Funk Out!), but I totally agree that their music has not aged well.

A ton of 80's commercial metal does little to nothing for me anymore.

the sentinel wrote:

This is an album I remember getting as a new release on cassette when it came out in '87. I loved it, Played the heck out of it. .

Same for me! I also bought this album close to when it came out (on cassette). I bought it after seeing "Gimme Your Love" on MTV (probably Headbanger's Ball). Played it to death on my walkman. A few years ago, when I was transferring cassettes to mp3s, I found that I had wore it out. I bought it on vinyl from eBay. I still love the two singles ("Gimme Your Love" and "Love Is Not A Game") but not so much the rest. "Follow the Night" is downright cheesy.

I have to agree with the choice of MSG 'Perfect Timing which is perfectly titled album, at the time of its release I loved it, now adays still a decent album but it has not aged very well

Boris2008 wrote:

Not going to be a popular choice but.



Not saying that I don't like it but at the time it came out it was my favorite IM album, now I think it's inferior by some margin to the four that preceded it

I have found that I have a new appreciation for this one (and No Prayer) as I didn't play the heck out of it back in the day. I had this one cranking while I was lifting the other day.

Thanks for the contributions everyone.

I would guess that 60% to 70% of the music I bought between 1984 and 1996 I no longer listen to.

I took a listen to Flick Of The Switch - and though I still enjoyed it, it certainly is not as great as I remember it being. I love it and at one point in my teens it was one of my favorite AC/DC albums, now not so much.

Thelemech wrote:

I took a listen to Flick Of The Switch - and though I still enjoyed it, it certainly is not as great as I remember it being. I love it and at one point in my teens it was one of my favorite AC/DC albums, now not so much.

That is still my favorite Brian Johnson era album.

chewie wrote:

Thelemech wrote:

I took a listen to Flick Of The Switch - and though I still enjoyed it, it certainly is not as great as I remember it being. I love it and at one point in my teens it was one of my favorite AC/DC albums, now not so much.

That is still my favorite Brian Johnson era album.

Yeah, mine too and by a wide margin. Here's an album where you the listener have to press play to here this, because radio stations are sure as hell not going to play anything from it. My two favorite AC/DC albums to go to are Flick of the Switch and Powerage, because they are for the most part completely ignored.

Now an obvious choice for me regarding AC/DC would be "Back In Black". I want to vomit when I hear half of those songs. I seriously don't care if I hear the likes of "Hells Bells" or "Back In Black" for a decade and I don't ever want to hear "You Shook Me All Night Long" again. I'm tired of the likes of "Shoot to Thrill" and "Have a Drink On Me" as well, as those are all songs that are considered safe AC/DC songs for radio stations to play. I don't mind the other songs on the album, but the heavy rotation of those other songs doesn't make me ever gravitate towards this album.

metalinmyveins wrote:

Now an obvious choice for me regarding AC/DC would be "Back In Black". I want to vomit when I hear half of those songs. I seriously don't care if I hear the likes of "Hells Bells" or "Back In Black" for a decade and I don't ever want to hear "You Shook Me All Night Long" again. I'm tired of the likes of "Shoot to Thrill" and "Have a Drink On Me" as well, as those are all songs that are considered safe AC/DC songs for radio stations to play. I don't mind the other songs on the album, but the heavy rotation of those other songs doesn't make me ever gravitate towards this album.

I have been unable to listen to Back In Black for about 20 years now. About a year ago I attempted it and said "nope, this is STILL so ragged out, I just can't stomach it". Maybe in another 20 years.

I really don't think there's anything that I can point to and say, "Ugh, how was I into that?"

Even stuff that doesn't rank at the top of my list now can be enjoyable because it takes me back to where I was when I was sex nuts for whatever album we're talking about. Music becomes tied to people and places and just eras and it's sometimes fun to fire up the wayback machine and go back.