Then and now...

What bands did you used to like a lot in the past that you are now either not as or at all interested in?

I know this forum is for metal bands but I'll actually start off with a non-metal band for a change ... and I'll add some metal bands later on as well ...


Personally, I used to like David Bowie a lot more than I do nowadays. I used to listen to his albums and be mesmerized by the geniality of his songwriting. However, in the last several years I found myself liking his albums less than I used to. In fact out of all of Bowie's albums, lately I can only listen to two of his albums all the way: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Let's Dance. It seems I am drawn to the more commercial side of Bowie, but I don't look at it that way - I simply feel that those are the Bowie albums I like the most and can listen to without having to skip or cull out any filler songs.

That is probably why I cannot listen to Bowie's other albums with the same level of enthusiasm anymore. The memorable songs on his other albums are far and few in between and all too often I find myself skipping through the tracks to get to the good ones. An album that I feel is almost notorious for having a lot of filler is Diamond Dogs - I have tried re-listening to this album to find what I even liked about it in the first place and the only song I actually enjoy is Rebel Rebel.


As far as metal goes I can say on a very general note - I am not as much into power metal as I used to be 10 years ago. At the time when I started discovering euro-metal I was mostly listening to a variety power metal bands. I still like some, like Manowar, Gamma Ray, Helloween, Iron Savior, Grave Digger, Running Wild those bands I don't even see them in terms of belonging to a specific sub-genre - they're just metal bands I like.

But there are other 'power' bands that I do not care about anymore:

Iron Fire - good debut album but the rest is forgettable. I couldn't get into their last album and I have almost no recollection of anything else they released in between.

Rhapsody / Luca Turilli (solo) - didn't have a lasting appeal. The novelty wore off soon after Dawn of Victory (and that's probably the only album I remember by Rhapsody). Luca's solo stuff is no better - King of the Nordic Twilight was tolerable, albeit fell short in many places - I liked the title track but I cannot remember much of the rest. Overall both Rhapsody & Luca Turilli sound like Sesame Street music to me these days.

Sonata Arctica - their music has not aged well at all. Beyond the first album, the rest can all be written off as just filler garbage (sorry if anyone here is ga ga over them).

Primal Fear - not necessarily I band I no longer like but I seldom play any of their albums. They were never that prominent on my radar but their first 4 albums were enjoyable during the Ripper-Priest era when Priest seemed to lack focus or were experiment a bit beyond my tastes (i.e. Demolition). I have not given this band much attention since Seven Seals, in fact I think Black Sun is the last album I really liked by Primal Fear. Devil's Ground was a snoozefest and Seven Seals had very limited appeal for me. It was interesting for a few months but it didn't age very well for me.

I could add more but I'd rather others contribute...

SEPULTURA hasn't aged as well for me as other bands.

It would almost be easier for me to mention bands I still like. I would say about 70% of the music I listened to from 1980-1995 I no longer like.

Temple of Blood wrote:

SEPULTURA hasn't aged as well for me as other bands.

I can relate to an extent. For example, albums like Morbid Visions and Schizophrenia leave me very unimpressed these days. I can definitely appreciate their role in the band's stylistic evolution, and even in the role they played in thrash but neither have really dated very well especially when compared to albums like Beneath the Remains or Arise, or even Chaos AD.

Another album that I feel was very over-hyped for a long time was Roots. Again not an album that has aged very well for me. I loved it when it came out but the novelty of mixing tribal beats with metal has worn off. Similarly, Soulfly's first three albums have not aged well either. I know OMGZ you mentioned Soulfly but honestly their last three albums have been very solid and probably the best material since Sepultura's Chaos AD. So yes I do like Soulfly and I liked them since the beginning but when I go back to Max's earlier efforts with the band, those albums just sound so dated - you can definitely feel for example the debut or even Back to the Primitive attempted to appeal to a particular trend that has now faded.

In the last few months I've lost almost all interest in metal. Judas Priest were my favourite band up until a few months ago, now I can't stand them. There are less than 5 metal bands that I still listen too.

MEGATRON wrote:

In the last few months I've lost almost all interest in metal. Judas Priest were my favourite band up until a few months ago, now I can't stand them. There are less than 5 metal bands that I still listen too.

Wow that is a major shift! I find that I almost always lose interest in non-metal bands quicker than I lost interest in any particular metal band ... but to lose interest in metal as a whole seems a bit drastic ... so what sort of stuff do you like more than metal these days?

MEGATRON wrote:

In the last few months I've lost almost all interest in metal. Judas Priest were my favourite band up until a few months ago, now I can't stand them. There are less than 5 metal bands that I still listen too.

Why do you think you've lost your interest in metal?


As for me I've lost alot of interest in some of the hair bands I used to like.

When I first got into hard rock and metal, I was a major fan of the first few Def Leppard and Motley Crue records. Now, you couldn't give me their records for free.

MEGATRON wrote:

In the last few months I've lost almost all interest in metal. Judas Priest were my favourite band up until a few months ago, now I can't stand them. There are less than 5 metal bands that I still listen too.

Advice from an "old dude". Don't make any drastic decisions, give yourself awhile to ponder it. Sounds like you might just be on a downer at the moment, give the stuff a rest for a few months, listen to something else. One day several months down the road you'll listen to some Priest and it will kick your ass again...or it won't. Either way, it won't be a hasty decision.

Peace.

as i get older, i find myself going for the heavier stuff. the traditional metal platter appeals less & less to me. i still like much of it, but i bore with it quicker. whereas the heavier, faster, more aggressive stuff tends to hold my interest. even acoustic interludes or keyboard intros piss me off.

i find myself avoiding much of that labeled "melodic". so most of traditional, power, progressive, goth, & even a lot of black & death metal i now cannot enjoy...at least not for very long.

mc666 wrote:

as i get older, i find myself going for the heavier stuff.

... & even a lot of black & death metal i now cannot enjoy...at least not for very long.

Sorry I found this a bit confusing. When I first read it I instantly thought you might be going for more death and black metal stuff but then I read that you don't find either death or black metal enjoyable much these days..

What type of heavier bands did you mean?

I am not the way you guys are. I still listen to the same stuff i listen when i was young (anyway, i still think i am young). The different is that back in 1989 i had 100 lps or less and now i have a lot more, but i still play my records all the time, some more then others, but i still like anything i liked 10 or 20 years back.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

mc666 wrote:

as i get older, i find myself going for the heavier stuff.

... & even a lot of black & death metal i now cannot enjoy...at least not for very long.

Sorry I found this a bit confusing. When I first read it I instantly thought you might be going for more death and black metal stuff but then I read that you don't find either death or black metal enjoyable much these days..

What type of heavier bands did you mean?

sorry, i meant the "melodic" offerings of those specific genres.

anymore, i seek out the brutal death metal & grindcore stuff. those are my two favorite genres. black metal is great, but nothing melodic like Dimmu. i prefer the raw punkish aggression of bands like Tsjuder, Bestial Warlust, & Impaled Nazarene.

i also love really heavy doom, crustpunk, hardcore, etc. anything aggressive, violent , & heavy.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

Wow that is a major shift! I find that I almost always lose interest in non-metal bands quicker than I lost interest in any particular metal band ... but to lose interest in metal as a whole seems a bit drastic ... so what sort of stuff do you like more than metal these days?

I still like a couple of metal bands; Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden and Ozzy... but not much else. Lately I've been diggin' Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Buckcherry and Deep Purple.

nevermore wrote:

Why do you think you've lost your interest in metal?

I'm not entirely sure, it probably has a lot to do with the aggression of the music - how it's played. If I want to listen to "heavy" music these days, I tend to listen to hard rock.

detuned wrote:

Advice from an "old dude". Don't make any drastic decisions, give yourself awhile to ponder it. Sounds like you might just be on a downer at the moment, give the stuff a rest for a few months, listen to something else. One day several months down the road you'll listen to some Priest and it will kick your ass again...or it won't. Either way, it won't be a hasty decision.

Peace.

I strongly doubt that.

Funny you should start a thread like this now, as I am listening to just this kind of band for me, namely At The Gates.

I guess I'm not that big a fan of death metal these days, not that I really ever was, but I used to enjoy this band a lot more.

krokus wrote:

I am not the way you guys are. I still listen to the same stuff i listen when i was young (anyway, i still think i am young). The different is that back in 1989 i had 100 lps or less and now i have a lot more, but i still play my records all the time, some more then others, but i still like anything i liked 10 or 20 years back.

Same here, and I also listen to many different types of music, so that helps too, but still liked what I liked back then.

Tourniquet use to be my favorite band. For whatever reason I lost interest. I think main issue is that Luke Easter bores me now.

Guardian was another favorite, but they started changing and I lost interest. When they put out Buzz, I was disappointed, but then came Bottle Rocket and that pretty much crushed any interest I had left in Guardian. Then after a few indi releases they folded and it didn't matter.

Bride also. I use to love them. Kinetic Faith and Snakes in the Playground were favorites of mine. Today, the only albums by them I can stomach are the first three on the Pure Metal label.

Rhapsody seems to be uninteresting as well. When I first discovered them, I thought they were amazing. Now, I find them boring as well.

manny wrote:

krokus wrote:

I am not the way you guys are. I still listen to the same stuff i listen when i was young (anyway, i still think i am young). The different is that back in 1989 i had 100 lps or less and now i have a lot more, but i still play my records all the time, some more then others, but i still like anything i liked 10 or 20 years back.

Same here, and I also listen to many different types of music, so that helps too, but still liked what I liked back then.

Same here! For isntance, Billy Joel was my favorite artists when I was a little kid and I just listened to him last night.

Krokus wrote:

I am not the way you guys are. I still listen to the same stuff i listen when i was young (anyway, i still think i am young). The different is that back in 1989 i had 100 lps or less and now i have a lot more, but i still play my records all the time, some more then others, but i still like anything i liked 10 or 20 years back.

What he said. There are a lotta bands I may have really liked as a teenager that may not top my playlist nowadays, but I still occasionally put on their old records and enjoy the nostalgia of'em. I mean, I haven't bought a Motley Crue record since 1985 and I'm honestly not interested in anything that they've done since then, but it doesn't stop me from still throwing on TOO FAST FOR LOVE or SHOUT AT THE DEVIL every once in a while.

Well, a good bit of the stuff from the 80's I'll enjoy when I do hear it, but I just don't need to own it anymore. Getting in the mood to hear an album once every couple years tells me I don't need it.

I've just about totally turned my back on power metal and female-fronted metal. Bands like Hammerfall, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Within Temptation, Epica, etc, etc.

These days I'm all about glam/sleaze and punk. I still have all the CDs by those other bands just in case I return to that style some day but right now I just can't see that ever happening.

I very rarely listen to any of my old Shrapnel Records instrumental shred stuff like Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Ritchie Kotzen, Micheal Lee Firkins. It just doesn't hold up that well. On the other hand, I like a lot of heavier, faster music now than I did then.

I went through a huge death metal phase that kind of burned out. Still a couple I have kept around but mostly the vocals annoy me now.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Krokus wrote:

I am not the way you guys are. I still listen to the same stuff i listen when i was young (anyway, i still think i am young). The different is that back in 1989 i had 100 lps or less and now i have a lot more, but i still play my records all the time, some more then others, but i still like anything i liked 10 or 20 years back.

What he said. There are a lotta bands I may have really liked as a teenager that may not top my playlist nowadays, but I still occasionally put on their old records and enjoy the nostalgia of'em. I mean, I haven't bought a Motley Crue record since 1985 and I'm honestly not interested in anything that they've done since then, but it doesn't stop me from still throwing on TOO FAST FOR LOVE or SHOUT AT THE DEVIL every once in a while.

What they said.........

I still like everything!! It just gets rotated around every couple of days.