what music do/can you no longer return to?

rubberdingyrapids

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i cant really do 90s rap anymore. i just overdosed on it too much. it was everything to me as a teenager, that now, i feel while it enlightened me in many ways, also limited me i think. i also have developed a lot of views on rap that the teenage me would have been embarrassed by. so obv, i dont really purposely go out and search out hip hop anymore, but 90s rap, apart from the very big, undeniable bangers, you wont find me looking for it.
 

Leo

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I was way into 90s indie and grunge at the time, still own some Nirvana/Mudhoney/Dino Jr/Screaming Trees/Lemonheads/Replacements, etc., but haven't had interest in listening to any of it in decades. At the same time, I do still occasionally pull out noisy or weird stuff from that era: Scratch Acid, Laughing Hyenas, Butthole Surfers.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Dubstep: although once in a blue moon I'll get very stoned and listen to it for a few hours.

I know that when I first got into it I had to see it live and feel it vibrating through my body to 'get' it and I suspect that never going to any dubstep nights for years and years has left many of the tunes sounding pretty dull.

I still rate the Digital Mystikz, early Skream, D1 etc. Someone played 'Neverland' at a festival last year and I felt very emotional about it.

Also Drum N Bass which I was really into from about 2005-2007, most of it I don't listen to and can't really understand. Again, I think this is partly to do with me never going to clubs anymore, never taking pills etc. But it's also probably that a lot of it isn' that great, and even when I was into it I started going off it as I discovered the 90s jungle/tech-step.

I do really miss drum n bass raves though cos no other raves I went to (techno/house etc.) ever approached the level of energy that dnb nights had. Not to say the music was superior but the experience was more intense.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
It's weird when you're really into something and then you end up thinking it's crap

Were you fooling yourself then or are you fooling yourself now?
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
some mid 00s indie techno, border community, traumschalplatten, etc. All sounds hyper dramatic to me now.
 
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Leo

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I don't think it's always a matter of something you used to like turning out to be shit. Sometimes that's true, but more often it's that your tastes have changed. I don't have any interest in listening to Nirvana but I still rate them, "Nevermind" is a classic album.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
I don't think it's always a matter of something you used to like turning out to be shit. Sometimes that's true, but more often it's that your tastes have changed. I don't have any interest in listening to Nirvana but I still rate them, "Nevermind" is a classic album.

that era of shoegazing techno was shit though. i knew it was kinda shit when i was getting into the European/house continuum of dance music, cos they wouldn't repeat the bits I wanted to be repeated and (over)extended the fluffy bits. I just didn't know how to articulate it at the time.
 
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thirdform

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this reminds me of like in 2006-07 when i first got the internet, and my blind mate in Canada was showing me his upfront happy hardcore stuff. or whatever it was.

basically the stuff which would never get played on the london pirates so had no chance of picking it up on the fm dial.

So anyway he was showing me his AATW compilations and this one was the one I could only really get with. He found it bizarre because he thought it was just filler. I was like, yeah but, it's got a groove. Turns out what I needed to do is show him a load of drop bass and cologne acid as a reference. But he would have probably thought it to be filler as well.


Also the version he had didn't have the mc on it lol.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
I will return to it all. Sometimes you need a breather though.

Even terrible music from the past can bring back good memories.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
I will return to it all. Sometimes you need a breather though.

Even terrible music from the past can bring back good memories.

there's no way you're returning to 1995 goa trance.

I actually have Neil (controlled weirdness on fb.) I don't think he knows who I am though as we've never interacted. but I could imagine him reproaching you still, in 2022.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
actually this one is kind of funny, weird UKIP name notwithstanding. Sounds like jmj on nitrous.


ugh, it's still gash tho.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I don't think it's always a matter of something you used to like turning out to be shit. Sometimes that's true, but more often it's that your tastes have changed. I don't have any interest in listening to Nirvana but I still rate them, "Nevermind" is a classic album.
Yeah and also I think that there can be stuff that I don't listen to now but it sort of fulfilled its purpose at the time and so I can look back on it with affection and think that it was part of the journey to where I am now but understand that it's no longer for me cos I'm in a different place. I suppose that this does assume that one is in a place now that one is at least reasonably happy with... but then again you're always gonna like your taste cos it's what you like. I think...?
 
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john eden

male pale and stale
there's no way you're returning to 1995 goa trance.

I actually have Neil (controlled weirdness on fb.) I don't think he knows who I am though as we've never interacted. but I could imagine him reproaching you still, in 2022.
CW is a very understanding guy. 😉
 

RWY

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Bassline, Deep Tech, Grime, UK Funky & UKG.

Rarely listen to any of the above anymore other than the odd rare and obscure UKG record that pops up on youtube channels such as GarageVybez98.

Can still (just about) listen to and enjoy Hardcore and Jungle.
 

chava

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EBM, even though it seems to fashionable again. D.A.F. excepted tho
Some of the minimal techno from the 00s sounds a bit meh now, but I haven't disregarded it completely

Everything from the 90s is still holding up
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy

Of the genres you named UKG is the one that I sort of never tire of

The anthems have all been caned to death, ofc, but when you're drunk on a Friday night and someone wacks on the As I Am RMX for the 500th time all is forgiven
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Bassline, Deep Tech, Grime, UK Funky & UKG.

Rarely listen to any of the above anymore other than the odd rare and obscure UKG record that pops up on youtube channels such as GarageVybez98.

Can still (just about) listen to and enjoy Hardcore and Jungle.

I guess someone had to get into the British grenadiers march on this forum, sooner or later.

Unless you got into free jazz scronk to horrify corpsey, and mizell brothers to horrify Luka. In which case, top man! sophistication is the way forward.
 
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