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I agree that overplay can wear out interest in a particular song version, and therefore sometimes performer.
For me, if I like the artistry of a performer I can enjoy having multiple recordings. Before moving, when I reduced my collection, I had at least 20 albums each by Miles, Brubeck, and Monk. But for many artists that I enjoy, one album is all I need. Even when I like that one I don't find enough variety in their other recordings to be interested.
And yes I realize that many think more than one number, let alone albums, by Monk would be too much. ;^)
As a result, my now reduced collection of about 1,000 LPs consists mainly of single artist examples, with a few having 2 to a half-dozen or so recordings, and an even smaller number of favorite artists with a dozen or more.
That means for the Eagles one or two albums and a live performance DVD.
"The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play things I never heard myself." Thelonious Monk
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Any Big Lebwoski fans here?
one has to admire that little scene, what it does to help define the character to the audience.
I could never tire of the sophistication of the harmonic vocals used in the first eagles album.
The Dude abides.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
...even thought they did/are. I can ignore radio.
The problem for me was I went off the deep end for that band after the first album came out. Had all the LPs, played them again and again and again and again...you get the picture.
I didn't have much of a record collection back then either, maybe 50 or 60 LPs at most. What I did have got played a lot. Too much, since there are quite a few other LPs that I don't want to ever hear again from that time period.
If the Eagles' music was more varied and the albums less formulaic, I'd probably still listen to them. If I hadn't played them so...damned...much...
This isn't a knock on the band or on anybody who likes/loves them. They were good, I just made myself sick of them.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
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But then again my appreciation of their albums evolved as my hifi system improved. The sentimentality of the early Eagles albums started looking polished and pretentious as time went on, and the band had become arrogant and bombastic by Hotel California and that slickness followed Henley & Frey into their solo careers as part of that horrendous 80s mainstream. I think the Eagles could have been a truly great band but some of that team were true blue industry boot lickers.
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save for a few of the goofy hits, the 80's introduced me to wonderful music and many bands whose other material went beyond the mainstream fluff. The Henley songs that did chart in that era I really liked, no bubble gum there. I'm sometimes surprised and actually proud of the public when they like a song I consider outside the mainstream. Not sick of anything in my collection yet, even after repeatedly listening to the Eagles/Doobies/Cars while working from home these last two years.
Some of my favorite music of all time came in the 80s. But in my case I didn't discover it until the 90s when it seems lots of underground percolated up to the top. This gave me the hooks needed to have a look at 80s much under the surface. Seems to me lots of musicians from the 70s, like Henley, Frye, Robert Palmer, Phil Collins and others morphed out of their previous acts into something else to hop on the expanded music industry (that started around the time of disco). Lots and lots of crap trap came into play trying to milk the audiences of the 60s and 70s who the industry was abandoning.
Luckily towards the end of the 70s vibrant alternative and underground music scenes had been established the percolated into the mainstream from the late 70s until later in the 80s when it actually burst into the mainstream to feed a large audience of folks not biting on the crap the industry had been generating (rehashed 60s/70s heroes and hair bands). Sure there was some great music in the mainstream in the 80s (we could start with the mid-late 70s) until later in the 80s but most of the best music was under the surface.
That's just the way I saw it as I lived through it. I didn't really discover some of the greatest late 70s thru late 80s music until the 90s. This was a similar blinding by the mainstream, but not nearly as great as the one hoisted on us by the 60s/70s mainstream to much of the great music of the 50s/60s.
first time I put it on in over 20 years, I won't ever try that again. As far as the Eagles go, well I have never owned any, and I certainly wouldn't play them if I did. Same goes for Fleetwood Mac and a few dozen other seventies bands that most people adore.
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Nothing surprising or unusual about your musical preferences BTW.
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...but I still play The Doors and L.A. Woman often.
By the time I started listening to the Doors, I had more records and didn't have to put so many of them in heavy rotation.
And I never owned a Led Zep LP until I got back into records twenty years ago.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
yeah, I quit The Doors in my late teens/early 20s. However, I recently picked up a collection of music performances from the Ed Sullivan Show on dvd which includes the Doors performing Light My Fire in 1967. It's a great performance. Morrison really brings it at the end with an encouraging "C'mon!" from a bandmate. I was also thinking that Ray Manzarek could've done a killer lounge album with that keyboard sound.
As for Zep, I'll listen to a couple of tracks now and then, but not Stairway -please, no Stairway.
In response to having run out a record storage space a couple of years ago I was planning a significant cull. This collection has been culled and re-cull so many times over the years and it's really at the point where it would be too painful for me to do it again. So I bought some new storage. Today I'm dropping my record boxes and filler pads with a local dealer. Have room for about 500 more LPs, currently a little over 1800.This gives me room for more new music, more old music, more different versions of my favorite records, more collectables and gives me an ability to satisfy this odd desire to own all the LPs released by some of my favorite artists. Next up expanding CD storage.
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Assuming the Google results on relative accuracy of median (last 10 sales) values, the collection is at an average price of just over $10 and I'm very surprised. In a good way.
I collect music, not trophies.
Although I've not actively downsized, my collection is similar in some respects to yours.
Most artists it's two or three albums at most, but there are a handful of artists/bands where too many seems like not enough.
I must have 40 or more Zappa albums, for example. Others, but not to the Zappa extent, include Bowie and Prince. I do have a Blue Box of all the Beatles albums, but really only four or five ever get any play time.
Not sure what I'd do if faced with a forced downsizing. Hope that situation doesn't present.
If so, I have more albums by the Cleveland than any other.My largest representation by a "Pop group" or singer is Emmy Lou Harris, more because I came across a nearly complete selection of her early albums at a record show for cheap and have actively added newer material to it. Ditto Linda Ronstadt. Only 3 or 4 per though are in constant rotation as they say.
That said, my largest set of albums by a single artist/group other than the Wade Park 100 is by far, Count Basie.
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where Basie does contemporary (at the time) popish or big band "hits", I
would find it difficult to cull much (if any of) of his catalog. I seldom crave
a Basie spin these days, but once they start spinning, they don't stop.
In a similar vein, Ellington (same label applies, too) who still takes up more space
here in all formats than any other outfit.
I consider it sacred space!
With the Cleveland, just the Szell is overwhelming, and somewhat legion.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Cleveland is a rather large band compared to any rock band, but the are the best band in the land. Of course, I'm biased. I worked on the design of the 1997-2000 renovation and expansion of Severance Hall.
Ciao,
"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." - Lou Reed
Cpwill
it was played and talked to death
I still enjoy very much putting Zeppelin records on for a listen. Matter of fact completed my collection of UK plums last month.
and I have a complete multiple Vinyl and CD library of them. I've played them since the very first album came out when I was a kid and still love them. Maybe you weren't here on AA since 20 years ago
I'll tell all of you this - the best Zep I ever heard live was a band from New Orleans, Zebra, that gave a concert in the beautiful old 5 story Bound Brook Theater NJ. 500 people were there to see them and they blew the place away with their Trio and 2 encores of originals. People wouldn't leave so they came out again for a 3rd set and did 45 minutes of Zep better than Zep. The place went berserk. Randy Jackson guitar and vocals, Guy Gelso drums, Felix Hanneman Bass Guitar and Keyboards
So what the fuck is your point then?
My point is I still talk about it and play it.And I'm not the only one - maybe around here it's old new and has been talked to death. But here is AA - and the same folks posting here are the same folks who were here 20 years ago. And yes I am one of them. Excuse me but your post and your follow-up sound very confused to me.
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and I said played because there used to be a lot of TALK here about the different mastering engineers, which one to get and PLAYED the best. Are you a grammar checker? Check your own.And take a look at the all the inmates over the years, see linky to page one below. I see YOU REISTERED IN 2016, FANCY THAT
edit - there's nothing wrong with new faces, my bad
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... it showed 28jul20. However that link is to the inmate systems list and the date shown was when I last updated my system, not when I was admitted to the asylum. I looked at my profile and it showed "contributor since: 2004-06-29"; I was here at least a year or two before that. Wow, twenty years at least.. It really does not seem that long!
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"Time is fun when you are having flies." said the frog.
Later Gator,
Dave
I'm real sorry but when someone says a band has been played to death it sure sounds like they are done with the band. But thanks for the clarification - you really only had to tell me the one time.Here's a link to my first month's worth of posting. If you want to see my posting history from prior to 2016 use Don T and it will show up under various monikers I've used. After 2016 use Goober58 - I quit in 2014 or 15 after LWR deleted a post of mine over in Rocky Road. Sadly when I returned in 2016 I found out he had died. For some reason, but not sure why, I never tied my posting history into my new moniker like I did when I had quit AA another time in the past. Historically mostly my posting has been over in Rocky Road but that well has pretty much dried up.
I use the archives on a fairly regular basis. It would really cool if I could look up my posting history with other inmates. Sometimes it's painful reading some of those old threads (like wtf was I thinking) but more often than not it's amusing and sometimes helpful.
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I am thinking Opus 33 1/3 may have the most historical monikers. I wonder if he is currently posting under a new moniker just to fool us.
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