I came across a line today, the words reminded of a lyric from long past. It wasn't Proust's cookie but still instigated me to look for the thing. After half an hour of searching like a maniac finally found it. I spent the last couple hours re-listening to dumb shit that I used to love as a kid. This was after a morning of listening Horowitz's Carnegie Pictures at Exhibition, Beethoven's Sonata 32 & I still love it...I have the dumbest broad smile right now. If this was something new, I would'nt have let it ring in my ears more than a couple seconds.

You listen dumb stuff, than you discover good stuff & cringe about what you used to listen & after this you just don't care & after years you re-discover those dumb things & all the memories evoked with it. You still love them more than things that you even now consider great.

I can't believe how much I'm enjoying these hags right now:

Of course, this won't last. They're just not good, all that's driving this is the memories that with each next cookie will turn feeble till they'll again require couple years to enrich the quality again. Yet, this is great thing. Sudden remembrances and a blissful moment that must fade.

 

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Never forget your roots!

 

A concept I had not considered before. A kind of nostalgia refractory period.

 

The Beatles are my first memory of music.

The first album I remember being truly mesmorised by was The Snow Goose by Camel. I used to play it repeatedly, sit in front of the speakers and basically trip out at 8 years old

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The first singles I bought were by Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Buzzcocks and Chelsea, progressing on to Sham 69, UK Subs, The Ruts and then Crass etc. All whilst being fed a steady stream of prog, psych and fusion from my uncle.

So, pretty much, most of the dumb music from my childhood still finds itself in the playlist coz I had such impeccable taste as a child.

 

errm....

but since i fonally learned how to work with notes in my time with scientology i only hearing my own music.period

 

Sometimes. I've heard most of it enough that a few notes gives me the whole experience. And don't get me started on CLASSIC RAWK RADIO playing the same songs for 50 years. But when I hear, say, Switched-on Bach my neurons get happy.

 

30yo here, can't stand dumb shit I listened to as a kid. Won't even post it, it's just bad.
However, it turned out that not all the things I used to love as a kid are actually dumb. For example:

Kinda fell off my radar when I moved on to the aforementioned dumb things but now being into synths I can all the more appreciate it.

 

Lots of music I used to like I don't listen to anymore, but I wouldn't call any of it 'cringe/dumb'. It's just music for a certain time & place, and I'm sure millions of people still enjoy it - good on them.

There's nothing to be won here. There are many millions of people out there right now, many very intelligent and very educated people, thinking that whatever you're holding in the highest esteem (whatever that may be) is the tackiest, most tasteless, unsophisticated shit ever.

Chances are, you'll agree with these people 15 years from now, at least in part.

 

1. I don't know what should be stupid with this songs.
2. I was a kid when my kids songs were from Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, T.Rex, Kraftwerk and such. Was I lucky? Weren't that music not "stupid"?

 

Same here. My main rotation when I was little was Revolver and Bernstein's Petrushka...

 

for me is Paul Simon's album Graceland
great album, still love it

edit: not dumb!!!

 

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I still love many songs I heard as a kid, probably most.

Sounds like you dug some really crappy stuff tho? Oh well? xD xD

 

I find this thread highly offensive.

These were great...

 

Any person who loves music, especially a musician, should respect their roots. That suffices

 

I still hate all the music I was listening in my early age because lack of souces then, overimposed in the 50/60es.

Example:

Right now, here my beloved artist:

Moral: always looked forward looking for music that doesn't exist (yet)

 

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Now, after so many years, I don't know if it was dumb.
Yes, I still listen to it sometimes

 

Brother, The Snow Goose album is my entire childhood. I used to listen to a cassette that I recorded from the original vinyl LP from my dad around 1998. And I still listen to it from time to time. Masterpiece

 

The song you linked is not bad & can be listenable easily in such a state. You don't hate anything or anyone, if it's really bad you just don't care & not be invested & ignore it. You hate the you that once was & you hate your act that what brought out by such people. Sharing such a rotten memory is the cause of hate and discomfort [which is mainly about you, you don't care how much wrong anyone caused you. It's you committing some wrong or acting in a way that you'd rather die than recall, the fact that they share the memory (which people don't care, cause everybody just thinks about their past) of you in such a wreck is making you hate them]. Then you generalize such people who'll likely bring about and force you in such a situation that once made you act rotten.

It all depends how you've turned out now. If it's going great & things have changed, you just don't carry the weight & forgive yourself & everyone no matter how rotten it was. I turned 20 couple months past & things are shaping good for me as of now & I've forgiven and accepted a lot of rotten stuff that happened in my life till now. Well, you can't get rid of something that's happened, so have a laugh bout' it.

Once you're past that, you can enjoy the song you've linked for such momentary bursts cause once you were a kid & you listened to such stuff & really loved (I guess that's what's important, the memory of you really loving it truly).

 

Not gonna lie man, you had better taste as a kid Anyway, thanks for recommending a classic.

 

I thought you guys much younger. Around 25