NorthC said:

RJOrion said:

i dont see how you can love a song, and then hate it later in life....unless some traumatic or tragic occurence happens while the song is playing, to cause some type of flashbacks from that point on...when i love a song, my love is forever

Maybe you just heard a song too much... I'll tell you a little secret... I haven't listened to the Purple Rain album even once for... I don't know how long... Maybe this entire century! Simply because I've heard it too often. It will always be in my top ten of best albums ever, but, strangely enough, that's exactly why I don't want to listen to it anymore. Also, there can be music that you hear at a certain time in your life that you relate to and then you move on and experience other things and then there's other music that relates to that.

also,some songs simply don't age well.

lrn36 said:

88 to 91 was one of my least favorite eras of pop music. It was all tacky ass synths, loud drums, Cross Colors and Doc Martins. Millie Vanilli, C & C Music Factory, Paula Abdul, Rico Suave, Vanilla Ice, Was(Not Was), Debbie Gibson, Fine Young Cannibals, New Kids on the Block, Marky Mark, Tone Loc, Young MC, and Richard Marx. It was a calvacade of over processed, candified crap. I would say that era was as bad as the music scene in recent years. A few Prince tracks and underground hip hop was the only saving grace. I have no interest in revisiting that era.

I agree.It was the late 80s when things started to go downhill.New Jack Swing was taking over R&B and I didn't like that.

SoulAlive said:

lrn36 said:

88 to 91 was one of my least favorite eras of pop music. It was all tacky ass synths, loud drums, Cross Colors and Doc Martins. Millie Vanilli, C & C Music Factory, Paula Abdul, Rico Suave, Vanilla Ice, Was(Not Was), Debbie Gibson, Fine Young Cannibals, New Kids on the Block, Marky Mark, Tone Loc, Young MC, and Richard Marx. It was a calvacade of over processed, candified crap. I would say that era was as bad as the music scene in recent years. A few Prince tracks and underground hip hop was the only saving grace. I have no interest in revisiting that era.

I agree.It was the late 80s when things started to go downhill.New Jack Swing was taking over R&B and I didn't like that.

Yeah, everyone thought New jack was going to be the definition of youth music. The movie new Jack City was drawing parallels between New Jack music and young criminal organizations and the Jazz Age of the 1920s. But in the end, it only lasted a few years. It was such a tacky era. The clothes, hairstyles, , and biker shorts. And don't forget hair metal bands.

lrn36 said:

lrn36 said:

88 to 91 was one of my least favorite eras of pop music. It was all tacky ass synths, loud drums, Cross Colors and Doc Martins. Millie Vanilli, C & C Music Factory, Paula Abdul, Rico Suave, Vanilla Ice, Was(Not Was), Debbie Gibson, Fine Young Cannibals, New Kids on the Block, Marky Mark, Tone Loc, Young MC, and Richard Marx. It was a calvacade of over processed, candified crap. I would say that era was as bad as the music scene in recent years. A few Prince tracks and underground hip hop was the only saving grace. I have no interest in revisiting that era.

So true, I listened to it all, or bought it in cassingle form. Milli Vanilli and Color Me Badd I went particularly nuts over. Thank God Prince saved me all from it and then Michael came out with another album, it was bye bye to shitty pop rap in 1992 and all Prince and MJ withsome hardcore rap. Like most of us I went head over heels into G funk from 1993 onwards. When Snoop dropped Doggystyle we all went out and got that shit and we knew it.

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By 1997 I was over rap though, and it seemed only Michael and Prince had survived the adolesence to adulthood purge.

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Seriously some of the rubbish I listened to before I got into Prince, just makes me cringe and yet Prince at the time was trying to sound like them. Of course I knew that Prince in the 80s was a different story to Prince's early 90s shit, which was still better than some of these other acts. And we all liked them.

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I ask you all to go back to October and November of 1990, and I doubt any of you would have said Vanilla Ice was wack, he only became wack in early to mid 1991.

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Quite a few late 90s / early noughties dance tracks in the UK from when I was in my clubbing days ... Phats & Small - Turnaround in particular ... I remember loving that track when it came on and we were on the dancefloor, but my god is it pure cheese, and not in a good way!

Oh my God!! Irn36, some of those groups you mentioned were just deradful - Marky Mark I mean really, that was fashionable for like 5 seconds. Rico Suave was wack in two languages (Geraldo and that song that went Harlay Arican nah or something like that). Young MC - pap rap at its worst, NKOTB worst boy band ever and my cousin had a room wallpapered in their posters and had all the dolls and music.

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Debbie Gibson, the Yankee Kylie Minogue with none of the talent and even more horse faced. Richard Marx who won the super mullet competition for 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 93. In 1992 he got beaten by Billy Ray Cyprus. Was not was - tragic 80s zoot suit shoulder pad Time wannabes with commercialised sugar.

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Even worse are these groups - NikkiD, Nikki French, Icy Blu, KLF, EMF - Oh my god that guys annoying pommie accent made me want to bash the cassette player, Jesus Jones (That horrible za zen zee, zen zaha type song) and Soup Dragons. And then you had the bottom end Hair metal groups like Warrant and Extreme (Yuk) and even worse was that group Linear with a song called "Sending all my love to you. These groups made Vanilla Ice and Color Me Badd the works of a genius.

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Some of that music should be banished forever.

SoulAlive said:

NorthC said:

RJOrion said: Maybe you just heard a song too much... I'll tell you a little secret... I haven't listened to the Purple Rain album even once for... I don't know how long... Maybe this entire century! Simply because I've heard it too often. It will always be in my top ten of best albums ever, but, strangely enough, that's exactly why I don't want to listen to it anymore. Also, there can be music that you hear at a certain time in your life that you relate to and then you move on and experience other things and then there's other music that relates to that.

also,some songs simply don't age well.

I was just going to say both of you are on to something. I listened to a lot of grunge, hip-hop, and dance music back in the day, and while I loved it so much back then, a lot of that music feels dated now. And some of the angry, depressing or overly sexual lyrics that were so prevalent in 90's grunge and hip-hop doesn't do much for me now, as I have grown older and wiser, and it doesn't appeal to me anymore. That's not to say I think those tunes are shit now; they were awesome then but are just part of a time capsule of the soundtrack of my life which I have moved on from.

lrn36 said: