staying power, or, Why Don't I Love This Record Anymore?

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Why does this happen? I've been listening to records like After The Goldrush, Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits, Rock for Light and Axis: Bold As Love since i was ten and I still love them all, first note to last. BUT occasionally i'll put on a record I used to love (and know by heart) and feel...nothing. I don't feel like singing, don't get the chills, rarely get halfway through before putting on something else. If it's not a question of familiarity, what is it?

recent records that have, inexplicably, aged poorly in the temples of Roger A: Have Moicy!, Something Else by the Kinks, Third/Sister Lovers, Pet Sounds, etc. WTF????

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A record costs around ten quid (varies according to source or country of origin) and you can get a lot of entertainment out of that, perhaps more than entertainment - that's good VFM. They're not generally intended to 'age well' - the fact that some do is a bonus.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you want to know something awful?

I keep trying to listen to _Loveless_ and it keeps bouncing off the surface and shying away from me. I don't think I love it any more. I know I shall be thrown off ILM for saying this and my friends will shun me. I don't know what happened. I can listen to _Playing With Fire_ and have every note hit me with the same intensity as when I was 19. But _Loveless_ is wearing off, like the texture is wearing away, like a piece of rough wood that has been worn smooth by so many generations of hands touching it.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

At some point listening to a much loved record stops being 'the thing' and becomes 'looking fondly at a photograph of the thing', particularly if that record's had some kind of deep emotional connect with you.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly, the Pixies don't do it for me anymore. Just the other day I was playing Doolittle in my car and it didn't register any feeling at all. I might as well been listening to silence. Why is it a record like Doolittle fades from my memory while Psychocandy still gives me goosebumps?

― Jeff K (jeff k), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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