Let me rephrase; neither of them make it into my regular listening cycles.
… lots of “great bands” don’t, because their music got saturated long ago. The culture listens and remembers which makes it impossible for me to because music for me, is something to escape with, be taken away by… Not something to conjure a sense of being in a mall decades ago, or a particular TV advertisement or sequence in a movie trailer.
That’s the curse of popular music. It becomes commercial, gets over used, and loses it’s emancipatory weight.
It just needs time to fade away. I have reintroduced a bunch of stuff into my regular rotation that was overplayed all to shit. One of the benefits to being old. But, the biggest hit can still leave me cold. Second biggest is usually great. Run Around is still a banger, I feel. Hook maybe lesser these days. Same with BNL. Alcohol is fun as hell. In a 90’s frat boy vibe kind of way, admittedly.
I don’t like either of them.
Wow, there were two sides given by the OP but you somehow found a way to be wrong about both of them.
Let me rephrase; neither of them make it into my regular listening cycles.
… lots of “great bands” don’t, because their music got saturated long ago. The culture listens and remembers which makes it impossible for me to because music for me, is something to escape with, be taken away by… Not something to conjure a sense of being in a mall decades ago, or a particular TV advertisement or sequence in a movie trailer.
That’s the curse of popular music. It becomes commercial, gets over used, and loses it’s emancipatory weight.
It just needs time to fade away. I have reintroduced a bunch of stuff into my regular rotation that was overplayed all to shit. One of the benefits to being old. But, the biggest hit can still leave me cold. Second biggest is usually great. Run Around is still a banger, I feel. Hook maybe lesser these days. Same with BNL. Alcohol is fun as hell. In a 90’s frat boy vibe kind of way, admittedly.