----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>
To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Audities hated/loved bands: My Back Pages


> --- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@a...>
> wrote:
> > David Bash asks:
>
> > > Anybody else on this list feel the same way about development of their
> > > tastes over the years?
> >
> > You and I are about the same age, David, and I have also experienced the
> > "re-appraisal" phenomenon regarding pop music I dismissed in the past.
> >
> > A prime example is Barry White. In his heyday, I vilified his work along
> > with the rest of disco, which I blamed for having killed what I
considered
> > to be "real" soul music (Motown, Stax, Philly, etc.)   But when I hear
> Barry
> > White now, I kinda dig all the swirly orchestration, propulsive beat,
> "love
> > man" lyrics and, of course, that voice.  25 years ago, his music had me
> > lunging for the radio switch; now it makes me smile and nod.
> >
> > Maybe the perspective of time has allowed me to see his work as worthy
> part
> > of the evolving continuum of black pop, or maybe the worst aspects of
> > hip-hop makes Barry's stuff seem so much better in comparison. Or maybe
> it's
> > just insidiousness nostalgia kicking in.
> >
> > At any rate, my past self would never have believed that in 2003, I'd
> rather
> > listen to Barry White than, say, Head East or whatever I was digging way
> > back then.
> >
> > Drew
>
> Hey Drew,
>
> Actually, I was trying to illustrate a different phenomenon (apparently
not
> very eloquently), that if somehow in 1970 I'd heard the music of Celine,
> Whitney, Michael, etc...I probably would have loved it, while I absolutely
> abhor most of their music having heard it as an adult in the '90s,
> particularly that of Michael Bolton, who to my ears is the devil
incarnate.
>
> Your re-appraisal is something I've also experienced.  I couldn't stand
> disco when it was popular but I had a renaissance with it in the early
'90s,
> and now I really like it!  I've had similar experiences, albeit on a
lesser
> scale, with some of the New Romantic stuff of the early '80s.
>
> That said, I doubt I'll have the same kind of epiphany with Celine Dion,
> Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey, etc..., and I'm absolutely certain it will
> never happen with Korn!!
> --
> Pop Rules!!!!!
> Take Care,
> David
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