the other day i was at work and someone put on london calling by the clash. all of a sudden my heart dropped and i didnt want to hear it. i used to love this album and many people will call it blasphemy that i cant stand it now. i dont know what happened but somewhere along the line something clicked and now i cant listen to this album ever again. maybe it was all of the arguments that ive had debating whether or not the clash was really a punk band. maybe it was all of the late nights that i spent listening to that album while writing papers in highschool. what ever it is, its over and its kind of sad.
have you ever just woken up and decided it was over between you and an album?
i think im done with brian jonestown massacre too.
Posted on 04/02/2007
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I never liked The Clash to begin with, but I used to love Metallica's "Black" album, (as well as most of their others), after Jr. High I took a break from them and I tried to listen to that album again last year and almost retched. The overblown caricature of James Hetfield that everyone knows and mocks ("Trust I seek, and I find in yew-ew-ah/Every day for us something new-ew-ew-AH!) had become truth to me and all of a sudden the hardest, most bad-ass metal band ever had become a huge joke and all I could do was laugh at them. I've never been able to stomach Metallica after that.
I also used to thing "Load" was the heaviest record ever. Ignorance + Innocence = Torn Jeans and Shoulder Length Hair.
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It happens, so don't feel too down. Sometimes all that's needed is some space. Give it a couple years without The Clash and you might find yourself looking into your library and "re-discovering" them.
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PC im worried that this is similar to Puff's metallica analogy.
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I didn't want to touch on that, as I've always had this view with The Clash--while fantastic and definitely a band to change the spectrum, I've found them "not as good" as everyone else has made them out to be. Still, "This Is Radio Clash" is just too classic to deny. It's not to say that The Clash suck--it's far from that. Rather, I just don't subscribe to the theory/concensus that the rest of the world seems to.
It's the same way I find Lily Allen to be overrated. I imagine that many of those embracing her right now will deny her after the rooster crows a third time.
As for Metallica, since they were brought up, I never liked the black album. "...And Justice For All" was the begining of the end. I only listen to two songs on that album, actually: "Blackened" and "Dyers Eve". Everything else on that disc is gleefully skipped.
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the really funny thing is that i always thought the clash were good and i also always thought they were over rated. its a weird mixed bag on this. maybe i will come back around on them eventually but right now im going to punch the next person who puts that CD on at work.
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I know it's happened but nothing off the top of my head yet...
On the other hand - Puff, for shame! OK, so the Black album is the point where I stopped listening to Metallica. But don't be so hard on your once fellow friends, Metallica. Yes, Hetfield is a knob. But a lovable one, isn't he? Do your musical experiences always have to be enlightening or intellectual?
Oh man, I can't believe you could listen to Ride The Lightening or Kill Em All and not be banging your head.
Or at least nodding. :)
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etc--Ah, then we've been on the same page about them. Give it some time. Space can be a good thing.
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im torn on this metallica debate. yeah, when i was a kid i thought they were pretty sweet. but the black album and everything afterwards is really just a charicature.
i wont however say that i am immune to the occassional headbang.
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Last year I listened once through to every album I own (about 350). There were lots of pleasant surprises - oh yeah, that was a good one! - and lots of groans - why oh why did I keep that? I need to get it off my iPod now before someone sees it! But they were never bands that anyone else would have recognized as great. That being said, I have a hard time listening to U2's The Joshua Tree lately. I still recognize it as a classic and one of my former favourites, but we're taking a break.
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My heart is bleeding for you, Henry. I hope you can still listen to the Clash debut album. That's the shit.
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never say never. sometimes you say you're leaving, but you come back years down the line. like the days you said you'd never leave, then you do.
never say never.
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Wasnt a wake up moment, but the Doors are a band I can live with out rather nicely. Brought them on a 22 hour road trip to canada, and I cant hear Jim's voice without that sick feeling of driving that long coming back into my head
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Heck, right now I'm taking a break from my entire iPod...
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I can't seem to recall a similar incident, which is weird, because I can be very musically fickle.
I hope you crazy kids get back together sometime in the future.
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God, this exact same thing happened to me last year with London Calling. I took it off my iPod because I just could not bear to hear any of those songs again. I think I posted about it somewhere.
But Pekka's right. The self-titled Clash wears much better. I can listen to "Jail Guitar Doors" any day, but "Lost in the Supermarket"? Done.
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If you keep listening to the same stuff over and over - then it's inevitable that you'll get sick of it. I haven't listened to London Calling in years, but occasionally I'll be out somewhere and hear a track and think to myself, yeah that was great. I don't often get the urge to go and put it on, but I still think it's great. Moderation my son, is all I can say...
Bring on the new stuff, file the old for occasional bout of reminiscing.
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I agree with what everyone else is saying. I have never just all of a sudden not liked am album I previously loved, but, i have gotten bored with albums so they get shelved for a while and when they come out of retirement I tend to feel much better about them.