Any of your old favorites fallen by the wayside?

[Partridge]

Jun 3, 2022 18:45:52 GMT -5 @heartbreaker said:

Linda may have idolised certain singers in her youth and early days, but as her appreciative and critical levels broadened along with her career, once those who were revered, could seem less perfect to her later on.

Speaking of which, are there any artists that used to be among your favorites that you rarely listen to anymore?

For me, I liked Billy Joel in the '70s and early '80s but I never listen to his albums anymore. When I hear him on the radio, I turn the station. I just got tired of him.

George Thorogood and the Destroyers used to be one of my favorites, but I rarely listen to his early albums these days. I will listen to him on the radio unless it's that overlong song I've heard too many times- One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer.

Jimmy Buffett was one of my favorite singers in the early '70s with those albums A White Sport Coat, A1A, Living and Dying in 3/4 Time, and Havana Daydreaming. But I didn't particularly like his breakthrough album featuring Margaritaville, and then he quit making listenable albums and became a mogul.

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A large number of Country & Western singers. This is because "same-old" of hearing their style just bores me.

Away from C&W, most recently Amy Winehouse who used to enthrall me, and The Cranberries. The Carpenters are there too somewhere,

I ration Linda now as I do not want to become blasé to her overall, though Linda's vocal magic and diverse genres, as for some other singers never wears thin. ABBA is perpetually fresh as well, both they & Linda are also both positively nostalgic, whatever plays and whenever I hear them.

[erik]

I can't say that there are any favorites of mine from the past that have fallen by the wayside in my heart, and this obviously would include Linda. But I think a lot of them have fallen by the wayside in the hearts of radio station programmers and DJ's--and this clearly includes Linda, especially here in L.A.

[cymru56]

I was a massive Joni fan from her first album up to Hejira which was the last album I truly enjoyed by her. Other than the odd song I found her later work boring. It is the same with Van and some of Neil (though he can still pull it out of the bag)

I hate to admit it but there is nothing like the same level of enjoyment in Jackson's and Emmylou's last few albums that I had from their previous work.

There was never this problem with Linda (and I couldn't contemplate rationing her!)

With all of these artists I still listen regularly to their "earlier stuff" but the true excitement now is in discovering "new " artists which over the years have included Tift, Courtney Marie and most recently Molly Tuttle. I live in hope we may yet hear new work from Caitlin.

[sliderocker]

None have fallen by the wayside, but even though I am retired now, the funny thing is I don't have the time I used to have to listen to every artist that crossed my musical radar. Not having a stereo currently, most of my musical tastes now come from youtube. And I will be playing a long list of songs and trying to think of who else I should play, and that artist slips my mind. Do I have reason to be concerned I'm losing my mind? Not really, I'm just expanding finding songs I missed years ago that I would've fallen in love with if I hadn't been so narrow in my listening. So, I'm adding to my musicl tastes and that includes artists from other countries who don't sing in English.

The song doesn't have to be in English for me to get enjoyment out of it. Sometimes, I get a laugh out of hearing a song I know sung in another language and hear what sounds like bad English. Listen to ABBA member Agnetha Faltskog's version of I Don't Know How to Love Him, possibly the saddest version of the song you'll hear. It's sung in Swedish, but some of the lyrics are downright funny, like a section where it sounds like Agnetha is singing You can pour some ammonia in your beer or So hold your butt. Her interpretation is quite good and no one should mind the fact she's singing in her native language. She actually was in the Swedish stage version of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971, just barely 21. And I think her version is better than Helen Reddy's or Yvonne Elliman's, though I liked their versions as well.

[ukfan]

Eric Clapton is probably one of the people who I have seen live most in concert here in U.K. apart from Elton John.I had loads of his albums & would play them constantly for years but after his recent ridiculous Covid comments I’ve gone off him in a big way & to be honest haven’t listened to him in ages.

[erik]

Quote by cymru56:

With all of these artists I still listen regularly to their "earlier stuff" but the true excitement now is in discovering "new " artists which over the years have included Tift, Courtney Marie and most recently Molly Tuttle. I live in hope we may yet hear new work from Caitlin.

Very true. In case I haven't ever done so, I would like to thank you, cymru56, for turning my attention to Tift (Merritt) via her 2002 album Bramble Rose, and to bringing attention to Courtney Marie (Andrews), as well as to Molly with her bluegrass/folk guitar picking abilities. And I too hope we will hear some more from Caitlin Rose, who is quite good (IMHO), and a big Linda Ronstadt fan to boot.

There is also Margo Price, the Illinois-born alt-country/Americana artist who has spoken out on more than one occasion of her admiration for Linda, and here she places money where her mouth is, so to speak:


I suppose one of the reasons so many of my personal favorites have not fallen by the wayside in my heart is that we have recently seen so many of them either pass away or, in Linda's case, been forced to retire because of extreme health issues. It tends to leave an awfully large hole in the popular culture.

[cymru56]

Thanks erik for those kind words. Without turning this thread into a mutual appreciation society I must say how much I've valued your views on music ever since the long gone "Women Of Country" forum.

[erik]

Quote by cymru56:

Thanks erik for those kind words. Without turning this thread into a mutual appreciation society I must say how much I've valued your views on music ever since the long gone "Women Of Country" forum

Yes, the Women of Country forum was a great place to go, and to find out about past, present, and future female artists of the genre. It's a shame that that forum isn't in existence anymore, at least not to my knowledge.

One of the ways that a lot of artists of the past that used to be our favorites in that past fall off the radar is because some of their stuff, and I'm talking about Classic Rock and FM Oldies stations, gets wildly overplayed and overexposed, ensuring that their welcome gets worn out. This is, at least for me, what happened with a lot of Queen's and Journey's stuff (indeed, I have to switch to another station anytime "Don't Stop Believin'" or "We Will Rock You" comes on, lest I throw up!). This is one of the reasons I am willing to take chances with other artists who are either newer or less familiar, and who otherwise would never get a mass audience because they hadn't been on, say The Voice, American Idol, or The X Factor.