Rediscovering old music

[Death Metal Moe]

I was sitting at work last week talking music with a guy I share my office with. We got on AC/DC, and then I remembered something. I hadn't heard my favorite AC/DC album in fucking years! In my poor years with no job, I was so hard up for cash, I gave the my personal used copy of the CD to my friend and bandmate Bob as his birthday gift. So now that I'm making a living again, I went right to Amazon.com and purchased this:

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The Razors Edge is without a doubt my all time favorite AC/DC album. I remember everything about this fucking album. I was in like 7th grade, sitting in a Catholic Church at a teacher's wedding. An old friend at the time named Dave handed me the tape saying he wasn't really into it. I took that take home and played the fucking HELL out of it for the next few months. So many fond memories attached to this album.

So does anyone else do this from time to time? Rediscover old music that you have a very personal connection to?

[whoisisthis]

great topic!

a couple months ago, I dug my milk crates of old vinyl out of the garage. After a couple years of straight metal/grindcore, listening to all that old punk warms my cockles and takes me back.

[Exanimate]

I have been doing it as of late as well. I pulled out the old Overkill, Under the Influence, and Years of Decay albums, and Exodus, Fabulous Disaster, and Bonded By Blood. Also been listening to Atheist like crazy.

[25133WhooOoAH]

yeah sometimes, i just stop listening to all the newer bands and just listen to old school music alot, and be like yeah this is the best

[Death Metal Moe]

This doesn't have to JUST be rock/metal, but I'm not minding it a bit.

[Puddle O AIDs]

Over the last few years i have been trying to colect as much Nirvana as posible and really shyed away from the hits but lately ive had Greatest Hits on and remembered the reason why i fell in love with them, the hits. In Bloom has been stuck in my head for a few weeks

[YellowSnowBalls]

Old Queen albums will do that to me. Specially Sheer Heart Attack. Great album.

[Slow Bollards]

I've rediscovered the Beatles at least 4 times in my life.

[realmenhatelife]

you know an album is great and has had a major impact on you when you havent listened to it for years but you can still here the opening chords of the next song in your head while the last notes in the last song are still fading out. for me: operation ivy 'unity'

[pointblankJ9]

Judas Priest "Hell Bent for Leather" gets me every time.

[PCLoadLetter]

Pink Floyd's "The Wall" just reentered the playlist... "Nobody Home" popped into my head, so I cued up the movie version of the record... Damn that's some great stuff, but perhaps not the best thing to drag out if you're depressed. :)

Also a band I was into back in the 80's, The Chameleons. Listened to two of their records while on a road trip this weekend.

[The Stormrider]

System of a Down's first album. I hate everything else they've done, but this album is fucking great. Every song is solid and it's just one of those albums where I find myself enjoying every track and looking forward to the next one. This is one of my first albums ever, actually, I had it before I even started listening to Metallica and Black Sabbath. Whenever I go through long periods of time without listening to it, as soon as I do again, I ask myself why I ever stopped.

[25133WhooOoAH]

I've rediscovered the Beatles at least 4 times in my life.

oh yeah this happens alot, like there a band that i listen to at least once a year for like a couple weeks , i just love them

[sinAtra]

Listening to Gnarls Barkley makes me reach for Al Green

For some reason the Sex Pistols are back in rotation. I was feral-ass angry and nothing current was expressing that. "She was a girl for Birmingham. She just had an a-bor-tion." Sometimes you gotta sing along.

AC/DC's "Back in Black" also inspires like nothing else can, except maybe Marty Robbins "Thunder Road."

[Coffee Diva]

I do this backwards. I give up on new music entirely and just start exploring anything I can find made before 1990 or so.

[Budyzir]

Led Zepplin, the BBC Sessions.

The thing that gets me is that every LZ song has its own unique sound. From "Misty Mountain Hop", to "Going To California" to "Communication Breakdown" each song was unique. To me Zep = Rock like no other band.

[Absolutely]

Recently I was going through my old Cds from like 94-00 throwing away all the garbage I bought.
I'm not a metal fan, but I really like that Bush Cd. Sixteen Stone
Also, I found Beck's Sea Change. Which is a great one too.
But above all, I found a Pauly Shore Comedy Cd "Scraps from the Future" I must have got it from the used cd store, it's got a $3.99 sticker on it. Needless to say it's horrible.

[Hudson]

Hehe, was unpacking after my move and found my first 4 tapes: Men At Work, Van Halen: 1984, Styx: Kilroy Was Here, and The Clash: London Calling...only two that worked were The Clash and Styx...

[Absolutely]

Hehe, was unpacking after my move and found my first 4 tapes: Men At Work, Van Halen: 1984, Styx: Kilroy Was Here, and The Clash: London Calling...only two that worked were The Clash and Styx...

Batting .500 in my book with VH and the Clash, although Men at Work might lower that average.

[Hudson]

well the other two were birfday gifts that went with my boom box

[sknight]

I just got a DAP and dug up all my old cd's in the backs of drawers and many of the posts I made here reflected that.

[istink]

I signed up for lala.com last month, where you can trade CD's for $1. I've been going through my collection to trade the albums I don't listen to anymore, and fell in love again with those lovable Krauts, Can. I'm still a sucker for those mid-70's fatherland prog-rock jams. The guitar on Vernal Equinox from the Landed album still gets me.

[Exanimate]

lala.com. What a cool fucking site. Never heard of it until your post. I am adding cds to it like crazy already.

[Arc Lite]

Definately some oldRainbow with Dio.

Richie Blackmore's Rainbow
Rainbow Rising
Long Live Rock and Roll


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[BigDickGuzinya]

Definately some oldRainbow with Dio.

Richie Blackmore's Rainbow
Rainbow Rising
Long Live Rock and Roll


http://www.journeyquest.us/images/rising.jpg
I used to drive late at night alone with "straight between the eyes"in the stereo.
others include "kill'em all",the absolute best album ever for angry white kids.
"How will I laugh tommorrow when I can't even smile today" just awesome album,no filler.
Got LOTS of pussy back in the day while R.E.O Speedwagon"hi infedelity" was in the ol' cassette player.
Actually found the other day a old favotite I forgot I had,"who's got the 10 1/2?"
Don't laugh,but I still have The Outfield on cassette and still like it!

[Razor Roman]

you know an album is great and has had a major impact on you when you havent listened to it for years but you can still here the opening chords of the next song in your head while the last notes in the last song are still fading out. for me: operation ivy 'unity'

LOL. EVERY Beatles album does that to me. Heck, I hear a Beatle's song on the radio and start singing the next song :-)

[ChimneyFish]

Thanks to another kindly poster, I'm enjoying Overkill - The Years of Decay.
Next on my list: Testament - Practice What You Preach

[WonkaVision]

I got the Nirvana Box Set "With the Lights out"..it had been so long since I listened to a nirvana song I had NEVER heard...this box set is the shit...a few leadbelly covers, some old home recordings...all of it remastered...amazing.

It had been a while since I had jammed Nirvana....I tend to go through phases with them....in and out....this box set definitly through me back in.

[Myhairygrundle]

Dusted off the old Afghan Whigs and Lemonheads today. Thanks.