Sal Nunziato, proprietor of the Burning Wood blog and friend of East Portland, posted a great opinion piece recently in The Huffington Post:
I Gave Up On Lou Reed After the First Pre-Velvets Acetate” and Other Lies Told by the Jaded, by Sal Nunziato
As I listened to The Who’s Quadrophenia, savoring every massive bass lick by John “The Ox” Entwistle, I got to thinking about a few friends who have on several occasions helped precipitate a twitch by offering up comments like, “I won’t listen to anything after The Who Sell Out,” or, “I gave up after Zeppelin II,” or, “Bowie lost me after Hunky Dory.” At first, I thought it was generational, as most of the comments came from people 10 to 15 years older than I was. This unpleasant parade of been there/done thats made little sense to me, and mostly just fired me up.
– Complete article is here.
This provoked an interesting response on Facebook:
“People (especially writers) get jaded on various types of Music because they lose the ability to HEAR things innocently (like it was their first time) They don’t get the RUSH of what it is like to be truly EXCITED from something. Get those chills and goosebumps of KNOWING something really makes them fell good. Once you know WHY is loses some of its luster. Musicians that become pegged into a Genre or Style end up this way after playing for many years too. It is Time to Learn a New trick. (or unlearn some bad old ones). You are really only INNOCENT once in LIFE., you need to relearn how to rediscover that Inocence when you get older to avoid getting Jaded.” – Erik “Howlin’ Houndog” 4-A (Owner, Vagrant Records of Seattle Washington)”
Also, Burning Wood has a fantastic music mix here, which he calls “More Latter Day Gems” and features great songs recorded by artists allegedly past their prime when the song was recorded. His tracklist includes:
Weight Of The World- Ringo Starr (1992)
Scattered- The Kinks (1993)
Mississippi- Bob Dylan (2001)
How Many Friends- The Who (1975)
Bedlam- Elvis Costello (2004)
Great Day- Paul McCartney (1997)
She’ll Drive The Big Car- David Bowie (2003)
For Your Life- Led Zeppelin (1976)
Angel Come Home- The Beach Boys (1979)
Heaven’s Falling- Cheap Trick (1983)
Past- Todd Rundgren (2004)
Girls In Their Summer Clothes- Bruce Springsteen (2007)
Leaving New York- R.E.M. (2004)
Slipping Away- Rolling Stones (1989)
Brainwashed- George Harrison (2002)
The mix can be found here.
