Albums that are so dated, they're painful to listen to.

Anything labeled 'non-commercial' or 'independent.' Anything older than last weeks release.

 

Cosmic Sounds is still one of my faves today.

 

This is the last time I'm getting involved in one of these threads ! I don't understand the notion that anything recorded before yesterday is now "dated" and should therefore be dismissed and assigned to the trash heap of history. Everything is going to sound dated to someone's ear no matter when it was recorded. I enjoy music from all musical eras, the diversity of styles, production techniques, song and album construction, instrumentation, all make for a diverse collection. I prefer music from the 60s and the prog rock era personally. However, I wouldn't want ALL music to sound like that forever. Sometimes I feel like Miles Davis, sometimes Bob Dylan, hell I'll even flip on a Barry Manilow record once in a while. Music can no more be dated than literature, it's ALL a product of its own era. Things of lasting importance stay alive throughout the passage of time due to their intrinsic value. I guarantee you someone on this thread will think The Beatles, or The Moody Blues are horribly dated while believing that U2 or Nirvana or Pink Floyd somehow isn't. It's an acedemic exercise when dealing with matters of taste and emotion and not verifiable empirical data. If it moves YOU then it's good FOR YOU.

 

I have a lot of "dated" albums in my collection. But they're not a painful listen.

 

That's the worst song ever recorded...

 

You're not being cool here. You're supposed to diss a forty-year song -- then play a five or ten year old one while deluding yourself its not dated.

 

But not dated. 2525 hasn't arrived yet.

 

That's a great album, it's just the song subjects are a little dated. Good music will stay around for ever.

 

So true, big JB fan here.

 

That's the bad eighties synth stuff, people got wrong with some of the other groups, especially UK new wave bands.

 

It's not bad, every decade has it's fluff stuff. 80's had lots of great music and most these new bands nowadays are copying the sound.

 

Agreed with this band, the only album from XTC that holds up well for me is, Drums & Wires. I saw XTC during this tour here in the states with the Talking Heads 1977 new years eve Beacon Theater NYC.
Big fan of the early XTC albums but their stuff sounds very dated to me now except D&W.

 

I find it a lot more painful listening to albums that aren't dated at all.

 

McArthurs Park and In The Year 2525 were just mentioned and only proves my point. The very reason I personally still like them IS the fact that they are dated. Hearing those songs can transport you emotionally to the late 60s because of the way they sound. The feeling of the era really jumps out of them because.....They were made 45 years ago, by definition they are dated. This is really more of a perversion of language and a semantic argument more than anything else.

 

About 45 years ago we played a record by one of Bob Hope's sidekicks Jerry Colonna (bug eyed, big mustache) "Entertains at your party" Talk about something dreadfully bad..the only thing I remember is "Azusa is the biggest town, It goes from A to Z in the U S A". I shudder to think what it must be like today.

Of course you can't go wrong with picking a CSN album as badly dated. Why should I care about why you almost cut your hair and made a song about it.

 

Because he's letting his freak flag fly ! Problem?

 

Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue. I mean it's just so......old. How gosh, I mean how could anyone ever listen to it.

 

Anything with those 80s synth drums.

 

Living With War ~Neil Young.

 

Journey - Raised on Radio

 

George Harrison- Electronic Sound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Sound

 

Can't see the video anymore but I assume you're referring to Captain Beyond? I still listen to them and don't think they are dated at all.

 

Arcade Fire - Funeral