Which artist do you tend to forget how deeply you love, only to put their record on and remember?

Two for me: Squeeze and Sloan. Every couple years or so I go down a wormhole where I only listen to each of them for a week and then don't revisit them for years. Pure pop brilliance from both.

 

ZZ Top, Tears for Fears, Blondie, Black Sabbath, Blues Pills, Depeche Mode... have strangely been through moods for all of these other than BS lately. But I'll go quite a while between listens to their stuff, and always regret not playing them more.

 

Zeppelin - don't play them often, but when I do...

 

When you do, it's been a long time? Been a long lonely lonely lonely time?

 

OOH YEA, OOO YEAH!!

 

John Prine and Chris Rea fall into that category for me.. a few others but they're the big two.

 

So many, but Sonny Rollins most recently.

 

Well, the Bee Gees...How Deep is Your Love.

 

Stevie Wonder, if only for the years 1972 to 1976.

 

The Kinks

 

The Beatles

 

Charlie Rich

 

Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton, Eric Clapton, The Who, Blondie, John Prine, The B-52s, then most of all... Tom Petty. I forget that I have nearly every album he's made since the late 70s in various formats.

And as a side note, The Who were the first LP I ever listened to.

 

Blondie
Francoise Hardy
Hollies

 

Art Garfunkel

 

Rush.

Loved them through college. Absolutely loved them. Moved on for 25 years and rarely listened to them at all. Started getting back into them in the past year or so. Their late 80s/ early 90s work is better than I remember.

Except the rap in Roll the Bones. That's still terrible.

 

Early 70s Rod Stewart.

 

Easily Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur. I revisit fairly regularly, but each time I'm taken aback by how good I think it is.

 

Captain Beyond. Just the first album.

 

Many.

I have to generally take a break from an artist to really appreciate their music (I get burnt out otherwise).
The more I've listened to an artist all the time, the longer the break is needed til I can love their music again.

And sometimes the obsessions with a certain artist or artists make me forget about others that I've really loved as well.

 

Mark Knopfler's soundtrack work and Nanci Griffith.

I've gone years without playing either of them but when I do -- boy, do I remember!

 

Yesterday for my walk-it was the Kinks Misfits on my CD player...and I thought "God I love the Kinks. Today it was REM's Fables of the Reconstruction."

Not that I forget them, but sometimes just don't play them as much as I should.

 

Linda Ronstadt for me as well - I always rediscover deep cuts on the classics but lately I've been fascinated with her underrated late 80s/90s rock albums. I had forgotten how great her powerful voice sounded paired with covers of Paul Carrack, John Hiatt, Tom Petty and Dylan

 

When you've been collecting music for as long as I have, this urge can strike you at any time - and for any of countless artists. Today, I had a fragment of melody in mind that eventually reminded me of Mariko Takahashi. It has been a while, but I am listening now, and it is wonderful. I'm glad that I have loads of music just a few clicks away.

 

We ran is brilliant, huh? I don't have nuch left over for the 80s rock stuff but I do love her music and have many albums.

My favourite right now is the "Different Drum" Compilation. I got hold of a decent cooy at last and stuff like "Rock me on the water" and "Stoney End" sounds so good!