I get where you're coming from...don't get me wrong, I don't loathe this band (as said previously, I find it hard to find a band that completely turns me off to the point of hatred). I think if anything it's shelflife.
I think with this band, at least for me anyway, the thing is "will it stay in my head as a good song"? With pretty much every song on their first album, I didn't love it but it was an interesting and enjoyable listen. Listening to it now, though, just sounds so half-assed. I kinda think the White Stripes are similar in this fashion--interesting to listen to, but the more you listen to it, the more you find problems with it, or the more it just doesn't move you the way it did previously.
[Of course, there are some dated songs out there that I like and/or still love (and I have the LJ posts to prove it!), but that's more due to my own personal and/or emotional connection involved than the emotional prowess of the song, if that makes sense.]
It took me awhile to realize this, why there are some bands out there that I expected to be so much better than the hype or my impressions of them. I was curious as to why I'd bought a cd and really enjoyed it, and listened to it six, twelve months, years down the road and thought, "meh. It's okay, but just doesn't do it for me anymore." I thought originally it might have been an emotional attachment, but it had to be more than that. There's a bit of longevity involved as well. I think now I can be a little pickier with my tastes because I can hear these songs and tell if this is going to be one that gets stuck in my mind in a good way, or if it'll just gather dust on my shelf.
Sadly one of the worst examples of this is Nirvana. I REALLY liked them back in the early 90s, but now I listen to Nevermind and find it very dated. I think it's also that there was SO much better-quality stuff out there at the time that I didn't know about or didn't pay attention to that I'm finding now.
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Date: 2010-07-04 07:27 pm (UTC)I think with this band, at least for me anyway, the thing is "will it stay in my head as a good song"? With pretty much every song on their first album, I didn't love it but it was an interesting and enjoyable listen. Listening to it now, though, just sounds so half-assed. I kinda think the White Stripes are similar in this fashion--interesting to listen to, but the more you listen to it, the more you find problems with it, or the more it just doesn't move you the way it did previously.
[Of course, there are some dated songs out there that I like and/or still love (and I have the LJ posts to prove it!), but that's more due to my own personal and/or emotional connection involved than the emotional prowess of the song, if that makes sense.]
It took me awhile to realize this, why there are some bands out there that I expected to be so much better than the hype or my impressions of them. I was curious as to why I'd bought a cd and really enjoyed it, and listened to it six, twelve months, years down the road and thought, "meh. It's okay, but just doesn't do it for me anymore." I thought originally it might have been an emotional attachment, but it had to be more than that. There's a bit of longevity involved as well. I think now I can be a little pickier with my tastes because I can hear these songs and tell if this is going to be one that gets stuck in my mind in a good way, or if it'll just gather dust on my shelf.
Sadly one of the worst examples of this is Nirvana. I REALLY liked them back in the early 90s, but now I listen to Nevermind and find it very dated. I think it's also that there was SO much better-quality stuff out there at the time that I didn't know about or didn't pay attention to that I'm finding now.