Tastes Change

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I downloaded Bob Seger's Greatest Hits and just got round to listening to it and ... i'm not enjoying it that much. It makes me a little sad or maybe just melancholy to think that. I used to like his music a lot... 20 years ago, mind you. Yes, it still takes me back, but i think one listen and that's it. I won't bother to burn it to a cd. Over the last couple of years i've been expanding my music listening. I don't have a radio and don't miss it. Most of what i hear now is kind of bland and nothing special to my ears. I find myself trying all sorts of different things, and pulling out music from the 40's and 50's and enjoying that too. Of course i always liked some of it anyway in small doses. I mostly have Rattler to thank for all these different things i've discovered, especially Richard Thompson, some of NIck Cave, New Model Army, James, and a new appreciation for Elvis Costello among others. I don't appreciate it to the depth he does but he has so much more a passion for music and comes to it from a creative perspective as well. Other online friends have suggested songs and artists as well that i have enjoyed. The new John Otway single in the UK, Bunsen Burner is just brilliant! I still like some of my all time favourites, Dire Straits, Queen, Eric Clapton (much to Chris's chagrin LOL), Abba, Elton but others from the 70's have now paled, things i thought i'd love forever. Tastes change, expand, grow. That's a good thing. May i never stop discovering new music, or indeed new things.