Any songs getting better for you with age?

louielouie2000 · #1 04-11-2010, 06:56 PM

So I've been thinking about how much I've been looping Illume on my playlist lately. I remember when Say You Will came out, I wanted to like that song very much... but I just couldn't get into it for some reason. Perhaps because it was a bit avant garde. Perhaps because I found John McVie's bass line to be a bit hip hopish. I don't know. All I do know is that lately, I think it's one of the best songs Stevie's written in the past 20 years. Definitely her best Mac song since Gypsy.

Have there been any songs for y'all that you didn't like when an album was initially dropped, but came to LOVE later?

tilthefirefades · #2 04-11-2010, 07:08 PM

Come. I hated this song until about a year ago, maybe it just rubbed me the wrong way

Also, Lindsey's songs on Tusk are much better now rather than years ago when I first heard them.

mikebise · #3 04-11-2010, 07:11 PM

"I Miss You"
"Silver Girl"
"I Don't Want To Know"
"Illume"
"Ghosts" ~ Loved in 1989, fell out of love, back in love suddenly now!

cristochango · #4 04-11-2010, 07:15 PM

Anthony awesome picture,

and I hated Sweet Girl when I first heard it, I thought it was her "reply" to Free Fallin'
but after I listened to it a coupe of times I really started to like it.

Same thing with Battle of the Dragon, I never gave it a chance because I couldn't get into the beginning of it, but after I listened to the whole thing I actually realized it was pretty rockin.

Then there was After the Glitter Fades, which for two years I couldn't get over the "country" sound of it, but now I listen to it for its lyrics, and I really like it
I think a lot of her songs are like that, when something happens in your life and the song takes on a new meaning, you have a different appreciation for it

tilthefirefades · #5 04-11-2010, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by cristochango

Anthony awesome picture,

and I hated Sweet Girl when I first heard it, I thought it was her "reply" to Free Fallin'
but after I listened to it a coupe of times I really started to like it.

Same thing with Battle of the Dragon, I never gave it a chance because I couldn't get into the beginning of it, but after I listened to the whole thing I actually realized it was pretty rockin.

Then there was After the Glitter Fades, which for two years I couldn't get over the "country" sound of it, but now I listen to it for its lyrics, and I really like it
I think a lot of her songs are like that, when something happens in your life and the song takes on a new meaning, you have a different appreciation for it

Thanks! And I am with you on all three of these. I just recently got into BOTD because of the intro music, I thought it sounded silly, but now the song means a lot to me. And ATGF has a very country feel to it, but I like when she adds a country touch to her songs. To me, that is why That's Alright is so good. As for The Highwayman......

louielouie2000 · #6 04-11-2010, 07:24 PM

I've also come to love pretty much all of the album Rock A Little, I once thought it was pure '80s trash. Same with the entire album of Tango In The Night. It's been long enough since the '80s now that these albums are kitschy and fun, and lots of the elements of these albums are being used again in current pop music (albeit, in a retro way).

1sttimelongtime · #7 04-11-2010, 07:43 PM

Illume and RTTG

equeen102289 · #8 04-11-2010, 08:19 PM

Battle of the Dragon. I really don't know why I ever disliked this song? It's now one of my favorites.

And the majority of SYW. I didn't listen to it for like 2 years because I couldn't stand it. Now I love Running Through the Garden and Miranda.

jrpjr · #9 04-11-2010, 08:26 PM

i been loving "If You Ever Did Believe" lately..watched the video cause it was posted on someone's facebook page and never really gave this a listen to...love her whaling sounds throughout the song and she looks great in the video

APerfectLie · #10 04-11-2010, 09:02 PM

Thousand Days.
I hated that song for so many years until a few months back. Strangely it is now one of my favorite songs.

vivfox · #11 04-11-2010, 09:38 PM

It took me one full year to like the song Talk To Me. I hated the fact that Stevie, a songwriter, would release a lead off single written by somebody else, especially when she always said her reason for making solo albums was because being in FM stiffled her musical output.

Plus I felt that I Can't Wait would have been better as the first single. Especially because it took forever for RAL to come out. It was delay after delay back then.

fringed n fab · #12 04-11-2010, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I've also come to love pretty much all of the album Rock A Little, I once thought it was pure '80s trash. Same with the entire album of Tango In The Night. It's been long enough since the '80s now that these albums are kitschy and fun, and lots of the elements of these albums are being used again in current pop music (albeit, in a retro way).

I love Rock A Little and Tango In The Night! And the album covers too!

holidayroad · #13 04-12-2010, 07:23 AM

I didn't like 'Nothing Ever Changes' in the past, but in the last year, I have really started to enjoy it. It's strange how something can sound so different to you after so many years.

seekerj · #14 04-12-2010, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

So I've been thinking about how much I've been looping Illume on my playlist lately. I remember when Say You Will came out, I wanted to like that song very much... but I just couldn't get into it for some reason. Perhaps because it was a bit avant garde. Perhaps because I found John McVie's bass line to be a bit hip hopish. I don't know. All I do know is that lately, I think it's one of the best songs Stevie's written in the past 20 years. Definitely her best Mac song since Gypsy.

Have there been any songs for y'all that you didn't like when an album was initially dropped, but came to LOVE later?

Yes.

The song "Say You Will". I did not like this song (and EFO) when the album came out. I ended up really liking "Say You Will" (but not EFO). Partly because I saw it live so many times, but also because the Chris Lord-Alge remix was so much better than the album version. I like it so much now that sometimes I catch myself unconsciously doing the "lasso dance" while I'm singing along in the car!.

seekerj · #15 04-12-2010, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

It took me one full year to like the song Talk To Me. I hated the fact that Stevie, a songwriter, would release a lead off single written by somebody else, especially when she always said her reason for making solo albums was because being in FM stiffled her musical output.
Plus I felt that I Can't Wait would have been better as the first single. Especially because it took forever for RAL to come out. It was delay after delay back then.

Oh, I can so relate to that!!!! I still don't like the song. Maybe because it's practically the same song as the other one that Chas Sanford guy wrote that summer... "Missing You". It's the same freaking track with a different melody and words written over it.