Do you often return to the same tracks?

Innocent Bystander posted:

Clive B posted:

As for the subject of the thread, like others here I still tend to play whole albums, even when playing through the NDS. I guess this is as a result of growing up with (and still using) vinyl records. I tend to play the most recent albums I've purchased quite frequently on a rolling basis, returning to old favourites now and again. I grew up loving The Who, Yes, Caravan etc. and in my late teens and twenties got very much into Led Zeppelin. Many of these albums have become long term favourites, each holding special memories, but curiously I find it very difficult (almost unbearable) listening to Led Zeppelin nowadays. 

Read that just when I was about to choose the next album - thaks for the suggestion, LZII soinds as good as it dod to me as my intro to them 48 years ago! And playing at a 'realistic' level! 

I think the trouble for me was that I thought for too long that Jimmy Page was a great (greatest?) guitar player and almost fell into the hero worship trap. It was when I'd worked out exactly what he was playing in Rain Song, TSRTS, Achilles Last Stand, Kashmir (DADGAD tuning BTW) etc. that I realised how simple it was. Simple but effective I guess, but I wanted to continue learning and that made me explore jazz rock fusion and, later, bebop. I can still put on a LZ record, but the excitement has gone.

I do. A lot. I get a kick out of what turns up when I create a smart list of most frequently played tracks - "At Last", "Son of a Preacher Man", "Sherry Darling", and so on. It becomes clear that when partying, my wife and I get rather repetitive!

Clive B posted:

 

 

 

I think the trouble for me was that I thought for too long that Jimmy Page was a great (greatest?) guitar player and almost fell into the hero worship trap. It was when I'd worked out exactly what he was playing in Rain Song, TSRTS, Achilles Last Stand, Kashmir (DADGAD tuning BTW) etc. that I realised how simple it was. Simple but effective I guess, but I wanted to continue learning and that made me explore jazz rock fusion and, later, bebop. I can still put on a LZ record, but the excitement has gone.

Interesting how people see things differently, for me that's part of why I think Page is a great guitarist. When he wants to he can play immensely complex lines, but on many of the greatest Zep tracks, he plays what is needed, not finger breaking complex lines,, but the perfect piece of guitar music,  that with JPJ, Bonzo and Percy made for a complex song that brings me great musical pleasure. In any of those tracks for me, more notes would mean less music. For example I think of Kashmir as an example of musicians playing the perfect notes to create an amazingly moving piece of music, I can't see what could be bettered. Yet quite validly you see it totally differently, isn't music a wonderful thing? Two music lovers see things so differently and there is no right or wrong.

When asked recently what bands I love. I hesitated and thought that well, yes. I don't really love any band as such, more a crush. Same with some tracks that get played. 

I do suffer with ear worm syndrome. Some tracks just can't get out of my head. Those tracks will get played more than others as a form of treatment to offset the worms.