from before their time unless it's MJ or a few Prince songs. And even with some music that they enjoyed at one point, some of them only want to hear it in certain atmospheres. It does seem to separate the serious listeners, for sure.

>Music can become stale to me though, as College Dropout has. I
>really don't know how to articulate it. Maybe College Dropout
>just wasn't that good in the first place, I don't think that's
>true though because I really enjoyed it when I was younger.
>Maybe I outgrew it. Idk.
>
>But when I play Through The Wire, Family Business, Breathe In
>Breathe Out; basically anything on College Dropout outside of
>Two Words, Spaceship, and Last Call.
>
>I just go BLAH!
>
>I listen to Run-DMC/Audio-Two/EPMD/Beastie Boys/PE wishing I
>was there + loving the music, age doesn't take away from those
>classic golden-era albums. It adds Mythos.

For me, the album that went from "Instant classic!" to "this sounds dated and blah to me now" the most has to be "It's dark and hell is hot"...and then maybe "Ghetto D." And both of these are from 1998, when I think a lot of Rap and especially R&B ONLY sounded good when it was new...unlike 93-94, where damn near all of it sounds just as good now.

>There is/was stuff outside of Hip-Hop that really is/was
>difficult for me to get into whether or not it's because it
>"sounds old" I don't know. The easiest cop out for not
>"getting it" at first would probably be because it sounds old
>I just think that some stuff is difficult to digest. Like the
>first time I heard some Thelonius Monk/Bob Dylan.

Even with a lot of the 60's Coltrane and Miles that my dad loves, it just doesn't hit me like I wish it did. I can get into some of it, but not like it does to him...while there is some 70's and early 80's Jazz that has a completely different effect to me.