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It's surprising...
Hey! The music line gets cropped off if you natter on too long. But I kinda have to do that when I don't know the name of the damn song. Anyway, what I started to say is how funny it is to me that songs that I absolutely couldn't stand when they were contemporary are now objects of fascination. I haven't done a complete 180 on "Disco Sucks!" but I can listen to some of that shit with actual pleasure, so long as I only have to hear it once in a while.
And other bands... like, say, ABBA or Electric Light Orchestra, I actually genuinely like now, which really does astound. I can hear the good production values, I guess. I don't think it's coincidental that we might well think better of both bands if they hadn't sung in English -- at least ABBA has the excuse of not working in their native language, but the lyrics that Jeff Lynne et al came up with are insipid at best. Still some of the best production since Sgt. Pepper, though.
And other bands... like, say, ABBA or Electric Light Orchestra, I actually genuinely like now, which really does astound. I can hear the good production values, I guess. I don't think it's coincidental that we might well think better of both bands if they hadn't sung in English -- at least ABBA has the excuse of not working in their native language, but the lyrics that Jeff Lynne et al came up with are insipid at best. Still some of the best production since Sgt. Pepper, though.