Augh! I just heard a voicemail from my brother saying he had two tickets to The Pixies tonight at The Palladium going begging. I'ma go cry now.

So. Was there some album that you liked when you were in high school, but then you went to college and got into alternative music and then you were embarrassed for liking that album and you didn't listen to it for a long time, and then after many years you went to iTunes and downloaded the album just for the hell of it, and then you were amazed at how good the album was, except you weren't entirely sure you still like it so much for mostly sentimental reasons?

That happens to me a fair amount. Currently, the album is All Shook Up by Cheap Trick.

eta: Other previous examples: Pink Floyd's The Wall, various Queen albums....

When I get a spare second, I'm gonna download this stuff:

All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1

I already have Uncle Tupelo's cover of the Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog," which is amazing....

Also, this album is great: Du Huskers: The Twin Cities Replay Zen Arcade (a tribute album)

Although my copy was stolen, so I'm gonna buy it again.

So. Was there some album that you liked when you were in high school, but then you went to college and got into alternative music and then you were embarrassed for liking that album and you didn't listen to it for a long time, and then after many years you went to iTunes and downloaded the album just for the hell of it, and then you were amazed at how good the album was, except you weren't entirely sure you still like it so much for mostly sentimental reasons?

I have reclaimed my enjoyment of Milli Vanilli. I think they may be the only group I was ever embarassed for liking.

I was never really embarrassed for liking NKOTB, for it was completely age-appropriate. The Bon Jovi love I can defend by my karaoke obsession. But they're also not pinnacles of artistic achievement.

I already have Uncle Tupelo's cover of the Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog," which is amazing....

ooooOoooooOOOOooo....

except you weren't entirely sure you still like it so much for mostly sentimental reasons?

Appetite For Destruction. Which is only about half a good album, but there you go.

So. Was there some album that you liked when you were in high school, but then you went to college and got into alternative music and then you were embarrassed for liking that album and you didn't listen to it for a long time, and then after many years you went to iTunes and downloaded the album just for the hell of it, and then you were amazed at how good the album was, except you weren't entirely sure you still like it so much for mostly sentimental reasons?

No, but that's because I got into alternative music when I was 13, pretty much right when I got into music, period, and thus failed to discover the joys of goofy pop crap until much later in life. (We shall not speak of my senior year in high school, when the local scene broke big, my friends and I wept bitterly, and I drowned my sorrows in country music. Although it does allow me to date My First Break Up with a high degree of accuracy, as it was the day after the Nevermind release party at Peaches.)

The only shit I'm even slightly embarrassed to like/admit I own is shit I've bought in the last 7 years.

I went the other way. College was when I discovered big band jazz, Tin Pan Alley, and old-fashioned pop vocalists. So instead of the B-52s ("Rock Lobster" era), Talking Heads, and the like, I was into Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and Harry James.

I do wonder whether the soundtrack to Grease would hold up. Not so much the big production numbers, but some of the songs that played in the background while the plot was going on -- songs like "Those Magic Changes" and "It's Raining on Prom Night."

It's Raining on Prom Night."

I still love this song. Didn't help that it DID rain for K-Bug's Junior Prom.