Retired Favorites

[KevShmev]

Ya know, those bands/albums/songs you almost never listen to anymore because you listened to them so much back in the day, but you still look back on fondly and would still call a favorite; you just don't feel the need to listen anymore.

Not sure I can pick an album, because even ones I overplayed the crap out of still have at least a song or two I still revisit enough to where I can't say it is "retired."

For now, I would say songs I would considered retired are:

Rush - Limelight
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Styx - Come Sail Away
Muse - Time Is Running Out
U2 - New Year's Day

[TAC]

Two albums that come to mind are AC/DC's Back In Black and Boston's debut.
Also, anything by Led Zeppelin.

[DTA]

Images & Words is pretty much retired for me. I love it but I’ve heard every song so much that its just ingrained in my dna at this point. It’s not my favorite DT album but I feel like I’ve heard it the most.

[Cool Chris]

Also, anything by Led Zeppelin.

That was my first thought. Floyd was my entry point in to classic rock, and they and The Who were my favorites, but LZ was right up there in terms of what I listened to. I can't remember the last time I listened to any LZ song all the way through. Yet still listen to PF and The Who all the time.

In terms of The Who, I would say Tommy. That album has little appeal to me now.

[Indiscipline]

I think I haven't listened to a Manowar tune in 20 years, but I confess they approached favourite status in junior high, mainly because of Eric Adams' talents.

Also, now that I think about it, Metallica.

[bl5150]

Pretty much every big lifetime favourite of mine......must remedy this.  I spend most of my time checking out new music.

[MirrorMask]

All of my old bands, the first ones I started to listen to as a teenager.

Being a young kind with a lot of time and with literally few cassettes here and there means that you can listen to always the same little number of songs over and over and over and over and over. Growing older the amount of music to listen to grows esponentially, and the free time decreases, so the first albums I discovered will be the ones I will have listened to the most.

Consider that I started to listen to heavy music in 1995 so 23 years later I don't feel much need to listen to those early songs anymore. Bands whose older songs (songs that were recorded before 2000 at least) I basically hear only when played live are:

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Dream Theater
Blind Guardian
Helloween

Really, I only listened to The Trooper and The Number of the Beast once this year. Because I saw Maiden live 10 days ago. I will forever call them my favorite band, but in later years I go back only for the reunion albums.

Same with DT, Scenes from a Memory is possibly my favorite album ever, but I never listened to it this year, and probably I didn't in the whole 2017. I will dig it back for the 20th anniversary I'm sure.

[wolfking]

Pretty much every big lifetime favourite of mine......must remedy this.  I spend most of my time checking out new music.

This is kind of what I thought of.  Even though I don't check out all that much new music lately, there would be hundreds of albums that would fall into this thread category.  If it's a band I discovered a long time ago, it's probably fitting here.

[Podaar]

Pretty much every big lifetime favourite of mine......must remedy this.  I spend most of my time checking out new music.

This is kind of what I thought of.  Even though I don't check out all that much new music lately, there would be hundreds of albums that would fall into this thread category.  If it's a band I discovered a long time ago, it's probably fitting here.

Ya, the list would be so long that I think I'd have a very difficult time remembering them all. A much shorter list would be the songs/albums/bands that I over-played yet still crave to hear regularly.

[bosk1]

U2 - New Year's Day

Redemption's cover of this song on the upcoming album is fantastic.

[nattmorker]

Almost every Kiss song I like (aprox 40 songs)
Guns n' roses
Led Zeppelin (with the exception of Starway to heaven, which I still can listen from time to time)
Most of the Beatles discography
Some metallica songs (Enter sandman, nothing else matters, sad but true, for whom the bell tolls and a few others).

[ChuckSteak]

Symphonic prog in general, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and so on.

[ytserush]

Ya know, those bands/albums/songs you almost never listen to anymore because you listened to them so much back in the day, but you still look back on fondly and would still call a favorite; you just don't feel the need to listen anymore.

Not sure I can pick an album, because even ones I overplayed the crap out of still have at least a song or two I still revisit enough to where I can't say it is "retired."

For now, I would say songs I would considered retired are:

Rush - Limelight
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Styx - Come Sail Away
Muse - Time Is Running Out
U2 - New Year's Day

Wow.

Except for Limelight (don't need to hear that one ever again), I pretty much feel the need to listen to any of those songs any time of day or night. So easy to just lose yourself in those.

War is one of my favorite albums of all time. I love the space they were in when they recorded that album.

[KevShmev]

Except for Limelight (don't need to hear that one ever again), I pretty much feel the need to listen to any of those songs any time of day or night. So easy to just lose yourself in those.

War is one of my favorite albums of all time. I love the space they were in when they recorded that album.

Don't get me wrong, I still love all of those songs.  Those bands just have a ton more go-to songs for me now.

War is definitely a great record. Some great deep cuts on that one, especially Drowning Man and Surrender.

[Bertielee]

I think I haven't listened to a Manowar tune in 20 years, but I confess they approached favourite status in junior high, mainly because of Eric Adams' talents.

Also, now that I think about it, Metallica.

What?!? Another Manowar fan?!? Yoooohooo!!!

Edit : Yeah, I know, but it will be my only contribution to this thread.

B.Lee

[TAC]

Hey, I bought Battle Hymns when it CAME OUT!

[Indiscipline]

I think I haven't listened to a Manowar tune in 20 years, but I confess they approached favourite status in junior high, mainly because of Eric Adams' talents.

Also, now that I think about it, Metallica.

What?!? Another Manowar fan?!? Yoooohooo!!!

Hey, I bought Battle Hymns when it CAME OUT!

All men play on ten, brothers.

[MirrorMask]

Manowar, Manowar living on the road 

[Indiscipline]

See? Coming out is a beautiful thing.

[ReaperKK]

A lot of Metallica and Dream Theater honestly. I listened to them so much that I just got burnt out.

However a little while back I ran through the DT and Metallica discography and I really enjoyed it. Before doing that I hadn't listened to either band, aside from a song here or there, for over 5 years so the rediscovery was nice.

[Lowdz]

Appetite For Destruction would be a main one. Loved it for a year until it broke in the UK and you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Sweet Child, Paradise City and Jungle. Didn’t listen to it for years, never bought anything else from them after Lies.

Played it a few weeks ago and enjoyed it.

[DoctorAction]

Hey, I bought Battle Hymns when it CAME OUT!

No way. Awesome. Someone lent me Hail To England on cassette in about 86 and it's a core piece of metal glory for me. Basically, that whole album is incredible. I've not retired it, tho. After all, the gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die. Amiright?

I'm the same on Zep. Barely ever put it on. Best band ever tho.

[Architeuthis]

The O.P. mentioned Limelight.  I've heard that song as much as any song out there and I still love it to this day. I crank it when it comes on the radio..
As far as retired music for me. Pretty much all of Metallica, AC/DC, Scorpions. I still like them but they very rarely find their way to my CD player if ever.

[MirrorMask]

Anyway - isn't it nice to go to a concert of a favorite band, whose overplayed classics you haven't heard in ages, and when said classics come up, you sing them line by line and word for word like you just hear them yesterday the last time? 

[Lowdz]

Hey, I bought Battle Hymns when it CAME OUT!

No way. Awesome. Someone lent me Hail To England on cassette in about 86 and it's a core piece of metal glory for me. Basically, that whole album is incredible. I've not retired it, tho. After all, the gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die. Amiright?

I'm the same on Zep. Barely ever put it on. Best band ever tho.

Love Hail To England. I was a big ManOwaR fan back in the day. Into Glory Ride is their best though.

[Bertielee]

Hey, I bought Battle Hymns when it CAME OUT!

No way. Awesome. Someone lent me Hail To England on cassette in about 86 and it's a core piece of metal glory for me. Basically, that whole album is incredible. I've not retired it, tho. After all, the gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die. Amiright?

I'm the same on Zep. Barely ever put it on. Best band ever tho.

Love Hail To England. I was a big ManOwaR fan back in the day. Into Glory Ride is their best though.

The first 4 albums are fantastic, but I also have to go with Into Glory Ride. Secret of Steel and Gates of Valhalla are out of this world singing-wise.

B.Lee

[MirrorMask]

Into Glory Ride is epic as fvck, but let's not forget the overlooked gem of their catalogue, overshadowed by the commercial success of Kings of Metal: THE TRIUMPH OF STEEL.

Their equivalent of A Change of Seasons, a 30 minutes suite about Achilles full of bass and drum solos, open an album dark, heavy, relentless and uncompromising. Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, The Power of Thy Sword, The Demon's Whips are among the very best stuff they've ever done and after such a continuated assault of dark epic metal and double bass, the album is closed by a wonderful and delicate ballad, Master of the Wind.

A complete masterpiece, as old as Images and Words, but sadly not as successful (in comparison to Manowar's discography I mean).

[Bertielee]

Into Glory Ride is epic as fvck, but let's not forget the overlooked gem of their catalogue, overshadowed by the commercial success of Kings of Metal: THE TRIUMPH OF STEEL.

Their equivalent of A Change of Seasons, a 30 minutes suite about Achilles full of bass and drum solos, open an album dark, heavy, relentless and uncompromising. Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, The Power of Thy Sword, The Demon's Whips are among the very best stuff they've ever done and after such a continuated assault of dark epic metal and double bass, the album is closed by a wonderful and delicate ballad, Master of the Wind.

A complete masterpiece, as old as Images and Words, but sadly not as successful (in comparison to Manowar's discography I mean).

Oh, I don't overlook it because I LOVE it! The singing on Burning OMG! I like the discography up to Louder than Hell. Then, I let go.

B.Lee

[MirrorMask]

I think you can pull the best songs off the post Louder than Hell era and make a good record out of it:

01. The Ascension
02. King of Kings
03. Call to Arms
04. Born in a Grave
05. Blood Brothers
06. Hand of Doom
07. House of Death
08. Swords in the Wind
09. Gods of War
10. Warriors of the World United
11. Fight Until We Die
12. Odin

(Yes, I've picked only one song off The Lord of Steel, and I've even been generous to that album)

[Indiscipline]

Into Glory Ride is epic as fvck, but let's not forget the overlooked gem of their catalogue, overshadowed by the commercial success of Kings of Metal: THE TRIUMPH OF STEEL.

Their equivalent of A Change of Seasons, a 30 minutes suite about Achilles full of bass and drum solos, open an album dark, heavy, relentless and uncompromising. Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, The Power of Thy Sword, The Demon's Whips are among the very best stuff they've ever done and after such a continuated assault of dark epic metal and double bass, the album is closed by a wonderful and delicate ballad, Master of the Wind.

A complete masterpiece, as old as Images and Words, but sadly not as successful (in comparison to Manowar's discography I mean).

Amen to that, bro. My favourite is Sign of the Hammer though, unique mood and melodies.

Also, since I've started this party, I may as well go hogwild with it and add that Fighting the World and Kings of Metal are two great albums, despite a lot of people seem to relegate those to red headed stepchildren status.

I've never understood the criticism, they are great fun with moments of truly inspired musicmaking.

[Bertielee]

Into Glory Ride is epic as fvck, but let's not forget the overlooked gem of their catalogue, overshadowed by the commercial success of Kings of Metal: THE TRIUMPH OF STEEL.

Their equivalent of A Change of Seasons, a 30 minutes suite about Achilles full of bass and drum solos, open an album dark, heavy, relentless and uncompromising. Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, The Power of Thy Sword, The Demon's Whips are among the very best stuff they've ever done and after such a continuated assault of dark epic metal and double bass, the album is closed by a wonderful and delicate ballad, Master of the Wind.

A complete masterpiece, as old as Images and Words, but sadly not as successful (in comparison to Manowar's discography I mean).

Amen to that, bro. My favourite is Sign of the Hammer though, unique mood and melodies.

Also, since I've started this party, I may as well go hogwild with it and add that Fighting the World and Kings of Metal are two great albums, despite a lot of people seem to relegate those to red headed stepchildren status.

I've never understood the criticism, they are great fun with moments of truly inspired musicmaking.

I love them as well, but they lack the rawness of the first four. From FtW onwards, their albums began having more polished sound and compositions. IMO, they lack the urgency the first 4 albums had.

B.Lee

[DoctorAction]

I love that Manowar are getting so much love here. 

[Lowdz]

I’m finding myself agreeing with everything in the above posts, apart from the Images and Words comparison 😀

Triumph of a Steel is great but I never really enjoyed the Achilles Suite. Some good parts but the solo spots kill the momentum

Sign of the Hammer is great too. Mountains is all kinds of awesome. Sent it in Chad’s roulette and it didn’t go well 😀

[MirrorMask]

What I simply meant is that The Triumph of Steel and Images and Words were both release in 1992, but I&W is vastly more important in DT's discography than Triumph of Steel in Manowar's discography.

Also, I've made myself an edit version of Achilles that cuts out the solos, it runs 16 minutes and it flows quite nicely.

[TAC]

  Mountains is all kinds of awesome. Sent it in Chad’s roulette and it didn’t go well 😀

...and you're surprised?