# Albums you liked but you've heard so many times they dont even trigger nostalgia.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 31, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811 "2013-05-31T21:25:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/1 "2013-05-31T21:25:27Z")
“Albums” lol
You’ve had the experience of putting in a CD that you haven’t heard in years and while it’s playing you can feel and even almost smell the time in your life when you listened to it alot. For 45 minutes you’re feeling 1996 or whatever.
A few for me:
Peal Jam:Ten. Theoretically I should feel something. It should bring back feelings of 1992. But it doesn’t. I still sorta like them but this album is just a blank emotionally. I know which song will follow the last, I know the lyrics, I was a fan but it doesnt trigger memories of 1992. I’ve heard it so many times that it’s basically elevator music now.
Led Zeppelin: IV. Same thing. Houses of the Holy still has an emotional trigger. But IV, nothing any more.
Pixies: Doolittle. Kinda surprising. The beginning of ‘debaser’ for some reason used to always make me think of sitting at a certain redlight in wintertime driving to school in 12th grade. But I listened to it recently and no feelings.
What are yours?
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/2 "2013-05-31T21:54:39Z")
Sadly, I now find most of _ **Who’s Next** _ unlistenable. It was my #1 album of all time for years, but I just can’t listen to “Baba O’Riley” or “Won’t Get Fooled Again” any more.
I still envy a kid who’s listening to it for the first time, though.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/3 "2013-05-31T22:18:32Z")
> [@Quintas](#):
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> “Albums” lol
Are you making the common mistake of associating “album” with “vinyl lp”? “Album” means “compilation”. Format is irrelevant.
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### Author:  [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/4 "2013-06-01T04:57:32Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> Are you making the common mistake of associating “album” with “vinyl lp”? “Album” means “compilation”. Format is irrelevant.
IDK. No I dont mean vinyl lp. I’ve just always used the term “album” even though I grew up in the cassette/CD era. Album=collection of songs released by an artist at the same time usually lasting 40-60 minutes, not necessarily vinyl. I lol’d because it seems an anachronistic term now but I cant think of another term thats taken its place.
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### Author:  [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/5 "2013-06-01T16:31:55Z")
> [@Quintas](#):
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> I lol’d because it seems an anachronistic term now but I cant think of another term thats taken its place.
Really? I thought that **ftg** was pointing out that it is _not_ anachronistic, and is appropriately applied to modern formats as equally as it was to previous ones.
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### Author:  [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-you-liked-but-youve-heard-so-many-times-they-dont-even-trigger-nostalgia/659811/6 "2013-06-03T00:30:47Z")
> [@JKilez](#):
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> Really? I thought that **ftg** was pointing out that it is _not_ anachronistic, and is appropriately applied to modern formats as equally as it was to previous ones.
Kids these days mostly buy singles. Album purchases have been declining so rapidly that the term itself is becoming anachronistic. For the purpose of making the discussion relevant to this shift in music consumption, replace “album” with “playlist” or “mix tape” throughout the OP.