# Works you once thought were brilliant, but later decided weren't all that... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649 "2005-07-28T21:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649/81 "2005-07-31T08:03:52Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Likewise, the animated “Gargoyles” TV show. Don’t get me wrong, I still like it. And it’s still worlds better than most animated crap on TV. But after rewatching a few episodes lately it’s been downgraded in my opinion from “absolutely terrific” to “pretty darned good, overall”. There’s one I remember. I might as well just throw in Power Rangers while I’m at it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649/82 "2005-07-31T13:17:03Z")
This is a really interesting thread. I’d like to add to it, but I haven’t been able to come up with anything. I can think of lots of things I used to like and don’t anymore, or lots of things I’m completely burned out on, but every time I do, I’m forced to admit that they were meaningful to the person I was at the time. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch Grease or The Wizard of Oz again, but they’re still good movies. I can barely tolerate Money by Pink Floyd, but there’s no doubt it’s a wonderful song. I’ve read Gone With the Wind so many times, I was on the verge of having it memorized. I love it, but I don’t take it down from the shelf anymore. Now, I must admit that I did like Ric O’Casek and The Cars. But I got over it pretty fast! ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649/83 "2005-07-31T14:47:47Z")
> [@mrunlucky](#): > > My friends and I call “Bitches Brew” “My First Miles”, because it’s typically the first Miles kids get into, and often the last. It took me a long time to realize that I just don’t like Miles except for “Kind of Blue”, and I had to buy and sell “Bitches Brew” twice in the span of 12 years to discover it was one of the most tiresome, overrated jazz records ever. Sorry for the highjack, but I just had to weigh in and say that while I disagree with you about **Kind of Blue** , it’s nice to hear that _kids_ get that far into jazz, too. I was 26 before I discovered jazz and 30 before I discovered Miles (so maybe **Kind of Blue** hasn’t had time to wear off yet), and I’m glad that others get into the scene at an earlier age. And **Carnac** , you’re right about Bong Soo Han being Tom McLaughlin’s stand-in. Back in the 70’s, you couldn’t tell, but I’ve gotten my seven bucks worth out of the DVD by playing the fight scenes in slow motion just to see the big bad townies get their asses handed to them by a middle-aged Korean guy in a denim jacket and a cowboy hat. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649/84 "2005-07-31T14:50:25Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > Sorry for the highjack, but I just had to weigh in and say that while I disagree with you about **Kind of Blue** , it’s nice to hear that _kids_ get that far into jazz, too. I was 26 before I discovered jazz and 30 before I discovered Miles (so maybe **Kind of Blue** hasn’t had time to wear off yet), and I’m glad that others get into the scene at an earlier age. Gahhhhh, **Bitches Brew**!! **Bitches Brew**!! I _swear_ I meant to type **Bitches Brew**. Christ, time to go back on Ritalin! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649/85 "2005-07-31T15:51:08Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch Grease or The Wizard of Oz again, but they’re still good movies. I can barely tolerate Money by Pink Floyd, but there’s no doubt it’s a wonderful song. I’ve read Gone With the Wind so many times, I was on the verge of having it memorized. I love it, but I don’t take it down from the shelf anymore. You make a good point here. I’ll probably always list The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as one of my all-time favorite books, but at this point in my life I doubt I’ll ever actually read it cover-to-cover again. For music, I’d have to say **Sublime**. There was a point in time when I thought they were the absolute, bar-none best band to ever exist. I had every one of their albums - and I mean _every one_, including all the bootlegs, b-sides, unreleased stuff, and live stuff that no one had ever heard of - I had their home movies, I had two of their posters even though I had outgrown posters by that time, I had one of their t-shirts even though I was past the band t-shirt wearing stage by that time (I mostly just wore it around the house), I even briefly had one of their stickers on my car even though I’ve always had a very strict no-stickers-on-the-car policy (I took it off the same day, but that’s a funny story for another time.) I’ve popped _Forty Oz to Freedom_ - their magnum opus by many accounts - into my CD player a couple times this year and it’s a chore just to get through it. It’s sad, really. I don’t think it’s that they were never really that good as much as it’s just that I’ve filled my lifetime quota for listening to them. When you’ve memorized every lyric, every bassline, every drumbeat, every sample and subtle little sound-effect (and can recreate them vocally!) 500 spins ago, an album just can’t ever seem new and fresh to you again. I have no doubt that they’ll continue to blow new generations away similar to how they did me for many years to come. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-you-once-thought-were-brilliant-but-later-decided-werent-all-that/314649.md?page=4)