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Good question!
I agree with Roachboy that a song's saturation is a powerful deterrent and quickly ruins a favourite.
Hearing Led Zepplin in Grade 8 was a revelation and opened my ears dramatically, but then a few years ago I became so sick of "Classic Rock". It was everywhere in tv and film soundtracks, commercials, and the FM stations that played it had such narrow playlists and affected macho identities that I couldn't stand it anymore. I don't think I need to hear Pink Floyd's Money ever again.
And yet, by picking through my own collection and concentrating on lesser played tracks, I've been able to cultivate a renewed appreciation for some of those bands I left behind.
A co-worker recently put Guns'n'Roses' Use Your Illusion albums up on our office itunes network, and I've found that despite how ridiculous a character Axel was, and how overplayed their hits were, a lot of it has held up well. November Rain may be long dead to me, but I'm humming Garden of Eden right now.
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Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life
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