Tastes Change

As I'm sure I've written here before, I've been a huge fan of Philip Glass since discovering his music via Koyaanisqatsi in 1986.

To this day there are parts of Akhnaten and Satyagraha that still send chills down my spine.

But in 1989 he released 1000 Airplanes On The Roof, a work that by all accounts I should've devoured, laying his music over a theme of UFOs and alien abduction (something I was way too much into at the time).

And yet, I hated it. I don't know if I was expecting to be blown away like I was with Akhnaten or if I perceived that his style had changed too much since Koyaanisqatsi, but I was not impressed.

When the CD was stolen from my collection in 1991, I didn't bother replacing it.

In the years since Airplanes, Glass' music has evolved and changed—as we all have—and I've loved pretty much everything I've heard of his in the interim.

So when I was looking over my recently found "List of Stolen CDs" and noticed that Airplanes was on it, I thought, what the hell—give it another listen.

And upon hearing it again, I don't understand why I hated it so. It doesn't give me chills, but it is quintessential Glass.