Complementary to “growers” (paging Moose!) are “shrinkers”: bands and artists you once venerated, and eventually had to let go of, even though it had been a long and loving relationship. Bands that are at that stage for me are the no-hits Clash, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Genesis and Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd (including Dave and Roger’s solo work), The Who (MAYBE “Quadrophrenia”), and,l dare I say it, The Beatles. Overexposure is part of it.
