I'm the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.
This presupposes there is some music you stopped listening to after high school, Im with you, I still listen to a bunch of that stuff. Some not as often as others, but it brings back memories. I was a metal head though and there was a lot of great 90s metal.
Fr, old me had really good taste for music, probably better taste than current me, but I like the weird stuff I listen to now more.
I went to school in the 90s. That shit still rocks.
Right? I read the OP and was like, speak for yourself!
Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.
I was listening to punk music back then, it's still awesome!
Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.
I was at the gym over the weekend and they had a playlist of songs from this era/genre playing over the speakers. One banger after another, brought me back to better times.
There's still great stuff out there. It's just not mainstream, so it's not gonna fall into our laps - we have to do the legwork and shuffle through the muck if we want more.
Personally, I made the conscious choice to do so last year and it's been pretty rewarding.
Any recommendations to check out?
My favs from last year include:
Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)
The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would've fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)
Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)
Unicorn by Gunship (not an "unknown" band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)
Sometimes you open that bin and it turns out it's still good.
Yeah I was going to say, I had pretty good taste then. Most of this stuff kept pretty damn well.
I was 1990s in highschool. That shit is still great. All the lousy music cropped up in the early 2000's.
the songs i listened to on purpose in high school are still awesome. the songs i heard in high school because of radio or mtv or party or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then
Authentic pirate hip hop is not nearly as bad as it sounds
Pirate Metal is pretty fun occasionally too.
Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.
BROADSIDE! BROADSIDE! Navy boys better run and hide These cannon balls flyin' atcha when we collide All me mateys be ready to fire a broadside
Hit you with my chasers while you running for your life
Bout to fuck you ship up just like I fucked your wife
Spritsail topsail rigged so you know I got the power
My ship’s the Victory and yours is Mayflower
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
Speak for yourself, I've still got a running list of early morning songs that'd play on the school bus radio from highschool.
A lot of what I listened to in high school still rocks but I'm still tired of it.
Tell you something that has happened: I've gone back and listened to the songs I heard but didn't listen to much. The ones that were never on my mp3 player but I heard places. Just to return to an era for a minute. I find it's more vivid with songs you aren't as familiar with.
"My Humps" is a classic though.
Most (but not all) music has something to recommend it. If you don’t like entire eras of music it’s not because the music is “bad,” it’s because it’s not to your taste anymore (or, for stuff you didn’t listen to, never was).
Much like with food, if you can find what makes a particular genre enjoyable and listen for that, you can enjoy a lot more. I would never listen to Taylor Swift the same way I listen to Rush or Pink Floyd, but I still loved Midnights. I wouldn’t listen to Bach the same way I listen to Nightwish, but they’re both fantastic.
There’s nothing wrong with being discerning in your tastes. But there’s also nothing wrong with the styles of music you don’t like, it’s just a different flavor. I don’t like cilantro and never will, but I understand why people do. And I didn’t like coffee until I learned how to taste it properly. The same is true of music.
I still love the music I loved in HS. I just love more stuff now.
I dunno the first minute of Dig by Mudvayne still helps me get ready for a zoom call just as it did between each high school class period.
Dunno what kind of meh you listened to in high school. Iron Maiden, Queen, In Flames, Ozzy, Dream Theater and At the Gates still slaps the shit.
Name names
... songs that I listen to now are at least 50% songs that I listen to in highschool (and even that's just bcs I added new ones over time, not bcs I dropped what I listened to before).
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My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn't cringe, I swear!
Only because the passage of time declared Backstreet Boys to be no longer a cringe!
They still make me cringe. But now it's classic cringe.
Oh, Backstreets back alright.
Just wait until you taste "Songs You Recorded in High School" 😬
Sorry, I grew up in the great alt rock era ranging from early 90s to late 2000s. So there’s nothing to throw out here. Not even the punk emo anthems or pop summer hits.
Idk there are still quite a few artists and songs i can listen to from when I was in high school
There are also quite a few that I can't listen to anymore. Guess it really depends
Ya'll don't like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s
The stuff I used to listen to as a teenager, I now listen to when I’m drunk because they are some banging pops
It’s just I do love me my black/death metal when I’m sober
My first purchase CD was Kenny Fuckin’ G. Sigh. Still, some pretty melodies I guess, and that’s not all bad.
Started improving right away by moving on to a lot of John Williams soundtracks and Weird Al. Then a lot of Classic Rock “best of” albums, including some Southern and Southern-inflected ones (CCR!). Start to fold in some folk music from the British Isles and sellout former college-rock bands (Crash Test Dummies’ first two major-label albums are actually good. Fight me!).
Add one English degree from a southern university and a move to Texas after a leftward political swing during law school (seriously you guys, nothing like seeing how the sausage is made to understand that while important and not without a certain rigor, the law is fucked up and EVERY judge is an activist judge, so you just need to do the right thing), and blammo, you get a dude who is way more into artsy fartsy “Americana” alt-country than your average Lemmy user. Now I want to listen to some Isbell before I go to bed. Good night y’all.
Well, my tastes since then changed from various kinds of metal to that (bug mostly prog) + jazz + ragtime + electronic stuff + various multi-genre things, so I don't find the stuff I used to listen particularly terrible. Most are pretty boring, tho.
This reminds me of having the opposite experience, hearing a Joni Mitchell song I probably hadn't heard in 15 years - she had been a favorite musician of my gf's way back when. The opening notes took me straight back in time - mentally I was heading over to her place, feeling that same age, feeling all the same feelings. Very surreal experience. This was the first time I realized how much rich detail we store in our brains. It was like I had quantum-leaped back into my teenage body. I listened to some more Joni Mitchell songs to recapture the effect, but it got weaker every time - by a lot - the dropoff was very distinct.
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