Replace "high school" with "you were 12" and then I agree.
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Songs I listened to in high school remain excellent.
yeah, but you probably kept listening to those. if you hadn't listened to it "since high school" there would likely be some reason you stopped
Because I forgot. I have started listening to them again after 15 years and they are still awesome.
Indeed… you have a point here.
There were a ton of spoiled songs popular when I was in high school but no, I never listened to them and I surely wouldn’t have allowed them into my fridge.
Hey, I grew up in the 90s. That shit still rocks.
Yeahhh, certainly nothing from the 90s looks cringe now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k
(Bloodhound gang)
If it’s good enough for the umbrella academy it’s good enough for me
I don't watch music usually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you saying bloodhound gang doesn't rock?!
But that's joke music anyway, it was weird and kind of embarrassing to listen to when it was new.
Been listening to a lot of breakdowns of intro guitar riffs and synths from ‘80s and some ‘70s music. That shit is still awesome, especially seeing as so much of it was still brand new and experimental with the electronic side. Really hits the nostalgia button hard, though.
Honestly, the more I go back to songs I “didn’t like” or were “played too often and ruined” and sit down with a good pair of headphones to give them a real chance, I’m regularly surprised to find how much of the spirit was originally lost by listening to those songs always on the radio not of my own free will.
Good examples are things like Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap or Days Go By by Dirty Vegas.
They’re songs that have likely played in commercials or movies or just on the radio that now I can’t get enough of simply because I can hear all the extra sound in it now.
F O R G O T
can't relate at all
Same
I think most people are pretty nostalgic for the music they liked during their formative years.
Been really getting into playing drums on Clone Hero recently and it's given me a chance to rediscover so many songs that I haven't thought about in years.
My high school smelly Tupperware dish:
Chicken Outlaw, by Wide Boy Awake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcsHIHuI68
What?? I would love to stumble across some forgotten songs from back then.
Some of the old hip hop was pretty homophobic.
Its always hilarious seeing wedding dances or disco clubs full of supposedly progressive chicks all dancing and singing along "to the sweat drop down my balls, all you bitches crawl" etc.
Reggae too, particularly dance hall
I think you're confusing the nostalgia of other people.
Most people are very fond and attached to their own personal nostalgia.
But most often are not familiar or even don't understand other people's nostalgia.
Totally off base! ..... Except for Hollywood undead.
Um, okay, I'm pretty sure I'm still going to love Dashboard Confessional.
Honesty, the songs I didn't care for in HS I don't mind listening to them now. Probably nostalgia.
What I didn’t expect was the nostalgia hit I get now for all of the hip hop and r&b the frats were playing in college
Turns out the bling bling era is actually okay.
The only problem I have with old songs, I work retail. The Muzak system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak) repeats the same songs multiple times a day.
Me as a kid: Why do they only play old people music in stores?
Me recently: Hey I remember this! I love this song! No, wait-
Dude. I worked retail back in the aughts, and when I go in stores today, I still hear many of the same songs from back then
There are different channels. The stores you're going into are playing that music by choice, often to cater to specific demographics. You wouldn't expect, say, a skateboard shop to play classical, just as you wouldn't expect a greeting card store to play death metal. I remember when the hardware store I worked in switched from instrumental to music with lyrics.
I'm mostly referring to clothes stores
Ugh, I've always hated the lyric free versions of songs that played in the JC Penny (?) clothing section my mother used to drag me to.
lol
At least when I worked retail it was at chocolate world, so just candy related songs (or Xmas), and then macys, so poppier than I’d normally listen to (and again, Xmas)
Somehow, the greatest music ever made is always from your senior year of high school.
I still enjoy Limp Bizkit when I randomly hear them. lol
I don't, I can't get through a song. The music is fine, even great. But I can't stand that whiny voice shouting out those stupid lyrics.
now i know you’ll be loving this shit right here
l i m p bizkit is right here
people in the house put them hands in the air
cause if you don’t care then we don’t care
great stuff love it, would rewind the vhs tape after recording the morning music video show to listen to again
As well you should!
When I was a kid I discovered Poison the Well and Thursday. Which led me down a rabbit hole, and I never turned back. I still listen to and love those bands as well as a lot of heavy music.
I think the biggest difference between old me and young me is that I’m not afraid to like music people think is bad. My friends at the time were very disinterested in screaming.
Damn, haven’t seen Thursday mentioned in the wild in years! I used to go to their annual holiday/New Years concerts every year.
Pop in full collapse :)
I'd like to disagree with the message of this song:
So if you're ever feeling down, grab your purse and take a taxi
To the darker side of town, that's where we'll be
And we will wait for you and lead you through the dance floor
Up to the DJ booth, you know what to ask for
You know what to ask for
Go ask for Joy Division and celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong, but we're so happy
Let's dance to Joy Division and raise our glass to the ceiling
'Cause this could all go so wrong, but we're so happy
Yeah, we're so happy
Let the love tear us apart, I've found the cure for a broken heart
Nah my music was better then. Now I listen to whatever slop the algorithm feeds me because I dont have time to build and maintain a curated offline library like I used to.