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!
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?
I'd say 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)
Alt music was still banging in the 2013 when i graduated high school. Still some great stuff out there if you lnow where to look.
Too bad it's all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there's no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.
Yeah I went through a ska phase, so what?
Ska is mostly cringe, but Streetlight Manifesto still hits!
Fuck you and hell yeah.
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
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 pary or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
"My Humps" is a classic though.
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.
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.
Just wait until you taste "Songs You Recorded in High School" 😬
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.
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.
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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.
My first album was a cassette dub of License to Ill my friend made in elementary school. My first purchase was Even Worse by Weird Al.
That's the best first I've ever heard. My first tape was Cruisin' Classics, which was free with a tank of gas from Shell. Thanks mom!
... 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 the time, not bcs I dropped what I listened to before).
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Not from what I experienced unless… oh, right… millennials …mmmmyea. Throw it out. Something happened with music around then.
Nah, I still fuck with Skinny Puppy and Bauhaus.
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
Ya'll don't like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s
Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.
Staind, Avenged Sevenfold,
It amazes me how, relative to the average individual, I am the same as I was when I was young. and im way different.
It's only around the edges that I've trimmed. I listen to basically the same stuff, plus more now.
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.
One of the wonderful things about being a Gen X'er. Music from my high school years is still fucking awesome.
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