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.

This comes back to the problem with old music: music didn't get worse, you just remember the good or memorable songs. At any point since the Billboard charts have been created 70% of them is dross, 20% is mediocre, maybe 10% is good. Everybody remembers the good songs that survive because they are good, and some of the mediocre songs people relate to. Everybody forgets the dross.
But back then, that was what you listened to as well.

(Check out, e.g. the Billboard hot 100 for 1968 (or even just Hot 20): it had Hey Jude at position 1, Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay on 3, and Mrs Robinson on 9, but it also had, let's see... 18 was Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela (which is good but it's a trumpet instrumental), 2 was Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat (a schmaltzy melody, but it's the second hottest song if 1968), and 7 is This Guy's in Love with you by Herb Alpert)
(And you can do that with basically every year. I graduated in 2004, so what do we have there? Usher's Yeah on 1 (I remember that), Usher's Burn on 2 (no clue), Maroon 5 on 4 (this is one of those bands everybody seems to have struck out of their memory), Hey Ya by Outcast on 8, but their The Way you Move on 5 (definitely not a mainstay I would say), Nickelback is 17 (another band everybody pretends never to have listened to), but Twista's Slow Jamz is 16 (who?) )

Crunk music. Except for one song, i can't believe I used to like the genre. Me and my school friends loved crunk. It dawned on me that I can't criticise what children are listening to these days, when our music is just as bad if not worse.

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.

There's stuff in my playlist that probably wouldn't make it into my favourites today, if it weren't for the nostalgia. Like, they're alright songs, but they wouldn't knock me off my feet today.

Um, okay, I'm pretty sure I'm still going to love Dashboard Confessional.

Totally off base! ..... Except for Hollywood undead.

I still have a soft spot for my high school playlists. Its still not making to my frequently played lists, but its worth a stop every couple months

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.

F O R G O T

My high school smelly Tupperware dish:

Chicken Outlaw, by Wide Boy Awake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcsHIHuI68

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.