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!
Even the ones you haven't listened to since the late 1900's? I mean the ones you think rock are probably ones that you continue to listen to well past high school
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.
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.
Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!
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
"My Humps" is a classic though.
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.
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.
Our names be similar like whaaaat
You’re not the first fellow TheReal<Something> I’ve found in the wild, but it always makes me do a double-take. 😃
I listened to a lot of somewhat niche cringiest punk and red dirt country bands (odd combo i know but I was a confused teen) in high-school. Like bands that know on has heard of, no I'm not bragging these bands were just that awful. But I was young and HAD to be different and some of the songs would make me cringe so hard now that my soul may leave my body if listened to. You're right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically
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.
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.
Name names
Just wait until you taste "Songs You Recorded in High School" 😬
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.
... 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).
\m/
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
Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.
Staind, Avenged Sevenfold,
It's only around the edges that I've trimmed. I listen to basically the same stuff, plus more now.
It amazes me how, relative to the average individual, I am the same as I was when I was young. and im way different.
Same as it ever was.
lettin the days go by.
People are often poor judges about how they've changed, because it's difficult to be objective about yourself. I've had friends' personalities do a complete 180 and they'll tell me "I haven't changed at all, actually".
Yeah I mean even external superficial things. Like I still dress kinda the same and my hair is the same and such. I could be wrong about my personality. Certainly the internet has made me much less focused but that seems to be everybody.
One of the wonderful things about being a Gen X'er. Music from my high school years is still fucking awesome.
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.
I love the Crash Test Dummies. Give Yourself a Hand is probably my favorite album but I also really like A Worm's Life. Their records are all so different from each other too, which is nice because their sound evolved but remained recognizable.
I'm pretty basic. I liked The Ghosts That Haunt Me and God Shuffled His Feet the best, and unironically enjoy almost every single track on both albums. Once they started drifting away from that wry and/or jaunty folk-pop-rock, I wasn't as interested, but I can appreciate that Brad in particular wanted to explore other ground and give his lyrical notions more space to breathe.
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.
Joke's on you, my music taste hasn't changed since elementary school, i was and will always be an emo
Man, these songs are crawling in my skin, these wounds, they will not heal.
Well now I have to go listen to Sex On Wheelz by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, damn it.
And then they're stuck in your head for weeks like a fucking mind virus.
I was bored and looking for something to do on the weekend, and found cheap tickets to see Sheryl Crow and Pink (headlining) live. Honestly one of the best shows I've even seen. The "don't give a fuck" vibe mixed with the professionalism of a 30 year career, just all the energy I wanted.
They both have newer albums, but I've had their high-school bangers on a lot lately.
