Nostalgia

can't relate at all

Object.

Not funny.

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.

What?? I would love to stumble across some forgotten songs from back then.

https://youtu.be/KElAbhK92hU
- Guardians of the Galaxy resurrected that one for a lot of people.
- I didn't go to high school in the Stone Age haha

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)
- 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.
- If it’s good enough for the umbrella academy it’s good enough for me
- I don't watch music usually. ¯(ツ)/¯
- Eh, I'll still listen to em. Hollywood Undead is still my favorite boy band too. Also system of a down was my lawn mowing playlist and I will fight any motherfucker who says they haven't held up.
- Sorry, I'll stick with most bloodhound gang forever, especially as a comedy group. Hooray for boobies fucking rocks, sans a few talking tracks.
- Cringe was the point of the Bloodhound Gang.
KORN begs to differ at 40

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.

Replace "high school" with "you were 12" and then I agree.

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.

This is a dumb picture... there is nothing wrong with old songs.... they were real, unlike the A.I. generated trash of today

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.

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 thought Imagine Dragons was a band I'd never heard until I checked out some of their songs and realized I've actually heard them a million times ... always in grocery stores shopping at night.
‘Attention K-Mart Shoppers’
- Huh, that's a really interesting collection. Thanks for the link!
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)

Sniffs

Nope, still good

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.

Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap is a damn solid album.

Some of the old hip hop was pretty homophobic.

Reggae too, particularly dance hall
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.

Yeah... One,two... princes kneel before you..

That's what I said now

I still enjoy Limp Bizkit when I randomly hear them. lol

As well you should!
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.
I liked their ravey stuff. Keep on rollin', baby. You know what time it is...

My high school fav songs have aged far more gracefully.

Sure your favorite songs, but what about those that you haven't listened to since high school? Did those fare as well?
- Quite a few of them. Not all though.

Expiration dates are mere suggestions.

Tell that to my CA.

Somehow, the greatest music ever made is always from your senior year of high school.

Nah, I had great taste, I still listen to Pink Floyd. The only thing that has happened over the ages is I've become more open to different kinds of music, where I was more closed minded when young.

I suppose the thing would be songs that you listened to back then but stopped listening to. So in your case, pink floyd wouldn't count because it has staying power and you kept listening, rather than "you haven't listened to since high school".
If you randomly pick some billboard hits of the time that you haven't heard in a while, you realize why no one has played it in a while despite you listening when it was new.
Music of the (insert decade) is generally better than music of today largely by virtue of having a decade to choose from, versus picking over the most recent year or two
- Music of the (insert decade) is generally better than music of today largely by virtue of having a decade to choose from, versus picking over the most recent year or two
  That's a really good point. The most of the crap that was played in the 80s didn't make it into the "top 100 songs of the 80s" list, hence what's left over today is not the crap.

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.

Maybe stuff from middle school - sophmore year of high school. By junior and senior year I definitely evolved my musical taste. Definitely bands I still listen to somewhat frequently like Pavement, Wilco and Yo La Tengo as well as stuff i haven't heard in 20 years but doesn't make me cringe like Deathcab for Cutie, Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. On the other hand middle school self loving My Chemical Romance (super early in their career) yeah that makes me cringe and I would not enjoy whatso ever today.

Took a ride by a police station. Seemed like something do. Heard a voice saying what are you trying to prove.
I thought about it an hour. I thought about it a minute. I thought about it weeks on end. I couldn't decide.

I listened to a lot of nightcore growing up. That's something I don't ever want to go back to.

Angst, ballin, and anger don't make for great memberberries. Can't listen to so much stuff I loved.

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?) )

@kyonshi @soltoroo Sturgeon's law.
- Yeah, but people seem to forget it all the time when it comes to music. I just can't stand the constant whine of "Oh music used to be so much better back then" no it fucking wasn't.
  (I also despise the whole thing about cartoons: look at how good the cartoons we had back then and how bad the cartoons now are. And then they turn out to be talking about old Looney Tunes or Disney cartoons that were done for cinemas, often with an actual budget, and which just got repackaged for TV later)

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.

Yeah-eah!
- I was in my early 20s in a fairly backward upper Midwestern city in the 00's. If you went out dancing and it wasn't the single punk/Goth club chances are they were pumping crunk/top 40 hip hop. If you weren't dancing to that, you weren't dancing.
  You can do it, put your back into it.

Let's see... Metallica, Testament, Saxon, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, the offspring, bloodhound gang, Eminem, Dynamite Deluxe, die absoluten Beginner... Those are the ones that immediately come to mind. I'm fine with that. Still listen to a lot of those today.

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.

My dentist plays a '70s soft rock channel. It's really impressive how good the production is on that stuff, and people could actually legitimately sing! No autotune or melodyne in sight.

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

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.

I dont have time to build and maintain a curated offline library like I used to.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure ~~the high seas~~ legitimate DRM free music purchases will welcome you back when you have time again.
- My Linux ISOs shall endure the march of time until they're called upon once more to grow in number and please thy ears.