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.
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.
Most of the music I haven’t listened to since highschool are joke music: Stephen lynch, amateur transplants, avenue q (I lied I went to see it since high school) and youtube joke music james@war, Mister safety, cows with guns. I don’t listen to it, I do sing a lot of it still though.
There’s some stuff too emo for me in there: Automatic Loveletter. Some edgy music: Bolt thrower. Also, “you wouldn’t know 'em” music: My Only Danger. The lost of “I don’t want to listen to”, but the list of “it’s not really available to listen to” is smaller… But mostly humourous music that hasn’t aged well or I played to death.
Like everyone else I carried a lot of my highschool music with me and just kept adding as I grew.
Yeah… One,two… princes kneel before you…
Angst, ballin, and anger don’t make for great memberberries. Can’t listen to so much stuff I loved.
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.
Replace “high school” with “you were 12” and then I agree.
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?) )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)
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.
That weird cringe is their whole shtick.
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.
If it’s good enough for the umbrella academy it’s good enough for me
I don’t watch music usually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
can’t relate at all
lol this is so much better
Same
I think most people are pretty nostalgic for the music they liked during their formative years.
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.
What?? I would love to stumble across some forgotten songs from back then.
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.
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.
