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.
Idk why ppl say the music doesn’t hold up. Foo fighters still rock even though Dave gohl a PoS.
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!
Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.
I was listening to punk music back then, it’s still awesome!
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
What’s funny is I like 90s music a lot more than I did when I was in high school and trying to be too cool for it.
I can actually admit that Nirvana was an amazing band all these years later.
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?
My favs from last year include:
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Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)
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The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would’ve fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)
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Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)
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Unicorn by Gunship (not an “unknown” band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)
Right on, that all sounds like my jam. Thanks for the tip!
Sure thing! Fwiw, I found most of those just digging through the bandcamp discover page. gglum I heard on KEXP, a great indie radio station based in Seattle who do internet broadcasts. Lots of good stuff coming from them.
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The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that “not mainstream” is
not*barely a meaningful term.It wasn’t a disparagement. Just explaining why it’s not as seemingly ubiquitous as it once was.
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.
By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?
Which is crazy, because originally “alternative” just meant “underground”, i.e. stuff that wasn’t popular. Once it did become popular, though, then it solidified into its own genre
Too bad it’s all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there’s no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.
Sometimes you open that bin and it turns out it’s still good.
Yeah I was going to say, I had pretty good taste then. Most of this stuff kept pretty damn well.
I was 1990s in highschool. That shit is still great. All the lousy music cropped up in the early 2000’s.
Oh, really? There’s for sure some bad 90s music you’ve just forgotten about.
I’ll be watching Todd in the Shadows and go, “Oh shit! I forgot about Spin Doctors! Damn, they were annoying.”
This was also the decade that gave us nu metal ffs.
Bad music exists all the time, but the Era that gave snoop dog, eminem, system of a down, placebo, oasis, Linkin park, Nelly, rammstein, U2, Radiohead, and Green Day will reign Supreme.
My wife went to a Spin Doctors concert in the 90s and I still make fun of her about it. (Although I kind of like Two Princes.)
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 party or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then
Dunno what kind of meh you listened to in high school. Iron Maiden, Queen, In Flames, Ozzy, Dream Theater and At the Gates still slaps the shit.
Speak for yourself, I’ve still got a running list of early morning songs that’d play on the school bus radio from highschool.
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
“My Humps” is a classic though.
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. 😃
Where’s the real Slim Shady? Can he please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up?
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 no one 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 one. You’re right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically
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.
