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.
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?
I’d say 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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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
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Speak for yourself, I’ve still got a running list of early morning songs that’d play on the school bus radio from highschool.
“My Humps” is a classic though.
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
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.
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.
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.
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.
My first album was a cassette dub of License to Ill my friend made in elementary school. My first purchase was Even Worse by Weird Al.
That’s the best first I’ve ever heard. My first tape was Cruisin’ Classics, which was free with a tank of gas from Shell. Thanks mom!
My dad basically hated any music post about 1950 except for The Beatles (don’t ask me why The Beatles), so I was a late bloomer to rock albums. I think I was 12 when the Weird Al album came out.
