I’m the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Speak for yourself, I’ve still got a running list of early morning songs that’d play on the school bus radio from highschool.
Name names
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.
I still love everything I listened to in highschool, except One in a Million by GNR.
Such a shame about the lyrics bc it’s a great tune otherwise
