One of the wonderful things about being a Gen X’er. Music from my high school years is still fucking awesome.
Funny thing, back in high school I managed to buy some albums on Google’s Play Store for 0 Monies. I’m talking big names, like Charlie Puth, Major Lazer, Galantis, Anitta, Flo Rida, Jason Derulo, maybe more. All for free, just owned it. Not streaming, per se. And I used to keep coming back, check if any new freebies had dropped. I reckon I once downloaded them in more recent times, but have probably lost them in poor last-minute ‘backup and reinstall’ OS issues. I might have deleted the files from Google, as I grew away from loving Google (as I did back then) to disliking them a tad (privacy reasons, likely), but I rather believe they got rid of something I purchased (albeit for no moneys) some time after discontinuing Google Play Music. These albums, released circa 2015, were the ones I had on repeat back then. Nine Track Mind, Peace Is The Mission : Extended (not to be confused with “Peace Is The Mission (Extended)”, at least on Spotify), Pharmacy, Bang, My House, Everything Is 4, among others. Also got some singles, like Californication and a Linkin Park song (Numb, maybe?), and a Charlie Puth song before the album so I had it repeat on my collection
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.
Nah, I still fuck with Skinny Puppy and Bauhaus.
Well now I have to go listen to Sex On Wheelz by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, damn it.
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
We listened to the music despite Axl being too high/drunk to actually play most of his concerts. One wouldn’t have throught he could go downhill from there, but here we are.
Speak for yourself, I’ve still got a running list of early morning songs that’d play on the school bus radio from highschool.
Idk there are still quite a few artists and songs i can listen to from when I was in high school
There are also quite a few that I can’t listen to anymore. Guess it really depends
Kanye and MF Doom. Not related.
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
My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn’t cringe, I swear!
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.
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.
Just wait until you taste “Songs You Recorded in High School” 😬
I went to school in the 90s. That shit still rocks.
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.
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
Not from what I experienced unless… oh, right… millennials …mmmmyea. Throw it out. Something happened with music around then.
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.)
