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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.
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.
Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Pirate Metal is pretty fun occasionally too.
Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!
Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.
This reminds me of having the opposite experience, hearing a Joni Mitchell song I probably hadn’t heard in 15 years - she had been a favorite musician of my gf’s way back when. The opening notes took me straight back in time - mentally I was heading over to her place, feeling that same age, feeling all the same feelings. Very surreal experience. This was the first time I realized how much rich detail we store in our brains. It was like I had quantum-leaped back into my teenage body. I listened to some more Joni Mitchell songs to recapture the effect, but it got weaker every time - by a lot - the dropoff was very distinct.
“My Humps” is a classic though.
Yeah I went through a ska phase, so what?
Ska is mostly cringe, but Streetlight Manifesto still hits!
Fuck you and hell yeah.
Well, my tastes since then changed from various kinds of metal to that (bug mostly prog) + jazz + ragtime + electronic stuff + various multi-genre things, so I don’t find the stuff I used to listen particularly terrible. Most are pretty boring, tho.
The stuff I used to listen to as a teenager, I now listen to when I’m drunk because they are some banging pops
It’s just I do love me my black/death metal when I’m sober
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 pary or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then
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.
It’s only around the edges that I’ve trimmed. I listen to basically the same stuff, plus more now.
I still love the music I loved in HS. I just love more stuff now.
… songs that I listen to now are at least 50% songs that I listen to in highschool (and even that’s just bcs I added new ones over the time, not bcs I dropped what I listened to before).
\m/
It amazes me how, relative to the average individual, I am the same as I was when I was young. and im way different.
Same as it ever was.
lettin the days go by.
People are often poor judges about how they’ve changed, because it’s difficult to be objective about yourself. I’ve had friends’ personalities do a complete 180 and they’ll tell me “I haven’t changed at all, actually”.
Yeah I mean even external superficial things. Like I still dress kinda the same and my hair is the same and such. I could be wrong about my personality. Certainly the internet has made me much less focused but that seems to be everybody.
