It's gone bad, throw it out!

Odigo2020

Any recommendations to check out?

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I was listening to punk music back then, it's still awesome!

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Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!

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Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.

Captain Aggravated

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.

Ech

I'd say my favs from last year include:

Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)
The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would've fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)
Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)
Unicorn by Gunship (not an "unknown" band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)

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Staind, Avenged Sevenfold,

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Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.

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I was 1990s in highschool. That shit is still great. All the lousy music cropped up in the early 2000's.

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Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.

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Fuck you and hell yeah.

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Same as it ever was.

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My first purchase CD was Kenny Fuckin’ G. Sigh. Still, some pretty melodies I guess, and that’s not all bad.

Started improving right away by moving on to a lot of John Williams soundtracks and Weird Al. Then a lot of Classic Rock “best of” albums. Start to fold in some folk music from the British Isles and sellout former college-rock bands (Crash Test Dummies’ first two albums are actually good. Fight me!).

Add one English degree from a southern university and a move to Texas after a leftward political swing during law school (seriously you guys, nothing like seeing how the sausage is made to understand that while important and not without a certain rigor, the law is fucked up and EVERY judge is an activist judge, so you just need to do the right thing), and blammo, you get a dude who is way more into artsy fartsy “Americana” alt-country than your average Lemmy user. Now I want to listen to some Isbell before I go to bed. Good night y’all.

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Ya'll don't like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s

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It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?

…oh no…

TheRealKuni

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.

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Our names be similar like whaaaat

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Idk why ppl say the music doesn't hold up. Foo fighters still rock even though Dave gohl a PoS.

TheRealKuni

You’re not the first fellow TheReal<Something> I’ve found in the wild, but it always makes me do a double-take.

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Just wait until you taste "Songs I Recorded in High School"