It's gone bad, throw it out!

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

The only band I listened to in high school that I find cringe AF now is Gravy Train.

[rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works]

Ska is mostly cringe, but Streetlight Manifesto still hits!

[hakase@sh.itjust.works]

Right? I read the OP and was like, speak for yourself!

[ech@lemm.ee]

I still love the music I loved in HS. I just love more stuff now.

[ech@lemm.ee]

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.

[zombifrancis@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[theraginggeek@lemmy.world]

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

[odigo2020@lemmy.zip]

Any recommendations to check out?

[kecessa@sh.itjust.works]

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

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

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@lemm.ee]

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)

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

Staind, Avenged Sevenfold,

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.

[colesloth@discuss.tchncs.de]

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

[colesloth@discuss.tchncs.de]

Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

Fuck you and hell yeah.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

Same as it ever was.

[wjrii@lemmy.world]

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.