It's gone bad, throw it out!

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"

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I listened to a lot of somewhat niche cringet punk and red dirt country bands (odd combo i know but I was a confused teen) in high-school. Like bands that know on 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. You're right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically

Sixty

My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn't cringe, I swear!

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Speak for yourself, I've still got a running list of early morning songs that'd play on the school bus radio from highschool.

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Only because the passage of time declared Backstreet Boys to be no longer a cringe!

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I love the Crash Test Dummies. Give Yourself a Hand is probably my favorite album but I also really like A Worm's Life. Their records are all so different from each other too, which is nice because their sound evolved but remained recognizable.

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I'm pretty basic. I liked The Ghosts That Haunt me and God Shuffled His Feet the best, and unironically enjoy almost every single track on both albums. Once they started drifting away from that wry and/or jaunty folk-pop-rock, I wasn't as interested, but I can appreciate that Brad in particular wanted to explore other ground and give his lyrical notions more space to breathe.

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And then they're stuck in your head for weeks like a fucking mind virus.

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Not from what I experienced unless… oh, right… millennials …mmmmyea. Throw it out. Something happened with music around then.

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Me listening to old punk stuff I liked in college. "Ok, this is just noise."

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Oh I also enjoy both of those albums a lot, especially Here I Stand Before Me and Comin' Back Soon.

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Oh, Backstreets back alright.

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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

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By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?

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The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that "not mainstream" isn't a meaningful term.

Odigo2020

Right on, that all sounds like my jam. Thanks for the tip!