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Songs I listened to in high school remain excellent.
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I think most people are pretty nostalgic for the music they liked during their formative years.
What?? I would love to stumble across some forgotten songs from back then.
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Hey, I grew up in the 90s. That shit still rocks.
Yeahhh, certainly nothing from the 90s looks cringe now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k
(Bloodhound gang)
Are you saying bloodhound gang doesn't rock?!
But that's joke music anyway, it was weird and kind of embarrassing to listen to when it was new.
That weird cringe is their whole shtick.
If it’s good enough for the umbrella academy it’s good enough for me
I don't watch music usually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eh, I'll still listen to em. Hollywood Undead is still my favorite boy band too. Also system of a down was my lawn mowing playlist and I will fight any motherfucker who says they haven't held up.
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KORN begs to differ at 40
I think you're confusing the nostalgia of other people.
Most people are very fond and attached to their own personal nostalgia.
But most often are not familiar or even don't understand other people's nostalgia.
Honesty, the songs I didn't care for in HS I don't mind listening to them now. Probably nostalgia.
What I didn’t expect was the nostalgia hit I get now for all of the hip hop and r&b the frats were playing in college
The only problem I have with old songs, I work retail. The Muzak system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak) repeats the same songs multiple times a day.
Me as a kid: Why do they only play old people music in stores?
Me recently: Hey I remember this! I love this song! No, wait-
I have noticed they play some banging tunes at my local grocery store
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Dude. I worked retail back in the aughts, and when I go in stores today, I still hear many of the same songs from back then
There are different channels. The stores you're going into are playing that music by choice, often to cater to specific demographics. You wouldn't expect, say, a skateboard shop to play classical, just as you wouldn't expect a greeting card store to play death metal. I remember when the hardware store I worked in switched from instrumental to music with lyrics.
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I thought Imagine Dragons was a band I'd never heard until I checked out some of their songs and realized I've actually heard them a million times ... always in grocery stores shopping at night.
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Honestly, the more I go back to songs I “didn’t like” or were “played too often and ruined” and sit down with a good pair of headphones to give them a real chance, I’m regularly surprised to find how much of the spirit was originally lost by listening to those songs always on the radio not of my own free will.
Good examples are things like Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap or Days Go By by Dirty Vegas.
They’re songs that have likely played in commercials or movies or just on the radio that now I can’t get enough of simply because I can hear all the extra sound in it now.
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Replace "high school" with "you were 12" and then I agree.
Some of the old hip hop was pretty homophobic.
Reggae too, particularly dance hall
Its always hilarious seeing wedding dances or disco clubs full of supposedly progressive chicks all dancing and singing along "to the sweat drop down my balls, all you bitches crawl" etc.
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I still enjoy Limp Bizkit when I randomly hear them. lol
now i know you’ll be loving this shit right here
l i m p bizkit is right here
people in the house put them hands in the air
cause if you don’t care then we don’t care
great stuff love it, would rewind the vhs tape after recording the morning music video show to listen to again
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Somehow, the greatest music ever made is always from your senior year of high school.
just the brain doing its thing
Musical preferences tend to form in late adolescence and persist throughout adulthood. Music heard during childhood and adolescence creates more durable memories than music heard at other ages. The music we listen to during our early teens creates a strong sense of nostalgia in later years.
pretty certain its same reason why if you’re going to learn a language its best to start early
My high school fav songs have aged far more gracefully.
Sure your favorite songs, but what about those that you haven't listened to since high school? Did those fare as well?
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Been really getting into playing drums on Clone Hero recently and it's given me a chance to rediscover so many songs that I haven't thought about in years.
Angst, ballin, and anger don't make for great memberberries. Can't listen to so much stuff I loved.
Maybe stuff from middle school - sophmore year of high school. By junior and senior year I definitely evolved my musical taste. Definitely bands I still listen to somewhat frequently like Pavement, Wilco and Yo La Tengo as well as stuff i haven't heard in 20 years but doesn't make me cringe like Deathcab for Cutie, Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. On the other hand middle school self loving My Chemical Romance (super early in their career) yeah that makes me cringe and I would not enjoy whatso ever today.
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This comes back to the problem with old music: music didn't get worse, you just remember the good or memorable songs. At any point since the Billboard charts have been created 70% of them is dross, 20% is mediocre, maybe 10% is good. Everybody remembers the good songs that survive because they are good, and some of the mediocre songs people relate to. Everybody forgets the dross.
But back then, that was what you listened to as well.
(Check out, e.g. the Billboard hot 100 for 1968 (or even just Hot 20): it had Hey Jude at position 1, Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay on 3, and Mrs Robinson on 9, but it also had, let's see... 18 was Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela (which is good but it's a trumpet instrumental), 2 was Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat (a schmaltzy melody, but it's the second hottest song if 1968), and 7 is This Guy's in Love with you by Herb Alpert)
(And you can do that with basically every year. I graduated in 2004, so what do we have there? Usher's Yeah on 1 (I remember that), Usher's Burn on 2 (no clue), Maroon 5 on 4 (this is one of those bands everybody seems to have struck out of their memory), Hey Ya by Outcast on 8, but their The Way you Move on 5 (definitely not a mainstay I would say), Nickelback is 17 (another band everybody pretends never to have listened to), but Twista's Slow Jamz is 16 (who?) )
Um, okay, I'm pretty sure I'm still going to love Dashboard Confessional.
Been listening to a lot of breakdowns of intro guitar riffs and synths from ‘80s and some ‘70s music. That shit is still awesome, especially seeing as so much of it was still brand new and experimental with the electronic side. Really hits the nostalgia button hard, though.
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Crunk music. Except for one song, i can't believe I used to like the genre. Me and my school friends loved crunk. It dawned on me that I can't criticise what children are listening to these days, when our music is just as bad if not worse.
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This is a dumb picture... there is nothing wrong with old songs.... they were real, unlike the A.I. generated trash of today
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