I'm the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.

I went to school in the 90s. That shit still rocks.

Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.

Sometimes you open that bin and it turns out it's still good.

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

Yeah I went through a ska phase, so what?

Authentic pirate hip hop is not nearly as bad as it sounds

Dunno what kind of meh you listened to in high school. Iron Maiden, Queen, In Flames, Ozzy, Dream Theater and At the Gates still slaps the shit.

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

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

…oh no…

"My Humps" is a classic though.

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.

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.

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.

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

Name names

I still love everything I listened to in highschool, except One in a Million by GNR.

Sorry, I grew up in the great alt rock era ranging from early 90s to late 2000s. So there’s nothing to throw out here. Not even the punk emo anthems or pop summer hits.

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

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

... 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 time, not bcs I dropped what I listened to before).

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Nah, I still fuck with Skinny Puppy and Bauhaus.

Man, these songs are crawling in my skin, these wounds, they will not heal.

Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.

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

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, including some Southern and Southern-inflected ones (CCR!). Start to fold in some folk music from the British Isles and sellout former college-rock bands (Crash Test Dummies’ first two major-label 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.

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

It's only around the edges that I've trimmed. I listen to basically the same stuff, plus more now.

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.

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.

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

One of the wonderful things about being a Gen X'er. Music from my high school years is still fucking awesome.

I was bored and looking for something to do on the weekend, and found cheap tickets to see Sheryl Crow and Pink (headlining) live. Honestly one of the best shows I've even seen. The "don't give a fuck" vibe mixed with the professionalism of a 30 year career, just all the energy I wanted.

They both have newer albums, but I've had their high-school bangers on a lot lately.

Joke's on you, my music taste hasn't changed since elementary school, i was and will always be an emo

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

It amazes me how, relative to the average individual, I am the same as I was when I was young. and im way different.

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

Well now I have to go listen to Sex On Wheelz by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, damn it.

Kanye and MF Doom. Not related.

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

Funny thing, back in high school I managed to buy some albums on Google's Play Store for 0 Monies. I'm talking big names, like Charlie Puth, Major Lazer, Galantis, Anitta, Flo Rida, Jason Derulo, maybe more. All for free, just owned it. Not streaming, per se. And I used to keep coming back, check if any new freebies had dropped. I reckon I once downloaded them in more recent times, but have probably lost them in poor last-minute 'backup and reinstall' OS issues. I might have deleted the files from Google, as I grew away from loving Google (as I did back then) to disliking them a tad (privacy reasons, likely), but I rather believe they got rid of something I purchased (albeit for no moneys) some time after discontinuing Google Play Music. These albums, released circa 2015, were the ones I had on repeat back then. Nine Track Mind, Peace Is The Mission : Extended (not to be confused with "Peace Is The Mission (Extended)", at least on Spotify), Pharmacy, Bang, My House, Everything Is 4, among others. Also got some singles, like Californication and a Linkin Park song (Numb, maybe?), and a Charlie Puth song before the album so I had it repeat on my collection