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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

the songs i listened to on purpose in high school are still awesome. the songs i heard in high school because of radio or mtv or party or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then

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.

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

…oh no…

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

"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.

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Just wait until you taste "Songs You Recorded in High School" 😬

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

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.

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

... 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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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

Nah, I still fuck with Skinny Puppy and Bauhaus.

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

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

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.

Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.