It's gone bad, throw it out!

I'm the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.
- This presupposes there is some music you stopped listening to after high school, Im with you, I still listen to a bunch of that stuff. Some not as often as others, but it brings back memories. I was a metal head though and there was a lot of great 90s metal.
  
  Idk why ppl say the music doesn't hold up. Foo fighters still rock even though Dave gohl a PoS.
- Fr, old me had really good taste for music, probably better taste than current me, but I like the weird stuff I listen to now more.

I went to school in the 90s. That shit still rocks.
- Right? I read the OP and was like, speak for yourself!
  
  Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.
- I was listening to punk music back then, it's still awesome!
- 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

Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.
- I was at the gym over the weekend and they had a playlist of songs from this era/genre playing over the speakers. One banger after another, brought me back to better times.
- 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.
  
  Any recommendations to check out?
  
  The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that "not mainstream" is ~~not~~ *barely a meaningful term.
- Alt music was still banging in the 2013 when i graduated high school. Still some great stuff out there if you lnow where to look.
- By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?
  
  Alt Rock is it's own genre.
- Too bad it's all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there's no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.

Sometimes you open that bin and it turns out it's still good.
- Yeah I was going to say, I had pretty good taste then. Most of this stuff kept pretty damn well.

I was 1990s in highschool. That shit is still great. All the lousy music cropped up in the early 2000's.
- Oh, really? There's for sure some bad 90s music you've just forgotten about.
  I'll be watching Todd in the Shadows and go, "Oh shit! I forgot about Spin Doctors! Damn, they were annoying."
  This was also the decade that gave us nu metal ffs.
  
  Bad music exists all the time, but the Era that gave snoop dog, eminem, system of a down,, placebo, oasis, Linkin park, Nelly, rammstein, U2, Radiohead, and Green Day will reign Supreme.

Yeah I went through a ska phase, so what?
- Ska is mostly cringe, but Streetlight Manifesto still hits!
  
  Fuck you and hell yeah.

Authentic pirate hip hop is not nearly as bad as it sounds
- Pirate Metal is pretty fun occasionally too.
  
  Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.
  
  Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!
- BROADSIDE! BROADSIDE! Navy boys better run and hide These cannon balls flyin' atcha when we collide All me mateys be ready to fire a broadside
  
  Hit you with my chasers while you running for your life
  Bout to fuck you ship up just like I fucked your wife
  Spritsail topsail rigged so you know I got the power
  My ship’s the Victory and yours is Mayflower

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.

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.

"My Humps" is a classic though.

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.
- Our names be similar like whaaaat
  
  You’re not the first fellow TheReal
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  I’ve found in the wild, but it always makes me do a double-take. 😃
- I listened to a lot of somewhat niche cringiest punk and red dirt country bands (odd combo i know but I was a confused teen) in high-school. Like bands that no one 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 one. You're right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically

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

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.

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.

Name names

I still love everything I listened to in highschool, except One in a Million by GNR.
- Such a shame about the lyrics bc it's a great tune otherwise
- We listened to the music despite Axl being too high/drunk to actually play most of his concerts. One wouldn't have throught he could go downhill from there, but here we are.

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

... 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).
m/

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

Ya'll don't like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s
- Well, there's a random combo if I ever heard one.
  
  For me personally those two bring the most cringe value when I suddenly hear them again.
  Voltaire is cool, but it just seems a little juvenile now.

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

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

Nah, I still fuck with Skinny Puppy and Bauhaus.

Huh. NickelBack and CREED. Neat.
- Staind, Avenged Sevenfold,
  
  Nothing wrong with avenged, still brilliant to this day. Staind was never good to begin with.

My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn't cringe, I swear!
- Only because the passage of time declared Backstreet Boys to be no longer a cringe!
  
  They still make me cringe. But now it's classic cringe.
  
  Oh, Backstreets back alright.

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.

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

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

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.
- 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.
  
  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.

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.

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.

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.

It amazes me how, relative to the average individual, I am the same as I was when I was young. and im way different.
- Same as it ever was.
  
  lettin the days go by.
- People are often poor judges about how they've changed, because it's difficult to be objective about yourself. I've had friends' personalities do a complete 180 and they'll tell me "I haven't changed at all, actually".
  
  Yeah I mean even external superficial things. Like I still dress kinda the same and my hair is the same and such. I could be wrong about my personality. Certainly the internet has made me much less focused but that seems to be everybody.

Kanye and MF Doom. Not related.

Me listening to old punk stuff I liked in college. "Ok, this is just noise."
- Me listening to old punk stuff I liked in college: "FUCK YEAH!"
  
  Punk is a pretty broad genre.

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