Youtube suddenly recommended me some music I listen to some 14 years ago. Unlocked some memories that didn’t need unlocking

  • LanyrdSkynrd@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 years ago

    I wouldn’t say I am ashamed, but I cannot believe I liked Insane Clown Posse and thought it was legitimately good music.

  • Ratboy@lemmy.ml
    81·
    3 years ago

    Well it used to be slipknot/KoRn/Limp Bizkit etc etc, but now nu metal is cool with all the zoomers, so I’m no longer embarrassed of being a nu metal kid. It’s been pretty cool to reconnect with that stuff without fear! Tbh there are a lot of KoRn tracks that slap, and you can hear their influence in a lot of the underground metal music I listen to. The band chat pile that’s pretty popular right now cites KoRn as an influence. Limp Bizkit is still preeeeeetty fuckin bad though. I fuck with some tracks off of 3 Dollar Bill Y’all$, but so much of it is just corny as hell. System of a Down was always considered dope so they don’t count

    • ThisIsNecessary@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I just saw Korn live for the first time last year and it was a great show. They played a lot of their old stuff and really made me appreciate some of the early albums again. Don’t care for their new music much, but then again and don’t like most new music. I prefer stuff I already know. Must be an age thing.

    • andrew@midwest.social
      1·
      3 years ago

      Loved this stuff back in the day as well. I still do. I got to see Slipknot live at a festival a few years back and they put on one of the more impressive shows I’ve seen.

  • hitmyspot@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 years ago

    I loved aqua. Barbie girl is obviously relevant with the movie out, so it’s reminded me. However doctor Jones was also great for me at the time. I then went online and downloaded all their songs. It pretty much introduced me to mp3s. As an adult I still like it for the nostalgia and some of the lyrics are quite funny. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic or You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.

    However, O would not be breaking out the aqua for a party or dinner with friends.

    I have a giant playlist of songs that are cheesy and fun but not intolerable to listen to for me, to play when my kids are playing. It’s got vheesey stuff like S club 7, which is probably more embarrassing than aqua, but don’t stop movin is amazing. It also has upside down by the a*teens. I pick songs that have words or concepts that help learn music appreciation or language skills.

    Things like ROYGBIV by public service broadcasting teaches colours sits beside Gwen Stefani Hollaback girl teaching spelling.

    And b*witched for the denim.

  • Buck Fucket@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 years ago

    Simple Plan. They had some popular songs, but looking back, their lyrics were/are cringy. But on the upswing, they had good intention in them.

    • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Oh NO. I recognized the name even and was like “I know that song…don’t I?”

      Ugh. Yeah. I do.

    • NPC@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      fair, but I feel old Limp Bizkit is still kinda fun, I ust feel weird knowing I unironically listened to bands such as Black Veil Brides

    • RustedSwitch@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 years ago

      I’m browsing lemmy from Memmy (iOS app), and had to triple-read your post before my brain would register it as Mammy.

  • UsernameLost@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    Mumford and Sons. Their first few albums were unique, and a nice change from everything else. Then they turned around and shit on everyone that liked their music before turning into Coldplay

    • quinnly@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Their first few albums were already just generic folk pop but if they were your first generic folk pop band I can see it being a pretty novel sound. And I’ll agree that their earlier stuff was better than their later stuff, but it still wasn’t very good or very original

  • LilBiFurious@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    I used to think Static-X was the heaviest, most badass band out there. I loved all of their stuff and bumped it daily up through high school. It’s funny, because there was like a ten year gap where they were very un-cool to everyone after that, but now they seem to be having a kind of resurgence with a new front man. Saw them live a few months ago and the venue was packed with a 50/50 split of zoomers and old farts

  • carbotect@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    3 years ago

    My taste in music mostly stayed the same since childhood. I just like more genres now.

    I am really into EDM, old EDM songs from popular subgenres oftentimes feel “outdated” in a sense.

    For non-EDM enjoyers, its all beeps and boops anyways tho.

    • Ratboy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’m curious what old songs you might be thinking of? I was a wannabe raver in middle school and an actual one at the end of highschool lol. I may know what’s up

      • carbotect@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        3 years ago

        It’s hard to remember song names, because most EDM tracks are non-lyrical.

        For example in dubstep, most trends age poorly.

        Skrillex- inspired stuff or “Zomboy - Terror Squad” copycats sound really oversaturated nowadays. Even “hip and cool” commercials made some bootleg versions of “Ruffneck Bass” and “Equinox” from Skrillex.

        Also samples and sound design from many EDM tracks 10+ years ago feel really unoriginal from a modern listener’s perspective.

        There are obviously also a lot of exeptions. Old stuff from “Tha Trickaz”, “Savant”, “Xilent” etc etc all still hold up imo.

        • Ratboy@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 years ago

          Lol aw man I’m definitely getting old; I remember when Skrillex came out and kinda ruined the genre tbh, it was so totally different when it first emerged, it actually sounded like dub. So I’m not familiar with any of those guys, they were after my time.

          I think it probably depends on the listener but yeah, if I try to listen to most mid 80s hip hop, it’s so rudimentary that it’s really hard for me to a tuslly get into. Like Run DMC, or NWA. I can get into NWA but the novelty runs out quickly so I can only listen to them very rarely. But there are a lot of newer bands that I hear and say “I’ve already heard x y and z do this better” so it’s hard to get excited about new stuff too. If you are a really avid music listener I think it has to take something exceptional coming out to really get impressed by

  • RustedSwitch@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    The last top-40’s song I memorized after listening to it so many times was Mr Big, be with you. A basic unrequited love song without much depth. I was 14.

    It was around that time that my neighbor introduced me to Nine Inch Nails,and changed the course of my musical taste forever.

    For a long time I was very focused on just industrial, grunge, ska, and electronic. I eventually started expanding into prog-like music from across genres (complex melodies and instrumentation, but not just rock, ie newgrass, IDM).

    Eventually I met my now-wife and, while she already shared much of my taste spectrum, she also listened to pop charting stuff, and over the years I opened back up to it. Some of its not bad if you give it a chance. Bruno Mars is a legend!

  • space_of_eights@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Early 90s eurohouse and/or hiphouse. I listened and still listen to many genres, but the kind of music I refer to, is not even worth being a guilty pleasure.

    • mysoulishome@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 years ago

      Just realized I did actually buy the Milli Vanilli album on tape when it came out. Then the Grammys happened and it was shameful.