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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.

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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.

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Idk why ppl say the music doesn’t hold up. Foo fighters still rock even though Dave gohl a PoS.

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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.

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71 points

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

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27 points

Right? I read the OP and was like, speak for yourself!

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4 points

Op was prolly in hs around 2005 when music sucked.

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10 points

I was listening to punk music back then, it’s still awesome!

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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

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What’s funny is I like 90s music a lot more than I did when I was in high school and trying to be too cool for it.

I can actually admit that Nirvana was an amazing band all these years later.

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37 points

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

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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.

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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.

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5 points

Any recommendations to check out?

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My favs from last year include:

  • Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)

  • The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would’ve fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)

  • Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)

  • Unicorn by Gunship (not an “unknown” band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)

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The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that “not mainstream” is not *barely a meaningful term.

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It wasn’t a disparagement. Just explaining why it’s not as seemingly ubiquitous as it once was.

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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.

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By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?

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Which is crazy, because originally “alternative” just meant “underground”, i.e. stuff that wasn’t popular. Once it did become popular, though, then it solidified into its own genre

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Too bad it’s all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there’s no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.

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30 points

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

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Yeah I was going to say, I had pretty good taste then. Most of this stuff kept pretty damn well.

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

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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.

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My wife went to a Spin Doctors concert in the 90s and I still make fun of her about it. (Although I kind of like Two Princes.)

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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.

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