I used to listen to THIS?
 

I'm sure there's been a point in everyones life where we've fallen in love with a particular artist or band and thought they were the cats pajamas. Years on, however, have you just felt ashamed of what you used to listen to? Was there something specific going on in your life that made you like it?

For me, My Chemical Romance and The Used spring to mind. I knew they were emo at the time but god damn...I don't know why I was so obsessed. Oh yeah, I was an emo kid, that's right.

Not sure if this topic belongs here, apologies if it's best suited to the Media Centre.

I was a teenager in the late 90s, had no good non-mainstream radio (although the rock station I listened to played plenty of 70's and 80's rock) so I liked Limp Bizkit. There is NO EXCUSE.

When I was eleven, I was big into System of a Down and Limp Bizkit.

These bands would be acceptable if the rest of their fanbase would follow suit and grow out of them.

Oooh...Sianny, you have created a thread that has PERPLEXED MY BRAIN MUSCLES!

Hmmm, there were some nasaly, annoying Japanese artists that I used to listen to that are now collecting cobwebs in my library, and I used to listen to a lot MORE soundtracks than I do now but I think my music taste only added to itself for the most part.

Oh yeah! I used to listen to a bunch of electronicy/dancy type stuff that every so often pops up in my library and I promptly delete in shame...>_>

Country music...

/fail


Anyway, I was obsessed with the Beastie Boys from about age 10-15. I'm not gonna lie, every couple years I enjoy hearing Intergalactic or a little Brass Monkey. I think 'License to Ill' was my first CD!

Oh.

But yeah. Went through an awful boy-band phase around third grade. To this day I remain shrouded in the shame.

In the early 90s I used to New Kids On The Block. I will never understand why I did this but I can only chalk it up to the fact that the vast majority of my friends in 7th grade were sexually confused. I also used to LOVE Guns N' Roses but, as I learned English, I soon started realizing that Axl Rose was a fucking retard and I just grew out of them. I still think Slash is a great guitarist though.

But...but why? :confused:

lol this thread. "When I was four I listened to crap music! I don't know what I was thinking!" doesn't count, kids. Liking really bad music is like something you listened to in your emo years when you were in high school. Or like me, when for some reason the only music I listened to was 80s hair metal.

holy diver
you're the star of the masquerade
no need to look so afraid

If you adjust for relative age, my third grade is about equivalent to your high school.

So yeah.

So? Every third grader has a third grader's taste in music. No one's going to give you shit for making your parents buy you the Animaniacs soundtrack.

edit: or listening to Shake Your Body on repeat, as was the case with you.

I thought that conversation was private, you harlot.

.. Ugh, I still have albums of Good Charlotte and Smash Mouth that haven't been played on my iTunes in years.

I think she's trying to say that, if you were like me and listened to Limp Bizkit in college, then you actually have a dog in this fight.

Umm . . . I actually BOUGHT a Mushroomhead album. In college. At the time I enjoyed it.



Now I like it because it's total shit. My enjoyment of complete shit has been thoroughly documented throughout the forums.


Also, in defense of country: not all of it is awful and something to be ignored. Dolly Parton, the Hank Williams Clan, Patsy Cline, OTHER EARLY STUFF and some new stuff (Alison Kraus) are all fantastic. Fuck, I have some 20 Dolly Parton cds on my HDD right now.

I used to listen to rap in my teens, but that was before Eminem.. so I'm not all that ashamed about it, shit was tight back then (Alcoholics, Insane Clown Posse, Wu-tang lol wut).

Nowdays I seem to dig metal more and more, symphonic/folk/power etc.

I sorta liked Lou Bega a decade ago because it was different.

Now I realize that it was different in a bad way.

Ha, posted in the wrong thread! HOWEVER, I was wondering something. Do people consider their music taste from, say, five years ago, to be totally different from now or is it roughly the same?

See, I'm on the same boat concerning country. I love Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, etc. but I can't stand the overwhelming majority of modern country.

Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park to name a few. Now it's modern country.

I never really listened to anything I am ashamed to admit now. I mean bands like Korn and Linkin Park I pretty much stopped liking, but I can still listen to the songs I enjoyed then and see why I liked them.

See, I thought this too, but what made me start the thread was because stuff like My Chemical Romance played on shuffle and I thought "...wow, I used to love this?". But for the most part, I too aren't ashamed of my 'mini-mosher' upbringing. IN THE END, IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTEEEERRRRR.

There is a distinct difference between true country, which you just described, and the twangy pop-crossover stylings of what most Americans consider country music. Shania Twain is a pop star in jeans and leather boots, nothing more. Same with Carrie Underwood, and Brooks and Dunn. It's all modified pop.

True country has its roots in blues and bluegrass and is fine for listening. Pop drivel needs to die.

Though, you've begun to revert a bit down to teeny pop again and are listening to Miley Cyrus =p

I think the darkest page in my musical history is liking Linkin Park.

But wait there's more.

Linkin Park music in fan made Final Fantasy X montages.

I may have won this thread, I'm not sure. =/

But in all honesty, a band being musically crap is one thing, but said band's fanbase and overexposure is usually the killer (and frustrater).

Hey! I'm ashamed of my emo music, not my teeny pop collection. Catchy stuff = awesome. I have no shame.

Perhaps I'm musically retarded, but I've never thought of the Beastie Boys as a band to be ashamed of. I could definitely see drifting away from them, particularly with their new stuff, but I think I would always be able to appreciate their talent in the end.
I seem to tangentially know a large number of women (girls) who have freaked out over the fact that the (old) New Kids are having reunion tours. Apparently that love never dies for some folks.

Personally, I think I'm more in Tentacle's camp, where there's not a lot I would say shames me regarding what I used to listen to. There's a good amount I've become bored of, but little I would think of as rubbish. Then again, I'm still listening to grunge, and that ship sailed years ago.

Room on that boat for me? I'd like to add Loretta Lynn to the good list, as well.

Now, keep in mind I grew up in the 70's, so, that pretty much answers the question for me, doesn't it?

Long live disco!

No. No it doesn't. Like not even a little. LOTS of music was around in the 70's. It's the particular tripe you may have listened to that may place you in the "cool for cats" or "bee-geers" categories.

We await your answer.

In my darkest days of musical incompetence, I went through a brief Linkin Park phase during my latter years of high school.

Another low point would be my middle school fascination with Insane Clown Posse. If you really listen to some of their songs, they're fucking awful but hilarious. Bugz on my Nugz is one of those. It's exactly what it sounds like.

I used to pilfer my brother's Creamfields CDs when I was about 9 or 10; 90's commercial trance, oh dear lord.

moves in for the killing blow

Sum 41's Half Hour of Power album was a big one for me. Every year or so I stick it on for the nostalgia value. This was back when I was 11, not that there's much excuse. I got into metal when I was 12 so the former obsession faded pretty damn quickly.

There's like... No excuse for this. WERE YOU A JUGGALO TOO, SPROUT?

I DID answer it--with my long live disco comment....

Okay, okay....

Captain and Tennille

I used to be big into metal music. Stuff like System of a Down, Marylin Manson, Cradle of Filth, Deftones... how I even tolerated such trash is beyond me. Maybe there's a few Metallica tracks I'd consider sparing, but the rest can remorselessly be disposed of.

I'm with you on that one >_>

I was going to post about Merle Haggard; he is an exception. I saw a concert of his about 2-3 years ago at a casino, and even though he was so drunk he could barely stand up, he could play the slide guitar, the fiddle, the harmonica, sing, etc. etc. very proficiently. I guess it's pop-country I really have a problem with.

I got into Drowning Pool during 10th grade or so after hearing a couple of their songs on the Cooler's Revenge dvd. I tried listening to them again a couple years ago and strongly considered tossing the cd out the window of my car. I also went through a phase where I would listen to nothing but video game/anime music. Which probably wouldn't have been too bad, but on the bus ride to school I would listen to remixes of Megaman themes on repeat. :(

Cradle of filth. Stupid whiteboy music.

I was never that bad, but I certainly owned all their albums up to that point.

I got into the whole nu-metal thing back then. We even played (I was on drums) Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Korn, and some other stuff of the same shitty kind.

Then I got into the whole Marilyn Manson anti-christ thing, and then the gay vampire stuff Cradle of Filth goes with.

But waaay back, I even used to listen to Backstreet Boys. And I danced too.

We get it vemp. We don't have an award for winning the thread but we get it.

This. There's nothing I'm really ashamed about liking except for Linkin Park in my middle school years.

I think in general with everyone I've spoken to about where their rock/metal roots stemmed from, Linkin Park were like a bridge into better music. At least they're good for one thing!

Your friends have shitty taste and must be around 10 if linkin park was a bridge to good music.

Limp bizkit!

rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin

:( and stuff like papa roach. I was in a class with only blonde swedes and that was all they listened too so i had to do it too, peer pressure at it's worst, i know.

ain't it a shame that you can't say fuck
fuck's just a word and it's all fucked up

Clearly the best of Fred's rhymes.

I'd have to dig through my old CDs to find something more embarrassing, but this is a likely #1:
http://i44.tinypic.com/dotavt.jpg

I asked for this shit for Christmas.

I'd consider my taste from five years ago to be about the same as it is now it's just that I've engrossed myself even more in the sub-sub genres of metal exploring black, folk/viking and death even further.

When I was in seventh grade I used to listen to Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G. Biggie Smalls at least had some decent tracks but P.Diddy...fuck. And I even went to a concert of Puff Daddy's.

I even got a Macarena mix CD for whatever reason for Christmas one year. Yeah that was fucking terrible. After that, when I entered high school I descended into the madness of nu-metal with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Static-X, Spineshank and the like. But if it wasn't for that then I wouldn't have been introduced to Pantera, Slayer, Death, Meshuggah and other real forms of metal.

I do listen to Korn, Mudvayne and Slipknot a bit nowadays but they don't dominate my playlists and I don't think they're the greatest bands in the world.

I think it's more that people begin to realise just how crap Linkin Park and the rest of the music they listen to is at a certain age. Definitely not a bridge to better stuff, but it provides a good basis of what NOT to look for when exploring the realm of music.

Hey now. Coal Chamber is good for the lulz.

I second this. I have nightmares of 30 years in the future someone getting Linkin Park to play at my 50th birthday or something.

"Surprise! They were your favorite when you were 12, remember?"

I'd rather forget...

Dear God--could you PLEASE come to my place of work and tell the teen-agers that?!

Hidden safely away in some deep dark corner of my random piles of shit is a copy of Foreigners Greatest Hits that not only did I purchase with my own money but it was the first CD I ever bought for myself.

Theoretically that should lave me protected from Tamburlaine's worry as those fuckers should hopefully be quite dead by the time I'm 50.

They were around 10/11 when Linkin Park came out. So yah :).

I'd still consider it a bridge. The way I've seen the Linkin Park scenario play out is at the age of 11-13 the hormones start kicking in and no one understands you man and no one will ever get you...but wait...what's this? After flicking through music channels there's a blonde hedgehog singing words that only you understand. You and a million other mini mosher teeny boppers. But then once you grow up and start mingling with the rock crowd, you hear of other bands of the rock/metal genre and whoosh - you're off into a better world of musicdom.

my mom used to play tapes me of the carpenters when i was really young.....

asian-pop, air-supply, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Queens...and practically what being played on the radio for my teen years. horrible but outdated music seems to be what i liked.

Now apart from being a claxxical guy, Greendays, All American Rejects, The beautiful south, Jason Mraz etc.

I have a large collection of CDs, 95% of it is no good. It is all mostly what was popular at the time through the mid-90s, and I don't listen to the majority of it at all anymore. The following is the comprehensive list of everything I regret that I bought or asked for.

I have Tool's first four CDs and I never got into them.
I have Sum 41's first album. It's OK, I guess? For a mid-90s pop-punk album?
I have The Offspring's Americana. Ditto.
Ahaha, I have DMX. Mid-90s rap. This will be a recurring theme.
Evanescence. I have their first two studio albums and their live album.
Audioslave. Holy shit they were overrated. Have two of their albums.
MUDVAYNE. FOUR ALBUMS.
Disturbed I still like a LITTLE. Two albums.
Will Smith. One album.
Mariah Carey. I respect her pre-Butterfly stuff still, but after that ehhhhhh.
Hole. rofl. One album.
Yeah, Limp Bizkit. All of it through Chocolate Starfish.
Christina Aguilera's first album.
Puddle of Mudd OMG can't stand their shit anymore. This will also be a recurring theme.
I have Shania Twain. I'd like to think I was drunk when I bought this. I was only 14, or whatever I was.
Nelly's first album. Again, mid-90s rap.
Nickelback. Four albums. If you're not rofling yet you should be.
Busta Rhymes. Two albums (not the first one).
Korn I still have a little respect for, particularly Follow the Leader.
Master P. Two albums.
Taproot. Two albums.
Creed. Four albums.
Yup Linkin Park. First two studio and their live albums.
Faith Evans. Another recurring theme here is mid-90s R&B.
Mya's first album. wtf
NAStradamus.
Brandy's second album.
Jennifer Lopez's first album.
Jewel's first two albums.
Metallica, Load and Reload only. And St. Anger.
Toni Braxton's first(?) album.
(I kinda regret getting Eminem's first two albums. Conflicted.)
The Space Jam soundtrack.
I have the first two Spice Girls albums. DAMN YOU ADOLESCENCE
Chevelle. Two albums.
THREE DAYS GRACE WTF
The Wild Wild West soundtrack.
WWF The Music Vols. 3 and 4. I have previously liked wrestling. I admit it.

I will now resolve my shame :emo:

(Good thing I've stuck to good, clean, dependable, never-gonna-change classic rock as the staple of my music diet. I refuse to get burned for purchasing shitty music ever again.)

I remember loving the song Informer by Snow :(

Why did you make this thread? Now i feel sad inside.

I'll go ahead and say Creed was probably the low point for me... my dad actually bought me their first album because that was one of the things on my Christmas list :-(. I proceeded to rip the rest of their albums from a friend who had the others, which I might have listened to a grand total of 2 times.

That's the only band that I hear and cringe completely... some of the others that I've seen people mention, I'll listen to on occasion (System of a Down's first couple of albums, Metallica, Whitesnake, etc.). I'm guilty of being able to sing along with some stuff by Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park -- but only because that was the 'radio' music from middle/high school. It was played to death, so the end result is I learned the lyrics.

I don't remember too much anomalies in my music listening history, since most of the stuff I still listen to, rather irregularly, though. There's this one band I sort of liked whenever I saw their music videos on the MTV, Linkin Park, which I wouldn't do even if someone paid me. They were sort of epic and I didn't really understand that the tracks were really cheesy. Mostly I liked the cool music videos.

I guess I haven't been much of a poser in any point in my youth.

I'm sort of embarrassed about still mostly liking Metallica's four first albums, only because of the complete shit they have been since 1991.

See, I don't understand what you mean by this. Just because you don't like what they've done since 1991 doesn't mean you should be embarrassed by the fact you really liked their earlier stuff. Don't be ashamed of what you like man!

I know a lot of people who love earlier works of bands but then ditch the band off because of their current work. I think that if you love something then you can carry on loving it despite what material you dislike from that band.

Agreed. I don't understand how you can dislike old stuff because they suck now. Nothing to be ashamed of really...it's music. At what point does a good song stop being a good song? It's independent of the band that makes it at that point, it's just music that's out there.

Unless you're so emotionally attached to your bands that listening to their old stuff just brings a tear to your eye...in which case, carry on soldier.

Yeah, I didn't explain it. Seems like timberworf completely misunderstood me too. Two scenarios usually rise from saying one likes Metallica. People usually reply with

-"WOW YOU LIKE METALLICA TOO. BLACK ALBUM IS SO AWESOME AND I TOTALLY LOVE RELOAD AND ST. ANGER." or

-"Such an overrated band. They're a total sellout."

Both cases would require me to explain further, which is pointless, since I don't care and people who reply with either of those are usually retarded. =( I'd like an easy cop-out from situations like that - no need to embarrass them further... unless the conversation happens on the Internet.

Maybe I read too much into things.

Yeah I try not to jump the gun when people tell me what kinda music they like, especially if they mention a band I love just incase they only like a particular album or something.

I'll leave out the stuff I was into waaay back then when the range of artists I knew of was pretty much non-existent and get straight to the good stuff, listed in order of increasing guilt.


Linkin Park: Fine. I admit I still have a soft spot for some of their songs, but for the most part, bleh.

Nickelback: This was before I heard most of their stuff. Sure, I had a CD, but I didn't realize that all their CDs were essentially the same CD. I'm not gonna lie--their stuff makes good radio music. But honestly, it doesn't matter which song you throw on. It's essentially the same thing, and quite frankly, it gets annoying after a while.

3 Days Grace: What was I even thinking. I'm thinking of changing "I Hate Everything About You" to "I Hate Everything About Me" while smashing my head between the two halves of a wafflemaker.

Within Temptation: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Major lapse of judgment on my part.

And then there were various J-whatever groups. T.M. Revolution? Heart of Sword will always have a place in my heart (lollol), but seriously. D: This wasn't too long ago either, I don't think. I was also debating Evanescence, but I don't think I regret that. Listening to some of her stuff now, I'm taken aback by the style, since I'm into more classic rock or mellowed out songs now, but I still like it. There's something that keeps Evanescence from falling to a generic gothic pit of doom.

Nothing wrong with Within Temptation! :edgarrock:

Mock me if you want...they've got some good stuff!

So I came across a binder full of old CDs, let's take a look shall we?

The Offspring - Americana: Fuck you all, I still enjoy this.
Coldplay - Parachutes: Well, at least I can say I don't remember ever buying this.
POD - Satellite: Umm... I guess I got this for 'alive'.
The Sopranos - Music from the HBO Original Series: No idea how I got a hold of this.
Nickeback - Silver Side Up: I think my dad gave me this :(
Oakenfold - Oslo: Ugh
Metallica - Master of Puppets: The only metallica album I ever liked.
Third Eye Blind - Self Titled.: I think I got this for 'jumper'.
Incubus - Make yourself: I liked the songs at the time, but as time passed it became apparent this was mediocre through and through.
Nelly Furtado - Woah Nelly: Behold the power of marketing.
Jewel - Pieces of You: No idea how I got a hold of this either.
Tomb Raider - Music from the Motion Picture - This was a birthday gift years ago.
Stabbing Westward - Self Titled: Its weird. At the time I liked it... but now its like... ugh.
Soul Coughing - Self Titled: This was actually found. On the sidewalk. Take that as you will.

Most of this stuff I don't listen to anymore, save for the Offspring and Metallica. I wonder if any of these CDs are worth anything at a pawn shop.

Perhaps sadly, I'm still listening to the same artists I was five-ten years ago. (James Newton Howard, James Horner, Hans Zimmer....)

I just never grew out of the soundtracks and classical music I got into as a preteen. Probably never will. My musical tastes are pretty simple.

Classical is one of those things that I find would be hard to grow OUT of really. I've only appreciated it more as I've gotten older. Which makes sense to me I guess...

That said I HAVE grown out of some the scores I used to like, or at least, listen to them much less now.

Such as?

Used to be obsessed with a few scores to some anime shows being the little anime nerd I was, which now still get some listens but not nearly as much. Some films soundtracks as well...I'll admit this now so it's in the open:

I used to listen to the Top Gun soundtrack all the time. Does that make me sad? Well...maybe a little. But we all need a little 80's cheese in our lives. Don't you think?

SPICE UP YOUR LIFE

I still own Spice World.
I was Posh Spice in our third grade version of the Spice Girls.
I went to a Back Street Boys Concert.
I sang to "My Heart Will Go On" at full blast.

God, elementary school was fun.

I somewhere still have my first cd...

Josie and the Pussycats sountrack.

That was a killer soundtrack wasn't it?! I also had the pokemon movie soundtrack, same year I bought my first System of a Down cd.

KILLER TIMES, OH YEAH.

Yeah, but that means you have the comedic gold that is the Pokemon rap...so it's not all a loss!


Just as an added note...this made me smile.

for me it was oldies till i was 12 then i got into rock/hard rock thanks to a radio station b102.7, later when i tried listening to oldies again i found no more enjoyment in it well except for the song "rockin robin", lol

During the late 90's, early 00's I got into some awesome stuff like britney, xtina, bsb, nsync... but then I got older... and I still like listening to it. Oh well, I also like "good" music, I just still like the awful pop stuff too. Is that so bad?

Nothing wrong with a little cheesy pop in your life I always say. As long as it's balanced out with something else...but even then, we all see the appeal of cheesy pop. Some of us are just too pretentious to realize it. >_>

I used to be obsessed with Aqua during my early teen years....and now its time to cringe lolz ^_^

I used to listen to Britney spears and backstreetboys alot when I was younger, I still like some songs of Linkin park, I don't know why so many people feel ashamed they liked those songs.