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.

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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