"I don't listen to music for the nostalgia"

I'll be completely honest I've lost touch with music as I'm getting older.

I don't really actively search for good music anymore, if I like any kind of present day music its usually and completely by accident.

The majority of the music I listen to is stuff that I grew up as a teenager and video game music. To a lot of people my music tastes usually get mocked because for the most part I listen to a lot of 80's light rock, 90's dance music, ambient, trance, techno, house, and classical from time to time.

I guess the way I see it a lot of music can be absolutely timeless, and it doesn't have to be listened the moment it comes out to be truly appreciated. Its only been recently within the last few years I've been listening to Segovia only because a guy I shared my office with when I was working as an environmental monitor was playing it in the background and immediately took a liking to it.

When it comes to video games, I can't really think of any video game music I actually listen to from the 8 bit and 16 bit era except the odd exception such as Chrono Trigger and a few select others.

My interest in video game music really took off during the ps1 era and even know I still listen to a lot of music from the ps1 era not necessarily because of nostalgia but its because the music is powerful and actually very pleasant to listen to.

Yasunori Mitsuda will always remain my favorite video game composer of all time. I can simply listen to these tracks at any time.

Omen - Xenogears
Bond of Sea and Fire - Xenogears
Radical Dreamers - Chrono Cross
Garden of God - Chrono Cross

I don't think I'll ever outgrow video game music, because even though I never want to pretend I'm a music expert, I know what I like and what I like is for the simplest reasons.

Nostalgia can be a very powerful feeling, and even though I'm in my early 30's I'm starting to have the mentality that everything back in my day was better. I've come to realize is that the things I've liked younger can still be things I enjoy now not necessarily because of nostalgia but maybe because the things I appreciated is what I consider quality.

Jam it back in, in the dark.