I used to listen to THIS?

Originally Posted by Muzza

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.

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...

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

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.

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

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

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

Originally Posted by Muzza

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.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

FELIPE NO

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

(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.)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I remember loving the song Informer by Snow

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Kishin

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.

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sian

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!

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Kishin

Yeah, I didn't explain it. 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.

FELIPE NO

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.

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Originally Posted by elwe

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

Nothing wrong with Within Temptation!

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

How ya doing, buddy?

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

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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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Timberwolf8889

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?

I was speaking idiomatically.

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?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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

Originally Posted by The_Melomane

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.

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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

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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?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.