Expiration dates are mere suggestions.

Sniffs

Nope, still good

Maybe stuff from middle school - sophmore year of high school. By junior and senior year I definitely evolved my musical taste. Definitely bands I still listen to somewhat frequently like Pavement, Wilco and Yo La Tengo as well as stuff i haven’t heard in 20 years but doesn’t make me cringe like Deathcab for Cutie, Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. On the other hand middle school self loving My Chemical Romance (super early in their career) yeah that makes me cringe and I would not enjoy whatso ever today.

Angst, ballin, and anger don’t make for great memberberries. Can’t listen to so much stuff I loved.

Yeah… One,two… princes kneel before you…

This comes back to the problem with old music: music didn’t get worse, you just remember the good or memorable songs. At any point since the Billboard charts have been created 70% of them is dross, 20% is mediocre, maybe 10% is good. Everybody remembers the good songs that survive because they are good, and some of the mediocre songs people relate to. Everybody forgets the dross.
But back then, that was what you listened to as well.

(Check out, e.g. the Billboard hot 100 for 1968 (or even just Hot 20): it had Hey Jude at position 1, Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay on 3, and Mrs Robinson on 9, but it also had, let’s see… 18 was Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela (which is good but it’s a trumpet instrumental), 2 was Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat (a schmaltzy melody, but it’s the second hottest song if 1968), and 7 is This Guy’s in Love with you by Herb Alpert)
(And you can do that with basically every year. I graduated in 2004, so what do we have there? Usher’s Yeah on 1 (I remember that), Usher’s Burn on 2 (no clue), Maroon 5 on 4 (this is one of those bands everybody seems to have struck out of their memory), Hey Ya by Outcast on 8, but their The Way you Move on 5 (definitely not a mainstay I would say), Nickelback is 17 (another band everybody pretends never to have listened to), but Twista’s Slow Jamz is 16 (who?) )

Replace “high school” with “you were 12” and then I agree.

Been listening to a lot of breakdowns of intro guitar riffs and synths from ‘80s and some ‘70s music. That shit is still awesome, especially seeing as so much of it was still brand new and experimental with the electronic side. Really hits the nostalgia button hard, though.

Um, okay, I’m pretty sure I’m still going to love Dashboard Confessional.

Totally off base! … Except for Hollywood undead.

Been really getting into playing drums on Clone Hero recently and it’s given me a chance to rediscover so many songs that I haven’t thought about in years.

Hey, I grew up in the 90s. That shit still rocks.

Honestly, the more I go back to songs I “didn’t like” or were “played too often and ruined” and sit down with a good pair of headphones to give them a real chance, I’m regularly surprised to find how much of the spirit was originally lost by listening to those songs always on the radio not of my own free will.

Good examples are things like Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap or Days Go By by Dirty Vegas.

They’re songs that have likely played in commercials or movies or just on the radio that now I can’t get enough of simply because I can hear all the extra sound in it now.

Object.

Not funny.

Songs I listened to in high school remain excellent.

Some of the old hip hop was pretty homophobic.