Early 90s eurohouse and/or hiphouse. I listened and still listen to many genres, but the kind of music I refer to, is not even worth being a guilty pleasure.
My grandfather loved country and western. I loved my grandfather, I loathe country and western (at least if they could play the fcuking track at 45 not 16 rpm … yes, I know it says 16, it doesn’t mean that hopefully … please god).
Long story short. Physical pain is a good distraction tool. JS.
Same video I think, but yeah I’ve never been an ICP fan but I would def go to the dark carnival if I had the opportunity just for the experience and people watching.
Well it used to be slipknot/KoRn/Limp Bizkit etc etc, but now nu metal is cool with all the zoomers, so I’m no longer embarrassed of being a nu metal kid. It’s been pretty cool to reconnect with that stuff without fear! Tbh there are a lot of KoRn tracks that slap, and you can hear their influence in a lot of the underground metal music I listen to. The band chat pile that’s pretty popular right now cites KoRn as an influence. Limp Bizkit is still preeeeeetty fuckin bad though. I fuck with some tracks off of 3 Dollar Bill Y’all$, but so much of it is just corny as hell. System of a Down was always considered dope so they don’t count
Hahaha Ive had Blind stuck in my head for like 3 days. I stopped listening to them when I was still in highschool but have dabbled in the past year or two and it’s such a good nostalgia hit
Loved this stuff back in the day as well. I still do. I got to see Slipknot live at a festival a few years back and they put on one of the more impressive shows I’ve seen.
Hahaha damn you roasted them so hard. True I guess I don’t see too many people repping them, I just know they played Madison Square Garden with Scowl, though, so I assumed it’s what you whippersnappers are into
I just saw Korn live for the first time last year and it was a great show. They played a lot of their old stuff and really made me appreciate some of the early albums again. Don’t care for their new music much, but then again and don’t like most new music. I prefer stuff I already know. Must be an age thing.
It’s not as old as some are suggesting but I used to non-ironically listen to pink guy, the musical spin off of Filthy Frank. Not my proudest moment but I guess I still follow George Miller because I listen to Joji. Very different vibe now.
I’m curious what old songs you might be thinking of? I was a wannabe raver in middle school and an actual one at the end of highschool lol. I may know what’s up
It’s hard to remember song names, because most EDM tracks are non-lyrical.
For example in dubstep, most trends age poorly.
Skrillex- inspired stuff or “Zomboy - Terror Squad” copycats sound really oversaturated nowadays. Even “hip and cool” commercials made some bootleg versions of “Ruffneck Bass” and “Equinox” from Skrillex.
Also samples and sound design from many EDM tracks 10+ years ago feel really unoriginal from a modern listener’s perspective.
There are obviously also a lot of exeptions. Old stuff from “Tha Trickaz”, “Savant”, “Xilent” etc etc all still hold up imo.
Lol aw man I’m definitely getting old; I remember when Skrillex came out and kinda ruined the genre tbh, it was so totally different when it first emerged, it actually sounded like dub. So I’m not familiar with any of those guys, they were after my time.
I think it probably depends on the listener but yeah, if I try to listen to most mid 80s hip hop, it’s so rudimentary that it’s really hard for me to a tuslly get into. Like Run DMC, or NWA. I can get into NWA but the novelty runs out quickly so I can only listen to them very rarely. But there are a lot of newer bands that I hear and say “I’ve already heard x y and z do this better” so it’s hard to get excited about new stuff too. If you are a really avid music listener I think it has to take something exceptional coming out to really get impressed by
I used to worship at the altar of Smashing Pumpkins. Some (though not all) of their stuff holds up pretty good still, I think. They’re good at concepts and imagery. Er, were. Teargarden by Kaleidyscope was kinda the last thing of theirs I bothered with, and I’d started to fall off well before that, too. **Shame level 3/10 **just because I was obsessive about deep-diving every single one of their tracks (from their first few albums anyway).
I was gonna say Linkin Park at first blush, and would have followed through with that, except that just a couple of weeks ago I played through Hybrid theory and thought “y’know, this isn’t my style of music anymore but it’s not bad, not bad at all.” Still, the supposed emotional resonance I had with them puts this at Shame Level 4/10 because, looking back as an adult, most of them are pretty pandering towards angsty teens. Shame Level 4/10
Felt the same about Weird Al. I mean, okay, I cringe at how UPROARIOUS and CLEVER and SUBVERSIVE I thought he was as a kid, but the music is fine for what it is and I feel it accomplishes what he, as an artist, set out to do. And while corny it’s not quite cringy. Shame level 4.5/10
Glenn Miller and other mid-20th-century big-band/swing stuff. Not bad on the face of it, really - still good, in fact, if that’s your thing. But as with the others, the reasoning behind them is the reasoning for the Shame Level 6/10 - yes, I segued into your typical fedora-tipping “le gentleman” Humphrey Bogart wannabe around 2007-2009. Urgh. At least it was before the REAL BIG WAVE of that swept over the Internet and everyone was doing it.
Testament is perhaps my greatest shame since I was desperately trying to become a metalhead but really didn’t care for their music all that much? I figured if I listened to it enough times it’d eventually just all click. NOPE. But I kept on with that for several years. Shame level 8/10. Throw Metallica (esp. Death Magnetic, which I slavishly adored) and your other typical Guitar Hero RAWK EDITION tracks that your typical identity-less 00’s teen woulda latched onto. You get the picture. (Slight redemption: I did discover Gamma Ray through this phase and, as with Smashing Pumpkins above, I relistened the album Heading for Tomorrow and honestly really appreciate the positive/happy/hopeful messages in songs like Heaven Can Wait. A bright little happy diamond among a genre inundated with DEATH AND PAIN AND SUFFERING IS ALL THERE IS.", and it helped me kinda realize that “hey, you don’t gotta be all doom and gloom all the time, man. Light only shines where you let it in.”
Dragged down by some of their other stuff which is weirdly Christian-leaning (nothing wrong with that, nor their spin on it, since it’s not all in your face) and anti-government (which I think they did more as a concept album than anything else, but), which I ran with all the way into the conspiracy-idiot hole for a few years. IT’S THE JEWS MAN. Ugh. GREATEST SHAME. 11/10 (but that’s on me for how I interpreted and interacted with their artwork, not really the art itself)
DLC: Why did I like I My Me Mine so much? I’d blast it everywhere as a teen because I saw it on the Gaia Online profile of some lolsorandumb e-girl – not that we had the term then. Probably just to annoy people.
Speaking of pre-e-girls, there was this other online girl whom I was head over heels with who really liked the uh…weirdly soft “let me fill this emotional void of yours” sort of music, from bands like The Spill Canvas and Jason Mraz and Owl City. OUCH but I didn’t need to remember that, but I did, and I’m putting it down here at the deepest circle of hell.
Here's one out of my many "what was I thinking?" moments, this one from the eighties: A friend had this album that I taped and often listened to for at least a few months.
Andreas Vollenweider... "New Age" music with a harp at the front and center.
But now if I want to feel the spiritual and connectedness, I much prefer something like Van Morrison's Astral Weeks (I see your username and salute!), or John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Stuff that challenges as it illuminates.
Musically, I've always been an enthusiastic searcher and have yet to stop delving, decades later.
One album that was tagged as New Age in the 80s that I still listen to every day - I use it for stretching before meditation - is Brian Eno's Music For Airports.
In the 80s, Ambient and New Age were clumped together uneasily but we didn't know better, until Techno came along and Ambient instantly found its' proper, logical home.
For a taste of some of the sound of groups like Wyndham Hill or Mannheim Steamroller - every element of rock n roll completely absent, a bit of medieval vibe wafting throughout - I now prefer a band like Pentangle.
There's one song I'd like to recommend to you at this moment - I can't get it out of my mind right now as I write - I discovered it about a year ago thanks to fantastic UK music monthly Uncut Magazine, it is closer in spirit to Brian Eno and it may have shot all the way to my #1 favorite piece of music ever. Listen to it in a quiet place, or with headphones. Often. This piece has a way of unfurling differently every time you hear it.
This is great, I so rarely talk to anyone else who’s a fan of this music! Actually received a vinyl copy of Music for Airports as a gift a couple years ago, it’s a classic for certain. Also a big fan of Another Green World from Eno, but very different vibe. I will definitely give that song you recommended a listen here today!
Mumford and Sons. Their first few albums were unique, and a nice change from everything else. Then they turned around and shit on everyone that liked their music before turning into Coldplay
Their first few albums were already just generic folk pop but if they were your first generic folk pop band I can see it being a pretty novel sound. And I’ll agree that their earlier stuff was better than their later stuff, but it still wasn’t very good or very original
You know something about them that fucks with me? They’re British, not American. It’s not that I care that much, but considering the image of the band is based in American country makes it feel odd lol.
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