I'll never understand this. I'm 40 and I'm still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly most new releases than anything 5+ years old.
Of course I understand everyone has "their thing" and music happens to be my thing, so I understand the additional interest in my case, but the alternative just seems so damn boring to me...
Same. When I was a teen, I heard that your music tastes settle by the time you're 27. I thought, "Well, I'm not letting that happen to me!". I decided to learn to at least appreciate, if not enjoy, every genre of music i encountered. 25 years later and I'm still discovering and enjoying new music almost every day.
So by the time you were 27, you settled on at least appreciating, if not enjoying, every genre of music you encounter and discovering and enjoying new music almost every day. They were right!
80s synth is pretty broad, so let me give you two fairly different recommendations and see where you land with them. First off, I'm gonna reach back a little bit to 2020 to recommend 'Monsters' by The Midnight, a great album by a great band:
But if you're talking the more kind of pop-influenced, singer/songwriter side of 80s synth, I'm actually gonna recommend a really small release to you, 'It Ain't Too Late For One More Ride' by indie musician Calvero:
I do consider myself a bit of a music buff and I listen to an incredibly broad range of genres and styles, but I will confess that rave music isn't one of my specialties. But a couple quick recommendations that might fall in the same rough proximity:
First off I dig the chillout beach party vibes of some of the tracks by artist "elsaaa" on Spotify, mostly the songs on the top of her popular section:
If you just want some fun dance music that's very modern, and you have any openness to metal, may I recommend a few tracks by the very excellent and very fun Electric Callboy, with the caveat that this is not rave music and may potential be a stretch for you:
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO Version):
Again, these are just quick top of mind recommendations, so if they don't hit for you or you want more recommendations, let me know and I can think on it a bit longer. But if you do check any of it out, feel free to let me know what you think!
Thats a brilliant list thanks so kuch for taking the time to do that! How have I never heard Scowl before??? That's added to my library excellent recommendation. I REALLY like electric callboy I was hooked right away. I like some of ARMNHMR as well. Synth music I've not described very well it's things like timecop83, wolfclub, betamax, prize... it's the fast cheerful stuff I like eg all we live for. It's a kinda unusual style!
My pleasure! I love talking music so I'm happy for any excuse.
And okay, now that I understand we're talking like retro vocal synthwave, I have some better recommendations!
My first recommendation immediately came to mind, but I'm gonna be honest and say that the best part of this recommendation does extend past the 5yr guideline I alluded to in my original comment, so you'll have to excuse that. She's still an active artist, but her recent work has been as features or a 2020 album collab with a more aggressive synth artist that probably isn't what you're looking for. But anyway, I definitely recommend Dana Jean Phoenix if you haven't heard her yet!
Start here, the opener title track of 'Le Mirage' is an absolute banger than I think is totally gonna work for you:
If you're open to slightly darker/heavier synth stuff, 'Megawave' is the collab album I mentioned above with artist Powernerd, and I think it's pretty groovy:
Beyond Dana Jean Phoenix, here are some other artists I'd recommend but with less specific recommendations (probably just listen to their popular songs to get a feel):
Summerdrive is not this sound exactly, but they're kind of synthwave meets clean pop so you might dig them (The Midnight who I previously recommended also sit in this space, but they're a little jazzier):
And finally Gunship are also not this sound exactly, but rather sort of what you'd get if you mixed that synthwave sound with 80s hard rock, and it's goddamn glorious (I love Gunship):
Mate you're absolutely bang on the mark!!! I've just spent half an hour listening to them. Le Mirage is amazing and modern fairytale is so good I've played it twice already! Gunship is truly glorious I particularly like monster in paradise and can't wait to listen to more. I like Nina and Summer drive too, there's some real wins in their stuff. Honestly thanks so much you've made my day! Really excited 😃
Hey mate! I'm doing 2 quizzes next week for charity and I'd like to have a music round where I play the first 10 seconds of a song and people guess it. I need to find songs that people might know without being too obvious, and I can only think of a couple. Do you have any ideas?
I'm about to go on a trip so I only have a brief moment to answer this, I'm sorry, but here are some quick picks without having more context to go on:
fairly obvious:
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
Ain't It Fun by Paramore
Raspberry Beret by Prince
Meant to Live by Switchfoot
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean
Stop by the Spice Girls
Super Bass by Nicki Minaj
I Believe In a Thing Called Love by The Darkness
Here It Goes Again by OK Go
Electric Feel by MGMT
less obvious:
Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash
All My Life by K-Ci & JoJo
Ever Fallen in Love by the Buzzcocks
Maniac by Conan Gray
Closer by Tegan and Sara
I Need a Dollar by Aloe Blacc
Disco Man by Remi Wolf
Them Changes by Thundercat
Cocoa Butter Kisses by Chance the Rapper
Swing Life Away by Rise Against.
I tried to not give you anything too obscure, but if these are too obvious or if you have a theme or direction to narrow the field I can think on it more and get back to you in a few days, probably.
edit:
I didn't think too much about the first 10 seconds part admittedly again due to limited time, so some of these may be better to play 10 seconds a later section of the song if you're open to that.
I listen to way more than when I was a teenager now. Probably not a genre out there now without something I appreciate in it.
I wasn't gonna listen to music that everyone around me said was rubbish, so I just stuck to the genres of my friend groups (first half of the 00s: so mostly indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn't exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)
I didn’t listen to much music for the better part of a decade, mostly because I wasn’t driving, then it occurred to me one day that I could start streaming it during a lot of the stuff I do. Probably doubled how much music knowledge I had in two years.
If you're into lo-fi maybe check out Nujabes, Japanese legend that is sometimes dubbed as the father of the genre even though it's decidedly different from the typical modern lo-fi style.
14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. Now, as a 34 year old man, I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.
Maybe because most people stop discovering new music because they're occupied with other stuff like jobs or having kids. And not because this music is deeply imprinted or such.
I'm still listening to SOME of what I like when I was a teeny, but 95% have shifted. Every decade I have a new favourite style. Went through rap, new age, opera, classical, heavy metal and currently black metal.
This is actually not true at all for me. My music tastes completely evolved and still are evolving. Sure, if I listen to some 08 pendulum I feel some nostalgia, but I also feel nostalgia for 2112 in the same way. I think music is a comfort food for a lot of people so they never stray from what they know, which is fine. But there's so much out there to find.
I agree. Now that I'm old, my tastes are finally starting to gel, but I'm still always looking for great new musical experiences. I've gravitated to LOTS of great music, and even entire new genres, that became a regular part of my listening long past 14.
I started playing the guitar again during the pandemic, after stopping for decades. Now I've become a good enough player, that most of the time, I'd rather just listen to my own self-played solo guitar music. That definitely wouldn't have been on my radar in my teens.
Not even a little bit true for me. I listened to pretty much only country at 14 and I don't listen to any country now, not even the stuff I liked then. By 16 I had switched to mostly rock & alternative. I will still listen to that occasionally, mostly for nostalgia, but it isn't on any of my playlists. I suspect most everything on my regular playlists came out after I was 30, but it continues to shift forward over time. I suspect eventually most of my current playlist will age out too.
I listen to almost everything except what I listened at 14. At some point I figured out my peers had terrible musical taste and I started listening to what I actually enjoy.
While I still like most of the music I did at age 14, I continue to find new music I like. I don't discard much. If I liked it at one point I usually still like it.
My musical tastes have changed dramatically through my life. I think that if you are still listening to the same thing as when you were 14 and now you're 40, you're probably lacking curiosity.
I still have all my old music from high school. I very occasionally go back and listen to it but not really.
I've found myself looking up music that came out when I was a teenager that I didn't really listen to. I do not care about present day pop music. I didn't really then, either. My tastes have often been unstuck in time, in high school I got into Bon Jovi but not Bounce or Have A Nice Day, I went out and bought a copy of Slippery When Wet. The album they released while I was a zygote.
I don't listen to the radio, not the broadcast bands anyway, I'm not really exposed to a lot of new music, and I've kind of stopped caring.
I'm the same. I never really cared for pop music and really focus on older Jazz, cultural/folk/world, and classical music.
I don't think that you're stuck, but you probably don't get your music from the same places that the masses get it from. That's fine, you're doing your own thing.
Sometimes I can get a moment of nostalgia hearing music from high school, but I wasn't so much into it at the time and I am also not convinced that all of us has aged well.
A lot of people are happy enough inside their comfort zone, they're likely to die there. The people that say they haven't made good music since the XX's probably haven't spent much time searching for music they'd like.
Also here to brag about how my musical taste never stopped evolving. If I stayed stuck at 14 I'd still be a metalhead but I barely listen to any these days, meanwhile I've been through many more phases, I keep the bands and songs I loved most from each phase and add it to the pile. Also as I stack up the years my tastes gravitate towards lower and lower BPM and energy levels. By the time I'm 70 I'll probably only listen to drumless ambient drones or whatever.
I think it depends on the year. In my 14th year, there were relatively few bangers. There were a lot more ballads back then, and they've aged poorly.
I predate digital music, I listened to the radio, but only had so many tapes, so I didn't get to hear what I wanted all the time. What I did get to hear where those ballads over and over.
I only listened to rock and metal back then. I can now appreciate R&B and Country from back then, but I don't get nostalgic from it.
It ain't me, sis/bro. I might occasionally find a song to loop for a while, but in general I hate when things play on repeat. Always searching for something new.
Heres some YouTube channels to find music on
Strange Music Inc
Epitaph Records
Spinnin' Records
Nuclear Blast Records
CloudKid
Fueled By Ramen
Metropolis Records
XKitoMusic
MrMoMMusic
MonstercatUncaged
Rock Montage
Cleopatra Records
and if you don't have a YT Alternative who can play all uploads then here's an extension for it by Catbraaain, but you do have to navigate to the uploads tab to see it.
Does grunge / alternative rock still exist as a genre in any significant way? It never even occurred to me to look if there's still new stuff coming out in that style.
I like to listen to oldies from time to time, when I'm in the mood. However, it's usually just a temporary phase from time to time. Though I find it funny that someone mentioned "Semi-charmed life" in another comment because that song has popped in my head a number of times in the past month or so for no discernible reason at all. Sometimes when that happens it's because I heard a song in a movie or TV show, so that makes sense, but I don't believe that applies to that song.
It does, and almost feels like there's a resurgence of it to me. But maybe I'm just seeing it for the first time. Went to a show with Stand Atlantic, Magnolia Park, and The Home Team and they nail that alt rock vibe pretty well while still adding modern touches. And I found that just looking at local shows at moderately sized venues near me.
Nope. Once on a while I might listen to it out of nostalgia’s sake. Otherwise it’s churning through a bunch of garbage on spotify trying to find something decent. My other half otoh is constantly listening to our high school year’s music. It’s all the same, it’s the same top songs from the charts from the same top bands, over and over… I can’t handle the repetition.
For unknown reasons, this song has been a brain worm for me for like the past month or so. I cannot explain why. Like sometimes oldies will play in a show or movie I watched, so it makes sense why I'm suddenly thinking about it. But this one? I think it just popped up on its own. And now to see it in a random comment on Lemmy --- WILD.
I still have nostalgia for stuff I listened to at 14. But I would say my music tastes solidified more around the age of 25. Fairly broad tastes in music depending on my mood. It's easier to list bands and music I hate than everything I like. I suspect a lot of people are the same.
Pretty sure this isn't true for most people. I don't listen to anything that I did as a teenager anymore. Sure, if I do hear some song from back then it's nostalgic and I do put on a song now and then, mostly at parties when the topic comes up or you know others there would like it but it's very much not part of my daily listening. And I feel the same kind of nostalgia for things I listened to in my 20s that aren't part of my current tastes. But I never put on whole albums or playlists of just bands and songs from then.
I'm certain that most of the music I listen to now would have been liked by my teenage self though, just hadn't explored and expanded my taste and knowledge as much.
And I feel people who only listen to stuff from their teens are kinda sad and I feel bad for them, they certainly have some trauma or other issues that make them stick to that and never want to explore both new music and themselves in what they might discover they like.
My daughter listens to music while brushing teeth as a form of pleasant timer. We have been through the entire Weird Al discography (but had to listen to a few of the longer ones when not brushing teeth). Teenage me would approve.
I listened to exclusively pop radio country, contemporary christian music of the 90s, and classical.
I'll still indulge a little outlaw country now and then, but now it's a wide and eclectic variety of everything from black metal to experimental electronica, from Croatian street musicians to African folk songs, and nearly anything else someone suggests to me. Much of the music I liked as a teen now gets stuck in my head as part of my trauma.
Starve your curious kid of taste and when they're an adult, they may want a bite of everything.
I still have love for 3 Dollar Bill Yall and Life is Peachy. But I don't touch numetal as a genre at all anymore. Once I started to get into Staind and Disturbed or just hearing Nookie.. no thanks. An older friend introduced me to Ska and Punk and I'm so glad he did.
My music taste has expanded and changed quite a bit since I was in HS. Some of the things I liked then still hold up, but I would NOT have liked the things I do now when I was in highschool.
Some of the music I liked in my teens still sounds great. But definitely not all of it. Most of the music I love now would have been completely unavailable to me in the 70s and 80s. It took streaming music and algorithms to introduce me to the music of West Africa. So many amazing musicians in that part of the world, and I never even knew it existed.
I absolutely still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. There was a period in my young adulthood where I absolutely hated all popular music. However, that period passed. I'm now in my mid-30s and find even those songs enjoyable. I don't know if it's maturity, the improvement in my mental health, having access to anti-depressants, or a mix of the above.
I listen to stuff from the early 90s to remember my youth, for instance the first school trip I listened to a tape with Twenty 4 Seven - Street Moves when I got homesick.
Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn't care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.
There is only one artist I listen to, that being Aleksi Perälä.
Colundi is an alternative tuning scale, not a genre of music. There are other artists out there making music with Colundi frequencies, but Perälä is the pioneer.
If you like jungle drums and sonic experimentation, check out his Midnight Sun project.
If you like acid techno, check out his Northern Lights project under the Ovuca namesake.
If you like ambient techno, check out the Colundi Sequence.
If you like breakbeat-fueled IDM, check out Sunshine, Starlight, and Moonshine.
He has lots more music, but I haven’t listened to it yet.
I feel like I’d be embarrassed to still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. 14 year old me didn’t have terrible taste, but goddamn there has been so much music since. I’m nearing 40 and I’m still finding new and more interesting or challenging music to listen to
I can't even listen to the music I liked 2 years ago. There's this brazillian genre called funk that I really like mainly because it's keep evolving pretty fast.
This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.
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I'll never understand this. I'm 40 and I'm still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly most new releases than anything 5+ years old.
Of course I understand everyone has "their thing" and music happens to be my thing, so I understand the additional interest in my case, but the alternative just seems so damn boring to me...
They’re just nostalgic.
Same. When I was a teen, I heard that your music tastes settle by the time you're 27. I thought, "Well, I'm not letting that happen to me!". I decided to learn to at least appreciate, if not enjoy, every genre of music i encountered. 25 years later and I'm still discovering and enjoying new music almost every day.
Love to hear it. No plans to slow down on my side either 🤘✌
So by the time you were 27, you settled on at least appreciating, if not enjoying, every genre of music you encounter and discovering and enjoying new music almost every day. They were right!
I like 90s grunge/alternative, modern 80s style synth music and rave music. Anything to recommend? You sound like a music buff
Sure, if you don't mind some random top of mind recommendations.
For 90s alt/grunge fans, I definitely recommend the latest album by Scowl, 'Are We All Angels':
https://open.spotify.com/album/0zDdwRsOg2sVvOFpjEOtHs
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/scowl/are-we-all-angels/
80s synth is pretty broad, so let me give you two fairly different recommendations and see where you land with them. First off, I'm gonna reach back a little bit to 2020 to recommend 'Monsters' by The Midnight, a great album by a great band:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1WKMbxcldmwnXaCIGgEpUW
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-midnight/monsters/
But if you're talking the more kind of pop-influenced, singer/songwriter side of 80s synth, I'm actually gonna recommend a really small release to you, 'It Ain't Too Late For One More Ride' by indie musician Calvero:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6i5MYveOM35x8twOhfpYim
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/calvero/it-aint-too-late-for-one-more-ride/
I do consider myself a bit of a music buff and I listen to an incredibly broad range of genres and styles, but I will confess that rave music isn't one of my specialties. But a couple quick recommendations that might fall in the same rough proximity:
First off I dig the chillout beach party vibes of some of the tracks by artist "elsaaa" on Spotify, mostly the songs on the top of her popular section:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0l9ymNLUakebec39MWLAuE
I also like a bit of ARMNHMR, but they're not super new so if you're into EDM/rave music you may already know them:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0P2bZXPyjHYRW4guHVAFl1
If you just want some fun dance music that's very modern, and you have any openness to metal, may I recommend a few tracks by the very excellent and very fun Electric Callboy, with the caveat that this is not rave music and may potential be a stretch for you:
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO Version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBXeF5acqE
Electric Callboy - PUMP IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzkhQsmSag
Electric Callboy - WE GOT THE MOVES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NdGBldg3w
Again, these are just quick top of mind recommendations, so if they don't hit for you or you want more recommendations, let me know and I can think on it a bit longer. But if you do check any of it out, feel free to let me know what you think!
Thats a brilliant list thanks so kuch for taking the time to do that! How have I never heard Scowl before??? That's added to my library excellent recommendation. I REALLY like electric callboy I was hooked right away. I like some of ARMNHMR as well. Synth music I've not described very well it's things like timecop83, wolfclub, betamax, prize... it's the fast cheerful stuff I like eg all we live for. It's a kinda unusual style!
My pleasure! I love talking music so I'm happy for any excuse.
And okay, now that I understand we're talking like retro vocal synthwave, I have some better recommendations!
My first recommendation immediately came to mind, but I'm gonna be honest and say that the best part of this recommendation does extend past the 5yr guideline I alluded to in my original comment, so you'll have to excuse that. She's still an active artist, but her recent work has been as features or a 2020 album collab with a more aggressive synth artist that probably isn't what you're looking for. But anyway, I definitely recommend Dana Jean Phoenix if you haven't heard her yet!
Start here, the opener title track of 'Le Mirage' is an absolute banger than I think is totally gonna work for you:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3NuANBUmoNZH5x2BZzXSQV
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana_jean_phoenix/le_mirage/
2018 album 'PixelDust' is probably overall the better album but it doesn't have a mega-banger like the track 'Le Mirage':
https://open.spotify.com/album/1vJClfLqAeNTyAHbv5sqWN
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana-jean-phoenix/pixeldust/
If you're open to slightly darker/heavier synth stuff, 'Megawave' is the collab album I mentioned above with artist Powernerd, and I think it's pretty groovy:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ft0lmyttvgoCrja0jAI0Q
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana-jean-phoenix-powernerd/megawave/
Beyond Dana Jean Phoenix, here are some other artists I'd recommend but with less specific recommendations (probably just listen to their popular songs to get a feel):
NINA - very similar space to Dana Jean Phoenix:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/31KAV0Dg1UNmnfSmvLT2XG
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/nina_f11
Summerdrive is not this sound exactly, but they're kind of synthwave meets clean pop so you might dig them (The Midnight who I previously recommended also sit in this space, but they're a little jazzier):
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RASv130lmR8GyP0EcQLjJ
And finally Gunship are also not this sound exactly, but rather sort of what you'd get if you mixed that synthwave sound with 80s hard rock, and it's goddamn glorious (I love Gunship):
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PALZKWkpwjRvBsRmhlVSS
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/gunship
And if I'm still off the mark, hit me with another example :P
And now I've listened to modern fairytale three times and I'm just sorry it's not four
Mate you're absolutely bang on the mark!!! I've just spent half an hour listening to them. Le Mirage is amazing and modern fairytale is so good I've played it twice already! Gunship is truly glorious I particularly like monster in paradise and can't wait to listen to more. I like Nina and Summer drive too, there's some real wins in their stuff. Honestly thanks so much you've made my day! Really excited 😃
I'm so glad you dig the picks! Happy to help, feel free to ask me about music anytime ✌
Hey mate! I'm doing 2 quizzes next week for charity and I'd like to have a music round where I play the first 10 seconds of a song and people guess it. I need to find songs that people might know without being too obvious, and I can only think of a couple. Do you have any ideas?
I'm about to go on a trip so I only have a brief moment to answer this, I'm sorry, but here are some quick picks without having more context to go on:
fairly obvious:
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
Ain't It Fun by Paramore
Raspberry Beret by Prince
Meant to Live by Switchfoot
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean
Stop by the Spice Girls
Super Bass by Nicki Minaj
I Believe In a Thing Called Love by The Darkness
Here It Goes Again by OK Go
Electric Feel by MGMT
less obvious:
Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash
All My Life by K-Ci & JoJo
Ever Fallen in Love by the Buzzcocks
Maniac by Conan Gray
Closer by Tegan and Sara
I Need a Dollar by Aloe Blacc
Disco Man by Remi Wolf
Them Changes by Thundercat
Cocoa Butter Kisses by Chance the Rapper
Swing Life Away by Rise Against.
I tried to not give you anything too obscure, but if these are too obvious or if you have a theme or direction to narrow the field I can think on it more and get back to you in a few days, probably.
edit:
I didn't think too much about the first 10 seconds part admittedly again due to limited time, so some of these may be better to play 10 seconds a later section of the song if you're open to that.
To add another real quick, they don't have any recent output, and they're frequently instrumental, but FM-84 might be up your alley too:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1xvEo98zythSrgN69GQevk
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/fm-84
Oooooh nice one! I just had a listen Everything is an absolute win
I listen to way more than when I was a teenager now. Probably not a genre out there now without something I appreciate in it.
I wasn't gonna listen to music that everyone around me said was rubbish, so I just stuck to the genres of my friend groups (first half of the 00s: so mostly indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn't exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)
I didn’t listen to much music for the better part of a decade, mostly because I wasn’t driving, then it occurred to me one day that I could start streaming it during a lot of the stuff I do. Probably doubled how much music knowledge I had in two years.
I’ve expanded my music library by quite a bit since then, but the core sounds remain largely the same.
The innovation of lo-fi though has been pretty sick.
If you're into lo-fi maybe check out Nujabes, Japanese legend that is sometimes dubbed as the father of the genre even though it's decidedly different from the typical modern lo-fi style.
not op but thank u! i love this <3
The music is amazing, enjoy. There is also the anime Samurai Champloo where he made the soundtrack, also highly recommend.
No wonder that music always gets me bumping! Thanks for the info!
14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. Now, as a 34 year old man, I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.
The metal head to swifty pipeline
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Elliott smith and bright eyes? Great music but miss me with that shit. I’m done with mopey days of dwelling in sadness and misery.
Charli xcx and jpop? Hell yeah. The world is terrible but I can at least have fun when I listen to music
Maybe because most people stop discovering new music because they're occupied with other stuff like jobs or having kids. And not because this music is deeply imprinted or such.
I'm still listening to SOME of what I like when I was a teeny, but 95% have shifted. Every decade I have a new favourite style. Went through rap, new age, opera, classical, heavy metal and currently black metal.
This is actually not true at all for me. My music tastes completely evolved and still are evolving. Sure, if I listen to some 08 pendulum I feel some nostalgia, but I also feel nostalgia for 2112 in the same way. I think music is a comfort food for a lot of people so they never stray from what they know, which is fine. But there's so much out there to find.
I agree. Now that I'm old, my tastes are finally starting to gel, but I'm still always looking for great new musical experiences. I've gravitated to LOTS of great music, and even entire new genres, that became a regular part of my listening long past 14.
I started playing the guitar again during the pandemic, after stopping for decades. Now I've become a good enough player, that most of the time, I'd rather just listen to my own self-played solo guitar music. That definitely wouldn't have been on my radar in my teens.
Same here, i still have a backlog of music in my genre i have yet to fully explore, but i also do go back to old favourites for that nostalgia hit.
What a boring life that would be, damn.
Not even a little bit true for me. I listened to pretty much only country at 14 and I don't listen to any country now, not even the stuff I liked then. By 16 I had switched to mostly rock & alternative. I will still listen to that occasionally, mostly for nostalgia, but it isn't on any of my playlists. I suspect most everything on my regular playlists came out after I was 30, but it continues to shift forward over time. I suspect eventually most of my current playlist will age out too.
I listen to 100x more varied/different music than I used to listen to.
but I also listen to what I used to listen to.
I wouldn't brag about my music tastes not updating with new music.
I couldn't stand listening to the same 10 songs for years.
I listen to almost everything except what I listened at 14. At some point I figured out my peers had terrible musical taste and I started listening to what I actually enjoy.
Lol nah
While I still like most of the music I did at age 14, I continue to find new music I like. I don't discard much. If I liked it at one point I usually still like it.
My musical tastes have changed dramatically through my life. I think that if you are still listening to the same thing as when you were 14 and now you're 40, you're probably lacking curiosity.
I still have all my old music from high school. I very occasionally go back and listen to it but not really.
I've found myself looking up music that came out when I was a teenager that I didn't really listen to. I do not care about present day pop music. I didn't really then, either. My tastes have often been unstuck in time, in high school I got into Bon Jovi but not Bounce or Have A Nice Day, I went out and bought a copy of Slippery When Wet. The album they released while I was a zygote.
I don't listen to the radio, not the broadcast bands anyway, I'm not really exposed to a lot of new music, and I've kind of stopped caring.
I'm the same. I never really cared for pop music and really focus on older Jazz, cultural/folk/world, and classical music.
I don't think that you're stuck, but you probably don't get your music from the same places that the masses get it from. That's fine, you're doing your own thing.
Sometimes I can get a moment of nostalgia hearing music from high school, but I wasn't so much into it at the time and I am also not convinced that all of us has aged well.
A lot of people are happy enough inside their comfort zone, they're likely to die there. The people that say they haven't made good music since the XX's probably haven't spent much time searching for music they'd like.
Not everybody is like that. I didn't hear a lot of pop music until college, and didn't really develop my own taste until my 20s.
Also here to brag about how my musical taste never stopped evolving. If I stayed stuck at 14 I'd still be a metalhead but I barely listen to any these days, meanwhile I've been through many more phases, I keep the bands and songs I loved most from each phase and add it to the pile. Also as I stack up the years my tastes gravitate towards lower and lower BPM and energy levels. By the time I'm 70 I'll probably only listen to drumless ambient drones or whatever.
Lol, I started with rap and classic and am now a metalhead in my 50s 😁
When I was 14, "Zombie", by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.
I still go back occasionally but there's a lot more to listen. And I've discovered other genres since then.
I rarely listen to what 14 year old me listened to.
Mostly because many of my favorite groups hadn't formed yet 😅
Trauma Preserving is a nice name for a band.
But he said “persevering.”
I think it depends on the year. In my 14th year, there were relatively few bangers. There were a lot more ballads back then, and they've aged poorly.
I predate digital music, I listened to the radio, but only had so many tapes, so I didn't get to hear what I wanted all the time. What I did get to hear where those ballads over and over.
I only listened to rock and metal back then. I can now appreciate R&B and Country from back then, but I don't get nostalgic from it.
It ain't me, sis/bro. I might occasionally find a song to loop for a while, but in general I hate when things play on repeat. Always searching for something new.
Heres some YouTube channels to find music on
Strange Music Inc
Epitaph Records
Spinnin' Records
Nuclear Blast Records
CloudKid
Fueled By Ramen
Metropolis Records
XKitoMusic
MrMoMMusic
MonstercatUncaged
Rock Montage
Cleopatra Records
and if you don't have a YT Alternative who can play all uploads then here's an extension for it by Catbraaain, but you do have to navigate to the uploads tab to see it.
Who are these people
Are we just posting screenshots now?
Does grunge / alternative rock still exist as a genre in any significant way? It never even occurred to me to look if there's still new stuff coming out in that style.
I like to listen to oldies from time to time, when I'm in the mood. However, it's usually just a temporary phase from time to time. Though I find it funny that someone mentioned "Semi-charmed life" in another comment because that song has popped in my head a number of times in the past month or so for no discernible reason at all. Sometimes when that happens it's because I heard a song in a movie or TV show, so that makes sense, but I don't believe that applies to that song.
It does, and almost feels like there's a resurgence of it to me. But maybe I'm just seeing it for the first time. Went to a show with Stand Atlantic, Magnolia Park, and The Home Team and they nail that alt rock vibe pretty well while still adding modern touches. And I found that just looking at local shows at moderately sized venues near me.
I saw Magnolia Park a couple months ago, one of the coolest shows I've ever been to
Those are the oldies now.
This meme was written by a 19 year old
Nope. Once on a while I might listen to it out of nostalgia’s sake. Otherwise it’s churning through a bunch of garbage on spotify trying to find something decent. My other half otoh is constantly listening to our high school year’s music. It’s all the same, it’s the same top songs from the charts from the same top bands, over and over… I can’t handle the repetition.
False. I listened to nothing but classical, but now I listen to almost everything.
By that logic, I listen to "third eye blind, semicharmed life".
Just that one song though.
Just make sure you don't do a little crystal meth. It'll lift you up until you break.
For unknown reasons, this song has been a brain worm for me for like the past month or so. I cannot explain why. Like sometimes oldies will play in a show or movie I watched, so it makes sense why I'm suddenly thinking about it. But this one? I think it just popped up on its own. And now to see it in a random comment on Lemmy --- WILD.
I still have nostalgia for stuff I listened to at 14. But I would say my music tastes solidified more around the age of 25. Fairly broad tastes in music depending on my mood. It's easier to list bands and music I hate than everything I like. I suspect a lot of people are the same.
Add 7 years and I can see it.
Pretty sure this isn't true for most people. I don't listen to anything that I did as a teenager anymore. Sure, if I do hear some song from back then it's nostalgic and I do put on a song now and then, mostly at parties when the topic comes up or you know others there would like it but it's very much not part of my daily listening. And I feel the same kind of nostalgia for things I listened to in my 20s that aren't part of my current tastes. But I never put on whole albums or playlists of just bands and songs from then.
I'm certain that most of the music I listen to now would have been liked by my teenage self though, just hadn't explored and expanded my taste and knowledge as much.
And I feel people who only listen to stuff from their teens are kinda sad and I feel bad for them, they certainly have some trauma or other issues that make them stick to that and never want to explore both new music and themselves in what they might discover they like.
I didn't even start listening to music until I was already an adult.
My daughter listens to music while brushing teeth as a form of pleasant timer. We have been through the entire Weird Al discography (but had to listen to a few of the longer ones when not brushing teeth). Teenage me would approve.
I listened to exclusively pop radio country, contemporary christian music of the 90s, and classical.
I'll still indulge a little outlaw country now and then, but now it's a wide and eclectic variety of everything from black metal to experimental electronica, from Croatian street musicians to African folk songs, and nearly anything else someone suggests to me. Much of the music I liked as a teen now gets stuck in my head as part of my trauma.
Starve your curious kid of taste and when they're an adult, they may want a bite of everything.
I still have love for 3 Dollar Bill Yall and Life is Peachy. But I don't touch numetal as a genre at all anymore. Once I started to get into Staind and Disturbed or just hearing Nookie.. no thanks. An older friend introduced me to Ska and Punk and I'm so glad he did.
My music taste has expanded and changed quite a bit since I was in HS. Some of the things I liked then still hold up, but I would NOT have liked the things I do now when I was in highschool.
This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).
I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.
I did for a long time but have since moved on to listening to pretty much anything.
Tbh I don't think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.
Some of the music I liked in my teens still sounds great. But definitely not all of it. Most of the music I love now would have been completely unavailable to me in the 70s and 80s. It took streaming music and algorithms to introduce me to the music of West Africa. So many amazing musicians in that part of the world, and I never even knew it existed.
I absolutely still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. There was a period in my young adulthood where I absolutely hated all popular music. However, that period passed. I'm now in my mid-30s and find even those songs enjoyable. I don't know if it's maturity, the improvement in my mental health, having access to anti-depressants, or a mix of the above.
I listen to stuff from the early 90s to remember my youth, for instance the first school trip I listened to a tape with Twenty 4 Seven - Street Moves when I got homesick.
I stumbled upon I checked your cellphone by Otoboke Beaver. Maybe there is some resemblance to I-E-A-I-A-I-O by System of a Down. Maybe the authors in the screenshot peaked musically at 14. I stumble upon new great music all the time.
Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn't care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.
Nope! I listened to rap and metal when I was in school. Now, I listen only to Colundi.
Never heard of it. Sounds like good workout music.
It’s good work music; I listen to it all day every day at my job.If you’re actually interested, I will gladly gush about it!
Top 300 artists. Go.
There is only one artist I listen to, that being Aleksi Perälä.
Colundi is an alternative tuning scale, not a genre of music. There are other artists out there making music with Colundi frequencies, but Perälä is the pioneer.
If you like jungle drums and sonic experimentation, check out his Midnight Sun project.
If you like acid techno, check out his Northern Lights project under the Ovuca namesake.
If you like ambient techno, check out the Colundi Sequence.
If you like breakbeat-fueled IDM, check out Sunshine, Starlight, and Moonshine.
He has lots more music, but I haven’t listened to it yet.
I feel like I’d be embarrassed to still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. 14 year old me didn’t have terrible taste, but goddamn there has been so much music since. I’m nearing 40 and I’m still finding new and more interesting or challenging music to listen to
I can't even listen to the music I liked 2 years ago. There's this brazillian genre called funk that I really like mainly because it's keep evolving pretty fast.
This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.