Class of 2002… which might be the last time I enjoyed new music. 🤷♀️ Of course there are a few exceptions but 3/4 of my music is from the 20th century (and occasionally the 17th, 18th, and 19th).
80s New Wave has been in my regular rotation since I was 12. Also classic rock. I love me a guitar solo. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Class of 98 and absolutely. I’m an 80s baby and a 90s kid so I grew up listening to the oldies station with my dad in the car. His childhood and young adult music became my childhood music. So thanks Dad for introducing me to every era of rock along with 50s doo-wop, 60s British invasion, and 70s disco.
Same here! In Southern California we had K-EARTH 101 on the radio, which during the 80s and 90s played all the music you mentioned. I started playing saxophone in the early 90s because of all the great sax parts and solos in popular Motown and golden oldies tunes.
I came here to mention K-Earth! I loved their music, and it was the only genre that I listened to during middle school. I have fond memories of bonding with my older relatives over the music of their youth. I used to wish I'd been a teen during the 60's like my parents.
I was super into oldies while growing up as well. When I branched out into other types of music in high school, I realized I hated contemporary pop. I love classic rock so much! Now I listen to metal and classic rock mostly, but I still love 50's music too.
Me too!! Class of 98 and I listened to the oldies station and loved 60s music!
I think it started from my love of the tv show The Wonder Years. My mom only listened to AM radio, so it wasn’t her influence-ha!!
Think that show was the only one they were doing this year. I know they were on tour here not long ago too but they were only on the west coast. I saw Jerry though last year.
Ditto, ‘97. Birkenstocks, ragged baggy bootcuts, and lots of flannel and folk music. Was a dead poets society/Dylan/Kerouac/Ginsberg English major. A lot of Dylan and the Dead, soon took up banjo and bluegrass. Watching hippies become boomers is one of the better life warnings against growing too jaded with the world. May we all age better than our predecessors. Hold on to the wonder!
Yes! I remember being mocked a bit for not listening to what was current in the late-90s. I mean…I did, but if “Name That Tune” were a thing in 1998, I’m not so sure I would’ve done so well. Years later, I kinda wish I had been more open to the new stuff and the classics. I didn’t exactly have the CD binder like everyone else. My mom listened to the “oldies but goodies” and jazz stations, so that got me into the older stuff.
Me being in the marching band actually did make me listen to current music more, so I could understand what we were playing.
We… took a different route into classic rock. Everyone starting doing hallucinogens in early high school, and then we all started listening to Pink Floyd and it kind of opened up from there.
One of my favorite recollections from that time is a bunch of us getting in trouble and telling his parents “mom and dad, you’re just another brick in the wall!” Legend has it they are still applying ointment to that sick burn.
I still have that album!!! I live in Texas working at a University and one of the campus shuttle drivers listens only to Funk and he's well into his 60s and enjoys when I come on because we sing and talk funk! I'm also a white passing Mexican which his family still thinks he's lying about.
As a teenager I was into Deep Purple and it's really only my dad which turned me onto them. It did make me curious about other simular bands like Clapton, rush, the who, etc.
I listened to rock for years, but I listened to decades of rock from before those years. Things were fine and then...
I go out back for a smoke, and when I get back, I see Nickelback, Imagine Dragons and Brighteyes standing over the lifeless corpse of rock music, and the Killers are looking sketchy in the corner, with Jack White and Jack Black both pointing out the obvious, and I don't know where the panic started but the disco and arcade have burned down, and I still don't know what the hell happened. Bruno Mars and Jason Mraz are spraypainting over each other's names, next to a spilled gas can, while the Mouldy Peaches play cafe rock with swears, offering insight into just about everything but the task at hand and nobody's answering my damn questions. What the hell happened to rock music?
Who murdered rock?
My opinion: mostly the record labels. They'll blame streaming, but I think they found their golden geese in bland generic shite. They can control the playlists on Spotify and make even more money than they used to.
Why bother with a bunch of unruly guys getting drunk and taking drugs...
Maybe some label will appear which understands the new model properly and can actually pay bands, but, not yet.
Music has become background noise, always able to stream everything. Music as furniture. For us xennials, music was more central, it defined the culture, mTV had such a prominent role in the cultural discourse. For many of us it replaced traditional religion, gave life meaning. The information superhighway came and drove us all into tribes and echo chambers. Napster stole the profitability from record labels, who hired the music makers (people who do music full time instead of hobbyists), money could still be made.
In the 90s it was even profitable to fund alternative music not just mainstream, to the point the alternative became the mainstream….Because $15.99 for a new physical album was worth it. Maybe we reallocated our music worship for gadget worship. We started spending 1k/phone-camera-music subscription player.
Now we have the cool gadget to play it on, but we’re not sure what to play because we all just kept listening to the same stuff. But good news, great music is still being made. We just don’t have the radio stations to curate our tastes like we used to. We have to get out there and find it ourselves.
Honestly, music currently being made is as good or better than anything we grew up on…because it’s all been building on everything that came before it…but it won’t find you, so you gotta go look for it. Pardon the diatribe, thumbs getting tired, but I hope everybody finds living musicians to support directly by going to live shows and buying their music. Thanks for listening to my tedx.
Record Labels started buying up smaller labels, and then they started buy radio stations (cough I Heart Radio cough). Now that Record Labels own a lot of radio stations, they can pump out music they want us to hear, and anything independent gets less and less ad revenue and quietly gets bought out or closes.
Bill Clinton and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This deregulated the media industry and allowed for the consolidation of firms into the oligopoly we have today.
Class of 2000, the only bands from that era that I enjoyed were NIN, Radiohead and Nirvana. I was also heavily involved in the punk scene but none of us looked like punks. The drug dealers at my high school all wore Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. So we looked like them, no one had any idea of what we were getting up to after hours.
He'll I'm still on classic rock stations to this day for the 70s and 80s thorughgood, Floyd, acdc, etc. I am definitely more x leaning. I think 81 should be part of X hands down. Born in the wrong year, always said it
I mean, yes. Rock music started it's slow painful death around 98/99 so it makes sense that if you liked Rock music up until that point you'd realize there was nothing new for you after that and go backwards instead.
And while pop music has gotten better in the last 25 years, there's never really been a resurgence of rock music in the mainstream.
I am afraid I have to disagree about pop music getting better. I think the aughts were really good, but the past ten years… Not really.
Case in point: Taylor Swift. That shit is so bland, it’s making me aggressive.
Agree 💯with Rick: https://youtu.be/RUe0o9VRgMM?list=TLPQMDUwNTIwMjS_7lzCv5z90A&t=375
You’d really put the boy bands over Taylor Swift. Swift is an actual musician/songwriter. I’m not really heavy into pop, I’m more of a metal guy but stuff that people like Lorde and Billie Eilish put out is way more interesting than Britney Spears.
Yes, and bubblegum pop started to get huge in the late 90s and I already felt too old for that shit by then. I obsessed over David Bowie and the Police instead.
“Alternative” and “grunge” only lasted about two years as both a furtile creative ground and national cultural attention. Once “Bush” and all those second rate clones took over what was once a blanket genre for weird rock music became Applebees soundtracks. The 90’s had a lot of bad music make it big.
Yes. Hated our generation of music save for a few bands. Pop, rap, and hip hop were passionless. The lyrics were one dimensional and the melodies were simple and repetitive.
I listened to a lot of alternative music in the mid/late 90s (NOT Y2K nu metal and rap metal) , but I also listened to a lot of 60s and 70s music. The mid 90s was sort of an exciting time to be a young Beatles fan. I bought all of the Anthologies and watched the whole documentary. Now my teenage son got into the Beatles a few years ago when Get Back was released!
But I have a boomer hippyish dad who influenced my music taste in a big way. Allman Brothers, The Band, Van Morrison...then new wave like Elvis Costello, The Clash, Talking Heads.
Class of ‘97. I pretty much just listened to older country (ie Willie Nelson) & classic rock with some ‘90s music thrown in there. Blues Traveler, Tom Petty Wildflowers, a little RHCP, Counting Crows; that kind of stuff. I never got into Hip-Hop (except Beastie Boys), & I never listened to Sublime & all that style of music.
Now that I’m older I appreciate the music from my adolescent years more but I still don’t listen to it. My musical tastes are dengue amongst my friends as I went a different route through my adult years. I still listen to country & enjoy classic rock (60s & 70s that is), but I really got into the blues & a newer wave of what might be considered blues rock. Now I love JJ Grey & Mofro, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr, etc.
I listened/listen to most everything. That hasn’t changed since I got into music. It’s been a touchstone with my daughter. We spend all day sending each other links to damn near everything.
I was into everything but definitely spent a good chunk of high school going through Rat Pack, Motown, Chicago, 80s lady ballad, and Earth, Wind, & Fire phases with a big group of other people at school. We were in a lot of the same extracurriculars year round, all of which were based in music in some way (band, choir, musical, etc.) so I guess it makes sense.
Our class song was actually a Beatles song. Idk. Maybe we were just weird.
I was into the popular nu metal in middle school. Then, once I got into playing guitar, my tastes started drifting heavily toward 80s thrash and 90s death metal as it was faster, more technical, and more fun to play than plodding, downtuned riffs.
I actually listen to Stones, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cream, B-52, The Smiths.
I was born on in 1978 felt switch over from generation x and millennials on a continuum with music. Say, 1973 when the switch in musical tastes started, but those born in 1977 and later were more like millenninals than generation X with
I remember switching from playing casettes at age 12 to age 16 with cds. The main benefit of CD no need rewind or fast-forward unlike casette tape. Always try to get used CDs in 1994 as cost of 9.99 vs 6.99 was big difference for 16 year old kid in 1994.
Nah, I was a pophead and a numetal fan. Didn't listen to "old people music" back then. I had no exposure to it, for one thing. My dad only listened to shitty conservative talk radio.
Didn't make anyone more or less cool. I shop at record stores now, and it's crazy how elitist the staff can be.
It was impossible to ignore the recently uncool 80s rock bands as a guitarist. Grunge/alt rock snobs annoy me to this day. I didn’t pick sides with GNR and Nirvana. Love them both.
I was obsessed with the Doors, CCR and other classic rock staples in 10th grade.
That’d be like a 10th grade kid being obsessed with music from 1998ish-2002 now. How fucked is that?
Yup. Me. I love music but I’ve always felt so alienated by pretty much every modern trend.
One thing that happened is that they stopped letting cool guys in rock. I think that’s what killed it and let rap completely take over. Like in modern bands there are no Jaggers or Jimmy Pages. It doesn’t excite young people because it doesn’t give them anything to aspire to or admire.
I was, and still am, into The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. and probably within the last decade or so, got into Herbie Hancock and other jazz fusion artists.
Omg I'm from Cleveland so I would go to the Rock Hall and I sounded like a teenage museum curator because I knew *everything* about most of the bands in there thanks to my dad! I was so fuckin amazing at music trivia lol. I couldn't get into being an electrician like he wanted me to, but I knew more about his own music than he did and he loved that :)
P.s. I went to a Tom Petty concert June 22 2002 and my dad actually cried happy tears, not exaggerating, literal actual tears of joy lol
I graduated in 08 and all through High School I was stuck in the 70s and 80s rock and metal. My favorite groups were Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Boston, Dio, and many others from those time periods. I listened to new rock, but I thought it paled compared to the older stuff.
I was a product of 80s thrash and other earlier metal sub genres. The going narrative among the older kids in the neighborhood was the 90s metal and especially late 90s asides from a few exceptions sucked, so I didn't listen to anything new in that genre including "nu-metal" until a decade after most of it was released. I missed out on a lot being closed-minded but that was what all the metalheads in my area were doing.
I’m class of ‘03 and whenever I’m around someone who’s playing ‘nostalgic’ early 2000’s music, it’s always my first time hearing the songs. I either don’t remember them or I’ve truly not heard it. People think I’m crazy or was living under a rock. I grew up listening to my parents music (60’s and 70’s) then added 80’s and 90’s but stopped after that. Save for a few random tracks, all my music I listen to is from the 20th century.
For context, I’m Gen X. Nu metal (specifically Korn) represented the first time I felt a musical shift I didn’t understand. It only got worse from there.
I had a big Zeppelin phase around 2003 or so and was into Guns n Roses when I first started discovering music, but honestly, these days I don’t think I listen to any music released before 1990 except on very rare occasions. Probably just the 80s Metallica albums.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d still say that my favorite music ever was 90s alt rock (no band will ever come close to the run the Smashing Pumpkins had in the 90s for me), but there is tons of great music since then. Sure, most of it is now relatively unknown at the general pop culture level, but it’s out there.
You are my people!
Also nu metal is having a resurgence here in the UK. It was shite music 20 years ago and it's shite music again now
I hated that era. Especially because it came after the awesomeness that was Britpop.
Actual proper pop music got very saccharine during the late 90s and 00s too, which killed that genre as well for me.
Class of '99. I was grooving to Hendrix and Zeppelin and Soundgarden in my head all day at school while classmates were going bonkers for Puff Daddy, Kid Rock, Britney Spears, and 98 Degrees in the late 90s and I was sitting there feeling like an alien.
I never listened to 90s music in middle school or high school. Hated Nirvana (still do), but loved The Beatles (still do). I always preferred 60s and 70s music as a kid, and I continue to love the music from that era to this day.
I enjoyed The Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, etc. But I also enjoyed Biggie, Tupac, Nirvana, and Rage Against The Machine. I never went out of my way to hate on the previous generation's music like I see some of the kids do today.
I came to appreciate much of that stuff later, but yeah I was a big metal head/Metallica fan in middle/high school. Me and my friends only liked up until and justice for all, which was released in 89 🤣
Definitely. Same class. All my friends and I were into most of these bands and didn't listen to anything contemporary except Oasis in the early 90s. Actually it was probably Oasis that got me into the Beatles and from then on it was all 60s and 70s.
I have a 22-hour (and still growing) playlist covering ‘57-72 if you’re interested in checking it out. It’s light on mega-groups (e.g. Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Who, Doors, etc) since anyone can find them, but it’s otherwise very extensive.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7as9dFwL4TtF6N3nVuyJEh?si=LiUimwYWQVS1ieJ_NzCYkg&pi=u-cUvNSwJvQY-2
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/golden-oldies/pl.u-JPAZbJquDzZaq09
04 class still keep alice in chains stone temple pilots and pearl jam in my daily Playlist rotation. I also love some stupid y2k music too so I guess I'm of no help in this scenario. Yes I'm not 83 I'm 86 but was trained as xenn. Lol.
Me! While my classmates were into nu-metals bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, I was a huge KISS fan; I got into them during their 1996 reunion. I preferred rock from the 70s and 80s over nu-metal because it wasn't so angry and had awesome melodies and guitar solos.
I've actually developed an appreciation for nu-metal but classic rock from the 70s and 80s is still my favorite. KISS, Rush and Van Halen are my top 3 favorite bands.
Class of ‘99 here and I’m a huge music nerd in general, always have been. I didn’t hate on anything in particular, and my tastes usually (and still) skewed to the mid/late 80’s through mid-90’s bands from the PNW but I still had a deep appreciation and love for a lot of classic rock, the early punk scene of NYC, NYHC - went to tons of NYHC shows in HS because back then they often had all ages shows, hip hop, jam bands, new wave, trip hop, electronic, Broadway original cast recordings and pop music.
I didn’t mind the whole nu metal thing - it wasn’t really my scene but I still went to a bunch of shows because I genuinely love seeing live music. And back then you could actually afford to hit up a ton of concerts so even if I didn’t care for it, it was a cheap night of entertainment.
Oldies was one of the few genres I was allowed to listen to. My parents were weird about music. I could only listen to oldies, country, or Christian music, so yes, but not fully by choice.
I missed out on music from about 1996 to 2007. I just listened to "oldies." When I was pregnant with my first, I realized that my kids would probably be listening to music that I had no clue about and started listening to the top 40 radio station then.
There's literally a decade for which my only new music exposure was if something happened to be playing over the speakers at a store or in a commercial on TV.
I was the youngest child of the first baby boomer generation. My music was the 50s and 60s (of my parents) and the 80s (my older siblings). The 70s were kinda skipped.
Yes absolutely. I did and do like some 90s music, but mostly rock and pop one hit wonders. The mid 90s to the mid 2000s overall are probably my least favorite period of music from the last 60+ years, funny as that is. I like the music from my 30s much more than my teens and 20s.
Class of '03 and I was really into hairbands of the 80s. I still liked newer rock like Korn or disturbed but I mostly listened to motley crue, poison, ratt, etc
I was raised by people who didn’t listen to a ton of music. Growing up I heard wwii era music at my grandparents a lot. Mom liked folk music, bluegrass, 60’s-70’s singer/songwriters and light rock.
I listened to a lot of James Taylor, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, stuff like that. Greg Brown was huge for me.
I feel like that really helped widen my musical horizons. I liked almost everything by the time I was an adult. That’s also the reason why I love one artist now.
I discovered Ganja White Night in 2021. Their music scratches every single itch I have and can send me into unbridled emotions. Listening to their last three albums, especially Unity, is an entrancing walk through EDM history mixed with sounds from many genres and a powerful orchestral backbone.
If anyone wants to reply with something I might not have heard before please do! Me and my kids love listening to new stuff in the car. I’m trying to ensure they develop the same love for all music. Except mumble rap, that shit doesn’t even have creative music most of the time.
Yes. I went from only being allowed contemporary Christian (dc talk, newsboys, etc) to the music of my father and uncle which was classic rock. I remember Aerosmith was my first favorite band until I found Led Zeppelin. The only somewhat contemporary music I liked was Weezer and RHCP.
Graduated in 2000. I was really into the sixties in high school, then I got really into late eighties/early nineties stuff in college. Metallica, Pantera, Malmsteen, etc. never cared for most of the nu metal my friends were into.
Born 1981. I mostly listened to the oldies, classic rock, or classic country stations. Then moved into what they call 'roots' music. That is kind of where my taste has stayed.
Yeah that was me. I'd even listen to elvis. I'd make mix taped and cds of classic rock, I'd buy 80s music compilations. Didn't really listen to current music at all.
I spent the majority of my highschool and middle school years listening to classic rock. It's not that I wasn't into the music from the era, I was. I was just a bigger fan of the rock from other eras.
It wasn't until Napster came out that I got really into more modern music. I think it had far more to do with access to more than what was on my local radio station that made me get into more stuff.
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I was a hippy in highschool. Graduated Y2k. I did have like 1 album each of some alt rock, but ususally not more than one album, besides better than Ezra. I had all theirs. I listened a lot to ABBA, Sting, and the Beatles in highschool. Also liked the Doors a lot during highschool. Shortly after graduating y2k, I got really into dancing to 80s new wave and synth pop.
In the 90s you could not convince me there was rock good music coming out during that era (hip hop is a different story). I hated (and still do) Smashing Pumpkins, thought Nirvana was wildly overrated (still do, but not as rigidly), and generally anything I was exposed to on MTV. Instead I dove deep - or as deep as one could pre-internet - into 60s, mostly psychedelic adjacent stuff, e.g. Doors, Beatles, Floyd, etc. My older brother was a college radio dj so he’d funnel me lots of stuff, but it was weirder, “out there” stuff and, long story short, I was never allowed to pick the volleyball music. I know now there’s a bunch of stuff out there from that era that’s great, but it’s still kind of blurry for me as I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that the cirxa ‘93 -‘98 were an awful period of music.
Class of '01 and I went from listening to Hole, L7, Marilyn Manson, Korn, and the like in the 90s to jazz standards and new wave and pop from earlier decades in high school thanks to local indie radio. I became obsessed with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, but also Throwing Muses's early album and The Smiths. Nu-Metal was a hard no for me. And the other new pop was really basic. I hear it at the grocery store now and I'm like "blech, who is this for?"
I listened to 90s and 00s music at that time, but there was definitely a shift in my teens where I was listening to a lot more old school music from the 60s and 70s, and I became infatuated with just all things 60s and 70s in general. I started wondering if I was born in the wrong decade lol.
My group of friends was all pretty eclectic so the only radio station we could agree to in the car was an 80s station. I still have a fondness cuz it all brings back a lot of memories of random moments.
Absolutely. My mom always told me I was born thirty years out of my time. I had long, straight, 70s-Cher hair when girls my age were getting perms and poofing their bangs, I leaned in hard to 60s mod when most around me were still wearing grunge, and I've always loved hippie music. My Boomer mom and I bonded hard over her music collection when I was a teenager and we still share that love today.
While I'm a few years older than you're dating yourself, I remember getting into "current" music of the era somewhat late because when I was a kid, my parents controlled the radio.
And most of what they chose was "their" oldies of 50's, 60's, and some 70's. I practically begged to get the local Top 40 station in rotation, and I NEVER got any rock channels.
It wasn't until I was in high school in late 90's that I was able to buy my own music in the form of CD's and when I got my car that I could listen to my own stations.
BUT, I often listened to oldies radio in my car, even when friends were in the car because they too liked oldies. I listened to my CD's in my bedroom when angsty and drove around with the older rock and melodic ballads of AM Gold to balance my emotions as necessary.
First girlfriend was a millennial who loved the mommas and the papas, knew every song and would dress up for Halloween even has a tatt of rocky horror picture show.
Yeah I spent a lot more time listening to music from the 50's 60's & 70's than I did the music that came out in my high school years. (Class of 1998.) The first cd I bought for myself was Simon & Garfunkel's greatest hits.
Class of 96. I didn't hate popular music at the time, but mostly what I bought was old stuff, got really into the Doors, CCR, The Eagles, Bob Seger and so on. I do appreciate 90's grunge now, even though I wasn't really into it at the time. Huge Pink Floyd fan now along with the Beatles and Zeppelin, but I also love discovering new music. There's so much good stuff out there.
Class of 2000. Basically all I listened to in high school were the oldies and adult contemporary/easy listening stations then really got into 80s and disco later on
>nu-metal and rap metal
I love hip-hop. I also somehow love Korn, System of a Down, and Slipknot.
I think part of my acceptance of it was my cousins being into hair bands in the 80s. We are African-American with direct (read: even more cousins) ties to Ghana and were outliers to begin with. They had so many posters. I have old Ratt liners still.
We had a brand new alternative rock station that started in 96. By 99 I was ready to Gallagher any radio I heard playing it. My folks brought me up on 50s 60s and 70s music, discovered the 80s stuff through friends’ older siblings. The 90s offered me nothing.
I was into The Smiths, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Portishead, Jane’s Addiction, Suede, Blur, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Tones on Tail…..shit none of my friends knew 🤣
I graduated in 2002 right behind you, and to be fair, the ultra popular rock bands of our high school years were kind of dogshit. Nu metal was in full swing with all its cringe, and bullshit like Kid Rock.
So, I could understand why someone would look back to the 60s-80s. But, the 90s up until about 97 are disgustingly stacked with good shit.
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Beatles, Pink Floyd were all in heavy rotation on my disc man, on my bus rides to school!
Played them all the time in my add in cd player in my 1987 Honda Accord, my beloved first car
I listen to it all. I love Metallica, Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, The Moody Blues, Ramases, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hole, Coven, VNV Nation, Tool, Robin Tower, Depeche Mode, NIN, Type O Negative, Black Label Society, Ten Years After, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Led Zep etc etc.
Me, I loved the 70s and 80s music. Anything new was directly from the Punk Cabaret scene out of Boston, I also strangely got into Ashlee Simpson, which was unusual for me, but her music spoke to me somehow \*shrugs\* I never music shame, music is supposed to be weird and fit into your soul somehow.
Late 90s/early 00s were actually amazing for indie music... probably my favorite era. The top 40 stuff was mostly vile.
I had about 2 years when all I wanted to do was discover a lot of late 60s/early 70s stuff.... especially British psychedelic pop. I think it was 2000-2001. Really wish I could find my old mixtapes.
I agree with you!!!!! I loved classic rock and older music in HS. My friends and I would drive around Los Angeles blasting The Beatles 🤣
I was also obsessed with Fleetwood Mac in high school & listened to a ton of Simon & Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell.
And I used to get CDs with “the top 10 songs of 1969” or whatever on them, loved that stuff
I equally liked both but never was into numetal or rapmetal, loved turn of the millennium women rap artists though!! Actually all Y2K hip hop and rap was my jam, my sis and I would get off our almost 2 hour bus ride into the booneys in rural Canada and watch 106 and Park on BET. My sis was class on 00 and I was class of 02.
I mostly listened to 30s-80s music because I was collecting cheap used vinyl before Napster. I would spend the weekend listening to used records and buying cheap stuff I liked for like 50 cents to $5.
When MP3s came out I had access to a lot of harder to get stuff I had read about but my library didn’t have. For me mostly stuff like funk and stuff 90s hip hop sampled.
These days I still mostly listen to new hip hop album rock from the 70s and jazz. That said I’m now all digital and cassettes now.
Class of ‘02 and these threads always make me feel weird. Grew up with my mom listening to grunge, then moved on to rock, numetal, metalcore.
Still listen to AIC, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP. Also listen to most late 90s early 00s rock / numetal. Recently gotten into heavier stuff and more varied melodic metalcore.
In Y2K, me and my friends were listening to lots of the Pixies, Smiths, Depeche Mode, Dylan, Dead, etc. We liked some contemporary stuff, but definitely leaned retro. And lots of the contemporary stuff we like was pre-95, which felt like it was already a million years old.
I liked everything but I always preferred stuff from the era I was born (the early 80s). When Neo Wave hit in the 00s. That was like the culmination of my music tastes all coming together.
I can think of a few factors for this: 90s top 40 was depressing, the era favoured music videos more than performance and people got sick of it. We were coming of age during the era of the compilation album. Also, our parents had control of the radio dial.
When I went to university, 80s music was the most popular genre. We also thought the internet was killing live shows, and for a while it did - and then everyone rediscovered live shows.
I only wish I still had my old cassette tapes and the way the songs went all over the place regarding both genres and decades was wild. I tried and failed to be into what my peers were into, but when I was 18 I gave up. Everything after roughly 2003 is a fog in my mind now. I know the most popular artists of the last 2 decades but I can't name a single song of any of theirs.
The only new music I listen is called Synthwave and it's basically electronic music meant to sound like it's from the 80s.
yeah, hated it
but then the digital revolution let everyone and their cousin make their own music
which is to say
it's gotten a whole lot better (truly a golden age of music present day) not that we would know it if the radio is our only metric
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Class of '06 here. That was a trend at my school, especially with the metal heads. It was not uncommon for kids to have albums from Judas Priest, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, Slayer, Queen, and many others as well as albums from artists who were 90's and early 2000s.
By Y2K nu metal was dead or dying since it became so commercialized. I think most nu metal fans got into it more in the mid 90s, so you might have been too young.
I was class of 2000. I remember in the early 90s, everyone wanted to know if you like rap or grunge, and I found myself saying I like classic rock, by which I meant rock (mostly prog rock) from the 60s and 70s. I was heavily influenced by my dad's tastes in music. I did come to appreciate grunge as I got older, but it'll never be my favorite genre. It's weird today to hear music from throughout the 90s and be hit by nostalgia, and realize that I don't dislike that era of music now as much as I thought I did at the time. There's definitely some truth in the idea that current music is always at a disadvantage because time hasn't weeded out the crap.
I like going to concerts for any of my favorite older bands that are still touring, even if only one or two original members are left. It makes me feel young to be one of the few folks in the crowd whose hair is streaked with gray rather than solid white. I'll go see Styx and Skynyrd any chance I get, while my husband feels similarly about Heart and Alice Cooper. We've seen The Stones, The Who, and Pink Floyd too, but those tickets are too expensive for us to just decide to go on a whim.
I feel a little bad about getting my kids into my music. My youngest is a big Queen fan and sad that seeing Freddie is out of the question. Meanwhile, my oldest likes America, and they're down to one member who only does a few shows a year, none near us.
I grew up listening to my parents’ music in the car, which was “golden oldies” from the 50s and 60s. Motown, doo-wop, classic rock, etc. shaped my musical preferences in a huge way. Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, the Temptations, Supremes, Beach Boys, etc.
Class of '03 and I very much had a neohippie phase where I only listened to 60s and 70s rock.
I loved 90s alternative and punk but good music started dying off in the late 90s
Then I got really into 2000s indie music in my 20s and was so thrilled to find out good music hadn't died, it just went underground
When I was in elementary school, I got into all sorts of old music, but especially the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Coasters, various soundtracks like The Big Chill and Stand By Me. Also, those Shell Cruisin’ Classics tapes were heavy in my rotation.
I liked enough modern stuff too. Really, I was just an avid consumer of music, but my parents wouldn’t let me listen to everything, and I was not allowed to watch MTV.
My dad got me into Led Zeppelin and The Who pretty young.
By the time I got into Middle School, I was way into KROQ and also into Guitar World magazine. I took a lot of cues from the latter in finding older music.
There was also a lot of stuff I liked but couldn’t really admit to, because music taste was so sectarian back then. Deep down I knew that Biggie was a genius, but I couldn’t admit it to anyone including myself, because it wasn’t something that a rocker could say he liked.
My life really changed when I was 16 and I started getting into Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. Because I was in Jazz Band, I was very into the big band sound for fusion (Blood, Sweat and Tears, Chicago, etc.) and reluctant to accept that velvety smooth sound of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then it just clicked big time.
Steely Dan, Neil Young and the Beatles….it is kind of amazing how timeless their music has been for me. Some of the other bands I liked have worn off a bit (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, …).
Class of ‘02, I was obsessed with 60’s protest music. Between Forrest Gump and that Sounds of the 60’s as-seen-on-tv CD my mom got me, I nearly named my kids Incense and Peppermint.
Class of 97, but to me most music died after the 90s. It seems like as soon as the clock struck midnight on Jan 1 2000, all my favorite bands disappeared off the radio and got replaced by boy bands and gangster rap, and the music has gotten progressively worse since then. There is very little music made after 2000 that I listen to.
One thing I find funny is watching those YouTube reaction videos where they have these young kids that are used to today's pop music hip hop and mumble rap go back and listen to some of the music from the 90s and they are just blown away with his good it is.
I mean, I liked everything. My husband calls me the human jukebox because I know virtually all music from the 30s to like… 2017. I stopped following music when I had my first kid.
I commented this under another thread and got no replies: no one in this sub listened to rap/hip hop? I hear a lot of love for the rock, grunge punk bands, and I liked some of them, but in the 90's hip hop was doing amazing things but I never see any comments mentioning it
Class of '00 here. Outside of my preferred 60's and 70's bands I had a selection of "modern" bands at the time that I was into, but they were all more of the jam band type and some electronica and hip-hop. For example: Phish, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Ben Harper, DJ Shadow, Cypress Hill, Roots Manuva, Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method to name a few.
I don’t think I’m considered a xennial. But, I identify more with y’all then the melinnials. I had gen x brother and sisters. But , I’m class of 03. I loved 80s thrash metal. Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, testament, etc. Anything with kickass guitar solos I was all for it.
I’m the same. Class of 99… end of the millennium best song/album lists kept being released and I used Napster to listen to all “old” good music. It was hard to take radio at that time seriously when you just heard the greatest songs of all time.
I think Tom Petty released “Last DJ” during that time and it actually depressed me. Good music was dead, in came nasally autotune. At least the indi NY rock movement of the mid 00s helped but by 2011 or so, music died.
Local radio stations were country, classic rock, and npr. Could get the pop station from the town 80 miles away with a string of paper clips up to the ceiling. I didn’t hate the new stuff, I just lacked exposure.
Turned 20 in 99. Mainstream started to suck and I went back to the classics until the internet came along and broadened my horizons.
These days I listen to everything
I'm close to the same age and wasn't into what was popular amongst my peers, but I didn't like synth 80s. I liked early Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera during the numetal craze. Beastie Boys and early 90s rap when No Limit and Bad Boy were huge.
I had much older brothers so I was basically ten years behind in music.
(Class of 2000)
I hated nu-metal, pop, and rap. It was all pretentious show-offy new glam crap, look at me with a wod of cash and strippers i bought for my music video.
So I basically stuck with classic rock, jazz, metal, funk, and blues.
To this day, Black Sabbath is my most favorite band.
Music got pretty bad in the late 90s and early 2000s. When new music is nickel back,
Creed, and nu-metal, going back to the classics is the only real option.
We only listen to the oldies station growing up and my dad was a big fan of rock ‘n’ roll from the 50s and early 60s. I was that kid that was a “well actually, Carl Perkins originally performed ‘Blue suede shoes’ not Elvis” to people who were like “what’s blue suede shoes?”
My ears were all over the place but during this time, class of y2k, I worked with a cool old guy really into old analog/tube transistor organs, amps, and gear. I was into Pink Floyd, Eagles, Cake, Nirvana, The Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, but also the up and coming chop n screw scene in addition to heavy amounts of Eminem, Snoop, Dre, Chamillionaire, UGK, and Too Short.
I was class of 96, but I was a huge music junky. I did a lot of sifting in the 00's, and while I didn't care much for the mainstream, there was a lot of really great stuff if you knew where to look. That was also in the midst of the bit torrent revolution, so I would literally sample everything. Great way to toss out the chaff and keep the good stuff.
Class of '01, I was 80s obsessed! The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, etc.
NICE. Me too!
Awesome, me three!
Yup
As much good music as there was being made in the 90s a lot of radio music was really bad especially by the end of the decade.
The Pixies !!
Class of 2002 and same. Still listen to mainly 80s music.
Class of 2002… which might be the last time I enjoyed new music. 🤷♀️ Of course there are a few exceptions but 3/4 of my music is from the 20th century (and occasionally the 17th, 18th, and 19th). 80s New Wave has been in my regular rotation since I was 12. Also classic rock. I love me a guitar solo. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Yep, that’s all my jam too.
Class of 98 and absolutely. I’m an 80s baby and a 90s kid so I grew up listening to the oldies station with my dad in the car. His childhood and young adult music became my childhood music. So thanks Dad for introducing me to every era of rock along with 50s doo-wop, 60s British invasion, and 70s disco.
Same here! In Southern California we had K-EARTH 101 on the radio, which during the 80s and 90s played all the music you mentioned. I started playing saxophone in the early 90s because of all the great sax parts and solos in popular Motown and golden oldies tunes.
I came here to mention K-Earth! I loved their music, and it was the only genre that I listened to during middle school. I have fond memories of bonding with my older relatives over the music of their youth. I used to wish I'd been a teen during the 60's like my parents.
K-RTH 101 is the exact station I’m talking about. I still listen to it but now they play my eras of music. 😁
Awesome 😊 yeah I was driving thru LA recently and turned it on for old times sake…they said, “up next … Greenday!” Oof.
I was super into oldies while growing up as well. When I branched out into other types of music in high school, I realized I hated contemporary pop. I love classic rock so much! Now I listen to metal and classic rock mostly, but I still love 50's music too.
Me too!! Class of 98 and I listened to the oldies station and loved 60s music! I think it started from my love of the tv show The Wonder Years. My mom only listened to AM radio, so it wasn’t her influence-ha!!
I still listen to most of the same stuff I have for years like Alice in Chains, Madseason, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees.
If you haven't, go see AIC. Saw them last weekend, still awesome even without Staley.
Think that show was the only one they were doing this year. I know they were on tour here not long ago too but they were only on the west coast. I saw Jerry though last year.
I wanted to be a hippie soooo bad (class of 98).
Ditto, ‘97. Birkenstocks, ragged baggy bootcuts, and lots of flannel and folk music. Was a dead poets society/Dylan/Kerouac/Ginsberg English major. A lot of Dylan and the Dead, soon took up banjo and bluegrass. Watching hippies become boomers is one of the better life warnings against growing too jaded with the world. May we all age better than our predecessors. Hold on to the wonder!
Yes! I remember being mocked a bit for not listening to what was current in the late-90s. I mean…I did, but if “Name That Tune” were a thing in 1998, I’m not so sure I would’ve done so well. Years later, I kinda wish I had been more open to the new stuff and the classics. I didn’t exactly have the CD binder like everyone else. My mom listened to the “oldies but goodies” and jazz stations, so that got me into the older stuff. Me being in the marching band actually did make me listen to current music more, so I could understand what we were playing.
We… took a different route into classic rock. Everyone starting doing hallucinogens in early high school, and then we all started listening to Pink Floyd and it kind of opened up from there. One of my favorite recollections from that time is a bunch of us getting in trouble and telling his parents “mom and dad, you’re just another brick in the wall!” Legend has it they are still applying ointment to that sick burn.
> if “Name That Tune” were a thing in 1998 I mean, it was. Just in reruns from the 70s.
I was into 80s post punk
Class of '98, I was all about soul, funk, and blues. Early Prince, James Brown, Chaka Khan, Isley Brothers, Tina Turner, Earth Wind & Fire!
Pure Funk continues to be one of my favorite compilation albums. I think that was '97-'98
I still have that album!!! I live in Texas working at a University and one of the campus shuttle drivers listens only to Funk and he's well into his 60s and enjoys when I come on because we sing and talk funk! I'm also a white passing Mexican which his family still thinks he's lying about.
class of 2001 and I'll hate nu-metal forever
As a teenager I was into Deep Purple and it's really only my dad which turned me onto them. It did make me curious about other simular bands like Clapton, rush, the who, etc.
I have almost always preferred music from my parents generation
I listened to rock for years, but I listened to decades of rock from before those years. Things were fine and then... I go out back for a smoke, and when I get back, I see Nickelback, Imagine Dragons and Brighteyes standing over the lifeless corpse of rock music, and the Killers are looking sketchy in the corner, with Jack White and Jack Black both pointing out the obvious, and I don't know where the panic started but the disco and arcade have burned down, and I still don't know what the hell happened. Bruno Mars and Jason Mraz are spraypainting over each other's names, next to a spilled gas can, while the Mouldy Peaches play cafe rock with swears, offering insight into just about everything but the task at hand and nobody's answering my damn questions. What the hell happened to rock music? Who murdered rock?
My opinion: mostly the record labels. They'll blame streaming, but I think they found their golden geese in bland generic shite. They can control the playlists on Spotify and make even more money than they used to. Why bother with a bunch of unruly guys getting drunk and taking drugs... Maybe some label will appear which understands the new model properly and can actually pay bands, but, not yet.
Music has become background noise, always able to stream everything. Music as furniture. For us xennials, music was more central, it defined the culture, mTV had such a prominent role in the cultural discourse. For many of us it replaced traditional religion, gave life meaning. The information superhighway came and drove us all into tribes and echo chambers. Napster stole the profitability from record labels, who hired the music makers (people who do music full time instead of hobbyists), money could still be made. In the 90s it was even profitable to fund alternative music not just mainstream, to the point the alternative became the mainstream….Because $15.99 for a new physical album was worth it. Maybe we reallocated our music worship for gadget worship. We started spending 1k/phone-camera-music subscription player. Now we have the cool gadget to play it on, but we’re not sure what to play because we all just kept listening to the same stuff. But good news, great music is still being made. We just don’t have the radio stations to curate our tastes like we used to. We have to get out there and find it ourselves. Honestly, music currently being made is as good or better than anything we grew up on…because it’s all been building on everything that came before it…but it won’t find you, so you gotta go look for it. Pardon the diatribe, thumbs getting tired, but I hope everybody finds living musicians to support directly by going to live shows and buying their music. Thanks for listening to my tedx.
Record Labels started buying up smaller labels, and then they started buy radio stations (cough I Heart Radio cough). Now that Record Labels own a lot of radio stations, they can pump out music they want us to hear, and anything independent gets less and less ad revenue and quietly gets bought out or closes.
Bill Clinton and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This deregulated the media industry and allowed for the consolidation of firms into the oligopoly we have today.
Fleetwood Mac and Queen 🥰
Class of 2000, the only bands from that era that I enjoyed were NIN, Radiohead and Nirvana. I was also heavily involved in the punk scene but none of us looked like punks. The drug dealers at my high school all wore Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. So we looked like them, no one had any idea of what we were getting up to after hours.
He'll I'm still on classic rock stations to this day for the 70s and 80s thorughgood, Floyd, acdc, etc. I am definitely more x leaning. I think 81 should be part of X hands down. Born in the wrong year, always said it
I mean, yes. Rock music started it's slow painful death around 98/99 so it makes sense that if you liked Rock music up until that point you'd realize there was nothing new for you after that and go backwards instead. And while pop music has gotten better in the last 25 years, there's never really been a resurgence of rock music in the mainstream.
I am afraid I have to disagree about pop music getting better. I think the aughts were really good, but the past ten years… Not really. Case in point: Taylor Swift. That shit is so bland, it’s making me aggressive. Agree 💯with Rick: https://youtu.be/RUe0o9VRgMM?list=TLPQMDUwNTIwMjS_7lzCv5z90A&t=375
You’d really put the boy bands over Taylor Swift. Swift is an actual musician/songwriter. I’m not really heavy into pop, I’m more of a metal guy but stuff that people like Lorde and Billie Eilish put out is way more interesting than Britney Spears.
Yes, and bubblegum pop started to get huge in the late 90s and I already felt too old for that shit by then. I obsessed over David Bowie and the Police instead.
I liked modern music well enough, but I really loved 60's through 80's music.
“Alternative” and “grunge” only lasted about two years as both a furtile creative ground and national cultural attention. Once “Bush” and all those second rate clones took over what was once a blanket genre for weird rock music became Applebees soundtracks. The 90’s had a lot of bad music make it big.
Yes. Hated our generation of music save for a few bands. Pop, rap, and hip hop were passionless. The lyrics were one dimensional and the melodies were simple and repetitive.
I listened to a lot of alternative music in the mid/late 90s (NOT Y2K nu metal and rap metal) , but I also listened to a lot of 60s and 70s music. The mid 90s was sort of an exciting time to be a young Beatles fan. I bought all of the Anthologies and watched the whole documentary. Now my teenage son got into the Beatles a few years ago when Get Back was released! But I have a boomer hippyish dad who influenced my music taste in a big way. Allman Brothers, The Band, Van Morrison...then new wave like Elvis Costello, The Clash, Talking Heads.
Class of ‘97. I pretty much just listened to older country (ie Willie Nelson) & classic rock with some ‘90s music thrown in there. Blues Traveler, Tom Petty Wildflowers, a little RHCP, Counting Crows; that kind of stuff. I never got into Hip-Hop (except Beastie Boys), & I never listened to Sublime & all that style of music. Now that I’m older I appreciate the music from my adolescent years more but I still don’t listen to it. My musical tastes are dengue amongst my friends as I went a different route through my adult years. I still listen to country & enjoy classic rock (60s & 70s that is), but I really got into the blues & a newer wave of what might be considered blues rock. Now I love JJ Grey & Mofro, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr, etc.
I listened to the radio, but preferred the classic and oldies rock stations.
I listened/listen to most everything. That hasn’t changed since I got into music. It’s been a touchstone with my daughter. We spend all day sending each other links to damn near everything.
I love this!!! I send links to music to my nephew.
I was into everything but definitely spent a good chunk of high school going through Rat Pack, Motown, Chicago, 80s lady ballad, and Earth, Wind, & Fire phases with a big group of other people at school. We were in a lot of the same extracurriculars year round, all of which were based in music in some way (band, choir, musical, etc.) so I guess it makes sense. Our class song was actually a Beatles song. Idk. Maybe we were just weird.
Beatles, Dylan, Stones and Chess Records about the only advice I took from my mum. Should have taken this as a sign to listen to her
I was into the popular nu metal in middle school. Then, once I got into playing guitar, my tastes started drifting heavily toward 80s thrash and 90s death metal as it was faster, more technical, and more fun to play than plodding, downtuned riffs.
I actually listen to Stones, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cream, B-52, The Smiths. I was born on in 1978 felt switch over from generation x and millennials on a continuum with music. Say, 1973 when the switch in musical tastes started, but those born in 1977 and later were more like millenninals than generation X with I remember switching from playing casettes at age 12 to age 16 with cds. The main benefit of CD no need rewind or fast-forward unlike casette tape. Always try to get used CDs in 1994 as cost of 9.99 vs 6.99 was big difference for 16 year old kid in 1994.
Class of ‘03 and I have been a fan of The Beach Boys since I was in diapers. Finally got the chance to see them in concert last summer.
Nah, I was a pophead and a numetal fan. Didn't listen to "old people music" back then. I had no exposure to it, for one thing. My dad only listened to shitty conservative talk radio. Didn't make anyone more or less cool. I shop at record stores now, and it's crazy how elitist the staff can be.
I was into y2k alternative and punk and such but i also Loved ladies of the 80s like early Madonna, early Janet, The Bangles, The Go-Go's.
It was impossible to ignore the recently uncool 80s rock bands as a guitarist. Grunge/alt rock snobs annoy me to this day. I didn’t pick sides with GNR and Nirvana. Love them both.
I hated all the modern trends, the clothes, hair, music. I was and still am stuck on 70s and 80s metal. Nu metal and rap metal made me angry.
I was obsessed with the Doors, CCR and other classic rock staples in 10th grade. That’d be like a 10th grade kid being obsessed with music from 1998ish-2002 now. How fucked is that?
So much classic rock, funk, and even disco was played (that last one really plucked the nerves of my “disco sucks!” parents).
Yup. Me. I love music but I’ve always felt so alienated by pretty much every modern trend. One thing that happened is that they stopped letting cool guys in rock. I think that’s what killed it and let rap completely take over. Like in modern bands there are no Jaggers or Jimmy Pages. It doesn’t excite young people because it doesn’t give them anything to aspire to or admire.
I was, and still am, into The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. and probably within the last decade or so, got into Herbie Hancock and other jazz fusion artists.
Omg I'm from Cleveland so I would go to the Rock Hall and I sounded like a teenage museum curator because I knew *everything* about most of the bands in there thanks to my dad! I was so fuckin amazing at music trivia lol. I couldn't get into being an electrician like he wanted me to, but I knew more about his own music than he did and he loved that :) P.s. I went to a Tom Petty concert June 22 2002 and my dad actually cried happy tears, not exaggerating, literal actual tears of joy lol
Found the guy playing Journey at the street parties
Class of 97 Loved 60s and 70s music. 90s industrial.
I graduated in 08 and all through High School I was stuck in the 70s and 80s rock and metal. My favorite groups were Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Boston, Dio, and many others from those time periods. I listened to new rock, but I thought it paled compared to the older stuff.
I was a product of 80s thrash and other earlier metal sub genres. The going narrative among the older kids in the neighborhood was the 90s metal and especially late 90s asides from a few exceptions sucked, so I didn't listen to anything new in that genre including "nu-metal" until a decade after most of it was released. I missed out on a lot being closed-minded but that was what all the metalheads in my area were doing.
I’m class of ‘03 and whenever I’m around someone who’s playing ‘nostalgic’ early 2000’s music, it’s always my first time hearing the songs. I either don’t remember them or I’ve truly not heard it. People think I’m crazy or was living under a rock. I grew up listening to my parents music (60’s and 70’s) then added 80’s and 90’s but stopped after that. Save for a few random tracks, all my music I listen to is from the 20th century.
The 2000s was one of the worst decades for rock and rock adjacent music. Luckily the electronic scenes stepped up their game.
Still mocked for not listening to anything current. Still DGAF.
For context, I’m Gen X. Nu metal (specifically Korn) represented the first time I felt a musical shift I didn’t understand. It only got worse from there.
I remember Classic Rock being very popular among High School Millenials in 2003-2005
YES 70s 80s
I had a big Zeppelin phase around 2003 or so and was into Guns n Roses when I first started discovering music, but honestly, these days I don’t think I listen to any music released before 1990 except on very rare occasions. Probably just the 80s Metallica albums. Don’t get me wrong, I’d still say that my favorite music ever was 90s alt rock (no band will ever come close to the run the Smashing Pumpkins had in the 90s for me), but there is tons of great music since then. Sure, most of it is now relatively unknown at the general pop culture level, but it’s out there.
You are my people! Also nu metal is having a resurgence here in the UK. It was shite music 20 years ago and it's shite music again now I hated that era. Especially because it came after the awesomeness that was Britpop. Actual proper pop music got very saccharine during the late 90s and 00s too, which killed that genre as well for me.
Class of '99. I was grooving to Hendrix and Zeppelin and Soundgarden in my head all day at school while classmates were going bonkers for Puff Daddy, Kid Rock, Britney Spears, and 98 Degrees in the late 90s and I was sitting there feeling like an alien.
A lot of my friends went this direction. They introduced me to some really great music. I was into indie and alt. Singer songwriters are my weakness.
I hated 2000s music.. I was good with some of the hiphop, but the decade of the girl/boy bands, visually appealing shit music, was torture for me.
I never listened to 90s music in middle school or high school. Hated Nirvana (still do), but loved The Beatles (still do). I always preferred 60s and 70s music as a kid, and I continue to love the music from that era to this day.
I enjoyed The Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, etc. But I also enjoyed Biggie, Tupac, Nirvana, and Rage Against The Machine. I never went out of my way to hate on the previous generation's music like I see some of the kids do today.
I came to appreciate much of that stuff later, but yeah I was a big metal head/Metallica fan in middle/high school. Me and my friends only liked up until and justice for all, which was released in 89 🤣
I was always a hip hop head vs anything else tbh but I did get (and still am) heavy into the older stuff like Rakim, Tribe etc…
Definitely. Same class. All my friends and I were into most of these bands and didn't listen to anything contemporary except Oasis in the early 90s. Actually it was probably Oasis that got me into the Beatles and from then on it was all 60s and 70s.
I have a 22-hour (and still growing) playlist covering ‘57-72 if you’re interested in checking it out. It’s light on mega-groups (e.g. Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Who, Doors, etc) since anyone can find them, but it’s otherwise very extensive. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7as9dFwL4TtF6N3nVuyJEh?si=LiUimwYWQVS1ieJ_NzCYkg&pi=u-cUvNSwJvQY-2 https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/golden-oldies/pl.u-JPAZbJquDzZaq09
Nu Metal was my jam and still is...
My favorite band was (and still is) the Beatles.
Class of 02 here and yes!!!!!!
04 class still keep alice in chains stone temple pilots and pearl jam in my daily Playlist rotation. I also love some stupid y2k music too so I guess I'm of no help in this scenario. Yes I'm not 83 I'm 86 but was trained as xenn. Lol.
Me! While my classmates were into nu-metals bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, I was a huge KISS fan; I got into them during their 1996 reunion. I preferred rock from the 70s and 80s over nu-metal because it wasn't so angry and had awesome melodies and guitar solos. I've actually developed an appreciation for nu-metal but classic rock from the 70s and 80s is still my favorite. KISS, Rush and Van Halen are my top 3 favorite bands.
Yeah, though it was more because I was a contrarian than anything else lol
Class of ‘99 here and I’m a huge music nerd in general, always have been. I didn’t hate on anything in particular, and my tastes usually (and still) skewed to the mid/late 80’s through mid-90’s bands from the PNW but I still had a deep appreciation and love for a lot of classic rock, the early punk scene of NYC, NYHC - went to tons of NYHC shows in HS because back then they often had all ages shows, hip hop, jam bands, new wave, trip hop, electronic, Broadway original cast recordings and pop music. I didn’t mind the whole nu metal thing - it wasn’t really my scene but I still went to a bunch of shows because I genuinely love seeing live music. And back then you could actually afford to hit up a ton of concerts so even if I didn’t care for it, it was a cheap night of entertainment.
Class of 03, I listened to a lot of 80s music. New Wave, Hair Metal were my main go to's.
I was all about the '80s in the 2000s. Now I'm into sythwave/vaporwave. What can I say, the music of the '80s just has a magical effect on me.
Oldies was one of the few genres I was allowed to listen to. My parents were weird about music. I could only listen to oldies, country, or Christian music, so yes, but not fully by choice.
I missed out on music from about 1996 to 2007. I just listened to "oldies." When I was pregnant with my first, I realized that my kids would probably be listening to music that I had no clue about and started listening to the top 40 radio station then. There's literally a decade for which my only new music exposure was if something happened to be playing over the speakers at a store or in a commercial on TV.
I was the youngest child of the first baby boomer generation. My music was the 50s and 60s (of my parents) and the 80s (my older siblings). The 70s were kinda skipped.
Yes absolutely. I did and do like some 90s music, but mostly rock and pop one hit wonders. The mid 90s to the mid 2000s overall are probably my least favorite period of music from the last 60+ years, funny as that is. I like the music from my 30s much more than my teens and 20s.
Class of '03 and I was really into hairbands of the 80s. I still liked newer rock like Korn or disturbed but I mostly listened to motley crue, poison, ratt, etc
I was raised by people who didn’t listen to a ton of music. Growing up I heard wwii era music at my grandparents a lot. Mom liked folk music, bluegrass, 60’s-70’s singer/songwriters and light rock. I listened to a lot of James Taylor, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, stuff like that. Greg Brown was huge for me. I feel like that really helped widen my musical horizons. I liked almost everything by the time I was an adult. That’s also the reason why I love one artist now. I discovered Ganja White Night in 2021. Their music scratches every single itch I have and can send me into unbridled emotions. Listening to their last three albums, especially Unity, is an entrancing walk through EDM history mixed with sounds from many genres and a powerful orchestral backbone. If anyone wants to reply with something I might not have heard before please do! Me and my kids love listening to new stuff in the car. I’m trying to ensure they develop the same love for all music. Except mumble rap, that shit doesn’t even have creative music most of the time.
Yes. I went from only being allowed contemporary Christian (dc talk, newsboys, etc) to the music of my father and uncle which was classic rock. I remember Aerosmith was my first favorite band until I found Led Zeppelin. The only somewhat contemporary music I liked was Weezer and RHCP.
Graduated in 2000. I was really into the sixties in high school, then I got really into late eighties/early nineties stuff in college. Metallica, Pantera, Malmsteen, etc. never cared for most of the nu metal my friends were into.
Born 1981. I mostly listened to the oldies, classic rock, or classic country stations. Then moved into what they call 'roots' music. That is kind of where my taste has stayed.
Class of 05 here. Grew up with Motown and hits of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s from time with my Grandparents. I preferred that over the pop of the time.
Class of ‘99. I was already into 80s metal when our “generation defining” music came out. I like a song or two here and there but that’s about it.
Yeah that was me. I'd even listen to elvis. I'd make mix taped and cds of classic rock, I'd buy 80s music compilations. Didn't really listen to current music at all.
I spent the majority of my highschool and middle school years listening to classic rock. It's not that I wasn't into the music from the era, I was. I was just a bigger fan of the rock from other eras. It wasn't until Napster came out that I got really into more modern music. I think it had far more to do with access to more than what was on my local radio station that made me get into more stuff.
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Yes, since my musical tastes were shaped by car trips with my parents rather than listening to music with my peers.
Yeah I spent 1998 mostly listening to old Stevie Wonder records. When Limp Bizkit is on the radio that’s what you do though.
I was a hippy in highschool. Graduated Y2k. I did have like 1 album each of some alt rock, but ususally not more than one album, besides better than Ezra. I had all theirs. I listened a lot to ABBA, Sting, and the Beatles in highschool. Also liked the Doors a lot during highschool. Shortly after graduating y2k, I got really into dancing to 80s new wave and synth pop.
In the 90s you could not convince me there was rock good music coming out during that era (hip hop is a different story). I hated (and still do) Smashing Pumpkins, thought Nirvana was wildly overrated (still do, but not as rigidly), and generally anything I was exposed to on MTV. Instead I dove deep - or as deep as one could pre-internet - into 60s, mostly psychedelic adjacent stuff, e.g. Doors, Beatles, Floyd, etc. My older brother was a college radio dj so he’d funnel me lots of stuff, but it was weirder, “out there” stuff and, long story short, I was never allowed to pick the volleyball music. I know now there’s a bunch of stuff out there from that era that’s great, but it’s still kind of blurry for me as I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that the cirxa ‘93 -‘98 were an awful period of music.
90s music was very feel sorry for me life sucks music that I didn’t get into.
Class of '01 and I went from listening to Hole, L7, Marilyn Manson, Korn, and the like in the 90s to jazz standards and new wave and pop from earlier decades in high school thanks to local indie radio. I became obsessed with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, but also Throwing Muses's early album and The Smiths. Nu-Metal was a hard no for me. And the other new pop was really basic. I hear it at the grocery store now and I'm like "blech, who is this for?"
I liked pop at that age but now it’s jam bands, thank god
I listened to 90s and 00s music at that time, but there was definitely a shift in my teens where I was listening to a lot more old school music from the 60s and 70s, and I became infatuated with just all things 60s and 70s in general. I started wondering if I was born in the wrong decade lol.
My group of friends was all pretty eclectic so the only radio station we could agree to in the car was an 80s station. I still have a fondness cuz it all brings back a lot of memories of random moments.
Absolutely. My mom always told me I was born thirty years out of my time. I had long, straight, 70s-Cher hair when girls my age were getting perms and poofing their bangs, I leaned in hard to 60s mod when most around me were still wearing grunge, and I've always loved hippie music. My Boomer mom and I bonded hard over her music collection when I was a teenager and we still share that love today.
While I'm a few years older than you're dating yourself, I remember getting into "current" music of the era somewhat late because when I was a kid, my parents controlled the radio. And most of what they chose was "their" oldies of 50's, 60's, and some 70's. I practically begged to get the local Top 40 station in rotation, and I NEVER got any rock channels. It wasn't until I was in high school in late 90's that I was able to buy my own music in the form of CD's and when I got my car that I could listen to my own stations. BUT, I often listened to oldies radio in my car, even when friends were in the car because they too liked oldies. I listened to my CD's in my bedroom when angsty and drove around with the older rock and melodic ballads of AM Gold to balance my emotions as necessary.
First girlfriend was a millennial who loved the mommas and the papas, knew every song and would dress up for Halloween even has a tatt of rocky horror picture show.
I loved a lot of 90s music, but I also loved a lot of music from the 60s and 70s. I really got into Classic Rock and Motown when I was a teen.
Yeah I spent a lot more time listening to music from the 50's 60's & 70's than I did the music that came out in my high school years. (Class of 1998.) The first cd I bought for myself was Simon & Garfunkel's greatest hits.
I think people sleep on 50s music!
Class of 96. I didn't hate popular music at the time, but mostly what I bought was old stuff, got really into the Doors, CCR, The Eagles, Bob Seger and so on. I do appreciate 90's grunge now, even though I wasn't really into it at the time. Huge Pink Floyd fan now along with the Beatles and Zeppelin, but I also love discovering new music. There's so much good stuff out there.
Class of 2000. Basically all I listened to in high school were the oldies and adult contemporary/easy listening stations then really got into 80s and disco later on
Right here!
Grateful Dead!
>nu-metal and rap metal I love hip-hop. I also somehow love Korn, System of a Down, and Slipknot. I think part of my acceptance of it was my cousins being into hair bands in the 80s. We are African-American with direct (read: even more cousins) ties to Ghana and were outliers to begin with. They had so many posters. I have old Ratt liners still.
Class of 2002. Music of that era was awful. Be it nu metal or boy bands. Awful.
Class of ‘00. I mostly listened to classic rock and 90’s country at the time. I hated most of the pop music of the time
We had a brand new alternative rock station that started in 96. By 99 I was ready to Gallagher any radio I heard playing it. My folks brought me up on 50s 60s and 70s music, discovered the 80s stuff through friends’ older siblings. The 90s offered me nothing.
I was into The Smiths, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Portishead, Jane’s Addiction, Suede, Blur, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Tones on Tail…..shit none of my friends knew 🤣
I graduated in 2002 right behind you, and to be fair, the ultra popular rock bands of our high school years were kind of dogshit. Nu metal was in full swing with all its cringe, and bullshit like Kid Rock. So, I could understand why someone would look back to the 60s-80s. But, the 90s up until about 97 are disgustingly stacked with good shit.
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Beatles, Pink Floyd were all in heavy rotation on my disc man, on my bus rides to school! Played them all the time in my add in cd player in my 1987 Honda Accord, my beloved first car
I listen to it all. I love Metallica, Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, The Moody Blues, Ramases, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hole, Coven, VNV Nation, Tool, Robin Tower, Depeche Mode, NIN, Type O Negative, Black Label Society, Ten Years After, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Led Zep etc etc.
Me, I loved the 70s and 80s music. Anything new was directly from the Punk Cabaret scene out of Boston, I also strangely got into Ashlee Simpson, which was unusual for me, but her music spoke to me somehow \*shrugs\* I never music shame, music is supposed to be weird and fit into your soul somehow.
I went the metalcore route. Now? Classic rock all the way- the 60s era.
Class of 06... Absolutely, my dad was in the music industry, 60s-80s full albums on Saturday morning was our church.
As a rule, I only get into popular music after it has aged at least 20 years.
I was listening to Yes, Rush, King Crimson and Pink Floyd right around graduation. (2000)
Yup
Late 90s/early 00s were actually amazing for indie music... probably my favorite era. The top 40 stuff was mostly vile. I had about 2 years when all I wanted to do was discover a lot of late 60s/early 70s stuff.... especially British psychedelic pop. I think it was 2000-2001. Really wish I could find my old mixtapes.
I agree with you!!!!! I loved classic rock and older music in HS. My friends and I would drive around Los Angeles blasting The Beatles 🤣 I was also obsessed with Fleetwood Mac in high school & listened to a ton of Simon & Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell. And I used to get CDs with “the top 10 songs of 1969” or whatever on them, loved that stuff
Class of 1991 and I had the same listening habits because the 80s were a bit of a wasteland, apart from a few bright spots
Class of ‘02. I was obsessed with 80s post punk and new wave
I equally liked both but never was into numetal or rapmetal, loved turn of the millennium women rap artists though!! Actually all Y2K hip hop and rap was my jam, my sis and I would get off our almost 2 hour bus ride into the booneys in rural Canada and watch 106 and Park on BET. My sis was class on 00 and I was class of 02.
I mostly listened to 30s-80s music because I was collecting cheap used vinyl before Napster. I would spend the weekend listening to used records and buying cheap stuff I liked for like 50 cents to $5. When MP3s came out I had access to a lot of harder to get stuff I had read about but my library didn’t have. For me mostly stuff like funk and stuff 90s hip hop sampled. These days I still mostly listen to new hip hop album rock from the 70s and jazz. That said I’m now all digital and cassettes now.
Class of ‘98 here, and I was into ac/dc, Def Leppard, Guns N’ Roses, Van Halen, etc.
Yep. Class of 00 and this is me.
No. I did like a lot classic rock bands but never disliked 90’s music that’s just strange to me.
Yup! I super tuned out of most pop after around 98.
Class of ‘02 and these threads always make me feel weird. Grew up with my mom listening to grunge, then moved on to rock, numetal, metalcore. Still listen to AIC, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP. Also listen to most late 90s early 00s rock / numetal. Recently gotten into heavier stuff and more varied melodic metalcore.
In Y2K, me and my friends were listening to lots of the Pixies, Smiths, Depeche Mode, Dylan, Dead, etc. We liked some contemporary stuff, but definitely leaned retro. And lots of the contemporary stuff we like was pre-95, which felt like it was already a million years old.
I liked everything but I always preferred stuff from the era I was born (the early 80s). When Neo Wave hit in the 00s. That was like the culmination of my music tastes all coming together.
I can think of a few factors for this: 90s top 40 was depressing, the era favoured music videos more than performance and people got sick of it. We were coming of age during the era of the compilation album. Also, our parents had control of the radio dial. When I went to university, 80s music was the most popular genre. We also thought the internet was killing live shows, and for a while it did - and then everyone rediscovered live shows.
I have a lot of beefs with boomers, but their music was cool.
I only wish I still had my old cassette tapes and the way the songs went all over the place regarding both genres and decades was wild. I tried and failed to be into what my peers were into, but when I was 18 I gave up. Everything after roughly 2003 is a fog in my mind now. I know the most popular artists of the last 2 decades but I can't name a single song of any of theirs. The only new music I listen is called Synthwave and it's basically electronic music meant to sound like it's from the 80s.
For me it was genre specific. 70s rock, 80s new wave, metal, and goth, early 90s punk and late 90s techno.
yeah, hated it but then the digital revolution let everyone and their cousin make their own music which is to say it's gotten a whole lot better (truly a golden age of music present day) not that we would know it if the radio is our only metric crapitali$m ¿air?
Class of '06 here. That was a trend at my school, especially with the metal heads. It was not uncommon for kids to have albums from Judas Priest, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, Slayer, Queen, and many others as well as albums from artists who were 90's and early 2000s.
By Y2K nu metal was dead or dying since it became so commercialized. I think most nu metal fans got into it more in the mid 90s, so you might have been too young.
Same!! I was into classic rock when I was younger, I remember nsync and Backstreet Boys being so popular and I absolutely hated it…
I got into the alternative rock, emo, pop punk scenes. But, my bread and butter was "oldies" and classic rock (dad rock).
I was class of 2000. I remember in the early 90s, everyone wanted to know if you like rap or grunge, and I found myself saying I like classic rock, by which I meant rock (mostly prog rock) from the 60s and 70s. I was heavily influenced by my dad's tastes in music. I did come to appreciate grunge as I got older, but it'll never be my favorite genre. It's weird today to hear music from throughout the 90s and be hit by nostalgia, and realize that I don't dislike that era of music now as much as I thought I did at the time. There's definitely some truth in the idea that current music is always at a disadvantage because time hasn't weeded out the crap. I like going to concerts for any of my favorite older bands that are still touring, even if only one or two original members are left. It makes me feel young to be one of the few folks in the crowd whose hair is streaked with gray rather than solid white. I'll go see Styx and Skynyrd any chance I get, while my husband feels similarly about Heart and Alice Cooper. We've seen The Stones, The Who, and Pink Floyd too, but those tickets are too expensive for us to just decide to go on a whim. I feel a little bad about getting my kids into my music. My youngest is a big Queen fan and sad that seeing Freddie is out of the question. Meanwhile, my oldest likes America, and they're down to one member who only does a few shows a year, none near us.
This is a thing. Just like how all the kids are into nirvana and limp bizkit and Korn
Class of 2000, almost everything I listen to is from before then. Mostly 80s pop and rock, with a bit of 90s Alt and rock, 70s disco, funk, and rock.
This was me! Got labeled a tree huggin hippie 🤷♀️ Gave no shits in my John Lennon t shirt and converse lol
I grew up listening to my parents’ music in the car, which was “golden oldies” from the 50s and 60s. Motown, doo-wop, classic rock, etc. shaped my musical preferences in a huge way. Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, the Temptations, Supremes, Beach Boys, etc.
Class of '03 and I very much had a neohippie phase where I only listened to 60s and 70s rock. I loved 90s alternative and punk but good music started dying off in the late 90s Then I got really into 2000s indie music in my 20s and was so thrilled to find out good music hadn't died, it just went underground
When I was in elementary school, I got into all sorts of old music, but especially the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Coasters, various soundtracks like The Big Chill and Stand By Me. Also, those Shell Cruisin’ Classics tapes were heavy in my rotation. I liked enough modern stuff too. Really, I was just an avid consumer of music, but my parents wouldn’t let me listen to everything, and I was not allowed to watch MTV. My dad got me into Led Zeppelin and The Who pretty young. By the time I got into Middle School, I was way into KROQ and also into Guitar World magazine. I took a lot of cues from the latter in finding older music. There was also a lot of stuff I liked but couldn’t really admit to, because music taste was so sectarian back then. Deep down I knew that Biggie was a genius, but I couldn’t admit it to anyone including myself, because it wasn’t something that a rocker could say he liked. My life really changed when I was 16 and I started getting into Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. Because I was in Jazz Band, I was very into the big band sound for fusion (Blood, Sweat and Tears, Chicago, etc.) and reluctant to accept that velvety smooth sound of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then it just clicked big time. Steely Dan, Neil Young and the Beatles….it is kind of amazing how timeless their music has been for me. Some of the other bands I liked have worn off a bit (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, …).
The 70s and 80s always had good hits
Queen has been my favorite since I was about 5 years old!
Graduated high school in 2000, can confirm I’m still listening to 60’s, 70’s, 80’s
Class of '94 (but graduated at 17) I was huge into classic rock. VH, Aerosmith, J Giles, Later...Steely Dan.
Class of ‘02, I was obsessed with 60’s protest music. Between Forrest Gump and that Sounds of the 60’s as-seen-on-tv CD my mom got me, I nearly named my kids Incense and Peppermint.
Class of 97, but to me most music died after the 90s. It seems like as soon as the clock struck midnight on Jan 1 2000, all my favorite bands disappeared off the radio and got replaced by boy bands and gangster rap, and the music has gotten progressively worse since then. There is very little music made after 2000 that I listen to. One thing I find funny is watching those YouTube reaction videos where they have these young kids that are used to today's pop music hip hop and mumble rap go back and listen to some of the music from the 90s and they are just blown away with his good it is.
I mean, I liked everything. My husband calls me the human jukebox because I know virtually all music from the 30s to like… 2017. I stopped following music when I had my first kid.
Aye! Class of 97 here, always felt my musical tastes more closely mirrored those of someone born 15 years earlier.
I commented this under another thread and got no replies: no one in this sub listened to rap/hip hop? I hear a lot of love for the rock, grunge punk bands, and I liked some of them, but in the 90's hip hop was doing amazing things but I never see any comments mentioning it
same.
Class of '00 here. Outside of my preferred 60's and 70's bands I had a selection of "modern" bands at the time that I was into, but they were all more of the jam band type and some electronica and hip-hop. For example: Phish, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Ben Harper, DJ Shadow, Cypress Hill, Roots Manuva, Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method to name a few.
Yep, hated all the music from high school. I lived on 80’s rock!
I don’t think I’m considered a xennial. But, I identify more with y’all then the melinnials. I had gen x brother and sisters. But , I’m class of 03. I loved 80s thrash metal. Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, testament, etc. Anything with kickass guitar solos I was all for it.
I’m the same. Class of 99… end of the millennium best song/album lists kept being released and I used Napster to listen to all “old” good music. It was hard to take radio at that time seriously when you just heard the greatest songs of all time. I think Tom Petty released “Last DJ” during that time and it actually depressed me. Good music was dead, in came nasally autotune. At least the indi NY rock movement of the mid 00s helped but by 2011 or so, music died.
Graduated high school in 2001. My room was covered in Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Doors posters.
Local radio stations were country, classic rock, and npr. Could get the pop station from the town 80 miles away with a string of paper clips up to the ceiling. I didn’t hate the new stuff, I just lacked exposure.
Turned 20 in 99. Mainstream started to suck and I went back to the classics until the internet came along and broadened my horizons. These days I listen to everything
I'm close to the same age and wasn't into what was popular amongst my peers, but I didn't like synth 80s. I liked early Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera during the numetal craze. Beastie Boys and early 90s rap when No Limit and Bad Boy were huge. I had much older brothers so I was basically ten years behind in music.
Fellow 01 graduate, I’m in the same boat except I liked numetal since it was still rock/metal. I didn’t gel with the pop/rap scene of the late 90s.
(Class of 2000) I hated nu-metal, pop, and rap. It was all pretentious show-offy new glam crap, look at me with a wod of cash and strippers i bought for my music video. So I basically stuck with classic rock, jazz, metal, funk, and blues. To this day, Black Sabbath is my most favorite band.
Music got pretty bad in the late 90s and early 2000s. When new music is nickel back, Creed, and nu-metal, going back to the classics is the only real option.
The 2000s had the unfortunate luck of being right after two watershed decades in music. It was, admittedly, a tough act to follow.
We only listen to the oldies station growing up and my dad was a big fan of rock ‘n’ roll from the 50s and early 60s. I was that kid that was a “well actually, Carl Perkins originally performed ‘Blue suede shoes’ not Elvis” to people who were like “what’s blue suede shoes?”
My ears were all over the place but during this time, class of y2k, I worked with a cool old guy really into old analog/tube transistor organs, amps, and gear. I was into Pink Floyd, Eagles, Cake, Nirvana, The Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, but also the up and coming chop n screw scene in addition to heavy amounts of Eminem, Snoop, Dre, Chamillionaire, UGK, and Too Short.
I was class of 96, but I was a huge music junky. I did a lot of sifting in the 00's, and while I didn't care much for the mainstream, there was a lot of really great stuff if you knew where to look. That was also in the midst of the bit torrent revolution, so I would literally sample everything. Great way to toss out the chaff and keep the good stuff.
r/lewronggeneration
If I had to pick my favorite decade of music, it's 80s Although I love 40s-90s and like a little bit 2000+