Songs or bands that were important to you, but now you question

[nuggetsvolume1]

Complete opposite here: I thought 81 DC bands were strictly for jock-o types in my beer guzzling days. Now have completely embraced it as an adult. Still, if you grew up on it and listened to it for years, I guess....

ICP is a band probably better off left in youth.

[Spacecase Records]

You haven't experienced callousness until you visit American hospitals. I work part time at a hot rod shop. Hard living. The guys there are in their 30s and I'm not sure what's going to happen to them in 20 years. Great people; just independent contractors who don't qualify for a group plan. I've lived in New Zealand too and I skated five days a week with guys who drank VBs every day and didn't work. Health care wasn't even a concern for them.

Dinosaur Jr. I listened to them a lot in high school, but pretty much didn't listen to them again after 22. I don't really mind them though.

[Ass Invader]

There's tons of shit I used to love but won't fuck with now.  That's how you separate the wheat from the chaff - if you can listen to something for 30 years and not get bored with it, there must be something to it.

[Sukebe GG]

I have always been a musical slut had impeccable musical taste, and even to this day am always looking for a reason to pontificate on what a great album Appetite for Destruction is to anyone stupid enough to join me for a drink... If anything, I am still continuously expanding my musical embrace although there was a brief period in the mid90s when I considered abandoning all rockish stuff for jazz, but then I realized, there will always be a moon over Marin...I guess "important" is the key word here...
https://youtu.be/MKNk3GXpv2Y

[cranefortune]

Not much that i question really....I dunno if thats the right word....definitely can do without  the pop punk i listened to in the 90's. The misogyny rampant in that shit wasn't obvious to me when i was young, but i hear some of that stuff now and i want to throw up. In a parallel....there is a whole 2nd scene of "punk" shit in Atlanta and it is comprised of people who seemingly only believe punk existed in the 90s (pop punk AND street punk). Our scenes do not interact at all (thankful) and with whatever internet presence they have its obvious they hold the word of thee prophet Fat Mike in high esteem.

If you mean what am I embarrassed of? Shit nothing. Why? Whether i think its good or shite now, getting into pop punk at 10 got me here....to this illustrious message boa...

 

[Sukebe GG]

Yeah, you might peel away some of the fat of a given genre but not being able to listen to Void of the first FUs? Shit, I was skanking round the office to the Master Tape Vol. 1 just the other day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TRbv803uo

[Raul]

At some point is true that some 90s lo-fi punk is no better than pop punk, a lot of it was kids music, which is fine since i was at the time.  Anyway, Supercharger / Rip Offs sounds still great to me, specially Supercharger singles collection, i tend to come back to it some times across the year. Don't take them too serious obviously, Loli & the Chones are also still fun. And Mummies & Oblivians are just classics.

The thing about fidelity is just a matter of taste, i still love lo-fi aesthetics but i can't get into clear metal productions or heavy metal. I hate that kind of sound. I also hate nowadays music, i hate all this fucking effects a-la auto tunes style.. so... i don't really think a kind of sound makes us "the weird ones", the world is a fuckin weird one and i still (32 years old) cannot believe how stupid we, the people, are.

[nuggetsvolume1]

I fucked with "Enema of The State" when it came out. I was like 21 and dating an 18 year old with pink hair. I knew better, but I wanted to see what everybody else was listening to. I bought a tape of it. I honestly really liked it. I was sick of reading "Please Kill Me" and listening to KBD comps.

I just wanted to live a little, ok???

[AggravationOverdose]

Mad Nanna

[Sukebe GG]

I fucked with "Enema of The State" when it came out. I was like 21 and dating an 18 year old with pink hair. I knew better, but I wanted to see what everybody else was listening to. I bought a tape of it. I honestly really liked it. I was sick of reading "Please Kill Me" and listening to KBD comps.

I just wanted to live a little, ok???

If we get Disclosure, all is forgiven 

[croxschzwhyrghs]

I fucked with "Enema of The State" when it came out. I was like 21 and dating an 18 year old with pink hair. I knew better, but I wanted to see what everybody else was listening to. I bought a tape of it. I honestly really liked it. I was sick of reading "Please Kill Me" and listening to KBD comps.

I just wanted to live a little, ok???

Knew a guy, friend's older brother, who named his kid after one of the members. I respected him a lot and he'd stick up for the young kids and make the mum and boyfriend shut up and stop fighting so the kids could sleep. Blink 182 is emo for people who want to run around and externalise their frustration a little, at least TRY to grow up. More about what IS than could be, you know. You see the lack of solid grounding in one of them's (Travis? I dunno) obsession with alien stuff. Fun anthem for 17 yr olds working at Maccas who think the height of enjoyment is mooning someone on an overpass and then settling in the sticks to make babies as per 'natural'.

Went through a phase listening to the Vandals. You can hold on to them a bit longer but they were like an anxiety antidote. Like you can forget the world exists outside the suburbs, Bit of stimulation, bit wordy, catchy, everything's not tooo bad.

Oh and Wavves etc.

The guy at least brings up an interesting topic. I've in recovery now, so I guess I question any sort of pro-drug or drinking songs? "More Beer", "So Fucked Up", whatever. I also really enjoyed getting fucked up from 18-30, and don't regret it, so stuff like that (or just the "drunk punk" stereotype in general) was the right soundtrack for me at that time. It just doesn't work for me now? So at 39, yeah, I would question those songs/that message. For a 21 year old kid, go for it.

It's funny: I'm probably more open minded about music now than when I was a kid. I've ADDED more stuff to my playlists than subtracted it. As I mentioned earlier, I am just now getting into Judas Priest, a band I would have sworn off as bad older-brother cock rock when I was growing up in the 90's. So I find my tastes becoming actually less selective with time. I tend to re-visit old stuff that I wrote off when younger and try to listen to it with fresh years.

I would say that some music that my friends and I took on as "ironically cool" in the early aughts now just seems disgusting. There was a period when a lot of people were embracing old Poison albums (not kidding) as some sort of ironic hipster thing. I had an ex who would listen to it all the time, as well as an ex-drummer who would blast it from his car stereo and thought he was the funniest/coolest guy in the world for doing so. Yeah....I question that one.

Drug and Alcohol Songs for You and your Mates Who Will Forget You When You Get Liver Cancer Vol 1.

This one's pretty nice though. Not quite the same old. To this song you can drink - or not.

Cosmic Psychos - Feeling Average
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_fQWwCBkis

[nuggetsvolume1]

Blink-182 vibe: My parents don't understand me because I skateboard and own a Descendants CD. I don't really want to go to college. Growing up is hard. The only girl who understands me is the purple haired girl who blew me at the mall the other day. We will be together forever. Let's get drunk in the parking lot and tell fart jokes all night.

This meshed really well for me with:

Brittany Spears vibe: Don't listen to your parents. You need to express yourself sexually. You should show off your body more. You need to make irrational sexual decisions. You should probably make those choices with a bad boy/loser. You are a very sexual person. Think about sex, and how you are a sex object.

RIP 2001-2005. Oh how I miss thee....

[GerryTodd]

devil dogs - musically I'm sure their stuff holds up reasonably well, but the andrew dice clay shtick really hasn't aged well.   i know it was the late 80s or whatever but using the word "faggot" in a Beach Boys cover in 1989 is pretty lame.

[yullowteef]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

[nuggetsvolume1]

I was listening to "Kill the Musicians" as late as like 18, I think...pop punk happens.