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Alright, alright! We're back with another Music Monday and this time the focus is "tunes from your teenage days" — props to @fdocr for the excellent suggestion. 🙌 So, let's bust out those jams from our highschool days... tastes change, so if you're embarrassed by what you used to listen to, it's all good! And if you're feeling self-conscious about revealing your age, please don't be. This thread is a judgement free zone — y'all help me to keep it that way!
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Alright, lemme hear those tunes from your teenage years! Note: you can embed a link to your song using the following syntax {% embed https://... %}. This should work for most common platforms!
Really looking forward to listening to y'all's suggestions! 🎶
Latest comments (19)
One of the first bands my friends and I discovered was Simple Plan which got us the urge to create a band lol
Another band was when I my brother and I moved to a new school, we listened to
Oooo I nearly missed this message.
Panic at the Disco! was one of my wife's highschool faves too. I remember she intro'ed them to me at some point in college and thinking wow, this is dope. Thanks for bringing them back to mind!
And haha, I know Simple Plan as well! There was definitely a big pop punk movement in those teenage years. Haha, this music video is referencing the movie The Loser I believe. I like that it's "I'm Just a Kid" too... pretty appropriate for a thread about remembering tunes from your youth.
my teenage tunes are basically all the hits happening in the 2000s like R&B, Nu-Rock & Emo, and some Indonesian local music and some old school anime & game OST😄
There is a parody channel about emo bands that I watched these day 😂
I happened to see “the Cadillacs” live last month so they’re fresh on my mind when it comes to the “teenage days” theme 😌
Oh wow! These songs are a blast. I gotta look up the lyrics and do some translating! But, my ears are loving what they're hearing. 😀
Lyrics are 10/10. Matador and Mal bicho are protest music from rough times in South America against dictatorships and such (Victor Jara reference)
If I had to pick music that made my teen years, it’d be this is FutureSexLoveSounds
Oh hell yeah! This album definitely made me reevaluate Mr. Timberlake. Before this, he was just one of the dudes from NSYNC... but after, he was one of the funkiest pop singers of the decade.
Facts Michael! 😊To this day, Like I Love You gets people dancing. Speaking of that song, I’d think you’d like this
Oh wow!! This is so dope. I love music documentaries and this is gonna be a fun one. I'm gonna keep this one pulled up and watch it later. Thank you so much for sharing!
ohhhhh this is a good one, I had a lot of diff phases but I think the longest running one was prob metal (ik this is a broad umbrella but I listen(ed) to just about everything w specific subgenre preferences changing month to month - sometimes I was really into thrash, other times really into some esoteric subgenre of death metal, etc.)
some faves:
Rock on! I think I've mentioned this to ya before, but I'm really uneducated in metal... I'm gonna dip my toes into these and see what's what. I like hearing about your sampling of the different subgenres, haha.
Music from my teenage years was largely awful (a lot of 80's hair metal). My 20's, though? I still listen to a lot of early Pearl Jam -- the Ten and Vs. albums, specifically.
I have loads of good memories listening to Pearl Jam. My brother used to drive me into school and we'd rock out to Ten. Good times!
As far as those early 90's bands go, I really really love Blind Melon. Loads of folks know them for "No Rain" but there are soooo many other good tunes. I think they're hugely underrated!
One of my go-to bands in high school was Modest Mouse... they have a few songs that broke through to the mainstream, but probably the most famous one is "Float On".
Anywho, I still think they're a great band even though I don't listen to'em loads these day.
A good oldie of theirs that I'd recommend is "Dramamine":
If you're looking for a full album to listen to, I'd suggest The Moon and Antartica. I think it sits nicely between their older, more garage rocky sound and their newer, still experimental, but more polished/commercial sound. It's a weird, dark, short song, but I always loved the tune "Wild Pack of Family Dogs":
oooo Modest Mouse is one of those bands I've always wanted to get into but never really had a chance
I had this phase in university where I listened to their song Sleepwalking on repeat so that song gives me huge nostalgia but otherwise I've only really bopped to Float On, Dashboard, and their bigger hits - giving The Moon and Antarctica a listen rn thank you for the rec 😎
Awww yayeah! Happy to put them back on your radar... they really are a great band. "Sleepwalking" is a damn good tune btw... and I love all the hits too. 🙌
Please lemme know what ya think about The Moon and Antartica — hope ya dig it!
Loooved The Moon and Antarctica, def see what you mean by it sitting nicely between garage rockiness and their more polished hits
Esp loved Dark Center of the Universe, gave me that same sort of head boppiness that the title track from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles gives me lol absolutely love when music drives like that
Woot! I'm siked to hear that. 😁
And oooooo Dark Center of the Universe is such a fantastic track. I can totally feel the Sgt Pepper's connection you're describing... I think maybe part of it is that descending bass line. And, there definitely is a whole lotta momentum! But, I also love how they slow it all way down in the end and you get these wandering guitar licks. Just a super cool track and quite possibly my fave on the record!