What Song, Album, Artist Have You "Outgrown"

[Jeremy]

I've been going back through a lot of music, albums, artists, etc from when I really got into music (mid 90's, born 1982) and playing my favorites from each of the years through to roughly 2010. What I've found is interesting...

1 - I've always liked "angst" or "loud" music. The 90's I was big into Green Day, The Offspring, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Everclear, Blink 182, etc. As I listen to it now, it's amazing how less "angry" it sounds. It's still good music, but I've clearly outgrown the speed and loudness. The lyrics however still resonate pretty well.

2 - From around 1998 to roughly 2010, I was big into nu-metal and sudo-hard rock (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Creed, Godsmack, Disturbed, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, etc). Those songs still have the same loudness and energy, but the lyrics seem less emotional today. A few exceptions - like Korn's early albums are still my favorites and go-to when relaxing.

3 - I've been on a linear progression since the beginning towards harder and louder and most of the time now listen to hard rock, nu-metal, metal (Korn, Godsmack, Disturbed, Asking Alexandria, Bad Omens, In This Moment, Motionless In White) and some deep music (Badflower, Highly Suspect, etc).

4 - The bands that were breaking ground in the late 90's through 2010 are making a huge comeback. Bands like Disturbed, Breaking Benjamins, etc went through a bit of a lost phase 2010 to 2020 with sub-par albums. Some are now back to being favorites (i.e. Disturbed).

How has your taste evolved or what music that once resonated the most now seems less connective?

 

[NoCreativity]

Metal/Hard Rock. I used to be really into Van Halen/ Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath/ Aerosmith/most 80s rock bands.

I was into Creed also back in the early 2000s, Coldplay is my guilty pleasure. Their new stuff sucks but those first few albums through X&Y that were mostly piano based are masterpieces.

As I've gotten older I've mellowed out considerably. I still love my 90s bands like Pear Jam/ Smashing Pumpkins/ Counting Crows but I'm more into melodic and ambient stuff now, think The War on Drugs/ Young the Giant/The Head and the Heart.

 

[Al_4_State]

I pretty well outgrew 90's-00's punk, but in the past year (largely inspired by the new Blink 182 album) I revisited a lot of that. I didn't really connect with much of it, other than in a nostalgic sense, but I gained a new appreciation for the enduring quality of Blink's music and I did legitimately enjoy their last album.

I enjoyed a lot of jam bands, or just soft rock singer/songwriters that were linked to that scene in high school and college (let's say 2000-2006 time line) that I can't connect with at all any more. OAR, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Dispatch, and a myriad of similar artists that flashed in that scene in the early aughts. Basically anything with collegiate honkies playing reggae influenced tunes.

By 2007 my tastes had settled heavily into a place where I was most into what I call classic rock (1965-1975), grunge, alt-country, outlaw/classic country, some modern alternative and punk artists, and any artist that makes music heavily influenced by those genres (for example, I'm a huge Replacements fan - they aren't classic rock from that timeline, but they were heavily influenced by it). I've discovered a lot of stuff in that vein and rarely listen to stuff outside of those genres these days.

 

[NoCreativity]

OAR, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Dispatch, and a myriad of similar artists that flashed in that scene in the early aughts

I used to absolutely hate John Mayer around that time frame. All I knew about him was his radio friendly stuff. This guy I worked with was really into him so I would alwasy make fun of him.

The last few years I've discovered how talented of a guitarist he is and have taken an interest since I've played guitar in a couple bands myself.

There's a joke that he has two kinds of fans, teenage girls, and middle aged guitarists.

 

[JP4CY]

I've grown out of basic rap/hip hop I was never huge, huge into rap but I'm finding I appreciate the thoughtful side of hip hop like Tribe Called Quest, Sly and the Family Stone.

 

[Al_4_State]

I used to absolutely hate John Mayer around that time frame. All I knew about him was his radio friendly stuff. This guy I worked with was really into him so I would alwasy make fun of him.

The last few years I've discovered how talented of a guitarist he is and have taken an interest since I've played guitar in a couple bands myself.

There's a joke that he has two kinds of fans, teenage girls, and middle aged guitarists.

I hated John Mayer until the John Mayer Trio album came out in 2005. I still don't care for a lot of his solo albums, but I viewed him in a much different light after that.

 

[Al_4_State]

I've grown out of basic rap/hip hop I was never huge, huge into rap but I'm finding I appreciate the thoughtful side of hip hop like Tribe Called Quest, Sly and the Family Stone.

I've never thought of them as hip hop, even though they were clearly a major influence on hip hop artists. Like a funk, rock, soul kinda mix.

 

[Al_4_State]

I forgot all the late 90's nu-metal. Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, Kid Rock, Korn, etc. I was just entering high school and that **** was huge.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I can't think of any majors acts I once loved but now don't at least respect.

Maybe that's because I was never taken by the "music of my youth" as so many of us are (and not saying it is bad if you are... it's a very common thing for people of all generations).

I grew up with classic rock radio and my father's LP collection and my grandparents' classic and jazz LP collection, and all of that stuff has aged like a fine wine I'd still love to drink.

 

[JP4CY]

I've never thought of them as hip hop, even though they were clearly a major influence on hip hop artists. Like a funk, rock, soul kinda mix.

Yeah kinda like Parliament

 

[ZJohnson]

I can no longer stomach one second of Linkin Park. I know I will take some heat for this but I stand by it.

 

[BigTurk]

There has been a lot of music that rock radio has killed. I cannot listen to anything Nirvana anymore, or Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Motley Crue (Anything from Girls, Girls, Girls and newer) and there are others.

I have found bands that I didn't know about, or know enough about, from when I was a kid. Cinderella is a great band and the more I hear the more I like. Megadeth is another as is Iron Maiden. Buckethead...now there is a gift that keeps on giving.

I listen to a lot of 40s era big band, and 1950s-1960s music. Way before my time but some of that is just excellent.

 

[Mr Janny]

Easy answer for me: The Doors.
In my late teens and early twenties, I went in hard for the Doors. I listened to a wide variety of music, but they were the backbone of it. Owned all their albums, read all of the biographies, sought out as many bootleg recordings of shows as I could find. And then one day I just woke up and wasn't interested anymore. Don't get me wrong, there are still a few songs that I enjoy, but anymore, I find much of their music to be so pretentious.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Nu metal. I can still enjoy Bizkit or Korn but for the most part that music is a joke compared to the metal of today. Prog has taken my soul. I've moved towards jazz with my guitar playing and that has me listening to a lot of RnB.

 

[NickTheGreat]

To pile onto the Blink and 90's Alt thing. I mean, in those days, it was these young guys, fighting "the machine" and all that jazz.

Now we're a bunch of old men, and Blink and Green Day and others are "the machine."

Kinda like when Toby Keith sings about being a cowboy and drinking in small town bars. He hasn't done that in 30 years.

 

[JohnPrineforCy]

for the SWI people pretty much anything that was played on 89.7 the river in the early 2000s

 

[Al_4_State]

Easy answer for me: The Doors.
In my late teens and early twenties, I went in hard for the Doors. I listened to a wide variety of music, but they were the backbone of it. Owned all their albums, read all of the biographies, sought out as many bootleg recordings of shows as I could find. And then one day I just woke up and wasn't interested anymore. Don't get me wrong, there are still a few songs that I enjoy, but anymore, I find much of their music to be so pretentious.

Good call. I never got that into the Doors, especially compared to their peers, but outside of Roadhouse Blues and LA Woman I have no need for anything else in their catalog.

Jim Morrison was an absolute twat, and it drives me nuts that they didn't have a formal bass player, but there is absolutely bass guitar on their studio recordings.

 

[HFCS]

I've grown out of basic rap/hip hop I was never huge, huge into rap but I'm finding I appreciate the thoughtful side of hip hop like Tribe Called Quest, Sly and the Family Stone.

The subject matter of hip hop is what turns me off. In a way it’s like old school country where it tells a story so the story has to be interesting.

If it’s about fighting oppression or just off the wall stuff I tend to love it (maybe 1% of hip hop). Tribe is really great.

If it’s about champagne, ego, expensive brands, butts and money it’s pretty gross. Weed isn’t as brutal as the other topics.

 

[HFCS]

To pile onto the Blink and 90's Alt thing. I mean, in those days, it was these young guys, fighting "the machine" and all that jazz.

Now we're a bunch of old men, and Blink and Green Day and others are "the machine."

Kinda like when Toby Keith sings about being a cowboy and drinking in small town bars. He hasn't done that in 30 years.

Green Day can’t be too much of “the machine” when half the political spectrum was throwing a fit crying about them last week. I mean they’re doing something to upset people in power, it doesn’t take much but it happened. They could be like “everybody buys sneakers” Michael Jordan if they wanted to really sell out.

They surely have a lot of money though and for some that’s automatically where it changes. Personally I’m never sure where I stand in that.

 

[ISUcyclones11]

I can no longer stomach one second of Linkin Park. I know I will take some heat for this but I stand by it.

im ready to fight