music What Were You Listening To In High School?

[Legendary Emerald 622]

A simple prompt, really. What were you listening to when you were in high school? Or if you're still in high school, what have you been listening to? High school seems to be about the time when we all begin to solidify our opinions on musical genres, and maybe find some of the bands and artists that we will follow for the rest of our lives.

 

But there's still plenty of changing and growing to do for a high schooler, and that applies to their tastes in music as well. Many of our favorite songs and bands from yesteryear have fallen off of our mp3 players, for various reasons.

 

So let's take a trip down memory lane. First, a few suggestions.

• Pick no more than two bands/artists/songs per post

• If possible, post a video of your favorite song by that band/artist

• Explain how you started listening to them, why you liked them, etc.

• Answer the following: Do you still listen to this? If not, explain why.

I'll give an example.

 

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Band: Linkin Park

 

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYU-8IFcDPw

 

Linkin Park was one of the first bands I discovered in high school. Prior to high school, my musical tastes were focused squarely on video game music; specifically, the Sonic Adventure series. In fact, the first time I ever heard a Linkin Park song was in an animated fan video for that same blue hedgehog. That song was “Numb”, and it was pretty cool. But it wasn't until I heard “Faint” play in a different video that I realized it was a band worth listening to.

 

They were just an aggressive, loud band. And up till then, I hadn't heard anything like them. For the first time, they opened my eyes to the possibility that good music could exist in the mainstream, and not just in a video game.

 

Do I still listen to them?

 

Very rarely. I still think their early music is good, especially their first album, but their style changed a lot with their third album. Nothing they did really grabbed my attention after that. Nowadays if I want to listen to a band that mixes rock with rap, I have other options that I head to first.

 

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Now share yours!

[False Perception 482]

30STM and independent artists.

 

2) ERROR. AWESOME FILE CORRUPTED.

 

3) I liked 30's lyrics and the pace of their songs. @Independent: I listened to a lot of mixes and they're just a lot of different artists.

 

4) Eeyup. But I'm getting back into Aerosmith and Poison.

[roomforapony 285]

Oh god this is so embarrassing. I used to be obsessed with H.I.M.

 

 

I got into them because of my boyfriend at the time. I was 14 and totally gawffic. I thought all of their songs were just the height of romance and I loved them all. I seriously had five posters which four were of Ville Vallo all over my pink and black striped walls. Oh man, listening to this crap is giving me so much nostalgia, haha. I haven't listened to them in years.

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

Band: Strapping Young Lad

 

 

Strapping Young Lad was a band I discovered around October/November, prior to learning about Devin Townsend himself. I was already into the metal scene already, but with more... "mainstream" bands I was familiar with - A7X, BFMV, yada yada yada. After shedding the childish "metal" I used to listen to, I pony'd up and got my hands on bands like Evile, Onslaught, Coroner - mainly 80's and 90's thrash bands. Then when I discovered Devin Townsend's insanity, it made me search into him a little more, and I found out about Strapping Young Lad from there.

 

When I started looking through the discography, I started off with their final album The New Black (because they were too metal for my tastes), and as soon I got settled in I checked out their self titled, then Alien, and then their grand opus, City. For a 16 year old, this was by far the greatest metal album ever. Aggressive, angst ridden, heavy, the album had the whole works while still grabbing the attention of their listeners and having good studio quality (unlike Heavy As a Really Heavy Thing http://mlpforums.com/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.png) and it was a fantastic listen. No other band was able to touch that album in terms of favourites. It was, and still is, that fucking good.

 

Do I still listen to them?

 

Absolutely. For a teenager that wanted angry music, Strapping Young Lad was like a audio version of heavenly bliss pumped into my ears because a man with a skullet was getting tired of working at a pasta house. How can you not love this?

 

 

...actually, don't answer that.

[Skye Starlight 223]

2 types of music I normally listen to (because I'm still in High School)

 

1. Pop

 

I love pop music, although I don't have a favorite song or band (maybe... Hey Ocean's pretty darn awesome, and not just for Rainbow Dash and Applejack)

 

As for how I got into it, I simply grew up with hearing it the most.

 

2. PONY!

 

Well, as I'm still in high school, I think this can count. My personal favorite song is Love is in Bloom, while my favorite Brony artist is Mandopony... I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about...

 

How I got into it? After I got into ponies (woo!)

[Crispy 5,563]

...Not much has changed for me.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnUHJsfBcRg&feature=related

[Ol' Sarge 885]

Memory lane.

 

1. Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones (I'm not THAT old!)

 

2. N/A

 

3. I really got hooked on classic rock from a friend of mine, before that I was more of a New Wave guy (As a result of early MTV, when they actually played music videos). But this friend took the time a schooled me on some of the great bands. I had the good fortune of being the music reviewer for my high school newspaper, so I got to write about music (how cool is that?).

 

4. Still listen to all that old stuff. But I like to expand my horizon musically, I have everything from heavy stuff, to jazz, to classical, to dub step and just about everything in between.

[Abstract 832]

I pretty much still listen to the same music. Had a bit of a problem finding good new bands lately, perhaps I'm just too picky.

 

But I imagine that for a very long time at the least, The Smashing Pumpkins will be my absolute favorite band of all time.

 

Prior to discovering them at the tender age of 15, My favorite genre for a few years at that point was classic rock. The usual AC/DC, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Rush, you get the idea. I was also quite the internet geek at the time, learning as much as I could and trying out every new program possible. I had downloaded the Mac version of AOL Radio (I don't even know if this is still around) and was messing around on it. I have always been a fan of 90's rock music as well, (my mom got me into The Offspring, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, etc. when I was just a tyke) and had decided to listen to that specific station one day. Not really paying a whole lot of attention to it, suddenly I hear:

And you could say that was history. I was immediately obsessed, and it took me no longer than a month to find, download and fall head over heels in absolute love with their entire catalog.

 

There is just something about Billy Corgan that makes him one of the greatest musical geniuses the world has ever known in my mind. (Let's be honest, the rest of the band may as well be session musicians.) The music he makes speaks to me, evokes feelings in me that no other band has even come close to achieving. There is just unrestrained beauty and soul in the songs, a sense that he made it the way he wanted and wouldn't tolerate anyone in his way. They can be heavy, and delicate at the same time. They can contain lyrics of such depressing gloom and doom, yet bring about a hope and confidence in yourself.

 

The layered guitars prevalent in their earlier work are powerful, matched perfectly with the intricate drum work and booming bass, complimented by Billy's unique voice; these albums quite literally give me the shivers, and a feeling of great confusion of how music this great can possibly exist. Even the later, more electronic albums are nothing less than top notch; They provide nothing but more of the same very intertwined, driving, powerful music in a different way. (BTW, anyone checked out "Oceania"? Billy's still got it!) Melodic death metal is my favorite genre, but not even my favorite band of that genre usurps SP.

 

I could go on for quite some time, but I fear I may have already made an absolute fool of myself, so in answering the last question: Yes, I listen to them at least on a weekly basis, if not near daily.

Edited July 10, 2012 by Abstract

[I Have Left MLP Forums 100]

I listen to Danny B. and Waterflame mostly.

 

Why? They are so unique! Their soundtracks are fucking amazing and have their own personal touches! People even think of Waterflame is a genre now. Danny is an indie-music rock star now.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikTwG27I1qc

 

I started listening to them through OC Remix, Newgrounds, and their game soundtracks.

I listen to their music daily. It's fucking awesome.

[Croaks 251]

I wish I could see through the future.

However I am still eight.

[False Perception 482]

Oh, and I like music with a thick bassline, and select J-POP.

[Nightfall 3,950]

All Christian alternative/rock music.

 

Mostly Skillet. Monster, Awake and Alive, Hero, One Day Too Late, Never Surrender, Collide, Savior... So many to list!

 

More recently, six songs by Fireflight (I'll tell later) and Start Again by Red.

[Envy 6,156]

I still listen to pretty much everything I did back in high school, I've just added on, but the frequency with which I listen to what I did back in high school has decreased. In this post, I'll go over one genre I loved so much back then:

 

Soft Rock:

 

America

 

Eagles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dli8RKi6wgM

 

"I Need You" by America was my favorite song around maybe the end of my Junior year. Yes, I know this is my parents generation's music. I was raised to oldies, and by my sophomore year of high school I listened to a radio station that played it specifically.

 

I considered America to be my favorite band altogether back then, but I also really liked Bread, Eagles, and Jim Croce. I posted "Best of My Love" by Eagles mainly because it is the song that really takes me back to that time. I loved it a lot back then, but in between then and earlier this year (six or so years) I didn't listen to it as much, so it's kind of preserved in my mind in a way, if you know what I mean.

 

I still love this music a lot, for perhaps a combination of how good it still is to me, but also nostalgia. I had a completely different life back then, but no need to go into that. However, my tastes have still changed dramatically since back then. I was a teenager, thus immature and attention-seeking... So I liked to be different, and with that said I became quite snobby in my love for Soft Rock and Classical. So I closed my mind to practically everything else... =/ (although I still listened to the alternative rock I listened to in middle school and before this phase. lol)

 

Since we can only post two videos in a post, I'll make another post later for my other musical tastes back then. I just tend to think of 'Soft Rock' when I think of my musical tastes in high school, so that's why this came first.

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

I am in high school and right now I'm listening to lots and lots of Iron Maiden. I remember being like, six and my dad would always play this awesome music whenever we went somewhere in the car and that the cds all had creepy artwork, but I forgot the name of the band. Then when I was about thirteen, I'm fourteen now, I looked through some boxes and found some Iron Maiden cds, then I remembered that's who made all that awesome music! I love all their stuff, even the not so good stuff with Blaze. I love them for the pure skill and awesome way they play music, and the fact that they are so hard working.

 

I also love me some Disturbed, I started listening to them when I was watching a music video on youtube and "Meaning of life" by Disturbed was on it. This music was angry and different for I had never heard stuff like that before, their first album was their most aggressive and I still love it dearly, I also love all their other albums. Also David (singer) looks freaking hot for a middle aged man who's bald and has two giant chin rings.

I listen to both all the time.

[Faraday Flask 21]

• Depeche Mode & E Nomine

• http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDahFDchDw

• I was raised on Depeche Mode and I saw E Nomine on youtube.
• Hell yes!

[Quill The Pony. 175]

I'm in middle school so this is awkward...

 

Nirvana: Dive

Iron Maiden: Aces high

 

I was looking through my music folder my dad made for me and found both of those.

 

I still listen to them and other bands.

[Veiled Enigma 389]

>Still in Highschool

Tristam

I found him thanks to the Monstercat label, I've been subscribed to their channel since November of last year, and a Tristam song was the first song that was uploaded since I subbed.

 

Tristam has the awesome heavy basslines you'd expect from a Dubstep/Electro musician, but he also has amazing vocals and lyrics that will get buried into your mind.

Edited July 10, 2012 by Veiled Enigma

[Caramel Medley 38]

Opeth

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWdCRYEZGE

 

I only listened to metal when I found them, but I started to like their lighter stuff as well. Nowadays I still listen to metal, but progressive rock is my main genre. And yes, I still listen to Opeth

[Envy 6,156]

Alright, now for my second post!

 

In the summer between my sophomore year and junior year I started to get into Classical music. It was not a genre that I ever disliked, but one that I never really had the chance to explore, I guess one would say.

 

It started when I went to my grandparents house for a week or so. My grandma had a set of tapes of classical that I for some reason decided to listen to. On the particular tape I decided to listen to, I found this piece (it's the same exact recording as the piece is performed in two different styles, so that's important):

 

 

I had not to long ago learned what a bassoon was (now my main instrument), and when I heard it in this piece I think I really started to love it. It plays the melody there toward the beginning so beautifully. And, oddly enough, this piece perhaps got me to love both the bassoon and classical music (which may come off as odd, it certainly is not a soloistic piece for the bassoon, it's just there, and I noticed it. lol)

 

Not too much later on I got into Mozart, and this was my favorite piece at the time:

 

 

Mozart sure knew how to compose for the clarinet! I don't listen to that movement of the concerto as much these days. I mainly listen to the third movement, and other times the first. It's still a great piece all around, though, and I listen to that one on occasion.

 

Obviously, I still listen to classical music. Although I'm more into Impressionistic and Renaissance these days, I can't help but still love Baroque and Classical.

 

Okay, that's it for me!

[Samurshy 708]

I just graduated high school.

 

I listen to

Coheed and Cambria

Foo Fighters

Stone Temple Pilots

Billy Talent

System Of a Down

Serj Tankian

Alex S.'s ponystep

some dub step but not much

Tool

A Perfect Circle

Seether

Landsdowne

Sublime

Korn

The Used

Rise Against.

 

It is really hard to choose a favorite band, but I think it would be coheed and cambria.

Edited July 10, 2012 by Bronynonymous