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Listening to music you know is shit for nostalgia purposes.
Like, the one occasion you put on an album that you would never ordinarily listen to and generally dislike just because it reminds you of a certain time of your life. Anyone done that recently? I'm currently listening to A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds To Mars because it reminds me of being 14 and not having to worry about anything other than going to school and blagging my way out of detention.
- kilgore-trout, Pale-eyedBadger, Icarus-Smicarus, OvertakenByTractors, Lambchops, Antelope, DaddyorChips, and badmanreturns this'd this
hybrid theory
except its amazing
It seems like a lot of people on this site in particular do this, and then claim it's still great.
Some of it is, and some of it's objectively garbage. Nothing wrong with that.
I was listening to MCR's debut in the wake of their break up, it was pretty fun, and I still remembered all the words despite not listening to it in about 7 years.
My formative years were also my formative music years
So all those post-punky bands from the middle of the 2000s are great fun. Listening to the Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Futureheads, and Rakes debuts are kind of the most fun I have with music: nostalgia and pretty good music is a nice cocktail.
SCROTUM this'd thisI've gone though just about every piece of nu metal ever put to tape
this is what happens when I'm drinking
I put on Ideas Above Our Station by Hundred Reasons to get that nostalgia of being 14 recently.
Unfortunately I wasn't too impressed, I don't think it's aged well.
On the flipside, I put on Neon Handshake by Hell is for Heroes the other week - same nostalgic feeling, still an excellent, excellent album!
YEAH !!
"remember when we _____ and this song was on the radio?" See, that's GREAT!!
Barefaced JAG
I'm currently trying to listen to all my CDs and review them, and the process is bringing up quite a few like this (Jackson 5, Saves The Day). I'm really enjoying listening to stuff I've not heard for ages, and keep getting that warm nostalgic feeling when I hear something I grew up with. I love that music reminds you of certain times of your life and songs that soundtracked certain events can trigger the same feelings many years later.
Started a blog for my reviews. They're not that good really. http://alphabetalbums.wordpress.com/
both of those are amazing albums
but HIFH were nowhere near as good as HR when they both played them in full last year. an enormous crowd of people singing along to the whole of IAOS, clearly all there for a nostalgia hit was just so good.
No way
I thought HIFH were twice as good, if not more. Just because more people sang along to HR doesn't mean they were better. They have aged awfully (especially Colin's voice/energy levels) whereas Neon Handshake still sounded amazing and Justin's voice / stage diving were still in great nick too.
badmanreturns this'd thisI have a curious relationship with Definitely Maybe these days
It's still a full-on thrilling album but in the light of what followed I always feel somewhat sordid for listening to it.
and also the first Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. album
which I didn't even like at the time all that much (or wouldn't admit to myself that I did like it), I just downloaded it illegally and listened to it lots when walking to my girlfriends house in September 2006. "You don't need a degreeee to deconstruct this melody"....yeah
Either I'm getting old
or there needs to be some sort of quantifiable point at which nostalgia is acceptable. Fucking Arctic Monkeys?! 7 years is clearly not any sort of reasonable timeframe in which to get misty-eyed.
oops didn't mean to this that
it's poo
Yesiamaduck this'd thisYes!
I ruddy love a horribly hungover/still drunk singalong to From Here To Infirmary by Alkaline Trio, really shakes the cobwebs out
I'd say the 30STM album I mentioned in the OP generally fits that
But it has a couple of songs that trigger the senses, overall I think I realised it was mostly crap then.
In light of the recent breakup of My Chemical Romance, I put on some of their stuff.
I openly maintain that a lot of songs on Three Cheers and The Black Parade are really solid pop songs. I remember being OBSESSED with those records. They're pretty badass, in hindsight, even if they are so over-the-top.
aactv this'd thisMCR have always seemed to me like the musical equivalent of a superhero comic book
Big, dumb, ridiculous, but a lot of fun.
HIFH were absolutely amazing at that show
I definitely think The Neon Handshake has aged better as well. HR just have bigger 'anthems'.
i disagree, listening to music i know is GREAT for nostalgia purposes.