do you listen to the same music you did in high school?

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nageov3t

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some... I don't listen to new age music anymore, I don't like 80's music as much as I used to (only 80s music I'll listen to anymore is new wave), and I'm kind of embaressed over the blink182 cd's I have, but I still really like a lot of the alternative rock bands I liked in high school, and I'm always adding new music onto my ipod.

I made a vow when I was a kid not to become like my parents... they won't listen to anything that was produced after the 70's. heh.
 

Aves

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What I listened to in high school is just a subset of what I listen to now. I've definitely expanded my musical taste in the last decade or so.
 

Bryophyte

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Some yes, some no. It's been 20 years since high school. Some bands I like now didn't exist then.
 

zebano

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Originally posted by: Lonyo
I still listen to the music I listened to when I was a lot younger, I've just added to it.

Same here although some of the new stuff are now my predominant choices.
 

zebano

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Originally posted by: krunchykrome
HAhahahhaa, NO.

In high school, I listened to the Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, DMX, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, KORN, etc etc.

I'd like to think my taste in music has gotten a little better.

You mean to say you've aquired a taste in music!
 

rbV5

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Oh yea, the late 60's and early to mid 70's was fertile for guitar based rock, which is still my favorite genre of music. My tastes have expanded quite a bit since then, even though I also listened to a lot of different music back then.

Led Zepplin is timeless :music:
 

ch33zw1z

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Yup, turn it on now and again...but have added much to the collection over the years.
 
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4 years ago I went total fob... C-pop all the way... now it seems to be coming back ><. I had a trance phase maybe 5 years ago and then I went down the mainstream rock/hip-hop stuff..
 

FoBoT

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sometimes, but there is more new stuff than just that. i like a lot of new music

i graduated in 1984, i like a lot of '90s and newer music
 

BurnItDwn

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I listen to a lot of the same music, however, some of the bands turned to crap while others are no more.

At The Gates, Iron Maiden, Death, Opeth, and many others get a LOT of play. (I gratuated High School in 1998)
 

drinkmorejava

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I don't have enough time to bother to listen to new music, and not having a car kinda makes the radio go away.
 

thirtythree

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I still listen to some of the same stuff, such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Our Lady Peace, and Radiohead. Most of what I listen is stuff I got into after high school though. It doesn't sound weird. What do you mean?
 

Vic

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A lot of the same but my tastes have certainly expanded in the past 17-18 years. I think the only thing I don't listen to now that I did then is skate punk/thrash metal/hardcore (i.e, DRI, early Anthrax/SOD, many others, etc.). I loved Metallica in high school but that has waned as the band has become a parody of itself. I still listen to tons of classic rock from the late 60s into the 70s, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Doors, Black Sabbath, etc.
One thing I remember about my senior year in high school ('88-'89) is that what later became known as "grunge" was just starting to hit in the NW, and I went to a number of small-venue shows of what later became some very big bands, i.e. Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, etc.
 

CKent

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God no. I thought it didn't get any better than Green Day's Dookie in HS (though in my defense I did like some good music, such as pre-suck Metallica). I listen to lots of jazz and trance lately, among other stuff, whereas I wouldn't touch anything non-metal/rock back then.
 

Linflas

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Pretty much although the stuff I listen to trends more towards what was out when I was in grade 4-11. By my senior year in 1974 disco had reared it's ugly head and mascera rock was in full bloom and I hated most of that crap.
 

tweakmm

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Since I was 10 I've pretty much liked all types of music and still do to this day. And to answer your question, no.
 

FeuerFrei

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I no longer listen to Def Leppard.
But I still listen to Pearl Jam and STP which arrived on the scene for my final year of high school.