Bands you used to love and now wonder what in the HELL you were thinking...?

1988RedT2 wrote: Dead Kennedys! Honestly, what adolescent can listen to "Too Drunk to Berkeley" and not giggle his arse off?

Hey, holiday in Cambodia is a great song.

Hootie and the blowfish, butthole surfers, bush, and one that is sure to rile the nativrs- nirvana. Can't berkeleying stand nirvana. I don't know wtf I was thinking.

Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock...

akamcfly wrote: ANY ska cover band or song. Ever. Sooooooo embarrassed.

Dude, I still love me some Aquabats and Less Than Jake.

When I was a kid I owned a Vanilla Ice tape at one point. My dad listened to it then destroyed it in front of me.

At the time I was mad but now I am grateful. Thanks, Dad.

I still like a lot of the music I can remember from my youth, as long as it's kid friendly.

Still LOVE Big Wreck!

Lancer007 wrote:

akamcfly wrote: ANY ska cover band or song. Ever. Sooooooo embarrassed.

Dude, I still love me some Aquabats and Less Than Jake.

I still like Reel Big Fish and Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

The_Jed wrote:

Lancer007 wrote:

akamcfly wrote: ANY ska cover band or song. Ever. Sooooooo embarrassed.

Dude, I still love me some Aquabats and Less Than Jake.

I still like Reel Big Fish and Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

It's a free country.

Most of the late 90s rap/rock/dj on a stage with a "rock" band.

In reply to akamcfly:

driver109x wrote: Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock...

I was actually going to add limp whatever. I respect kid rock because the man truly does care about his fans (see his ticket price wars and his soldier work) and is actually a pretty talented artist.

Add Marilyn Manson too the list

"Love" might be a strong word but... I admit to cranking up Too Fast For Love in a '89 Camaro with the T-Tops out and a Kraco Booster making all kinds of awful noise. I have to go wash my mind after typing that. Until Poison and Ratt came along... they were bottom of the barrel.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I have the opposite problem, I am finding myself liking songs that I hated when I was younger.

This. Growing up it was either country with my mom or oldies with my dad. I never cared for contemporary music. Keep in mind I turned 13 in '97.

For the past few years I've been mostly listening to late 90's top 40/alternative.

I have, In my opinion Impeccable taste in music

I still love everything I ever loved. Some perhaps not as much as I did when I was 16 and some a lot more than I used to.

There was the point in my "musical development" where I was avidly looking for what it was in music that I loved and since at 14 years old I wasn't sure what it was or if it even had a name I burned through anything I could. I will never intentionally listen to suicidal tendencies again but I understand why I liked it then. Same with COC, SOD, The Accused and all the other crossover albums I used to have.

This weekend the wife and I blasted the Wipers "Is this real?" and X "Los Angeles" and I realized I have owned at least one copy of each album since 1988. Those albums (and many, many others) still hit me as hard now as they did then.

Nick_Comstock wrote: I found a Meat Puppet cassette from my teenage years not long ago. Man that's some weird stuff.

Too High To Die was a pretty amazing, straightforward rock album. A lot of their other stuff was pretty strange, though. Music snobs dig them to this day. Mark Maron did a great podcast with Kurt Kirkwood maybe 6 months ago.

Anyway, my answer is Live. I saw them live (no pun) twice in '91 and '94, IIRC. Not sure what I was thinking.

Phish.

gamby wrote:

Nick_Comstock wrote: I found a Meat Puppet cassette from my teenage years not long ago. Man that's some weird stuff.

Too High To Die was a pretty amazing, straightforward rock album. A lot of their other stuff was pretty strange, though. Music snobs dig them to this day. Mark Maron did a great podcast with Kurt Kirkwood maybe 6 months ago. Anyway, my answer is Live. I saw them live (no pun) twice in '91 and '94, IIRC. Not sure what I was thinking.

No, I still like it, it's jut weird. It's weird to find something like that and Immediately have a flashback to the first time you heard it.

"Last trip I took, was a boat that floated on it's back all day, in the middle of a song, about trees that are scared of the dark"

Oh, and somebody mentioned Godsmack...I'd reather listen to the sound of my own testicles getting ripped off by a rabid wolverine or a venomous duck than have to listen to those berkeleyers. Seriously berkeley Godsmack! I want to punch those berkeleyers in the face extremely hard! berkeley them! berkeley their mothers for having them!

JtspellS wrote: Most of the late 90s rap/rock/dj on a stage with a "rock" band.

Yep. Limp Bizkit being at the forefront.

xflowgolf wrote:

JtspellS wrote: Most of the late 90s rap/rock/dj on a stage with a "rock" band.

LOL @ Nick Yep. Limp Bizkit being at the forefront.

1999-2001 was a real void in "good" music. Even the underground was hurting for awhile.

While mainstream music is just hideous now, at least the underground is really fertile, IMHO.

gamby wrote:

Nick_Comstock wrote: I found a Meat Puppet cassette from my teenage years not long ago. Man that's some weird stuff.

Too High To Die was a pretty amazing, straightforward rock album. A lot of their other stuff was pretty strange, though. Music snobs dig them to this day. Mark Maron did a great podcast with Kurt Kirkwood maybe 6 months ago. Anyway, my answer is Live. I saw them live (no pun) twice in '91 and '94, IIRC. Not sure what I was thinking.

I love me some Too High to Die. That's a GREAT album.

I am ashamed to admit I was a KISS fan way back when. WTF was I thinking? I am also done with U2, their early stuff was bleeding edge but their later pretentious stuff wrecked all that for me.

A perennial favorite which I never get tired of: Pink Floyd. I can crank up 'Meddle' and it's like hearing it for the first time all over again. Same with 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

Boy you guys liked some real crappy E36 M3.

Can't believe I wasted money on Metallica CDs when I heard all the stuff on the radio.

That was my biggest regret. I'd hear a band on the radio and say "hey, I like this." Then I'd go spend hard earned money on a CD, only to hear the entire album on the radio over the next year.

Creed... ugh. What more can I say, I was a stupid teenager. I also listened to pop country for a while, sometimes I switch on the country station now and wonder how I ever endured listening to it.

Nick_Comstock wrote: I'd reather listen to the sound of my own testicles getting ripped off by a rabid wolverine or a venomous duck than have to listen to those berkeleyers.

So it is safe to say that you do not like them?

Train

I have to admit, I was a pretty big Scorpions fan back in my early teenage years---- not so much anymore. I think (like a lot of bands) they got worse with age, while my tastes were growing up a bit.

I'm with Crumudgeon though..... I still enjoy Pink Floyd, although the radio has ruined most of their better known stuff. I'm still a big fan of The Final Cut, Meddle, Animals, and Roger Water's Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.