I still think The Middle is a banger

If you have listened to it since your high school days...it doesn't fit into the comic's category.

How many people really enjoying "keep rollin rollin rollin rollin" by limp bizkit nowadays?

Yes! Thank you. I mainly listen to music I listened to as a teen/young adult.

I will forever associate crunk with like 2 minute appearance of 'The Crunk Clown' on the show Flavor of Love.

Good music stays in my rotation. If I haven't listened to it since high school, it's for a reason.

Throw in some goth and you'd almost be me. Franz is post punk revival so very solid. 80s and 90s had a ton of great industrial and electronic. 1995 KMFDM released juke joint jezabell on NIHIL. Still love it. Orbital, fluke, moby. Zero regrets.

Yeah, similar here.

In my head those songs are "cringe" or I imagine they won't be great bend listening again...

Then I ring one up and am immediately head banging like "yo, is this even better than when I first listened?"

I'm constantly finding music that I love...

But I do notice that most of it was released around the time we're talking about.

Yeah its the soundtrack to when life didnt suck.

Generally speaking, I remember reading that people usually like the music from when they were young.

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Not the article I was thinking of, but same idea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/articles/zvfphbk

Why music from our teens stays with us forever

The music we listen to during this period has greater lasting impact than songs in later life because of a psychological phenomenon called the reminiscence bump.

Our memories define who we are and shape our sense of identity, but they are not evenly distributed throughout our life.

We have fewer memories from birth to about eight-years-old, while at the other end of the scale our minds can easily recall memories that happened most recently, although this does decline with age.

However, researchers have found there is a key age between the ages of 10 to 30-years-old when the reminiscence bump applies, meaning our memories have a particular affinity for recalling events.

The reminiscence bump happens for everything – our favourite books, films, sports stars and music, but evidence suggests music features most highly because musical memories are stored in a ‘safe’ area of the brain which is more resilient and protected against age related conditions.

She found there is a consistently reliable peak in both memory and preference for music people listened to during their teenage years.

Even when working with people in their eighties she found their strongest musical memories take them back to their youths.

It’s not necessarily when the music was released that is relevant but rather the time frame during which the music was important to an individual.

One theory for why this happens is that our minds undergo an intense and rapid phase of development during our teenage years and early twenties so our budding brains and memory systems are at their peak absorbing as much information about the world as they can.

So... you just had to send out that psionic blastwave, huh? If I had listened to 40-yo music, it would have been from the 1940s. Yikes.

My gf and I were sitting around with dad and stepmom in the early 90s, "That's old 80s music." They looked at each other stunned for a sec and started laughing at us.

My teenage favourites are all still in my library. My wife is still forced to listen to all my music (driver always chooses music).

Bizkit got a couple of songs I listen to still that are okay. The song "Boiler" and "it'll be Okay" are actually good. He also does a cover of behind blues eyes, and it isn't the best or worst. There is another. Rolling and break stuff I listen to for my kid to spaz out with a car ride of head banging.

(Also, break stuff is good. Everyone has felt that rage before.)

Am I stupid? Wtf does "11-year average" mean here? Like I get the graph but that label is not making sense to me at all.

I imagine this just applies to those who are only exposed to new music through commercial radio, or similar. If you take the time and effort to seek out new music from other places, you'll find plenty that you enjoy. Most people just don't bother, and then complain when the stuff on the radio changes over the years.

Just made a comment about this! That's a perfect backup for my take on this.

Also how overtly homoerotic alot of the homophobia was. Those rappers must be deep in the closet.

Something I find fascinating about a lot of 80's tracks is how tastefully subdued they are. Like they could have gone far harder but knew to keep it restrained in just the right way.

One that always comes to mind is 'Slave to the Rhythm' by Grace Jones. I masterclass in playing it cool.