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Any songs you've been cringing to lately?
I have a couple iTunes libraries, and one of them contains every song I have ever collected. I decided to load it up on one of my flash modded iPods a few days ago, shuffling, and having some fun listening to music I haven't listened to in a long time.
I was about 25 songs in when the autotuned mess of Untitled by The Title came on and a wave of nostalgia and disgust washed over me.
It's so terrible, I can't believe I used to listen to the album on repeat, but it tickled my brain the same way it did when I was 12.
Any nostalgic cringe songs you've been listening to? Or what are your guilty pleasures songs?
Back in the days when I was an emo kid trying to survive high school, sending this to the girl I liked. It somehow worked, we've been togheter for more than 10 years now.
I used to listen to the whole Geeving album on repeat.
Man that autotune hits different now, wild times.
That’s an adorable story and I’m very happy that it’s worked out for you.
That song was fantastic for all the wrong reasons. I really did not expect the autotune to be so egregious!
I am a huge Modest Mouse fan, I enjoy every album and like all of their songs, even the last two albums to come out that most others aren't big fans of.
Modest Mouse has one single song that I absolutely despise, and can't imagine why Issac Brock ever even made it or thought it should go on a record instead of some EP of b-sides.
Introducing, Pistol for your enjoyment.
I was actually a huge Modest Mouse fan in high school! I really didn’t care for Strangers to Ourselves in general, but I, too, hated Pistol. My favorites were We Were Dead or Building Nothing.
Although, Ugly Casanova was more my jam. I listened to Sharpen Your Teeth on repeat.
I love Ugly Casanova! Things I Don't Remember is maybe my favorite off of that project? And of course Barnacles, what a classic.
It's hard for me to pick a favorite album, aside from the most recent two they're all about equal for me. Edit the Sad Parts, King Rat, and Tundra/Desert are probably my favorite songs though.
My daughter and I were listening to We were Dead... this afternoon during driving practice and my thoughts strayed to Pistol and how it was just so weird and dissonant. And not good weird and dissonant like most MM, just bad and off putting...
I've always found Japanese Boy to be a video/song that fits the bill. It's so 1980's in terms of cultural understanding but the song is great and very catchy.
That was certainly something. I am impressed at the lack of awareness, but it is rather catchy.
When that started up I thought it was going to be some sick Japanese synth like Shigeru Suzuki or Haruomi Hosono... and then it kicks in, lol! If I close my eyes I can easily bob to it!
I was recently reminded of Des'ree - Life (1998) whose melody is catchy but whose lyrics are so, so bad.
Especially one stanza in particular...
I gave it a listen and it gives me pre-9/11, happy-go-lucky vibes.
Those really are terrible lyrics, though. Almost charming in a way.
Paul Janz - Every Little Tear... it's so cheese (those loud-ass 80s snares) but god damn if that guitar treatment during the verses doesn't make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. It's such a groove.
Thanks to the new Barbie movie trailers and nostalgia, I put on Aqua’s Aquarium. It was my very first CD and it is very… of its time. I hate it and love it simultaneously. Barbie Girl and Doctor Jones are still bangers.
Ok but Aquarium is camp and (un)certifiably full of bops as far as I’m concerned.
My first CD was Believe by Cher. I wish it had been something cool like Dookie or Enema of the State but while my mom was cool, she wasn’t that cool.
It's the perfect time capsule. I put into the same category as the Aquabats, for the style of music but for the ridiculousness and "timeliness".