Lovelyish

I MISS SPICE GIRLS! FUCK DAT SHIT! 

But that was before high school man. You dont knoevn know.!

Korn, Smash Mouth, No Doubt,  Avil Laveign, and Evanescence! :p

Fall Out Boy’s Under the Cork Tree album was all I listened to my freshmen year of high school. Oh, and Taylor Swift before she made it big. haha

I’ll give you props for Hawthorne Heights (R.I.P. Casey Calvert!), but the other bands suck balls.

“I Woke Up In A Car” is still my favorite song to this day though I’ve long since stopped listening to them

omg i love all these bands. and they do make me feel all nostalgic

Brand New is amazing <3

Smash Mouth and Avril Lavigne. Along with Papa Roach and Good Charlotte. (:

taking back sunday’s makedamnsure is definitely one on my list.  I use to play that on repeat.

All American Rejects, too. 

Hahah I listened to all of these at some point in middle/high school

We are soulmates. Especially on the 22 yr. old favorite band is Brand New thing. Well, okay, actually I’m not a huge Paramore or Armor for Sleep or Hawthorne Heights fan.

Now, go see them all live.

Damn, what horrible taste in music you have. When I think nostalgic I think badass 90′s music :/

Cake, Bush, Nirvana, The Verve Pipe, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Collective Soul, Garbage, Goo Goo Dolls, Jewel, Pearl Jam, Lifehouse, Counting Crows, Train, Everlast, Alanis Morissette.

I made this playlist of the music from the 90s that makes me nostalgic about my teenaged years.

OMG EVERYTHING HERE. Except Amor For Sleep, that was a super minor one for me. I would also add Linkin Park, Underoath, and Nirvana to my list.

I think the people saying, “your music taste sucks,” didn’t get the memo that this is “what I listened to in and makes me think of high school.” Personally.. I still like some of these bands, but obviously not to the fangirling extent that I used to. If I hear an old MCR song, I ENJOY it, but I don’t exclusively listen to them. I think it’s unfair to say outright that what someone else likes is stupid or that it sucks; it’s what makes someone else happy. If we were all the same, that’d be boring. 

Paramore, FOB, AFS, TBS, Hawthorne Heights, MCS… are you sure you didn’t steal my iPod?

This makes me nostalgic too.  Wow.  Wow.  Wow.

@fearless_smiles@xanga - FUCT was the best album I’ve ever heard next to Take This To Your Grave.  Miss old school Fall Out Boyyyy.  NOT FALLOUT BOY.  I always hated it when people butchered the name

YES.

@ohforrealson@xanga - I miss the old FOB too. I can still listen to that album all the way through, and not skip a track. I never find an album like that anymore.

not a fan of this genre of music. I prefer r&b music from the 90′s and some hiphop/rapstars. boyz II men, r.kelly, snoop dogg, talib kweli, tupac, bone thugs n harmony, foxy brown, mariah carey, etc.

Nirvana, Hole, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Alice in Chains, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Daisy Chainsaw, Front 242, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, REM the 90s = the best music ever.

I definitely agree with Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, and Hawthorne Heights.

I’m in high school now, but this definitely takes me back to junior high.  You have some good picks in there.

Bowling for Soup, Simple Plan (I saw them at Grad Nite!!), Avril Lavigne, No Doubt, so many more!!

I remember Armor for Sleep. I went to see them at a local show they did in my town. 

Dear god. Emo was the worst genre of music second only to grunge. Your taste in music is shit. 

Classic rock like John Mellencamp, Eric Clapton, The Who
Heavy metal like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple
Country like Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton
Progressive rock like Spock’s Beard, Dream Theater, Eric Johnson
Alternative like Beck, David Bowie

All of these bands/artists are infinitely superiour and more talented than any of those over-angsted mounds of fail listed on this post. I hate coming across like a douche, but goddamnit nothing good ever came from the emo genre. Just exaggerations of emotions that made it near impossible to ever show an emotion without being compared to these sissies.

Also, Goo Goo Dolls and Foo Fighters. Simple, fun, easy to listen to. Shit. This list gave me an aneurysm.

haha remember relient K? 

i was going to say back street boys, but that’s not even high school that’s elementary school hah

Brand New is still my favorite band, hands down.

@RazielV@xanga - When I was in high school, things from emo to garage rock and post-punk revivals were the thing. I remember White Stripes, Futureheads, Mogwai, Muse, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, actually, the high school year was the year I discovered independent music. All it took was me buying a Spin magazine solely to listen to a sampler by The Vines. This wasn’t unfortunate, because it finally got me into listening to much more diverse and adventurous music.

Need I make a part 2 for this?

@bloggicus_maximus@xanga - Speaking of, when is Manouch coming back? Or are they still going to continue their hiatus?

Wow. Just wow, this is shit. And what does this have to do with Lovelyish? Are you guys REALLY hurting that bad for topics?

Also, emo music is NOT rock. It’s an offshoot of pop.

@mynameisblueskye@xanga - Don’t know. Wasn’t even aware they were on hiatus. Shows how much I cared.

we are musical soulmates apart from FOB and my chemical romance

Holy smokes! All of our bands are the same!

@RazielV@xanga - Knowing who Dream Theater is gets you cool points!

@mynameisblueskye@xanga – make them unblock me if they ever come back!

@Nipsyyy@xanga - me too

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - I may as well be one of the writers or interns for Xanga’s version, in terms of bringing it back.

are you 22 or 21? Im 27 and none of these make me hungry for high school WHERE IS HANSON, ALANSIS MORRESTTE, JEWEL, GREEN DAY, BLINK 182 (THE NUMBER ONE HIGH SCHOOL BAND YOU TWIT) backstreet boys, nsync, puff daddy these where the people of high school……you must of been born in 1988 0r 1990

@RazielV@xanga - That was… insulting?  You could’ve come across a little less arrogant, just saying.

@ohforrealson@xanga - -shrugs- I’m not very concerned with the tone. I couldn’t reword my thoughts to be any less than how it came out and I’m not really going to mince words on the matter. I can’t be eloquent all the time, sadly.

What’s with the musical snobs?  Music should be bringing people together, not causing rifts.  If you don’t like it, you aren’t being forced to listen to it, so don’t insult people for what THEY like(d).

Daaaaaamn

@fearless_smiles@xanga - You said it!

FOB, Hawthorne Heights AND Taking Back Sunday=you’re amazing

@RazielV@xanga - I guess that’s your call.

@ohforrealson@xanga - Hey, I’m not going to beat myself up over not being able to get my point across the best way I want to if I can’t. I don’t claim to be perfect nor pretend to be. That’s just how it is sometimes and I’m able to accept my shortcomings even if other people cannot. 

I listened to all these bands with the exception of Paramore (for me, this was middle school) Definitely nostalgic for me every time I give them a listen for kicks. I can definitely look back and laugh at my music taste when I was what… 12?

so lol @ all the people freaking out about her music taste in high school. 

Audioslave, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Zwan, Kaiser Chiefs, high school days. I wish I was 18 in 1985.

@P0RCELA1N_D0LL@xanga - I listen to a mix of that and pop. But I love me some Tupac and Boys II Men and yeah etc;……just wonderful memories right there  

OP:

I don’t think I have any songs that make me miss high school. I hated high school..and I’ll never go back ever. ;/ Maybe certain eras…but not high school. 

This is pretty much my life. These bands were my favorite mainly in middle school, though. I still listen to all of them, too.

You’re obviously very young since these bands were trendy just recently.

WOW! We have the EXACT same list. This is awesome, I respect you haha. <3

I don’t like Haley William’s voice

wow, most of these bands i listened to in high school too. and still do! hawthorne heights’ “ohio is for lovers” is what made me start listening to rock music in 8th grade. they were my FAVORITE band.i was always into rap and stuff like that and never like any kind of rock…then i heard them and was like, “that’s amazing!” haha. and paramore..they’re even on my top 5 list to this day. i love them haha.

1, 2, 6, 8, Green Day!

I don’t know these bands… Probably because I live on another continent.
Radiohead ans sigur ros always make me nostalgic.

are you me?!

almost the same list

ALL OF THESE, except for me instead of something corporate it would be from first to last or bayside or another stupid band like that that i can’t stand anymore hahaha.

or maybe avenged sevenfold, i still really love them, though now it reminds me more of my little brother than high school <3

You people are rude. I listened to a few of these back in high school. I mean, yeah, I hate Paramore and Fall Out Boy just as much as you do because they are garbage, but that doesn’t mean they have a shitty taste in music. I still listen to Brand New and Taking Back Sunday. Brand New is such a good band. I bet most of you haven’t even listened to them.

My music tastes have changed from high school completely, because I went from listening to pop-punk to “hipster” (at the time, it was stuff like Straylight Run and the Spill Canvas and Anberlin) to metal to what I’m listening to right now. However, I started listening to Coheed and Cambria in the 9th grade, and I’m now 22 and have the Keywork tattooed on my wrist. I don’t think I’ll ever grow out of them.

I now listen to stuff like Co&Ca, the Smiths, the Talking Heads, David Bowie, Bayside (another band I’ve listened to since high school), Tool, Rush, and Iron Maiden.

hmm U2 is my favorite band ever…that aside, Avril Lavigne, DMB, Coldplay, No Doubt, Evanescence, and

everything

@methodElevated@xanga -  put on that playlist (fantastic mix by the way)…most of these bands were just a little after my time…plus I’ve always enjoyed 90s rock more than the stuff from early 00s

you had an epic taste in music. must add All American Rejects… i am still devastated that i didnt get to go to the AAR and FOB concert… ahh stupid high school.

those are all bigger name bands. i listened to all of them in 7th grade minus Something Corporate . High school I listened to those bands but I got into lesser known bands and would go to local shows with hard core dancing and break downs and screaming. I still have alot of my old cds from middle school/ high school and still listen to them but my new favorite bands at the moment is

Sleeping with Sirens 

@EpsilonCassiopeiae@xanga - what exactly is hipster?

Brand New is amazing.

you, girl, have very good taste in music

mine are rise against, blink 182, sum 41, all american rejects, green day, taking back sunday, bowling for soup, simple plan, my chemical romance, fall out boy, paramore, pink, avril lavigne, maroon 5 and probably a few more…wait, those are still my faves xD

in my defense, high school wasn’t that long ago. 

Brand New! Oh, God, how I still love them after all this time.

BRAND NEW FOR LYFE. lol, but seriously.

Damien Rice and Devendra Banhart. And a lot of Nirvana and Fiona Apple.

@x_damaged_yet_unbroken_x@xanga - It’s a matter of opinion. I remember my friends and I thought it was hilarious that people actually liked Hawthrone Heights. Kids walking around with “Ohio is for Lovers” t-shirts… Ugh. It was shit music, really. Paramore, too. Lame.

I still spin “Deja Entendu” at least once a month.

Ha…I just attended the Happy Together Tour…The Turtles. Grass Roots and so on performed their oldies….Those bands were high on my high school hit list.

“Let’s Live for Today” was the big hit…I was just worried about my low draft number and whether I was off to follow my friends to Vietnam…Donavan’s To Susan on the West Coast Waiting and Fortunate Son certainly had great meaning in those days.

i agree with each and every one of these bands. i listened to all of these in middle school/high school. 

ALL of these make me nostalgic for high school (: good choices!! I desperately miss the old fall out boy. I was a hugeee fan, but they kinda upset me with their concert being canceled due to rain in Houston in 09 & they didnt reschedule, plus their last CD was pretty much crap in my opinion :/ but to each their own.

I feel old when looking at what makes you nostalgic!! LOL.. the music that takes me back to high school, cruisin, making out in cars and hanging down at the river is stuff like… Van Halen (1984 to be exact), Meatloaf (Bat out of Hell), Prince (Purple Rain)… ahhhh the memories!

i love this post, i used to listen to all these bands a few years back and defiently enjoy still listening to them to this day

Haha oh god, I used to be OBSESSED with Armor for Sleep!

sounds like we started high school around the same time! lol those are most of the bands i liked as well

HELL YEAH SOMETHING CORPORATE! at least we still have Jack’s!

we wouldve been best friends!

@RazielV@xanga - wow, you’re the perfect example of a textbook hipster asswipe. Do you listen to the bands cuz they’re on Rolling Stone’s top artists lists or because you think it makes you better than anyone else? And just so you know, Johnny Cash sparked the flame on what became the emo genre, idiot. Really? “Hurt”? That’s about as “over-angsted” as it gets. But because the name Johnny Cash is pasted on it, you’re required to like it to uphold you’re God-complex of music choices. Get a life, dude. No one asked you.

WE HAD THE SAME TASTE OF MUSIC, lmao every single band i was in love with in high school. dashboard, brand new, taking back sunday and the used were my all time favorites.

Deja is definitely my favorite album of all time. Tell All Your Friends and Take This To Your Grave are up there too.

What To Do When You Are Dead is sort of underrated, in my opinion. I just listened to it the other day actually. Sometimes I forget how good it is.

I personally would have switched A Mark… with The Places… by Dashboard, and I Am The Movie with Commit This To Memory by Motion City, but I wouldn’t argue either haha.

Really good list.

I think we’re music soulmates. I agree with every band on this list (Paramore wouldn’t have made my top 10…but that’s because of Brand New Eyes, I completely agree with All We Know Is Falling). I’d probably add Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line, The Academy Is…, All Time Low and JamisonParker.

@paisleypants - You’re joking, right? When was “Spock’s Beard” on Rolling Stone’s 100? For that matter, I’ve never even READ an RM magazine. Do you even know what a “hipster” even is? It’s someone who AVOIDS the mainstream and embraces the indie sub-culture. The entire opposite of what I listen to, believe, and what you’re claiming about me. I listen to what sounds good to me. Why? Because I’m smart enough to not need someone to dictate to me who to like or listen to.

I also happen to like Death/Speed/Black metal bands like Graveworm, Arsis, Opeth, DevilDriver, Mastodon, and Testament. Boy what a “snob” I am. I guess mentioning I like Puccini, Bocceli, Bach, Haydn, Dvořák, Mozart, and Vivaldi makes me an even bigger snob just because they’re classical composers/opera singers. I think emo is full of talentless tools who think looking the same and whinging into a microphone equates to being “unique”. They stick to the same topics and never show an ounce of creativity or originality.

It is my right to have an opinion and express it thus. I will use said right as I see fit. That’s just how it works in reality. If you can’t handle it, well that’s just a damn shame innit?

P.S. Anyone with a brain knows “Hurt” was originally performed and written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Cash covered it. I like Johnny Cash because I like him, not because someone tells me to like him. Get your head out of your ass and don’t post ad hominem bullshit, pl0x. At the very least try to complete a coherent thought that touches legitimate points, not mentions one song and tries to connect it to an artist’s entire body of work. 

For the record, Chopin was the first true musical emo. And he played piano. And he didn’t suck. PROBLEM?

@blackspiders@xanga - You’re right, it is

Bands that make me think of HS (Not limited to 10)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Dismemberment plan, Mindless Self Indulgence, Linkin Park, Saliva, HED Planet Earth, Reggie and the Full Effect, AFI, The Used, Finch, Enon, White Stripes
And you will know us by the trail of dead, the Hives, The Strokes, Spoon, Cake, Jimmy Eat World, Brand New, Queens of the stoneage <3, the street, Soulfly, Coalchamber, Mushroomhead,NIN, Slipknot…

..so many..

I’d have to agree that Paramore, Fall Out Boy, and My Chemical Romance make me nostalgic- but I also listened to Imogen Heap‘s “Speak For Yourself”, Emery‘s “The Question”, and lots and lots of Anberlin (I was in LOVE with Nate Young…). I still listen to Paramore and Imogen Heap and sometimes emery when I’m in the mood. What a great idea for a post: I think I’ll peruse my itunes and pick my top ten high school albums. 

@Nipsyyy@xanga - Haha, I wasn’t expecting anything good when she mentioned Hot Topic. (If you bother to click that link, ctrl+f Hot Topic.)

I have to second another comment. Most of these…ugh.  But, hey, to each his own, blah, blah.

Me? I get nostalgic over Metallica’s first 3 albums, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, early Primus and Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc. I’m a child of the 80′s, in case that wasn’t obvious.

I read through the list of bands in this blog and thought … really? I’ve never heard of the majority of these bands >.<

Panic! At The Disco make me nostalgic for life.  It makes me feel like I take everything for granted.

LOL @ the last two videos where the band members on the piano are trying to “rock out” while playing… Kind of hard to rock out to a song when you’re stuck to a keyboard and —in the case of something corporate– a bench. Just looks goofy.

Yes, I have tracks that I listen to that make me nostalgic (very much so) for something in my past. Like, Amber Pacific makes me nostalgic for the times when I hung out with my sister while she was in college. First time I heard Amber Pacific was the first time I ever set foot in a college dorm room. Also, Suburban Legends brings back memories of not only the free concert they hosted at my school, this past year, but also of driving around with my sister (same one from the Amber Pacific story, I have two, btw) aimlessly from dusk to around midnight just after she had acquired her license… and when gas was much cheaper and they all had money to “throw away.” lol *sighs* good times, indeed. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.

Also, just to criticize the OP:

You really don’t have such high standards for music, do you if you buy whole albums because one song mentions the state you live in or because of the voice of one person… Hm… Whatever, though. To each their own.

Great post, overall .

@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength@xanga - YES! Metallica, definitely same goes for me. As does RHCP. ^_^ Glad to see I’m not the only one who grew up with that music. So much so that it influenced my life.

@Delphiki@xanga - Ah! I like Maddox. Good one!

@queenof__hearts@xanga - Amen! After surveying my music collection (over 540 CD’s, about 15 LP’s, and at least 200 albums on cassette), I noticed that I can count with one hand the artists that came out after 1996.  I guess I’m an old, crotchety music elitist, but most newer artists don’t do jack shit for me. *shrug* 

@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength@xanga - I can’t say that most newer artists don’t do anything for me… I guess, beyond the 90s, there are a select (very small) few bands whose music actually resonates with me… But they are few, very few and far between.

@RazielV@xanga - Chopin is pretty cool. He is the poet of the piano for a good reason.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Something Corporate is not recently trendy. I graduated in ’04 and they were already pretty much “done” then. 

Oh man, my high school days. 
My music changed yearly. And my likes spanned genres.

Freshman: Blink-182. The Verve Pipe. Sublime. Dead Kennedys. Weezer (The Green Album had just came out, so of course I had to get The Blue and Pinkerton). The Toadies.

Sophomore: Modest Mouse. The Shins. Something Corporate. Keane. CKY. Bowling For Soup.

Senior(I skipped a grade): Keane (again). No Doubt (I’d listened to them since Tragic Kingdom, but I really dug them this year particularly).  Franz Ferdinand. Iron Maiden (I grew up with them, but I had a friend who was obsessed…so I kinda got into them too). Talking Heads. Outkast (lol). Mindless Self Indulgence.

What should have been my Senior year: Dream Theater. Judas Priest. Iced Earth. Coheed and Cambria. Kamelot. Pink Floyd (they’re my all time favorite band, have been since I was a child but I was super into them that year in my life). Bob Marley (see Pink Floyd).  Also, I believe this was a year designated to making fun of MCR, and hardcore/scenecore kids.  ((I actually like MCR now days, Black Parade really changed my opinion of them)).

Hearing songs by any of those bands above makes me nostalgic, because a lot of them don’t show up on my playlist shuffle now days. There are some staple bands that I still listen to mentioned above…but older songs or a specific song still bring back that nostalgia.

I loooove Brand New! I listened to a lot of those bands in 8th grade, and this really takes me back!

Oh, my, gosh,

yesssss

I looooove this list haha though a lot of these make me more nostalgic for middle school than high school, but thats probably because you just graduated college and I just graduated highschool

And the more I think about it, I don’t think its possible to be nostalgic for junior high. More like thankful it only happens once? haha

Brand New! I honestly think that they are the most under rated band I know of. 
I’m glad to see someone else has heard of them.

I also love MCR.

I don’t want to sound insulting, but did you JUST graduate high school?  For most of us, high school reeks of Nirvana, Finger 11, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, The Moffatts.  Paramore is a band that made a killing in the last 5 years.  I’ve been out of high school for nearly 8 years and out of college for nearly 5.  

And again I’m not meaning to insult, but I find it sort of silly that you’d/lovelyish’d post about high school nostalgia when said person must have graduated in the last 2-3 years, based on the music.

LOOOOOOOOOVE Something Corporate!!! I saw them in concert for the first time in 2010. I waited SIX YEARS for it. Definitely agree with Dashboard, Taking Back Sunday, Armor For Sleep, Motion City Soundtrack, OLD Fall Out Boy, and Brand New. I don’t agree with Paramore since the band came out after I graduated from HS. 

What about Simple Plan?

@haloed@xanga - OP graduated from high school four years ago. I graduated HS six years ago and I feel nostalgic for the bands she mentioned. Your music is from when most of us were still in elementary\junior high. 

@MK_A_Chick@xanga - YESS!! Another SoCo fan. Have you seen them live yet?

I was into country music. Still am.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - I’m 22 and I listened to all these bands in high school. What do you consider very young?

This is probably my exact list. lol. well escape the fate and the audition would be added.

lol yes i agree with the hawthorne heights. i was so emotional.

@feelslikejuly@xanga - grr no! :/ have you??

I LOVE you for posting this! Now: to Spotify! I must listen to all of these!

@MK_A_Chick@xanga - I’ve seen the side-project, Jack’s Mannequin, three times. Something Corporate recently had a reunion tour last year. The concert was an amazing experience. Definitely go and see them if they have another tour!!

@feelslikejuly@xanga - I will definitely try my hardest! I love them!