I'm 30 years old and there's a Taking Back Sunday CD in my car's CD player

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Discuss.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that your age is about twice what the maturity of your posts would indicate.

That was my most played album hands down of my senior year of high school, so still over 15. And it's held up quite well. There's no bad tracks, if I ever skip one it's just because I know the next one is better. And it's like instant nostalgia. Listening to it makes it feel like it really is 2001-02 again.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There are probably more Taking Back Sunday fans in the 25-35 age range than below it. Music is changing, and, like most people who have passed their early twenties, you have not.

This might be true, but those lyrics are on the first record are still rather embarrassing for anyone over legal drinking age to be listening to.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Believe me, I know. I've seen them perform.

Nice! I actually never have. I probably won't unless they do one of those "old stuff only" type tours. But actually yeah Boris' link summarizes a lot of this pretty well.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that your age is about twice what the maturity of your posts would indicate.

That was my most played album hands down of my senior year of high school, so still over 15. And it's held up quite well. There's no bad tracks, if I ever skip one it's just because I know the next one is better. And it's like instant nostalgia. Listening to it makes it feel like it really is 2001-02 again.

Actually, I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about this stuff. Things like playing Ingress and going to shows and moshing around while drunk are FAR more common to be done by 30 year olds than 15 year olds.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's just fourth/fifth-generation of that style which has always been around recently in bands like Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Snowing, My Heart To Joy, Brave Bird, Joie De Vivre, etc.

And none of those sound anything like Taking Back Sunday.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also TBS is playing in St. Paul in September and Boris' link encouraged me to actually go.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am more perplexed by the fact that you have a CD in your car's CD player in the year 2014.

I still listen to music I loved when I was a teenager, but it's all on a micro SD card in my phone.

My car doesn't have any way to play music other than CDs. Basically simple as that.

Why would anybody ever be nostalgic for 2001-02? Culture was still badly wounded by the Great Sanitation starting around 1997, and the post-9/11 (yeah I used that term, piss off) moral hysteria had just kicked in. I remember that the early 2000s were ugly in a similar way to the late 1970s.

Get like me. Make a period you weren't around for the center of your inner chronology - in my case, 1988-1996.

It's more "senior year" than anything to do with the culture of the era.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am more perplexed by the fact that you have a CD in your car's CD player in the year 2014.

I still listen to music I loved when I was a teenager, but it's all on a micro SD card in my phone.

can we bring back cassettes? i miss cassettes

Why not keep going?

Cassettes are actually back now. I know of bands release cassette-only albums.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Taking Back Sunday is terrible but there are a few of their peer bands that are pretty decent (Say Anything, Brand New and Thursday). I'm surprised that Pitchfork hasn't revisited them in a favorable light considering that emo has had a massive comeback over the past few years and has been well received by a generation that hates the twee indie of Zoey Deschanel and Apple commercials.

Taking Back Sunday is terrible but there are a few of their peer bands that are pretty decent (Say Anything, Brand New and Thursday). I'm surprised that Pitchfork hasn't revisited them in a favorable light considering that emo has had a massive comeback over the past few years and has been well received by a generation that hates the twee indie of Zoey Deschanel and Apple commercials.

i mostly agree with you but i haven't really noticed this? idk

It's contained amongst so-called hipsters. Obviously, the hipster subculture is dead but its permutations live on and one of those permutations has a reverence for emo-influenced music or emo, whether it is new or old. (this might just be amongst my weird bubble within a bubble within a bubble circle of friends tho)

Here is an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HuwcOZfNLY

I used to love this style of music so its rebirth perplexes me.

Holy sh!t what a find. DFB totally called the emo revival early on!

Also since then "elitist" music publications basically have rehabiliated TBS and hold them up highly now.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am more perplexed by the fact that you have a CD in your car's CD player in the year 2014.

I still listen to music I loved when I was a teenager, but it's all on a micro SD card in my phone.

can we bring back cassettes? i miss cassettes

LOL this happened too.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am more perplexed by the fact that you have a CD in your car's CD player in the year 2014.

I still listen to music I loved when I was a teenager, but it's all on a micro SD card in my phone.

can we bring back cassettes? i miss cassettes

LOL this happened too.

This is the kind of over-the-top hipsterness which I just don't get. I get artists recording demos on cassettes or something, but for consumers? Vinyl has aesthetic appeal, proven collectibility, and ability for direct manipulation, while digital is obviously better for convenience and portability. Cassettes have... accidentally recording over them, or trying to roll loose tape back inside.

I'm exactly the stereotype you'd expect to be into this and I agree completely. I still have not bought a cassette.

BTW the funny thing is CDs of all things are now considered a "hipster" thing. I hear now about high school kids talking about collecting CDs the same way Millennials talked about collecting vinyl. This is probably going to save CDs from obsolescence, which is a good thing as since I originally made this thread I have bought a new car but it too only has a CD player and thus I still get CDs to play in it. In fact I'm so old fashioned I bought a USB connected CD-ROM drive for my new laptop that doesn't have a built-in one so I can still rip CDs to it and play them from the hard drive.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Thread title updated. Still accurate now.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Thread title updated. Still accurate now.

How does it feel to have now been on the forum for the majority of your time since birth?

...I did not realize that.