What do you NOT miss about Gen X music? I’ll start

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peruvianheidi@reddit

that short-lived era circa 1990 when every pop song had a “rap” in the middle.

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Did you ever hear that they wanted that for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)? Gilmour was kind of like, whatever, to it; he had other things on his mind. It was written mostly by guest lyricists and produced by people who really wanted a hit record. Cocaine was everywhere. Luckily minimal producers pushed for it and the others pushed back.

Even so, there is that interruption in the middle of Learning To Fly that was very 80s. I love the song but the interruption annoys me these days.

I was just reading last night how Michael Stipe of REM saw the video for Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order (1987) and LOVED the splice of the movie in the middle. (I hate it so much.) Stipe was like, that's genius, let's do that! And so a short lived trope was born.

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Ianthin1@reddit

It’s making a comeback with K Pop.

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

Blondie would like a word with you.

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lectroid@reddit

The man from Mars He’s eatin’ cars!

It’s so cringe, as I think the kids say, or said.

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Rickipedia@reddit

Skip 20 years forward and every rap song had a pop hook in the middle

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ST0IC_@reddit

The turns have indeed tabled.

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naunga@reddit

Boy Bands.

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JuJu_Wirehead@reddit

What the hell are you on about?

I don't go around saying I listen to Zoomer music today. I listen to genres. I don't know wtf genre GenX music is supposed to be because there are hundreds of genres out there.

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NeverEverMaybe0_0@reddit

Yeah. Country, Top 40, R&B, Oldies, and Classical. Plus Talk.

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blackcain@reddit

The radio was literally everything

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

Everything on the radio being incredibly depressing and dysfunctional.

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suburbanerd@reddit

There’s a point when a lot of pop music in the latter half of the 80s was this overproduced schlock like Belinda Carlisle, Heart, Steve Winwood, etc with its synths and horn sections.

I’m pretty open to a lot of genres and generally find things to like even in stuff I don’t listen to. I just found the pop music of that era to be so commercialized as to not have anything real about it. I was happy when it was over.

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blackcain@reddit

Dude... Heart is a total legit band.

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NeverEverMaybe0_0@reddit

They are, but I would prefer "Never" with more guitars instead of synthesizers.
Synthesizers almost killed music.

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yorrtogg@reddit

Anyone else remember extra tall CD boxes fighting for visibility on music store shelves?

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Shipcaster@reddit

Yes! Not to mention the hyper-sticky packaging that required surgical precision to remove, lest you be stuck with a permanent residue that attracted every wayward bit of dust and hair.

Also, jewel CD cases kind of sucked.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I liked them; they were a lot more compact than the uniform plastic used for DVD and BluRay more recently. The lids were fragile, though.

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MeetingTraditional53@reddit

Fun fact: they were originally designed to stand in the album bins found in every record store at the time.

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Ignignokt73@reddit

Theft deterrence and the way to market CDs in music stores built to display and sell records at the time. I cut them up and hung them in my school locker.

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Jew-zilla@reddit

They were called long boxes. They were retired around 93-94 because they were just wasteful.

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Aggravating-Try1222@reddit

Electric guitars solos

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Still alive and well in metal - fortunately, as I like these!

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The-Underhills-Tab@reddit

Those tracks between songs that are answering machine messages.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Who did that besides Eminem?

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PurpleRollerSkates@reddit

I was listening to a song the other day. I don’t remember which one but it did exactly what you said. So Annoying! I don’t know when that became a thing but man it’s dumb! Killed the vibe immediately!

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RCHeliguyNE@reddit

Rock ballads - still infuriating to listen to. Bon Jovi on my way home. Like the band hate that song.

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jd732@reddit

After paying $17.99 and busting through the longbox and that final boss tape on the jewel case, just to find that the other 10 songs on the CD sound nothing like the one or two MTV plays.

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Dr_Drax@reddit

I remember when iTunes started selling individual songs for 99¢. People talked about how it would force bands to stop putting out albums that had one hit and ten duds.

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lemoneegees@reddit

Accusing any artist of "selling out" when they were trying to make a living off their music.

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SmooveTits@reddit

What was worse was bands who abandoned who they were and what made them successful, watered down and sugar coated their music to fit it into a formulaic, radio-friendly box.

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rjm72@reddit

This is a great answer. Now we have a bunch of songs that become popular -because- they are in an ad.

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Ignignokt73@reddit

Or in a “Tik-Tok” something 🙄

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OpenMike2000@reddit

Or just accidentally got popular because the right industry people heard them and pushed their single.

Same as the bands that took 10 years of busting their asses only to get called an overnight sensation when their newest single finally caught attention.

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lurk3141592653589793@reddit

I mostly agree here, but wouldn't say "any". If their whole thing was preachy at others and "damn the man" type stuff while simultaneously selling merch made in sweatshops, signing contracts with that same man they lecture everyone else to fight, and charging ridiculous prices for their live tickets they sell through Ticketmaster, I'll go ahead and call them "sell outs". Just them, however.

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blankdreamer@reddit

Some new indie band I hear their single on the radio and love it and rush out and buy their cd album for $30. Then I’m stuck with a cd I like one song on for eternity.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

Were CDs $30? I honestly don't remember.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

The ones that had distribution support the top 40s etc. etc. averaged about $16 but if it was a more independent band or something that lost distribution, it could be up to $60. Hackers the movie didn’t do very well so the CD never got wide release so I ended up paying $60 for it six months later it got popular as a rental and they re-released the CD and you could have it for $14.

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CowboyNeale@reddit

My brother in Christ, you are talking about movie DVD, not a music cd?

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blankdreamer@reddit

In Australia they defo got up to that ( that is less in US dollars) It was an insane ripoff in hindsight.

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-Neverender-@reddit

Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (aka MFSL) had "Original Master Recording" gold plated CDs that would go for over $30.

Otherwise, $12-$15 was the common range.

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CatalinaBigPaws@reddit

Nah. I think in the 90's the most I paid was $17.99

But everything else they said was truth. This is exactly why Napster and Limewire came to be. Those of us who grew up listening to the whole album rebelled against the crap they were spewing out when a band had exactly 1 good song.

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CommonCut4@reddit

Not even close. They were 12 for a penny.

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InsertCleverNickHere@reddit

Lol, so easy even your dog could get an account!

In America, they were $12-$15.

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PresidentSuperDog@reddit

Definitely after inflation. In the early days they were $18-22 at the mall, but once Best Buy, Wal Mart, and other retailers started competing they were around $14 and got cheaper in the 00s.

The first cds I ever bought were $20 each in 1989, Vivid-Living Color and The Real Thing-Faith No More. I wasn’t expecting taxes and my ma had to spot me a couple bucks. It was at Hegewisch Records in Merrillville, Indiana.

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CowboyNeale@reddit

CDs were never $30

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MioMine78@reddit

If you wanted the import CD they were.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

Yes they were.

I paid $60 for the Hackers CD. $48 for Orbital

Hackers was re released for much cheaper 6 months latter.

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90Carat@reddit

Getting to the three song minimum for me to buy a CD was a real stretch for many bands.

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omibus@reddit

I don’t miss hair metal. I don’t miss ballad belters (esp Celine Dion).

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

In the 80s, why would anyone choose to listen to hair metal when they could listen to Metallica or Slayer.

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evidentlynaught@reddit

Ratt was awesome, and women loved them. A guy going to a Ratt concert in 1988 would be surrounded by turned-on gorgeous women.

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

Unfortunately you'd also be surrounded by the music of Ratt.

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evidentlynaught@reddit

Ratt guitars are appreciated by most musicians.

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justsomeyeti@reddit

Ratt were some great players. There were a lot of phenomenal musicians in hair metal. Operatic vocals and guitar virtuosos in particular.

The aesthetic was pretty bad, but I wasn't listening to their outfits or hairstyles.

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

I agree, but it doesn't mean I have to like the band.

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Bidesign54@reddit

🤣

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Fabulous_Law1357@reddit

And they were all named Lisa

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PixelTreason@reddit

Why not both?!

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Moontoya@reddit

Up the Irons !!!

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PixelTreason@reddit

I miss hair metal.

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sobuffalo@reddit

Have you heard Steel Panther?

Appetite for destruction

Blowing us all away

Poison looking so damned good

I wondered if I was gay

Whitesnake making us bang our heads

In the still of the frickin' night

Coverdale banging Tawny Kitaen

And the world all felt just right

1987, I never wanna leave you

When you told me I was in my prime why didn't I believe you?

And the music scene will never be the same

But I didn't realize that things could get this lame

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ErNz77@reddit

Saw them at a show in November & they are fucking awesome!

There was an Asian woman there & when they sang Asian Hooker they were looking right at her & she was cracking up.

They had strippers from the local joint & it was amazing.

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omibus@reddit

My older brother was more of an 80s kid. He loved Motley Crew, Van Halen with DLR, Cinderella, etc.

I’m more of a 90s kid. Hair metal was my grade school years, now I can’t stand it. I prefer grunge and alternative rock that came after. Heck, give me some Dave Matthews Band and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

But, I do still love Duran Duran, Queen, and Tears for Fears.

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JoeInMD@reddit

Toad the Wet Sprocket is so good!

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retroafric@reddit

Hair metal sucked then, it sucks now, and it always will suck.

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EvenSpoonier@reddit

I miss Monster Ballads.

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MMMookie141@reddit

secret songs

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doobette@reddit

More for late Gen X, but New Kids on the Block. Even when I was 11 and they were everywhere, me liking them was very short-lived. I was more into new jack swing like Bobby Brown.

Whenever I hear a NKOTB song today, I'm like, "What was I thinking? This is terrible." And there are women my age out there who still fawn over them.

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justsomeyeti@reddit

I've taken a liking to several songs I used to dislike because of nostalgia, but I can't find anything to enjoy about New Kids. They really were terrible.

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yall_cray@reddit

Same. I was 10 in 1990 and got totally into them. Then I guess I turned 11 and was suddenly like why am I listening to kid music?
And yeah a chick I went to school with goes on actual NKOTB cruises. I cannot believe NKOTB cruises even exist but they are packed with 40something year olds.

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doobette@reddit

The cruises are still a thing? Yikes.

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SmooveTits@reddit

Whiplash snare drum

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Winterfrost15@reddit

Scratching and beat boxing.

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Diaf

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Seriously getting hate for beastie boys in gen x? Wild world...

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NerdfestZyx@reddit

Hair Metal. Poison, specifically.

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blueblocker2000@reddit

Their second album was ok. I did get tired of hearing "Every Rose Has it's Thorn" on MTV, tho.

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No-Property1871@reddit

lol remember Cinderella..

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blueblocker2000@reddit

https://youtu.be/i28UEoLXVFQ?si=wL0xU90P45yQg0ea

Lol yep 😆

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Normal-Philosopher-8@reddit

Scrolled too long to find this!

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truejabber@reddit

Being a hostage to the radio stations. Maine didn’t have a lot of stations, we basically had a rock station, a pop station, a country station, and NPR. They played the same tired stuff over and over.

Then I went to camp and bunked with a kid from Boston who made tapes from a college station. It was the first time I heard stuff like Black Flag and the B-52s. It was like my whole world opened up.

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dave-rooney-ca@reddit

Yeah, I was lucky to have a local university station that introduced me to, among others, U2 and REM.

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MartinMcFly55@reddit

Midwest, same deal. Went to junior high with a lot of transplanted latinos from the Chicago area.

They spread the house music scene through bootlegs and mixes family would bring from Chi. Great musical discovery times.

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Coyote-American@reddit

Hair bands. As a hardcore punk in my youth, that genre was the bane of my musical existence. Thank god for thrash/speed metal. Except Cinderella. Those guys were legit and the real deal.

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badhoopty@reddit

same. but nowadays some of those bands are actually pretty damn solid outside of the one or two songs mtv tried to ram down everybodys throats.

cinderalla, tesla, skid row, faster pussycat, etc.

but bands like poison and bon jovi will always be teh suck.

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ST0IC_@reddit

I got to see Tesla, Poison, and Def Leppard in concert a few years ago. Went for Poison, left as soon as Def Leppard started playing. I don't remember liking Tesla when I was a teenager, but damn they were good as the opening act, and I fell in love with them.

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

Def Leppard was so freaking good live in 2022 and I was not a big fan.

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ST0IC_@reddit

I think that's the year I went. I used to like Def Leppard as a teenager, but I just can't stand their music anymore.

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WolfPacker01@reddit

I saw Tesla back in ‘92, they were great.

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TemporaryInitial6143@reddit

I'm with you on that... hated them at the time, but now, when I hear some of those songs , it brings back memories of people and places.. so it's kind of nostalgic

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

Cinderella's Long Cold Winter was my first cassette purchase. They were excellent and, though looked "hair metal," were much more country-blues rock than anything.

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BuckyD1000@reddit

I loathe all hair metal on a cellular level, but even I have to admit Tom Keifer is legit. If they had come out ten years later (or earlier), I'm convinced they would have been more like the Black Crowes.

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

Agree 100%

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

100%. His voice was so interesting and distinct.

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punkdrummer22@reddit

For me it was Ratt and Motley Crue. The rest sucked

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bowlgar@reddit

Cinderella was awesome. Them and Skid Row were both pretty great among bands that got lumped into hair metal (which I don’t think either of them are)

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MhojoRisin@reddit

I was only “meh” about Nirvana, but I was happy grunge killed hair bands.

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Shipcaster@reddit

An “alternative music” section in the music store that dwarfed every other category. The term was so expansive that it lost all meaning.

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AndiagoSupremo@reddit

Pre-WWW and finding out this cool song was a remake from 20 years ago.

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Dr_Drax@reddit

My daughter informed me that a couple of my favorite '80s songs were covers of Elvis songs they used to warm up in choir classes.

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arawnsd@reddit

You can’t not share that info!

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Ripoldo@reddit

Hit "albums" with one good song in it.

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justsomeyeti@reddit

Dishwalla comes to mind for this.

A lot of people bought Primitive Radio Gods after "standing outside a broken phone booth" became a hit, and found out that they're a very different band than the single would imply. The album is good, but definitely not like that song.

I think the same thing happened with the Butthole surfers after Pepper.

Hear Pepper, buy Electriclarryland, and 3 songs in you're wondering if someone has slipped you some drugs

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malthar76@reddit

Related - refusing to buy an album unless I liked 3 singles already. But some of them were straight through listens, no skips.

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mr_mxyzptlk21@reddit

Saxophones.

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vanderide@reddit

Morphine still rips

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cropguru357@reddit

No kidding. Always horrible.

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No-Storage2576@reddit

Skits between songs in Rap music

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VisualBasic@reddit

Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, I’m looking at you!

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oSuJeff97@reddit

“I’m gonna be a mother fucking gangster. You better axe somebody.”

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7thpixel@reddit

Straight Outta Compton had some ahem interesting ones

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oSuJeff97@reddit

“I’m gonna be a mother-fucking gangster. You better axe somebody.”

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Arhimin@reddit

$20 Sack Pyramid

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blueblocker2000@reddit

I dislike that album nearly as much as grocery store Christmas music.

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Enochrewt@reddit

I'd count Ghostface Killah's album Fishscale as the all time greats if it wasn't for the terrible skits. GFK please don't hurt me...

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stopped_watch@reddit

You have a problem with "Oh my god Becky"...?

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SeasonMundane@reddit

Counterpoint: 3 Feet High and Rising.

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thorneparke@reddit

Shamik from 212, God

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18ekko@reddit

Songs that were shortened for radio airplay, or songs that were remixed or re-recorded to "pop it up" for a broader range of FM stations.

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doobette@reddit

I still find it weird when I hear INXS' "Need You Tonight" and it doesn't go right into "Mediate" - just me?

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18ekko@reddit

Try not to hate

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doobette@reddit

gif

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Agent7619@reddit

If you want to have a hit, is gotta make it fit, so they cut it down to 3:05

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OptimusWang@reddit

The radio edit of American Pie is something like three minutes, and it’s very wtf (goes from the first verse directly to the last).

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

I still hate when I hear a version of a song that has had a rapping element removed, like taking Left Eye's rap out of TLC's "Waterfalls," or taking Vincent Price's rap out of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," just so they can end the song early.

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makeup1508@reddit

Some of the stupid novelty songs like One Night in Bangkok & Amadeus

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Dr_Drax@reddit

That's not a novelty song. It makes perfect sense in the context it was intended for: the musical Chess. Now, it arguably should have stayed in the musical and not been played as a pop song.

But that still happens. Imagine Dragon's song Radioactive was from the musical Spiderman, where it should have remained IMHO.

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PitoChueco@reddit

Buster Poindexter, Stray Cats, and Michael Jackson

The King of Pops music does not age well post “Off the Wall”

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threshing_overmind@reddit

To say Wannabe Startin and PYT and Way you Make me don’t age well is an all time crazy take. Thriller has a good helping of “novelty song” but between be the yearly recurrence of Halloween and the cultural persistence of the Thriller video/dance - shit even that song will outlive us both by a long long time aging nicely.

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oSuJeff97@reddit

Bangkok ok but Falco was a legit artist and pretty influential in New Wave/Krautrock.

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makeup1508@reddit

I know Falco was an artist but Amadeus was not art.

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WolfPacker01@reddit

I know this will be very unpopular, but I don’t miss grunge or alternative. I did like Nirvana, but could never get into Sound Garden or many of the other bands that were popular in the early to mid 90s. I much preferred (and still do) 70s and 80s rock and hair metal. Right as I was old enough to start going to concerts grunge hit and all the bands I’d fantasized about seeing live sort of faded away.

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justsomeyeti@reddit

I loved the grunge music, but I hated the pretense of it being counterculture. I'm sure the beginnings of the grunge scene were a counterculture response to the mainstream, but grunge itself became mainstream gleefully and without hesitation.

Alternative was never really alternative. It was an adult contemporary pop take on Indy rock. Boyband versions of the Pixies, Radiohead, and At the Drive-in. Radio friendly, more conventionally attractive versions of P J Harvey and Liz Phair.

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threshing_overmind@reddit

Liz pulled off the brat trick of becoming the boyband version of herself

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MsCattatude@reddit

Yep me too.

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CptBronzeBalls@reddit

Saxophones and mandatory guitar solos in every song. Also not a fan of a lot of 80s synth sounds. DX-7 for example.

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Hardcore gangsta rap. The classics are classic for good reason, the rest I can do without

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whirlydad@reddit

Almost everyone listened to pretty much the same thing. Obviously not "everyone" but it was harder to explore new artists or find new things so we knew what our friends knew and that was it. We have access to an almost endless amount of new artists and genres, almost at an instant, now!

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medisamurai@reddit

I was full on music nerd but I realized early on that most ppl just don’t really care about music as much as I do. My friend circle was tight and we had DJs and ppls dads with 1000s of cds and records even in high school along with our own collections.

I remember skipping lunch as a senior just to drive 20 minutes to get Primus Pork Soda.

Would have been nice to have Spotify and the web, would have saved 1000s but we had so much fun digging

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small-gestures@reddit

That’s exactly the opposite of how I look at “now”. I am constantly fighting algorithms and corporate radio play. If it wasn’t for WERS (radio also available streaming) I would just assume everything sounds like Taylor Swift and Noah Kahan.

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grateful_john@reddit

I have no idea what people consider GenX music. Most of the stuff mentioned in this thread is music I avoided. But that’s true of a lot of the movies so many of you fondly remember as well.

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ST0IC_@reddit

Def Leppard. It always drove me nuts how they tried to rock so hard at such a slow beat. You couldn't head bang to it or anything, all you could do is slow dance.

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polkastripper@reddit

Drummer only had one arm, only so fast he could play.

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Master-Pangolin-353@reddit

The bridge f4om a hit song in'97:

… See the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm Like the drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm

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ST0IC_@reddit

I love bloodhound gang.

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Moontoya@reddit

Points at El Estepatio Siberano says booooolshitt

https://youtube.com/shorts/QUXLNuDn1z0?si=_VWl_VsZZ_LMIIYX

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stopped_watch@reddit

"Greatest hits" albums as a third release.

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middlingachiever@reddit

Rock songs about 16 and 17 year old girls.

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

There are SO MANY of these and then you read the dirty groupie stories and it's fucking horrifying these guys (looking at Steven Tyler and Jimmy Page particularly)

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TemporaryInitial6143@reddit

Was just having this discussion with someone the other day. There were several throughout the 70s and 80s that didn't age well

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DancerSilke@reddit

Gen X experience: Singing loudly in the car to that classic you loved but haven't heard since you were a teen that's just come on the radio, only to jaw drop into silence as the lyrics sink in.

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swordrat720@reddit

Having your kids sing the song, while you recoil in horror.

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Representative-Mean@reddit

Tape players. Especially ones that ate tapes.

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chaosrulz0310@reddit

Wait they didn’t all do this? What voodoo magic did you have that yours didn’t?

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TheSpatulaOfLove@reddit

Overplayed, formulaic considered ‘hits’ that ‘everyone likes’ and is force fed over and over - then waxed nostalgic as ‘the defining sound of a decade’ along with a piss poor representation of the attire from the era.

Oh wait, they still do this shit.

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lectroid@reddit

Nu Metal was an embarrassment and everyone involved, from the musicians to the record execs to the fans, should be ashamed.

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Educational_Row_6345@reddit

OMG Nu Metal I just threw up in my mouth.

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VisualBasic@reddit

That garbled sound on your favorite song when the cassette tape was crinkled in that part.

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Jumpy_Ad_6417@reddit

I’m younger but I hope this still applies; I had so many songs that stutter stopped, songs that I loved, and only realized later when hearing that song on the radio that the expectation of that ka-chunk was visceral. Like stomach hurting. All them corrupted limewire downloads and rip of a rip of a rip cd. I also played guitar and have an old dad so I did my fair share of recording songs on the radio so I could play them at a slower speed.

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Most_Maintenance5549@reddit

The fade out was for radio play.

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MooPig48@reddit (OP)

My cassette tapes did the same thing though

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Pupation@reddit

Right, many people don’t realize why so many songs ended that way.

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KalistoCA@reddit

I’m definitely over the “grunge” scene .. I’ve rolls right back to 80s Euro pop and “new wave”

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youngkpepper@reddit

I hated grunge.

I never lost my love for the Euro pop and "new wave"...come to find out, it kept evolving in the Euro dance clubs. There are a lot of groups keeping the 80s synthesizer flame alive.

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Ianthin1@reddit

A ton of current pop and alternative has a huge new wave influence. It’s pretty refreshing.

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Ianthin1@reddit

Ha! Same. My current listening rotation is a Classic Rock radio channel on Apple Music and 80’s pop and new wave. Sprinkle in some chill edm pretty often too. I don’t turn off grunge stuff when it pops up, but I don’t go looking for it either.

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KalistoCA@reddit

Yeah I’m definitely over the whole Courtney killed Kurt angsty part of my life :) …

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BooRadleysreddit@reddit

Grunge ruined rock and it still hasn't recovered. I'm sick and tired of rock stars bellyaching and complaining about their feelings.

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Rude_End_3078@reddit

Yeah a lot of what I listened to back then can be described as "Angry teenage music". Lyrics we thought were "hard" just come off as cheesy when you're approaching 50.

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MrExCEO@reddit

Songs that were under 3 mins. Like really 😂

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iamnotaclown@reddit

The EQ they used because too much bass would make the record skip. Everything had this mid-heavy tone that sounds really dated.

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

Your speakers were too close to your turntable

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Requires-Coffee-247@reddit

No, too much bass on an LP will make the needle jump.

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iamnotaclown@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/musicproduction/comments/1f9vqoi/why_did_early_80s_pop_music_mixdowns_have_almost/

See top comment.

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TeaVinylGod@reddit

Listening to a copy of a copy of a cassette.

Listening to cassettes we recorded off the radio with the dj talking over the beginning and end of a song.

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blueblocker2000@reddit

Before I got a dual deck boom box, I used to place to boxes facing each other and make copies. Someone would always end up flapping their gums while it was recording. Never failed 😆

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wrhnj@reddit

Keytars

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ViolentWampa@reddit

1000% ... I was just getting ready to say this too 😂

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VendaGoat@reddit

EEEEEEEHHHHHHH- EEEEEEEEEE- AYYYYYYYE- OOOOOOOH - YOOOOOOUUUUUU!

every vowel has its own zip code.

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Matt01060@reddit

Women being described as whores and the glorification violence against women in rap - and the reality that I sang along to it all.

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thisgirlnamedbree@reddit

Bands like 38 Special.

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Affectionate-Cap-918@reddit

gasp

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yodamastertampa@reddit

4 Non Blondes.

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Downs_Van_Zandt@reddit

‘Club’ music in the 90’s that was played on popular radio. Technotronic, Snap!, that homeless song… just so painful. Every high school cheer team had a routine to one.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

I would not go as far as saying I “hate” it

But as a gay man, I had to endure listening to way too much Gregorian chant music while having sex on way too many different forest green futons.

It did make it easier to figure out if I would bother getting there number.

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blueblocker2000@reddit

Inject n' reject, eh?

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Neat_Ad_3268@reddit

That's really niche. Then again, I really enjoyed eating ice-cream cream cookie sandwiches to same while driving home from a good rave.

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CrumblinEmpire@reddit

I don’t miss Jon Bon Jovi’s hair.

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Affectionate-Cap-918@reddit

I never really loved the sax solos.

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TemporaryInitial6143@reddit

I miss the saxophone in songs from the 80s. That's something I'd like to see come back

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

Blasphemy!

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Affectionate-Cap-918@reddit

I know! Lol I’ve never admitted it out loud.

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Frigidspinner@reddit

Those hexagonal drums which played novelty sounds suck as breaking glass

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7thpixel@reddit

We talking like Orgy / Deadsy here?

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Moontoya@reddit

Those are electronic/ trigger pads

Guess what's still used extensively today ?

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Frigidspinner@reddit

the breaking glass effect has gone - and with the exception of YYZ, I am glad!

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trukkd@reddit

All that bitch ass woe-is-me 80s suicide music.

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kev1nshmev1n@reddit

As a teen I was really into grunge music, in my early 20’s I had to stop listening to them entirely, that music was making me seriously depressed. Or maybe I was already depressed and grunge made it worse, Alice In Chains, in particular. Still listen to them occasionally, though.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

How dare you.

I am human and I need to be loved

Now drink my Ice Beer

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vajrasana@reddit

Just like everybody else does

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

Southern Fried Rock.

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lisep1969@reddit

Yes. This can fuck all the way off.

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yeahrightkid@reddit

Mohaim singing.

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PopeInThePizza@reddit

When CDs came out and labels figured out they could put a ton of songs on an album, I was psyched. But I quickly realized that there was a lot of filler in those extra minutes. The 8-10 song format was just more concise.

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weenie2323@reddit

the random saxaphone solos's

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OptimusWang@reddit

I’d like to respond to this, but first LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT 🎵

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Flat-Leg-6833@reddit

Caged drum sound that was EVERYWHERE from 1982-1989. Really dates 1980s popular music and not in a good way.

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Dogzillas_Mom@reddit

I’ll say I this way: the synth technology is so much better. EDM and anything using synth just sounds better.

Example: Seeing Depeche Mode a couple years ago. They played a really really old song from what I refer to as “the dink-dink years,” because the synth just sounded like “dink dink dink dink dink dink dink.” Well they had better technology now, so even “Just Can’t Get Enough” sounds richer and more layered.

I don’t miss that dink dink shit.

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lectroid@reddit

Awww cmon. Those buzzy sawtooth and square waves have an edge…

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RollingBarCart@reddit

Alot of songs had the same moog sounding rifts. made it sound very similar and also very 80s.

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Fatbeard2024@reddit

Hair metal

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DaffyStardust@reddit

Hair metal and Dance pop

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TsabistCorpus@reddit

The fade out is fantastic! Pop music is worse for its absence.

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PresidentSuperDog@reddit

Thanks, Buddy Holly

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Grafakos@reddit

Ooh wee ooh...

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Total-Combination-47@reddit

crappy remixes of 50's / 60's music. I really frakin hate anything to do Jive Bunny crap.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

I do like when Chubby Checker collaborated with The Fat Boys though. That was dope.

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Total-Combination-47@reddit

fuck off you sinner.

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mcache01@reddit

Hair metal

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babbylonmon@reddit

Phil Collins.

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DuchessOfLansdale@reddit

Noooooooo 😭

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TsabistCorpus@reddit

Collins is a legend.

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

I can hear the electric drum solo now.

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Zombalepsy@reddit

Having to listen to 25 minutes of silence in order to hear the “secret song”

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justpuddingonhairs@reddit

Not being cool enough to be a fan of certain bands because I didn't listen to them before everyone else. Sorry assholes I was 14 living in the middle of nowhere, I couldn't go to a punk rock show.

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Foxingmatch@reddit

As an old school punk, I hear you.

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Vast_Needleworker_32@reddit

On the flip side, being embarrassed to listen to music I liked because it wasn’t “cool.”

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EverythingScrolling@reddit

Cheesy keyboard/synthesizer.

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jeepster61615@reddit

100%

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HV_Commissioning@reddit

80's sound of drums. Way TOO much reverb.

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Fullonski@reddit

This the one, right up there with autotune for the most overused effect in the history of popular music

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FunToastGhost@reddit

The solution is always: More Cowbell

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swordrat720@reddit

Sounded good on “Money for Nothing”, but yeah.

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Agent7619@reddit

You are probably referring to 'gated reverb' invented by Phil Collins on a Peter Gabriel album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_reverb

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XyXyX-66@reddit

What is Gen X music? Music we listened to? Music recorded when we were teens?

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XyXyX-66@reddit

Yeah it’s a pretty big generalization although plenty others seem to get it so maybe it’s just me. But…I have friends who are 50 and call themselves Gen X (I’m 59) and there’s a whole “generation” in between music interests.

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JoeInMD@reddit

I'm 46 and call myself gen-x

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krakatoa83@reddit

I agree. Is it music made be Xers or is it music released during the X years, etc?

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dinkeydonuts@reddit

I’m sorry Biz (RIP) but beatboxing. I know why it developed, but it still sounds wet and gross to me.

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Restlessfibre@reddit

Awww I like the fade out.

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666ForMySorrow@reddit

The hollow, echoey production amd bong-bong sound of so much 80s pop music.

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Mister-Owen@reddit

Pia Zadora

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crazy-diam0nd@reddit

She was great as the boy in Dark Crystal

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Mister-Owen@reddit

Who? What?

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Skatchbro@reddit

I was going to say she killed it in Better Off Dead but double checked. Turns out that was E. G. Daily aka Dottie in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.

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Dry_Chain_1083@reddit

I don't miss the "gatekeepers" of music in those days. Nowadays there are recommendation algorithms that can suggest cool bands that you might like--the asshole at the record store doesn't get to monopolize that information and dole it out at his/her obnoxious discretion.

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najing_ftw@reddit

Butt rock