- Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- Evanescence - Fallen
- Some Disturbed, Godsmack, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Korn, AFI
Pretty much that whole music scene of late 90s/early 00s alt/industrial/goth stuff. It says LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE?
I was working at my first job 20 years ago, which was at Hot Topic lol
We had a CD changer that we could load whatever we wanted in there and play that shit loud as hell and irritate the bougie candle store that was next to us; I mostly put in stuff like Manson, NIN, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Rasputina, Switchblade Symphony and sometimes if I was really feeling up to pissing them off I'd play some Cannibal Corpse or Type O Negative, they really didn't like the song "Kill All The White People", that one got em to complain to mall management about us lmao
God I was such a little shit back then
Wow havnt heard the same switchblade symphony in awhile. Them and Inkkubus Sukkubus were my jams, I was very goth 20 years ago. I think that and the angst of industrial helped cope with my gender dysphoria.
Yeah Hot Topic partnered with Cleopatra Records back then and put out a few great compilation CDs called Dark Noise, they had some great stuff on there like Leather Strip, Rosetta Stone and one of em had a fuckin banger of a remix of Christian Death's Cervix Couch, imma try to find it on youtube real quick (Hell yeah, I found it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elocs8q33xQ )
Also yeah, there was a great group of kids that worked there, including at least 2 kids that in hindsight were definitely trans, but it was a very different time back then so they weren't out or anything. Also I had SO MANY girls hit on me when I worked there, kinda look back with regret at letting my anxiety prevent me from going out with some of them.
Hey that's an awesome experience though, well sounds like it. I worked fast food to go to hot topic to buy stuff. Fucking consumer based individual expression. Thanks for sharing brought on the nostalgia vibes. I
Yeah, those were definitely some good times! Fun to look back once in a while, this post just got all that nostalgia flooding into my brain
Classical music, plus a ton of Weird Al and other Dr. Demento-adjacent comedy music
I was a huge Marilyn Manson fan as a young goth kid. Something about his music spoke to me for what I was going through at the time and living through rebellion.
Mechanical Animals has a special place in my heart due to where I was at when I had the album in my teen years.
Holy Wood is a terrifying album in retrospect. It came out in 2000 and was the last album he really put an effort into before making some mediocre rock albums. Most of the songs and the artwork seem to mirror the growing fascism in American culture. When I seen Kid Rock a few years ago selling shirts that said "Guns, God and Trump" it reminded me of the "Guns, God and Government" line from The Love Song and the cross made of guns that Manson used on that tour. There's also this song called The Fall of Adam which sounds like a fascist rally with a big speech, not unlike something you'd hear from a Trump rally. So many songs from that album relate to American culture and especially the era we live in now and it's so hard to believe Manson was writing all that before 9/11. You can see a lot of Trump stuff and Blue Lives Matter bootlicking from the lyrics and artwork to this album.
Unfortunately Manson became a huge joke later on and even revealed to be a true piece of shit.
Absolutely and then The High End of Low was where I gave up on Manson forever. That album sounded so lazy, it's hard to believe the same guy who wrote witty lyrics like on Antichrist Superstar would go on to write lines in 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies'.
Honestly Mechanical Animals is (or maybe was? I'm not sure what the current opinion on it is tbh) a really underrated album, I think a lot of fans at the time didn't like the shift in style from Antichrist Superstar but I loved it, and I think it holds up better than most if not all of their later albums
True, I agree. It's my favorite album of his cause it shows him thinking outside of the box and leaves you to wonder what he could've become as an artist by trying different things and not going back to the full Antichrist Superstar type look and sound for Holy Wood and what followed after.
Mechanical Animals was also well produced. People talk about Trent Reznor's production on Antichrist, but MA had a unique sound to it. It almost sounds like it's half human and half machine. The way the acoustic guitars are mixed in with all the electronics, it has it's own uniqueness to it that can't be found on any of his other albums. Manson became a lazy artist in the 2000s settling for a sorta generic guitar driven rock sound that don't mesh well with his older albums.
I was like 6 years old so mostly dora shit and censored hip hop lmfao
Some of the same stuff. In 2000 I was in my last year of high school, and Napster was still big. I heard Robert Johnson for the first time that way, "Come On in My Kitchen." I was a geek so I listened to my dad's classical music collection a lot, Baroque stuff and Renaissance polyphony. My best friend loved the Beatles so (speaking of that hated band) I went through their discography too. But contemporary mainstream hits then were really cringey, and we still had strong Canadian-content laws so we heard a lot of Canadian cringe too. I have a dark memory that on prom night they played Bush's "Glycerine" and Our Lady Peace's "One Man Army" on a huge 20-foot screen in the gym but that might have been a fever dream. The theatre kids were all still stuck on Phantom and I felt cool for liking Cabaret instead. Jesus, what a decade.
I was in school having a struggle session on how Charpentier is better than Rameau. (He is and anyone who thinks otherwise can go stab themselves in the foot with a conducting staff.)
I was listening to alternative rock stuff. Mostly Cake, Smashing Pumpkins, that kind of thing., I guess the vibe for my music choices were aesthetically outsider (we're alternative!) but actually pretty mainstream. Which sounds about right for me as a teen. And maybe now too? 😬
Oh, and I just checked, and 2000 was the year O Brother, Where Art Thou? came out, and I was just getting in to folk and bluegrass. i'd heard and liked some before, like when my dad would listen to Prairie Home Companion, but I didn't really know artist names or where to start, so the soundtrack game me some names to branch out with. And the "O Sister, Where Art Thou* CD with a bunch of female artists is still a favorite and also gave me some names to follow. Which is great, but also continues the theme of being aesthetically an outsider (cool because it's uncool, you know?) but actually pretty mainstream at the time. That was a popular movie and a popular soundtrack. So I guess I'm saying that I wanted to feel like a rebel, but without any risk.
Tupac. Never heard anything like that and his anger spoke to me.
Yeah brother it says we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.
Nineteen years, close enough.
Not exactly 20 years ago because I was 10 back then but I do think it's funny my politics have completely circled back to the politics of the bands I listened to in my early teens: NoFX, RATM, SoaD etc.
I was a typical teen trying to rebel against my parents and you know, conformity maaaan so I hung out at the skate park and listened to punk and metal, it's just that I now understand these bands were mad at the system instead of my parents. Especially since I'm Dutch I barely understood what they were talking about beyond "GWB bad", but it's been interesting going back to those records and now having so much more knowledge and context for the themes and subject matters.
