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

[Meursault]

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.

[Meursault]

Acually, let me expand that a bit: pretty much everything culturally from Watergate to Lewinsky was great and highbrow trashy, with a definite epicenter of excellence between Iran-Contra and Whitewater.

Everything since has been bland conformist sh**t.

[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.

[courts]

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

[CatoMinor]

Acually, let me expand that a bit: pretty much everything culturally from Watergate to Lewinsky was great and highbrow trashy, with a definite epicenter of excellence between Iran-Contra and Whitewater.

Everything since has been bland conformist sh**t.

[Napoleon]

Goth kids keeping south park relevant though.

[badgate]

That's okay, I'm 25 and have a Best Coast CD in my car.

[tik 🪀✨]

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?

[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.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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.

I have a CD in my car's CD player in the year 2017. 

I mean wtf else am I supposed to put into it?  My LPs won't fit.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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.

I have a CD in my car's CD player in the year 2017. 

I mean wtf else am I supposed to put into it?  My LPs won't fit.

Nor will the 8-tracks.

[dead0man]

a functioning CD player in your car?  quit braggin'

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

a functioning CD player in your car?  quit braggin'

I have fond memories of my previous car that featured a cassette player that required a screwdriver to eject.  Listened to a lot of good tunes on that thing.

[RFayette]

a functioning CD player in your car?  quit braggin'

I have fond memories of my previous car that featured a cassette player that required a screwdriver to eject.  Listened to a lot of good tunes on that thing.

I drive my parents' 2007 Hyundai Azera when I'm home from school, and it was the last model year for the vehicle to have a cassette player, IIRC.  Now it's just hilarious to see.

[Simfan34]

Good for you.

[White Trash]

This entire genre is a crime against humanity.

[McGovernForPrez]

I met their singer once. He was a huge jerk. Don't know much about their music though.

[dead0man]

a functioning CD player in your car?  quit braggin'

I have fond memories of my previous car that featured a cassette player that required a screwdriver to eject.  Listened to a lot of good tunes on that thing.

I drive my parents' 2007 Hyundai Azera when I'm home from school, and it was the last model year for the vehicle to have a cassette player, IIRC.  Now it's just hilarious to see.

Holy Crap, did it have a carburetor and drum brakes too?

[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.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Who care

[Santander]

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 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.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I thought for sure this was going to be BRTD necroing a thread he posted ten years ago instead of necroing a thread he posted six years ago.

So you thought BRTD is now in his forties, given the thread title? Harsh.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Thread title updated. Still accurate now.