Would you enjoy the music you listened to as a teen if you heard it for time today?
 

This question isn't related to artists/albums you don't like any more, because we all know that certain artists you enjoyed as a teen/kid end up being cast by the wayside at some point. I want to know if there are artists that you loved as a teen, which are still fondly looked upon - or even rated very highly to this day - which you may not have liked had you heard them for the first time today.

For example, I very much doubt I would give a toss about Oasis if I had not heard of them before today, and had listened to all the other artists I have come to love/appreciate. But for whatever reason, they are a band I have not dismissed and ignore completely nowadays. In fact, I really enjoy a lot of their songs. It is difficult to be 100% certain about this question because I might have loved Oasis anyway. I just think it's interesting how nostalgia plays a part in personal taste.

Also, I think it comes down to familiarity as well. The fact that I now know all of the words - and even know how to play some of them on guitar - makes it easier for me to just enjoy the songs.

i think i would

Maybe, but then again I'm always interested in past, present, and future no matter what.

I seriously don't think so. I listened to some atrocious crap.

NO it is/was WAY too shallow

Not really. With the exception of a few songs

I'm sure I would. As a teen I was eager to discover music from past eras as well as new music. I still love to discover music from the past I may be hearing for the first time. I don't see that when the music was made has any bearing on whether I'll like it or not.

Some yes, others absolutely not

As there's no way to actually measure the effects of nostalgia, I'll just say yes I would enjoy the music. I assume that my taste in music has been steady.

Some proof of this is that I got rid of hundreds of once-loved records, cassettes, and CDs when I was in my teens because I decided they were crap in some fit of teenage stupidity (such as that I was suddenly too cool for hair metal or top-40 pop), and now I wish that I had them all back.

Also, this mainly goes back to my pre-teen music because my general tastes were pretty much solidified by the time I was 15 (although, naturally, they expanded a lot since then). It was then that I stupidly disavowed my old loves such as Dokken, Cinderella, W.A.S.P., Def Leppard, Heart, INXS, Belinda Carlisle, Salt-n-Pepa, etc.

As an aside, I still can't listen to certain music that I discovered and hated when I was a teen/pre-teen such as: just about all 70s prog, the Rolling Stones, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, anything resembling nu-metal, etc.

Ben Kweller comes to mind instantly. He's probably comparatively the best musician I loved as a teenager, but if today was the first time I listened to him I would likely not have even made it through one track.

Eminem as well. While I still enjoy listening to his older albums, if I hadn't obsessed over the Marshall Mathers LP while I was growing up I would have written him off as another modern radio whore.