March MUSIC ARTICLE- Nostalgia (Patreon)

We've all got bands and music we're nostalgic for- whether it's the first band that got you interested in music, or radio earworms from your childhood, or a great album from five years ago that you played nonstop until you had it memorized. Nostalgia serves as a document of who we were, and a comparison between that person and who we are now. Ever come back to music you loved years ago and find that it doesn't hold up? The music hasn't changed, but you have. It can be a bittersweet realization. Maybe the music DOES hold up, and brings you straight back to the feelings you had the first time you heard it. Maybe it's a combination of the two, a sense of "man, this sounds lame now but it was amazing when I was in high school." I'm not huge on nostalgia- there's too much new music being produced today for me to spend much time reliving my musical past. There are a few records that I do occasionally put on, though: Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins still holds up for me. Downward Is Heavenward by Hum remains my favorite album of all time, 15 years after its release. David Bowie's Outside, widely regarded as one of his worst albums, remains my favorite Bowie because I spent so much time listening to it when I was a teenager. It took me years to admit that I liked a few of Toto's songs, mainly because they were omnipresent on the radio when I was a kid. So, readers, what music are YOU nostalgic for? Tell me about it in the comments!