Music has not always been beats of technology and voice-overs. Melodies used to play on spinning records. Writing lyrics used to take time and grace. Voices did not have the help of auto-tune. Music was Music.

Senior Tyler Cyz was raised on the screams of Nirvana and the British blues of Fleetwood Mac as result of being the grandson of two former rock-band members. His grandmother was a vocalist, and his grandfather played guitar.

“I actually grew up with some of these bands,” Cyz said. “I wasn’t born in generation X, but I like to go back in time.”

As Cyz grows older, the songs of Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac and other classic artists continue down the path of fame. Though new songs by other artists are released, most do not fit his criteria.

“I’m afraid of where [music] is gonna go,” Cyz said. “Music back then was worked on, used as an emotion, used as feelings, where nowadays it’s so dull and tasteless.”

Though she was born in the 90s, junior Katie Dandurand goes back to the days of leg warmers and big hair every day through the sound of 80s hair metal.

“[I listen to] bands like Motley Crue, Ratt, Scorpions and Warrant,” Dandurand said. “I was raised on it from birth, we probably listened to it on the way home from the hospital.”

Dandurand does not choose rhythms of  jazz, the acoustics of country nor the melodies of pop, but instead finds comfort in the loud, leather-wearing rock bands of the 80s.

“It makes me feel like I have partially been in the process of creating it too,” Dandurand said. “It makes me feel connected to the people that made it.”

Physics teacher Jill Settle does not binge on a certain genre, but instead finds interest in the tunes proved timeless.

“I’ve always liked the classics,” Settle said. “The stuff that has proven itself to be good. Year after year you still want to listen to it, and sometimes with new music you don’t hear that.”

Whether it’s country, jazz, rock and roll or heavy metal, Settle believes the sole purpose of music is to spur a forgotten memory and to take listeners on a journey back in time.

“You hear a song and it reminds you of a certain time in your life,” Settle said. “It takes you back to the places that you’ve been or that summer vacation. It’s hard to describe, it’s hard to define, but you know it when you hear it.”