Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

The cart jumps off the rails immediately as we dive right into memories of our sophomore lockdown when we originally meant to talk about our junior trip to Six Flags, when we originally meant to talk about Relient K. Chap Stick… was easily one of our most played songs in high school, and the lyrics offer a really awesome glimpse into early 2000's tech, which most of the listeners of this show I'm...

We get a little bit out of our comfort zone this week and imagine ourselves alone on a stage, spotlight shining, performing our favorite songs for friends, coworkers, and strangers alike. Here are the 10 songs we would pick if we were the types of guys to do such a thing, which we definitely are not.   BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   Links: The Pop Punk & Emo Karaoke Mixtape on Apple Music...

We talk about Fall Out Boy a lot. Like, a LOT. And we have no plan of slowing down, or at least we didn't until we realized while recording this episode that we're kinda the biggest FOB casuals in the world. One more so than the other (take a guess). This draft inspired lots of stories of some of our band's first shows where we covered early Fall Out Boy songs, recording sessions that went tragica...

Please have your tickets ready at the gate, because the hype train is screaming through town and it's slowing down for NO ONE! In 2007 Mayday Parade put out one of the most legendary albums of all time and we're taking our sweet, sweet time digging through every masterpiece on this thing. In the episode, we discuss how we emotionally connected to each song on the record, the perception of the band...

Few bands have had as much influence on our musical taste, our band, and our lives as Taking Back Sunday. This episode has been waiting to come out for a while, and we spend an awfully long time drafting our favorite Taking Back Sunday songs from their first 4, pre-2011 albums. Mixed in we've got tons of personal stories and connections to each song, some fan fiction, and wild conspiracies about s...

Khaki rock is back baby, and we're here for it! Andrew McMahon graces our screens with some sensible slacks, no shoes, and multiple microphones. There's not much to the video, a few dudes being dudes, hanging out in Canda on a day off from touring. They seem both exhausted and energized by the camera lenses pointed at them, and they deliver a totally fun performance and some oh-so-relatable yard g...

We both watched a 1h 46m minute just to deliver this episode, and we couldn't be any more apologetic to how it turned out. This meandering conversation touches on the song and music video at times after taking breaks from nonsensical deep dives into the Denver airport, watching movies on cable television, and collect calls from jail. We're not super proud of it, but we had a lot of fun recording i...

In a genre not often associated with very technical artists, quite a few drummers have stood out from the pack as absolute masters of their instrument. This week we draft our favorite songs that feature insane drumming, and we impose a "no duplicate drummer" rule in order to encourage talking about drummers not named Travis Barker.   BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   Links: The Drum Draft Mi...

After realizing that The Academy Is… is not Rookie of the Year, the guys take a moment to reflect and speculate on the perception and reception of The Academy Is… as a band, and we discuss the rise of belt culture and too tight tees. Pat has a WILD story about being flown to Seattle to be on a film set, and Tom asks a girl out on the set of Transformers 3. Then we went off on bad haircuts the day...

2006 was an absolute bonkers year for new music. Some of our favorite tracks came out as we were sophomores in high school and we ate it up with a knife and a fork and did not want for more Things remained pretty civil in this week's episode and we ended up with a banger of a playlist. Make sure to stream the draft playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, or Amazon Music! And hit us up on Twitter with yo...

Arguments could be made that My Friends Over You, or even New Found Glory in general defined pop-punk as a genre and defined the goofy but not quite fart-punky music video. And trust me, we make those arguments. Every frame of this video is packed with some zany leg flailing bit, mega heads, pizza deliveries, bigfoot feet, celebrity cameos, and even a few liberty spikes. It's truly awesome and one...

You're stranded on a deserted island. Your plane went down leaving you stranded with nothing but a Sony Walkman and a shipment of CDs from the years 2000-2010. Why? I don't know. Shut up… This desert island draft has a twist! We each need to pick 10 albums to fit 10 scenarios that we find ourselves in on this island. From gathering provisions to building a structure, and hunt wild animals to celeb...

Good Charlotte (more like GREAT Charlotte, amiright? sorry.) had done what very few bands have managed to do, release their debut album with a major label. This record has a bit of everything, but what it possibly has the most of is a bunch of talking and introducing themselves on the opening track "Little Things", which honestly we think they pull off pretty well. In this episode, we break down t...

Bert Poncet, the singer of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! stops by the talk about the songwriting and recording process of their new album Gone Are The Good Days. Tom and Bert broke down in detail the recording process of their first self-produced album Something For Nothing, the Andrew Wade Remix, recording Pardon My French with Joey Sturgis, making Get Lost, Find Yourself with Kyle Black, and finally...

While they may be just on the fringes of what we talk about on the show, The Dangerous Summer are front and center in our hearts. In 2009 the band dropped one of the greatest albums of all time, Reach For the Sun. The award-winning album opener (I mean, we picked it in our album openers draft) Where I Want to be is the perfect amalgamation of angst, existential dread, and self-awareness that this...

In anticipation of My Che—, err, Motion City Soundtrack's upcoming 17 years of Commit This To Memory Tour, we draft our favorite MCS songs that were released between the years 2000-2010. What we were left with was a great playlist that you can stream on Apple Music and Spotify, but more importantly an even deeper understanding of how incredibly awesome and underrated this band is.   BONUS EPISODES...

The goth fever dream that is the music video for AFI's Miss Murder gets a solid breakdown in this week's episode. There's rabbits. pieces of paper, super long bangs, "the masses", more bangs, more rabbits, a castle, and a whole freakin other song! There's both a ton to talk about, and not much at the same time, so Tom offers an AnECdoTe about the time he had a rabbit for like a minute.   BONUS EPI...

30 Seconds to Mars isn't a band we typically think of when we go back to the emo well, but after seeing the music video for The Kill (Bury Me), it all makes sense. There's movie references, creepy dudes in Tuxedos, women dripping in blood, gorilla suits, and eyeliner. Oh man, is there eyeliner. While this isn't a video you go to if you want to enjoy the song, the band really goes to great lengths...

The year is 2003, you and your best friend just walked home from your first day of 7th grade, there's Capri Sun in the fridge, bagel bites in the freezer, and a new episode of Teen Girl Squad on homestarrrunner.com. You boot up the Gateway in the computer room and listen to the sweet sweet noise of calling the internet through copper wire. After what feels like an eternity, you're in. You hear the...

Shane Drake, legendary music video director for emo acts such as Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Hawthorne Heights, The Rocket Summer, and Forever the Sickest Kids stops by to answer all of our burning questions about what it was like to be on set with some of our biggest heroes. We are honestly stunned this interview even happened, and we're more shocked at the level of intimate deta...

"In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another." (source: Wikipedia, obviously) There may be no other dualism like the song for Buried a Lie and the music video...

When The Upsides dropped in 2010, Tom and Pat's world changed forever. Many nights were spent at terrible diners, across from a smoker's section that did absolutely nothing to block smoke from traveling through the open air right into our scrambled eggs, talking about a pop punk band from South Philly and how it can't possibly get any better than this. We dive into the music video for Melrose Dine...

A few years back we said something regrettable about Cartel, so this week we try and set the record straight. Cartel is straight up one of the greatest bands alive, and everyone, including ourselves, has slept on them for way too long. From the sensible jeans to the dope riffs, the backwards drum sets to the final chorus (but slower), Cartel slays and we don't give a freakin heck what your mom say...

Things in the scene started to take a turn around 2007. Punk went crunk, and for a while, there was no stopping it. However, some bands tried to ride the line between the two, and we think that no one did it better than 3OH!3. That's not to say we enjoy 3OH!3, but they at least made the biggest waves. Resting somewhere between Attack! Attack! and Brokencyde, 3OH!3 made a space for themselves on th...

2005 was possibly the best year ever for emo music. It certainly was the best year for Fueled by Ramen, as their roster graced us with several masterpieces like All We Know Is Falling. Pressure will remain one of the angstiest, most soul crushing songs in Paramore's catalog, and even as grown men, it slays our souls. This week we cover the music video, Tom's 2007 Warped Tour experience, long night...