Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

It's no secret that teenagers feel feel every emotion with the intensity of a thousand suns. Maybe your mom took your PS1 away because you threw your pizza rolls at your little sister for telling your crush that you write her name over and over in your college ruled notebook, maybe you drank the last of your big brother's Sunny D and he held you down and gave you charley horses until you cried, ma...

Helena is one of those songs you need to listen to in your underwear on the kitchen floor as you feel the full force of gravity pulling you closer to the center of the Earth. Every millisecond of this song is packed with so much emotion it's taken every bit of the 16 years we've had with it to feel the full weight of this tune. This week the guys break down the music video scene for scene and do t...

Your Favorite Weapon is a really unique album in Brand New's discography, and it holds a lot of great tunes within. A far cry from their later work, this pop punk record remains a favorite for many Brand New fans including Tom and Pat. Many of these songs still hold many great and terrible memories within, and they're all revealed within this episode! From bad relationships, romances that never we...

2004 is not only a great year for all the amazing albums that were released, but it's also the year Tom and Pat met in 8th grade. This week's draft is full of tons of great memories from when the guys were living their best lives as care-free teens. But things get a little heated as they end up competing for the same tunes from their favorite albums of all time.   BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATR...

Every now and then you'll come across a song that was written for you and you alone. Nothing has ever made more sense than the lyrics, the vibe is tuned just to your frequency, and the emotions hit like a ton of bricks. Detroit by Fireworks is one of those songs for Tom. The angst was high through the summers of 2009 and 2010, and Fireworks, a pair of headphones, and a fixed gear bike helped make...

Every now and then you'll come across a song that was written for you and you alone. Nothing has ever made more sense than the lyrics, the vibe is tuned just to your frequency, and the emotions hit like a ton of bricks. Detroit by Fireworks is one of those songs for Tom. The angst was high through the summers of 2009 and 2010, and Fireworks, a pair of headphones, and a fixed gear bike helped make...

Cute Without the E (Cut From The Team) is probably one of the first songs one would pull out of their brain when trying to name any Taking Back Sunday song they screamed at the top of their lungs throughout the entirety of their high school career. It's one of the most raw, powerful, and angsty songs in their entire catalog! This week the guys rewatched Fight Club in an attempt to better appreciat...

Pat's dreams have come true and he finally got his solo Weezer episode he has been begging for for over 3 years. Pat goes (mostly) solo to battle himself in the most episode 2000-2010 Weezer mixtape draft ever conducted. Trust us, there's been many attempts.   BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   Links: Weezer Mixtape on Apple Music Weezer Mixtape on Spotify SNL Weezer Skit Dickinson on AppleTV...

One of the greatest moments in this show's history is when we realized Adam Schlesinger wrote an absolute TON of songs we've enjoyed over the years. Adam was extremely prolific in his career as a song writer for multiple Grammy winning and nominated bands, in addition to TV and film, and he even claimed a Tony win for the writing of Cry Baby on Broadway. We swore to ourselves we would have Adam on...

There are few albums that can fully encompass how it feels to be an adolescent, a teen, and a young adult all in 13 songs. Max Bemis eloquently weaves together the complex emotions of what it means to feel in love, to want to die, and absolutely eviscerates his enemies with words they couldn't possibly understand. In this episode, the guys go song by song and share their favorite moments in the tr...

How was such a great song paired with such a misguided music video? Pat and Tom make an attempt to break down all that went wrong in the music video for The Curse of Curves, but there's almost nothing to even say. There's a lot of hair, no food, the most awkward glances you've ever seen in your life, and poison that has the ability to throw you backwards in your chair. Exactly no more and no less...

If you were to ask 1,000 people what the weirdest video in pop punk is, 1,001 people would respond with All Downhill From Here because Bob is a cheater and he voted twice. The guys do their best to develop the backstory for who these creatures are in the video. who made them, why they're there, and what does the socio-economic class structure look like for this diverse group of monsters. French an...

There are a lot of things to love about the early 2000s, but the cover songs are really where the decade shined the brightest. Not entirely thanks to the Pop Goes… series, but many bands seemed to indulge themselves in rethinking classics 80s and 90s songs and ushering them into a new era. This week the guys draft their top 10 covers that were released between the years 2000 and 2010, and you'll n...

Attempts were made to discuss the music video for Dear Maria, Count Me In at length, but the episode quickly corrected course into an insane road trip Pat and Tom took in 2008 using a fake All Time Low and Brand New concert in Pittsburgh as an alibi to take Pat's Mom's car for 24 hours. However, the guys never had any intention on going to Pittsburgh, instead ending up hundreds of miles away to se...

The year is 2005, and pop punk is taking over the radio waves. The guitars are heavy, the bass is thrashing, and the lyrics are coming atcha fast. At the center of all of this was Fall Out Boy with the massive hit 'Sugar We're Goin Down'. Even the kids in our high school who didn't like rock were singing this in the hallways. It was everywhere. It's the song that turned Tom and Pat's high school b...

Rise or Die Trying is another one of those albums that we should all feel lucky happened in our lifetime. It's truly 1 in a billion. To have so much happiness, poppiness, and brutal breakdownness all in 1 album is still mind bending to this day. We had never heard anything like it at the time, causing a massive shift in the landscape of pop punk moving forward. Pat and Tom take their time apprecia...

The year is 2006, you're crushing on that cutie from homeroom, and you don't know how to tell her how you feel. What do you do? You make her a mixtape that will let her know all the things you wish you could put into words. But you chicken out. You don't give her the CD, but instead listen to it yourself as you notice all those things she does that make you feel brand new. This week, the guys draf...

Gives You Hell by The All American Rejects is a multi-platinum masterpiece that swept the world for what felt like years, but there's SO much to appreciate about this song that we had to take the track piece by piece, and the music video frame by frame. There's a lot to love about this song that almost didn't even make it on to the record because the band had such little confidence in it. The musi...

The late aughts were a time of reveling in self pity, doubt, and/or hatred. But one band was vulnerable enough to stand up and say, hey, maybe we can get ourselves out of this mess. This band was The Wonder Years, and the album that changed it all was The Upsides. This record came out when we seemed to need it the most. We were just started college, getting our first taste of homesickness, and wer...

With Hayley Williams dropping her brand new solo effort "Simmer" just days ago, we felt inspired to take a look back at the very beginning of Hayley Williams career as one of the most iconic and influential front-women in rock history. After the release of 'Riot' in 2007, the band experienced a meteoric rise to fame, and they brought their debut album 'All We Know is Falling' along with them. The...

Say Anything is a band that deserves way more love and respect than they got, and probably even more than we were able to give them on this episode. Alive With the Glory of Love was culturally an important song, not just because Tom skanked to it at his wedding in 2018, but primarily for the way it was used in Scrubs to emphasize one of the most pivotal moments on the show (check out our blog post...

Commit This to Memory is an album that shook our 14 year old souls when it first came out, or in Tom's case, just a year or two later. Having been introduced to this band by 2 kids that Pat and Tom looked up to for musical advice, this album was destined to make waves all 15 years since it's release, with no sign of stopping in sight. The guys play this dumb game they both hate where they try to r...

Best friend Zach drops in to accompany the guys on their usual New Year goals episode. As everyone approaches 30, there's some big life changes about to take place (did someone say kids?!), and 2020 will surely be a huge year of growth. The guys reflect on their goals for 2019 and how they did, and look forward to what they hope to accomplish in this new year.   Links: Ron Carnage: The Thinker Boy...

Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy are gearing up to hit the stage in a massive tour that is somewhat reminiscent of massive stadium tours of generations passed. While the guys are probably not going to be in attendance, both draft the 10 songs they'd like to hear the most. Bonus history lesson on Weezer's Pinkerton, as it's Pat's first opportunity in 150+ episodes to talk about his favorite band...

If you're gonna talk about sad boy, hall of fame albums, you won't get very far without coming across 'Give Up' by The Postal Service. Somehow 150 episodes have gone by without the attention it deserves. The band released 1 single platinum album in the early 2000s, and while one of the guys didn't take to it immediately, it ended up rattling both of their worlds for years to come. As some sad dude...