Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

The most anticipated single of the year dropped as we started recording this episode. Taylor Swift teamed up with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco to create the jam of the summer in Me! We discuss all that's lead to this moment, where she's come since reputation, then watch the video live!     Links: Me! Music Video Taylor Swift reputation Tour Episode Wildest Dreams Live at the Grammy Museum  ...

MakeDamnSure is a song that captivated the iPod Nano's of everyone in our sophomore high school class. The guitar riffs are infectious, the melodies carry every adolescent emo heart away to the darkest corner of their angst, and the lyrics are weirdly poetic and altogether confusing. But, unfortunately, the music video kinda sucks. This week the guys break down the shot list with insider informati...

After a storm of housekeeping, including but not limited to, the Taylor Swift Book Club, seeing Kelly Clarkson in concert, and several apologies for last week's episode, the guy dig into the new "Supergroup" from Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, "Simple Creatures".  The guys discuss whether or not this album is objectively good, whether or not they actually like it, will...

Our sister station up north takes an entire episode for themselves to draft their favorite songs that have come out of the Great White North. As always, the songs come with wildly entertaining stories of what the world was like when the guys first heard the songs: stories about catholic school, car rides with their dad, thinking you discovered porn at your friend's house (sorry, just The New Porno...

The year is 2006, you're 15 years old, you're wearing the T-shirt of the band you're about to see, which you just found out is social suicide. You've got underwear around your neck, you're about to get absolutely black out drunk for the first time in your life, but for now, it's 6pm in Cleveland, Ohio, the lights dim, and before Angels and Airwaves or Taking Back Sunday takes the stage, Head Autom...

Blink-182 recently released a new song and music video with Steve Aoki, and wow… So much to talk about. The lyrics are wack, the video is wack, the collaboration is wack, Steve's Kill Bill jumpsuit is kinda cool but also kinda wack, and there's just a lot of things going wrong with a band that's been so important to us over the years. That then begs the questions… Did the integrity of the band lea...

Matt Farley of Motern Media fame stepped in for Tom this week to discuss Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus with Pat. For those of you who don't know Matt, this dude has over 20,000 songs on Spotify and has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for his song "Used to be a Pizza Hut". Straight up, this dude is a genius. You can also buy our anti-novel Ron Carnage: The Thinker Boy now on A...

The year is 3000, you're underwater for some reason, your great great great granddaughter is doing fine, and The Jonas Brothers are making bangers out of songs that weren't theirs to give. Tom and Pat take out the microscope and dig into the ethical dumpster fire that is the music video for this song. Pat tells a store about microwaving a pistachio for an hour and a half, and Tom drops a bomb on P...

In a huge change of plans and a rare solo episode, Tom talks about his 36 hours spent in Las Vegas, why it's a solo episode this week, about the founding member of Creed buying him dinner in Vegas, and he reads the first 6 chapters of their new antinovel, Ron Carnage: The Thinker Boy.     Links: Pre-order Ron Carnage: The Thinker Boy Blood Eagle Gene the Nerdy Octopus Las Vegas Video Podcast Me An...

Bill Conway, co-founder of The Hard Times stopped by to talk about his brand new podcast, his experience writing some of the funniest parody articles at The Hard Times, throw some straight edge shade towards Pat, and to draft his favorite songs from 2002 with us. As always, lots of great stories, and it was really awesome to hear the perspective of the music scene from someone quite a bit older th...

Taylor Swift has played an interesting part in Tom and Pats lives over the years, and they take a minute revisit the entire discography in this week's draft. Each picks 1 song from each album to draft to their EP, with 2 wild cards from any album to complete a 7 track mixtape. Some of the songs on the list have been played at multiple weddings, funerals, have been performed as acoustic covers when...

Let's face it… Chroma was a good album, but it fell just short of great. The guys try to dig into what it was missing, along with all the things it did incredibly right. Pat tells a story of how the senior class was inspired to make a "tobacco pipe" after attending a surprise Cartel show, and Tom announces some exciting details about their upcoming antinovel, Ron Carnage: The Thinker Boy.    Links...

The Punk Goes…. series from Fearless Records has been a strange part of the scene since their debut in 1999. Being a victim of their own haste and careless assignments of bands has unleashed more than a handful of truly awful cover songs, but maybe it was all worth it for the few that have stood out from the rest. The guys discuss the best and worst that has come form the series over the years, an...

Where would pop punk be without New Found Glory? Some would argue there would be no change, while others claim they defined the genre with their anthemic choruses, half time headbangers, and unapologetic refusal to evolve their sound. The guys discuss their legacy, their absolute affinity for cover albums, and whether or not they'll be remembered as an A or B list band.     Links: Shai Hulud Inter...

The Starting Line wrote on of the best songs of the decade when Best of me Dropped in 2002. It's been one of the guys favorites since first spin, and they finally take the time to discuss the music video, as argue incessantly about what the hell the lyrics mean. The video plays into the weird quirky humor that surrounded many songs in the genre around that time period, but they seemed to have pull...

2001 was a good year for music, and somehow half of Tom's picks were from the wrong year. Let's get that detail out of the way now. His sources are trash. ANYWAYS, the guys return to this fan favorite to draft their ultimate 5 song EP from songs of the year.     Links: The Guys as Blink-182 for Halloween And Another… The Guys Ice Skating 2001 Mixtape on Apple Music * 2001 Mixtape on Spotify ** Are...

Taylor Swift dropped her reputation Stadium Tour documentary on Netflix this week, and there's no way the guys weren't jumping on it as soon as possible. As referenced in their earlier episode reviewing the record, neither Pat nor Tom were the biggest fans of the record, but they thought maybe seeing them performed live would breathe some new life into the songs, which turned out to be very true f...

In this very self-serving episode, the guys discuss how far the show has come since the beginning of last year. They also reflect on how far their own lives have come since early 2018, and line up all their goals for 2019.   Links: Taylor Swift's reputation Tour Documentary on Netflix Pod Carnage     Songs of the week: Movie Life Fantasy by Nik Mystery Guitars, Whiskey, Guns, and Knives by The Ste...

The music video for Stacy's Mom is problematic at best, and the guys get down to the bottom of it. There's a lot of speculation over what Stacy's mother does for work, if the young boy is running a reputable landscaping company or just filling in for a few mows, and whether or not Stacy herself is deserving of his love. Adam Schlesinger strikes again in this hit single from the early 2000s.   Link...

The Sum 41 special is finally here, and its dedicated it in it's entirety to Amanda. If you're anyone other than the Queen herself, please stop reading now. The guys can't help but compare Sum 41 to Blink-182, which leads to a lengthy discussion on can they be compared, and more importantly, SHOULD they be compared. They then blew open a conspiracy about the bedrock in Ajax, Ontario possibly being...

We were born into the worst era of music, and our 00-10s Christmas music playlist is the final nail in the coffin on that argument. The guys discuss what Google claims are the most notable songs from the decade, and throw in a few of their favorites as well.   Links: Hanson Snowed In All I Want For Christmas by My Chemical Romance Christmas in Hollywood A Pimp's Christmas Christmas on the Bayou  ...

The Click Five was an anomaly that needed to be discussed on this show at some point. The research from this episode lead the guys to the discovery of a legendary song writer Adam Schlesinger, a hero from the early 2000s who's had a strong hand in several of our favorite songs from the era. The episode gets really fun with an embarrassingly in depth analysis of the music video, as well as the lyri...

Everyone's taste in music changed over time, and the guys sat down today to map out their musical journey, starting with their very first favorite song, and how preference adapted and got more sophisticated as they aged. They also discuss the question that's on a lot of twenty-something's minds these days, is it okay to not emotionally attach to music like you used to? All of that after a quick re...

Pat moves into a new house, gets a new dog, and goes to the ER, and that's just in the first 30 seconds. After a few mailbag questions re: the dog, and an embarrassing confession from 15 years ago, the guys launch headfirst into a year 2000 mixtape draft of their favorite songs that were released in Y2K. Make sure to check out our Apple Music and Spotify playlist of our picks from the episode. Jus...

The long anticipated Paramore episode is finally here, and it's the first episode of the newly rebranded podcast. The guys dive into their past, how their albums have changed over time, the first time they listened to their music, and how the experience has changed over time. Tom digs a little bit into controversy over Misery Business, and fumbles through some of the issues with toxic masculinity...