The Ever Passing Moment was exactly what post-99 MxPx fans needed, and the song “Responsibility” helped get it onto the ‘Punk Rock That Survived the Millennium” list. MxPx did swim staying relevant to their sound, ditching any irrelevant labels they picked up, and producing a punk rock record that still shimmered enough to inadvertantly gain the pop scene, while still drumming fast enough to be punk. Anyways, this guy hands me MxPx’s current discography, and I was hooked like a bug to a flame.īy the time 2000 came, it was time for punk rock of all sorts to either sink or swim. I didn’t have to wait for the latest issue of some dumb music mag to drop to discover new music! Yes, the internet sucked back then. But seriously, he did.Īpparently there was no record on this earth he wouldn’t buy. I had fallen in love with MxPx back in the 90s thanks to a chill dude from Alaska who somehow had more CDs and cassettes than an FYI and SamGoody combined (google that post-2000 babies). In 2000 I was discovering more and more punk rock. Side note: “Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)” is also just as amazing, and the Fight Club-inspired music video blew my pubescent mind, but the video for “You’re So Last Summer” is just funnier to me. This song was absolutely meant for sad teenage boys to scream out together, like a sort of primal male bonding experience for kids not quite masculine enough to go on hunting trips or be on a sports team. Tell All Your Friends was released in 2002 and for me it is the quintessential pop punk/emo album of the early 2000’s. How did a pop punk/emo band score Flava Flav? Gut-busting I tell you. The kind of catchy that had my friends and I singing along at the top of our lungs while driving down country roads or sitting in busted out garages. The song was angsty, talked about bleeding and throats and all the wonderful emo cliches that teenage me thought were incredibly deep.īut damn if this song wasn’t catchy. Taking Back Sunday – “You’re So Last Summer” – Victory Records 2002ĭo you remember when Special Edition CD’s would come with promotional DVD’s attached? Victory Records was the king of early 2000’s music video DVD’s, and I watched the music video for “You’re So Last Summer” at least a hundred times the summer of 2004. “Anthem Part Two” was the first track that played, and honestly I’ve never believed in fate more than at that moment. The night before I was due to leave for the festival, I’d just finished packing, opened a cold beer and started up iTunes to play in shuffle. Blink-182 were billed to headline that year’s Leeds/Reading festival and I was beyond stoked as a lifelong Blink fan that had never had the opportunity to see them live. Get ready punk power-anthem fans! You will be digging out your old Warped Tour CDs after taking this trip down memory lane!Īlthough Take Off Your Pants And Jacket came out in 2001, my most treasured and nostalgic moment regarding this track was in 2010. We will revel in sweet nostalgia as we cover our favorite punk anthems from 2000-2005 the era in which belting these emotion filled lines at the top of our off key voices was still considered hardcore. will now relive the glory days of early 2000s punk rock! The songs listed here are considered by some to be in the “punk” camp, and that’s good enough for us to get nostalgic! So, some of us writers at B.G.M. That any pop influence just taints it too much. Of course, many would argue that the bands that fall into this category are not “punk” at all. Post 1998 it was add lots of melody, a pop flair – reminiscent of Axl Rose meets Joe Strummer – and there you have it! The new punk rock(?). Some would argue that this wasn’t what punk would become, but there are many bands who adopted that sound/mentality in many new forms. Equally as important was the coming true prophecy that Refused expelled upon us in the form of 1998’s The Shape of Punk to Come. The rules that the forefathers of punk had set and played to – Black Flag’s chug chu ch downstroked half chords and Rollins’ pissed off rants half sang, to Bad Brains’ signature yet copied whirling frenzy of frenetic chaos – were beginning to dissolve. Dookie and Dude Ranch changed what a band could do with punk rock that simple fast four chord dunk-a-dunk-a-dunk beat could be slowed down or changed up a bit. Between 20, there was a plethora – a literal flood – of bands that formed who essentially copied what mid-late 90s Green Day and Blink 182 did.
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