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, maybe your dad just told you your aunt is moving in and your band that’s “just about to make it big” has to practice at someone else’s house or break up, or maybe I’m just hella projecting right now. Either way, you’re mad. You’re PISSED! So you grab your blue 4GB iPod Mini and hit the road by foot, determined to leave your family AND this stupid town behind. What 10 songs are your bringing along with you? That’s the midnight anger walk mixtape draft….
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Links:
The Midnight Anger Walk on Apple Music
The Midnight Anger Walk on Spotify
Songs of the week:
Days That Shape Our Lives by Me vs. Hero
Stupid Love by Lady Gaga
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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 their best to appreciate every frame of it’s incredible story and performance. A lot went into the making of this video, and luckily the band and director Marc Webb documented a lot of the creative process and uploaded it to YouTube for fans to appreciate for years to come.
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Links:
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge on Apple Music
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge on Spotify
Songs of the week:
Chaos by Taurids
Wavelength by Stand Atlantic
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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 were, radical teen angst, and long nights in Tom’s mom’s basement trying to figure out how to write songs like Jesse with their high school band.
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Links:
Your Favorite Weapon on Apple Music
Your Favorite Weapon on Spotify
The Year 2004 Mixtape Draft Episode
Songs of the week:
Hero by Weezer
You, Me, & the Class War by Boston Manor
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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.
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Links:
The 2004 Mixtape Draft on Apple Music
The 2004 Mixtape Draft on Spotify
The “I’m Not Okay” Music Video Episode
The “All Downhill From Here” Music Video Episode
Songs of the week:
I Want You to Love Me by Fiona Apple
When You Know by Neck Deep
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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 sense of the world. This episode is full of nostalgic tales of midnight rides, anger walks after mom was being a total B, and even some middle school bullying.
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Songs of the week:
2 Million by G Flip
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
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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 sense of the world. This episode is full of nostalgic tales of midnight rides, anger walks after mom was being a total B, and even some middle school bullying.
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Songs of the week:
2 Million by G Flip
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
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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 appreciate how flawlessly the band recreated the movie, managing to condense the entire narrative into three and a half minutes.
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Links:
Cute Without the E Music Video
Our “I Stay Wrecked” Tee Shirt!!!
Songs of the week:
Vega by Hotel Pools
Aulon Raid by The Mountain Goats
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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.
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Songs of the week:
Oh Shoot by Bad Snacks
I’m So by Andrew Applepie
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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 the show some day, but on April 1st he passed away. We were both pretty devastated from the news and decided to take some time to remember the beloved moments we had with his music. He seemed to just understand people and the music they’d love, and a genius like him is a pretty rare thing to discover in their time.
Links:
New York Lottery Zombie Commercial
Katy Perry Covering Hackensack
The Wonder Years Covering Hey Julie
Adam Schlesinger on Marc Maron
Songs of the week:
Cherry by Harry Styles
Crisis Actor by Heart Attack Man
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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 track, and go in depth on the emotions and memories attached to each. They then try to rank the songs by tiers, Tier B, Tier A, and GOD TIER, a game they never enjoy but refuse to stop playing.
Links:
Bonus Photos and Recordings on Patreon!
Alive With the Glory of Love Episode
Fred Armisen plays Daughter’s Wedding on SNL
Songs of the week:
Cool by Dua Lipa
Drink to Drown by Stand Atlantic
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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 in this video, but Tom’s wife suggests a shocking alternative ending that may have shaken things up just enough to make this video rewatchable.
Links:
Bonus Photos and Recordings on Patreon!
The Curse of Curves Music Video
There Are, Apparently, Songs Hiding in my Brain by Pat Holmes
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift
Songs of the week:
Ice Cream and Sunscreen by Martha
Golden by Harry Styles
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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 animators and music video director Meiert Avis created an extraordinarily insane music video that New Found Glory may or may not have been deserving of. Let us know what you think!
Links:
All Downhill From Here Music Video
Songs of the week:
Nothing to Say by New Found Glory
OG Blue Sky by Hot Mulligan
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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 never guess what happens next!!! Or maybe you can. They fight, disagree, and drag some songs through the mud.
Links:
2000’s Cover Draft on Apple Music
Some Behind the Scenes Stuff on Patreon!
Wonderwall by Cartel on AOL Sessions
Royals covered by Youth In Revolt
Party In the USA with Motern Media
Y’all Ready For This by The Good Fight
Songs of the week:
Me & You Together Song by The 1975
Bad Checks by Houses
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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 see a girl in Central Pennsylvania who ended up not being home. Already 300 miles beyond where they said they’d be, the guys drove another couple hundred to see Tom’s girlfriend in the DC area.
There was a short discussion of the music video and the role All Time Low played in the scene as a multi-platinum selling pop rock act, but this episode was mainly about the road trip. Sorry not sorry.
Links:
Dear Maria, Count me In Music Video
Alex Gaskarth Explains Dear Maria Music Video on MTV
Teenage Tom and Pat in Pittsburgh
Tom’s Hair Throughout Highschool
Songs of the week:
Shh! by Stand Atlantic
Alien with a Sleep Mask On by Ratboys
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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 band into what it was, and if there’s anything that’s better than this song, it’s most definitely the music video.
Music video director Matt Lenski did more in 3 minutes and 50 seconds than most filmmaker do in 90 minutes, told a compelling and heartwarming story about a boy who loves a girl, a man who hates a boy, but turns out to actually hate himself. It was very well done, finger-licking salute and all.
Links:
Sugar We’re Goin Down Music Video
'Sugar We're Goin' Down' is a really great example of people with antlers in cinema by Pat Holmes
Number 1 With a Bullet Origins
Sugar We’re Goin Down Misheard Lyrics Video
Songs of the week:
Camouflage by The Front Bottoms
Imported by Jessie Reyez and 6LACK
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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 appreciating every song on this album for the subtleties that made each track unique and interesting. How this album remained at an 11 the whole time and TOTALLY pulled it off remains a mystery, but this massive swing of a record will go down in history as one of the biggest hits of all time.
Links:
Rise or Die Trying on Apple Music
Songs of the week:
Your Dog by Soccer Mommy
Only the Young by Taylor Swift
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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 drafted the songs they would put on that mixtape, were this the year 2006 and they were crushing on some homeroom cutie.
Links:
The Pop Punk Valentine’s Day Mixtape Draft Playlist on Apple Music
The Pop Punk Valentine’s Day Mixtape Draft Playlist on Spotify
The Something Corporate Episode
Tom, Pat, and Zach dressed up as Blink-182
Alive With the Glory of Love Episode
Songs of the week:
Fine, Great by Modern Baseball
7:30 Am by Slothrust
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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 music video could easily warrant a 20,000 word thesis, but I’ve got like 1,000 characters so let’s move quickly. This thing matches the song in terms of quality, catchiness, and total inability to consume it only once. There’s SO much going on, and the most interesting part may be the relationship between our antagonist, the young rock star who doesn’t give a flip about nothin’, and our older domesticated board game aficionado “antagonist” and how OUR relationship with those characters has changed over time. All there is to say is we are do appreciate a quiet neighborhood.
Links:
Gives You Hell Narrative Music Video
Gives You Hell Performance Music Video
The Reason Music Video by Hoobastank
Songs of the week:
2021 by Vampire Weekend
LOTL by 7 Minutes In Heaven
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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 were just starting to seriously doubt our choices and the integrity of the futures we were starting to build for ourselves. It’s easy when you’re too close tp the subject to not see beyond the depression and the failures, but frontman and lyricist Dan Campbell encourages us to find the small moments that make life worth living through this autobiographical war-cry of a masterpiece.
Pat and Tom look back to how hard this record hit when it first came out, and how the feelings associated with this record and what it stood for back in 2010 has changed over time. It turns out this is the kind of record that can grow with you, and looking back doesn’t seem so painful because these songs were there for us when nothing else was.
Links:
Dynamite Shovel Campfire Version by The Wonder Years
Living Room Song by The Wonder Years
I Don’t Need to Pump My Fists to Look Sweet Shirt (Tom’s Old Band!)
Songs of the week:
All Too Well (Taylor Swift Cover) by Dan Campbell
I’d Rather Lose by Mandy Moore
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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 guys both had a hard time getting through this album, because it cuts so deep on so many levels. It’s hard to not feel that pain and angst that’s oozing out of every line on this record. Tom and Pat ranked each song on the newly engineered “Angst-O-Meter” to figure out where all the pain and sadness is coming from on this record.
Links:
Simmer by Hayley Williams Music Video
Taylor Swift ‘Miss Americana’ Trailer
Told You So by Paramore Music Video
Songs of the week:
All Too Well by Dan Campbell
Circle the Drain by Soccer Mommy
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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 below!)
Somehow Say Anything has managed to keep itself from most people’s Mount Rushmore’s of culturally impactful and meaningful groups, but we’d like to make the case that they at least deserve to be a nominee.
Links:
Alive With the Glory of Love: The Day Say Anything Helped 'Scrubs' Go Nuclear by Pat Holmes
Vince McMahon / Say Anything Meme
Tom Dancing to Alive with the Glory of Love at his Wedding
“You Don’t Drink Scotch”: An Appreciation of ‘Scrubs’ and the Inimitable Dr. Cox by Shea Serrano
Alive With The Glory of Love on Scrubs
Songs of the week:
Good News by Mac Miller
Homebound by Set the Score
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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 rank the songs from worst to best, and ultimately they decide every song is great and they wouldn’t change a thing.
Links:
Blog: Revisiting "Commit This To Memory" by Motion City Soundtrack, which somehow turns 15 this year
Commit This to Memory on Apple Music
Commit This to Memory on Spotify
Tom’s Janky Version of Feel Like Rain
Songs of the week:
The Outside by Honeylip
Twitter Tease by Hayley Williams
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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:
Mike Birbiglia: The New One on Netflix
SNL: Duolingo for Talking to Children
Songs of the week:
As Alone by Florist
Reasons by The Bottom Line
Ode to a Butterfly by Nickle Creek
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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.
Links:
Hella Mega Tour Setlist on Apple Music
Hella Mega Tour Setlist on Spotify
That New Old High School Vibe Playlist
Hella Mega Tour Presented by Harley Davidson
Sugar, We’re Going Down Misheard Lyrics
Podcasts of the week:
The Vinyl Countdown by Jeremie Lavigne
Not About Lumberjacks by Christopher Gronlund
Songs of the week:
Overthinking by Between You and Me
Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles
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When you’re thinking of classic sad boy acoustic jams from the early to mid 2000s, Ever So Sweet by The Early November and Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s surely come to mind. The guys sift through why Hey There Delilah was such a greater commercial success, what attributed to that success, and what Ever So Sweet was missing that kept it from taking over the world in the same way.
Links:
Hey There Delilah Radio Version
Tom on Poems for People Podcast
Songs of the week:
Graveyard by Halsey
Anna by The Menzingers
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