Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

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 thi…

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 B…

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 guy…

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 l…

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 thr…

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 …

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 son…

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 t…

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 nothin…

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 d…

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 in…

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 L…

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 t…

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…

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 y…

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 tra…

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…

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 infl…

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 imp…

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 l…