Reminiscent

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.   BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   Links: Helena Music Video Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge on Apple Music Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge on Spotify The Making of Helena Helena Music Video Outtakes   Songs of the week: Chaos by Taurids Wavelength by Stand Atlantic   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook  

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.   BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   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   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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 PATREON!   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   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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.   BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   Links: Detroit Music Video   Songs of the week: 2 Million by G Flip Blinding Lights by The Weeknd   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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.   BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!   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   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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+ McMillion$ on Hulu     Songs of the week: Oh Shoot by Bad Snacks I’m So by Andrew Applepie   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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. JOIN US ON PATREON!   Links: That Thing You Do Stacy’s Mom Hey Julie Hackensack All Kinds of Time New York Lottery Zombie Commercial Just the Girl Episode Stacy’s Mom Episode Katy Perry Covering Hackensack The Wonder Years Covering Hey Julie Adam Schlesinger on Marc Maron   Songs of the week: Cherry by Ha

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! Say Anything on Apple Music Say Anything on Spotify 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   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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 The Mr. Brightside Episode We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift The Reason by Hoobastank   Songs of the week: Ice Cream and Sunscreen by Martha Golden by Harry Styles   Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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     Hit us up online! Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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 2000’s Cover Draft on Spotify Some Behind the Scenes Stuff on Patreon! Wonderwall by Cartel on AOL Sessions SkaTune Network on YouTube The Road Taken Podcast 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   *Listen to these songs and millions of other songs on Apple Music with a 3 month free trial*   Follow us on Twitter at @_Re

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: Reminiscent on Patreon! Dear Maria, Count me In Music Video Jasey Rae Jasey Rae Acoustic Alex Gaskarth Explains Dear Maria Music Video on MTV Teenage Tom and Pat in Pittsburgh Tom’s Hair Throughout Highschool Matt Squire

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 Neal Avron Matt Lenski '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 D

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: Buy Our Genre Is Dead Shirt! Rise or Die Trying on Apple Music Rise or Die Trying on Spotify With the Punches Me vs. Hero The Cartel Episode Miss Americana on Netflix   Songs of the week: Your Dog by Soccer Mommy Only the Young by Taylor Swift     *Listen to these songs and millions of other songs on Apple Music with a 3 month

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     *Listen to these songs and millions of other songs on Apple Music with a 3 month free trial*   Follow us on Twitter at @_ReminscentFM and on Instagram!

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 Gi

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 yo

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: After 'Simmer' release, revisiting the boiling angst of Paramore's 'All We Know Is Falling' by Pat Holmes Simmer by Hayley Williams Music Video Taylor Swift ‘Miss Americana’ Trailer Told You So by Paramore Music Video The Click Five Episode Fleetwood Mac Meme Paramore Live in Anah

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 Tom’s Hair in High School “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 Pop Punk Playlist   Songs of the week: Good News b

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 Edinboro Hangout   Songs of the week: The Outside by Honeylip Twitter Tease by Hayley Williams   *Listen to these songs and millions of other songs on Apple Music with a 3 month free trial*   Follow us on Twitter at @_ReminscentFM and on Instagram!