The History of the 2010s Emo and Pop Punk Revival (The Story So Far, Modern Baseball, Title Fight)

Transit will always be one the most defining bands in my pop punk library 🫶🏻

Great video. Whatever happened to So Many Ways?

Great job as always!!!

i was lowkey twitter famous in like 2017-18 bc of one of my waterparks tattoos lol i miss this era so much. im from the same area as title fight, motionless in white, the menzingers, and tigers jaw and ended up moving to philly after college. i miss how connected the scene was and i really miss the community especially around warped tour in those last 3 years. i still try to go to shows and support the local scene. one step closer from wilkes-barre pa is shaping up to fit right in with title fight, super excited to see them with hot mulligan later this year. we're older but this era really defined a lot of who i am today :)

I also like to call it Sad Boi Pop Punk (full credit to Finn Mckenty for that one). The Story So Far are my of my favourite bands and saved my life during 2020, they also reignited my love for pop punk. Great video, reminded me of some very slept on bands from that era and introduced me to ones I didn’t know about at all

lol Basement? Or maybe they were just bigger in the UK. Balance & Composure were a staple of that era imo.

I'm only 22, but The Wonder years is probably my favorite band right behind ADTR. I only found them over the COVID era but it was able to take me back to when I was younger in the early 2010s. But I was able to apply albums like Suburbia to that time even if I had never heard it. But as COVID went on and I became more comfortable being a young adult, their newer and newer albums became better and better to me as the "Ooo nostalgia you're getting older that's crazy" waned off. As you said, their albums are linked with the age of the members, and that's really something I liked and at the time really needed. It can be an escape to the past, or something positive or fun to go back the "the good ol days" in a better light. I saw their anniversary tour and there was a big gap in ages from me to everyone else in their late 20s. Only other younger guy I saw there? The one guy in high school who liked this kind of music before I did.

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Along with the Chicago scene, the Northwest Indiana pop punk scene was very rich in the 2010s. I miss the Royal Skate shows with Belmont, Lost Years, Rebuild and Rebound, Came Out Swingin, and Nobody Move. It was absolutely peaked in 2016. Those were the golden years in my life.

This is the most targeted for me video ever made

Damn great video! Made me look back through my show photos/videos. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to was the Run For Cover - Something In The Way festival (?) in NYC in 2016. MoBo ended the night on the main stage and I hardly knew them at the time and I hate myself for it now 😫

Also grew up in this era. Loved all the bands you mentioned here but two big ones for me were transit and polar bear club

Anyone remember the glamour kills tour with into it over it, the story so far, transit, polar bear club, and the wonder years?

Thank you so much for this video man who looks like a crossover between Jonathan Davis and David Cross

Thanks for this video!!! Being a Teen/young adult during the heyday of this scene, was such a fantastic experience. I remember visiting Property of Zack almost everyday to know of some release or to discover some new bands at the time like MoBo, The front Bottoms, Basement, Citizen, Joyce Manor... Stuff that I still listen to everyday.

Can’t access the playlist

Love me some forever came calling!

Great video homeboy!

I started getting in to pop punk when life's not out to get you released. I was 17 then and got in to a massive depression and LNOTGY helped me trough that period.

I’m happy you brought up Transit and Such Gold. Both were never given their roses.

I remember seeing Such Gold for the first time in Corpus Christi, Tx. I immediately went over to buy their album, Misadventures, and told the drummer they were something special in the scene. The album hadn’t even been out a month if I remember correctly.

I still stand by that statement..

amazing video bro . We need more . 👍

Great work on this video man. Good shit shouting out Transit, one of my biggest regrets is never seeing them live despite being from Massachusetts. There’s a documentary coming out about Tim called Don’t Forget To Leave, you should definitely check it out when it gets a proper release

OMGGG THE DAN PHOTOOO

Amazing video as always! Appreciated this nostalgia trip back into my early 20’s

You live in Chicago but you really missed Belmont.

And also, I think Mom Jeans. & Free Throw should be mentioned on this video too.

Phenomenal video dude!
This was a huge trip down memory lane for me.

Loved that you mentioned Such Gold! One of the most memorable shows of my youth was a bill with them, The Flatliners and A Wilhelm Scream in Seattle. Totally reinvented me that night.

Absolutely loved Joyce, the Menzingers, TSSF, Neck Deep, TWY and pretty much all these other bands!

Thanks for a killer vid! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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Thank you for this! This was the wave that really got me into this kind of music. Well done!

amazing video. i was waiting for knuckle puck and whenever you said "speaking of Chicago and speaking of real friends" i just knew they were coming haha...
completely off-topic and unrelated but where did you get that cream/off-white button you're wearing in the later-half of the video? i fucking love it!

@NeverNormal You are SO cool! 😎

ah yes. the "ive been listening to a lot of post" era of emo.

Never normal in the corner at a party: "they dont know that pop punk saved vinyl"

Yet another top-notch video, absolutely love it.

I really regret that I only started to love pop punk in the late 10s/pandemic era. Although I was born in the mid 2000s, if I could be born in the right time and the right place, I think my youth would be more interesting, instead of shrinking in this huge world of tik tok/reels or some shit

Not a pop-punk band but worth noting how much the Mountain Goats inspired Soupy and turned him into such a strong song writer. I don't think The Wonder Years are the band they are without the Mountain Goats

obligatory “you forgot mayday parade” comment

I was really involved in the New Jersey hardcore scene and the pop punk bands that would come through during this era brought so much energy. I still remember seeing seaway come through and just put on an absolute killer show

I’m commenting to much but you putting forever came calling and handguns together was poetic since they basically exclusively tour together now ahah

My hot take is that 2010's pop punk is better than 2000's pop punk. 2010's corporate more hardcore influence than 2000's and the overall quality of music is just on another level.

Best era of pop punk in my opinion

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Man I've been praying to see them for decades. One day I'll get that orchid tattoo. So glad to hear someone else talk about them

I thought easycore started in '99 with NFG's, "It never snows in Florida"?

Phenomenal video. One record that really blew me away that wasn't mentioned was Balance and Composure's The Things We Think We're Missing.

homesick is probably one of my favorite albums period from the last 20 years. such a badass record. the whole thing is perfect. the trippy, drippy album art, the breakdowns, the whole attitude. the loud parts, the soft parts. c'mon man DISRESPECT YOUR SURROUNDINGS! 🤓🤘

hey dude are you based in chicago? because it would be awesome if you could talk about the punk scene here nowadays, after covid. as a kid who started college and just gained the autonomy to start doing this stuff, im curious about how different it is from how it used to be