One of the best to do it! (for a couple albums at least)
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Iāve never been a big fan of their music (in fairness, never really given them a chance) but that song slaps.
Sitting on a shelf in my husbands office (which I was in when I saw this message lol). Original from 95.
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About 75% of the Refuge is gonna be really impressed with this as soon as you explain what a cassette is.
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This album definitely gets overshadowed by Bleed American but itās still excellent
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Iāve been listening to āwhat it is to burnā almost on repeat. So thereās that.
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Came in here with a long, long list, but Iām just going to RT yours instead
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Clarity is def in my top 5 listened to albums of all time. It didnāt leave the Cd changer for a LONG time back in 99/00.
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Hereās my early 00s pop punk/emo FOREVER playlist: Spotify
feat. TBS, Mest, Alkaline Trio, Homegrown, Senses Fail, Funeral for a Friend, Matchbook Romance, Finch, Goldfinger
Felt like I saw a peak pop punk concert when Alkaline Trio and NFG opened for Blink with Mest playing on the side stage before the show started
Itās a weekly jam in our car taking kids to daycare/school
Iām just going cut to the chase and post the whole thing here (and save us all multiple posts)
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I was not super into early 00s pop-punk (more of a late 90s second wave/Midwest emo guy) but my younger brother sure was. A lot of it just seemed super fucking corny to me at the time. My brother rode for Blink-182, A New Found Glory, TBS, Finch, TSL, Dashboard, The Used, Fall Out Boy, and just about any band signed to Drive-Thru Records.
I do think there was good pop-punk and pop-punk adjacent stuff that came out at that time. In retrospect, Blink had jams. TBS was solid (although give me the band that shall no longer be named (BN) over them every time). Awful about BN because that band was going to have quite a career arc I think. I also loved Thursday and Glassjaw, but those were bands of a different ilk.
My entry is what I consider the most criminally slept on band/underrated pop-punk band of the era:
This came out on 2002 on Triple Crown and it slaps, front to back, no skips. They put out a second album in 2004 (Pollyanna) that to me was a little too polished and not quite at the same level as their debut, but one that is worth listening; itās still better than most pop-punk from that era.
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Also relevant here: I may go see The Get Up Kids play a show next month lol.
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Nest title checks out.
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Also - the one band Iād recommend to everyone is Northstar if you havenāt listened to them. Little bit of a different sound, pre-dated a lot of these bands, and put out two A+ albums then broke up. They fly under the radar a lot more and never really got enough recognition imo (even within the emo scene).
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True banger from Back in the day
https://youtu.be/X9fLbfzCqWw
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Late night rant.
Cake Rock N Roll Lifestyle comes on. Good god how condescending.
Back in the day it was funny. Making fun of posers and what not.
Now? I bet Cake would kill for someone to buy their Rock n Roll tshirts. Cuz they aināt making money on CDs anymore.
Screw you Cake. And I never did buy a tshirt.
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You could say theyāve gone the distanceā¦
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Pitching an idea to @DuckDuckHook to re-format these lyrics to āHow can you afford your private golf lifestyleā 
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