Reminiscent is a weekly show where 2 best friends discuss their favorite bands from their adolescence and how it’s shaped their lives as they find themselves exploring early adulthood. Hitting puberty in the early 2000’s was a really strange time for a lot of people, but Tom and Pat have had each others back since the early 90s. Come along for the ride.
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272. 10 Years of This Is My Nightmare by The Good Fight
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We talk a lot of about album anniversaries on this show, but this is the first time we talk about one of our own! On November 9, 2013, Tom’s band The Good Fight released their debut (and final) EP “This Is My Nightmare” and the guys go track by track and discuss the writing and recording process of each song and provide some insight on how recordin…
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2007 was a very important year for Tom, Pat, and the scene as a whole. This year saw some of our favorite releases of all time, and things get contentious real fast as we scramble to claim our favorite tracks for this week’s draft. We end with quick conversation about The Hum Goes On Forever by The Wonder Years. Subscribe at Apple Podcasts | Google…
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Daddy and daddy have been away for a few months, and we’re very sorry that we left you all alone with the babysitter, a terrible April Fool’s joke of an episode. So we’re popping in real quick with a brand new toy to hopefully make things right. Here’s All That I’ve Got by The Used, but for real this time. Not a dragon in sight. See you in 10 month…
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269. Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce
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This episode was published on April 1, 2022, originally titled "All That I've Got by The Used" as an April Fool's joke. Since we later went ahead and published a real The Used episode, we changed the title to "Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce". This week, we left it up to the listeners with a Twitter poll to determine which episode we…
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You know those moments in your life where you know you’re going to come away from that moment a completely different person? That’s what hearing 99 Red Balloons for the first time was for us. It’s the reason we’re friends. It’s the reason we ended up starting a band that we played in all through high school. It very well may be the reason we love p…
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267. Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, friends! As many as you may know or have guessed by now, we’re both hella Irish, so we’re happy to talk about the most Irish song we know, Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly. (Suck it, Irish National Anthem!) The song is great year-round, but it hits especially hard on St. Patty’s Day. But the VIDEO! Dear Christ, the video…
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266. The Science of Selling Yourself Short by Less Than Jake
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Way too much time has gone by without screaming at everyone about how much we absolutely love Less Than Jake. Not only have they been cranking out some of the best music we’ve ever heard since the early 90s, but they even gave us Fueled by Ramen, so put some respect on the name! While The Science of Selling Yourself Short isn’t the most feel-good s…
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265. The Songs About Places and Spaces Mixtape Draft
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Many bands over the years have dared to write songs about their hometown, the neighboring state that they can’t stand, or even extremely specific restaurants, apartments, and fountains in their local area. This week, we draft our favorite songs about our favorite places and spaces. Not a lot to it, we just love places and spaces! BONUS EPISODES AND…
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264. Anywhere But Here by Mayday Parade
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it’s no secret that Mayday Parade is one of our favorite bands of all time, but we’re super guilty of only talking about their debut album A Lesson in Romantics. It seems like the rest of the world may be guilty of the same crime, so we’re trying to set the record straight today. Mayday Parade is much more than a one-album wonder! Anywhere But Here…
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No early 2000’s podcast is complete without a Michelle Branch episode, because that woman was everywhere, much pun intended. And she wasn’t even a woman yet, she was like 15, taking the entire planet and the airwaves by storm! Our motto this year is #BangersOnly, so it’s only natural we talk about Michelle Branch, even if it is a little bit out of …
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262. Same Direction by Hoobastank (Into the Hoobaverse)
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It’s no secret that Hoobastank’s music video for The Reason is our favorite heist movie ever, but it recently came to our attention that there’s a sequel! Hooba picks up right where they left off and tell a gripping tale of crime, rock and roll, and betrayal all in three minutes, and somehow managed to outdo themselves once again. However, we want …
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There are few things as magical as a debut that absolutely takes over the world, whether that’s the literal world with platinum status or the self-centered, tiny bubble of a world we were living in when we were 15. This week we draft our favorite debut albums and state our cases for which song we think represents the album as a whole. Make sure to …
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260. When We Were Young Festival Setlist Mixtape Draft
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The announcement of the When We Were Young Festival will be one of those moments we look back on in 20 years that are paired with a “where were you when"?" The millisecond that flyer hit Twitter, everyone went nuts. It was pure, unadulterated joy for like, 20 minutes… and then the questions started. And at last, the memes rolled in. Wait, how many …
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259. The Sophomore Album Mixtape Draft (and the songs that defined them)
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Everyone loves to talk about bands’ debut albums, but I think it’s about time we give some sophomore releases the credit they deserve. This week we draft our favorite sophomore albums, but there’s a twist… we also have to pick the song we think represents the album best. Not only does it leave a ton of room for debate, but it makes the playlist pos…
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258. Writing on the Walls by Underøath
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As Underøath releases their new album “Voyeurist” today, we take some time to discuss one of their early bangers, Writing on the Wall their album Define the Great Line. But not before we present your 2022 ScorchFest winner, Patrick McDonagh for his FLAMING hot take on Green Day and the listenability of their entire catalog. In this episode Tom tell…
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257. ScorchFest 2022: Listeners Send Us Their Hottest Takes!
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You all listen to us spout our nonsense 51 weeks out of the year, but this week is yours. ScorchFest 2022 is upon us, and you people did not pull any punches. This year feels extra special as we had you all “call-in” to the show to personally tell us your thoughts that are sure to make everyone just absolutely upset, and it’s all done for the covet…
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256. The New Year by Death Cab For Cutie
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With the new year upon us, we’ve decided to finally discuss the only song that has ever made sense to discuss on the last week of the year, The New Year by Death Cab For Cutie. Gibbard and the boys have an insane way of dragging your entire day into the gutter after just one verse of any of their songs, and The New Year holds no punches. If you’re …
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For the first time in 5 years, we record an episode LIVE in front of a virtual studio audience! Pat watched a super long documentary about The Beatles, Tom definitely does not, they both start new Christmas traditions with their growing families, and they (we?) take compliments and accept gifts weirdly. How very Irish Catholic… BONUS EPISODES AND P…
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254. December (again) and again and (again) by Neck Deep
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Look, every modern, original Christmas song is terrible. They’re all so bad, in fact, that we had to go out of the decade just to find a remotely wintery song worth talking about. But the emo gods have blessed us with Neck Deep’s December, of which there are THREE VERSIONS! There seems to be a trend with super depressing Christmas/winter songs comi…
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253. Reinventing Your Exit by Underøath
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Our first foray into the early 2000’s insanity that was Christian metalcore, Christ-core for short, lands us at the “Reinventing Your Exit” music video by a band that has recently renounced their religious affiliation, Underøath. They’re Only Chasing Safety walked so that albums like Someday Came Suddenly could sprint at freak-like speeds. Still, t…
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252. Flavor of the Weak by American Hi-Fi
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Y’all have been begging us for an American Hi-Fi song for ages now, and we aim to please. Flavor of the Weak is a super great song, VERY guitar forward, the riff slays, the hi hats are compressed, Nintendo takes some strays (or so we thought), and it’s just a super fun, super catchy song. And we won’t even hold the fact that they can’t spell “week”…
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251. The Super Long Song Title Mixtape Draft
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If emo has taught us anything through the years, it’s to express ourselves; to be honest with ourselves and others, and do it in the most verbose and flamboyant way possible. Write a song about that girl. Hell, write a whole album. Say as much about that 2-week relationship as you possibly can. And you know what? Cram as many characters into that s…
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250. Growing up Emo in Erie, PA with Jess Scutella: Tattooer, Drummer, Artist
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Today we’re celebrating 250 episodes and 5 years of the podcast with NEW ARTWORK! We’ve been working on a super fun art project with our friend Jess Scutella for almost a year now, and we are honored to have them on the show to talk emo, pop punk, tattooing, Erie, PA, community, and Taylor Swift. It’s been a long time since we’ve sat down and had a…
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After absolutely bungling the Futures episode, we attempt to make it up to Jimmy Eat World (who desperately need our validation) by talking about… their most successful song to date. Then Tom gets really sweaty and talks about a kid getting slapped while trying to sleep at his 14th birthday party. Idk. Back to Jimmy Eat World In 2001, the record in…
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248. King For a Day by Pierce The Veil (Pat's Birthday Extravaganza!!!)
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It’s Pat’s birthday so we’re breaking decade and going DEEP into a song that has totally overtaken his life, King For a Day by Pierce the Veil. This is a band that, honestly, neither of us have ever listened to before YouTube shoved this thing down our throats for months, but who are we to question the algorithm? it always knows best. This banger f…
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247. Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry by Relient K
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The cart jumps off the rails immediately as we dive right into memories of our sophomore lockdown when we originally meant to talk about our junior trip to Six Flags, when we originally meant to talk about Relient K. Chap Stick… was easily one of our most played songs in high school, and the lyrics offer a really awesome glimpse into early 2000’s t…
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We get a little bit out of our comfort zone this week and imagine ourselves alone on a stage, spotlight shining, performing our favorite songs for friends, coworkers, and strangers alike. Here are the 10 songs we would pick if we were the types of guys to do such a thing, which we definitely are not. BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON! Links: The…
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We talk about Fall Out Boy a lot. Like, a LOT. And we have no plan of slowing down, or at least we didn’t until we realized while recording this episode that we’re kinda the biggest FOB casuals in the world. One more so than the other (take a guess). This draft inspired lots of stories of some of our band’s first shows where we covered early Fall O…
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244. A Lesson In Romantics by Mayday Parade
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Please have your tickets ready at the gate, because the hype train is screaming through town and it’s slowing down for NO ONE! In 2007 Mayday Parade put out one of the most legendary albums of all time and we’re taking our sweet, sweet time digging through every masterpiece on this thing. In the episode, we discuss how we emotionally connected to e…
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243. The Taking Back Sunday Draft
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Few bands have had as much influence on our musical taste, our band, and our lives as Taking Back Sunday. This episode has been waiting to come out for a while, and we spend an awfully long time drafting our favorite Taking Back Sunday songs from their first 4, pre-2011 albums. Mixed in we’ve got tons of personal stories and connections to each son…
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242. I Woke Up In a Car by Something Corporate
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Khaki rock is back baby, and we’re here for it! Andrew McMahon graces our screens with some sensible slacks, no shoes, and multiple microphones. There’s not much to the video, a few dudes being dudes, hanging out in Canda on a day off from touring. They seem both exhausted and energized by the camera lenses pointed at them, and they deliver a total…
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241. Bring It! (Snakes On a Plane) by Cobra Starship
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We both watched a 1h 46m minute just to deliver this episode, and we couldn’t be any more apologetic to how it turned out. This meandering conversation touches on the song and music video at times after taking breaks from nonsensical deep dives into the Denver airport, watching movies on cable television, and collect calls from jail. We’re not supe…
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In a genre not often associated with very technical artists, quite a few drummers have stood out from the pack as absolute masters of their instrument. This week we draft our favorite songs that feature insane drumming, and we impose a “no duplicate drummer” rule in order to encourage talking about drummers not named Travis Barker. BONUS EPISODES A…
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239. Slow Down by The Academy Is...
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After realizing that The Academy Is… is not Rookie of the Year, the guys take a moment to reflect and speculate on the perception and reception of The Academy Is… as a band, and we discuss the rise of belt culture and too tight tees. Pat has a WILD story about being flown to Seattle to be on a film set, and Tom asks a girl out on the set of Transfo…
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238. The Year 2006 Mixtape Draft
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2006 was an absolute bonkers year for new music. Some of our favorite tracks came out as we were sophomores in high school and we ate it up with a knife and a fork and did not want for more Things remained pretty civil in this week’s episode and we ended up with a banger of a playlist. Make sure to stream the draft playlist on Apple Music, Spotify,…
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237. My Friends Over You by New Found Glory
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Arguments could be made that My Friends Over You, or even New Found Glory in general defined pop-punk as a genre and defined the goofy but not quite fart-punky music video. And trust me, we make those arguments. Every frame of this video is packed with some zany leg flailing bit, mega heads, pizza deliveries, bigfoot feet, celebrity cameos, and eve…
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236. Desert Island Albums ft. Dungeons & Dragons
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You’re stranded on a deserted island. Your plane went down leaving you stranded with nothing but a Sony Walkman and a shipment of CDs from the years 2000-2010. Why? I don’t know. Shut up… This desert island draft has a twist! We each need to pick 10 albums to fit 10 scenarios that we find ourselves in on this island. From gathering provisions to bu…
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Good Charlotte (more like GREAT Charlotte, amiright? sorry.) had done what very few bands have managed to do, release their debut album with a major label. This record has a bit of everything, but what it possibly has the most of is a bunch of talking and introducing themselves on the opening track “Little Things”, which honestly we think they pull…
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234. Bert Poncet of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! on the making of Gone Are the Good Days
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Bert Poncet, the singer of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! stops by the talk about the songwriting and recording process of their new album Gone Are The Good Days. Tom and Bert broke down in detail the recording process of their first self-produced album Something For Nothing, the Andrew Wade Remix, recording Pardon My French with Joey Sturgis, making Ge…
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233. Where I Want To Be by The Dangerous Summer
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While they may be just on the fringes of what we talk about on the show, The Dangerous Summer are front and center in our hearts. In 2009 the band dropped one of the greatest albums of all time, Reach For the Sun. The award-winning album opener (I mean, we picked it in our album openers draft) Where I Want to be is the perfect amalgamation of angst…
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232. The Motion City Soundtrack Draft
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In anticipation of My Che—, err, Motion City Soundtrack’s upcoming 17 years of Commit This To Memory Tour, we draft our favorite MCS songs that were released between the years 2000-2010. What we were left with was a great playlist that you can stream on Apple Music and Spotify, but more importantly an even deeper understanding of how incredibly awe…
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The goth fever dream that is the music video for AFI’s Miss Murder gets a solid breakdown in this week’s episode. There’s rabbits. pieces of paper, super long bangs, “the masses”, more bangs, more rabbits, a castle, and a whole freakin other song! There’s both a ton to talk about, and not much at the same time, so Tom offers an AnECdoTe about the t…
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230. The Kill (Bury Me) by 30 Seconds to Mars
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30 Seconds to Mars isn’t a band we typically think of when we go back to the emo well, but after seeing the music video for The Kill (Bury Me), it all makes sense. There’s movie references, creepy dudes in Tuxedos, women dripping in blood, gorilla suits, and eyeliner. Oh man, is there eyeliner. While this isn’t a video you go to if you want to enjo…
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229. The AIM Away Message Lyrics Draft
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The year is 2003, you and your best friend just walked home from your first day of 7th grade, there’s Capri Sun in the fridge, bagel bites in the freezer, and a new episode of Teen Girl Squad on homestarrrunner.com. You boot up the Gateway in the computer room and listen to the sweet sweet noise of calling the internet through copper wire. After wh…
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228. Shane Drake Talks Directing Music Videos for Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, and Fall Out Boy
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Shane Drake, legendary music video director for emo acts such as Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Hawthorne Heights, The Rocket Summer, and Forever the Sickest Kids stops by to answer all of our burning questions about what it was like to be on set with some of our biggest heroes. We are honestly stunned this interview even happened, an…
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“In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.” (source: Wikipedia, obviously) There may be no other dualism …
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226. Melrose Diner by The Wonder Years
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When The Upsides dropped in 2010, Tom and Pat’s world changed forever. Many nights were spent at terrible diners, across from a smoker’s section that did absolutely nothing to block smoke from traveling through the open air right into our scrambled eggs, talking about a pop punk band from South Philly and how it can’t possibly get any better than t…
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A few years back we said something regrettable about Cartel, so this week we try and set the record straight. Cartel is straight up one of the greatest bands alive, and everyone, including ourselves, has slept on them for way too long. From the sensible jeans to the dope riffs, the backwards drum sets to the final chorus (but slower), Cartel slays …
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224. Starstrukk by 3OH!3 (feat. Katy Perry)
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Things in the scene started to take a turn around 2007. Punk went crunk, and for a while, there was no stopping it. However, some bands tried to ride the line between the two, and we think that no one did it better than 3OH!3. That’s not to say we enjoy 3OH!3, but they at least made the biggest waves. Resting somewhere between Attack! Attack! and B…
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2005 was possibly the best year ever for emo music. It certainly was the best year for Fueled by Ramen, as their roster graced us with several masterpieces like All We Know Is Falling. Pressure will remain one of the angstiest, most soul crushing songs in Paramore’s catalog, and even as grown men, it slays our souls. This week we cover the music vi…
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