Finding Emo

Happy 4 year birthday to the podcast! As per tradition, we do a Jimmy Eat World record every year and we've made our way to the 2010 album Invented by the kings of emo from Arizona. This record definitely had a tough task of following four PERFECT albums in a row from Jimmy Eat World (Clarity, Bleed American, Futures, Chase This Light), and we'll admit it was hard for it to live up its predecessor. But - spoiler alert - the whole album is a bit of a "grower, not a show-er" for us. What do you think?

00:00:00 INTRO

00:02:55 About the album

00:09:35 First Impressions

00:17:38 Track 1 - A Heart Is Hard To Find

00:27:22 Track 2 - My Best Theory

00:33:24 Track 3 - Evidence

00:38:56 Track 4 - Higher Devotion

00:43:30 Track 5 - Movielike

00:49:18 Track 6 - Coffee and Cigarettes

00:56:00 Track 7 - Stop

01:05:12 Track 8 - Littlething

01:09:10 Track 9 - Cut

01:15:58 Track 10 - Action Needs An Audience

01:20:54 Track 11 - Invented

01:29:15 Track 12 - Mixtape

01:36:14 Lasting impressions

In this episode of "Finding Emo," we dive into New Found Glory's iconic album "Sticks and Stones." Celebrating its 20th anniversary, we explore everything from the album's production with Neil Avron to the cameos from the likes of Mark Hoppus on the album. We'll share why tracks like "My Friends Over You" have left a lasting mark on the punk scene and what made New Found Glory different than other pop-punk bands. Join us for a mix of nostalgia, analysis, and behind-the-scenes insights into one of the early 2000s' defining punk rock albums.

Relient K nailed it with their follow up to their breakout album, Mmhmm. Five Score takes what worked about the previous album and gets even more ambitious - specifically ending the album with an 11 minute epic. We think they strung together a perfect three records with this sandwiched right inbetween MmHmm and Forget and Not Slow Down.

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:57 Quick history of the album

00:08:10 Let's talk about the Christian music scene

00:19:26 First impressions

00:23:43 Track 1 :: Pleading the Fifth (A Cappella)

00:27:54 Track 2 :: Come Right Out and Say It

00:32:22 Track 3 :: I Need You

00:35:08 Track 4 :: The Best Thing

00:44:20 Track 5 :: Forgiven

00:48:04 Track 6 :: Must Have Done Something Right

00:53:58 Track 7 :: Give Until There's Nothing Left

00:56:08 Track 8 :: Devastation and Reform

01:03:20 Track 9 :: I'm Taking You With Me

01:07:31 Track 10 :: Faking My Own Suicide

01:14:55 Track 11 :: Crayons Can melt on Us for All I Care

01:16:36 Track 12 :: Bite My Tongue

01:20:31 Track 13 :: Up and Up

01:24:13 Track 14 :: Deathbed

01:35:54 Does it hold up? Is it their best record? Is it their most important record?

Hayley Williams is the G.O.A.T. Yeah, we said it. Now, listen to us say it for 2 hours straight.

After the departure of the brothers Farrow, I don't think any of us imagined we'd be getting this album. But it turned out Hayley Williams' pipes weren't Paramore's only secret weapon, because Taylor and Jeremy also kicked their musicianship to a higher gear, and we'd argue the band was better off in the long-run letting Taylor take over all guitar work. Their 2013 release went on to be the band's first platinum album, and gave us the inescapable classic "Ain't It Fun", which we'd argue is one of the best songs of the twenty-teens.

They also managed to make the only album with interlude tracks worth a damn, so there's that.

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What a weird little gem of a 70s record this album was in a sea of the giant drums and guitars of 2006. The Format's sophomore effort sees the beginnings of what would become Nate Ruess'' next project, fun., with Jack Antonoff. That obviously went on to be a huge success, but if you haven't listened to this one, you absolutely should. It's a hell of an album, and we're sad we didn't get more from The Format.

We throw all the rules out the window and review this brand new album from blink-182. It's basically a track-by-track "first impressions" episode (although we somehow skipped track 10 -apologies).

Earmuffs, for obvious reasons.

This album turned twenty this year, and it was really such a weird genre bending and impossible-to-label thing that we decided "sure, it's emo enough!". After all, it has Ben Gibbard on it, right?

These guys really created a wonderful thing and then were like "THAT'S ALL YOU GET!". We love it, and yet struggle to put into words why, exactly.

Notes:

Give up on Apple Music and Spotify

You can count on us to get a snack out related to blink-182. Every. Time. 

(unfortunately Blake somehow screwed up and left his as a draft for 3 weeks)

The new album comes out October 20th and we got a preview of two more songs from the album - the nostalgia-bomb ⁠ONE MORE TIME⁠ (complete with nostalgia-bomb ⁠video⁠) and ⁠MORE THAN YOU KNOW⁠. 

After the disappointing follow up to Something To Write Home About (at least for us), we truly needed this record. Some of us might even think it's The Get Up Kids at their best. Maybe. You'll have to listen to find out.

Was Tom's side project the beginning of the end of blink-182? (and then another beginning...and another end of the oh jeez this is so convoluted). Or does Kyle's theory hold up that this was basically the prelude to blink's untitled album? We report, you decide.

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