This comment is very poetic!

This is also what life is like in the Netherlands

Yeah when you’re deep into winter and there’s literally nothing to do

The wind whipping against your face, the chilling numb making you blissfully unaware of how much your nose is actually running. Snow like 6 inches and only growing, roads covered in black ice, the weatherman says there's gonna be a blizzard. The cuffs of your jeans soaked through from snow, your socks wet and your toes numb. You regret not wearing another flannel to go out and get the mail. The sky has been grey and cloudy all month, and so have you. Every day makes you tired- you're still recovering from a cold, and you're tired of waking up earlier every day to give your car time to warm up. Walking through snow is exhausting, stepping in a deep puddle of ice water is exhausting, going through your whole day feeling the bitter, apathetic chill of Midwestern winter, is exhausting. But the snow looks so beautiful. And the wind whistles a sad, lonely sound. The Midwest reminds you that even in the everlasting darkness of a winter that starts and ends at least a month before and after it should (respectively), even when you haven't seen the sun in seven days, even when you give up on cleaning up the mud and melted slush by the door, even then, life is beautiful. The Midwest empathizes. The Midwest *is* Midwestern Emo. You're right, it is beautiful

@@gluedtothemouse wonderfully said, wow

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It’s not even ten minutes long, and lightly grazes the surface of the topic. I think you’re just excited to see a video about Midwest Emo, as was I. Stay in school

Except the part where his 90s emo band examples were jew and weezer lol ;-;

underrated by who?

Exactly, I feel like this video could’ve been better researched. Cap’n Jazz basically defined the genre

fr fr dude i was waiting for him to mention them but it never came. cap’n jazz was literally the big bang for midwest emo, pretty sure their guitarist and drummer even formed the promised ring.

the visuals had tim or nate singing i think

And he mentioned Battles but not Don Caballero?? That threw me too

@@MattyPants00 Idk overall I feel like this vid wasnt super well researched, most people wouldn't even agree that TMP is math rock.

i love weatherday as much as the next guy but i feel like we are very much still in the 4th wave, the sound hasn’t evolved or separated enough from the “4-wave” sound

weatherday takes a lot from noise genre too

Would recommend listening to Idyll Opus - Adjy. It's Folk Midwest Emo but is phenomenal musically, lyrically and contextually. Throughout the album you get introduced to tons of mysteries and puzzles. It's an intricate, masterful and emotional album.

i LOVE weatherday

@@katfoode3222I’d disagree, I’d say the difference between “5th wave” like Weatherday, Asian Glow, glass beach vs emo revival like Algernon, Snowing, Glocca Morra is pretty significant. I think the main point of conflict is identifying when 5th wave even really began

politely we are like firmly into the fifth wave

@@gregdubin8316 thank god you mentioned this

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lol what

I'm sad none of Jack Sneffs bands made it in either. Midwest Pen Pals, Merchant Ships, William Bonney. His bands were my introduction to midwest emo and I think his bands were big in the revival.

Marietta is great!

And Midwest Pen Pals too

I love Marietta!! Waiting for them to come back for one more tour. I just got into them 😭

How was saddle creek not mentioned

So true, you'll be fine was amazing; so well done. I really hope their next LP takes them into headlining band territory

I've listened to some of them and didn't like it. What tracks would you recommend?

@@frogdeity my personal favourites are: Featuring Mark Hoppus, BCKYRD, Digging In, and MakeDamnSure (off their 2nd acoustic EP which is so good). I personally love every song they have but those are some of my favourites!

@@matchress3832 Thanks. I'll check them out.

@@frogdeity also try How do you Know it’s not Armadillo shells? It’s the song that made me fall in love with them and talks about anxiety and being overwhelmed and struggling to cope. If you like more subdued, Please Don’t Cry you Have Swag is also hella powerful with a huge ending.

Here are the best bands from my time: Marietta, Midwest pen pals, street smart cyclist, Algernon cadwallader, cap'n jazz, merchant ships, oh my God elephant, snowing, I kill giants, William bonney, old gray, camping in alaska

I'm 35 and only got into it like 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing your experience, my first listen of LP1 will always stick with me too!

you should listen to the brave little abacus and parannoul

citizen will always be my favorite, no two albums of theirs are the same

There are a few mostly unknown bands there are still making really good Midwest emo like Good Sleepy, Padfoot, Flight Patterns, Frat Mouse, and Worst Party Ever

Marietta!

If you like Title Fight you'll like Touche Amore. Also listen to "the classics:" Texas is the Reason, Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, Indian Summer, Jejune, Jimmy Eat World, early Death Cab for Cutie, etc., Also check out Hum. It's not an emo band, but they were big in the Urbana-Champaign music scene at the same time American Football was.

Thank you! Glad you liked it

I’m an emotional 20 year old now so not much has changed lol. But I think that rawness and emotion is what makes it great. The instrumentals portray emotions and the singing. Music is an art and art is an outlet to show our emotions and let them out and I think that’s what’s really beautiful about Midwest emo, it’s a poetic, chaotic, peaceful, and all around great portrayal of emotion and commentary on life. Emo anything is great, it’s such a broad term because basically anytime someone is honest in their songs it’s branded as emo, very great though.

Same. I also started of listening to emo rap, like yung lean, xxxtentacion, juice wrld. I wonder if this is how most teenagers get into the genre nowadays.

@@hdrbros2435 I would say so, it’s kind of a pattern I’ve seen with a lot of people around me. I think also a lot of these rappers were influenced by such genres, you can see that in the music they sample and play in between sets at their shows. I think the lyrical content and general themes of the two genres overlap a lot too

@@hdrbros2435 also kinda funny but you probably know who WiccaPhase is? He started GothBoiClique the emo rap group lil peep and others were apart of and he was actually the singer in a band called Tigers Jaw before he started doing emo rap. So definitely an overlap

@@aidannorthup5326 that’s pretty interesting. I don’t know him, but that’s cool. Peep has that vibe to his music though, especially on his acoustic songs

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Thank you! Theres some brilliant midwest emo video footage on youtube so included some of my faves:)

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They kind of are a mix of midwest emo and post-rock

@@FastFoodForum Ah neat.

I actually thought it was an Explosions in The Sky album until just now, you learn something new every day!

@@Howlingd0g I can definitely see it, Similar title to their classic "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place".

@@rateeightx Exactly! I always thought of it as "that other EITS album I need to check out at some point" and didn't realise it was actually another band entirely. Now I definitely have to go check it out...

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I spent my teen years listening to Modern Baseball non-stop. I still have days where I've got my MoBo playlist (titled "Can't find my socks") running all day. I was sad that they'd gone on indefinite hiatus but Jake Ewald's graduation (pun intended) from MoBo into Slaughter Beach, Dog represented an illuminating emotional development. There was a long time that I didn't really like SBD's sound, but in hindsight I was just too young. The journey from our brick-boot swimming lesson in the deep end of our adolescence, to wanting to fly to Ireland knowing we'd be good for the ticket may not be longer than just a few short years; but those years we learned how to be real people were captured perfectly. Ewald even talks about this growth explicitly in a Stereogum article, "But if you’ve ever engaged in critical discussion about Wilco, it’s often less about the music than it is about what liking Wilco says about you. For the most part, it means your contrarian punk days are over, that you’re probably on the path towards the dull demands of adulthood and … gasp, full-on 'dad-rock'" (www.stereogum.com/2053086/slaughter-beach-dog-safe-and-also-no-fear-jake-ewald-modern-baseball/interviews/). Whether your contrarian punk days are over, or you're a Wilco fan, enjoy your emotions. See you in the Void Saloon :)

i have a midwest emo playlist on spotify lmk if you want it. its like 10hrs long.

@@dnkmarci of course, drop the link bro!

@@the_gartender Damn. You're right about SBD it took me a while to get into the sound but it stuck. I guess I just connected the music with new memories.

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I like Hot Mulligan, Mom Jeans, Free Throw, and Panucci's Pizza

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I’m 42 as well. You basically described my later HS and early (well most of) college years here in Omaha, just different venues, but the style is spot on, add western style shirts, and vintage track jackets, bowling shoes (or ones that looked the part), and dress shoes to that. I love Cap’n Jazz, Braid (Hey Mercedes too). Omaha, KCMO/Lawrence, KS, and Chicago bands made up a great deal of my music collection in the late 90’s/early 00’s.

​@@Sean0780 Agreed. there was a lot of good stuff coming out of KC/LKS that either didnt get enough attention, or I had no idea their popularity. If you've never heard them, checkout out Panel Donor - previously ZOOM - from Lawrence. Great noise, math, and tones.

Remember the dark blue beer brand jackets? I had an “Olympia Light Beer” jacket. I think it had like “Frank” embroidered on the front in Cursive. I believe I bought it at Strange Cargo in Chicago back when it was a vintage clothing store.

Glad to see Braid mentioned. Braid and Corm were big influences on me in my teens. The early Cursive records as well. I've always kind of considered some of the Chicago art mafia stuff to be part of the 90s emo scene as well, but I don't know if it quite fits. Heroic Doses/5ive Style and Ghosts & Vodka in particular. They shared some members with emo bands and had a similar vibe, but no lyrics and not as melancholy.

@@Sean0780It was a great time for music and to be young. I hate that people think My Chemical Romance and Fallout Boy when they think Emo. What is commonly known as Emo is more like Goth kids who like pop punk. Midwest Emo was smart music, poetic and sarcastic with a touch of pretension. The music wasn’t all sad bastard stuff, in fact a lot of it was uplifting and happy sounding to me. It was catchy in a non traditional sense and very melodic and created emotions other than sadness. We dresses way better than the goth Emo, who took it almost to hair metal level ridiculousness.

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Thank you! Love that song

Ele é brasileiro? Que porra é essa?

Muito obrigado! Gosto muito de Summer Death, se refizesse o video, com certeza mencionaria. Fico feliz que gostou, voce capturou a minha mensagem

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Thank you - And yes Im Brazilian! not as familiar with Brazilian emo but definitely plan on doing some research about that:)

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Thank you! I hope it helps more people discover midwest emo:)

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Thank you! Am working on more videos, so hopefully soon:)

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I found origami from a skate 3 montage video and they are now my favorite band at the moment. Glad they are popular