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It's weird because 2000 emo music is always so nostalgic for me, but also I don't really miss being a depressed teenager. I wouldn't go back 😂

Fun fact about the Hawthorne Heights mic: the reason why it was hung upside down like that wasn't intentional. They simply forgot to bring a mic stand and had to improvise.

The Used is one of my favorite bands of all time. Their self titled album is perfection and their newer stuff is underrated. Not as good as the first album, but still fun to listen to.

I LOVE Promise Ring, Texas Is The Reason, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Get Up Kids.

You have no idea how often that exact scenario you described in the beginning plays out. I have no groceries at home because I’m always having to drop them and run away

The Used debut album changed the game. Probably the most important album of that era

Shoutout to Silverstein, underrated kings of mall screamo 2.0

I was really into Jawbreaker's album Dear You, super good 90's emo

You should have mention Get Up Kids being the first catalyst of emo mixed with pop punk before the mainstream rise.

9:40 This type of slowly explaining to people they can't have everything they want is what it's gonna be like raising a child. I'm glad Finn is getting his reps in.

Bert McCraken Artwork Era was my entire hair esthetic throughout highschool. Im still there from time to time

I million percent agree about The Used. Love that you always give them their deserved flowers.

Having If I Die First amongst those legends on the screencap is BOLD and I'm HERE FOR IT

Still can't stop listening to The Used (first album only), Silverstein, All-American Rejects, and ESPECIALLY Motion City Soundtrack all these years later

My first Era of emo was the late 90s Vagrant/Doghouse era- The Get Up Kids, Saves the Day, Dashboard Confessional, and the like. Would highly recommend it to anyone. Also, Dag Nasty is my absolute favorite of the early hardcore bands, and would second Finn's recommendation of them. And finally- I don't think anyone else considers Fugazi to be emo, they just had Ian and Guy from those other DC emo bands. You should all be listening to Fugazi.

great video. love that you included the emo rap at the end

Came here for the Dag Nasty and Dashboard Confessional talk….tapped out at the auto-tuned Emo Rap discussion.

Thrice and Funeral For A Friend were the two of the best 2000’s bands. I’m assuming they weren’t “emo?” Post hardcore maybe? I don’t know all of the correct genre names.

I mean for me I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for the “mall screamo 2.0” I love that era and still listen to it to this day

I feel like Saves The Day is a band that should have been bigger. Those first three albums were so good, and I thought they would catch on after Stay What You are had some small mainstream success. Just never happened. Still great!

as a gen z my favorite early 2000s emo band is definitely silverstein, specifically discovering the waterfront album. New stuff wise juice for sure.

*_Brand New’s “Deja Entendu” is the pinnacle of 2000’s emo._*

Love your content, man!

45 yrs young.. I've been Emo before Emo was Emo.. lol.. I cant stand it how "Emo's" are all painted with the same broad brush.. Not every one that loves and listens to Emo music is Sad or dark, depressed, cuts themselves, lol.. or whatever other ridiculous stereotype is out there.. I'll always be Punk/Emo and its fine if I'm now a "Old Head" "Dinosaur Emo" lol

It’s a fact, if you don’t have Understanding In A Car Crash by Thursday blow up in 2001, you don’t have most of the 2003-2007 era bands. MCR specifically have said that Thursday made them want to be in a band.

Ya know what’s weird? I didn’t listen to emo music, like basically at all. But I know all the songs, and they’re still a bit nostalgic, just cuz everyone I knew was into it and played it

Probably my favourite emo band from the early-to-mid 2000's-era is Trust Company. Their album "Lonely Position of Neutral" oozes that vibe of hanging out behind a brick-and-mortar shopping plaza in a small suburban American town.

How are you so good at what you do? Finn. I’m a huge fan. You’re 2023 content if GOLD

With all due respect. This is not a real emo starter pack. These albums are : Further Seems Forever - The moon is down / The Early November - The acoustic EP / Saves the day - Through being cool / The Get Up Kids - Something to write home about / Dashboard Confessional - The place you have to come to fear the most, So impossible EP, Swiss Army Romance, (Not Vindicated) / Thursday - Full Collapse / Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon / The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown / Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue / Thrice - The artist in the ambulance / Taking Back Sunday - Tell all your friends / Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window /The Rocket Summer - Calendar Days / The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It / City and Colour - Sometimes. If you have more question. I'm here.

The part about "passing out from eating too much ass" had me literally lmao 🤣

The best emo record ever is Leatherface's mush(dc inspired emo rites of spring/dag nasty/embrace etc by guys who could actually play) its so good Hot water music have made a career trying to re record something even a quarter as good.

I love grunge-laced emo from the early 2010’s. Citizen, Title Fight, etc

It was taking back Sunday for me. After I heard them when I was 13 it was all black tees and tight jeans

Discovered an early 2000’s screamo band called Usurp Synapse the other day and they’re absolutely incredible. Listen to their discography compilation.

I'm from Milwaukee, Promise Ring was the first emo band and it was great to help Dan break down his drums. Their demo was a bespoke valentine mixtape in a manila envelope. Ground breaking.. Great times! :)

All these nerds wanting you to mention Sunny Day Real Estate, and I'm just over here rejoicing in the pageninetynine representation 🙏🙏🙏

Also in Dag Nasty: Dave Smalley (DYS, ALL, Down By Law)

Awesome video!

Calling the jeans crisis of the 2000s equal to the Cambodian Donner Party is fair.

The Promise Ring's Davey and Dan started Maritie after TPR broke up and they were fantastic! :)

First and forever is a very good example of bringing back mall screamo 2.0

The dashboard dynamic is interesting bc I was born in 99 and grew up in the massive third wave of emo. I listened to a lot of the pop punk and emo bands of that Era and got into the post hardcore stuff as I hit late elementary/middle school. But I probably heard about dashboard for the first time in high school, despite their setting the stage for a lot of what I grew up with.

touche amore and la dispute are amazing!

I don't think people were asking you to name every band so much as suggesting that Sunny Day is more influential and relevant than Page99 which like, yeah I'd agree lol

I’m going through these comments and am baffled that no one has mentioned Bayside?!? Lyrically they are I feel one of the most emo bands out there. The way Anthony pours his soul when he’s singing is emo af…

Early 2000's music scene was great, aside from the fashion of skinny jeans, eyeliner & long fringes. Back when people didnt know (or care) what bands where punk, emo, post hardcore, screamo or metalcore. The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Emery, From First To Last, Hawthorne Hieghts, Funeral For a Friend, Mest, The Spill Canvas, Thursday, Rise Against, Dashboard Confessional, The Starting Line, Senses Fail, Coheed & Cambria, Saosin, Escape the Fate, Story of the Year, Thursday - I'll still go back to those bands every now and then if im on a nostalgia trip.

I can't believe you mentioned racetraitor 😭💓 Also that bit about girl jeans being your (possible) cannibalism in vietnam was hilarious!

Finn, I felt so attacked by the outro 😂

Pg 99 is a band from Sterling, VA, DC suburbs.

Further Seems Forever's first album the Moon is Down is my favorite emo album of all time. The other albums were good, but it wasn't the same once Chris left to go full time Dashboard.

What would you recommend an old school Metalhead who grew up on 80s Heavy Metal & Thrash Metal and who wants to carefully broaden his musical horizon?

I fucken love rites of spring. It’s rough but who cares it’s got that vibe and those emotions and feels man

I always comsidered emo to be bands like funeral for a friend (early stuff), silverstein, senses fail, boys night out.

Got to love those starter kits lol. 👌

11:04 what about the get up kids something to write home about released in 1999

i wasn't huge into emo, but i thought taking back sunday "tell all your friends" was a great album and still holds up

How could you forget Silverstein! Smile in Your Sleep is like an Emo Anthem!

Went to a club a year ago in ft worth with wife and friends we were all hammered and everyone in the club went nucking futs when "sugar were going down" came on. So your right on point with that statement Finn

Thrice Finch Story Of The Year The Used TBS Vendetta Red

I loved Orchid and Pg. 99 and all those chaotic screamo bands. But I do get that they're not accessible at all

What was that screamo band from tampa florida that was basically like a grindcore band? Reversal of man?

Touche amore did a song with Manchester orchestra and It sounds amazing

This is my favorite genre and its Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional

When the chorus of Sugar We're Goin' Down hits I could kick a door off it's hinges in pure euphoria 😂😂

Alesana was a pretty great band back in mall screamo 1.0

The Used self-titled album was the best. How could you skip that? I Caught Fire?? Really?!? Box Full Of Sharp Objects, The Taste Of Ink, Poetic Tragedy? The whole album is impeccable. 2002. Freakin’ 21 years ago. The best Emo/Screamo album ever.

Ohio is for Lovers is the song that hits me with nostalgia more than any other song from 2005.

I'll always remember this specific event. This one guy I knew growing up was a "prep" as we called them, and thought literally anything that had a heavy guitar or angry vocals was "Emo". Three Days Grace? Emo. Job for a Cowboy? Emo. Pantera? Emo. Turns out one day he listened to a Fall Out Boy song and liked it. When I told him "That's what emo actually is" he refused to believe it.

My emo band line up growing up was AFI New Found Glory Midtown Jimmy eat world Yellowcard And that one hawthorne heights song 😂 that song is a banger!

As a teenager, I’m just saying this is what my main emo outfit would be turtleneck jacket, which, of course is black black Converse black and just the tiny bit of gray sweatpants any black band shirt, a black gator and black fingerless gloves

Is the band “I set my friends on fire” from the wave era of emo? I seem to be the only person I know who remembers the band

You can't talk about Dashboard and Chris without mentioning Further Seems Forever.

I have been listening to L.S. Dunes...an "emo" supergroup

i was super into the wave and still love all that stuff, so i ask, where’s my topical ointment for my butt hurt

Im surprised no AFI on here. Or do we not consider them Emo?

It's not a phase, Finn!

Finn: Holding the mic like this = emo Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine = emo

The ultimate post hardcore starter kit please

I think of Inch, Race the Sun, Hey Mercedes...

Girl jeans…..damn, yup. Most of my pants were of that variety.

I work at a venue that booked Hawthorne Heights in 2018. There were 18 people that bought tickets watching their set mainly waiting for Ohio Is For Lovers. Kinda sad

Another sick fkn video, underoath is also a sick and important band in the genre

I have almost the exact opposite opinion as you on this subject. I'm hoping kids into mall emo and emo rap eventually get into Rites of Spring and Fugazi and become punishers in your comments section. 😝

Yeah agreed I too listen to Dying Fetus

I think real emo is way better bc of how hard hitting it is, mall emo is fun too but I love all emo

MCR WASNT MENTIONED ONCE!!! IM TRIGGERED

I remember when the tide turned in the Hong Kong band scene… it went from grunge and some metal to emo over night. We always were the late comers to the party, but all of a sudden it was uncool to listen ti grunge, and you had to have girl jeans, tiny t-shirts that revealed your belly button and deltoids (or lack there of), and you had to have sideways swooshed hair. I never really got into it, I went on with stormer rock and metal, but emo became huge in HK in the late 90s, especially in the born again Christian community. I swear, it seemed like all the emo bands were Christians, singing about Christianity… yeah, Christian emo was a thing in HK.

Well I was gonna watch a Malcolm X doc but I suppose I can finish this first

Start with proto emo-core: Mission of Burma

Can you make a Video about Hick Hop?

I am convinced Finn is unaware of the album Your Favorite Weapon by Brand New.

I am not ashamed to say that I still love emo.

Hey Finn, could you please make a video with Silverstein as the topic?!! Theve been going strong since 2000 and put out a new album almost every other year, they are incredibly underrated!

I've heard emo is a really nice guy !

Emo literally got popular when my long time HS gf left in 04 7 years I was 24 haha man Did that shit get blasted in the car a lot while possibly a little buzzed

The guys at work won't stop playing hands down by dashboard confessional. They're in their 40s and 50s lol.

I still listen to the emo bands from the early-mid 2000s regularly. I'm trying to explore newer records/bands, but I haven't quite gotten the hang of it.

In my opinion when I first heard JuiceWrld I thought to myself this is rap but with like 06 Ronnie Radke vocal melodies.

I love racetraitor the racetraitor call out. Sick ass band saw them live it was one of the best shows I ever saw