We’ve been holding off on the Blink-182 episode for a very very special occasion, and how much more special can it be than episode 182?! We roll 182 dice (for real, check out the Patreon) and draft our favorite tracks from the Tom DeLonge era of Blink-182. BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON! Links: The Ultimate Blink-182 Discography Mixtape Draft on Apple Music The Ultimate Blink-182 Discography Mixtape Draft on Spotify Tom, Pat, and Zach as “First Date” on Halloween The I Miss You Episode I M...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 182
One song to rule them all, one song to find them, one song to bring them all, and in the Church of Bryce bind them. That’s how we feel about So Much Love by the Rocket Summer. The ultimate unifier, the answer to peace on Earth, and one of the best songs ever written? Not only is the song itself a force to be reckoned with, having been written and recorded entirely by ONE man, but the music video is truly a visual representation of how this song makes us feel. Continuing to ride the hype train th...
Jul 24, 2020•44 min•Ep. 181
2008 saw the release of some very poppy, very catchy acts in the pop scene, but not many as poppy or as catchy as Underdog Alma Mater by Forever the Sickest Kids. This album consisted of some pretty intense dance beats, killer half time vibes, and absolute bangers of choruses. Whoa Oh! (Me vs Everyone) sets the record off at a break neck pace which can be further amplified by the intensity and carefree nature of the music video. This week the guys discuss their perception of the band when they w...
Jul 17, 2020•49 min•Ep. 180
Ben Gibbard has lead our fragile minds to ponder many heavy topics over time, dating back to our teenage years. Possibly none more than the music video for I Will Follow You Into the Dark, which aims to makes sense of the fear and unknown realities surrounding death. This week hit pretty hard as a recent tragedy took place between the times of recording and editing this episode, but we’re trying to use it for good. Take this time to tell your loved ones how much they mean to you, because you nev...
Jul 10, 2020•45 min•Ep. 179
The Blink-182 family tree saw a huge growth to it’s branch system when Tom DeLonge released the first full length album “We Don’t Need to Whisper” with Angels & Airwaves in 2006. For just over 14 years the ambient sounds of chains, boots, walkie-talkies, and super delayed but vaguely familiar guitar riffs have blessed our boomboxes and iPods and you’d be hard pressed to take this record from our cold dead hands. One of the hosts of the show thinks this album is an absolute masterpiece and ad...
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 178
All good things must end, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bummer. In this week’s draft, a part 2 from last week’s summer road trip mixtape draft, the guys pick the 8 songs they want to hear on the way back from the best summer road trip ever. The vibe is mellow, but not too mellow that you start drifting at the wheel. The guys relive some great mornings and evenings in high school, get way off track with a discussion about Taking Back Sunday, and as always, almost end up fighting over the s...
Jun 26, 2020•46 min•Ep. 177
Every great summer needs a road trip with friends, and every road trip with friends needs a killer playlist that you can scream at the top of your lungs. The guys offer some contradicting road trip advice and their top 8 picks for their ultimate summer road trip mixtape. Make sure to stream the playlists on Apple Music or Spotify! BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON! Links: The Ultimate Summer Road Trip Mixtape Draft on Apple Music The Ultimate Summer Road Trip Mixtape Draft on Spotify The Dear...
Jun 19, 2020•48 min•Ep. 176
There are few feelings more visceral to a teenager than the desire to pack a a 1981 Honda Civic full of Doritos Cool Ranch, Mountain Dew, and trail mix and hit the road with your best friends, not knowing where you’re going but leaving this god forsaken town in your rear view mirror. The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls captures that feeling almost perfectly, but so many people were afraid to absolutely admit they LOVED this song. They loved it so much that the ringtone, the RINGTONE was certifie...
Jun 11, 2020•47 min•Ep. 175
Panic! At the Disco dropped their debut album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” in late 2005 and kind of took the entire world by storm. At that time, the whole circus freak vibe wasn’t super mainstream (was it ever?) and music THAT catchy wasn’t often heard side by side with such outlandish imagery. However, Panic! had just the right amount of something that made them a massive success. This week the guys take a look back at the first time they heard the big single “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, rev...
Jun 05, 2020•52 min•Ep. 174
It’s no secret that teenagers feel feel every emotion with the intensity of a thousand suns. Maybe your mom took your PS1 away because you threw your pizza rolls at your little sister for telling your crush that you write her name over and over in your college ruled notebook, maybe you drank the last of your big brother’s Sunny D and he held you down and gave you charley horses until you cried, maybe your dad just told you your aunt is moving in and your band that’s “just about to make it big” h...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 173
Helena is one of those songs you need to listen to in your underwear on the kitchen floor as you feel the full force of gravity pulling you closer to the center of the Earth. Every millisecond of this song is packed with so much emotion it’s taken every bit of the 16 years we’ve had with it to feel the full weight of this tune. This week the guys break down the music video scene for scene and do their best to appreciate every frame of it’s incredible story and performance. A lot went into the ma...
May 22, 2020•48 min•Ep. 172
Your Favorite Weapon is a really unique album in Brand New’s discography, and it holds a lot of great tunes within. A far cry from their later work, this pop punk record remains a favorite for many Brand New fans including Tom and Pat. Many of these songs still hold many great and terrible memories within, and they’re all revealed within this episode! From bad relationships, romances that never were, radical teen angst, and long nights in Tom’s mom’s basement trying to figure out how to write so...
May 15, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 171
2004 is not only a great year for all the amazing albums that were released, but it’s also the year Tom and Pat met in 8th grade. This week’s draft is full of tons of great memories from when the guys were living their best lives as care-free teens. But things get a little heated as they end up competing for the same tunes from their favorite albums of all time. BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON! Links: The 2004 Mixtape Draft on Apple Music The 2004 Mixtape Draft on Spotify The “I’m Not Okay”...
May 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 170
Every now and then you’ll come across a song that was written for you and you alone. Nothing has ever made more sense than the lyrics, the vibe is tuned just to your frequency, and the emotions hit like a ton of bricks. Detroit by Fireworks is one of those songs for Tom. The angst was high through the summers of 2009 and 2010, and Fireworks, a pair of headphones, and a fixed gear bike helped make sense of the world. This episode is full of nostalgic tales of midnight rides, anger walks after mom...
May 01, 2020•51 min•Ep. 169
Cute Without the E (Cut From The Team) is probably one of the first songs one would pull out of their brain when trying to name any Taking Back Sunday song they screamed at the top of their lungs throughout the entirety of their high school career. It’s one of the most raw, powerful, and angsty songs in their entire catalog! This week the guys rewatched Fight Club in an attempt to better appreciate how flawlessly the band recreated the movie, managing to condense the entire narrative into three ...
Apr 24, 2020•39 min•Ep. 168
Pat’s dreams have come true and he finally got his solo Weezer episode he has been begging for for over 3 years. Pat goes (mostly) solo to battle himself in the most episode 2000-2010 Weezer mixtape draft ever conducted. Trust us, there’s been many attempts. BONUS EPIOSDES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON! Links: Weezer Mixtape on Apple Music Weezer Mixtape on Spotify SNL Weezer Skit Dickinson on AppleTV+ McMillion$ on Hulu Songs of the week: Oh Shoot by Bad Snacks I’m So by Andrew Applepie Hit us up onlin...
Apr 17, 2020•50 min•Ep. 167
One of the greatest moments in this show’s history is when we realized Adam Schlesinger wrote an absolute TON of songs we’ve enjoyed over the years. Adam was extremely prolific in his career as a song writer for multiple Grammy winning and nominated bands, in addition to TV and film, and he even claimed a Tony win for the writing of Cry Baby on Broadway. We swore to ourselves we would have Adam on the show some day, but on April 1st he passed away. We were both pretty devastated from the news an...
Apr 10, 2020•57 min•Ep. 166
There are few albums that can fully encompass how it feels to be an adolescent, a teen, and a young adult all in 13 songs. Max Bemis eloquently weaves together the complex emotions of what it means to feel in love, to want to die, and absolutely eviscerates his enemies with words they couldn’t possibly understand. In this episode, the guys go song by song and share their favorite moments in the track, and go in depth on the emotions and memories attached to each. They then try to rank the songs ...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 165
How was such a great song paired with such a misguided music video? Pat and Tom make an attempt to break down all that went wrong in the music video for The Curse of Curves, but there’s almost nothing to even say. There’s a lot of hair, no food, the most awkward glances you’ve ever seen in your life, and poison that has the ability to throw you backwards in your chair. Exactly no more and no less in this video, but Tom’s wife suggests a shocking alternative ending that may have shaken things up ...
Mar 27, 2020•42 min•Ep. 164
If you were to ask 1,000 people what the weirdest video in pop punk is, 1,001 people would respond with All Downhill From Here because Bob is a cheater and he voted twice. The guys do their best to develop the backstory for who these creatures are in the video. who made them, why they’re there, and what does the socio-economic class structure look like for this diverse group of monsters. French animators and music video director Meiert Avis created an extraordinarily insane music video that New ...
Mar 20, 2020•50 min•Ep. 163
There are a lot of things to love about the early 2000s, but the cover songs are really where the decade shined the brightest. Not entirely thanks to the Pop Goes… series, but many bands seemed to indulge themselves in rethinking classics 80s and 90s songs and ushering them into a new era. This week the guys draft their top 10 covers that were released between the years 2000 and 2010, and you’ll never guess what happens next!!! Or maybe you can. They fight, disagree, and drag some songs through ...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 162
Attempts were made to discuss the music video for Dear Maria, Count Me In at length, but the episode quickly corrected course into an insane road trip Pat and Tom took in 2008 using a fake All Time Low and Brand New concert in Pittsburgh as an alibi to take Pat’s Mom’s car for 24 hours. However, the guys never had any intention on going to Pittsburgh, instead ending up hundreds of miles away to see a girl in Central Pennsylvania who ended up not being home. Already 300 miles beyond where they sa...
Mar 06, 2020•58 min•Ep. 161
The year is 2005, and pop punk is taking over the radio waves. The guitars are heavy, the bass is thrashing, and the lyrics are coming atcha fast. At the center of all of this was Fall Out Boy with the massive hit ‘Sugar We’re Goin Down’. Even the kids in our high school who didn’t like rock were singing this in the hallways. It was everywhere. It’s the song that turned Tom and Pat’s high school band into what it was, and if there’s anything that’s better than this song, it’s most definitely the...
Feb 28, 2020•59 min•Ep. 160
Rise or Die Trying is another one of those albums that we should all feel lucky happened in our lifetime. It’s truly 1 in a billion. To have so much happiness, poppiness, and brutal breakdownness all in 1 album is still mind bending to this day. We had never heard anything like it at the time, causing a massive shift in the landscape of pop punk moving forward. Pat and Tom take their time appreciating every song on this album for the subtleties that made each track unique and interesting. How th...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 159
The year is 2006, you’re crushing on that cutie from homeroom, and you don’t know how to tell her how you feel. What do you do? You make her a mixtape that will let her know all the things you wish you could put into words. But you chicken out. You don’t give her the CD, but instead listen to it yourself as you notice all those things she does that make you feel brand new. This week, the guys drafted the songs they would put on that mixtape, were this the year 2006 and they were crushing on some...
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 158
Gives You Hell by The All American Rejects is a multi-platinum masterpiece that swept the world for what felt like years, but there’s SO much to appreciate about this song that we had to take the track piece by piece, and the music video frame by frame. There’s a lot to love about this song that almost didn’t even make it on to the record because the band had such little confidence in it. The music video could easily warrant a 20,000 word thesis, but I’ve got like 1,000 characters so let’s move ...
Feb 07, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 157
The late aughts were a time of reveling in self pity, doubt, and/or hatred. But one band was vulnerable enough to stand up and say, hey, maybe we can get ourselves out of this mess. This band was The Wonder Years, and the album that changed it all was The Upsides. This record came out when we seemed to need it the most. We were just started college, getting our first taste of homesickness, and were just starting to seriously doubt our choices and the integrity of the futures we were starting to ...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 156
With Hayley Williams dropping her brand new solo effort “Simmer” just days ago, we felt inspired to take a look back at the very beginning of Hayley Williams career as one of the most iconic and influential front-women in rock history. After the release of ‘Riot’ in 2007, the band experienced a meteoric rise to fame, and they brought their debut album ‘All We Know is Falling’ along with them. The guys both had a hard time getting through this album, because it cuts so deep on so many levels. It’...
Jan 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 155
Say Anything is a band that deserves way more love and respect than they got, and probably even more than we were able to give them on this episode. Alive With the Glory of Love was culturally an important song, not just because Tom skanked to it at his wedding in 2018, but primarily for the way it was used in Scrubs to emphasize one of the most pivotal moments on the show (check out our blog post below!) Somehow Say Anything has managed to keep itself from most people’s Mount Rushmore’s of cult...
Jan 17, 2020•51 min•Ep. 154
Commit This to Memory is an album that shook our 14 year old souls when it first came out, or in Tom’s case, just a year or two later. Having been introduced to this band by 2 kids that Pat and Tom looked up to for musical advice, this album was destined to make waves all 15 years since it’s release, with no sign of stopping in sight. The guys play this dumb game they both hate where they try to rank the songs from worst to best, and ultimately they decide every song is great and they wouldn’t c...
Jan 10, 2020•58 min•Ep. 153