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I mean, not gonna go, but man I would have a good time. Of all these groups, Bright Eyes is the one that I still listen to in some form or another (although... Jimmy Eat World is great and in the rotation, and actually Manchester Orchestra as well), but man looking at this has made me realize how much I'd love to see Dashboard.

Needs Motion City Soundtrack. And honestly Avril Lavigne can fuck off, I don't know why she's on here.

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I listened to a lot of those bands when I was in my teens, and I can enjoy them in a nostalgic sense today, with the exception of Dashboard.  It's just completely cringe-worthy to me now in any sense, and I just laugh at myself for liking it as much as I did in 2002.

Alkaline Trio's pre-2003 output is really fucking strong, as are Jimmy Eat World's best albums.

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Jimmy Eat World wasn't one of my number 1 bands or anything in my teens/early twenties, but I liked them enough. They are the band from that era that I think I like and appreciate now more than I did then - they're a fucking good band. They have a lot of solid albums, and some solid albums that are later than you would expect. Whichever one has Big Casino is actually a pretty good record (just looked it up - Chase This Light). Manchester Orchestra, I wore out Mean Everything to Nothing and then 11 years later dug them back up and found that Black Mile to the Surface is great.

Actually the band missing from here for me big time is Saves the Day.

In high school my friends were super into Thursday, and I thought they sucked - I listened to Understanding in a Car Crash recently and agree with myself. Taking Back Sunday was the closest I got to really digging the more screamy emo stuff. I never got into My Chemical Romance - in retrospect that huge My Chem album feels like when the whole genre/scene shifted entirely and completely from the argyle sweater weezer/jimmy eat world emo to the gothy emo kid. I did listen to At the Drive In recently and I still like that better than The Mars Volta.

The Wonder Years is a pretty solid band too. I was kinda past a lot of this type of music by the time I... spent a summer on the Warped Tour hanging out with those dudes specifically and they write good pop songs that still managed to tap into the high school feeling.

Paramore is good, I don't care. There was some twitter thing a few years back where someone was calling Hayley Williams fake or something and even Jason Isbell was tweeting about "wtf she did half a dozen warped tours, sit down".

I feel like i had some story about Ice Nine Kills being total clowns, but I can't remember what it was. I think we were on the same stage as them at a Never Say Never festival in the RGV and it's just always weird being up close with slipknot looking dudes.

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Jimmy Eat World wasn't one of my number 1 bands or anything in my teens/early twenties, but I liked them enough. They are the band from that era that I think I like and appreciate now more than I did then - they're a fucking good band. They have a lot of solid albums, and some solid albums that are later than you would expect. Whichever one has Big Casino is actually a pretty good record (just looked it up - Chase This Light). Manchester Orchestra, I wore out Mean Everything to Nothing and then 11 years later dug them back up and found that Black Mile to the Surface is great.

Actually the band missing from here for me big time is Saves the Day.

In high school my friends were super into Thursday, and I thought they sucked - I listened to Understanding in a Car Crash recently and agree with myself. Taking Back Sunday was the closest I got to really digging the more screamy emo stuff. I never got into My Chemical Romance - in retrospect that huge My Chem album feels like when the whole genre/scene shifted entirely and completely from the argyle sweater weezer/jimmy eat world emo to the gothy emo kid. I did listen to At the Drive In recently and I still like that better than The Mars Volta.

The Wonder Years is a pretty solid band too. I was kinda past a lot of this type of music by the time I... spent a summer on the Warped Tour hanging out with those dudes specifically and they write good pop songs that still managed to tap into the high school feeling.

Paramore is good, I don't care. There was some twitter thing a few years back where someone was calling Hayley Williams fake or something and even Jason Isbell was tweeting about "wtf she did half a dozen warped tours, sit down".

I feel like i had some story about Ice Nine Kills being total clowns, but I can't remember what it was. I think we were on the same stage as them at a Never Say Never festival in the RGV and it's just always weird being up close with slipknot looking dudes.

I listened to Saves The Day's "At Your Funeral" this Fall in the field and it holds up really well.  That was kind of their sweet spot.

My Chemical Romance came along after I'd moved on from pop punk, but they have a couple bangers in their catalogue that were all around towards the latter part of my college career (was at ISU from '03-'07 and lived in Ames until June of '08).  "Teenagers" and "I'm Not Ok".  I always thought "Teenagers" had an almost bluesy Stones and stompy T-Rex/"Diamond Dogs" era Bowie quality to it.

All American Rejects had some brilliant catchy pop songs.

Car Seat Headrest isn't part of that era at all, but I fucking love their "Teens of Denial" album.  Heavy early Weezer/Pixies vibe to it with the loud/soft shit and guitar heroics.

About once every other year, me and a bunch of buddies I grew up with do a guy's weekend in La Crosse, Wisconsin which is a college town/Mississippi River town close to us with a crap ton of bars.  We drink too much, eat poorly, and always end the night at Shooter's Pub, which only has old Packer Super Bowls on the TVs, and is blasting a playlist comprised of these bands so loud you can't talk to anyone.  OD'ing on nostalgia.  It's a damn blast.

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Stay What You Are is probably the high point for Saves the Day, but also I've jammed this song a bunch of times in the past year and, apart from the horrible lyrics, the guitars still do it for me

 

Thinking about Ames 2008 and pop punk brings me back to the first non Texas/Oklahoma tour I ever did. We were hooked up with a super young kinda churchy band in the upper midwest and played in Ames at... some youth group kinda place across from a bread factory, near an IGA and the train tracks and the cutesy shops were up a street... and then in Des Moines in some weird underground punk cave in an industrial park (which freaked the Ames kids the fuck out), and outside of that show we met some frat dudes who had driven up from Iowa City to see us play and immediately booked us for the next night at one of the bars they worked at (the.... Yacht Club). They took us all over downtown Des Moines and a few bandmembers ended up getting arrested, which caused us problems 5 years later when we were trying to get into Canada for Warped in Toronto. Which was fun because you could see all the pop punk people who had prior arrests getting grilled at the same time by the Canadian border mounties or whatever. Still kinda love Iowa just on the basis of that night in Iowa City, wound up with a Hawkeye girl who was still absolutely fucking crazy the last time I saw her on Facebook.

 

Man you know what doesn't hold up at all - that one song by Hawthorne Heights. I'm actually kinda impressed (or made sad) by the fact that they are still a band.

Not a well known band but I'd want to see The Swellers at this show.

 

Also, I never actually watched the show but I was surprised to learn the Gerard or whatever his name is from My Chem wrote The Umbrella Academy.

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Stay What You Are is probably the high point for Saves the Day, but also I've jammed this song a bunch of times in the past year and, apart from the horrible lyrics, the guitars still do it for me

 

Thinking about Ames 2008 and pop punk brings me back to the first non Texas/Oklahoma tour I ever did. We were hooked up with a super young kinda churchy band in the upper midwest and played in Ames at... some youth group kinda place across from a bread factory, near an IGA and the train tracks and the cutesy shops were up a street... and then in Des Moines in some weird underground punk cave in an industrial park (which freaked the Ames kids the fuck out), and outside of that show we met some frat dudes who had driven up from Iowa City to see us play and immediately booked us for the next night at one of the bars they worked at (the.... Yacht Club). They took us all over downtown Des Moines and a few bandmembers ended up getting arrested, which caused us problems 5 years later when we were trying to get into Canada for Warped in Toronto. Which was fun because you could see all the pop punk people who had prior arrests getting grilled at the same time by the Canadian border mounties or whatever. Still kinda love Iowa just on the basis of that night in Iowa City, wound up with a Hawkeye girl who was still absolutely fucking crazy the last time I saw her on Facebook.

 

Man you know what doesn't hold up at all - that one song by Hawthorne Heights. I'm actually kinda impressed (or made sad) by the fact that they are still a band.

Not a well known band but I'd want to see The Swellers at this show.

 

Also, I never actually watched the show but I was surprised to learn the Gerard or whatever his name is from My Chem wrote The Umbrella Academy.

i fucking loved saves the day during my final two years of high school, when that album came out.

manchester orchestra feels a bit odd in this group.  they put out an album last year that was out-fucking standing (which followed another great album they put out in 2017).

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52 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Alkaline Trio is about the only one on this list I would pay to see.  My Chemical Romance's first album was good (relatively) and completely different than most of the rest of their bubble gum stuff.  Agree that Saves the Day would be a good addition.  Maybe Brand New also?

Man, Brand New, Say Anything, Get Up Kids, and The Anniversary and I’d be looking for flights. Big obvious missing headliner is Fall Out Boy, all those Fueled by Ramen bands like Panic, Gym Class Heroes. If AFI isn’t on there, them. New Found Glory maybe, although I feel like my nostalgia makes me want this to show more my era emo/pop punk than the later era emo/screamo that might be more of the lineup.

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50 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I don't have the energy to scour the lineup . . . is Blue October playing?

Because Blue October sucks.

It’s them and Flyleaf/Passerby playing some slightly different festival headlined by Evanescence and 30 Seconds to Mars (minus Jared Leto)

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2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Lotta get off my lawn vibe in this thread.
 

 


I would have trouble naming a song by more than a handful of bands on this lineup. Are they going to play for 15-20 minutes apiece? That is a fuckton of bands.

 

Interesting account. Per this guy, it sounds like they are going to be doing physically rotating stages (and probably short sets). Band ends, stage rotates, next band starts playing immediately.

I never quite understood what made a band regular metal and what made a band... the type of metal band that shares a bill with Red Jumpsuit Apparatus or gets a nickname like "Every Time I Cry".

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Per this guy, it sounds like they are going to be doing physically rotating stages (and probably short sets). Band ends, stage rotates, next band starts playing immediately.

What happens when the first stage breaks down on Day 1, midday?  I hope they have a Conan style Wheel of Pain to manually rotate the stage.

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Stay What You Are is probably the high point for Saves the Day, but also I've jammed this song a bunch of times in the past year and, apart from the horrible lyrics, the guitars still do it for me
 
Thinking about Ames 2008 and pop punk brings me back to the first non Texas/Oklahoma tour I ever did. We were hooked up with a super young kinda churchy band in the upper midwest and played in Ames at... some youth group kinda place across from a bread factory, near an IGA and the train tracks and the cutesy shops were up a street... and then in Des Moines in some weird underground punk cave in an industrial park (which freaked the Ames kids the fuck out), and outside of that show we met some frat dudes who had driven up from Iowa City to see us play and immediately booked us for the next night at one of the bars they worked at (the.... Yacht Club). They took us all over downtown Des Moines and a few bandmembers ended up getting arrested, which caused us problems 5 years later when we were trying to get into Canada for Warped in Toronto. Which was fun because you could see all the pop punk people who had prior arrests getting grilled at the same time by the Canadian border mounties or whatever. Still kinda love Iowa just on the basis of that night in Iowa City, wound up with a Hawkeye girl who was still absolutely fucking crazy the last time I saw her on Facebook.
 
Man you know what doesn't hold up at all - that one song by Hawthorne Heights. I'm actually kinda impressed (or made sad) by the fact that they are still a band.
Not a well known band but I'd want to see The Swellers at this show.
 
Also, I never actually watched the show but I was surprised to learn the Gerard or whatever his name is from My Chem wrote The Umbrella Academy.

I was bouncing between Ames and Des Moines and truly have no idea what venues you’re talking about, although I can tell from your Ames description you were in the vicinity of downtown. We hung out around Campustown in those days and the bands we were seeing all fit that Midwest heartland rock/Alt country/hippy songwriter vibe. Dudes that dressed like Neil Young, listened to lots of Pearl Jam, grew up with folks who liked country, and had just discovered Wilco and Ryan Adams. PBR, American Spirits, and weed kinda crowd.

Des Moines always had that intense weird underground scene (Slipknot didn’t just materialize out of thin air), but again I was more into the folky rock/alt country scene and didn’t wade in those waters.

Sounds like an adventure!
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I’d just say that I’m an old so I have no idea what this is, but of all of these weird logo bands, jimmy eat world is legit. And Avril Lavigne was someone who brought a lot of talent to a pop/hard genre at the time (late 90s?!?!). To the rest, Godspeed. You’re playing your things to people so more power to you.


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On 1/19/2022 at 1:47 PM, Celery Man said:

Jimmy Eat World wasn't one of my number 1 bands or anything in my teens/early twenties, but I liked them enough. They are the band from that era that I think I like and appreciate now more than I did then - they're a fucking good band.

They are. Bleed American is a legitimately really good album. I saw them and Third Eye Blind play a show together and they were both great. 

On 1/19/2022 at 2:44 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

My Chemical Romance came along after I'd moved on from pop punk, but they have a couple bangers in their catalogue that were all around towards the latter part of my college career (was at ISU from '03-'07 and lived in Ames until June of '08).  "Teenagers" and "I'm Not Ok".  I always thought "Teenagers" had an almost bluesy Stones and stompy T-Rex/"Diamond Dogs" era Bowie quality to it.

All American Rejects had some brilliant catchy pop songs.

I love Welcome to The Black Parade and Famous Last Words. More than those songs deserve I'm sure. Some heavy nostalgia there. I'm not sure I'd want to see them in concert.

AAR does and they are weirdly underrated to me. Whenever they come on the radio I think "You know - these guys were actually pretty fucking good". Gives You Hell especially is a really well crafted track. 

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I will say the second one has some bands I used to enjoy. The first one looks just really horrible, I can't lie lol.

 

I met the guys from Jimmy Eat World back around 2000, I knew a bartender chick that was roommates with them. They were definitely solid.

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