Songs or bands that were important to you, but now you question

[Arturo]

I've revisited SW's Anthem For A New Tomorrow and think it's a standout album from that genre/era. Had my pop punk phase which was soon over after I discovered Crypt/Rip Off stuff. Still love some of those bands from that era but some like New Bomb Turks I can't listen to anymore.

[cranefortune]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

Yo I actually still ride for Party Of Helicopters.....i love the guitars....vocals too actually....Aged much better than a lot of the screamo era stuff

[cranefortune]

Mad Nanna

I really wanted to like that LP, but it never clicked for me. "I Made Blood Better" is a great title....I do still ride for the "I Wanna See You / The Nectarine Tree" 7". The Nectarine Tree is like a fever dream....i can remember a night i had slept at my parents and went to sleep with this song on repeat. at some point sleep and wake seemed the same. If everyone of there songs was this good i would be a much bigger fan. It's like a more "rock" version of Shadow Ring.

I do really like those Love Chants records that Zulicki also played on.

[nuggetsvolume1]

I stand behind "Anthem"; I will still listen to "Storm the Streets" by The Riverdales; I have a strong affection for that Fat Wrecords band The Bombpops. Judge not; lest ye be judged yourself.

[marblestat]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

Yo I actually still ride for Party Of Helicopters.....i love the guitars....vocals too actually....Aged much better than a lot of the screamo era stuff

Yeah I actually got a Party of Helicopters LP (mt forever) a year ago on a whim.  I somehow never heard them before and I liked it enough at first, but it really grew on me.  I’ve picked up a couple of their other albums and like them too.

Were they screamo? I don’t hear it - just sound like a indie rock band playing heavy NWOBHM riffs.  Teeth of the Hydra was REALLY popular in Columbus ten/fifteen years ago (although they were never my thing) and people always made a big deal that their drummer was in PoH - after hearing some of those nasty riffs I can understand why they gave a shit

[M-Rad]

Anthem is definitely the most "mature" SW album, seconded by Emo. My Brain Hurts is still the all time best high school album to me, those lyrics were bouncing around my head all 4 years. Riverdales were cool too, especially Dan Vapid's songs

[vedicardi]

i always put them in the same category as 90s era queers, 90s pop punk.

[Arturo]

Still like the first Riverdales LP, and Beat Off LP by the Queers. Not that I listen to those regularly but still have a fondness for those (mostly nostalgic) that I don't for most other pop punk from the era.

[cranefortune]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

Yo I actually still ride for Party Of Helicopters.....i love the guitars....vocals too actually....Aged much better than a lot of the screamo era stuff

Yeah I actually got a Party of Helicopters LP (mt forever) a year ago on a whim.  I somehow never heard them before and I liked it enough at first, but it really grew on me.  I’ve picked up a couple of their other albums and like them too.

Were they screamo? I don’t hear it - just sound like a indie rock band playing heavy NWOBHM riffs.  Teeth of the Hydra was REALLY popular in Columbus ten/fifteen years ago (although they were never my thing) and people always made a big deal that their drummer was in PoH - after hearing some of those nasty riffs I can understand why they gave a shit

They weren't really screamo...just kinda played with bands from that scene kinda....ie they had a split with Harriet The Spy....And i think your assessment fits with Mt. Forever and beyond. "Abracadaver" (3 years prior to Mt. forever) had more of the scream vibe....i mean they didn't scream...i donno like they made sense with bands like Universal order of Armageddon on the early stuff. I think the more produced rock stuff is great. The last album "Please Believe It" might be what people would call a guilty pleasure for me, but i would listen to it shamelessly.

[AggravationOverdose]

Another way to phrase this topic is "well, that didn't age well"... and if you got down with Screeching Weasel back in the day and had a blast doing so, well there are worse bands you could have been in to. No shame in the SW game.

30 years ago Mudhoney was crucial, still a great band... but those yarling vocals. Bruh... haven't spun a MH discos in eons.

I still ride heavily with Halo of Flies- but Hazelmyer's sexy lyrics... c'mon jack...

Templars were unfailing, still great but they got some pretty silly moments.

Adrenalin O.D. has never failed me.

Shit changes. My question is "Songs or bands that ARE important to you, but you will probably question in the future"- Will Lumpy be the Sloppy Seconds of 2028?

One of these days we're all gonna face the meat.

[nuggetsvolume1]

"One of these days we're all gonna face the meat."

We're all gonna die...you only live once...to thine own self be true...if I want to listen to "Beat Off" at 2am, I will let nature take its course...only God can judge me...let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

[yullowteef]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

Yo I actually still ride for Party Of Helicopters.....i love the guitars....vocals too actually....Aged much better than a lot of the screamo era stuff

Yeah I actually got a Party of Helicopters LP (mt forever) a year ago on a whim.  I somehow never heard them before and I liked it enough at first, but it really grew on me.  I’ve picked up a couple of their other albums and like them too.

Were they screamo? I don’t hear it - just sound like a indie rock band playing heavy NWOBHM riffs.  Teeth of the Hydra was REALLY popular in Columbus ten/fifteen years ago (although they were never my thing) and people always made a big deal that their drummer was in PoH - after hearing some of those nasty riffs I can understand why they gave a shit

They weren't really screamo...just kinda played with bands from that scene kinda....ie they had a split with Harriet The Spy....And i think your assessment fits with Mt. Forever and beyond. "Abracadaver" (3 years prior to Mt. forever) had more of the scream vibe....i mean they didn't scream...i donno like they made sense with bands like Universal order of Armageddon on the early stuff. I think the more produced rock stuff is great. The last album "Please Believe It" might be what people would call a guilty pleasure for me, but i would listen to it shamelessly.

I always thought that Mt. Forever ended up putting them in a more math rock-friendly camp than screamo, but they definitely shared in that scene. Wasn't Harriet The Spy their band before PoH? Maybe they just shared members.

[GerryTodd]

Still like the first Riverdales LP, and Beat Off LP by the Queers. Not that I listen to those regularly but still have a fondness for those (mostly nostalgic) that I don't for most other pop punk from the era.

the Queers are probably the Lookout rec band that holds up best IMO.  haven't listened to "beat off" in years, but "don't back down" is something i still put on once every 6 months or so and i think still sounds great.  wasn't as into the earlier lookout stuff tho - I think they really hit their stride around 95-96.  the shit after that is pretty terrible, but every band in the genre had jumped the shark by then anyways.

i wonder if i would have even gotten into garage punk (when i did) if every pop punk band didn't start to totally blow around 1997?

[marblestat]

I listened to Screeching Weasel as late as high school. Ugh!

Unfortunately for me, I still have a calf tattoo of the SW logo from when I was 19, which is far too late in life to be listening to that band.

As a younger man, I was really into bands like A Minor Forest, Party of Helicopters, Milemarker, Sleepytime Trio, etc. and I really don't know what I was thinking in retrospect.

Yo I actually still ride for Party Of Helicopters.....i love the guitars....vocals too actually....Aged much better than a lot of the screamo era stuff

Yeah I actually got a Party of Helicopters LP (mt forever) a year ago on a whim.  I somehow never heard them before and I liked it enough at first, but it really grew on me.  I’ve picked up a couple of their other albums and like them too.

Were they screamo? I don’t hear it - just sound like a indie rock band playing heavy NWOBHM riffs.  Teeth of the Hydra was REALLY popular in Columbus ten/fifteen years ago (although they were never my thing) and people always made a big deal that their drummer was in PoH - after hearing some of those nasty riffs I can understand why they gave a shit

They weren't really screamo...just kinda played with bands from that scene kinda....ie they had a split with Harriet The Spy....And i think your assessment fits with Mt. Forever and beyond. "Abracadaver" (3 years prior to Mt. forever) had more of the scream vibe....i mean they didn't scream...i donno like they made sense with bands like Universal order of Armageddon on the early stuff. I think the more produced rock stuff is great. The last album "Please Believe It" might be what people would call a guilty pleasure for me, but i would listen to it shamelessly.

I like Please Believe It too but it took a little while to get behind the singing - those vocals are so loud in the mix

[mud elf]

the problem with most of that screamo shit is the drums. a lot of those bands use this follow the vocals, dramatic, expressive style of drums. i dont know how to describe it, it's like the opposite of a kraut motorik or a ramones beat.

a lot of crappy punk pop and indy rock bands use it too. its like a "beat" (use that term loosely) where you can visualize the drummer raising his arm way too high for dramatic snare hits into a roll, into some weird breakdown for the sing along, another roll etc. if the drummer is any good , like in the case of party of helicopters, the drummer is good enough to maintain a beat amongst all the nonsense going on without resorting to this sort of style (poly rhythms?).. which is probably what makes some of their stuff slightly tolerable. slightly.

we're getting close to worse than pop punk territory i'm afraid.



edit: added " screamo" to make sure it was clear i wasn't talking about screaching weasel, who are of course LEGENDARY