90's midwest emo doomer playlist for crying at an empty parking lot - Vol 1
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- 0:00 1 - American Football - Stay Home
8:10 2 - Mineral - Unfinished
14:18 3 - The Blacktop Cadence - Cold Night in Virginia
19:36 4 - Penfold - Amateur Standing
26:10 5 - Mineral - February
31:01 6 - Boys Life - Fire Engine Red
34:21 7 - Christie Front Drive - Field
37:33 8 - Christie Front Drive - Valentine
42:41 9 - American Football - The One With The Tambourine
46:40 10 - Penfold - June
51:51 11 - Benton Falls - Sad Like Winter Leaves
57:24 12 - Boys Life - Radio Towers
01:04:15 13 - Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About an Angel
01:10:23 14 - Mineral - Parking lot - เพลง
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I’m seriously about to find an ‘88 Corolla (my first car), drive out to the strip mall parking lot in my ex-girlfriend’s (old) neighborhood and sit there and stream this. Not even to cry, just to pretend I’m young again.
This makes my tummy hurt.
You made me feel feelings with this .
Guess I'll go to my ex girlfriend's old neighborhood too. Best 3 years of my life. The last 4 were confusing as we slowly wanted different things in life. I'll never forget her
This sounds like something I’d be doing in a few years, but for now I’m alone in my room.
Fuck yes
Midwest emo feels like witnessing a sunrise after pulling an all nighter.
I do it everyday
Couldn’t have said it any better
That is a perfect description
currently doing just that
That's a feeling I've always had but never had the words for it, thanks
the real pain is not when something ends, but when you know it's ending and there's nothing you can do about it
Very true.
oof. I feel that
I'm feeling that rn
damn
It's a slow spiral out of control. I'm just watching it get worse.
It hurts. Especially when you love each other and it has to. God why
Jesus Christ.. People who dont live in our type of climate wont get this... but a night like this is so so incredibly at the lowest point of the year. This is an empty parking lot on November 29th at 9h45 pm and you're either stressed out about school, work, the upcoming holidays, the fact that you get out of work at 5 and its fucking dark and you just had to go to the grocery store and its already 9h45 at night and it feels like youre wasting your life away
Midwest this could be in February, March or November
november is like the most depressing month lmaooo
Spot on.
Lansing, late Feb.
Damn, painted a pretty good picture🔥🔥
When the police cars show up to the goodwill parking lot at midnight because they think you're staking the place out but you're actually just crying into your bong
Lmfao. I laughed. I cried. I took a rip from the bong. Excellent comment.
I too am currently enjoying this comment over some fat rips
@@JO-rx7go FAT JUUL RIP
Has a goodwill ever been ripped off?
in the parking lot of a small town strip mall for me... I got expelled from the high school in my home town, needless to say I miss my old friends but its easy to assume everyone hates me now...
Anything “emo” related brings me back to a time in my life where everything was ok and existence seemed so linear. This playlist took me back to my preteen years - riding bikes after school, sneaking out during sleepovers to explore the neighborhood, kissing my crush in the snack bar of the local roller rink. Life felt as if it was complicated then but little did we realize how at peace we actually were. Those long lost friends and memories are ones that truly make me tear up sometimes. Not only were those days simple, but they were the ones we never knew we’d look back on wishing we could experience it just one more time. I hope anyone that reads this who thinks they’re a failure or a disappointment remembers that child with the world in their eyes. Those late nights of playing pickup football with the other neighborhood kids. The feeling that anything really was possible. Don’t give up on those memories. Use them to will yourself through the dark times. Much love to you all and I wish everyone a peaceful, prosperous and, most importantly, happy existence.
Edit: I never expected so many of you to be touched by these words. It means so much to know I’m not alone in these feelings. Much love to every single one of you.
This was beautiful and made me cry.
Same lol
We didn’t have phones and constant distracting technology attached at our hips and we were better off for it. I enjoy being an adult because I love my wife and children, but I wish we could go back. I wish tech stopped in 1995. AOL was good enough for me. Playing hide and seek in the neighborhood. PlAying rollercoaster tycoon on the pute. Skateboarding everywhere. Exploring the woods behind our houses and in other neighborhoods. Going to the carnival at the local church parking lot every year. Life was simpler then because it was simpler. I want to go back so bad. But I can’t. Just tired of all this fucking technology.
I think the thing most missed is the simplicity of emotions when you're a child. Happiness. Sadness. Excitement. Before you have time to grow conflicted, contrived, doubtful, confused. Where complex emotional situations tear your identity from one place to another and your sense of self is scattered.
@@Jasonlimitless well said
This just reminds me of when I’d got off work and I sat in the parking lot until 10:30 (we closed at 9) and my manager asked if I was ok. I’d respond with, “yeah… no… I’m not sure?” He said, just need some time? He was so nice to me ever since that day. Best part is a few months later same thing happened, but we both noticed each other on opposite ends of the parking lot, we both sat in our cars for about an hour just looking at the other car knowing exactly what was going on. Conversations without words are the most powerful.
oof, i felt this one
Your manager sounds like a good person
@@weezerfanatic5320 he is. After I kinda opened up, me and him have this unspoken code. If we ever say we’re doing ok, we’re just not ok, and have a lot of stress. Honestly the best manager I’ve ever had.
@@congruentcrib oh man you're lucky. I don't have alot of workexperience yet but the managers/bosses I had were fucking assholes who made me intentionally want to ruin the buissiness, not just so that I could quit but also to ruin their fucking carreers.... lol. and yes I worked more than what was expected out of me aswell yet they decided to treat me like trash.
If a manager/boss could just be like that... have some empathy I would be able to do my job BETTER... dont they get that. Lol. Whatever i gues.
@@siegpasta my boss once told me how he got where he was. Nothing too detailed, but pretty much he got a divorce after finding his spouse having an affair. She was a stay at home wife. Due to certain things she got to keep all possessions. So he moved and restarted.
I've been a Midwest fan for years, but something about this.
This is what it feels like to wake up and get to work at 6am and it's dark and it's cold. But it's mid December, so when you get off work at 6pm it's dark and it's cold again and it's raining or even snowing now, so you've gotta drive 20 miles home in the middle of it, and then you finally get home at like 7 after driving home past crowded restaurants and stores and bright ass Christmas decorations glaring you in the face past your windshield wipers, and realizing you literally missed an entire day and that the holidays will have come and gone before you know it, and that it's already two weeks til Christmas and you haven't even started shopping yet. And then when you get back to an empty apartment because you totally don't feel alone enough as it is, you have just about enough time to eat and play a video game for 30 minutes before you gotta go to bed and wake up at 4:30 to do the whole goddamn thing again, and you wanna say something to your partner, but they're 3000+ miles away and busy with something else so you just have to say "I love you. I'm sorry I'm never here. Thanks for sticking around. I'll see you tomorrow maybe." And you know what they're gonna say, it's not your fault, you're working your ass off, you're a hero. But it never feels like it. So you just suck it up and go to bed and try not to feel completely bereft of anything but pure agony.
You can cope well enough in the summertime, but in the winter, it's almost impossible.
Get a new job bro 😎
(i don't know if this is what you live everyday or only a fake story,
anyways )
this shit hits hard, i experienced like 1% of what you said and yet i can feel the pain. have you tried to change this situation? and, how's going now?
Honestly that was just me venting about life at that point in time. I have seasonal affective disorder pretty bad, so shit got pretty real there for a little while, pulling twelve hour days in the dead of winter. Especially these Southern winters where all it ever does is rain and it's gloomy all the time and you can't help but sit there and focus on everything that's going wrong. But. Unfortunate as it is, the only way out is through sometimes. It is what it is.
Well said
Nice I'm enjoying my spring time then summer falls before you know it and again the fall where you will be getting rained on heading to work half asleep
Having to get out of your cozy bed to go to work when it’s dark, get out of work and it’s dark again. Wind so cold it hurts your face, the darkness so empty it hurts your soul.
I've never wanted to cry in an empty parking lot to a 90's midwest emo doomer playlist.. but now I'd like to go cry in an empty parking lot to a 90's midwest emo doomer playlist.
Well I guess this is growing up.
It's very cathartic.
same here....same here
Midwest emo is a really powerful genre, it could convey the atmosphere and nuance of nostalgia of memories you do not even have. Just like city pop genre.
@limelight81 weeb shit
@limelight81 Japanese pop music from the 70s/80s with influences from soul, r&b, jazz, etc. And it's great.
I call it Neo Nostalgia
@@sh0gun___ not weeb shit lmao, it's music dude. just because it's of japanese origin doesn't mean it's for "weebs"
id be depressed as shit if I lived in bum fuck Egypt too (thats Southern slang for middle of nowhere for those unaware)
Imagine us all standing there together crying
Why is it so hard to find someone like yourself even tho millions feel the same as you?
It must be trash to be such a loser
Id prolly be skating around but yeah, it would be pretty cool
Winter nights smoking cigs nothing but quietness and the sound of wind only listening to your thoughts till you finally break down and ask why so many times with hope that someone will reach out and be there for you after a while you get up and head home and not discuss what happened to anyone and repeat the cycle every few days
@@guicyfruitguy88 people will always say that no one is ever alone and there will always be people who care. But… when you’re so depressed and sick that those people don’t understand you anymore and through no fault of their own cannot sympathise, that’s when that loneliness is on another level. I don’t expect anyone to come and help me up anymore but I still long for it, this shit is hard, I feel for you brother
There's a strange dynamic with nights like this. We look back on our darkest, most hopeless of times with a bit of romanticism. There is something special about not knowing where you're going, or if you will ever succeed. You feel things on a strong level. It's difficult and depressing, but also very visceral, raw, and genuine. But the perseverance of your internal flame will manage to keep you warm on cold, starry winter nights.
Then, years later, you look back and realize while that part of you will never go away, those tough times made you stronger and more resilient, and you appreciate the courage you had to summon to keep moving forward. This type of music complements that better than any other type of music I can think of, it's very special, and reading through these comments I'm glad I'm not the only one who managed to get something positive out of their darkest times.
Jesus man, this hit me deep. I appreciate this comment.
You said it all perfectly.
Thank you for this, I think I'm currently in what you just described. I really hope it will be over someday lol.
Reading this while the music was playing was a very nice experience. Beautiful writing. So much truth to it.
Just happened again. But now I'm 30
I remember in January last year I was facing the biggest wave of anxiety in my life. I was in my final year of university and I would only eat once a day. I would go for a walk around 1am and listen to the first song in this playlist and feel like every part of my life was breaking apart. Yknow that feeling when you go down on a rollercoaster and your stomach sinks? I would have that constantly every day. Looking back I honestly don't know how I survived. Now I've graduated and I have a good job and my anxiety has gone down, but every so often I remember the feeling and it is so scary, man. I would never wish it on anyone.
I'm glad you survived buddy, anxiety can be literal hell. Stay strong ❤
Hey man, I get this feeling. It sucks, I know. But just know you are not alone. Hope you are okay, random person on the internet I will most likely never meet :)
Finally, a emo playlist that isn't ass
fucking true lmao
Right? 5 minutes into most of these and I'm like "Oh this is ass. This is really ass."
I just don't vibe with 90% of revival and poppy-emo, gib me some classics and obscurities instead
@@mr-turtle-m8118 They both kinda suck, but I used to be a fan of them.
@@mr-turtle-m8118 hay at least revival is trying but pop emo doesn’t give damn
Reading through these comments and sobbing more and more, so many people feeling the same makes me both extremely sad and incredibly less alone and more understood... not even midwestern, i'm eastern european, but this music speaks levels to me as to so many here. 15 years have passed and i'm now almost 30, feeling the same heavy pain i felt as a kid. Only difference is back then there were a bunch of friends that shared the feelings, now not a single soul in my life to share my pain with... noone except this music understands. Shit life throws at you keeps piling up and life goes by trying to deal with it but never quite managing... and that persistent feeling of "When will life really begin?" that never went away since early teen years.
Thank you, been needing a good excuse to cry in front of Aldis
That’s about as Midwest as it gets haha
Just go inside. The wierd no name products makes me sad.
No way, Aldis is the bees knees
@@JO-rx7go Aldi is more like the baseball bat that broke that poor bee's knees.
well damn, agree to disagree lmao
Midwest emo is the epitome of the feeling that although life makes no sense it has its reasons and everything is going to be okay.
i like that take
Being from a small town in cali i totally dig this whole dark lonely midwest vibe. Listening to this music makes me realize that most of my life I’ve just been stuck in my room trapped in my own mind. Never had much friends to just hang out and bullshit , nor any chick to spend endless nights with. i haven’t even explored my sad little town. I’m 25 now, obviously im getting old need to think straighter but I do wonder can I still regain this lost youth or is it just gone?
You can regain it my friend
I feel this, I feel this so much
@@Jonathanbrynt How? Whats gone can never come back
the memories of youth are yet to be made. there's hope
It's a year later. I hope you're in a good place, stranger.
Prayers are appreciated as I'm going through a lot right now
I gotcha Kyle
I’m a Midwest 2000’s kid and this feels like the day Borders closed down. They were doing a big clear out sale and so everything was really cheap and I got some science kits from them.
Or like in my state it’s cloudy almost all winter, so the light pollution gets built up and the sky is an almost electric orange.
Or jumping on the trampoline or stargazing at my parents farm. Or going to the only elementary school for miles. Or going to the city pool even though where I lived was barely a town.
Me and my family all getting together in the suburban. Sometimes sitting in the trunk on the drive home from church, donuts in hand. Sitting in the trunk of a pickup on the wheel as we go bouncing down the gravel roads to help my nana do different errands.
My godfather took me hunting. We didn’t get anything but it was a lot of fun and I saw a bluish-grey deer.
And also, I don’t live in the Midwest anymore and DID YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE COUNTRY DOESNT HAVE HALF PRICE BOOKS?! I LIVE IN SUCH A POPULATED AREA BUT THERE ARE NO SECOND HAND BOOKSTORES ANYWHERE NEAR ME
The Only bookstore near me is a barnes and noble a town over but no secondhand bookstores anywhere near me
@@pencilpen8838 god same. It’s atrocious
Damn bro. I miss Hastings something fierce. There's a half price about thirty minutes away though. Not the same as Hastings though
I miss Borders. It was always a treat to look around in the store and kill a few hours. Now I spend most of my time in libraries or thrift stores. Something so nostalgic about seeing things from the past gives me comfort.
Stay Home is one hell of an opener. Cheers for that, I'll go cry.
I miss the Midwest sooooooo much. I’ve lived on the west coast, east coast, in the south. Nothing beats those cold months and the type of cities. The smell of autumn.
just left a comment similar the nostalgia is real
Just got out of a 5+ year relationship after just having a kid with her. Worst pain I ever felt but this Playlist helps a lot, also has my favorite band Mineral.
Hope it eventually gets better..
It gets better for sure
Hang in there man
keep striving on.. y'know?
Baby steps
It will my man, life is a cycle so as people in your life, something closes but at the same time, something even better opens. If you want someone to talk to, message me. Cheer up!
It will man youre amazing and you’ll get through this.
@@303hdv3 terrible advice id recommend taking a break and women are people man
Reminds me of a cold night, years ago.
I was in my early 20's (probably 21 or 22) alone in a parking lot, drinking one of the many bottles of wine i stole from a local festival months before, I cried like a baby.
Still in my 20's but i can say that it will get better, i promise.
There's nothing bad in living your emotionality. I'm glad that i learned to just let my emotions go when i need to.
I still do it from time to time, you might feel bad but it's better than not feeling anything, it means that you're alive.
i think you're right, a lot.
i have been suppressing my emotions for a while to be a 'real' man and to shield myself from external shit. now i understand that it was counterproductive, i blame myself for doing it bcz now i'm feeling like i'm not alive.
as you said, feeling nothing tears you up emotionally and mentally, but luckily i experienced some events that made my mind click and im looking forward to be more present and overall alive :)
hope you're doing good mate
Thank you so much for writing the thing that I needed to read. It gets better. Im in my 22´s and im feeling pretty down rn. I needed
this
Midwest emo sounds like how accepting that you’ll die alone feels.
i'm 40 and I miss being hopelessly in love thinking life will go on forever, heartbroken and broke
update: took a shot on a beautiful girl, made out while drunk, we still talk and hang out but it ain't going no where lol but! I'm once again hopelessly in love...victory 😁
@@arteedeetoo3144 that's the most real shit i've read in a long time, homie. respect.
update#2 lol..so me and the beautiful girl are now just friends (she just turned 25 and I'm turning 41 tomorrow) but that's ok! the time spent with her gave me my mojo back to talk to other girls. going on my first date with a totally cute chick my age. I'm so glad I got back out there :0]
Their chapters of your life. Turned 41, wife left me with 3 to take care of. Things change, you buck up and enjoy what it is..!..
@limelight81 agreed my friend
I've been blessed by the Algorithm. So glad I stumbled across this.
Dude same I actually gasped 🤣
@@tylertownsend4074 Another one!
Chad
Bruh I semi kinda write, and like phrases like blessed be the Algorithm make me wanna make a future cult or somthing. In fiction I mean.
Imma go to bed now.
@@zubbworks actually it’s an incredible idea for a song
I saw mineral do February live once
Verge of tears in front of hundreds of strangers. It was great.
I can feal this picture, the cold air and warm cigarette smoke in ur lungs, the fealing of the blowing wind and snow cutting through your thriftstore jacket like a knife, this weather makes ya feal alive in such a good basic way, so does this music! Hello from Minnesota. 👍
Damn bro that hit hard
man you should write a book or somthing this comment just painted a perfect image in my head
Thanks boys!
Read this comment as SDRE was playing and you hit a note of nostalgia so powerful I teared up. I miss being 17 in Pennsylvania in my dad’s old army jacket smoking cigarettes in a diner parking lot as no one was quite ready to go home yet.
@@cussbunny78 thanks man! Happy I could bring up a good memory! A good song to listen to in my opinion, for thinking about the past like that is "LSD and the Search for God - Starting over". Take care Frend.
I don't know why I like this type of music so much. I'm not even american or a man (the main demographic). I'm just a girl from a small town in Argentina. Still, these songs make me feel things :(
because music speaks the universal language
bro, sorry, brosina, what does being a man have to do with this? Y'all speak such crazy words sometimes...
@@preslavgetov1330 The main demographic and market for emo is geared toward males. It's not that hard to figure out...
@@DwightLivesMatter Hey man, awesome, humour me, how did you reach that conclusion?:)
@@preslavgetov1330 he has probably figured it out because most emo bands have their lyrics based around A GUY being left by a GIRL
PSA: This also works for listening in the bathroom with the lights turned off at 3:00 AM while your wife and daughter are asleep in the next room over and you’re remembering what it felt like to be 16 years old with zest and excitement for life.
Fuck man I'm 18 and just starting college which everyone says are the best years of life but I just feel hopeless and like life is meaningless
@@willyishere They are your first years of Freedom. Truth be told they can be great. Pick the right people who surround you, and adamantly prioritize yourself!
@@adude4700 that's true, it's the best you can do, make the best we can out of our situation. I'm age 16 and just started an apprenticeship and it's the start of my future most likely, let's see what the future hold ahead of us all.
People aren't joking when they say that life moves VERY fast. Cherish each day, smile at strangers, value time with loved ones and family, protect your energy. Bless. Be strong.
@@adude4700 yea man I'm trying to find those people thanks for the advice
When the cops try to move you from the empty walmart parking lot thinking ur homeless but you're just in the fetal crying under a light
I loved the emo phase. I miss early mid 2000's. It was so ominous.
its fun watching the resurgence/see it gain traction with younga folk.
I was big into the "midwest emo revival" in what was 2012-2015 for me. Lots of good stuff from 2010 in there, too. I also remember it feeling very ominous. I think its because I was 14-17 during that time and the world felt like a big, scary place in general.
people cared less about social media and making memories..at least during my youth.
Phase?
2004 was the best year of the 21st century so far imho
No lie probably gonna use this one to skate the empty parking lot across from my work when i get off at 1am, get ston'd and go "In Circles" (pun intended) for 6 hours
Heyyy another skater. I longboard so I roam around empty neighborhoods on my board instead of parking lots
@@Magic-V8-P71 do a kickflip.
It’s 2005. 23yrs old. From Australia but had moved to Canada, hardly know anyone, in a one bedroom apartment thousands of miles from people. Half drunk, alone, lying on the floor in the dark, listening, feeling, it’s something you can’t explain. Intense, real. you never forget the feeling. And no it wasn’t bad, kinda great really, just a moment, that stays with you forever. That was my car park emo moment
We have a carpark in the U.K. where I live very similar to this , we would spend the weekend nights in the winter skating and drinking cider under the flood lights while the world slept …. Sweet memories! It’s amazing by day that a piece of concrete is nothing …. Yet at night … it’s a complete different place . Such a simple thing . Oh how life was easier back in the day .
This comment section feels like family to me. I love you guys!
There was no goal that night. No schedule, agenda, or deadline. There wasn’t even time or space. Just an unsaid recognition that we are Infinite. We could stay out until 1, 2, 3am. Driving around in the fog, laughing and blasting music. And we knew at the end of the day we had a roof over our heads.
Can the same be said about today?
damn man
the midwest emo makes me feel like in a car which is passing through a forest but not a simple forest but one which contrasts with the sunrise and at the same time the air feels like that smell that brings melancholy and happiness at the same time
I'm northern east coast but listen to midwest emo a lot, kinda fits with my night walks around here, especially sitting at the train Tressel that overlooks the river, tons of spots like that up here in the adirondacks to reflect on life ig
I want what you're smoking
@@Millennial_Skank jajajajajaja❤️
i feel both attacked and seen by the algorithm rn
fuck same 👀
only the youtube algorithm truly understands me.
Same, feels bad man 😞
@@derpydepp5976 when your TH-cam algorithm is your best friend.
The algorithm was just looking out for ya.
This is going to be the best summer ever
Hopefully
Update: nope
and thus it was! thank u random samaritan for this wish, it came true for me :)
Plot twist, fuckers: it wasn't.
How did your summer go?
i feel weird and out of place being born and raised in california "the bay" and listening to this because i love where i live but reading these comments i almost have this romantisized view of being a small town emo teenager and just running around late at night with my friends. idk it just feels strange because im 16 and i have friends and we hang out and have fun and i love them and i feel like im doing what i want to be doing right now but every night when i come home i still feel empty. i think its just because school is so stressful and i dont know what i want to do with my life or even if i could get into / pass college even if i wanted to go. i guess im just pouring out my emotions into this comment so maybe i can look back at it when im at a different point in my life, i love you all and just know you can always change you're life for the better no matter what has happened in it so far.
I can tell you right now no one is running out late at night in these small towns
Source: I live in a 20k population town in the Midwest
it really does sound nice but as someone who lived in socal, now lives in a small town, finding friends to run around w it so, so hard and rare.. and, no one ever really runs. we all get holed up. i have a lot of romanticized ideals like yours too, maybe even more, but man.. i promise it’s not what it seems. i really wish it were. i feel the same emptiness, though i’ve got no friends to hang with either way, so i’m glad you’ve got something going on. personally, i’m just hoping college next fall brings the community and intensity i’ve been longing for and without for years. i really hope you do get to look back on this and say you were able to find your people to run around with. it sucks so hard that we got stuck with all the teen romanticization when we have significantly less freedom than our parents and theirs.... luckily though, most of us can find that from 18-25, maybe onward. really is hard to cope with in the mean time though, cos it’s so easy to want it all so badly anyway. what’s there not to love, really? do you ever get that feeling you miss it even tho u never lived it? idk, man, i’m rambling on but i sincerely wish the best of luck to you. we’re gonna endure all this cruel longing and find our groove, and all this is gonna be a dim memory. i don’t have faith in much else but that
having grown up in said small west town and now moving to socal for many years it really is something special. there's a reason many are leaving the state for the first time. Never be shamed of your birthplace but you are right this is a special piece of americana
@@holmvideo1 yeah it's better if you're born and raised in said small town and then leave to a bigger place,. having done the opposite of you and leaving my small midwest town for socal I can say i've had a similar experience as you just bc it's hard to meet lots of locals if you aren't from that place. luckily over the years i've got a couple good ones but I can say i've had a similar experience just opposite terms
This reminds me of working at my old job. It was one of the worst, most busiest nights there, and I finally got off hours after I was supposed to already be off. I was waiting for my ride. It was the beginning of 2021, I was about to be 21, I couldn't drive, didn't own a car, finished home-schooling but came out not any more smart or really talented than I was going in, could only work jobs like this because I didn't know how to do anything else, and was constantly facing criticism and harsh comments from everyone around me about how underdeveloped I was. I remember it all building up to that one moment, I was so mixed. Angry, upset, confused, and just done with it all. Before my ride came to get me, I thought a lot about how much I hated where I was, who I was, and what I was doing with my life. In that moment that I had enough, and was gonna do something about it. Still in the process, learning to drive, getting my own car soon, and moving out. It's never too late to learn or do anything. There's still always the option, the chance. You just have to put the effort into achieving it.
how are you doing now?
@@Jonathanbrynt I'm definitely doing. Lol.
in all honesty, not that great haha. I'm a lot less stressed out since I'm currently not employed anywhere, but I fear that I've become a neet. I no longer have the ability to work 40+ hour weeks at the awful jobs I've worked at for the past 6 years as I just can't handle it anymore, but I'm not qualified for much of anything else. Eventually gonna run out of money and well, at this point, not sure how I can continue to live without a job. Even though I'm with my parents, they're still making me pay rent. Not really sure what to do, just kinda letting things pass me by until I really Have to deal with them. Trying to find work from home, tho, so maybe things will eventually look up. Things haven't been exactly great the past 5 years for me, just kinda hoping at some point, if I keep working at it, things will get better, I'll maybe meet someone, etc. Although, none of that has happened, and at this rate, I'm not really sure it ever will. Things are just kinda happening and it's mostly out of my control. No idea what's going to happen to me as time passes, lately, every single day has just been the same way. Sorry if I kinda vented there lol.
How about you? How are things going for you?
@@Jonathanbrynt Came back to let you know (incase you were wondering) that things have started to look up for me. Been getting a lot of medical and dental care taken care of that's been needing taking care of, got a new job that I actually really enjoy with really pleasant coworkers, and I'm generally in a better place. I'm not making very much money right now, and I'm still in a pretty rough place (Especially since I've just been fatigued due to Valley Fever these last few months), but all in all, I think my life is starting to head in the right direction. ^^
35 years in the music business and this is probably THE best named "mix tape" EVER!
I know there are hundreds of comments expressing the same feelings here, but damn do miss my teen years and my friends back then. The past is so painful to remember as you age. Losing people to school, jobs, starting families, or death in my worst cases. At least I know I still care, because these things make me feel.
My bestfriend is moving, I broke the love of my life's heart, and my mother has lost her mind. My life is unraveling and I am alone again. The pavement still feels warm from the setting sun, and I can feel the years ahead of me closing in. For now I'll close my eyes and remember everything fades and new things come, I am only 16 and time marches on so I must too.
Hey man I'm 21 now, I wish I could be 16 again I wasted it focusing on the bad stuff and now I realize it only gets worse lol, good luck dude. 👍
@@boyblue6663 oh yeah thx I was just rlly depressed im better now
@joe smath Just ‘cause they’re young doesn’t mean their feelings aren’t real
Snippy I love you man. this is the most expected comment on this and it made me laugh out loud. Maybe one day you can read this and have a good laugh like I did and realize that life really isn’t that bad, in fact it’s infinite with possibility and waiting for you to join in on the fun. Peace brother
This is that perfect middle line between Midwest emo and post rock.
Only up to the first song but it sounds very much like Explosions in the Sky in parts, which can only be a good thing.
So math rock?
i'm in saskatchewan. the mid west of canada. this is also a nice playlist to nap to after a cry
I hope you're a fan of Filmmaker then!
@@stefansmith3489 what film maker /
@@fistofthenorthstar9010 Oh shit. You're in for a treat: th-cam.com/video/b8cZpydgdzI/w-d-xo.html
I'm so tired but I can't sleep. I feel this hollow emptiness in my chest. I had a dream you killed me and left me for dead and I could have sworn when I woke up you were standing right above my bed. Leaning over me like you used too. You looked so real in the darkness, shadowy features were right there in front of me. Wearing that coat you wore all winter when we were living in the car. But when I turned the light on you were gone and I cried and cried. I wanted you to be there so bad. I've been trying everything I can think of to find you...I'm so scared I never will. Ive never been strong enough to really help you and I always fall short....but I think I can do it now. What if it's too late?
I cried. Thank you so much for typing this
Taking a break from watching Norm clips. RIP to the greatest comedian ever.
the mangrate
the more i learn about these midwest emo characters the less i care for em
parking lot is such an appropriate closing to this playlist.
10/10 my dude
Early Emo + Midwest Emo = Perfect Playlist
a teen in the early 2000s .. thank you what a time to grow up.. before it went downhill for good
The first track feels like meeting up with the old highschool group after your first year at college and every thing being so different that it won't be the same ever again.
Cleaning my room to this and came across some stuff from past relationships. I'd like to say I've moved on but looking at all these representations of past memories has my heart tied up in knots. Even more painful having to throw them away. I don't know... just felt like typing this, life goes on no matter what so there's nothing I can do but be thankful for the memories. Anyways, thanks for reading, hope you all have a great day 👍
This playlist takes me back to my last year of college. I love to do a night ride strolling around town enjoying the quietness and just sitting down on 24 hours convienence store drinking those $1 coffee. Man, i miss those times when i dont have anything to do 😂
I'm a New Yorker but everytime I visit my aunt in Ohio, I get the same vibe as this Playlist. Midwest emo ❤.
Today marks one year of the mixtape
You know it’s about to get real when Mineral and American Football make the list. Those two bands, I cannot make it through without crying. Sad Like Winter Leaves is also pain. This playlist is fantastic.
I use to play this playlist a lot after my breakup it made me think I wasn’t good enough for her. I did nothing to deserve this I gave her all the love I could’ve ever given to someone. She even told me how much she loved me and then she left as if she never said such words. It didn’t matter how much she apologized I was already broken inside and torn up from how much time I invested. Whether it was hours, days, months and even skipping out on family time all for her. I was broken though, but I’ll never let it happen again as I am now out of that hole and had set it aflame. I’m more positive than I was before. I’m so glad to be more confident and more loving towards myself as it feels as if I’m at peace, I am good enough I have lots of love to give because the world around us needs it most when it’s in scarcity. Thanks for this playlist, I hope someone finds their way out of the darkness and learns to love the silence.
The title describes a few summer nights I can think of off the top of my head. Much love for the jams. Wishing you be healthy and happy.
Honestly, describes me the last 4 years. Finishing a shift, grabbing some food at 10 pm to eat in a parking lot before heading home to repeat the cycle. Days will get better. For now, one must endure.
hi hotbox
Loved this! Takes me back to when this music was called "college rock." Heard songs by SDRE and similar bands played on a college radio station (the university that I attended and at which I worked), programmed by live humans who took calls from and talked to their listening audience - incredible, right?! You just had to stay up past a sensible bedtime to hear it...
dude does it really take you back? yea no one cares lol
It's truly beautiful reading through these comments. A lot of it is sad of course, but at the same time comforting to know that we all go through struggles. Personally I have just been through three of my loneliest and most trying years in a row. Feels good to know that we are unified, even if it is through the challenges we face.
Here's to better days for all of us.
Stay Home just might be the simplest yet most heartfelt song ever written.
It has finally returned!!
I’m not feeling alright. I found the love of my 39 year old life. And she just said she can’t be in a relationship right now. I have no idea how to process it and feels like everything in my life has lost all it’s flavor. I am literally sitting alone, feeling abandoned and heartbroken. Haven’t much family or friends to share what I am feeling.
I'm so utterly exhausted and I'm somehow both the happiest and the saddest I've ever been, and it's a strange feeling.
being from the midwest and living in a warm climate I often think back to the dark winters nights. Part of me wants to revisit these memories and places so bad but when I go it's just not the same
Same I moved south and miss them every winter 😢
90's emo brings back so many sad and melancholy memories but I love it all the same. Many of these bands got me through some difficult times. Thanks for the upload!
I'm not gonna lie, I'd been getting this in my recommended for a while and avoiding it like the plague, finally deciding yesterday to look at the track list for my own amusement, only to see Christie Front Drive and Penfold in there alongside Mineral, and then The Blacktop Cadence and Benton Falls which I hadn't even heard before. Wholly did not expect to be introduced to some new shit but thanks, this is bomb.
Before I found this video I had never heard of any of these bands but they make me feel like I'm in high school again. Perfectly captures the sadness of a Midwest winter in the 00s.
finally, a playlist that is actually emo and not corpse husband and wilbur soot. great mix!
Corpse husband and wilbur soot!?
Dang I'm getting old 😕
midwest is emo, corpse is emo, mcr is emo etc etc. no point gatekeeping genres
@@nzvplc but like corpse isn’t emo...I’m not gatekeeping anything, I just find it annoying when there are playlist of rap that people claim to be “emo”
@@hallheyx3x350 its literally emo rap, a subgenre of emo. just like grunge, punk etc are all subgenres of emo. corpse, juice wrld, trippie redd etc are all emo rap
by your logic midwest isnt emo either. only pure emo (emotional hardcore from the 80's) is emo
@@nzvplc I totally understand emo rap but corpse doesn’t not fit in that category
ah yes, midwest emo- a genre that hasnt changed much in 25 years. how grand. I love it
It doesn`t matter who you are, where you are or what is going around you right now. Know that you care, that you are worth it and keep always going ahead!
This playlist has Boys Life, Penfold, and Christie Front Drive, so I automatically approve and it automatically blows most other playlists out of the water
Mineral and Penfold in this playlist? An unexpected surprise but a welcome one
Bye Em i miss you. I hope your happy and i hope this is the right decision you made. I hope this works out for both of us. I hope i can be happy again. Maybe in another life we were meant to be together
I had never listened to this genre (Midwest emo) before. It sounds much different from my preconception of what emo sounds like.
When I heard “Midwest emo” the first thing I could think of was cowboys with long hair and piercings n shit. I was so surprised when I actually heard it
As I understand it, the 'midwest' aspect of it largely comes from the artists growing up in a small town with nothing to do and very little hope that things will get better. It's about living each day knowing it will be the same as the last. It's shitty jobs and long winters. It's hoping for better but knowing it won't come
@@bens.44 hahahaah I haven’t seen any cowboys since I’ve been in the Midwest. 😂 Too funny
Perfect mix to contemplate your life while sitting in the parking lot of the train station waiting for the next train.
Love you people. I know none of us have ever met, but we all connect through our emotions when we hear this. Hold on, it can't be this bad forever 💜
if you say so
@@Meadaa Look, I'm lost af and screaming into the void. Don't fault me for trying to fool myself, yeah?
You are all being hugged. We will never meet but you are seen and valid
I'm so stoked Christie Front Drive is getting on these playlists. They're such a gem.
Lots of great songs. I remember I would listen to Unfinished every September 4th to remember my ex-boyfriend. It still gives me chills, the lines, "I still dream of December
, Dancing together with rings on our fingers, And the two shall become.." How Chris trails off at the final line, it's a feeling that can't be easily described. I'm glad I'm better now. I owe it to Mineral.
Mineral? Penfold?? Benton Falls??? Now THIS is the midwest emo playlist i was looking for!
Aye yo you gotta make this longer dawg I can’t cut my cry sesh this short
You had my attention at cut.
@@angelsfallfirst7348 Bro…
CRY SESH
I was on a metal spree when this was recommended to me, the algorithm is definitely high
Umm...so was I?
@@dungeonmaster6292 high or listen to metal?
@@whisperr2522 metal
dude wtf same it went from cannibal corpse to this
so hyped I found this
Man, after 9/11 everything just got worse and never got better. I wouldn't call myself a doomer, but I can definitely empathize with people who do.
Living standards around the world have increased non stop the last 100 years. Extreme poverty is at its lowest rates in human history.
@@Matthew-zv8qe
Bruh
@@Matthew-zv8qe Sure, and that's a great thing, but our leaders only care about lining their own pockets, we're literally choking our planet to death with our carbon emissions, and most of our society is based on manufacturers who regularly violate human rights, and that'snot even mentioning problems individuals face. Shit might get better, but sometimes the weight of the world, and fucked up our current situation is just comes crashing down on your shoulders, ya dig?
@@Matthew-zv8qelol
@@gmodrules123456789 but what @Hyena said is true. Only stupid people would not realize that living today is better than living in the 1900s. Doesn't matter if you're a doomer or bloomer, facts are facts. Also I'd rather say that after 2010 is when things got really bad. People began to be way too superficial and care only for the lives they display in their social accounts and how much internet points they get.
Cold winter nights at 18 years old sitting heart broken in an empty parking lot at 11pm screaming From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad your Beautiful into the steering wheel of my 95 Ford Escort.
Just lost one of my best friends of 10 years yesterday. I am numb and this music makes me feel like I'm floating.
i broke the heart of a good women who just wanted me. And now here i am found this playlist an never thought id listen to this kind of music but it actually soothes the heartache i feel for her everyday. i wonder what shes doing at this moment lol.
In Tyrone's bed, getting even with you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@panchitovilla9616 😂😂
didn't come for the music, but came for the comments. I find that night time is incredibly breath taking. Not because the night is beautiful but because the memories that flood my mind make me feel like I can't breathe. Like my child self is drowning in sorrow from the changes over time. All my folks are old. Very old. I have a girlfriend who I intend to marry and start a family with and she is the apple of my eye. We plan on moving out of state a couple of years from now and it gives me the feeling that my life has been given purpose. Like my life is at peace for once. I kept thinking about all the friends I made and lost. I always kept a small circle of friends but each one disappeared over time until the last friend stabbed me in the back over a woman who treats him worse than a dog. The only person I will ever have in my life consistently is my girlfriend. My family won't be around much longer I can see it in their declining health. Its like I'm about to be reborn as a different person like the child I was is on life support. For context I was kinda adopted although I moved from home to home until I turned 8. The people who took me in were in were nearing senior status and they cherished me. I remember fond memories of family coming over and friends playing ps2 and xbox with me and the nights I stayed up watching tv and going to school all tired. Life for me was both stressful and fun at this age. I remember skipping all my homework to just play video games and watch tv. I played with my toys and ran around with the neighbor kids outside if they were. As time went on technology kept improving and advancing and slowly all those friends and family stopped coming over as often, family got older and lazier and didn't want to interact with me unless I was physically injured. As time went on the sparkle of childhood withered to a stalk, like a dying rose. My life is practically fully set up for me and my girlfriend. She is like me and we both tend to keep to ourselves. Its like I'm abandoning my childhood for a new life. I feel both crushed and excited like a reward and punishment simultaneously hiding behind a corner. Yet I am thankful, grateful and appreciative of what has been given me. My childhood house and family might be gone for the majority of my life but I can fill my soul with energetic serenity knowing I will be able to give my children the memories and fondness of the past. Life is complicated but one thing that has been consistent throughout is people. Life is about life. The meaning of life is life itself. Whether it be boring, painful, pleasurable, and blissful, it will always be about living it.
Song about an angel just makes me so emotional when it get's to the screaming part. Then when it ends with the last drumm fill and the final chord it just complitely destroy's me. Great playlist for getting sentimental
this is dangerously close to my midwest emo crying playlist LMAO
this looks like a cool place to learn to drive!
I'd be drifting, perfect place for practicing
It gets better and you come out the other side stronger.
"Sad like winter leaves" is such an amazing song.
The one thing we all have in common, were still here. Still pushing forward. Still persevering. And that's what we all will continue to do because of the strength we've acquired through all the bs.
We'll get there y'all. We'll get there.
I mean we'll get there but what if it's all bs until the very end? That's not worth living imo, just a waste of time....
@@Jasekingg maybe living is the thing. Like, good or bad, whatever - just living. I’m just trying to find more good minutes in the day, holding on for better days.
@@dehartfamily3091 same
I’m gonna die In January.
@@HamTheOriginal hey man, what??
its my kind of thing also i'm from philippines i was into emo genre too way back 2001 now im 34 working in life sucking corporate word. its my thing every time i dont have plans specially on weekends i ride my dirtbike middle of the night grab some beer in 711 and hit some empty parking lot and play my 22 year old playist. youngster wont understand us about this.
Its one of those things like getting chili topped spaghetti in Cincinnati. It was a staple for a lot of us at the tail end of Gen X and its horrible, but in a way good because it reminds us of our youth. Like chili topped spaghetti, Its best served on a cold night with sides of existentialism, loneliness and fear. Bonus points if you saw the love of your teenaged life laughing and carrying on with their new person the same night. Enjoy!
Have my bittersweet like
Greetings from Columbus
I live in Cincinnati and was planning on getting high and going to get skyline tonight lmao
Geez. For me, the times of emo were my high school years, learning who I was, learning what life had to offer but really not going anywhere, not amounting to much of anything. Half of those friends I spent time with are now dead thanks to wrecks, bad decisions or drugs in a miserable small town that I moved away from. But every so often, I hear a playlist like this and takes me back to sitting outside my girlfriend of the time's house and playing acoustic guitar with her dad while she just stared and smiled. Life was so much easier.