The history of Midwest emo in two minutes
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- dont take this too serious, this is all the basic info you need for this community to not kill you.
Music used:
0:10 never meant - American football
0:35 oh messy life - cap’n jazz
1:13 Movies like Juno - midwest pen pals
1:40 head in a ceiling fan - title fight
Love how it went from American Football to just Sports. They just couldn't be bothered to pick one so they went with all of them
God forbid a band commit to a single sport, just use all of them, simple and clean
fucking dying at 1am laughing thank you for this comment
sports.
The scene is becoming more inclusive
my exact thought lmao
I took a trip to the American Football house and saw it at like 4 in the morning after a night of driving. Nobody seems to get it when I show them the picture but that trip to get there will always be one of my most unique memories.
found out ~2 weeks ago my apt was a 5 minute walk away, its really surreal seeing it in person
Its a pilgrimage only the faithful take
@@jocnur4004 mecca for weird people
The community was stressin real hard when we saw the house was up for sale and might get demolished. I'm glad the band bought it so others may take the holy pilgrimage.
That house is iconic
I actually didn't know any of the band that appear in this video, and to me their names sounded pretty much made up on the spot whitout any serious effort involved. Which made me believe that this was a 2 minute parody of some genre, until I saw that comment around 1:57 mention Sunny Day Real Estate and I went "oh shit, they are real?!". Then I looked up American Football and the other bands on Google. I must say, this turned out to be an intense 5 minute emotional rollercoaster, thank you.
This is a parody genre, real emo only consists of the dc emotional hardcore scene wi-
its actually all a huge government psyop but at least capn jazz does exist and theyre pretty good
Checkout the promise ring they fucking smack - "a picture postcard" is the shit.
Listen to Title Fight
wdym?
sunny day real estate - buying a property on a sunny day, while its gonna be there for ur whole life and its gonna rain for sure some days + it rhymes + it has a rhytm. thats 0.1% of the most thought out band names.
what bands comply with ur rigorous naming conventions? u like nirvana? red hot chilli peppers? beatles? u2? korn? cannibal corpse?
what are u talking about mate?
So all the emo bands I like aren’t actually emo according to that one basement goblin on Reddit
Exactly, r/emo is a shithole, emo is emo genres are a lie, nothing matters listen to what you fuck with
@@tinflint *reddit is a shithole
in the video it says midwest emo in three minutes, forgot to change it so i guess take the last minute to reflect or something
*looks at title* H U H?
@@placeholderdoeI don’t know what could be confusing about this
@@Omnibushido- yeah I don’t know what I was confused about either
Didn't realize that Title Fight brought the shoegaze/ noise pop "wall of sound" to the midwest emo genre, but I noticed a lot of bands make that switch in the 2010's. Turnover is the one that comes to mind, but there are definitely more.
Midwest emo kind of moved to the coasts in the 2010's especially in the Pennsylvania (Philly) scene.
Yeah title fight starred it and turnover solidified it as I see it
@@tinflintI don’t know title fight or their music that well, but the songs I have heard I really liked. Are they considered bad or hated amongst people more knowledgeable of the genre/s?
Not really? Some people in the emo community don’t think they’re real emo (the emo community kinda sucks sometimes) but most people tend to like them or at least like what they did for the hardcore and emo scenes of the time
Man idk I just fucking miss Title Fight.
@@tinflintbut a band not being considered "real" emo doesnt mean theyre bad, just means some poeple believe they were misclassified as such
like for example i love linkin park but theyre obviously not emo as some people think (although this is a terrible example)
and yeah title fight rocks
As someone who doesn’t listen to nearly enough midwestern emo to comment on anything, one thing I would definitely agree on is the slight shoegaze influence of the genre since many of the songs that i’ve always believed were Midwest emo, were actually shoegaze. Regardless, I’ll definitely check out some of the bands mentioned. Really love Title Fight, too. Great vid
Yeah title fight completely changed the genre with their whole floral green album, they also changed the hardcore scene too, absolutely crazy album
Growing up I was influenced by my dad's country and bluegrass, mom's classic 70s and 80s rock, my sister's screamo, hip hop, punk, and pop punk, and whatever else (she likes a lot).
Midwest Emo is kind of like the first genre I feel like I discovered for myself and has become my favorite daily listen.
i relate a lot
That’s awesome. I hope to raise my children with all the music I love.
It's funny when I was growing up Midwest emo were the more aggressive and poppy bands like The Get Up Kids, The Anniversary, Casket Lottery, and so on. It feels like when the revival happened history was rewritten to shift the genre towards the more euphoric twinkly bands. I'm not mad about it, I love those bands.
omg i love the anniversary so much
Hello, fellow old person. I miss the 90s too 😢
@@youreallthesame1594 97-99 were the best years for emo music!
i’ve been trying to broaden my music taste this year but holy shit there are so many genres and subgenres i have never heard before 😭 anyways nice video hoping to see more
Yeah I listen to a ton of stuff and end up learning the genre names later and being like “what the fuck there’s more of this?”
also wanna say that in russia midwest emo is very popular genre in the underground scene. such bands as bird bone, Medoed, пекинский велосипед, bicycles for afghanistan, флорист, and others have big popularity
I LOVE RUSSIAN MIDWEST EMO THE RIFFS ARE SO GOOD
omg cool, but do you know why tho?
@@v.xien. honestly don't really know why they're popular. russian underground scene is addicted to western music, most of the musicians get inspiration from older bands that they've listened to when were younger
Im glad sunny day real estate is getting a mention here. They often don't get the recognition they deserve.
They somehow are brought up a lot and still don’t get enough recognition somehow it’s crazy
@@tinflintits cause they're from Seattle so they're written up as a grunge adjacent band.
@@tinflint I feel like Hot Water Music gets the same treatment in the Punk scenes. Except for at Fest.
I don't know how I ended up in such a niche part of music but I love it, if I could recommand some more underground stuff (mostly russian midwest emo)
you should try giving a shot to these bands: Fakeholder, cats among us, Пекинский Велосипед, macseal, plainclothes and aesthetics across the colorline
I love plainclothes, got my girlfriend really into them, know all the last three bands really well, I’ll listen to the first three though! Always looking for new music
Бля эстетики навсегда в сердечке, жаль распались
@@tinflint that's so cool! I'm glad i could introduce you to new stuff
@@борисзайцев-ш8о Я не русский, но все, что я могу сказать, это то, что Aesthetics - отличная группа.
0:25 Movements
0:25 Modern Baseball
0:25 Glocca Morra
0:42 American Football
0:56 Cap'n Jazz
1:00 Rites of Spring
1:04 Weezer
1:05 The Promise Ring
1:07 Sunny Day Real Estate
1:19 CSTVT
1:21 Algernon Cadwallader
1:23 Snowing
1:25 Midwest Pen Pals
1:31 Title Fight
2:00 Hot Mulligan
2:01 Charmer
2:02 Oso Oso
2:03 Free Throw
2:04 sports.
No citizen??
@anttwon5231 youth is one of my favorite albums of all time
0:48 *err-bana. not a long A sound. sorry, had to, born and raised in the boonies like 45 mins away from champaign/urbana lol
The Emo Diaries was a series of compilation albums on Deep Elm Records with different artists that was first released in 1997 up until 2011, if I'm not mistaken. I've only heard the first couple of albums, but they're definitely definitely worth checking out.
YES BRO. Nobodu ever wants to talk about Midwest Penpals and their so good
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN
Lol tight. Btw it's pronounced 'Castevet' ;)
Yeah I’ve heard it’s pronounced some way but I had no clue I don’t listen to the band that much tbh
This guy writes and replies and has the sense of humour of a tumblr gothic girl
You bet your ass I do
I actually really like witty tumblr user dialogue
@@tinflintfck 😂😂
I love every band mentioned in this video except Title Fight. That band sucks bad, why or how people like them I will never understand. Literally some of the most boring tunes out there
I mean you can think that but my opinions are always 100% objectively true all the time 24/7 and I love title fight.
But nah fr you can think whatever, music is literally just wiggly air it doesn’t matter as long as you fuck with MOBO we chillin
shoulda talked abt late 90s bands like jejune lazarus plot and watershed down and others
Looking back yeah for real I should have, but I also made this more as a shitpost than a real history and did not expect anyone to actually see it lmfao
Weezer
Weezer
I love me some Marietta. Summer Death will leave me broken for days and their split EP with Modern Baseball is excellent 🖤
Marietta fucks, I own all their shit on vinyl aside from cuts
american football? more like ameri can't football haha
American football, more like I ameri can’t fucking do this anymore
absolutely based video mentioning Sports. i love them so much
sports. has to be one of the bands of all time
CSTVT is pronounced Castevet
Midwest Emo got me a black guy into Emo as a genre
Algorithm sent me here. Is this the start of new series? I’d be down for quick history lessons on /mu/-core nerd genres like post-rock, shoe gaze, or whatever.
Fuck you it is now, next genre tell me now and you’ll get a lesson
@@tinflint lol. I don’t run your channel. (Shoegaze video would be pretty cool tho tbh)
@@sonnysumo8172consider it done, stay posted
This is definitely your own personal experience with the whole Midwest emo scene, but that’s cool..
yeah fr this is in no way objective, no matter what i think its always gonna be something that is someone's own experience, that's what i think is really cool about music, i go into shoegaze or something, my understanding of how that genre developed is completely different than someone who was around when it was in its infancy, bands that were super influential in the scene are not super influential to the masses so only people really in the scene got it, so someone who grew up in the 90's is gonna understand midwest emo "better" than me, a lot of people would bring up a lot of modest mouses early works and i don't see that as emo, but at the time im sure it could have been and im sure by their definition of what emo is im sure it is, and that's what's so cool, people consider bands different things, and that's what makes this whole thing fun to talk about.
I used to listen to emo a lot back when I was 16... and now I'm gay. Guys, pleasre DO NoT listen to emo.
IS THIS TRUE?!??!🔥🔥🔥
title fight really just changed the whole game huh. shoegaze influence in emo is honestly my favorite thing now
Title fight just crazy like that, changed the hardcore scene as well
It would be more accurate to say HUM changed the whole scene, their impact just took a decade and a half to hit in the form of Title Fight. They took emotional hardcore, crossed it with shoegaze, and Electra 2000 was the result. Title Fight just aped them for one song out of sheer love. So every change that happened to emo was really something HUM did long before Title Fight recreated their style for a song.
Seriously go listen to Electra 2000, if you haven't before. Like right now. Should be in every 2000's melodic/emotional hardcore fan's collection.
It's funny to me that a band from Eastern Washington is an icon of Midwest EMO. (Sunny Day Real Estate)
Oh my god like two bands in this genre are actually from the Midwest it’s so funny
Midwest Emo is just Math Rock for dudes who can’t count
Wrong, Midwest emo is math rock for people who can’t count or care to try and count
@@tinflint valid
this video is a certified hood classic
Thank god I was hoping so
If you didn't know one of the guys from sports is in a band called snack'd out now. They just released a new album and while it's no demon daze it's pretty damn good.
I didn’t even know that was the sports boy, I just thought it was cool music
Good comment
wait the same sports that made "Shiggy" and "Manicure"?
Great list thank you for putting this together, I don't know all this bands in this list
but I do know that "In Circles" by Sunny Day Real Estate is sonically and lyrically one of the most
sentimental sounding songs I've ever heard in my life. Way ahead of it's time.
Yeah def sunny day real estate was way ahead of their time some of the stuff they’re doing some bands are just now starting to do
americ
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i like title fight i like drink driving
Rites of spring isn’t Midwest emo.
I mean kinda? They’re not Midwest emo but they were a stepping stone from hardcore to emo
@@tinflintthey’re emotional hardcore aka emocore
I was confused until I saw 0:25. I was going to say, there was not an emo kid in all of the 1200 kids in my school system.
gotta say big fail for leaving out a lot of critical bands in the movement
Gonna be real, I didn’t expect anyone to see this video, it was just an inside joke with some friends and so I did leave out a ton of bands lmfao
Bro soon as you said it went from teenagers sad over a break up to 40 yr old dude sad over his divorce......so true brother, this music applies yo all steps in life and im glad to say even though ive been out the scene since my 20s its always been good to me
You wanna cope? There’s a song for you, they’ve covered all the bases it’s beautiful
I thought the same thing!
SDRE gets a mention but not Mineral. So sad :(
On god, I listen to a lot of mineral, I forgot to add them in the script sorry guys that one is on me
Nice video I really like this type of thing. short but sweet, daily dose of internet kind of vibe almost. Keep it up yo youtube algorithm on your side here
Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll make the algorithm on whatever side I want
I really enjoyed this and the shoegaze video (I'm sure other videos are good too but haven't checked them out yet) learned a lot of cool history and found good music
can see you're interested in making videos on a variety of topics but I'm keen to absorb more of your music knowledge
[this was weird, usually i try to type comments in a way that they are just general statements rather than messages directly to the uploader ]
Yeah making a video on shoegaze soon!
Wait I meant noise rock I was at my actual job not doing actual work so I had no idea how to do anything
2:00 Dude Hot Mulligan, Charmer, and Oso Oso are like my favs lmao
I dont recognize any of these bands but this video and comment section remind me of great times listening to unknown indie rock in the early 2000s in ohio
Fun fact: much like how TTNG used to go by This Town Needs Guns, CSTVT used to go by Castevet. Not really THAT interesting, but it helps with pronouncing the name.
Yeah TTNG I knew but I still just call them TTNG just sounds cool, but I knew CSTVT at some point in time and completely forgot about how it’s pronounced
Sunny Day Real Estate......a very good midwest emo band.....from Seattle, WA. lolll
Ayo? Coolea saw the video?
lowkey i like shoe gaze. It does kinda bum me out that every band needs to have a shoe gaze song though. Never Before Seen, Never again found by Arms Length is an absolute banger of an album, but they have a song on there called "Family and Friends" and don't get me wrong I love that fuckin song, but it just feels the most off when I listen to that album in full. I guess I never chalked it up to Title Fight though. To me it was Turnovers fault but I still love them too.
Edit: i made this before i got to the end. Thank you for mentioning Oso Oso that dude is insanely talented and I'm genuinely thankful to the universe for putting him on the spotify weekly recommended 5 years ago.
Turnover is def responsible for it in some aspect though, but title fight did it first and also affected the hardcore scene so I have it moreso to title
And yes here on this channel we fuck with oso oso guy is crazy talented
my dumbass can't choose a genre so my band will be literally everything 😭
I would die to see a sports. or Midwest pen pals show, and also camp edwards is so good too
No mention of tiny moving parts?
They are the gateway drug to math rock
Listen to snackd out homie
Everyone is telling me and I have, I miss sports but snackd out good
Guys , this is Math Rock.
The line between math rock and emo got really blurry in the 2000’s, “modern emo” is just emo with math rock influence, it’s just music from people who grew up with both genres
0:48 YOOOOOO I WAS BORN THERE live in san diego now tho. btu im going back for college
So like Explosions in the Sky isn't considred "Midwest" emo since they're from Texas, but I can't ignore the similiarites when I watch Friday Night Lights
FlinFlyTaggart moment
Masunya doom last fm spotify
Wait... but California and Florida are not on the map you showed me just seconds ago. System error 🤖 ⁉⁉⁉
Why nobody talks about Christie Front Drive? They started way before AF and their sound was even more «emo»
0:56 2nd most important (call em stans theyll tell you the most important)
Tiny moving parts
Great band, great bridge from Midwest emo to math rock, a good blend of emo and math rock
What's the second song after never meant from this video?
Oh messy life by cap’n jazz
Thanks for helping me discover new good bands!
Nah man here’s some more.
Marietta
Camping in Alaska
I love your lifestyle
Plainclothes
Merchant ships
Chinese football
Do you mean Capn Jazz are an older band or the guys are older? I’m sure it’s the former
Cap’n jazz was an older band, by a few years, lead singer from American football was the drummer for them
You kids should check out Meat Puppets "Up on the Sun" album and Meat Puppets II
Those albums remind of this music kinda
My girlfriend doesn't know it yet. But, but we're going on a pilgrimage to Urbana to see the house.
Just FYI, it's pronounced er-BAN-uh
almost every 90s midwest emo band was either started by a Kinsella or someone who played with a Kinsella. capn jazz, owls, promise ring, american football, joan of arc.
that's the secret seed of emo; a family of middle class italian americans from chicago
nice vid yt algorithm
I’m glad to be on the receiving end of this comment thanks youtube algorithm
Eww I'm fkn old now lol. I never heard the term "midwest emo" before and I listened to, played shows with and saw a lot of the old bands from out that way back in the day.
IMO Midwest Emo became Midwest Pop Punk (bands like real friends, Knuckle Puck, Heart attack man) which is just midwest emo but for kids who dont realize they're sad yet.
When Minus the Bear disbanded, I quit the genre and went back to metal
Sorry for being in my late 30's and sad about my divorce.
Cap n jazz are the only one that transcend both genres of emo
I never heard that shit in Illinois bud it actually y’all mid west mfz
movies like juno
Real.
Great video! Just used this video to prove to my friend that he is an idiot & his favorite band is some lame midwestern emo "band" that sounds like shit.
THE OH MESSY LIFE RIFF LETS GOOOOO 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
DID YOU JUST WEEZ ALL OVER ME??
it all sounds the same and uninspired. you know, more than most genres.
Adding Weezer to trigger the gatekeepers is the best thing ever lmao
i just really think throwing weezer in anything is funny, and if i really wanted to trigger gatekeepers i will defend pinkerton as a midwest emo album, cause its not, but its close enough to make a lot of good points to make it seem like a midwest emo album
@@tinflint lmaooo yes
What gatekeepers would object to the inclusion of Pinkerton under the general umbrella (not midwest) of emo though? I mean the Blue Album is just plain old Alt rock but Pinkerton is thematically about as emo as you can get. Not to mention relentlessly cited as a major influence by many more conventional emo bands.
That was literally how I had the album pitched to me originally- "Weezer makes an emo album", which compelled me to check it out and Ive never regretted that decision.
Anyone ever listen to girlfriends?
Underrated as fuck
@@tinflint kinda sucks they only had one album but I enjoy it lol
Song at 0:38?
Oh messy life by cap’n jazz
Bro... the SMOKING POPES ?????
SDRE
Its wild that I was a teenager born and raised in Michigan in the 2000s who by16(2017) started listening to more punk and emo because of freinds and someone I was with and I've never heard of any of these bands. Was I too young or too old?
Slightly to young the main days were the late 90’s so you just barely missed it (I missed it too as a 2002 child)
But no Hawthorne Heights mention??
you forgot Japanese Floorball
Hey Mercedes and Get Up Kids.
Those guys at 1:30 look cultured asf
The Forecast doesn't get a mention?
Rites of Spring & The Promise Ring.
Real ones remember 125 Rue Montmartre
Hot Mulligan my beloved
Sounds to me a bit like Maidcore
dead brother would be a good MWE song.
Now do it with fake band names
Forgot all about football bro wtfff…
Good