![]() I bought it and their cover EP at the same time. I bought their first album, which I liked but didn’t love, after seeing the video for “Hit or Miss” on the original Blank TV website. The other standout memory from 2000 is New Found Glory releasing their self-titled album and my discovery of Drive-Thru Records. I weep for the parents that had to deal with us coming home maxed out on teenage hormones, swear words, and sugar. ![]() And we were rowdy and obnoxious teenagers out of our goddamn minds. They didn’t go to many concerts, but they always wanted to go see Blink. Blink-182 shows, in particular, would become a bonding tradition with a specific group of my friends. Blink-182 followed up Enema with their live album, The Mark Tom and Travis Show, and it was around this time that I saw the band in concert for the first time. It never quite happened to that level, but I still adore that album. I was so confident that if it got radio play, they’d be gigantic. MxPx comes out with The Ever Passing Moment, and I was convinced they were about to be as big as Blink-182. And 2000 delivered music of that variety, in spades. Probably something talking about teenage life and heartbreak. I wanted something bouncy, loud, fast, and fun. These memories all go hand-in-hand with the albums I was drawn to at the time. Homecomings, a prom, basement video game marathons of Perfect Dark with friends, and all kinds of teenage “firsts.” It’s all soundtracked in my head by the albums of this era. From picking up my two friends on the way to school each morning, to making lunch dashes, to cruising around the town after school, or on weekends, trying to find any excuse for us not to go home quite yet. Many of my musical memories from this era are tied to that car, that hilarious CD player jammed between the seats, and colossal CD binders shoved underneath them. However, I was hooked moments later as the music blared from my car as I sped down the highway playing it through one of those CD to cassette audio adapters. And this is where I start to see my musical tastes coalesce around a few new themes.įirst, because of MxPx, I’m getting really into various bands on Tooth & Nail and adjacent labels - the so-called “Christian bands.” This includes Slick Shoes with Wake Up Screaming, Craig’s Brother’s Homecoming, and a new online friend really into this music telling me about this album from a band called Relient K that, in their words, “are like if Blink-182 didn’t sing about dicks and cuss and had way more harmonies.” I ended up finding the album in a Christian bookstore and was immediately annoyed at it coming in this weird nonstandard plastic case that didn’t fit on my shelves. ![]() My online life had just begun I’m playing around with a hilariously ugly website that I have called “Absolute Punk,” and spending most of my evenings on AIM talking with friends and making new ones to share music with. ![]() Their popularity and fame would skyrocket as a result. Blink-182 had released Enema of the State the previous year and would drop their monster single, “All the Small Things,” in January. I’m a junior in high school and obsessed with Blink-182 and MxPx. We just survived the hype of Y2K and all the fears of computers crashing and arguments about if the millennium starts now or next year. And the year 2000 is when I first registered the domain name. The year 2000 is also where my musical collection exploded to multiple giant binders of CDs filled with youth-defining pop-punk albums. From Tamagotchis to pencils with cartridges, and from ye olde Cartoon Network to flare jeans, you'll find many things that'll remind you of your careless youth.In hindsight, the year 2000 is the last year I lived without an overarching feeling of cynicism toward the world. Starting, of course, with toys and ending with poking someone on Facebook, this decade was moving into the future at a breakneck pace.īut, without any more of my essayistic babble, let's dive a few decades back and reminisce on the things that we all loved dearly when growing up. So many new cultural experiences and opportunities were never present. Straight from oblivion, we went to the Western civilization and its pop culture with half-naked ladies, boy bands, electronic toys, TV series, and even portable phones (those definitely came out of some witch's brew)! Also, the sense of liberation - both literal freedom regained by my homeland and the one given to us by the ever-expanding World Wide Web - was just overwhelming. Nevertheless, I can definitely feel the importance and the impact of the 2000s on our lives.
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