If you miss Makeoutclub, Friendster, Saucony Jazz and The Locust, then do yourself a favor and download this mixtape by Backpack Vegan (lol). It’s like a time machine to 2002, only better because now you don’t have to find all these songs on Audiogalaxy or Soulseek and wait 5 hours for them to download on your 56k modem!
MOP TOP HAIR!
WHITE BELTS!
MAKEOUT SESSIONS!
DIESEL DENIM!
BOYS WHO KISS BOYS!
BLACK T-SHIRTS!
TIGHT LACOSTE POLO SHIRTS!
CARABINER KEYS!
BIKE RIDES!
COLORFUL HAIR CLIPS!
TOO SMALL CARDIGANS!
THE BEST OF OLDSCHOOL FAGGOTCORE!!!
GET IT NOW!!!!
That all sounds just incredibly awful. Call back when you’ve got some myspacecore for me.
i hated this scene then and hate it now, but I couldn’t pass up on this– it’s like opening a time capsule from your least-favorite part of your youth!
I already had all of this except Grade. Guess I’m a faggot.
I still love Grade!
Those guys are actually more physically imposing than the current average hipster hardcore kid.
thats an early lineup of BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART, by the way
eewww…
Most of these are jams that still get regular play from my zune (that’s right, i still own one). especially thursday, grade, atdi, and aof.
Soulseek brings back the memories. Nothing like waiting two days because your #1427 in some assholes queue since they only allow one download slot, then get down to #20 and they go offline forever. Brilliant. Aw, the trials and tribulations of post Napster thievery.
why are they all wearing glam metal shirts? crue, cinderella. possibly poison on the far right?
not sure if srs
seriously haha.
2nd from left has a motley crue- shout at the devil tshirt, and the dude to his left (our right) has a cinderella, night songs tshirt on.
this was the precursor to Escape The Fate, Avenged Sevenfold and all that shit, ironic glam shirts were very popular
late 90s faggots who played in those emo pop/indie pop bands wore them ironically i guess that transpired to early wavers of faggotcore like taking back sunday and niggas like escapethefate didn’t quite get the joke and took it seriously
Is it reallythat shocking those dudes would be wearing hair metal shirts
BANDANAS IN BACK POCKETS!
CHOKE CHAINS!
SPINKICKING!
Shit, are carabiners out of style? I got one, convenient as shit.
I’ve been using a carabiner since 2005. I will forever jingle as I jaunt around in my skinny jeans.
If you also have a pokemon keychain, our lives are very similar.
I used to have one, but got rid of it a few years ago because I was afraid it would make people think I was alternative (srs)
Caribiner or pokemon keychain?
dude you gotta clip it on your side and stick it in your back pocket. not only is it trendy (making you twice as cool), you don’t have to deal with the obnoxious jingle
It always goes on the back right belt loop. I make sure I plop it in my back pocket when I’m walking to class and I don’t have my headphones in, because listening to that jingling gets seriously obnoxious. Thank GOD I keep my Sansa 2GB MP3 player charged up at all times.
lol 2GB?! how in the world will you ever listen to THAT many songs?? sorry i guess i just dont get why you would pay for that much storage when CD-Rs are only like $1.25 each
Hahaha. During my first semester of college in 2007, I actually still used a discman to listen to jams while I was walking to class. I upgraded to the 2 Gig MP3 player when I found it on the ground. This was fortunate, because it’s very hard to fit something as big as a discman in tiny, tiny pockets.
Backpack Vegan, hahaha.
I still have a makeoutclub account lol. That website was the shit when I had no friends in highschool and I also had a bowlcut.
I unabashedly like all of this.
so what’s on this exactly? i remember being so confused by this scene when i was a lil pup, couldn’t figure out how it fit into the timeline of punk/hardcore/whatever. weird scene.
i do rock a carabiner, though. i started using it when i smoked ’cause having keys, a phone, a pack of cigarettes and lighter was killin my pockets. i continue using it now that i switched to snus cause the sound of the keys hitting the little snus tin is more annoying to me than the carabiner jingle.
i use a snowboard leash clip, way diz-oper and noone has one or even really knows what it is… heaps ergonomic and no jingle
“srs tho the boys who kiss boys thing”
I lol’d.
backing this hard except for refused. not emo/doesn’t fit. why does that song get lumped in with this era of music? i didn’t discover it till years later.
MOC fggts loved Refused
I was (sadly) a teenage Faggotcore. Trawling Epitonic for their 2 song downloads, rubbing my dick raw over any 31G release. I still have a soft spot for Justin Pearson and his irl trolling on Jerry Springer. Other bands I’d add in to all this would be: Blood Brothers, Cursive, Circle Takes The Square, Poison the Well post-You Come Before You, Minus the Bear plus a load of others who’s names lead us to the Verb the Noun times we have found ourselves in.
I just looked up Minus The Bear for curriosity sake (worst Verb The Noun band name ever) and they seem like a post ironic indie pop band or something. Not sure if they were always like that, I was watching a video of theirs from 2010.
ex-Botch bros who think they are too good for everything. total NFC
“Blood Brothers, Cursive [...] Minus the Bear.”
Wut?
Minus the Bear are indie/math-rock. Cursive and B. Bros are/were post-hardcore. Love all of the above though, btw.
@Fred Durst:
BJ and the Bear
- the Bear
= BJ!
I was expecting to love this but was instead bored by entry level mallcore. I cannot deny enjoying At The Drive In and Refused though.
I still wear a white studded belt and too small shirts.
First Blessed album destroys.
Hahaha. Fucking makeoutclub. Weren’t there some sites that were better? Like onlyundiesclub or frictionUSA?
Sarg, would you classify cursive as being nfc.. i feel like you would
“Your tears are only alibis… to prove you still feel! You only feel sorry for yourself!”
So embarrassing now but I loved this shit. I saw them play above a small Thai restaurant in 2000 and have never seen so much head holding and swaying in my life.
Speaking of these era of music, Life In Your Way just came out with a new concept album thing and it rules.
Fuck to the yes! I love those guys, no shame!
I’m only 19, but this could be called “Song i liked in middle school” I used to love all these bands though. I found out about all of it from my older sister and her friends I guess i only just now realized they were fggts ):
ATDI were extremely NFC, but goddamn – there were some sick jams.
Awful fucking lyrics, though.
I miss the Locust :(
Oh wow, I’m 18 but in 2008, I was trying to be cool and I read this thing that said The Blood Brothers and The Locust were “classic scene”. So, instead of being cool, I plunged straight into not-cool and got into to a bunch of like artsy post-hardcore/mathcore crap (via my discovery of last.fm). Sometimes I wish that stuff was still remotely relevant.