Submitted by MessyTapes1 t3_10dkg3r in Music
peedge0419 t1_j4lx8cg wrote
Weird.
I was around at the time and never heard of this band before. I don't know, maybe--maybe--the name sounds familiar, but yeah, no clue.
f10101 t1_j4lzc8b wrote
Yeah, I'm in the same boat actually - they sound vaguely familiar...
OP, there were a lot of pop-punk bands around that time. A LOT. You'd see entire festival line-ups that were pretty much just 100 pop-punk bands, a bit of ska, and maybe some nu-metal thrown in.
These guys probably had a following that any guitar band today would die for, but due to the sheer level of competition, didn't really capture wide attention.
peedge0419 t1_j4lzot2 wrote
It really was pop punk's heyday wasn't it?
f10101 t1_j4m1utv wrote
It truly was. God the gigs were so much fun.
MessyTapes1 OP t1_j4m1qr1 wrote
You can just call me Tapes. And I’ve done research on that era. It makes sense. I wonder why pop punk was so big then?
TheGhostORandySavage t1_j4m3ijz wrote
The Tony Hawk games played into that some. They were really popular and had a lot of skate/pop-punk songs on the soundtrack.
Alamander81 t1_j4m8pmj wrote
Green Dey was the first gigantic punk band of the 90s. A lot of kids, including myself, learned to play because of them. Blink was another huge band that got tons of kids playing. Those two bands were responsible for a LOT of rock music in the late 90s through the 2000s.
jrhav80 t1_j4ngam1 wrote
Don’t forget about the Offspring. They were huge and on a punk label at the time.
theturdferg t1_j4m9j8f wrote
Keep in mind there was no internet as you think of it today...kids and teenagers got all their music recommendations from MTV and the radio. If you were really into music you might pick up magazines or hang out at the record store to listen to a bunch of random things.
Pop music was dominated by boy bands and a whole bunch of cheese in the late 90s. Then Green Day and Blink-182 blew up on MTV...it was vulgar, aggressive, and appealed to teens sick of the bubblegum pop. Record labels do what they do anytime a style becomes big and sucked up every pop punk band they could. Sum 41, Sugarcult, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and a hundred others. Those are the bands that got promoted (still "pre-internet") and fed to teens as the next big thing.
Bandol_Barthes t1_j4m8drl wrote
Skateboarding culture.
f10101 t1_j4m8qg7 wrote
It was just such a perfect match for the vibe of the time.
It was a really optimistic time in a lot of senses. A world of primary colors (before everything gradually got darker with 9/11 and the resulting war on terror propaganda), and the music mirrored that perfectly.
Smash Mouth's All Star video is almost like a Rembrant painting of what the mood was as a teenager back then. Ha.
MessyTapes1 OP t1_j4lxg6c wrote
Oh they’re great, they’re a pop punk band. I’d definitely check out their 2001 album “Start Static” It’s one of my favorite albums ever.
peedge0419 t1_j4lxjvu wrote
Even more weird because I love pop punk.
Cool. Gonna check them out. Thanks!
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