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First of all, I omitted every Blink-182 song from this list, because they would have filled up eight of the top 10 songs. Sorry. Here are the tunes we rocked out to in our bedrooms on our boomboxes and Walkmans during our most awkward years.
10. “Mr. Brightside,” The Killers
In retrospect, this song makes no sense. However, the catchy riffs and insane music video perfectly described your “romance” with your eighth grade girlfriend, Samantha, who gave you your first OTPHJ. Now she has two kids and is still unmarried.
9. “Best Of You,” Foo Fighters
After you and Samantha broke up, she immediately started dating your “best friend” Michael. This song put your pain into lyrical form.
8. “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” Green Day
I’m pretty sure any Green Day song could make this list, but this one’s golden. Even though “the old Green Day is so much better,” you took up guitar and finally learned a butchered version of the intro to this song.
7. “Be My Escape,” Relient K
This was one of your first dabbles into the genre, and your parents were cool with it because Relient K’s a Christian band.
6. “Ohio Is For Lovers,” Hawthorne Heights
The dangling microphone music video kept you on your toes as it played every 10 minutes on Fuse.
5. “Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team),” Taking Back Sunday
This is my personal favorite. The title alone was emo enough for you to buy one of their sweet band T-shirts at Hot Topic. You would sing, “Why can’t I feel anything from anyone other than you?” over and over again–pure poetry. This song helped you get over Courtney, who dumped you on AIM.
4. “My Friends Over You,” New Found Glory
I can’t tell you how many away messages on AIM featured this song. You probably sat in one of your friend’s basements playing Madden 2004 with this on repeat.
3. “Taste Of Ink,” The Used
This song is actually still good. It was one of the first songs in your repertoire featuring the “F” word. Watching a music video with a heroin addict run around when your parents weren’t home was the norm for this one.
2. “Fat Lip,” Sum 41
This is quite possibly the coolest song of all time. The punk-rap combo with a facemelting intro had you thrashing around in your ultra-ripped Abercrombie jeans, and you know it.
1. “Ocean Avenue,” Yellowcard
Pretty self explanatory. If you don’t know every word to this song, you suck.
Now, unleash your angst at your desk through the power of all these songs on one playlist.
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No Dashboard Confessional? That shit was the cat’s fucken meow back in the day.
Thanks for making me feel old PGP! I was out of high school when these songs came out.
No “Memory” by Sugarcult? C’mon now.
Marry me.
It is an honorable mention. So hard to bring it down to 10
Replace Fat Lip by Sum 41, which isn’t really an emo song
Let’s not turn this into an argument on genre. Leave that to our 2004 selves
I still listen to this shit. I’m surprised “Perfect” by simple plan didn’t make it.
Shit, some of these I listened to without a break up. I felt like a bad ass listening to Fat Lip in 5th grade. It’s still catchy.
For added fun, add one of these bands from this list as a Pandora station. Enjoy/Hate the hours of throwbacks.
I almost wrecked my parent’s boat while “My Friends Over You” was playing once. That’s just a good song.
Really glad New Found Glory’s “My friends over you” made it on here.
Our lady peace -somewhere out there? Now thats an omission
Nothing from the All American Rejects, Brand New or Something Corporate??
Fell asleep to sic transit Gloria for a week freshman year if HS
Konstantine was my personal #1 but had to generalize. Again, honorable mentions
Love it all. And the additions in the comments. Say Anything would be my addition to the list.