In 1999, two teens revolutionized
the way we share and listen to music. They called it Napster. Piracy and the RIAA aside, the Napster legacy
is, for a music junkie, a different tragedy altogether. While everyone feared that Napster would
destroy the industry, the real tragedy was the deconstruction of the album
format. So much so that in 2009 Billy
Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins discarded the album concept completely with the ill-received/conceived Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project (now
seemingly abandoned with the album length release Monuments to an Elegy). Thankfully
the LP is so fully engrained in our musical psyche that despite the audience
shift, most bands steadied the course.
It wasn't easy being a new band in
the naughts, but a handful pulled it off like it was My Aim is True. Blink 182,
Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Story of the Year, Something Corporate,
Dashboard Confessional; not a bad list at all, and some great LPs to buck the [new]
system. Among the best: Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want to Be, Brand New's Your Favorite Weapon and Blink's Enema of the State.
Nonetheless, it is indeed the singles that I remember from the two
grands. Here’s my mix tape:
1. Brand New, "Mix Tape"
2. Taking Back Sunday, "This Photograph is Proof"
3. Yellowcard, "Ocean Avenue"

5. Dashboard Confessional, "Vindicated"
6. Blink 182, "I Miss You"
7. Something Corporate, "I Woke Up in a Car"
8. Straylight Run, "Existentialism on Prom Night"
9. Taking Back Sunday, "Decade Under the Influence"
10. Copeland, "Coffee"
11, Story of the Year, "Until the Day I Die"
12. Brand New, "Soco Amaretto Lime"
The last, a regular anthem:
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