i was quite lucky in that i was a teen at the end of that era and had access to a lot of those releases in used record shops. i do actually like some of the next generation of emo/post-hardcore too. thursday are still great imho, alexisonfire kick a lot of ass and the first 2 MCR albums are basically "if thursday were bitten by vampires" which i love.johnnysomersett wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:35 pmSame here. I somehow managed to get a hold of their 'Guilt Beats Hate' record on LP not long after it came out and it's probably been on the turntable at least once a month ever since. A real forgotten gem. Planes Mistaken For Stars randomly played a dive bar here in the UK about 6 or 7 years ago....that was weird.
97-2002 was a great era to be in your late-teens/early 20s with regards music. Riot Grrrl, 3rd Wave emo, skatepunk, post-hardcore...lots of amazing stuff kicking about and the birth of the era of obscure music being more easily accessible thanks to the internet.
also there was the british post-hardcore scene which at the time, people called brit-rock. bands like reuben, yourcodenameis:milo, million dead, hell is for heroes, dananananakroyd..... ect ect. which was the stuff i was really into around that time and still love. shame at the time, all the media wanted was boybands with breakdowns.