were 2007 & 2008 the best years for hardcore/punk/emo?
 

i was wondering if someone has this same feeling of nostalgia about the scene back in 2007 & 2008.
i list some bands that i discovered back then. some of them released an album or two after this, but none compared to their previsious ones.

against me
311
alien ant farm
alkaline trio
less than jake
much the same
none more black
over it
reel big fish
rx bandits
street light manifesto
wilhelm scream
zebrahead

after those years my playlists had hardly evolved, containg the same old classic p/hc/e bands as well, like blink, sum41, yellowcard, new found glory, millencolin, etc, and even some alternative rocks, like incubus.

You may have discovered them in 07-08, but at least some of those bands were probably WELL past their due date by then.

well this came out in 2004

yeah, that i know, but i have this feeling that ever since there were no matching bands. i am aware that it might have to do with my age (those were my golden years) but i've been looking for other bands to follow and there are few like them.
what were the best years for you?

is this screamo? i don't listen to it that much, but i would recomend this as :

youtube.com/watch?v=lmdsvtQo3iQ
(sorry, i can't post urls yet)

it's the best screamo/post hardcore album ever

I don't listen to as much pure hardcore, but I've been listening to a ****load of early metalcore bands, and late nineties is what I keep coming back to.

Poison The Well sounds like something i would like.
take a listen to this one, it's Kvelertak:

youtube.com/watch?v=vbQlJ0VcGkw

Love their debut, after that they get kinda meh.

Listening to Alien Ant Farm is a weird experience for me now. I used to like a single or two with them back in time. That "just like the movies" song and their cover of Billie Jean. But I also absolutely can't stand the band now and find them corny like few other things. Nostalgia + revulsion :laughing:

no, no, and no. The best years for punk were 1977, 1994, and 1995. The best years for hardcore were 1980, 1982, and 2000. The best years for emo were 1994-2001

^

I was gonna say the same thing. Although there's been some good HC over the past like, 5 years?

No.

Are you Lightbulb

No, I am Lightbulb.

Bulb Light doesn't even get you drunk though.

This must be someone younger than me, because I feel like the best years for this wave of music were 2000-2006...

...but I'm just biased because I was going to a lot of shows and having a lot of fun during those six years. My absolute best times were the four years of 2003-2007, after that point a lot of the fun started to disappear.