The Rise and Fall of EASYCORE (A Day To Remember, Four Year Strong, New Found Glory)

[@NeverNormal]

Stay Posi! 00:00 Intro 00:36 What is Easycore? 02:22 The Pioneers of Easycore 09:15 Why Easycore Faded Away 13:09 The Current State of Easycore

[@benjamindoyle1103]

you had me at hey dudes are you ready to

[@NeverNormal]

I'm so ready to

[@tophfb]

Wasn’t expecting Set Your Goals to be brought up but absofuckinglutely.

[@deadman7624]

Action/Adventure is great modern easycore. Plus these new FYS singles have been some of the best they’ve put out in years

[@NeverNormal]

yup, missed A/A, new FYS is great! Thanks for watching!

[@EricNygma]

Hell yeah, Action/Adventure are arguably keeping easycore alive in a way

[@AbandonedExplorationSquad]

I will never let Easycore die! I’m so glad that you mentioned Settle Your Scores and all those other great bands! Here’s some more Easycore bands I’d recommend checking out: Still active - Delridge, All She Wrote, For The Win, Wired For Havoc, Wimbledon Alley, Midfield, Cowabunga!, Rise on Everest, Live For Tomorrow, Action/Adventure, I Call Fives, Two Trains Left, Lower Ground, Rematch, Chin Up Kid, Down to Friend and of course my favorite band and probably the best band in the scene right now Big Drink! Inactive/unsure - Bad Case of Bigmouth, Set The Pace, Crunkasaurus Rex, Assuming We Survive, Friends Will Be Friends, We Were Sharks, Atlantic Aftermath, Armed With Crayons, A Step Ahead, Across The Atlantic, Send Request, Anchors to Anchors, Divide & Conquer, Can’t Bear This Party, Your Favorite Franchise, Raise the Anchors, The Day After, Tidus is Alive, Sink The Ship, Back at North, Back Garden Light, Melrose, We’re Not Worthy, Sell Your Sky, No! Not The Bees, Weigh The Anchor, Chasing Rachel, Major League, A Run For Your Money, Run For The Skylines, Sail to North Anyone can feel free to mention any bands I missed!

[@socksmccox1025]

ABANDONED BY BEARS!!!!!

[@fintendonerd8457]

UTKF!!!!

[@InteriorsMusic]

Excellent work dude! Really enjoyed watching this, as a longtime easycore fan I think you gave a pretty spot-on overview. Also really glad to see the Hit The Lights segment towards the end, I’ve always thought they had some definite easycore vibes, even back on the Skip School Start Fights record. The guitar riff in their song Back Breaker would’ve been right at home on an old FYS track.

[@NeverNormal]

Really excited to see what new Hit The Lights sounds like. Thanks for watching!

[@christopherharing9883]

As someone else commented, NFG had a "Coral Springs Easycore" shirt in like 2000 - I remember, because I bought a red one for my then-girlfriend during their summer tour opening for Blink-182 in 2001!

[@fintendonerd8457]

i got some extra info to give on this! first off, easycore comes from an old school new found glory shirt from 1999/2000 ish. NFG has easycore songs with breakdowns dating back to their first releases, namely youve got a friend in Pennsylvania. Chad knows about easycore and its influence, he actually invented the term because new found glory were all hardcore dudes playing pop punk! amazing video as always man!

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks for the info! Also think not without a fight has some easycore elements. Thanks for watching!

[@fintendonerd8457]

@@NeverNormal definitely, every new found glory album has breakdowns and whatnot, just not always the same metalcore influenced ones later easycore bands had

[@erikjonsson1519]

would FFAF fit as easycore

[@fintendonerd8457]

@@erikjonsson1519 I mean yeah, quite a few songs have major key breakdowns and stuff so they have a couple easycore songs, but I wouldn't classify that as their genre overall

[@christopherharing9883]

Coral Springs Easy Core! And yes, NFG set the stage for this from the beginning.

[@CHILIOband]

excellent video 🤘

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks!

[@nickhughesorlando]

I’m 29 and was introduced to Easycore a year ago. I’ve missed out on something amazing and I can only hope that it comes back around. I’m now in two bands. One is Easycore

[@stalkerorstalker]

FUCKING DRIVEWAYS!!! YES YES YES! I wouldn't label them as easy core, but FINALLY someone talks about them!! One of my favorite bands and theyre finally starting to blow up!!

[@OCDsaster]

I am very happy to find this video. Great work!

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks for watching!

[@stalkerorstalker]

Love CNCC, one of my first tattoos was "in friends we trust"

[@butterbagboy]

When I saw the title I said, Finn already did this.but….no, this video is awesome, I loved it, thanks for the great info about the new generation.

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks for watching!

[@MasutaAlex]

absolutely love this channel, keep it up!!!!

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks so much!

[@stalkerorstalker]

Also love the City lights, WTP and carousel kings shout outs!

[@NeverNormal]

Love WTP, I really like their newest ep.

[@matt1989.]

great video brooo!

[@NeverNormal]

Appreciate it!!

[@lakai958]

New subscriber! Looove music history stuff like this

[@NeverNormal]

Welcome aboard!

[@seetoe_]

Awesome video!!

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks!

[@GarbageMan144]

Thoughts on The Home Team? They seem like easycore/heavy pop punk, especially their first projects, i feel like they have potential to get big relatively speaking

[@emobutpoofy]

I played a house show with Settle Your Scores. Wild times.

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks for watching!

[@socksmccox1025]

My favorite genre 😭

[@Deathskiss04]

I hope chunk No Captain Chunk releases new music soon. They haven't had a album since 2021.

[@NeverNormal]

it'd be fun to see what they would sound like in 2024.

[@hndhldmusic]

But that record still stands up so well though

[@therex2soupy815]

Awesome video. The Wonder Years is the best band in this video.

[@NeverNormal]

Thanks for watching!

[@EricMoranFilms]

Awesome video! Not sure if they are technically easycore but I’ve never been good with genres anyway but action/adventure is a great band keeping the beautiful combination of pop punk and breakdown alive. I see them everytime they play a hometown show. Also if you haven’t checked out wolf rd there first EP “nowhere around you” has some solid easycore tracks.

[@NeverNormal]

Yes on action/adventure. That's my mistake. Will check out wolf rd!

[@EricMoranFilms]

@@NeverNormal you are totally fine! Seriously so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Love how you included bands like MM@TA and Cleveland Avenue.

[@xLaxCroixBoix]

That’s wild that Knocked Loose doesn’t get any radio play, their new album charted above Taylor Swift the week it came out.

[@thedevshow4L]

the elements of easycore live on through the new wave of midwest emo. bands like Pinegrove and Mom Jeans. made it pretty and threw in some country elements but it’s got the gang vocals (singing) and the summer stuff.

[@NeverNormal]

I feel like we can add origami angel as well. Like on title track which is kinda easycore emo

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

I swear, all these bands have the same vocalist that’s in all pop punk and emo bands

[@themelancholicpaganmusicco2980]

* Oie swær oll ōvv theeeze bænds hæ *OOLL* tha sæme vocalest thæts een *OOLL* pawp pōnk ænd emaooooo There, made it visually accurate

[@bulkbogan6235]

Unlike what many people ,ight believe Four Year Strong weren't done with In Some Way Shape or Form. Yeah there was this self titled and Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Will Not period, which was... Interesting, but they brought easycore back in huge way with their 2020 record Brain Pain, and even this years analysis paralysis was more core than easy. And there are some bands going into easycore sound from other genres, like new Belmont album is undeniably easycore, even though they started as a math/pop-punk.

[@dv6521]

I'm made of wax, Larry, what are you made of? Is my go-to lawn mowing theme song to this day :D

[@NeverNormal]

lol Thanks for watching!

[@Trauzzinator]

I think Hit The Lights is such an underrated band!!!

[@NeverNormal]

100%, can't wait for new music

[@johnnyringo5954]

In what world is Knocked Loose a brand new band though?

[@HumanTimeCapsule]

Daggermouth!!!!! Holy shit I haven't heard that name in years

[@NeverNormal]

Lassies last dance is a jammmm

[@sussybaka3911]

Why are we not including Abandoned by Bears here.

[@Eddie8a]

Ain't no party like a DAGGERMOUTH party

[@NeverNormal]

Dagger f'n mouth

[@danielbazzy]

Fall Out Boy’s Take this to your grave album definitely laid some groundwork as kinda Protoeasycore imo. It has gangvocals, screaming, breakdowns, and silly song titles lol. Wouldn’t fully count them as I don’t think the sound had quite gelled yet but def an important step that led to easy core.

[@NeverNormal]

great point! Thanks for watching!

[@EricNygma]

To your point, I’d even argue FOB popularized easycore. Infinity On High practically opens with a breakdown on Thriller

[@AbandonedExplorationSquad]

@@EricNygmaThriller is very EZ and Falling in Reverse had an Easycore song too called Goddam

[@SkyGuysQuest]

But do you remember the #Ezrevival2k15

[@SkyGuysQuest]

Time for #Ezrevival2k25

[@NeverNormal]

I don't, I know there's been a few shows/tours that have tried to kinda revive the easycore name

[@AbandonedExplorationSquad]

I still have a shirt that says ezrevival2k15 😂

[@garrettgrowls]

Great video man. KL is not getting on the radio not because they’re not big enough it’s just their sound. It’s way too heavy for your average radio listener

[@NeverNormal]

Which is such a dumb reason lol Thanks for watching!

[@garrettgrowls]

@@NeverNormal Agreed, maybe the big wigs at UMG/Sony are afraid of the “counter culture” getting too large

[@sigher69]

From States Away snubbed

[@NeverNormal]

will check them out. Thanks for watching!

[@kingdunlap741]

I saw hit the lights live at warped tour they are badass.