I’m a stroker. I wake up and I stroke. I stroke walking the streets. I stroke at work. I stroke at dinner. I stroke before bed. Like this if you’re a true stroker.
I'd say Sparks or Ramones first, but yeah, The Strokes are way up there. The Ramones kicked off all that 70s punk rock after other NYC bands like VU which became so much bigger in the UK than the US, and The Strokes had a similar effect. It's funny because of how much 90s music drew from 70s stuff anyway.
They weren’t that big. There was a whole garage band revival thing going on. The strokes had a music video that got a lot of airtime. Then they disappeared from mainstream.
They weren't that popular. It was more an agenda pushed by media outlets. If you read NME, listened to Radio 1, watched T4 and were a student they would've felt big. The reality is nobody else cared about them. Their audience was middle class students and that's about it.
They really weren't that popular. They came and went. They felt popular if you were aged between 15 and 21, read NME, watched T4, listened to Radio one and was a middle class, white student. Nobody else cared. That whole era was the death of guitar music. All style, no substance.
@@alexbrown975 it was the death of the music industry. guitar bands will always exist, there's no death of anything (or mainstream monoculture like there was pre-internet).
The Strokes have been my favorite band of all time since discovering them in late middle school around 2007 while they were on their hiatus. When they came back with Angles, they were so much bigger than ever and I was beginning to think I'd never get to see them live unless I trekked out to a big festival. However thankfully, my wish finally came true and I got to see them live in support of Red Hot Chili Peppers last year. Would I have preferred them being the headliner? Sure. I swear though, the set they played that night almost felt like it was curated with me in mind, so that makes up for it. And, I'm just glad to finally be able to say I saw them live at all.
I went to this event in Orlando but it was raining and it was delayed so they played for like 20 min 😢 I got so disappointed. However, one year later I got to see them live in NY so I’m beyond thankful. They’re too good to be just “openers”
@@gabrielewikmanHey, seeing them in NY is pretty fitting in of itself so you definitely got redeemed for that rained out show. And yes they definitely are, it just sucks that any time they are headlining, they never seem to come around my way (Southwest United States).
Same they are my favorite band also and became my favorite band in high school. That’s awesome you got to see them play live wish I had gotten the chance to
The Strokes, The Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, The Killers, and Vampire Weekend are, in my opinion, the five greatest indie/rock bands of the 2000s. The Counting Crows could be put in that group too, but their best work was in the 90s.
Arctic Monkeys? their first 3 albums are some of the best indie/rock albums from that era. not to mention that AM is the number 1 streamed rock album of all time
@@joshcrapper864 Ive heard of them, I should listen to them now. I do agree with you though that they were a big influence. Definitely more influential than Vampire Weekend.
I was introduced to The Strokes through Arctic Monkeys ("I just wanted to be one of The Strokes") which is acc ironic bc of how backwards it is. I immediately fell in love and almost every other artist I love to this date I have discovered through The Strokes in some way. I even read Meet Me in the Bathroom to learn more about them which introduced me to even more bands and songs. The 00s garage rock revival is my fav era of music. All that to say I love The Strokes and they'll always have a place in my heart
@@warqaanizar2527 Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, and The Hives are all great bands from the genre and time period
Not gonna lie,knowing that they were all kind of rich,maybe VERY rich,is yet another quality that I really like about this band. It’s definitely different from every other rock bands story. It’s totally cute too,so rich that they didn’t have to have a major,lol. Just focused on their music. I dig it.
I remember reading about that in the Meet Me In The Bathroom book and thinking 'they had models?! In the front row?!' That's cool no matter which way you look at it 😎
The Beatles and The Strokes are the reason why I started loving rock music. Then, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Jet, Kaiser Chiefs, The Hives, Velvet Revolver... The 2000's were the last decade of great rock music. The 2010's was nothing but boredom until I listened to "Dayglo Necros" and "Born With A Scorpion Touch" albums from Calabrese band and I thought "Thank god this decade has been saved", but shockingly it was too a band from the 2000's... That time I realized rock music was dead since all the good albums released in the last ten years or so are from 20 years ago
Normally nepotism regretfully spawns people that are not talented, Julian (and Albert) are the exception to the rule, completely geniune and talented even given the connections. Best band of this time ❤
No one understands how big of a Strokes fan I am. I seriously consider them the greatest band of all time. I consider Julian Casablancas to be the greatest songwriter of all time. Everything he touches is gold. Nothing will come close... NOTHING.
I AGREE. this band is CHANGING me Everytime I hear them, healing me. Best songs, albums (haven't heard one I hated), awesome vocalists, powerful lyrics, beautiful riffs by guitar and bass, hot as hell drumming. They are EVERYTHING I want to be. Coolest dudes ever
Greatest songwriter of all time? Really? I love the strokes, one of my favorite bands, but come on. They aren’t the greatest and he isn’t the greatest songwriter
The Strokes didn't 'fake it until you make it' they literally did the most important thing and were just themselves without caring what others thought.
I was in high school from 2000-04 and the Strokes were a huge deal. I bought a copy of is this is and saw them live at a west coast concert in 2004. Very fun. Julian was super fucked up and stage dived. Also on that show was yeah yeah yeahs, beastie boys, interpol and a bunch of other big early 2k bands.
I am collecting The Strokes albums on Vinyl! I have 4 of 6 so far but now that I am close to having all of the Infinity Stones, I decided on expanding it to his solo album and The Voidz albums as well!
Whatever it is they do on the lead singer’s mic singer’s microphone, I simply love it. It sounds like he is singing through a megaphone, but at a 10-15% level
Thank you RUclips algorithm. I watch a few music related creators when they come up in my feeds, but subscribe to very few, Trash Theory, Beato, and Geebz. Your humour and (while the length seems a bit short and rushed) obvious research, had earned you at least a temporary subscriber. Now to binge you back catalogue and see what's next. Have a feeling I'm not going to be temporary.
Phoebe Bridgers definitely got that from her toxic ex boyfriend, and Strokes' former friend, turned foe: Ryan Cabrera. As much venom as that guy sputters in recent times about the Strokes, it wouldn't surprise me if she's repeating something based on his angry and resentful "stories"... Gordon Raphael's book is a great inside view of how they came to be... Lots of talent in all, but especially one person. An obsession with perfection, and an honesty with their own shortcomings as they were coming up. It produced a simple but truly impressive body of songs that made their first album. The secret sauce was hard work, simple melodies (as defined by their own initial abilities) and a faithful and unwavering nod to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
I was 30yrs old when The Stokes first came out and thought they looked and sounded like The Knack, The Vapors, The Tubes from the late 70’s. They even had a similar naming convention
If you can get your hands on this October 2007 copy of Spin Magazine titled "1977 The Year Punk Exploded" there are so many parallels between how The Ramones/NYC in '76 spawned an entire Punk Movement in London which then reverberated back to NYC and greater America and how The Strokes did the same in 2001. That would make for a really interesting deep dive....
Thank you for this excellently written, researched and narrated piece. I absolutely adore this band and this is one the most epic retellings of their meteoric rise. It really screwed their mainstream image later on but I love that they stuck to their sound and their philosophy, that’s why these guys are the indie rock goats to me.
I admit that I don't know much about the band, so I'm going to enjoy this video from beginning to end and I'm going to create my own opinion about them. I trust you Marc👍
If you were into this video, definitely read Meet Me In The Bathroom. It is a collection of interviews from bands and people associated with the bands from turn of the century NY. It is very explanatory of the why and how bands like The Strokes became big.
this vid literally appeared in my tl and I was going to save it to watch later but I accidentally click on and wtf it's the best video essay abt the strokes I've found in english or spanish fr
I never got hugely into them, my band of choice for that sound was The Bravery, but I appreciate you making videos like this because it helps me become a more educated music listener.
The file sharing was no lie, I would have no idea who they were if I didn't run into them in kazaa or limewire, one of those things. I kept seeing their name along with dozen of other songs.
I got into them right after Room on Fire was released. The band provided great memories and have a very sentimental place in my ears. Their music was revitalizing to me as a teen. I was never shocked they came from wealthy families, they always came off as NYC royalty. The jet setting Euro-American hipsters. But I liked that about them and as a broke teen in Middle America, wanted to emulate that. It was cool.
Life was so much cooler in the 90s and early 2000s. Today everybody seems to have lost their damn minds. I wanna go back to this whole punk/indie/rock era. I saw the strokes in Pittsburgh after is this it came out and it still to this day was the funnest show ive been to and ive played in bands half my life.
Rock was already alive and well when the Strokes arrived on the scene lol. This has the same energy as all those NME issues with a flavor of the month (and yes, I know the Strokes had an enduring career and therefore not "flavor of the month") indie band that was gonna "sAvE rOcK mUsIc." Historical revisionism at its finest.
Personally while it would've been cool to see them at the VMAs, I think they made the right call not to show up alongside The Hives and The Vines since they were pretty different sounds.
My favorite band ever. I grew up listening to them when they were really taking off, and i just get a huge nostalgia boner whenever I hear their songs again.
I love the assumption that a band only has fans because of XYZ thing behind them. Like, piss off with that. I didn't know who the hell these guys were, I just heard a song of theirs one day and loved what I heard.
this video proves there are still strokers in the world
The stroke fandom is dying, like this post if you stroke it everyday
I'm a proud stroker. Like if you part of the strokes gang
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I’m a stroker. I wake up and I stroke. I stroke walking the streets. I stroke at work. I stroke at dinner. I stroke before bed. Like this if you’re a true stroker.
I stroke it everyday!!! Very proud
Alex Turner said it best, “I just wanted to be one of the strokes.”
Lmao
Star treatment yes ❤
Now look at the mess they made him make
He should’ve never said that shit it’s every comment on every video
@@wezlee117 he said what everyone is feeling . Everybody wants to sound like the strokes
the most accurate description of the strokes i’ve ever seen was “The Strokes are the most british American band ever”
Might be Sparks but yeah they fit the style well.
Them or early Killers
I think that title belongs to Interpol, who (like many other NYC bands) wouldn't have gotten huge if not for The Strokes
I showed my friend the strokes months ago and just told him today they were american, he was shocked.
I'd say Sparks or Ramones first, but yeah, The Strokes are way up there. The Ramones kicked off all that 70s punk rock after other NYC bands like VU which became so much bigger in the UK than the US, and The Strokes had a similar effect. It's funny because of how much 90s music drew from 70s stuff anyway.
favorite band ever. i’d kill to hear “drums please, fab” live
i saw them in malbourne last year, everyone yelled that line it was so cool. Sorry to rub that in I just wanted to say
@@jessy7129 haha it’s okay, if i went to their concert i would be talking about it a lot too
It is as exiting as you imagine, I cried a lot that day, i hope you listen to it live soon
Bro i love the strokes im such a stroker ong
as someone born in the early 2000s i feel like ill never truly understand how big the strokes were when i was born during their prime time
They actually were not that big in America during the first couple albums, even among rock bands
They weren’t that big. There was a whole garage band revival thing going on. The strokes had a music video that got a lot of airtime. Then they disappeared from mainstream.
They weren't that popular. It was more an agenda pushed by media outlets. If you read NME, listened to Radio 1, watched T4 and were a student they would've felt big. The reality is nobody else cared about them. Their audience was middle class students and that's about it.
They really weren't that popular. They came and went. They felt popular if you were aged between 15 and 21, read NME, watched T4, listened to Radio one and was a middle class, white student. Nobody else cared. That whole era was the death of guitar music. All style, no substance.
@@alexbrown975 it was the death of the music industry. guitar bands will always exist, there's no death of anything (or mainstream monoculture like there was pre-internet).
Strokes may have revived rock, but their best gift to humanity is taking care of Margaret Thatcher
Couldn't've said it better myself
Hi @@Dabs_All_Ovar👋
@@tomoyo5920 🔥😎👋
She listened to comedown machine and then she came down with a stroke
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The Strokes have been my favorite band of all time since discovering them in late middle school around 2007 while they were on their hiatus. When they came back with Angles, they were so much bigger than ever and I was beginning to think I'd never get to see them live unless I trekked out to a big festival.
However thankfully, my wish finally came true and I got to see them live in support of Red Hot Chili Peppers last year. Would I have preferred them being the headliner? Sure. I swear though, the set they played that night almost felt like it was curated with me in mind, so that makes up for it. And, I'm just glad to finally be able to say I saw them live at all.
You are incredibly lucky to see both of my favourites in one night
I went to this event in Orlando but it was raining and it was delayed so they played for like 20 min 😢 I got so disappointed. However, one year later I got to see them live in NY so I’m beyond thankful. They’re too good to be just “openers”
@@gabrielewikmanHey, seeing them in NY is pretty fitting in of itself so you definitely got redeemed for that rained out show.
And yes they definitely are, it just sucks that any time they are headlining, they never seem to come around my way (Southwest United States).
Same they are my favorite band also and became my favorite band in high school. That’s awesome you got to see them play live wish I had gotten the chance to
10:46 WEEZER CAMEO
Now all we need is a Arctic Monkeys video
alex turner did just want to be one of the strokes after all
The Strokes, The Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, The Killers, and Vampire Weekend are, in my opinion, the five greatest indie/rock bands of the 2000s. The Counting Crows could be put in that group too, but their best work was in the 90s.
Arctic Monkeys? their first 3 albums are some of the best indie/rock albums from that era. not to mention that AM is the number 1 streamed rock album of all time
What about The Libertines? Without them most of the good British mid 2000's indie bands wouldn't exist
@@mattbarth3205 Youre right. Its crazy how big they were after just their first album. And they continue to evolve their sound.
@@joshcrapper864 Ive heard of them, I should listen to them now. I do agree with you though that they were a big influence. Definitely more influential than Vampire Weekend.
@@hendude127 their first two albums,Up the bracket and The Libertines are pretty much flawless. In my opinion anyhow
I was introduced to The Strokes through Arctic Monkeys ("I just wanted to be one of The Strokes") which is acc ironic bc of how backwards it is. I immediately fell in love and almost every other artist I love to this date I have discovered through The Strokes in some way. I even read Meet Me in the Bathroom to learn more about them which introduced me to even more bands and songs. The 00s garage rock revival is my fav era of music. All that to say I love The Strokes and they'll always have a place in my heart
Can you recommend some bands?
@@warqaanizar2527 Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, and The Hives are all great bands from the genre and time period
Oh man, the “is this it” album is so special to me. One of my earliest of memories when I heard music for the first time and fell in love with it
Not gonna lie,knowing that they were all kind of rich,maybe VERY rich,is yet another quality that I really like about this band. It’s definitely different from every other rock bands story. It’s totally cute too,so rich that they didn’t have to have a major,lol. Just focused on their music. I dig it.
I remember reading about that in the Meet Me In The Bathroom book and thinking 'they had models?! In the front row?!' That's cool no matter which way you look at it 😎
Another banger video by MarcButEvil on one of my favorite bands.
If he makes a Strokes lore series I will not complain at all.
The Beatles and The Strokes are the reason why I started loving rock music. Then, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Jet, Kaiser Chiefs, The Hives, Velvet Revolver... The 2000's were the last decade of great rock music. The 2010's was nothing but boredom until I listened to "Dayglo Necros" and "Born With A Scorpion Touch" albums from Calabrese band and I thought "Thank god this decade has been saved", but shockingly it was too a band from the 2000's... That time I realized rock music was dead since all the good albums released in the last ten years or so are from 20 years ago
There is a lot of good rock bands it just doesnt hit mainstream anymore
Normally nepotism regretfully spawns people that are not talented, Julian (and Albert) are the exception to the rule, completely geniune and talented even given the connections. Best band of this time ❤
Babe, wake up, Marcbutevil dropped another banger
Your literally me
As kid who love Hip Hop and Rap growing. Finding out The Strokes as my first dabble into Rock is key moment to my child hood and growth in the world
This channel is genuinely fantastic, and I hope to see it grow exponentially.
An amazing video about one of my all time favourite bands and albums. I hope to see more Strokes videos in the future Marc!
No one understands how big of a Strokes fan I am. I seriously consider them the greatest band of all time. I consider Julian Casablancas to be the greatest songwriter of all time. Everything he touches is gold. Nothing will come close... NOTHING.
I AGREE. this band is CHANGING me Everytime I hear them, healing me. Best songs, albums (haven't heard one I hated), awesome vocalists, powerful lyrics, beautiful riffs by guitar and bass, hot as hell drumming. They are EVERYTHING I want to be. Coolest dudes ever
Greatest songwriter of all time? Really? I love the strokes, one of my favorite bands, but come on. They aren’t the greatest and he isn’t the greatest songwriter
I named my son Julian… I get it
@@gabriellevandenberg534 I legit love his name 😭
@@se7ente3n He’s greater than Beethoven and McCartney.
stroked to watch this vid thank you very much marc
great video!! i'm a new fan after listening to bad decisions. i'm currently going through their whole discography.
video was awesome it’d be cool if you covered the later part of their career (2011-2020)
Excellent suggestion
A MARC VIDEO ABOUT THE STROKES MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Bought it Is This It in 2001 and I am still listening to it in 2024. A little over 35 minutes, great songwriting, catchy, and energetic.
beautiful editing, thanks for the work!
The Strokes didn't 'fake it until you make it' they literally did the most important thing and were just themselves without caring what others thought.
This is such a fantastic video. I've not been this focused for months
Dude, your videos are always absolutely fantastic, and you're a great narrator. Great work.
their live performances are pure perfection
I was in high school from 2000-04 and the Strokes were a huge deal. I bought a copy of is this is and saw them live at a west coast concert in 2004. Very fun. Julian was super fucked up and stage dived. Also on that show was yeah yeah yeahs, beastie boys, interpol and a bunch of other big early 2k bands.
very late but good work man, i thought i knew a ton abt early strokes but their early gigs and whatever were fascinating to hear
This video is two in one for me: Marcbutevil posted, and we finally got a Strokes video. :D
I am collecting The Strokes albums on Vinyl! I have 4 of 6 so far but now that I am close to having all of the Infinity Stones, I decided on expanding it to his solo album and The Voidz albums as well!
Whatever it is they do on the lead singer’s mic singer’s microphone, I simply love it. It sounds like he is singing through a megaphone, but at a 10-15% level
Thank you RUclips algorithm. I watch a few music related creators when they come up in my feeds, but subscribe to very few, Trash Theory, Beato, and Geebz.
Your humour and (while the length seems a bit short and rushed) obvious research, had earned you at least a temporary subscriber.
Now to binge you back catalogue and see what's next. Have a feeling I'm not going to be temporary.
This video, the intro, the editing, script, length, everything is fantastic. Could you please do Talking Heads next?
I love being 13 minutes into a small video essay and then realizing that I've probably never heard the music in question if not in passing.
Phoebe Bridgers definitely got that from her toxic ex boyfriend, and Strokes' former friend, turned foe: Ryan Cabrera. As much venom as that guy sputters in recent times about the Strokes, it wouldn't surprise me if she's repeating something based on his angry and resentful "stories"... Gordon Raphael's book is a great inside view of how they came to be... Lots of talent in all, but especially one person. An obsession with perfection, and an honesty with their own shortcomings as they were coming up. It produced a simple but truly impressive body of songs that made their first album. The secret sauce was hard work, simple melodies (as defined by their own initial abilities) and a faithful and unwavering nod to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
I was 30yrs old when The Stokes first came out and thought they looked and sounded like The Knack, The Vapors, The Tubes from the late 70’s. They even had a similar naming convention
Amazing essay, great research and presentation!
Is this it was one of the records I bought around 2003. I loved the vibe of that record so much.
If you can get your hands on this October 2007 copy of Spin Magazine titled "1977 The Year Punk Exploded" there are so many parallels between how The Ramones/NYC in '76 spawned an entire Punk Movement in London which then reverberated back to NYC and greater America and how The Strokes did the same in 2001. That would make for a really interesting deep dive....
randomly came up on my home page and all i'm seeing is straight facts
I can never just listen to one song from their album this is it, I listen to the whole thing it’s like comfort food to me
Thank you for this excellently written, researched and narrated piece. I absolutely adore this band and this is one the most epic retellings of their meteoric rise. It really screwed their mainstream image later on but I love that they stuck to their sound and their philosophy, that’s why these guys are the indie rock goats to me.
My favorite comment gets pinned in one week!
Hysterical video bro, I'm not sure if most people will realize you're being sarcastic the whole time tho, you make it sound like you're being serious
You should do a RHCP video
I admit that I don't know much about the band, so I'm going to enjoy this video from beginning to end and I'm going to create my own opinion about them. I trust you Marc👍
Can't wait for part 2, truly interesting stuff
If you were into this video, definitely read Meet Me In The Bathroom. It is a collection of interviews from bands and people associated with the bands from turn of the century NY. It is very explanatory of the why and how bands like The Strokes became big.
The new abnormal is one of my favorite albums of all time
Marc releasing this as i get back hard into the strokes, must be god or something.
this vid literally appeared in my tl and I was going to save it to watch later but I accidentally click on and wtf it's the best video essay abt the strokes I've found in english or spanish fr
I never got hugely into them, my band of choice for that sound was The Bravery, but I appreciate you making videos like this because it helps me become a more educated music listener.
This Guys videos are amazing I really like them :) .
The Strokes is my religion
Great work on this video. Thanks for sharing.
Hooray, mark is back :)
You know the band is REAL good when even Noel Gallagher has something good to say about it. source: I'm an Oasis fan
I'm absolutely NOT an Oasis fan, and I still agree with you!
Great stuff Marc
Great video! Had the best birthday ever last year when I went to their concert. What a way to celebrate my 27th hahaha
I recently seen them live in Chicago, my life has been better since 😌 they changed my life
The file sharing was no lie, I would have no idea who they were if I didn't run into them in kazaa or limewire, one of those things. I kept seeing their name along with dozen of other songs.
Seeing the strokes already be on top at age 22 makes me feel so old
I got into them right after Room on Fire was released. The band provided great memories and have a very sentimental place in my ears. Their music was revitalizing to me as a teen.
I was never shocked they came from wealthy families, they always came off as NYC royalty. The jet setting Euro-American hipsters. But I liked that about them and as a broke teen in Middle America, wanted to emulate that. It was cool.
most well made strokes videomentary ever
great video & editing !
As for me it's way much harder to produce that distorted sound than usual kind of over-produced one
I think we need more “normal people who listen to music because it sounds good”
Hot fuss and is this it are my favorite albums of all time, so learning that without is this it we wouldn't have hot fuss is so crazy
11:23 Projection from Ultra Parallax by Chris Doerksen
First you talked a lot about Weeze now the The Steaks ❤️❤️ I love you
Life was so much cooler in the 90s and early 2000s. Today everybody seems to have lost their damn minds. I wanna go back to this whole punk/indie/rock era. I saw the strokes in Pittsburgh after is this it came out and it still to this day was the funnest show ive been to and ive played in bands half my life.
Stellar video - subscribed!
The Strokes did a lot, but I think Franz Ferdinand perfected the early 2000s rock formula, and were able to move past that formula.
Great !! Can you do Interpol and/ or The Smiths next?
We need Marc to do a DEVO video
To have live and been part of it is why they are the best❤❤❤
Another cool vids! thnaks!
Oh, come on! How about that Interpol video?
Rock was already alive and well when the Strokes arrived on the scene lol. This has the same energy as all those NME issues with a flavor of the month (and yes, I know the Strokes had an enduring career and therefore not "flavor of the month") indie band that was gonna "sAvE rOcK mUsIc."
Historical revisionism at its finest.
Personally while it would've been cool to see them at the VMAs, I think they made the right call not to show up alongside The Hives and The Vines since they were pretty different sounds.
you should definitely do a video about the Arctic Monkeys. where heavily inspired by The Strokes, and just a great band. love the videos!
cool video, marciplier
The band that inspired our sound!!!
This video is a success, fucking great man 👏👏👏
NEW THUMBNAIL??????
My favorite band ever. I grew up listening to them when they were really taking off, and i just get a huge nostalgia boner whenever I hear their songs again.
Any one know of any bands in the same style in recent times? Closest I've found is catfish and the bottlemen
My favourite industry plants ❤
Awesome video. Awesome channel. I ❤ music
2:00 PLEASE
The Rich parents part was golden lmbo
God I love the strokes
so much
As someone who listens to The Strokes ALOT(i love em), they def didnt revive rock musc as a whole, but instead Garage Rock with The White Stripes
I love the assumption that a band only has fans because of XYZ thing behind them. Like, piss off with that. I didn't know who the hell these guys were, I just heard a song of theirs one day and loved what I heard.
pop punk, skate punk was also huge in the late 90s
while i agree with most of what he is saying in the begging, i think the omission of alt rock in the late 90s like 3eb is a choice