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Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits

from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is

this song number one series? On our last episode, we talked about the splintering of 70s punk

into such 80s genres as Hardcore and the gradual simultaneous rise of pop punk, which was galvanized

in the mid 90s by Green Day and the offspring. But also emerging alongside pop punk in the 90s,

was a more florid, contemplative, and emotional strain of punk, literally called emo,

that began to rise commercially in the late 90s and especially the 2000s.

Like pop punk, which dated back to the 70s, the roots of the punk offshoot known as emo

went back at least a decade before its commercial emergence to the peak of 80s hardcore.

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