Ok, it's a long shot, but I figured maybe someone here might recognize an elusive name-that-tune.
Late 90's / early 2000's era. I heard a song on WMNF community radio, never did hear a DJ shout out who it was. Unusually, I never heard it again, and it defies Google lyrics searches and such.
Poppy-punk-emo with highly mixed vocals and buzzy guitars, sort of along a J Church / Nor-Cal vibe.
Theme was a frustrated musician trying to write a song, but it's all been done before. The only lyric I remember is a bridge asking "Does it sound like Husker Du? Does it sound like total junk" or something like that, with the chorus hook "Because it's all been done before, because it's all been done before."
Someone's gonna knock this out of the park on the first post, and it's probably like, Green Day or something massively commercial that I should have known. But here we are.
My thanks in advance, oh nostalgia machine that is the interwebs.