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Your Top 5 POP-PUNK Albums:

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by badmanreturns

Bloody genre-fascists!

1. The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back To Penn
2. Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon
3. New Found Glory - s/t
4. Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary
5. Midtown - Living Well Is The Best Revenge

badmanreturns | 26 Feb '08, 20:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

In no particular order

Billy Talent - II
Blink 182 - Blink 182
AFI - Sing the Sorrow

can't think of any more...more albums by Billy Talent and AFI I suppose.


'A' - Hi-Fi Serious

NUFFIN!


let me take you back

to 1994

Green Day - Dookie
The Offspring - Smash
Punk In Drublic - The Offspring
Millencollin - Life On A Plate
...And Out Come The Wolves - Rancid


Punk In Drublic

is NOFX though, right?


well it aint offspring

smash is amasing though!


Yay!

Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts
The Mr T Experience - Love is Dead
Millencolin - Life on a Plate
Lagwagon - Hoss


Shit, Lagwagon reminds me:

6: Bad Astronaut - Houston, We Have A Drinking Problem.


is descendents pop punk?

they're a bit heavy for that nay?


See Alex!

The distinction is impossible!


hands up

if you listened to too much skate punk at the age of 15?


Yes......from 13 - 17 I listened to

far too much.

If it was advertised in the back of Thrasher I bought it!


Nah, they're blatantly pop-punk

...they were one of the originators of the art form!


MTX!

Mr T Experience all the way. Ba ba ba ba ba!


...

totally agree with midtown there....

although id probably say there first album is better 'save the world lose the girl'

also how has no one mentioned The Ataris

i was far to into this music when i was 14/15


The Offspring - Smash

Blink-182 - Enema Of The State
Green Day - Dookie
Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones

^^ REAL pop-punk right there.


The first two NFG albums

are better than Sticks And Stones, although it's still great. Catalyst was pretty hit and miss though, and then it just got worse and worse...


What a load of crap

Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs
SEXY - POR VIDA
The Ergs - Dork Rock Cork Rod
Discount - Half Fiction


Dont try

and be pretentious about this, its pop punk.
No one cares.

Blink
FOB
Sum 41
Rancid
Brand New


Hmmm

Green Day - Dookie
NFG - Sticks and Stones
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler
Geen Day - Warning/The Offspring - Conspiracy of One

I only ever listened to about 6 bands back then so my knowledge of wider pop-punk is somewhat limited I'm afraid.

These albums pretty much encapsulate my 12-16 year old self however.


guess this would be pop

undertones-undertones
buzzcocks-singles going steady
the vaselines
rancid-...out come the wolves
the queers


Oooh, nostalgia

Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
Midtown - Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Good Charlotte - Young and The Hopeless
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It

The first two are the only ones which I still listen to really, although at one point or another I have absolutely adored each of these albums.


Without trying not the tink too much...in no order

Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
Dynamite Boy - Dynamite Boy
Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers
Midtown - Living Well Is the Best Revenge
The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back to Penn

Special mentions to:
The Vandals - Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
New Found Glory - New Found Glory
Set Your Goals - Mutiny!
Hit The Lights - This Is a Stick Up... Don't Make It a Murder

Mixing the old with the new(ish) there, possibly would change with more thought


Fer sure

NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Rancid - and out come the wolves
Lagwagon - Lets Talk about Feelings
Propaghandi - Less Talk, More Rock
The Vandals - The Quickening


Hmm

NOFX - War on Errorism
The Offspring - Americana
The Aquabats - The Aquabats vs The Floating Eye of death
Wheatus - Wheatus
Green Day - Dookie


you guys are missing some absolutely gold ones...

1. lifetime-hello bastards
2. saves the day-through being cool
3. saves the day-can't slow down
4. loved ones-keep your heart
5. the promise ring-very emergency

anything off jade tree records pretty much qualifies... also, most bands to ever have come out of new jersey. but please, check out lifetime! fucking amazing, so so influential. but you could really go in so many directions with this subject... green day, sum 41, the thermals, undertones... it's all poppy punk.


Lifetime are immense, but, melodic hardcore

Same goes for Can't Slow Down era Saves The Day and The Promise Ring are second wave emo!


you may be right

haha, well i guess if you're going to be that fucking particular! you're right, but still: those are records i always identified as pop punk, even if only on the surface. and "can you see the sunset from the southside?" (lifetime-ostrichsized) is a pop punk sentiment if i've ever heard one.

as for TPR, i would call late-period stuff second wave, but very emergency is pure pop punk.


punk in drublic

this time next year
smash
tell all your friends
i brought you my bullets


Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon (their other albums aren't pop-punk, obviously)
Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window
Green Day - Warning
The Blink 182 best-of


interesting skate punk/pop punk crossovers here.

anyway....

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Goldfinger - s/t
The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
Green Day - Nimrod
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves


These are them

The Smoking Popes - Destination Failure
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
The Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies

I want to say Dillinger Four "Vs God" but I don't want to step outside of anyone else's genre boundaries! Does it count??!


I fucking love "Vs God".

Didn't include it as I've only just got into it, and the others are kind of die-hard pop-punk stuff that I used to listen to constantly, but yeah, include it. Cracking album.


Screeching Weasel

is all you need to hear.

Plus:

Rancid
Dillinger Four
Fletcher
Lawrence Arms


that's what I was thinking.

Even my own list is slightly flawed. I probably should have just listed 5 Blink albums really.


there are other great ones too

but rancid and the vandals etc are not all that poppy


I put Rancid in my list

as I couldn't think of anything else. They've always been more ska punk to me. It's tricky though, what people conceive to be pop punk and what we see as skate punk, punk rock, etc. Because I used to listen to pretty much all of what people have listed, I'd lump it under skate punk, as all I used to do was skateboard and listen to Blink 182/Offspring/etc.


also, I forgot to put The Ataris

on my list so I'm a twat.


well they can queue a little bit longer if they want to be in your list!

the narrowing of genres is pretty important to me. without it, i would get bored at parties when the one thing i can talk about would die out too quickly: what type of music do you like? ...oh you know rock. ...oh...

or

... pop punk, pop punk core, skate punk skate punk core, pop skating, skting on ska, ska punk, pop ska, pop skating, skating without a helmet on, knee guardcore, pop guard, emo, emocore, popcore, emo pop...etc


:D indeed!

"knee guardcore" - *adds to list*


Well...

I dunno. As far as I can see these are all just records full of pop songs played fast and loud. Can anyone officially define the genre??!!


Not a list of 5

but the Young Playthings 'Who Invented Love?' album from last year fits the bill and in an ideal world would be adored by everyone.


blink 182 - dude ranch

offspring - smash
nofx - punk in drublic
lagwagon - hoss
descendents - milo goes to college
any millencolin!

brand new
saves the day
promise ring
billy talent

aren't pop punk!


your new favourite weapon is

saves the day are, though they are on the more pop side of things, billy talent haven't done anything poppy that i have heard, though i have only heard a few singles.


This is a weird

conversation. What is the BPM cut-off whereby something stops being punk and is merely pop?


It's not about bpm really........

pop punk is just about a breezy upbeat sound.


saves the day and brand new

are/were just emo revivalists imo


again no order

Green Day - Dookie
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Allister - Last Stop Suburbia
The Ataris - End Is Forever
New Found Glory - New Found Glory

ah sweet nostalgia


"somewhere down on fullerton

theres a place we used to go to get away from it all!"

WOW


that album

is just pop hit after pop hit!


its quality!

thats for sure


Yes!

All hail Drive Thru Records.


very good list

props to the midtown love!

but i'd sooner choose my favourite star in the heavens <3


No order...

The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
New Found Glory - New Found Glory
Relient K - MmHmm
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window

GREAT THREAD.


Brand New

Your Favourite Weapon. I'll swap that for Something Corporate. Yeeeeeah.


something corporate

is not really even pop-punk, surely? Is piano-led Dawsonscreekmusic, they just happened to have a song about having a boner for a punk girl...


1) Homegrown - Kings of Pop

2) Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
3) Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
4) Jawbreaker - 24hr revenge therapy
5) Brand New - New Favourite Weapon


shit

replace one of the above with Alkaline Trio - Here To Infirmary. PRobably one of the best bitter, drunk albums ever made...


has that homegrown album got "you're not alone" on it?

"i know what you're thinking
whoooooooaaaaaaaaa
know how you're feeling
whooaaaaaaoaoaoaaaaa
believe meeeeeee!
you're not alone"

I fucking love that song


Chemistry

Girls aloud.

Can't think of any more of the top of my head


Blink 182? Offspring? pfffffffff

1) Weezer- The Blue Album
2) The Thermals- The Body The Blood The Machine
3) The Descendents- Milo Goes To College (3rd purely because I'm not sure if I want to count them as pop punk)
4) The Ramones- Ramones
5) Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends (everything after went shit)


nothing wrong with the Offspring or Blink, Mr Bloomfield.

I like your list and from what I've heard of the Thermals, I like them as well.


offspring were ok I guess

Blink sucked arse.


you're so so so so so so so so sos so sos os os os os

sos so sos so WRONG
also, the thermals aren't pop punk.

offspring had a few good songs.
blink 182 are pop punk HEROES


thermals are lo-fi punk

though TBTBTM is much more poppy (pillar of salt etc)

as for the offspring, Smash is a wonderfull album, start to finish. so there :P


Awesome

1. Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
2. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
3. Fenix TX - Lechuza
4. Motion City Soundtrack - I Am The Movie
5. Green Day - Dookie


Hmm...

Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
New Found Glory - s/t
Green Day - Nimrod
Fenix TX - Lechuza
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary


_

dag nasty - can i say
rancid - and out come the wolves
blink 182 - s/t
buzzcocks - singles going steady
at the drive-in - el grand orgo (yeah, an ep)


so i take it you haven't heard El Grand Orgo?

listen to Give It A Name and tell me that that's not 100% pop punk glory.

DON'T QUESTION ME BOY


hmmm, well i'll hunt it down and judge that for myself

but i tell you what, you'd better not be talking porkies!!