Pop Punk
 

Pop punk is probably my fav punk sub genre, and I dont mean all this radio friendly MTV crap, but more like The Ramones, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, MTX, The Ergs, Riverdales, Jawbreaker, Squirtgun, Teen Idols, Limp, Off With Their Heads, Etc. Anyone else into this stuff at all?

I have a single Screeching Weasel and Jawbreaker album that are pretty good and I'd probably throw The Dead Milkmen in this category too.

But I also enjoy early Green Day, Offspring, Lagwagon, and blink so stone me now.

Oh, and Alkaline Trio has the most plays on my last.fm so I like them too...

Great bands mentioned in this thread. My favorites are Lagwagon, Teenage Bottlerocket and Screeching Weasel. The Lillingtons, Dillinger Four, Jawbreaker, and The Queers are all awesome too.

Dillinger Four
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They have everything, awesome band.

I really like pop punk too..like MxPx, blink, Sum, Ramones, Screeching Weasel, Lagwagon.
Their all good..I hate the new pop punk it just sucks..it ruins it for me now.

Much of that has a lot of good quirky songwriting to it. Right now there's a pop-punk/pop-rock explosion with bands like All Time Low that lack the melody talent and balls of the older acts, if you liked that.... then you'd have a right to feel ashamed.

Early Greenday is classic.

I agree with everything you said...

I got two D4 albums but never really got into them. I don't see the big deal with them. Descendents should definitely be one of the first bands to be mentioned though.

There are still some good bands comming out, you just gotta get out to shows to find out about them.

i defiantly love some good pop punk

anybody remember Zoinks!?



and The Gain?



who joined forces to create the invincible BIG IN JAPAN!!!!!!

Yeah, can't believe I forgot Descendents.

I think the reason most people like D4 is because their lyrics have more to them than just the average love song/humor stereotype of a lot of the other bands like Screeching Weasel and The Queers. That, and because they play some of the catchiest tunes in the genre.

This may be a weird opinion here, considering my other musical tastes, but I like Blink 182. They were a big part of my adolescent years, and a big part of a lot of people in my generation's adolescence. They were fun, and maybe they weren't the most original band, but I can still remember clearly the MTV Awards Live back in middle school or elementary school, with the great and catchy 'All the Small Things' playing and there were dozens of little people swarming the stage. Good stuff.

However, I'm not a fan of Green Day. Early Green Day, yeah, but American Idiot on is crap. :beer:

Pinhead Gunpowder ( Billy Joes other group) beats anything Greenday ever did IMO.

Never heard of them

Love Screeching Weasel, I'm listening to you are my Sunshine by them now=) I also love The Queers, oldschool Offspring, The Ramones (even though I wouldn't really consider them pop punk), Alkaline Trio, Buzz****s, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Sum 41, and Descendants.

More recent pop punk is my favourite. New Found Glory, B182 you name it :)

I love Blink 182...At no point were they ever my favorite band, but they were always just that constant through my youth. They were always there and didn't take themselves real seriously and I dig that. Their music was simple but they were out there having a great time, and I think DeLonge and Hoppus were a great contrast in vocals. Never really liked either Angels & Airwaves or +44... Saw A&A live once and it was blah.

Old Green Day will always be classic to me... I still remember my Dad driving me to middle school in the mornings and we'd listen to Dookie every morning. That CD was awesome.

I don't know what people consider Alkaline Trio... Their old stuff is a lot more raw and rugged, their new stuff is more pop. They were my favorite band for the first two years of college, I would constantly jam to them. I really liked their dark lyrics and their sound, I listened to Goddamnit, Maybe I'll Catch Fire, and Crimson pretty much every day. Their Remains thing that they put out is something I'll recommend to anyone. Great stuff.

I dig the the descendents, the queers, early green day, some offspring, the vandals (pop punk-ish), a decent bit of nofx, the lookouts, and some others i forgot probably. Most of what's now considered pop punk, not so much.

You're really cool!

Alkaline Trio has the most plays on my last.fm. I got started with Remains and while Goddamnit and Maybe I'll Catch Fire have probably passed it in my mind, some of my favorites are still on Remains. 'Hell Yes', 'Metro', 'Rooftops', and most especially of all 'Old School Reasons' are all excellent tracks and it blows my mind that they were b-sides and such...

Those 4 tracks are my favorite of Remains. Along with Sadie and Warbrain. I hate pretty much every song that Dan sings instead of Skiba. Dan's songs just come off as cheesy emo to me, Skiba's come off as dark and poetic.

I grew up on this sub-genre or whatever you want to call it, and love a lot of the bands mentioned in this thread. I'd also like to mention one of my current favorites, The Lawrence Arms!

The flipside of that, though, is that Dan is one of the main reasons I enjoy Alkaline Trio. I absolutely love the sound he gets out of his bass and I think it compliments pop punk perfectly. A very underrated bassist he is, hmmm.

Oh yeah, and that acoustic version of 'Standard Break From Life' is beautiful too...

I love pop punk! Blink, Green Day, The Offspring, and newer stuff like Hit the Lights and New Found Glory; it's a great to me

i dont understand the hate that green day gets. it seems like the only excuse people have is that they sold out. i can honestly say that i enjoy every single thing that green day has put out, not because i'm a fan, i just genuinely think everything they have put out so far sounds great. american idiot was a masterpiece, not one single song on that album has gotten old to me yet, and 21st century breakdown while not exactly a total masterpiece, was also amazing. However 21CB gets much less play on my ipod when compared to american idiot, dookie, warning, etc.

blink is also great, but sometimes their music sounds too whiney and "teeny bop" for me. still awesome acts.

Ramones are awesome too

Alkaline trio really is a great fun band....and i agree that their cover of "Metro' is almost better than the original, it honestly blew me away how good it was...and how that song fit perfectly as a 'punk' song....i have to say that i prefer the self titled "collection" over 'Remains'...mainly for 'Bleeder', My Friend Peter', and their cover of "The Exploding Boy'...they have written some of the greatest hurt boy music :)

I do like Alkaline Trio. Trouble Breathing is my favorite song by them.

However, a band called Homegrown is definitely my ideal pop punk band. NOFX has some pop punk stuff that I like, too.

was Homegrown on Skunk records?

I'm not quite sure. I think they came out after Sublime broke up.

Bleeder, My Friend Peter, and Trouble Breathing are all awesome AK3 songs... One of my favorites is Cooking Wine. You guys ever listen to Skiba's split with Kevin Seconds? Amazing stuff, some of my favorite.

yeah that split was ok....my problem with is that kevin seconds needs to pull his head out of his ass and start doing good hardcore again...i want my 7 seconds back

there was another short lived side project that Skiba was in...around the same time that split came out

I didn't like any of Kevin Seconds stuff on there, but I thought all of Skiba's stiff was kickass. Never really liked Heavens.

Heavens?

http://www.punknews.org/images/inter...nt_pending.jpg

yes Heavens....i don't know after reading that page i feel like i should check them out again

You should! Their first and only album is pretty solid. I was very pleasantly surprised when I picked it up earlier this year.

Matt Skiba's new release, Demos is great too. It's exactly what its title implies as an album full of his demo recordings of songs he may release again and record with a full band for a project. I'm just a big fanboy of his work. Not so much the other two members of the Trio for some reason.

Not a huge fan of Skiba.

But Kevin and 7 Seconds is awesome. I miss having "Walk Together, Rock Together"

i can up a copy if you like

I'm not sure what that means.

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i could upload the album to my mediafire account and then you could download it

Oh haha that's ok. I prefer to go to music stores and buy albums. Or I go to Amazon and the like.

I'm not real big on downloading music haha.

I was really into pop punk in my mid/late teens and on...definitely a genre I could relate to. Lots of Fat Wreck stuff because their early comps are what really got me into the genre (though I was already into the first 2 on my list).

Descendents (first exposure to pop punk...fell in love)
Misfits (horror punk, yes, but they were very catchy)
Lagwagon
Bad Astronaut (<3)
Dillinger Four (<3 probably my favorite now)
Swingin' Utters
Strung Out
Snuff
Pulley (their first 2 are essential)
Pennywise
Rise Against (haven't heard the latest, lost interest)
Deviates (little known Epitaph band, put out one album that is superb)
NOFX (some)
Blink 182 (first 3 albums)
Lawrence Arms (Apathy and Exhaustion was great, don't care too much for the rest)

I'm sure I'm missing a few...