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I think Take Off Your Pants And Jacket is Blink-182's best album. Nothing but summertime, angsty vibes. It's an easy listen, not a single skipable track on there, i absolutely love it!
Under Soil and Dirt is such a great album. I was entering my junior year in high school when this came out and this album brings back a lot of memories. Absolutely agreed its one of the best pop punk albums.
I love that you put strung out on your list. They’re one of my favorites. Twisted by design was great. I love how they mix pop punk with metal. Exile into oblivion is amazing. Deville may be my favorite song by them. Her name in blood is up there too.
It's now safe to say..."All Killer No Filler" changed my life man! My life was engulfed by music ever since I heard fat lip on "Now that's what I call music 8" when I was 12.
I looked back at an old yearbook I had from grade 8 elementary, and favourite bands were Green Day, Rancid , The Offspring. Also remember having a Blink 182 shirt in grade 9 and people either made fun of me or had no clue who they were. This shaped my musical taste forever.
Saves the day - through being cool Alkaline trio - from here to the infirmary Say anything - ...is a real boy Motion city soundtrack - commit this to memory Dear You and Sticks and stones are favorites as well !
Finn not being into the newer Descendents stuff, or not loving the darker Blink stuff or the heavier stuff by Sum 41 is completely opposite to me. Screaming bloody murder is such a goddamn great song, and the Cool to be you album by Descendents is amazing.
I saw The Story So Far on monday, opening for blink-182 in Lisbon (Portugal) and Quicksand was an absolute blast! Unfortunately, due to my job, I was late to the concert and only caught the last 3 songs, but it was still worth running to the venue for! (blink were awesome, by the way.. I'd only seen them once before and it was in 2012, when the chemistry was off and it just felt like Tom didn't want to be there at all, so this time was a truly magic moment for me).
Great list man! I remember coming home from school like 1999-2002, jumping on my drums, hitting the 6 cd changer😂 and jamming for hours to enema of the state, all killer no filler, sticks and stones, lifestyles of the rich and famous, take off your pants and jacket, does this look infected. It was unreal how much great music came out in those years. Then I’d go meet up with friends and eat dinner at a burger joint by the beach I literally still feel that was the best time of my life 🥲.
Matt from Set Your Goals just started singing in our band. I would definitely put SYG in the same category as The Story So Far. Honestly they should of been bigger than what they were.
Agreed. Dookie is so so good. I like it better now than when it came out. City of Evil as well. It’s wild how much some albums from the 90s and 00s have became absolute classics.
I remember reading that Transit’s “Keep This To Yourself” was a big inspiration for TSSF’s debut. Transit is great but I think TSSF really nailed that sound.
And of course I must mention strung out from ATV offroad fury, mx vs atv unleashed and mx vs atv supercross encore. Absolutely love that band, very slept on
I'm surprised to see Strung Out make the list because despite them being one of my favorite bands and Twisted by Design being one of my favorite albums they are rarely discussed. The most is usually "oh yeah they're a solid band". So yeah a great choice.
Not sure I would even consider bands like Strung Out, Good Riddance, Pennywise, Pulley, Ten Foot Pole, Lagwagon, Face To Face, etc. to be pop punk. The same way I wouldn't consider City Lights, ADTR, Chunk, No Captain Chunk, Abandoned By Bears, etc. to be pop punk either.
HAHAHA when you faded the Title Fight record in when talking about TSSF...lmao. surprised not to see NFG and FTSK here as I know they're also among your favorites. great vid as always Finn!
Who else has the authority to name the best Pop-Punk albums of all time if not our own RUclips star and Death Metal elitist and the only lad on this planet who knows the difference between Brutal Technical Power Ska and Technical Brutal Power Ska?
I'd really like to see a video of yours about The Vandals. I'm not a punk dude but these guys have managed to deliver memorable songs with high energy for so long it amazes me. And I agree with you, Live fast is a 10/10 catchy fun punk album.
Saw ADTR live a few years ago - had somehow not come across them before, they were headlining with The Used supporting (who I was there to see) and I was blown away. One of my top 5 bands since then.
I remember around Ennema time Mark managed a band called Fenix Tx and they were on that tour. First Fenix Tx album a top 5 pop punk for me. I’m probably the only one who remembers them
I saw Fenix TX with Offspring and Sum 41 in 2001. Believe it or not Sum 41 was the opener not Fenix (Sum 41 hadn't blown up yet). It was a great show !!!
Thanks for the video. We're about the same age and I fell off the pop punk wagon in about 2005 or so. The newer suggestions will help me get back up to speed on what's been going on since then.
might be because of my age but self titled is my favorite. it just seems more mature and creative and progressive and poetic. also it has a post hardcore vibe to it on a couple songs which i love.
I prefer self titled and dude ranch over Enema, but they all have a different vibe. Dude Ranch sounds more punk, Enema is poppy, and Self Titled is dark and emo.
Top 5, no order. This is my favorite genre of music: Blink 182 - Enema Of The State New Found Glory - self titled Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler Knuckle Puck - Copacetic Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You Just my opinion, but I think all those albums mastered the genre. Classics as well as "modern classics", if you will. I was in middle/high school during the "Golden Age" as Fin would call it and which I agree with. I loved all the other bands to like Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Mest etc... (Feldman Core lol) as well as all the Drive-Thru stuff like Midtown, Allister, The Starting Line, Homegrown, that was by far my favorite label. I remember that label had their own stage at Warped Tour one year, the same summer "Sticks and Stones" came out of course NFG was on the main stage though, along with Something Corporate who is also a great band. The Early Novemeber is one of my favorite bands OF ALL TIME. I have to mention that when talking about Drive - Thru. To put things in perspective as far as a time frame Enema came out when I was in sixth grade, sticks and stones the summer between 8th and 9th grade. This genre will always be my favorite and I love Finn's content about it. I just wish he would cover the newer bands in the genre more like Knuckle Puck, Hot Mulligan, Free Throw, Movements, although those bands I guess could be considered more "post-emo" or whatever. Now that I've got to the end of this video my only argument for Finn is that he didn't include NFG's self titled because I know it's a 10/10 no skip for him.
that is actually a pretty solid list. kudos. for me, I would have to include New Found Glory "Sticks and Stones", Houston Calls "a Collection of Short Stories", Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American", MxPx "Ten Years and Running", Tsunami Bomb both "The Definitive Act" and "The Ultimate Escape", Ellegarden "Dont Trust Anyone But Us" and Uplift Spice "Memento".
I got to see ADTR, i see stars and eacape the fate in like 2009, in Ocala, with like 250 people in a bar. Holy shit was that nuts. Great times and great album.
City Lights! I live in Newark, OH which is like 30 miles east of Columbus. I got them to play in my small hometown at a random youth center when they were still playing. It's awesome to see Oshie went on to play in Beartooth.
Good list, Finn! I didn't know City Lights so I bought the digital version. It's a very good pop-punk album. I'm now 43, I have grown with this kind of stuff. I will add The Starting Line "Say it like you mean it" but the absolute album of this era (and still is to this day) is "Stories and Alibis" by Matchbook Romance. It's not "pop-punk" per se, more of an emo-ish thing, but for me, "Promise" is still the best song ever written 😍. A great thanks for your vids from France...
Homesick was THE record for me in high school. That and Hybrid Theory shaped my musical tastes until I discovered Periphery and Dream Theater. 10/10 records. ❤
I know Homesick gets a ton of fanfare, but I remember ADTR before Homesick and For Those Who Have Heart was a great album that really got them on the map and created a lot of hype. You could tell they knew what they were doing on songwriting and just really broke out on Homesick. For me, 2009 was my personal era on playing in bands/writing music (Around 19/20 years old), so I always tie that album in with that time of my life. Love hearing the memories tied to music!
Saw TSSF in 2010 on their first tour of Under Soil and Dirt in Glastonbury CT in a barn. I was there for State Champs, I had never heard of TSSF. The performance in on RUclips.
You're thinking of Exile in Oblivion from Strung Out. I couldn't agree more about Homesick. That's a no-skip full album listen. I remember hearing it at first going "wtf? This is like NFG meets Hatebreed." Dookie is also a flawless masterpiece. I even love Insomniac. It's just Dookie but darker. Great list Finn.
I have to say, I always loved Sum41 - I was a little bit older (not a teenager) but I liked the bounce and the fact that it felt just a little bit harder. These days, I still listen to them when I want my pop punk fix, and I have played ADTR to shreds (pun intended). So many good songs, "All killer..." is a no-skip.
thanks Finn, added some new stuff to my spotify. ever since Edging from blink, my nostalgic kicked in, started digging back into the good old stuff from late 90’s early 2000’s. it has peaked with One More Time 2 weeks ago. underestimated the power of music. i feel young again!
Sometimes at times like 9:38 when Finn starts listing bands I've never heard of before, I swear he could just be making names up and you know what I'll believe him
My Top 5 Pop Punk Albums: 1- The Ataris - "So long, Astoria" 2- Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue" 3- Simple Plan - "..Still not getting any" 4- Good Charlotte - "The Young and Hopeless" 5- blink 182 - "Take Off Your Pants and Jackets"
Great choices, Finn! I feel lucky to have see ADTR on the Homesick tour when they still played smallish clubs. One of the most memorable shows I’ve ever been to.
I'm friends with the drummer, I used to run a music leaking website back in the day, and he actually sent me there disc before it even came out. Such a nice dude, I wish I saw these guys, along with Hit The Lights.
I love this list, even though i was never really into Pop Punk, i thank you for bringing ADTR and Homesick to my attention because i frickin love that album
Love the pop punk content! As a microphone nerd I do feel I have to point out this is not how you're supposed to use an SM7b. You don't speak into the side, you speak into the top. Rotating the mic will improve both the tone and the strength of the signal. Sorry if you know this already.
One thing to watch out for is being “confidently wrong.” I’m speaking into the mic at about a 45 degree angle, although it doesn’t look like it here due to the camera angle. This is to avoid really strong plosives. And as you can hear, my audio sounds fine. Honestly man, being a pedantic knowitall is an absolutely toxic personality trait and you should drop it.
I’m so glad you brought up In It to Win It. I feel like I’m the only one who loves that band and album sometimes. Trophy Room and Hang Out are legitimate S-tier pop punk songs.
You have to check out - if you haven't - the basket case 4-track demo version on Dookie 30 anniversary release ... Totally different lyrics ad amazing to see the progression of the song.... All the 4 track demos great and captures that transition from kerplunk to dookie..
12:24 Agreed - I dubbed a tape of it in grade 7 (1995) and I recently found it and played it in my summer car (it's from the 80s, tape deck was an option ;) ) and yeah, this is absolutely true.
There are sooo many albums I could add to this list... So Long Astoria by the Ataris, The Ever Passing Moment by MxPx, Smash by The Offspring, Based on a True Story by the Starting Line, Good for Me by the Swellers, Killing Time by Bayside, From Here to Infirmary by Alkaline Trio, Foot in Mouth Disease by Gob, Lechuza by Fenix Tx, Box Car Raver by Box Car Racer, Sing the Sorrow by AFI, Forget What You Know by Midtown, The Feel Good Record of the Year by No Use For a Name, Sometimes Things Just Disappear by Polar Bear Club, 37 Everywhere by Punchline, Mmhmm by Relient K, This Will Be the Death of Us by Set Your Goals, Palm Trees and Power Lines by Sugarcult, So Far From Real by Cauterize, Make a Sound by Autopilot Off... etc, etc, etc. As overpopulated the Pop Punk scene was in the early 2000s, it produced some of the best albums in the history of the genre.
It’s wild to me how tumblr in a way was the most important era for modern pop punk but also the end of the most important era of core genres. Not knocking the incredible music released since then but I feel that the end of tumblr truly marked the end of monoculture as Finn calls it. Crazy times. Or maybe I’m old and my perspective is all wrong lol
I like pre Travis Blink, but I was also a teenager and was going to punk shows every week in Jacksonville Florida. Cheshire Cat is probably my favorite Blink album. I was like 20 when Travis joined Blink, so pre Travis just takes me back to being a teen and not having bills and shit
The Mark Tom and Travis Show, All Killer No Filler, and Take This To Your Grave were my 3 most played poppunk albums in high school. I also had a lot of mix cds with Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Sugarcult, MXPX, The Starting Line, and more that I can't think of at the moment. That was a lot of weed ago 😂
For me, a truly underrated album is GOB’s Foot In Mouth Disease. Most EA Sports kids know it due to songs like Give Up The Grudge or Oh Ellin! but as a whole it’s terrific pop punk with just a little bit of an edge. Also up there is Bowling For Soup’s A Hangover You Don’t Deserve. It’s hard to truly say what the best BFS album is as a whole, but I feel like most would agree it’s either this or The Great Burrito Extortion Case.
Amber Pacific "The Possibility and the Promise", Abandoned By Bears "When Nothing Goes Right, Go Left!", The Starting Line "Say It Like You Mean It", Hit The Lights "This Is A Stick Up...", New Found Glory "Sticks and Stones", Teen Idols "Full Leather Jacket", Day At The Fair "The Rocking Chair Years", MxPx "Life In General", Fenix-TX, would be on my list amongst many others.....
Saw Descendents for the first time about 2 years ago in Irvine, CA. They were opening for Rise Against (the band that I wanted to see), but I actually enjoyed Descendents more, even though I didn't know about the band when I saw them live. Didn't realize they were the template for early pop punk (I grew up in the 90's/ 2000's, so I missed the whole early 80's OC hardcore/ LA thrash scene). Was nice to find out more about the band and their history.
Totally agree about Enema being number 1. It's probably not my personal favorite pop punk album of all time, or even my favorite Blink album, but it is really a perfect pop punk album. Jerry Finn deserves a ton of credit.
Great video, I'd just appreciate some timestamps or maybe a hard list/ranking at the beginning or end to look over. Because I wanna see one image and look up those albums lol
Now that I think of it, most of the music I listened to as a kid/teen was pop punk. My dad was really into nineties/early 200s American rock music. Nirvana, RHCP, foos etc. He also liked Green Day, and in 2004 he bought American Idiot. I didn’t know it back then, but I was obsessed. I looked back at their earlier music and videos. Avril was big at the time, as was blink and then paramore . Riot was huge. I wasn’t listen to much of it in the early 2010s but the story so far, the wonder years and neck deep I’ve really gotten into recently. So yeah, thanks dad. And now American Idiot is 20 years old. Oh GOD.
Enema of the State is without a doubt the best pop punk album and Blink’s best, but I do think that the self titled/untitled album was the most important to their legacy
Honorable mentions: 'My Brain Hurts' by Screeching Weasel (Lookout Records, 1991) and 'They Came from the Shadows' by Teenage Bottlerocket (Fat Wreck Chords, 2009).
Back in those days the guitar player from Strung Out was playing a parker fly to get that wild metal sound. It had active pickups and you could get a some wild voices out of it; me and my drummer used to go to Mars music (should out to the Best Buy of music stores RIP) and play around with them all the time, even though they were way to metal to be accepted in the local punk scene.
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I havent watched this yet, but if NFG self titled and Say it like you mean it by Starting line dont make an appearence I wont be happy Mr.
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Dude Ranch's 4 song lineup of:
Dammit
Emo
Josie
A New Hope
was the best to me, melody, riffs, vocals all top notch
Shoutout to Neck Deep Life’s Not Out To Get You. Flawless album that for sure pushed the revival of the genre in the mid 2010s
Oh yeah ! That's my favourite album of all time ! This helped me through so much shit and it has just no skips
Great pick. I listen to it weekly.
unfortunate that neck deep fell off a cliff after the peace and the panic, they had 3 amazing albums
That album is Neck Deeps best. I listened to that album front to back for months! So good. Then they fell off and now I'm sad
I still listen to that The Story So Far album front to back like weekly, it’s so goddamn impressive. No skips
Agreed
TSSF can't do wrong. All of their albums are gold, but yeah that one was special.
I think Take Off Your Pants And Jacket is Blink-182's best album. Nothing but summertime, angsty vibes. It's an easy listen, not a single skipable track on there, i absolutely love it!
Great opinion
i like it, but maybe a bit too catchy/cheesy. its fun to and no skip, but enema and self titled are better in every department i think.
Definitely agree and I've been a fan of theirs since Cheshire Cat. Dude Ranch is a close second!
I agree with you. I think that's Blinks best followed closely by Enema.
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The fact that City Lights was mentioned was mind blowing to me. Found them in 2015 and loved their music. Sad to see that they only had two albums.
ditto. I found them years later... just one of those bands that I somehow missed. and damn I love it all!
SAME
Yes, dude, City Lights are so good and so underrated!
One more then Boxcar Racer
Under Soil and Dirt is such a great album. I was entering my junior year in high school when this came out and this album brings back a lot of memories. Absolutely agreed its one of the best pop punk albums.
Gotta give New Found Glory some love for Sticks and Stones. Great selections here Finn!
FINN IS WRONG, STICKS AND STONES SHOULD BE ON THE LIST!
I was thinking the same thing! That’s another album that is great from beginning to end 👍👍
Either Self Titled or Sticks and Stones…
I get that people would pick Sticks and Stones, but my favorite will always be Nothing Gold Can Stay.
@@jakeuhhbsaw them play both back to back in '17
Finn is serving masterpieces on a daily basis . Nuff said.
Your first 3 words were already correct. Finn IS serving.
Strung out - twisted by design is a very underrated album. My jam on there is Too close to see. Mighty cool of you to put it on here.
I love that you put strung out on your list. They’re one of my favorites. Twisted by design was great. I love how they mix pop punk with metal. Exile into oblivion is amazing. Deville may be my favorite song by them. Her name in blood is up there too.
@2:41 thanks for showing The Last Thing You Forget, title fight doesnt get enough love
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It's now safe to say..."All Killer No Filler" changed my life man! My life was engulfed by music ever since I heard fat lip on "Now that's what I call music 8" when I was 12.
2:38 yoooo shoutout to the editor for the title fight shoutout
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I looked back at an old yearbook I had from grade 8 elementary, and favourite bands were Green Day, Rancid , The Offspring.
Also remember having a Blink 182 shirt in grade 9 and people either made fun of me or had no clue who they were.
This shaped my musical taste forever.
Hung out with the City Lights guys many times. We use to play together at Middlegrounds in Chillicothe
Finn. Thank you for supplying this constant stream of gold! One of my favourite RUclips folks for sure ❤
Solid picks, but I would add Saves The Day - Through Being Cool, Jawbreaker - Dear You, New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones, and Cartel - Chroma
Saves the day - through being cool
Alkaline trio - from here to the infirmary
Say anything - ...is a real boy
Motion city soundtrack - commit this to memory
Dear You and Sticks and stones are favorites as well !
I agree with Enema being #1 but I wish more people knew Fenix-TX they are seriously underrated, their first album is a masterpiece
I played their self titled and Lechuza albums over and over. Incredibly underrated.
They truly are
Dude I just made the same comment before reading this one!!! So great top 3 for me
Yes, the first Fenix-TX album is a masterpiece!
The chorus to Quicksand makes me want to sing along to it every time, without fault. Can't even explain why as it's fairly simple, it just lands.
"lands" great use of wordage
I agree, Green Day is the Finn McKenty of pop punk. You deserve a musical!
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Finn not being into the newer Descendents stuff, or not loving the darker Blink stuff or the heavier stuff by Sum 41 is completely opposite to me. Screaming bloody murder is such a goddamn great song, and the Cool to be you album by Descendents is amazing.
I saw The Story So Far on monday, opening for blink-182 in Lisbon (Portugal) and Quicksand was an absolute blast! Unfortunately, due to my job, I was late to the concert and only caught the last 3 songs, but it was still worth running to the venue for! (blink were awesome, by the way.. I'd only seen them once before and it was in 2012, when the chemistry was off and it just felt like Tom didn't want to be there at all, so this time was a truly magic moment for me).
Nobody does it better than Blink!!
Saw Sum 41 this fall. They're still killing it.
Great list man! I remember coming home from school like 1999-2002, jumping on my drums, hitting the 6 cd changer😂 and jamming for hours to enema of the state, all killer no filler, sticks and stones, lifestyles of the rich and famous, take off your pants and jacket, does this look infected.
It was unreal how much great music came out in those years.
Then I’d go meet up with friends and eat dinner at a burger joint by the beach
I literally still feel that was the best time of my life 🥲.
Matt from Set Your Goals just started singing in our band. I would definitely put SYG in the same category as The Story So Far. Honestly they should of been bigger than what they were.
Agreed. Dookie is so so good. I like it better now than when it came out. City of Evil as well. It’s wild how much some albums from the 90s and 00s have became absolute classics.
City of evil is great but I don't know what made you think a7x
City of evil is great but I don't know what made you think a7x
Oooh City Lights...and Strung Out! Awesome picks those are great albums.
I remember reading that Transit’s “Keep This To Yourself” was a big inspiration for TSSF’s debut. Transit is great but I think TSSF really nailed that sound.
And of course I must mention strung out from ATV offroad fury, mx vs atv unleashed and mx vs atv supercross encore. Absolutely love that band, very slept on
I'm surprised to see Strung Out make the list because despite them being one of my favorite bands and Twisted by Design being one of my favorite albums they are rarely discussed. The most is usually "oh yeah they're a solid band".
So yeah a great choice.
Not sure I would even consider bands like Strung Out, Good Riddance, Pennywise, Pulley, Ten Foot Pole, Lagwagon, Face To Face, etc. to be pop punk. The same way I wouldn't consider City Lights, ADTR, Chunk, No Captain Chunk, Abandoned By Bears, etc. to be pop punk either.
Happy with all of these choices, I do love the wonder years and think they do some song writing that is truly special; either way great choices
HAHAHA when you faded the Title Fight record in when talking about TSSF...lmao. surprised not to see NFG and FTSK here as I know they're also among your favorites. great vid as always Finn!
Who else has the authority to name the best Pop-Punk albums of all time if not our own RUclips star and Death Metal elitist and the only lad on this planet who knows the difference between Brutal Technical Power Ska and Technical Brutal Power Ska?
I'd really like to see a video of yours about The Vandals. I'm not a punk dude but these guys have managed to deliver memorable songs with high energy for so long it amazes me. And I agree with you, Live fast is a 10/10 catchy fun punk album.
Saw ADTR live a few years ago - had somehow not come across them before, they were headlining with The Used supporting (who I was there to see) and I was blown away. One of my top 5 bands since then.
I remember around Ennema time Mark managed a band called Fenix Tx and they were on that tour. First Fenix Tx album a top 5 pop punk for me. I’m probably the only one who remembers them
I saw Fenix TX with Offspring and Sum 41 in 2001. Believe it or not Sum 41 was the opener not Fenix (Sum 41 hadn't blown up yet). It was a great show !!!
Thanks for the video. We're about the same age and I fell off the pop punk wagon in about 2005 or so. The newer suggestions will help me get back up to speed on what's been going on since then.
might be because of my age but self titled is my favorite. it just seems more mature and creative and progressive and poetic. also it has a post hardcore vibe to it on a couple songs which i love.
I prefer self titled and dude ranch over Enema, but they all have a different vibe. Dude Ranch sounds more punk, Enema is poppy, and Self Titled is dark and emo.
I'd like to say more additions of you giving different genres a chance. Like, Were You Wrong About Indie Music Part 2
Top 5, no order. This is my favorite genre of music:
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
New Found Glory - self titled
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Knuckle Puck - Copacetic
Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
Just my opinion, but I think all those albums mastered the genre. Classics as well as "modern classics", if you will.
I was in middle/high school during the "Golden Age" as Fin would call it and which I agree with. I loved all the other bands to like Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Mest etc... (Feldman Core lol) as well as all the Drive-Thru stuff like Midtown, Allister, The Starting Line, Homegrown, that was by far my favorite label. I remember that label had their own stage at Warped Tour one year, the same summer "Sticks and Stones" came out of course NFG was on the main stage though, along with Something Corporate who is also a great band. The Early Novemeber is one of my favorite bands OF ALL TIME. I have to mention that when talking about Drive - Thru. To put things in perspective as far as a time frame Enema came out when I was in sixth grade, sticks and stones the summer between 8th and 9th grade.
This genre will always be my favorite and I love Finn's content about it. I just wish he would cover the newer bands in the genre more like Knuckle Puck, Hot Mulligan, Free Throw, Movements, although those bands I guess could be considered more "post-emo" or whatever.
Now that I've got to the end of this video my only argument for Finn is that he didn't include NFG's self titled because I know it's a 10/10 no skip for him.
No MxPx? Crzy
that is actually a pretty solid list. kudos.
for me, I would have to include New Found Glory "Sticks and Stones", Houston Calls "a Collection of Short Stories", Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American", MxPx "Ten Years and Running", Tsunami Bomb both "The Definitive Act" and "The Ultimate Escape", Ellegarden "Dont Trust Anyone But Us" and Uplift Spice "Memento".
Oh, hello there fellow Houston Calls enjoyer.
I got to see ADTR, i see stars and eacape the fate in like 2009, in Ocala, with like 250 people in a bar. Holy shit was that nuts. Great times and great album.
I wish more people were into “In it to Win It”, legitimately one of my all time favorite albums.
Great Episode, ending it on a high note Finn with a mention of the Vandals!!! Happy Birthday to me...
Not that anyone gives a shit, but the guy with the blackflys glasses next to the drummer in the Sum-41 video was the best man in my wedding.
That’s rad dude
City Lights! I live in Newark, OH which is like 30 miles east of Columbus. I got them to play in my small hometown at a random youth center when they were still playing. It's awesome to see Oshie went on to play in Beartooth.
Good list, Finn! I didn't know City Lights so I bought the digital version. It's a very good pop-punk album. I'm now 43, I have grown with this kind of stuff. I will add The Starting Line "Say it like you mean it" but the absolute album of this era (and still is to this day) is "Stories and Alibis" by Matchbook Romance. It's not "pop-punk" per se, more of an emo-ish thing, but for me, "Promise" is still the best song ever written 😍. A great thanks for your vids from France...
Homesick was THE record for me in high school. That and Hybrid Theory shaped my musical tastes until I discovered Periphery and Dream Theater.
10/10 records. ❤
I know Homesick gets a ton of fanfare, but I remember ADTR before Homesick and For Those Who Have Heart was a great album that really got them on the map and created a lot of hype. You could tell they knew what they were doing on songwriting and just really broke out on Homesick.
For me, 2009 was my personal era on playing in bands/writing music (Around 19/20 years old), so I always tie that album in with that time of my life.
Love hearing the memories tied to music!
@@sluggernottfor those who have heart is a great album.
NEEERRRRRRD!!
Jim Cherry started his own band called, Zero Down. They only put out one album before he passed away, but it is so f-ing good!
Saw TSSF in 2010 on their first tour of Under Soil and Dirt in Glastonbury CT in a barn. I was there for State Champs, I had never heard of TSSF. The performance in on RUclips.
You're thinking of Exile in Oblivion from Strung Out. I couldn't agree more about Homesick. That's a no-skip full album listen. I remember hearing it at first going "wtf? This is like NFG meets Hatebreed." Dookie is also a flawless masterpiece. I even love Insomniac. It's just Dookie but darker. Great list Finn.
I have to say, I always loved Sum41 - I was a little bit older (not a teenager) but I liked the bounce and the fact that it felt just a little bit harder. These days, I still listen to them when I want my pop punk fix, and I have played ADTR to shreds (pun intended). So many good songs, "All killer..." is a no-skip.
thanks Finn, added some new stuff to my spotify. ever since Edging from blink, my nostalgic kicked in, started digging back into the good old stuff from late 90’s early 2000’s. it has peaked with One More Time 2 weeks ago. underestimated the power of music. i feel young again!
Id love to see a video about the influence of KROQ
Sometimes at times like 9:38 when Finn starts listing bands I've never heard of before, I swear he could just be making names up and you know what I'll believe him
My Top 5 Pop Punk Albums:
1- The Ataris - "So long, Astoria"
2- Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"
3- Simple Plan - "..Still not getting any"
4- Good Charlotte - "The Young and Hopeless"
5- blink 182 - "Take Off Your Pants and Jackets"
Finn is NEVER wrong
Finn is Dad.
Great choices, Finn! I feel lucky to have see ADTR on the Homesick tour when they still played smallish clubs. One of the most memorable shows I’ve ever been to.
I'm friends with the drummer, I used to run a music leaking website back in the day, and he actually sent me there disc before it even came out. Such a nice dude, I wish I saw these guys, along with Hit The Lights.
I love this list, even though i was never really into Pop Punk, i thank you for bringing ADTR and Homesick to my attention because i frickin love that album
Love the pop punk content! As a microphone nerd I do feel I have to point out this is not how you're supposed to use an SM7b. You don't speak into the side, you speak into the top. Rotating the mic will improve both the tone and the strength of the signal. Sorry if you know this already.
Oof, you’re that guy! For your own sake, please stop. This is no way to go through life. It will only make people dislike you.
haha ok@@FinnMckentyPRMBA
One thing to watch out for is being “confidently wrong.” I’m speaking into the mic at about a 45 degree angle, although it doesn’t look like it here due to the camera angle. This is to avoid really strong plosives. And as you can hear, my audio sounds fine. Honestly man, being a pedantic knowitall is an absolutely toxic personality trait and you should drop it.
alright dude, i'm sorry@@FinnMckentyPRMBA
Way to react to a polite comment 👍@@FinnMckentyPRMBA
I’m so glad you brought up In It to Win It. I feel like I’m the only one who loves that band and album sometimes. Trophy Room and Hang Out are legitimate S-tier pop punk songs.
Your taste is spot on Finn, you have my approval.
You have to check out - if you haven't - the basket case 4-track demo version on Dookie 30 anniversary release ... Totally different lyrics ad amazing to see the progression of the song.... All the 4 track demos great and captures that transition from kerplunk to dookie..
12:24 Agreed - I dubbed a tape of it in grade 7 (1995) and I recently found it and played it in my summer car (it's from the 80s, tape deck was an option ;) ) and yeah, this is absolutely true.
These videos are comforting. You are our Punk Rock Mr. Rodgers
Life in General from MxPx is up there for me. My favorite version of the pop punk sound.
Perfect album!!!
Fucking love city lights! My old roommate turned me onto those guys back in 2014
Number 1 is Blink yes, but Number 2 for me is Face To Face self titled 1996
Another great one Finn!
There are sooo many albums I could add to this list...
So Long Astoria by the Ataris, The Ever Passing Moment by MxPx, Smash by The Offspring, Based on a True Story by the Starting Line, Good for Me by the Swellers, Killing Time by Bayside, From Here to Infirmary by Alkaline Trio, Foot in Mouth Disease by Gob, Lechuza by Fenix Tx, Box Car Raver by Box Car Racer, Sing the Sorrow by AFI, Forget What You Know by Midtown, The Feel Good Record of the Year by No Use For a Name, Sometimes Things Just Disappear by Polar Bear Club, 37 Everywhere by Punchline, Mmhmm by Relient K, This Will Be the Death of Us by Set Your Goals, Palm Trees and Power Lines by Sugarcult, So Far From Real by Cauterize, Make a Sound by Autopilot Off... etc, etc, etc.
As overpopulated the Pop Punk scene was in the early 2000s, it produced some of the best albums in the history of the genre.
Solid picks here. Especially The Ataris. I'd have different album picks for MxPx, The Starting Line, and Fenix-TX but this list is solid.
It’s wild to me how tumblr in a way was the most important era for modern pop punk but also the end of the most important era of core genres. Not knocking the incredible music released since then but I feel that the end of tumblr truly marked the end of monoculture as Finn calls it. Crazy times. Or maybe I’m old and my perspective is all wrong lol
For me, there is not another band with a better stretch of albums than Green Day. Kerplunk thru Nimrod is legendary stuff.
Don't forget 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours 🍻
@@matthewjames206 I do love that album too, but I think it has about 9 awesome tracks out of the 17 while the other albums are virtually 100% bangers.
Change that to through American Idiot and then I’m in.
Warning and American Idiot were good too. Different but good.
@@lobesmcgee I can't get behind Warning.
Was not expecting to see Strung Out on this list! Hell yea! 🤘
Great picks Finn,, not sure my top 5 but "the young and the hopeless" from Good Charlotte definitely will be there
Ive never considered green day pop punk. Heavily influential to pop punk. But they’re a straight up punk band
They are the definition of pop punk
I like pre Travis Blink, but I was also a teenager and was going to punk shows every week in Jacksonville Florida. Cheshire Cat is probably my favorite Blink album. I was like 20 when Travis joined Blink, so pre Travis just takes me back to being a teen and not having bills and shit
The Mark Tom and Travis Show, All Killer No Filler, and Take This To Your Grave were my 3 most played poppunk albums in high school. I also had a lot of mix cds with Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Sugarcult, MXPX, The Starting Line, and more that I can't think of at the moment. That was a lot of weed ago 😂
yeah mxpx!
always loved city lights, they remind me of a modern slick shoes
For me, a truly underrated album is GOB’s Foot In Mouth Disease. Most EA Sports kids know it due to songs like Give Up The Grudge or Oh Ellin! but as a whole it’s terrific pop punk with just a little bit of an edge.
Also up there is Bowling For Soup’s A Hangover You Don’t Deserve. It’s hard to truly say what the best BFS album is as a whole, but I feel like most would agree it’s either this or The Great Burrito Extortion Case.
Amber Pacific "The Possibility and the Promise", Abandoned By Bears "When Nothing Goes Right, Go Left!", The Starting Line "Say It Like You Mean It", Hit The Lights "This Is A Stick Up...", New Found Glory "Sticks and Stones", Teen Idols "Full Leather Jacket", Day At The Fair "The Rocking Chair Years", MxPx "Life In General", Fenix-TX, would be on my list amongst many others.....
A honorable mention part would be nice! So many great albums that just didnt make the list like page avenue and siren song of the counter culture
Saw Descendents for the first time about 2 years ago in Irvine, CA. They were opening for Rise Against (the band that I wanted to see), but I actually enjoyed Descendents more, even though I didn't know about the band when I saw them live. Didn't realize they were the template for early pop punk (I grew up in the 90's/ 2000's, so I missed the whole early 80's OC hardcore/ LA thrash scene). Was nice to find out more about the band and their history.
Totally agree about Enema being number 1. It's probably not my personal favorite pop punk album of all time, or even my favorite Blink album, but it is really a perfect pop punk album. Jerry Finn deserves a ton of credit.
12:10 what’s even more impressive about Green Day and the impact American Idiot had was that they had been written off as has beens until it came out
I'd easily put Americana by Offspring in the list. I loved that album when it came out.
Yeah but Finn hates the offspring
yeah, i used filmora once for a university project. the final video had that free version watermark all over it in the end.
*insert comment about how you included my favorite band and i feel validated*
Wow, that Filmora ad was incredible. How could you have ever come up with that segment without AI? 😂
Finn, I want to thank you for your awesome videos! Great respect for everything you're doing. From Russia with my international love and appreciation!
Thank you!
Great video, I'd just appreciate some timestamps or maybe a hard list/ranking at the beginning or end to look over. Because I wanna see one image and look up those albums lol
Now that I think of it, most of the music I listened to as a kid/teen was pop punk. My dad was really into nineties/early 200s American rock music. Nirvana, RHCP, foos etc. He also liked Green Day, and in 2004 he bought American Idiot. I didn’t know it back then, but I was obsessed. I looked back at their earlier music and videos. Avril was big at the time, as was blink and then paramore . Riot was huge. I wasn’t listen to much of it in the early 2010s but the story so far, the wonder years and neck deep I’ve really gotten into recently. So yeah, thanks dad. And now American Idiot is 20 years old. Oh GOD.
Enema of the State is without a doubt the best pop punk album and Blink’s best, but I do think that the self titled/untitled album was the most important to their legacy
Honorable mentions: 'My Brain Hurts' by Screeching Weasel (Lookout Records, 1991) and 'They Came from the Shadows' by Teenage Bottlerocket (Fat Wreck Chords, 2009).
I remember being at The Ghost Inside and First Blood in 2010, The Story So Far was ‘the halftime show’ they called themselves haha
I listened to "In too deep" on my way into my high-school wrestling state tournament! I lost my first match, but I was hype!
Back in those days the guitar player from Strung Out was playing a parker fly to get that wild metal sound. It had active pickups and you could get a some wild voices out of it; me and my drummer used to go to Mars music (should out to the Best Buy of music stores RIP) and play around with them all the time, even though they were way to metal to be accepted in the local punk scene.
Settle your Scores’ The Wilderness is the best easycore album ever IMO. That album is the ceiling of the genre.
Solid list! Only change is adding NFG Sticks and Stones.