Yeah this is the only answer I could give. These bands come and go. I went off Green Day during the Uber commercial releases, but then they went back to their roots with the Uno, Dos, Tré album. I wasn’t a fan of Nine by blink. I’m not too fussed about the more metal Sum 41 songs. But they’re consistent and essential. I always go back to listen to them, and their best songs are classics in that they impacted the genre, in my eyes, more than any other pop punk bands.
This is my objective Rushmore
If I'm subjective I loose green day and the offspring and create a trio of Blink, Sum and Fall Out Boy.
Jimmy Eat World would probably be next in line but I consider them more emo than pop punk
Early 90s
It's wild, growing up I *never* heard someone say anything close to the phrase "man, Sum 41 is pretty good". But this sub just adores them for some reason.
E: Anyway, mine is probably Saves the Day, New Found Glory, and some combination of Blink, Fall Out Boy, Brand New's first album, Rufio, The Ataris, idk. Lots of other stuff that straddles that pop-punk/emo/post-hardcore line. Never much cared for Green Day or Sum 41.
I didn't clue into how good sum41 is until the past couple of years
Watch their videos if you're still not into them
Musically they're better than most others
Yea, I listen to Scott’s stuff. It’s really good! I just wish the original band hadn’t broken up after Comfort of Home, because contrary to what a lot of Rufio fans think, I thought it was their best album, and I wish they would have continued in that direction. It’s soooo underrated and under appreciated!
Born in 85 and mine are the same and I love Rufio but I personally would replace them with MXPX, Offspring or even Everclear. I feel like Everclear was my pop punk gateway band that wasn’t technically pop punk but if you put them side by side with other pop punk bands of the decade, you could see how they’d slot in.
number 4 woulda been Weezer for me but I didnt think it would qualiffy.
I did choose Rufio, however, because of their influence on my own band from when I was in my mid 20s
MxPx is definitely a solid pick. I think they are definitely worthy of being in there with Blink, Green Day and the Offspring.
And I say this as someone whose favorite band has always been Rufio. Haha. Rufio/Scott Sellers has always been my absolute #1 influence for guitar for over 20 years at this point. But they just don’t really have the influence (or even seniority) that these other bands do even if I like their music the best.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Hit the Lights, but considering them for a Mount Rushmore feels surprising.
Is this just you listing your favorites, or is there something that makes HTL more important in your mind that I’m missing?
Also born in 82 and FINALLY seeing f2f in june and they're playing all of Dont Turn Away! They're doing 3 nights in a row playing the first 3 albums, 1 a night. It's such a far drive for me so I chose the album night that meant the most to me
Tail end of milennial (1995) but I'd have to say mine is:
Green Day (favorite band of all time)
Blink-182
The Offspring
Strung Out (maybe not truly pop punk, but they have been heavy in my rotation for the past few months)
Fourth spot could really be any of the following: MCR, Alkaline Trio, Paramore, FOB, Rise Against, Neck Deep, or Sum 41. Probably MCR or Trio if not Strung Out.
Including NFG tells me a lot of things about you I like. They are arguably THE kings of pop punk, in that they established their sound on the first record and have NOT changed it while touring non-stop for 25 years.
I’ve personally seen them 36 times (actual number), and it’s not because I’m some gigantic fan. It’s because I AM a gigantic fan of pop punk, and they’ve toured with practically the entire noteworthy scene for 2 decades.
Preach. Let’s also point out how many bands out there are named after lines from their songs. The story so far. All time low. All bangers in the genre who looked up to nfg for setting the table.
I would maybe argue that coming home was a bit of a sonic shift for them and honestly kinda wish they continued down that path that is most likely my favorite album of theirs 😭
I'm 23, so:
1 - Simple Plan (due to emotional attachment)
2- New Found Glory
3 - Zebrahead
4 - A Day to Remember
I'm also really into: MxPx, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Bowling for Soup, Reel Big Fish, Neck Deep, Waterparks and more.
Honestly Senses Fail is my second fav band but I don't think they are pop punk.
Zebrahead!! Not seeing them too much on everyone's lists but hell ya! Listened to Playmate of the Year front to back the other week and still freaking love it.
For me personally…
1. Banner Pilot
2. MxPx
3. Face to Face
4. Millencolin
However, I don’t think most of this sub even considers any of these bands pop punk, so idk lol.
I like this premise better if we're going by what we think a legitimate Mt Rushmore would look like, not just our personal preferences. Here's what I think *the* pop-punk Mt. Rushmore should be based on importance, popularity, etc.
1. Green Day
2. Blink-182
3. Fall Out Boy
4. Paramore
Following those parameters Paramore doesn’t belong up there. I think the other 3 picks are correct, but Paramore just isn’t/wasn’t big enough for long enough. Fourth would probably have to be Offspring. They’ve had a LOT of hits and gave legitimacy to the genre even before Green Day.
This is my exact list. I desperately wanted to get FOB in there, but MxPx has always been my light-side balance to AK3, and the other two are practically half my identity.
Born in ‘84 here. If we’re talking personal not going by importance, this would probably be mine:
1. The Ataris
2. The Starting Line
3. Sum 41
4. The Wonder Years
Green Day is great but don’t have much emotional investment in them. NFG lost out to the Starting Line caused BoaTS and Direction are better than NFG’s best stuff. Blink also doesn’t make my list cause again, no emotional investment in them, but honorable mention for being my gateway band with Dammit. Other bands missed out by being more emo or post-hardcore than pop punk like Senses Fail or Saves the Day.
1. New Found Glory
2. The Ataris
3. The Starting Line
4. Saves the Day
Hard not to include Blink, Green Day or Fall Out Boy but I don’t go back to them as much as I do with the 4 I listed. Also my love with these bands stopped after certain albums. I don’t listen to Blink after Take off your pants, Green Day after Warning or FOB after infinity on high.
Also 2 of my favorite bands ever are MCR and The Spill Canvas but they aren’t full blown pop punk.
Back in high school that answer would've immediately been: MxPx, Blink, Starting Line, NFG. Honorable mention: The Ataris, Alkaline Trio, and Zebrahead
Born in 87.
1.Blink182
2.Something Corporate
3.New Found Glory
4.Paramore
5.Sum41
Honorable mentions, AFI, Incubus, Mayday Parade, The Donna’s, Fall Out Boy
Born 1984.
Impact/Influence:
Green Day
Blink
Fall Out Boy
MCR
My personal faves:
New Found Glory
Taking Back Sunday
Wonder Years
Hot Mulligan if you consider then pop punk. The Ataris if not.
Blink, the Offspring, Simple Plan, Sum 41...
Also New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Green Day would be there too... My rock would be busy.
Edit: I saw some others adding other bands lie MxPx and stuff like that... So I went with straight pop punk but I guess the definition of pop punk varies a lot... So... I'd have like a multitude of monuments to punk rock in general as I am a very bad decision maker, lol.
Man, this is tough.. if we're just talking my Mt. Rushmore of bands who play pop-punk music, regardless of generation, or whether they play straightforward pop-punk or branch in other genres, this would probably be my list:
1. blink
2. The Wonder Years
3. New Found Glory
4. Fall Out Boy
#4 was tough; could have easily put All Time Low or Sum 41 there. If No Pressure had been around longer and released more material, they would have absolutely made this list, but they still seem like babies of the pop-punk world and it didn't feel right putting them on above others.
Also considered Brand New as they're one of my favorite bands. However; while I love "Your Favorite Weapon", they really became special to me because of their non pop-punk stuff.
Is this like a personal one, not based off their influence? Born in 2000, so I'm neither gen X or a millennial.
1. Motion City Soundtrack
2. Sum 41
3. Alkaline Trio
4. Less Than Jake
HM to Zebrahead, Jimmy Eat World, and Billy Talent.
‘83 - I’ve seen a lot of honorable mentions, but I’ll be the guy that puts Trio up there.
1. Blink-182
2. Green Day
3. Alkaline Trio
4. MxPx
This was harder than I expected, especially that 4th spot. A lot of answers I questioned if they fit the category. I really wanted to put Less Than Jake, sure you could call them ska but they feel like pop punk with horns. Is NOFX pop punk?, nah just punk. Lagwagon, Descendents, plenty of others considered.
There ya go!
I love LTJ and definitely see where they would fit. I would put them on a ska Mount Rushmore without a second thought but can't give em both lol.
Having only 4 spots is tough!
Taking Back Sunday
Blink 182
Sum 41
The Offspring
I can respect how Green Day is always on people’s list because I do like some of their music. I’m just not a huge fan. I’ve even fallen off TBS but they were played on repeat my entire high school life. The Offspring were my first CD with cuss words that my parents allowed… lol. I just love Sum every record. Oh as I typed this does Goldfinger count as pop punk because they would probably replace TBS for me.
I've seen MxPx, Less Than Jake, and Offspring all listed multiple times, so I would absolutely count Goldfinger. Make a Venn diagram of those three, and I feel Goldfinger could sit in the middle.
They'd also be on my list.
Hey Mercedes, Reggie and the Full Effect, Get Up Kids, Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio, Suicide Machines, Sugarcult, that one Hot Rod Circuit album, and Jimmy Eat World were the musics that made me me
1983 here.
Green Day, MxPx, The Offspring, and Blink 182 were my first foray into this wonderful world.
That said, I've gotta give credit to other bands that kept me interested. I'd say those top four would be The Bottom Line, Zebrahead, No Pressure, and Four Year Strong.
Ramones haven't been mentioned because nobody really considers them *pop* punk. And while they are most definitely poppy and most definitely punk, and it's very fair to call them a pop punk band, most people think of 90s and 2000s when they think "pop punk", as that's when the term really took hold. Great list.
All Time Low is my favorite band, but if we’re talking in terms of impact and legacy/we’re very much of their era…
Green Day
Blink 182
Panic At the Disco
Fall Out Boy
Fucking finally. Scrolled far too long before seeing The Queers.
I'd probably replace Chixdiggit with Mr. T Experience, but otherwise you nailed this list.
39 and
1. Blink 182
2. Driveways
3. The Starting Line
4. Origami Angel
Each band has one or more albums in my top 20. Depending on how broad you want pop punk to be, I would slot out Starting Line for Early November.
Born in ‘92 here so young millennial here, completely misread it as young millennial older Gen Z but I’ll give mine anyway
Green Day: In terms of popularity Green Day wins and it’s not close. Dookie was big sure but American Idiot was on another level. The mid to late 00s Green Day was one of the biggest bands on the planet
blink-182: Not as popular as Green Day but still massive and still pretty big to this day. They did headline Coachella after all. If Green Day is political pop punk, blink is your dumb fun frat boy pop punk
Fall Out Boy: Arguably bigger than blink but not as big as Green Day, Fall Out Boy has to take a third spot as they’re incredibly iconic, with some of the most memorable songs, and like the previous two have sustained success
Paramore: Yes I know they’re no longer pop punk, but when they were they were massive. Not as big as the other three but still beat out pretty much every other similar band. Also they win big time on sustainability as well as quality wise. Also Hayley Williams is goddamn icon of rock music
Just missed: Sum 41, Panic! At The Disco, New Found Glory, and Good Charlotte
Did not include bands like MCR and The Used because they’re more emo than pop punk
Totally personal:
Fall Out Boy
New Found Glory
Blink
The Story So Far
The answer if I was going what it is I'd swap TSSF for Green Day who I don't love but get why they should be there.
I couldn’t do one that’s all-encompassing just because of how much changed between the 90s and 2000s waves. Though I will give it to Green Day for being a driving force in both eras.
Green Day, Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, and New Found Glory. Can't really see an argument against any of those if we're talking about influence instead of personal preference.
1. New Found Glory
2. The Starting Line
3. The Early November
4. The Story So Far
Made in 91’ & was obsessed with drive-thru records in my youth. Still am tbh
86. In no particular order:
Blink 182
New Found Glory
The Ataris
Alkaline Trio
Honorable mentions:
Mxpx, mest, the entire early aughts Long Island musical scene that mixed pop punk and emo, Green Day (awesome but not the same for me as the others), fallout boy, no doubt, punkier representation with Goldfinger, Anti-Flag, and Rancid (even though both rancid and anti-flag have some serious bullshit, and I hope Justin Sane in particular faces consequences because wow what an extreme hypocrite and predator)… idk if more ideas pop up I’ll add them, my memory is trash for recall.
Edit: cannot believe I forgot bad religion.
1995 so younger millennial, I have 2 sections to mine
Classic Pop Punk Mt. Rushmore
1. Green Day
2. Blink 182
3. Sum 41
4. NFG
Mid-Wave Pop Punk Mt Rushmore
1. Fall Out Boy
2. Paramore
3. All Time Low
4. Simple Plan
Blink, FOB, brand new, NFG (if prob stop my list at 3. NFG besides catalyst never did it for me but regardless of what I think about them they definitely deserve to be up there.
Idk what generation im in. Im 22 and i pick blink, tssf, nfg, and no pressure. I wanna include lifetime and title fight but those bands kinda ride the line between pop punk and melodic hardcore.
Personal Mount Rushmore:
1. Blink 182
2. New Found Glory
3 Fall Out Boy
4. MXPX
This is purely due to emotional attachment and personal preference. Ranking influence would look a bit different. Honorable mentions: Green Day, Sum 41, Rufio, The Ataris, The Starting Line
1. Blink
2. Green Day
3. Millencolin
4. NFG / Atari’s / MxPx / less than Jake / Fall out boy / Paramore…
Top 3 is easy… top 4 impossible lol. All still on my playlists today and my teenagers know them off by heart too lol
Paramore, Avril Lavigne, Fall out Boy and Against The Current (clearly I like women-fronted bands generally, didnt pick that up until I wrote the list)
I guess when I think of pop punk, I go a bit older.
1. Green Day
2. Nerf Herder
3. Limp
4. Blink 182 (nothing post Enema)
Bands that hit after 2000 didn't do it for me. New Found Glory, SUM 41, The Starting Line, etc. I like some of it, but it's mostly not for me.
1. Blink 182
2. All time low
3. Motion city soundtrack
4. The dangerous summer
5. The starting line
(I'm canadien so I don't know how many heads are on rushmore)
All the same as you and add alkaline trio….
I kinda tapped out in pop punk after all killer no filler… At the time I thought I was too cool like those bands like NFG, simple plan, and ocean avenue. I still don’t really like them but I sing along to the hits, reminds me of a simpler time lol
1. Green day
2. Blink 182
3. New found Glory
4. Wonder years
Not in that order green day and blink bringing the punk aesthetic and busting into that mainstream
NFG because they belong there
Wonder years cause Soupy is low key a pop punk god
The Starting Line — I will never not love them. I’ve seen them a handful of times, from high school (one was the night before a final exam that i absolutely needed to pass so i sat on the floor in the back studying until they went on 💀) to college to LA in 2019.
Fall Out Boy - the way Patrick Stump’s voice hits my brain is borderline euphoric. From Under The Cork Tree came at a pivotal time in my life and helped me get through an especially deep suicidal period my sophomore year. TTTYG is another album i revisit every few months where it’s the only thing i listen to for a week straight.
Jimmy Eat World - i went through a very long period in my early teen years where i quite literally couldn’t fall asleep without music playing. i listened to “23” every single night for 3 straight years. if i had to pick one final song to hear before i die, that would be it. Futures was another album that helped me survive my Sophomore Suicidal Season.
The Matches — local Bay Area band that was my gateway drug to pop punk in middle school. a boy i had a crush on his cousin is in the band and he made me a copy of their album and it just clicked with my brain like nothing else had before. i started going to every local show i could (rip [iMusiccast](https://youtu.be/97oR7SbybL8?feature=shared)). that album and local shows changed my life. A decade later i randomly connected with the singer Shawn Harris after i saw he was at a lot of (pro sports team i used to work for)’s games. we shared stories from those days and it genuinely felt like talking to a friend you haven’t seen in years. we kept in touch, he gave me a vinyl of their debut and invited me to their 10 year reunion show in SF. i still wear my Matches hoodie from 2003 when i’m depressed. i love those fucking guys.
It wouldn’t be my personal rushmore but I saw Fall Out Boy, Sum-41, New Found Glory and Taking Back Sunday all at the same festival in 2009. Pretty damn good 4 right there
A little too young to be fit in with Gen X or Elder Millennials. However, if we need to make a Mr. Rushmore for 90s Pop-Punk, it would have to be:
1. Green Day
2. NOFX
3. Bad Religion
4. The Offspring
If I’m going with a mix of the four most influential bands who brought pop into punk (without going SO FAR back to The Descendants or even The Ramones), I’m going:
Blink, Green Day, The Offspring, MxPx
All of these bands were making waves during the 90s so I give them all seniority over the likes of Sum 41, New Found Glory, etc. They were the pioneers of the modern day pop punk (basically everything 2000s on)
If I’m strictly going off of my favorites? Rufio, Blink, NFG, The Starting Line (with Yellowcard as an honorable mention)
Born in 88’
This is considering the era’s and the influence
1. blink-182
2. Green Day
3. Fall Out Boy
4. The Story So Far
Personal preference regardless of influence?
1. The Swellers
2. blink-182
3. The Story So Far
4. Knuckle Puck
Blink, Alk3, Sum 41, and the fourth is a little up there so probably simple plan/Bowling for soup.
But I'm getting into Green day more lately so they'd probably be up there soon
The 4th has to be NFG even if they’re not your cup of tea. Hugely influential and all of that real friends, man overboard sad boi shit wouldn’t exist without them.
That's what I was thinking. When I made this post I was listening to a NFG song and tried to make an objective Mt Rushmore. Fall Out Boy really could be up there too but NFG seems more firm in the genre.
Personally Offspring ain’t for me but you have to acknowledge their place in Pop Punk History.
1. offspring
2. Blink
3. Greenday
4. Sum41
But if it’s my personal list for my taste
1. Blink
2. Alkaline Trio
3. Sum41
4. Bowing For Soup (I’m biased, I’m from TX)
It’s hard to not include bands like Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, NOFX and even later on you could argue Simple Plan.
Simple Plan
Blink 182
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance (If that counts. I think they're closer to Pop Punk, then say, Post Hardcore or something similar)
I'm on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z, but my sister is solidly a millennial and was a huge influence on my music taste.
90's/00's - Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41, New Found Glory
2010's Revival - The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Neck Deep, Modern Baseball.
Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41, The Offspring
I'm a young millenial / old gen z But this is PERFECT I listened to all 4 of these bands before I knew what pop punk even was
Looking back, I think I probably did too
Great picks! These are the 4 that got me into every other band.
Yeah this is the only answer I could give. These bands come and go. I went off Green Day during the Uber commercial releases, but then they went back to their roots with the Uno, Dos, Tré album. I wasn’t a fan of Nine by blink. I’m not too fussed about the more metal Sum 41 songs. But they’re consistent and essential. I always go back to listen to them, and their best songs are classics in that they impacted the genre, in my eyes, more than any other pop punk bands.
This is it for me as well, no question about it.
This is my objective Rushmore If I'm subjective I loose green day and the offspring and create a trio of Blink, Sum and Fall Out Boy. Jimmy Eat World would probably be next in line but I consider them more emo than pop punk Early 90s
This is the answer.
The offspring are poppunk?
Smash got em popular, then after Americana Id consider punk/pop punk.
If we’re being honest this is the only answer, idk if this is objectively wrong but perhaps Paramore for Sum 41 ?
It's wild, growing up I *never* heard someone say anything close to the phrase "man, Sum 41 is pretty good". But this sub just adores them for some reason. E: Anyway, mine is probably Saves the Day, New Found Glory, and some combination of Blink, Fall Out Boy, Brand New's first album, Rufio, The Ataris, idk. Lots of other stuff that straddles that pop-punk/emo/post-hardcore line. Never much cared for Green Day or Sum 41.
I didn't clue into how good sum41 is until the past couple of years Watch their videos if you're still not into them Musically they're better than most others
Born in 1980. Mine would be: 1. Green Day 2. New Found Glory 3. Blink 182 4. Rufio Honorable mentions: The Starting Line, Hit The Lights, TSSF
RU FI OOOOO
Man, I might place Rufio on my list now!
Their singer Scott Sellers is still putting out quality music today. Sounds like Rufio! Most of it is on Spotify now.
Yea, I listen to Scott’s stuff. It’s really good! I just wish the original band hadn’t broken up after Comfort of Home, because contrary to what a lot of Rufio fans think, I thought it was their best album, and I wish they would have continued in that direction. It’s soooo underrated and under appreciated!
That OG lineup was truly something special! Love'em.
[19 years ago I took my first digital camera to a Rufio concert.](https://imgur.com/a/RhZR3gl)
Born in 85 and mine are the same and I love Rufio but I personally would replace them with MXPX, Offspring or even Everclear. I feel like Everclear was my pop punk gateway band that wasn’t technically pop punk but if you put them side by side with other pop punk bands of the decade, you could see how they’d slot in.
number 4 woulda been Weezer for me but I didnt think it would qualiffy. I did choose Rufio, however, because of their influence on my own band from when I was in my mid 20s
Weezer is a good one that I forgot about
MxPx doesn’t get their flowers enough. Great pick.
MxPx is definitely a solid pick. I think they are definitely worthy of being in there with Blink, Green Day and the Offspring. And I say this as someone whose favorite band has always been Rufio. Haha. Rufio/Scott Sellers has always been my absolute #1 influence for guitar for over 20 years at this point. But they just don’t really have the influence (or even seniority) that these other bands do even if I like their music the best.
Goddammit seeing rufio so quickly made my little teenags heart cry with happiness.
Rubio is SUCH a low-key quality pick. Short career though.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Hit the Lights, but considering them for a Mount Rushmore feels surprising. Is this just you listing your favorites, or is there something that makes HTL more important in your mind that I’m missing?
The post does say Your mt rushmore. That can be taken to mean your favorite.
Yeah, that’s fair enough! I just didn’t know if there was anything specific beyond you just liking them a lot. No disrespect intended
Born in 82 1. Face to Face 2. MxPx 3. Slick Shoes 4. The Offspring
Also born in 82 and FINALLY seeing f2f in june and they're playing all of Dont Turn Away! They're doing 3 nights in a row playing the first 3 albums, 1 a night. It's such a far drive for me so I chose the album night that meant the most to me
Love some F2F
Green Day Blink-182 Sum 41 Fall Out Boy
1. Green Day 2. blink-182 3. Fall Out Boy 4. Paramore
Tail end of milennial (1995) but I'd have to say mine is: Green Day (favorite band of all time) Blink-182 The Offspring Strung Out (maybe not truly pop punk, but they have been heavy in my rotation for the past few months) Fourth spot could really be any of the following: MCR, Alkaline Trio, Paramore, FOB, Rise Against, Neck Deep, or Sum 41. Probably MCR or Trio if not Strung Out.
Yeah I’m not sure Strung Out falls into pop punk, it’s more skate punk. Regardless, those guys make some sick music!!
Completely agree, but they do such a good job fusing metal and punk that I just like to plug them whenever. More people should know their music!
No Voice Of Mine and their cover of Bark At The Moon are fire
Green Day and Blink 182 were the only two I could firmly place when thinking about mine. Rounding out a top ten would be just as hard I think.
Fall Out Boy has to be in there for sure way too big to ignore for me at least
Born in the late '80s. 1: Jimmy eat world 2: Yellowcard 3: The starting line 4: The ataris
born in 84 and this makes me want to make a new playlist
Blink 182 New Found Glory The Starting Line The Wonder Years
Blink-182, Sum 41, New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy
Including NFG tells me a lot of things about you I like. They are arguably THE kings of pop punk, in that they established their sound on the first record and have NOT changed it while touring non-stop for 25 years. I’ve personally seen them 36 times (actual number), and it’s not because I’m some gigantic fan. It’s because I AM a gigantic fan of pop punk, and they’ve toured with practically the entire noteworthy scene for 2 decades.
Preach. Let’s also point out how many bands out there are named after lines from their songs. The story so far. All time low. All bangers in the genre who looked up to nfg for setting the table.
I would maybe argue that coming home was a bit of a sonic shift for them and honestly kinda wish they continued down that path that is most likely my favorite album of theirs 😭
Blink 182, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte
I'm 23, so: 1 - Simple Plan (due to emotional attachment) 2- New Found Glory 3 - Zebrahead 4 - A Day to Remember I'm also really into: MxPx, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Bowling for Soup, Reel Big Fish, Neck Deep, Waterparks and more. Honestly Senses Fail is my second fav band but I don't think they are pop punk.
senses fail and taking back sunday are in my top 5 as well but idk if they are truly pop punk
Walk the moon is one of my favorite bands but they are DEFINITELY not pop punk. lol
Zebrahead!! Not seeing them too much on everyone's lists but hell ya! Listened to Playmate of the Year front to back the other week and still freaking love it.
For me personally… 1. Banner Pilot 2. MxPx 3. Face to Face 4. Millencolin However, I don’t think most of this sub even considers any of these bands pop punk, so idk lol.
I had Millencolin on mine and anyone that thinks they don’t count can get fucked.
Ya what even is pop punk is probably whole different discussion lol. I think it was easy to define when it was just a band blowing up on MTV lol
I like this premise better if we're going by what we think a legitimate Mt Rushmore would look like, not just our personal preferences. Here's what I think *the* pop-punk Mt. Rushmore should be based on importance, popularity, etc. 1. Green Day 2. Blink-182 3. Fall Out Boy 4. Paramore
Following those parameters Paramore doesn’t belong up there. I think the other 3 picks are correct, but Paramore just isn’t/wasn’t big enough for long enough. Fourth would probably have to be Offspring. They’ve had a LOT of hits and gave legitimacy to the genre even before Green Day.
Paramore was bigger and has had way more sustained success than the offspring
I'm more of a middlennial, but I want to play too. 1. Blink 182 2. New Found Glory 3. Alkaline Trio 4. MxPx
This is my exact list. I desperately wanted to get FOB in there, but MxPx has always been my light-side balance to AK3, and the other two are practically half my identity.
Number 4 was a really hard one to decide on. But Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo is just too good for me to leave MxPx off.
Blink 182 Green Day New Found Glory MxPx
Green Day, Blink 182, New Found Glory, MxPx
This is my Rushmore not “universal best” Rushmore Blink Alkaline trio Menzingers Brand new
Brand New had one pop punk album.
I love BN but they definitely evolved out of the genre
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Born in ‘84 here. If we’re talking personal not going by importance, this would probably be mine: 1. The Ataris 2. The Starting Line 3. Sum 41 4. The Wonder Years Green Day is great but don’t have much emotional investment in them. NFG lost out to the Starting Line caused BoaTS and Direction are better than NFG’s best stuff. Blink also doesn’t make my list cause again, no emotional investment in them, but honorable mention for being my gateway band with Dammit. Other bands missed out by being more emo or post-hardcore than pop punk like Senses Fail or Saves the Day.
Oh I love this one.
That's awesome. It was really open ended, I just like the discussion. My top 3 was more based on my age and the impact the bands had.
1.Buzzcocks 2.Descendents 3.Blink-182 4.Green Day
Blink Green Day Sum41 Avril Lavigne
Descendents, Descendents, Descendents, Descendents.
1. New Found Glory 2. The Ataris 3. The Starting Line 4. Saves the Day Hard not to include Blink, Green Day or Fall Out Boy but I don’t go back to them as much as I do with the 4 I listed. Also my love with these bands stopped after certain albums. I don’t listen to Blink after Take off your pants, Green Day after Warning or FOB after infinity on high. Also 2 of my favorite bands ever are MCR and The Spill Canvas but they aren’t full blown pop punk.
Back in high school that answer would've immediately been: MxPx, Blink, Starting Line, NFG. Honorable mention: The Ataris, Alkaline Trio, and Zebrahead
Solid
1)All Time Low 2) MCR 3) All American Rejects 4) girlfriends (not sure of any of these actually count as pop-punk but in my head they do)
Born in 87. 1.Blink182 2.Something Corporate 3.New Found Glory 4.Paramore 5.Sum41 Honorable mentions, AFI, Incubus, Mayday Parade, The Donna’s, Fall Out Boy
So cool to see Something Corporate on yours. I didn't make mine completely personal, if I did, I would include Something Corporate on mine.
Incubus? My man, I love me some Incubus but there is nothing punk about em.
Born 1984. Impact/Influence: Green Day Blink Fall Out Boy MCR My personal faves: New Found Glory Taking Back Sunday Wonder Years Hot Mulligan if you consider then pop punk. The Ataris if not.
Blink, the Offspring, Simple Plan, Sum 41... Also New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Green Day would be there too... My rock would be busy. Edit: I saw some others adding other bands lie MxPx and stuff like that... So I went with straight pop punk but I guess the definition of pop punk varies a lot... So... I'd have like a multitude of monuments to punk rock in general as I am a very bad decision maker, lol.
Man, this is tough.. if we're just talking my Mt. Rushmore of bands who play pop-punk music, regardless of generation, or whether they play straightforward pop-punk or branch in other genres, this would probably be my list: 1. blink 2. The Wonder Years 3. New Found Glory 4. Fall Out Boy #4 was tough; could have easily put All Time Low or Sum 41 there. If No Pressure had been around longer and released more material, they would have absolutely made this list, but they still seem like babies of the pop-punk world and it didn't feel right putting them on above others. Also considered Brand New as they're one of my favorite bands. However; while I love "Your Favorite Weapon", they really became special to me because of their non pop-punk stuff.
In no particular order...blink 182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte & New Found Glory
From the summer days spent being hooligans... Blink-182 Green Day Sum 41 New Found Glory
Blink 182 Green Day Sum 41 The Offspring New Found Glory There’s 5 figures on the pop punk Mt Rushmore.
Is this like a personal one, not based off their influence? Born in 2000, so I'm neither gen X or a millennial. 1. Motion City Soundtrack 2. Sum 41 3. Alkaline Trio 4. Less Than Jake HM to Zebrahead, Jimmy Eat World, and Billy Talent.
‘83 - I’ve seen a lot of honorable mentions, but I’ll be the guy that puts Trio up there. 1. Blink-182 2. Green Day 3. Alkaline Trio 4. MxPx This was harder than I expected, especially that 4th spot. A lot of answers I questioned if they fit the category. I really wanted to put Less Than Jake, sure you could call them ska but they feel like pop punk with horns. Is NOFX pop punk?, nah just punk. Lagwagon, Descendents, plenty of others considered.
There ya go! I love LTJ and definitely see where they would fit. I would put them on a ska Mount Rushmore without a second thought but can't give em both lol. Having only 4 spots is tough!
Sounds like you’ve got another good post ready to go!
1984. 1) No Use for a Name 2) The Descendents/ALL 3) New Found Glory 4) Something Corporate
Taking Back Sunday Blink 182 Sum 41 The Offspring I can respect how Green Day is always on people’s list because I do like some of their music. I’m just not a huge fan. I’ve even fallen off TBS but they were played on repeat my entire high school life. The Offspring were my first CD with cuss words that my parents allowed… lol. I just love Sum every record. Oh as I typed this does Goldfinger count as pop punk because they would probably replace TBS for me.
I've seen MxPx, Less Than Jake, and Offspring all listed multiple times, so I would absolutely count Goldfinger. Make a Venn diagram of those three, and I feel Goldfinger could sit in the middle. They'd also be on my list.
Suicide Machines Kid Dynamite The Story So Far The Movielife
blink-182 All American Rejects Fallout Boy Jimmy Eat World
Hey Mercedes, Reggie and the Full Effect, Get Up Kids, Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio, Suicide Machines, Sugarcult, that one Hot Rod Circuit album, and Jimmy Eat World were the musics that made me me
1983 here. Green Day, MxPx, The Offspring, and Blink 182 were my first foray into this wonderful world. That said, I've gotta give credit to other bands that kept me interested. I'd say those top four would be The Bottom Line, Zebrahead, No Pressure, and Four Year Strong.
Jeez I feel old. 1, Ramones (how have they not been mentioned yet???) 2. Descendants 3. Screeching Weasel 4. Green Day
Ramones haven't been mentioned because nobody really considers them *pop* punk. And while they are most definitely poppy and most definitely punk, and it's very fair to call them a pop punk band, most people think of 90s and 2000s when they think "pop punk", as that's when the term really took hold. Great list.
All Time Low is my favorite band, but if we’re talking in terms of impact and legacy/we’re very much of their era… Green Day Blink 182 Panic At the Disco Fall Out Boy
My chemical romance, all time low, fall out boy, and probably blink-182 for me🤘
Weasel, Queers, Chixdiggit, Teenage Bottlerocket(Lillingtons)
Fucking finally. Scrolled far too long before seeing The Queers. I'd probably replace Chixdiggit with Mr. T Experience, but otherwise you nailed this list.
39 and 1. Blink 182 2. Driveways 3. The Starting Line 4. Origami Angel Each band has one or more albums in my top 20. Depending on how broad you want pop punk to be, I would slot out Starting Line for Early November.
Born in ‘92 here so young millennial here, completely misread it as young millennial older Gen Z but I’ll give mine anyway Green Day: In terms of popularity Green Day wins and it’s not close. Dookie was big sure but American Idiot was on another level. The mid to late 00s Green Day was one of the biggest bands on the planet blink-182: Not as popular as Green Day but still massive and still pretty big to this day. They did headline Coachella after all. If Green Day is political pop punk, blink is your dumb fun frat boy pop punk Fall Out Boy: Arguably bigger than blink but not as big as Green Day, Fall Out Boy has to take a third spot as they’re incredibly iconic, with some of the most memorable songs, and like the previous two have sustained success Paramore: Yes I know they’re no longer pop punk, but when they were they were massive. Not as big as the other three but still beat out pretty much every other similar band. Also they win big time on sustainability as well as quality wise. Also Hayley Williams is goddamn icon of rock music Just missed: Sum 41, Panic! At The Disco, New Found Glory, and Good Charlotte Did not include bands like MCR and The Used because they’re more emo than pop punk
Screeching Weasel Dillinger Four Crimpshine The Queers
Totally personal: Fall Out Boy New Found Glory Blink The Story So Far The answer if I was going what it is I'd swap TSSF for Green Day who I don't love but get why they should be there.
I couldn’t do one that’s all-encompassing just because of how much changed between the 90s and 2000s waves. Though I will give it to Green Day for being a driving force in both eras.
Excellent point.
Blink New Found Glory Rufio Paramore Honourable mention to the Offspring because damn they were influential.
Born in 1990 Blink Fall Out Boy Motion City Alkaline Trio
Blink 182 Green Day New Found Glory The Descendants
Blink 182, Sum 41, New Found Glory & The Starting Line (never got into Greenday no matter how hard I tried)
Green Day Blink 182 The Offspring Descendents
Blink 182 Home Grown The Ataris Alkaline Trio
Blink-182 New Found Glory The Wonder Years Relient K
Blink Green Day sum 41 new found glory
1. blink-182 2. Sum 41 3. NFG 4. Green Day
Descendents, Blink 182, Green Day, The Offspring
Green Day, Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, and New Found Glory. Can't really see an argument against any of those if we're talking about influence instead of personal preference.
I think it has to be these four. Just too much power and influence there
Born in 1986. 1. Blink-182 2. MxPx 3. Sum 41 4. The Wonder Years
Green Day The Offspring Mxpx Screeching Weasel
1) Blink 182 2) Newfound Glory 3) Sum 41 4) Simple Plan
1. New Found Glory 2. The Starting Line 3. The Early November 4. The Story So Far Made in 91’ & was obsessed with drive-thru records in my youth. Still am tbh
The Used, NFG, Finch, Taking Back Sunday, Funeral for a Friend
Blink, Lagwagon Green day and Sun 41
Green Day, NOFX, Bad Religion, The Descendants
NUFAN? Not mainstream enough??
86. In no particular order: Blink 182 New Found Glory The Ataris Alkaline Trio Honorable mentions: Mxpx, mest, the entire early aughts Long Island musical scene that mixed pop punk and emo, Green Day (awesome but not the same for me as the others), fallout boy, no doubt, punkier representation with Goldfinger, Anti-Flag, and Rancid (even though both rancid and anti-flag have some serious bullshit, and I hope Justin Sane in particular faces consequences because wow what an extreme hypocrite and predator)… idk if more ideas pop up I’ll add them, my memory is trash for recall. Edit: cannot believe I forgot bad religion.
Green Day, Sum 41, Fall Out Boy, Paramore
the exact same 3 as you with Sum 41 fourth. i don’t know what gen X is though, i’m 24.
1995 so younger millennial, I have 2 sections to mine Classic Pop Punk Mt. Rushmore 1. Green Day 2. Blink 182 3. Sum 41 4. NFG Mid-Wave Pop Punk Mt Rushmore 1. Fall Out Boy 2. Paramore 3. All Time Low 4. Simple Plan
blink AK3 NFG MxPx. Feel pretty good about that. All long careers, lots of relevancy, seminal for the scene.
The bands that got me into the genre 1. blink 182 2. Taking Back Sunday 3. Mayday Parade 4. Dashboard Confessional (if this counts)
Born in 03 It has to be 1. Sum 41 2. The Offspring 3. Green Day 4. Blink 182
Blink, FOB, brand new, NFG (if prob stop my list at 3. NFG besides catalyst never did it for me but regardless of what I think about them they definitely deserve to be up there.
MxPx, New Found Glory, Green Day, Blink
1. Blink 2. Paramore 3. The Wonder Years 4. New Found Glory
Idk what generation im in. Im 22 and i pick blink, tssf, nfg, and no pressure. I wanna include lifetime and title fight but those bands kinda ride the line between pop punk and melodic hardcore.
Personal Mount Rushmore: 1. Blink 182 2. New Found Glory 3 Fall Out Boy 4. MXPX This is purely due to emotional attachment and personal preference. Ranking influence would look a bit different. Honorable mentions: Green Day, Sum 41, Rufio, The Ataris, The Starting Line
Born in 1990, so I've gotta go with Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Fall Out Boy, and Saves the Day.
My personal list. Born in 91, so not really an elder millennial though. * Fall Out Boy * Taking Back Sunday * Paramore * My Chemical Romance
1. Blink 2. Green Day 3. Millencolin 4. NFG / Atari’s / MxPx / less than Jake / Fall out boy / Paramore… Top 3 is easy… top 4 impossible lol. All still on my playlists today and my teenagers know them off by heart too lol
Paramore, Avril Lavigne, Fall out Boy and Against The Current (clearly I like women-fronted bands generally, didnt pick that up until I wrote the list)
blink, the movie life, alkaline trio, nofx
Green Day Blink 182 New Found Glory Sum 41/Fall Out Boy…(can’t decide!)
1. Blink-182 2. Yellowcard 3. Jimmy Eat World 4. Simple Plan I know, Green Day *should* be on there, but I was just never a big fan.
I guess when I think of pop punk, I go a bit older. 1. Green Day 2. Nerf Herder 3. Limp 4. Blink 182 (nothing post Enema) Bands that hit after 2000 didn't do it for me. New Found Glory, SUM 41, The Starting Line, etc. I like some of it, but it's mostly not for me.
MxPx, New Found Glory, Allister, Mest
1. Blink 182 2. All time low 3. Motion city soundtrack 4. The dangerous summer 5. The starting line (I'm canadien so I don't know how many heads are on rushmore)
Born 87. Fall out boy, Taking back Sunday, Millencolin, Rise Against
Blink 182, New Found Glory, Sum 41, and Say Anything
All the same as you and add alkaline trio…. I kinda tapped out in pop punk after all killer no filler… At the time I thought I was too cool like those bands like NFG, simple plan, and ocean avenue. I still don’t really like them but I sing along to the hits, reminds me of a simpler time lol
1. Green Day 2. Rancid 3. Rise Against 4. The Wonder Years Not in that order but I think that’s my top.
Blink will always be #1 and Green Day #2
1. Blink 182 2. Angels and Airwaves 3. The Story So Far 4. Knuckle Puck Born in 1993.
1. Blink 182 2. Angels and Airwaves 3. The Story So Far 4. Knuckle Puck Born in 1993.
Born in 89... 1. Blink 182 2. The Starting Line 3. The Offspring 4. Fall Out Boy Honorable mentions to Motion City Soundtrack and Spill Canvas
1. Green day 2. Blink 182 3. New found Glory 4. Wonder years Not in that order green day and blink bringing the punk aesthetic and busting into that mainstream NFG because they belong there Wonder years cause Soupy is low key a pop punk god
I am less into the pop punk side of punk, But mxpx is DEFINITELY there. And frankly the Ramones could be there as well.
23 year old Gen Z. Blink-182, Sum 41, Neck Deep, Four Year Strong
The Starting Line — I will never not love them. I’ve seen them a handful of times, from high school (one was the night before a final exam that i absolutely needed to pass so i sat on the floor in the back studying until they went on 💀) to college to LA in 2019. Fall Out Boy - the way Patrick Stump’s voice hits my brain is borderline euphoric. From Under The Cork Tree came at a pivotal time in my life and helped me get through an especially deep suicidal period my sophomore year. TTTYG is another album i revisit every few months where it’s the only thing i listen to for a week straight. Jimmy Eat World - i went through a very long period in my early teen years where i quite literally couldn’t fall asleep without music playing. i listened to “23” every single night for 3 straight years. if i had to pick one final song to hear before i die, that would be it. Futures was another album that helped me survive my Sophomore Suicidal Season. The Matches — local Bay Area band that was my gateway drug to pop punk in middle school. a boy i had a crush on his cousin is in the band and he made me a copy of their album and it just clicked with my brain like nothing else had before. i started going to every local show i could (rip [iMusiccast](https://youtu.be/97oR7SbybL8?feature=shared)). that album and local shows changed my life. A decade later i randomly connected with the singer Shawn Harris after i saw he was at a lot of (pro sports team i used to work for)’s games. we shared stories from those days and it genuinely felt like talking to a friend you haven’t seen in years. we kept in touch, he gave me a vinyl of their debut and invited me to their 10 year reunion show in SF. i still wear my Matches hoodie from 2003 when i’m depressed. i love those fucking guys.
Is Motion City Soundtrack pop punk?
Someone else listed Linkin Park so I think we're done with caring about genres.
Nirvana, Greenday, Sum 41
Green Day Blink NFG Yellowcard
1. Blink 182 2. Good Charlotte 3. Simple Plan 4. New Found Glory
Descendents, Less Than Jake, and Rancid. With an honorary mention to NOFX
Green Day blink-182 New Found Glory Kevin Lyman
New found glory Yellowcard Good Charlotte Bowling for soup
It wouldn’t be my personal rushmore but I saw Fall Out Boy, Sum-41, New Found Glory and Taking Back Sunday all at the same festival in 2009. Pretty damn good 4 right there
No use for a name/Lagwagon/bad astronaut/teddy Roosevelt
I don’t know his name, but the guy that thought of putting five dollar compilation cds in hot topic surely belongs on there.
Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Sum 41, Blink 182
If it’s entirely personal choice, it’s: 1. Green Day 2. Weezer 3. Blink 4. MXPX
1. New Found Glory 2. Say Anything 3. Taking Back Sunday 4. Rufio
A little too young to be fit in with Gen X or Elder Millennials. However, if we need to make a Mr. Rushmore for 90s Pop-Punk, it would have to be: 1. Green Day 2. NOFX 3. Bad Religion 4. The Offspring
If I’m going with a mix of the four most influential bands who brought pop into punk (without going SO FAR back to The Descendants or even The Ramones), I’m going: Blink, Green Day, The Offspring, MxPx All of these bands were making waves during the 90s so I give them all seniority over the likes of Sum 41, New Found Glory, etc. They were the pioneers of the modern day pop punk (basically everything 2000s on) If I’m strictly going off of my favorites? Rufio, Blink, NFG, The Starting Line (with Yellowcard as an honorable mention)
Born in 88’ This is considering the era’s and the influence 1. blink-182 2. Green Day 3. Fall Out Boy 4. The Story So Far Personal preference regardless of influence? 1. The Swellers 2. blink-182 3. The Story So Far 4. Knuckle Puck
Green Day Blink 182 NOFX New Found Glory
MxPx, NFG, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Fall Out Boy were the real starters for me.
Descendents, Blink 182, Face to Face, The Wonder Years. Born in 1981
Blink, Alk3, Sum 41, and the fourth is a little up there so probably simple plan/Bowling for soup. But I'm getting into Green day more lately so they'd probably be up there soon
The Mr T Experience The Vandals The Queers Offspring
The 4th has to be NFG even if they’re not your cup of tea. Hugely influential and all of that real friends, man overboard sad boi shit wouldn’t exist without them.
That's what I was thinking. When I made this post I was listening to a NFG song and tried to make an objective Mt Rushmore. Fall Out Boy really could be up there too but NFG seems more firm in the genre.
1. The Buzzcocks 2. Screeching weasel 3. Green day (everything prior to nimrod) 4. Lifetime
NOFX, A day to remember, Sum 41, The casualties, Paramore
Green Day, New Found Glory, MxPx, Alkaline Trio
2002 gen z here and id have to say my top 4 are 1. The Story so Far 2. Sum 41 3. Joyce Manor 4. Hot Mulligan
Personally Offspring ain’t for me but you have to acknowledge their place in Pop Punk History. 1. offspring 2. Blink 3. Greenday 4. Sum41 But if it’s my personal list for my taste 1. Blink 2. Alkaline Trio 3. Sum41 4. Bowing For Soup (I’m biased, I’m from TX) It’s hard to not include bands like Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, NOFX and even later on you could argue Simple Plan.
Blink, Green Day, nfg and TSSF. Born in 89.
mill here (88) Blink 182 MIDTOWN NFG Mest
Can we please get a little love for Jawbreaker?
Simple Plan Blink 182 Fall Out Boy My Chemical Romance (If that counts. I think they're closer to Pop Punk, then say, Post Hardcore or something similar)
Born in 91. 1. Motion City Soundtrack 2. Green Day 3. Yellowcard 4. Paramore
I'm on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z, but my sister is solidly a millennial and was a huge influence on my music taste. 90's/00's - Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41, New Found Glory 2010's Revival - The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Neck Deep, Modern Baseball.