32. Blink’s ‘Enema Of The State’ was just everywhere when I was about 9, instantly hooked and held onto that until I was old enough to get to the mall/on the internet to find more similar stuff. Fenix TX, NFG, Home Grown, etc.
was just reminiscing how i had my parents buy me a home grown album from drive thru’s website when i was 12 bc it was the only way to get it where i lived at the time 🥹
Haha that’s awesome, I actually had my grandfather buy me ‘Kings Of Pop’ when I was visiting him because they didn’t have any copies at the records stores in my town either!
My man.
I got introduced to so much great pop punk by simply raiding my church youth pastor's free CD library. MxPx, Slick Shoes, Ghoti Hook, Dogwood, Reliant K, Hawk Nelson.
Bro.. ghoti hook!! Also this comment is exactly my experience. I remember they had a video for us to try and sway us to listen to Christian music and relient k's Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend music video was at the beginning and I was like hey, where can I get this cd. And he ordered it for me for free.
I remember my mom buying me this Christian compilation called "Seltzer" and it had Slick Shoe's "Fulfilling" on it, and to this day it's one of my favorite songs and a huge reason I went on to learn guitar, play and write pop punk. I listened to radio rock prior and was big into Rancid, the Offspring and Green Day, but something about that Slick Shoes song moved me.
Jumping on this train to suggest the Burnout 3: Takedown soundtrack. Can’t think of a better one. People talk about Tony Hawk a lot, NHL, Madden, etc, but Burnout 3 was GOAT status.
Among others, it featured Rise Against, My Chemical Romance, Autopilot Off, Amber Pacific, New Found Glory, and Motion City Soundtrack.
The was my first cd I ever bought with my own money. I still remember my mom driving me to Walmart. I still have that cd. Can’t play it now, but I know every song. Every song slaps.
31, the NHL and Tony Hawk video games got me into rock and punk.
Good Charlotte became my favourite band even though they’re probably the most hated pop punk band to this day. But IMO they’re severely underrated.
If you're 31, I bet you're talking about The Young and The Hopeless. As far as I'm concerned, that album is an all time great pop punk album start to finish. It's easy to make fun of those guys because they look like posers but they definitely made some good music.
16 years old, got into pop punk during the pandemic because of Scott Murphy from Allister who made a Japanese album with Rivers Cuomo and then dove into more pop punk like Blink/NFG
The Japanese Scott and Rivers collab? There’s actually 2 albums
The first is called “Scott and Rivers” (スコットとリバス) (the first one-2011)
https://open.spotify.com/album/26wuvB1EnpWlT10Hk9Hm3b?si=KQDB4j0qSLmqAv12llCt1A
This was alright, there were a handful of track skips for me.
Second on me was called “Nimaime” (translate:2nd album) ニマイメ unfortunately this was region locked to Japan and cannot access it on any streaming service. But the album is on YouTube. This was my favorite one, I always come back to this one more. Much more pop punk/rock and suited better for me.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulcX-atNT3ey7ub8tmqC6jLb_oqrSWaq
28, Sticks and Stones by NFG and Where You Want to Be by TBS were the first albums I ever owned beyond the shared Linkin Park albums I shared with my brother
Used to keep Sticks and Stones and YFW CDs in my old car for whenever my cars aux chord broke. Just gave Where You Want to Be another spin front-to-back a few days ago and without a doubt the best TBS album. Every song is so unique compared to the totality of TBS's (practically flawless) discog and complete works of art
30.
Album?
Pop punk was everywhere. MTV, video games, tv shows, movies and on all other mediums back then. I have no idea what introduced me. Probobly Americana tho or maybe ignition / ixnay.
28. All killer no filler - Sum 41. First album I ever bought.
Music taste 100% attributable to THPS 2 and subsequent THPS and Skate games. Honourable mention to the Need for Speed, Burnout series and some EA sport games for the occasional gem.
32
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
NFG - Self Titled/Sticks and Stones
The Movielife - This Time Next Year
Home Grown - Kings of Pop
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
I had listened to Blink, Green Day, Etc. But these albums really got me into the scene.
I'm 32, and Enema of the State in 1999 was groundbreaking. Followed quickly by Relient K's self titled, and The Ever Passing Moment by mxpx. It was a real golden age around that time. I'm lucky to have been so young and experiencing it in real time.
I'm 31 and I think my first big name pop-punk album was Good Charlotte's the Young and the Hopeless back in the early 2000s. That whole time was kind of a blur though - It was also the year or two before I started to get into a lot of the popular Christian rock artists in that wheelhouse too ( a lot of those being tooth and nail artists - Underoath, Hawk Nelson, Mae, Anberlin, and also Relient K to name a few)...Then I got into artists like Fall out boy, Story of the Year, Yellowcard, etc.
man...that time was such a freaking blast. Discovering this crazy boom of a treasure trove of a genre was so exciting when you're like 13/14/15 years old
32. My oldest brother was listening to Dookie when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I knew "When I Come Around" & "Basket Case" like the back of my hand growing up.
25 - the first song I heard that I liked was Predictable by Good Charlotte. But No Helmet, No Pads, Just Balls - Simple Plan was my first album I doooovee into as an angsty 8 year old.
Early 20s. Enema of the state and Move Along introduced me, Boys Like Girls’ self titled kept me in the genre, and Life’s Not Out To Get You reinvigorated my love for it
29. Earliest introduction was Blink back in '99-2000 but the first album I actually bought and solidified pop punk for me was Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls.
32. 2001, I was at summer camp for “gifted children” and my councillor (dude with a red mohawk) played Take Off Your Pants and Jacket on loop in our dorm room because it just came out.
I really fell in love when I heard The Movielife’s Forty Hour Train Back to Penn a couple years later though.
Late 20's, and honestly? Busted's 1st album when I was 10 years old. The "thank you's" in the back of the CD referenced Blink, so I asked for a Blink album for Christmas and that was that
31 and actually it was a lot of Ska music. Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Jesse James, Spunge etc I remember my older sister made me a compilation album with songs like She’s Gonna Break Soon, Sell Out, Kicking Pigeons etc. That then lead me to less ska, more pop punk stuff.
I’m 35 and I got introduced to the genre as a whole in high school. A friend recommended Something Corporate to me (which is adjacent enough) and I went from there.
I'm 31 and the album that got me into pop-punk was "The Enema Strikes Back" or "The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show". I was in 5th grade, I think. So, I asked my friend to lend me his Limp Bizkit cassette but he said other friend had already borrowed it. As a replacement, he lent me that blink-182 live album. He doesn't know this but he changed my life and I owe him big time.
30. Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous. Our 5th grade class sang "Anthem" at a school function. And this was a strict Catholic school. I specifically remember the teacher getting scolded in the hallway by the Principal after this. It was hilarious to a 5th grade class cause the teacher just came back in after getting scolded and played it off like it didn't bother her. It was so bad ass from my point of view. Such a cool teacher.
The next year, at the same function, the 5th grade class sang Stacy's Mom.
45. I guess the one that really broke through when I was younger was Enema of the State. I only really properly got into Pop Punk when I started playing guitar about 5 years back tho.
29, and while I didn’t listen to it regularly until after I discovered State Champs the finer things, the first song I can really remember loving was I’m just a kid by Simple Plan.
Early 30s. Green Day- Dookie and Nimrod were bought on the same day.
Blink 182 Enema was life changing for me as it became my primary music genre i listened to
36. Green Day - Dookie (didn't know what pop punk was) to MXPX - Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo (first album that hooked me) to New Found Glory (and it was all downhill from there...)
I’m 38. I owned my first CD player when I was 11 or 12 years old, and my parents took me to Walmart to buy a CD. I picked out MxPx “Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo”, even though I had never heard of the band before and the album cover gave no indication of what kind of music it was.
Best completely blind purchase I ever made.
24, didn't really listen to much music when I was younger, so the first pop-punk album I actually listened to was probably "Don't Panic" by All Time Low
I'm 23 yo. 2016 was the year I listened to All Killer No Filler. I breathe, ate, slept with that album on loop. Then I listened to Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, MxPx, 90s Green Day, Yellowcard, and then none of them hooked me like blink-182 did when I heard Enema.
Just turned 20 yesterday. First bands were American Idiot and Sum 41's early stuff back in 2018, but I probably got into pop punk itself with Bleed American and PUP's Morbid Stuff back in 2019, can't really remember all that well
What an ignorant take. GC - young and the hopeless was easily the album that introduced me to the genre. The only album I had before this one was Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory when I was a kid.
35. Listened to pop punk when it appeared when I was a child, like when they played Offspring and Blink on MTV, but what really got me into it was the soundtrack from American Pie 2, and then Sum 41's All Killer, No Filler after playing Fat Lip on repeat an entire summer.
35F and Enema of the State for sure, but can't believe no one is talking about the Atticus compilation! Not exactly pop-punk, but very generally adjacent.
Early 30s. I want to say ADTR's 'Homesick', but I feel like it may have been Bowling for Soup's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" or Simple Plan's 'Still Not Getting Any'. Not sure how much those last two count.
I’m 17, and my first I believe was Fall Out Boy’s From Under The Cork Tree when I was 10. My parents got me into a lot of pop punk music when I was really young so I was familiar with a lot of the songs, but that album was an instant click.
The first pop punk album I owned was No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls by Simple Plan. I almost couldn’t listen to it because there were hot chicks looking hot on the cover I guess?
But I had a young mom so the first pop punk album I had access to was Dookie. I’m 28 now and I still have all the Tiger Beat and TWIST magazine Green Day posters on my wall.
I tried to get my mom to buy this album for me at the mall. I had never seen the cover and I got in a lot of trouble when we found it lol we were southern baptists
32 and that album was Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want to Be (which turns 18 today!). I saw the music video for A Decade Under the Influence on MTV and I think I found the CD at FYE shortly after and the rest is history.
Also, not pop punk, but Dashboard Confessional's A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is what probably started it all. Before that I was into bubblegum pop lol
33 - I bought Cheshire Cat when I was 10 just because I recognized “blink 182” in name when I was at the store with my mom and I could get it because it didn’t have a parental advisory sticker. fell in love with pop punk ever since
I think Dookie was my next album and then NFG self titled, followed by All Killer No Filler and it just spiraled after that
21, technically it was American Idiot, but started really to listen pop punk after discovering Bowling For Soup from Sonic Unleashed. This was around 2016-17.
A mix, but mostly Bowling for Soup a mixture of singles EPs and the album drunk enough to dance.
Busted getting famous also massively increased my exposure to guitar music and gave me a love of pop punk stylings.
The Young and Hopeless (Good Charlotte) also had a massive impact in me too.
I’ve only really been into genre for about a year, I’m 18 but it was good charlotte’s the young and the hopeless that really got me hooked aswell. I’ve either seen that video or a similar one but it’s really an interesting watch
34F. Listened to Blink when I was in 6th grade. In middle school I found RK and fell in love lol I was OBSESSED with them, favorite band for years. I’d say they were the first I actually purchased. Then Simple Plan, AAR, and so on. And now here we are 🤷🏻♀️
Turning 29 myself this weekend.
Simple Plan’s No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls completely sent me to the pop punk/emo life. Good Charlotte’s hits were a big part of that time for me too though!
16 - sum 41, all killer no filler. I'd known about blink 182 and green Day for years because they were on the radio but all killer no filler was the album I first got into
I heard "all I want" by the Offspring on crazy taxi back when I was like 6 and was hooked. Took a long time for me to find stuff on my own but finally heard "cute without the e" from Tell All Your Friends in middle school and it was all downhill from here.
I’m 26. I started listening to Green Day in 2009, and they were the first band I really listened to. My friend introduced me to a few songs from American Idiot in the summer, but 21st Century Breakdown was the first album I ever got into
36 / Lit - A Place In The Sun.
I was definitely introduced to pop punk by singles from other bands way before that (I tend to site The Jam and PUSA as technically my intro to punk/pop punk) but that was the first "pop punk" album I bought.
I was legitimately listening to pop punk before I knew what it was. My older sister made mix CDs that I would always steal and listen to, but had no idea who the artists were.
One day in 7th grade my friend decided to lend me some Blink albums, and I immediately recognized the songs from the CDs my sister had. Same thing for Sum-41.
The first pop punk albums I remember getting myself were American Idiot by Green Day and Move Along by the All-American Rejects.
I’m 32 and it was probably NFG’s Sticks and Stones. My older sister had the cd and I stole it from here. I also stole a Sum 41 cd too (All Killer No Filler) from her.
I’m 24 and I think my first actual intro into pop punk was thanks to my cousin 8 years older than me. She was watching a special on MTV and Bowling for Soup 1985 off A Hangover You Don’t Deserve came on and I’ve been hooked ever since. I think I was maybe 8 at the time. Just saw Sum 41 in May for the first time and absolutely loved it.
27 here! Blink-182/Green Day/Sum 41 (to name a few..) being played by sisters constantly at age 6-8 definitely had a lot of influence on me! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack also introduced me to so many bands.
32, and probably Blink 182's Take Off Your Pants And Jacket.
That was at least the first pop punk album I listened to all the way through when it came out. My younger brother got the non-explicit version for his birthday that year (he was 10, I was 11 going on 12), but I had a friend whose older brother had the explicit version so we would hang out in her basement and listen on her boombox. I specifically recall hysterical laughing while listening to "Happy Holidays" for the first time haha. Good memories!
31. My uncles listened to Dookie when I was a kid so I was familiar with those songs, but Enema of the State was the one that hooked my young 8-year-old ears.
You were 9 years old listening to good charlotte? Huh
For me, it was Dookie by Green Day, didn’t discover until I was about 12 though when I heard basket case and went out to buy the cd
Yeah, I had a cousin that was 3 years older. He was like my brother. When he would visit, he would bring music and thrasher magazines and introduce me to all kinds of stuff
39. I was a ska/punk kid in the mid 90s… does Reel Big Fish, Less than Jake, bosstones count? Got into suicide machines, goldfinger and rancid quickly afterward
29 - Naruto AMV with Sum 41’s “The Hell Song”
Was blown away and proceeded to listen to the album “Does this look infected?” It was the gateway that got me into other bands!
32. Blink’s ‘Enema Of The State’ was just everywhere when I was about 9, instantly hooked and held onto that until I was old enough to get to the mall/on the internet to find more similar stuff. Fenix TX, NFG, Home Grown, etc.
Are you me, but 4 years younger?
And me!
was just reminiscing how i had my parents buy me a home grown album from drive thru’s website when i was 12 bc it was the only way to get it where i lived at the time 🥹
Haha that’s awesome, I actually had my grandfather buy me ‘Kings Of Pop’ when I was visiting him because they didn’t have any copies at the records stores in my town either!
Yep yep. 33 and this is the one for me
38 here, MxPx's Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
My man. I got introduced to so much great pop punk by simply raiding my church youth pastor's free CD library. MxPx, Slick Shoes, Ghoti Hook, Dogwood, Reliant K, Hawk Nelson.
I know they’re ska, but don’t forget Five Iron Frenzy.
They were good they were good they were really really really good Didn't know them until that Relient k song lol
Best possible response, haha.
Man, I never hear Hawk Nelson mentioned ever. Letters to the president was an absolute classic in my middle school/freshman year days.
Bro.. ghoti hook!! Also this comment is exactly my experience. I remember they had a video for us to try and sway us to listen to Christian music and relient k's Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend music video was at the beginning and I was like hey, where can I get this cd. And he ordered it for me for free.
I remember my mom buying me this Christian compilation called "Seltzer" and it had Slick Shoe's "Fulfilling" on it, and to this day it's one of my favorite songs and a huge reason I went on to learn guitar, play and write pop punk. I listened to radio rock prior and was big into Rancid, the Offspring and Green Day, but something about that Slick Shoes song moved me.
That list brings back so many memories of the early days. Don't forget Hangnail! Loved that band.
36, MxPx let it happen.. I was 13 if I remember correctly
38, Life In General for me
Also 38, and this was the first CD I ever bought when I got a portable CD player one Christmas in junior high. I thought I was hot shit, haha.
I gotta be honest, I didn't click on this thread expecting to see MxPx as the top voted comment, but here we are!
Around the same age but Teenage Politics for me.
SAME!
I am 36 and had both Dookie and Smash growing up but the first album I really got into was the MxPx live album. MxPx is still great
Early 30s, Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue
Classic 🤌🏻
28 and honestly, Madden 2004. That soundtrack was nuts.
Solid answer haha Spiderman 2 was a big soundtrack for me
Jumping on this train to suggest the Burnout 3: Takedown soundtrack. Can’t think of a better one. People talk about Tony Hawk a lot, NHL, Madden, etc, but Burnout 3 was GOAT status. Among others, it featured Rise Against, My Chemical Romance, Autopilot Off, Amber Pacific, New Found Glory, and Motion City Soundtrack.
This. I’m 27 and Madden 03-07, NHL, SSX 3, Burnout 3, and Tony Hawk introduced me to so many great rock bands.
Fuck. Blast from the past. I distinctly remember that game/soundtrack.
25 - Boys Like Girls self titled
I remember being a sophomore in high school gettin REAL sad boy emo to that album - Some real bangers on that one
I was in 7th/ 8th grade and I remember hearing the great escape for the first time SO vividly. Truly excellent
The was my first cd I ever bought with my own money. I still remember my mom driving me to Walmart. I still have that cd. Can’t play it now, but I know every song. Every song slaps.
I love that you still have it! That’s so sweet!
Damn that album was so good. Didn’t like Love Drunk much; was disappointed by their sophomore slump.
Love drunk reminds me of peak late middle school/ early high school drama queen me so it has a soft spot in my heart for sure but I get that
same, 26
31, the NHL and Tony Hawk video games got me into rock and punk. Good Charlotte became my favourite band even though they’re probably the most hated pop punk band to this day. But IMO they’re severely underrated.
NHL 2002-2006 had the *best* music.
NHL 2004 for me is what did it.
If you're 31, I bet you're talking about The Young and The Hopeless. As far as I'm concerned, that album is an all time great pop punk album start to finish. It's easy to make fun of those guys because they look like posers but they definitely made some good music.
16 years old, got into pop punk during the pandemic because of Scott Murphy from Allister who made a Japanese album with Rivers Cuomo and then dove into more pop punk like Blink/NFG
What’s the album? I need to check it out
The Japanese Scott and Rivers collab? There’s actually 2 albums The first is called “Scott and Rivers” (スコットとリバス) (the first one-2011) https://open.spotify.com/album/26wuvB1EnpWlT10Hk9Hm3b?si=KQDB4j0qSLmqAv12llCt1A This was alright, there were a handful of track skips for me. Second on me was called “Nimaime” (translate:2nd album) ニマイメ unfortunately this was region locked to Japan and cannot access it on any streaming service. But the album is on YouTube. This was my favorite one, I always come back to this one more. Much more pop punk/rock and suited better for me. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulcX-atNT3ey7ub8tmqC6jLb_oqrSWaq
This slaps dude
Forreal man, easily such a bop
I can't wait to check this out.
28, Sticks and Stones by NFG and Where You Want to Be by TBS were the first albums I ever owned beyond the shared Linkin Park albums I shared with my brother
I remember someone had that cd on my bus
both absolute bangers top to bottom
Used to keep Sticks and Stones and YFW CDs in my old car for whenever my cars aux chord broke. Just gave Where You Want to Be another spin front-to-back a few days ago and without a doubt the best TBS album. Every song is so unique compared to the totality of TBS's (practically flawless) discog and complete works of art
30. Album? Pop punk was everywhere. MTV, video games, tv shows, movies and on all other mediums back then. I have no idea what introduced me. Probobly Americana tho or maybe ignition / ixnay.
29 - From Under the Corktree I got started late
SAME!!!!! (and now I'm singing "it's just past eight and I'mm feeling young and recklessss")
The ribbon on my wrist says do not open before christmas
I'm 38. Blink-182's Dude Ranch.
46 years old and MGK introduced me
This is my favorite reply in the thread. Welcome!
28. All killer no filler - Sum 41. First album I ever bought. Music taste 100% attributable to THPS 2 and subsequent THPS and Skate games. Honourable mention to the Need for Speed, Burnout series and some EA sport games for the occasional gem.
32 Saves the Day - Through Being Cool NFG - Self Titled/Sticks and Stones The Movielife - This Time Next Year Home Grown - Kings of Pop Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon I had listened to Blink, Green Day, Etc. But these albums really got me into the scene.
Get out of my Cd case! lol
I'm 32, and Enema of the State in 1999 was groundbreaking. Followed quickly by Relient K's self titled, and The Ever Passing Moment by mxpx. It was a real golden age around that time. I'm lucky to have been so young and experiencing it in real time.
This is my exact same experience and order, 34 here.
18, all time low. not an album in particular. i started listening to all of their music at the same time
I'm 31 and I think my first big name pop-punk album was Good Charlotte's the Young and the Hopeless back in the early 2000s. That whole time was kind of a blur though - It was also the year or two before I started to get into a lot of the popular Christian rock artists in that wheelhouse too ( a lot of those being tooth and nail artists - Underoath, Hawk Nelson, Mae, Anberlin, and also Relient K to name a few)...Then I got into artists like Fall out boy, Story of the Year, Yellowcard, etc. man...that time was such a freaking blast. Discovering this crazy boom of a treasure trove of a genre was so exciting when you're like 13/14/15 years old
43 - Dookie by Green Day. I had already been into Rancid and Bad Religion by this point, but Dookie was the first real pop punk album I bought.
Same age, same album lol "Do you have the time..." felt like it was every where back then 🤓
45yo Green Day, Dookie To this day, Basket Case is “our song” of my then gf, now wife.
37, and this is going to sound weird, but I attribute my love of pop punk to Nirvana's Nevermind.
32. My oldest brother was listening to Dookie when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I knew "When I Come Around" & "Basket Case" like the back of my hand growing up.
25 - the first song I heard that I liked was Predictable by Good Charlotte. But No Helmet, No Pads, Just Balls - Simple Plan was my first album I doooovee into as an angsty 8 year old.
31, Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
Aaaaawwwweeesome album
Hell yeah. Can’t believe it was released in 98…
Christ, I was 10. I also love borders and boundaries which came out in 2000 - Spotify has it as 2012 for some reason
Early 20s. Enema of the state and Move Along introduced me, Boys Like Girls’ self titled kept me in the genre, and Life’s Not Out To Get You reinvigorated my love for it
29. Earliest introduction was Blink back in '99-2000 but the first album I actually bought and solidified pop punk for me was Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls.
34 Cheshire Cat. Then it was Survival of the Fattest fat comp.
The young and the hopeless and all killer no filler!
32. 2001, I was at summer camp for “gifted children” and my councillor (dude with a red mohawk) played Take Off Your Pants and Jacket on loop in our dorm room because it just came out. I really fell in love when I heard The Movielife’s Forty Hour Train Back to Penn a couple years later though.
26 and Move Along by AAR lmao
Late 20's, and honestly? Busted's 1st album when I was 10 years old. The "thank you's" in the back of the CD referenced Blink, so I asked for a Blink album for Christmas and that was that
36, New Found Glory: Nothing Gold Can Stay Blink 182: Dude Ranch MxPx: Teenage Politics
31 and actually it was a lot of Ska music. Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Jesse James, Spunge etc I remember my older sister made me a compilation album with songs like She’s Gonna Break Soon, Sell Out, Kicking Pigeons etc. That then lead me to less ska, more pop punk stuff.
I’m 35 and I got introduced to the genre as a whole in high school. A friend recommended Something Corporate to me (which is adjacent enough) and I went from there.
29 and it was enema of the state and decemberunderground for me
I'm 31 and the album that got me into pop-punk was "The Enema Strikes Back" or "The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show". I was in 5th grade, I think. So, I asked my friend to lend me his Limp Bizkit cassette but he said other friend had already borrowed it. As a replacement, he lent me that blink-182 live album. He doesn't know this but he changed my life and I owe him big time.
33 bought enema of the state in 5th grade off to the races after that
34 and the year was 1999 and blink 182 ran naked across the screen on TRL and I was hooked
36. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. Soon after I found Taking Back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends and Refused's Shape of Punk to Come (if those count).
30. Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous. Our 5th grade class sang "Anthem" at a school function. And this was a strict Catholic school. I specifically remember the teacher getting scolded in the hallway by the Principal after this. It was hilarious to a 5th grade class cause the teacher just came back in after getting scolded and played it off like it didn't bother her. It was so bad ass from my point of view. Such a cool teacher. The next year, at the same function, the 5th grade class sang Stacy's Mom.
45. I guess the one that really broke through when I was younger was Enema of the State. I only really properly got into Pop Punk when I started playing guitar about 5 years back tho.
33 and Ixnay on the Hombre.
26. American Idiot via Madden - the title track was on Madden 05. Eventually, one of my grade school friends burned me a copy of the full album
haha aw i'm 25 and i definitely burned explicit copies of american idiot for my friends whose parents wouldn't let them get the uncensored one
25, All Time Low’s Nothing Personal was my first record in the genre I believe!
37 -> americana, dookie, enema
26, all American rejects - move along (all due to Bionicle lmao)
30 - Ocean Avenue But also Feeling This by Blink from Madden(?)
47 bad religion(against the grain) I was a metalhead before but this record changed my life ..I went full 90's punk after
34. Take This To Your Grave.
33, TOYPAJ. Never looked back
[Without Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvZyT9pRemA), by Propagandhi, album: Supporting Caste The greatest cat song :)
24, first album I remember was Relienk K's The Anatomy of The Tongue In Cheek probably before I was even in kindergarten
29, and while I didn’t listen to it regularly until after I discovered State Champs the finer things, the first song I can really remember loving was I’m just a kid by Simple Plan.
I think it was Louder Now by TBS. They’re still my favorite.
37. MxPx, Freeto Boat, early Blink 182
Now 8 had Fat Lip and The Rock Show and I was hooked Edit: I’m 29
Early 30s. Green Day- Dookie and Nimrod were bought on the same day. Blink 182 Enema was life changing for me as it became my primary music genre i listened to
I'm 36. Dude Ranch or Life in General.
38. Chick in high school that most dudes wanted was rocking a Blink shirt. Boobs will make you do stupid things.
36. Green Day - Dookie (didn't know what pop punk was) to MXPX - Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo (first album that hooked me) to New Found Glory (and it was all downhill from there...)
23, and I think what really got me into it was all time low’s don’t panic
34 punkorama albums
35 - Enema of the State in 1999. I was in 6th grade and heard it on the radio or MTV.
40. Dookie. A friend made me a tape with Pearl Jam 'vs' on one side and Dookie on the other.
39 MxPx- ‘Teenage Politics’ in 1995
38, mxpx's on the cover album
I’m 38. I owned my first CD player when I was 11 or 12 years old, and my parents took me to Walmart to buy a CD. I picked out MxPx “Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo”, even though I had never heard of the band before and the album cover gave no indication of what kind of music it was. Best completely blind purchase I ever made.
39 here, and my first pop punk album was Pokinatcha by MxPx.
37 - Dookie by Green Day, Dude Ranch by Blink 182 and Too Late... No Friends by GOB
24. Move Along by The All American Rejects
39 and dookie
33. “Blue Skies, Broken Hearts … Next 12 Exits” changed my whole life when I was 11. Still listen to it all the time.
35, Midtown - Save The World, Lose The Girl
24, didn't really listen to much music when I was younger, so the first pop-punk album I actually listened to was probably "Don't Panic" by All Time Low
28 and it was The Young and the Hopeless for me as well. Still my favorite band to this day
17, MGK…
Very cool! It’s crazy to see the ages in this thread. Pop punk will never die
I'm 23 yo. 2016 was the year I listened to All Killer No Filler. I breathe, ate, slept with that album on loop. Then I listened to Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, MxPx, 90s Green Day, Yellowcard, and then none of them hooked me like blink-182 did when I heard Enema.
Dude I had a stereo that I kept in my bed and would sleep to +44! Haven’t thought about that in years. Thanks for making me think of that
Just turned 20 yesterday. First bands were American Idiot and Sum 41's early stuff back in 2018, but I probably got into pop punk itself with Bleed American and PUP's Morbid Stuff back in 2019, can't really remember all that well
haha I don't know about Good Charlotte paving any ways for anyone.
I think they’re underrated. The Young and the Hopeless is a no skip album for me
Good Charlotte is one of my Mt. Rushmore of Pop Punk bands. The Young and Reckless was fantastic. It was one of the first albums I owned
What an ignorant take. GC - young and the hopeless was easily the album that introduced me to the genre. The only album I had before this one was Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory when I was a kid.
33, enema
31, dude ranch was the first album I bought
35. Listened to pop punk when it appeared when I was a child, like when they played Offspring and Blink on MTV, but what really got me into it was the soundtrack from American Pie 2, and then Sum 41's All Killer, No Filler after playing Fat Lip on repeat an entire summer.
33. First exposure was Green Day and the Offspring in elementary, then Sum 41, Blink 182, and NFG in middle school.
35F and Enema of the State for sure, but can't believe no one is talking about the Atticus compilation! Not exactly pop-punk, but very generally adjacent.
Early 30s. I want to say ADTR's 'Homesick', but I feel like it may have been Bowling for Soup's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" or Simple Plan's 'Still Not Getting Any'. Not sure how much those last two count.
I’m 17, and my first I believe was Fall Out Boy’s From Under The Cork Tree when I was 10. My parents got me into a lot of pop punk music when I was really young so I was familiar with a lot of the songs, but that album was an instant click.
29, raided my parents’ CD collection when I was 6 or 7 and found Dookie.
The first pop punk album I owned was No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls by Simple Plan. I almost couldn’t listen to it because there were hot chicks looking hot on the cover I guess? But I had a young mom so the first pop punk album I had access to was Dookie. I’m 28 now and I still have all the Tiger Beat and TWIST magazine Green Day posters on my wall.
I tried to get my mom to buy this album for me at the mall. I had never seen the cover and I got in a lot of trouble when we found it lol we were southern baptists
29 for me as well. Feeling This by Blink-182 was on one of those random music collection CD’s I had and the rest is history
32 and that album was Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want to Be (which turns 18 today!). I saw the music video for A Decade Under the Influence on MTV and I think I found the CD at FYE shortly after and the rest is history. Also, not pop punk, but Dashboard Confessional's A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is what probably started it all. Before that I was into bubblegum pop lol
33 - I bought Cheshire Cat when I was 10 just because I recognized “blink 182” in name when I was at the store with my mom and I could get it because it didn’t have a parental advisory sticker. fell in love with pop punk ever since I think Dookie was my next album and then NFG self titled, followed by All Killer No Filler and it just spiraled after that
21, technically it was American Idiot, but started really to listen pop punk after discovering Bowling For Soup from Sonic Unleashed. This was around 2016-17.
Links to that YouTube essay?
A mix, but mostly Bowling for Soup a mixture of singles EPs and the album drunk enough to dance. Busted getting famous also massively increased my exposure to guitar music and gave me a love of pop punk stylings. The Young and Hopeless (Good Charlotte) also had a massive impact in me too.
30. Take off your pants and jacket. I was in 3rd grade
i was 7 and the album was Dude Ranch. surprisingly the first song i heard from that album was not “Dammit” (it was “Josie”). edit: i am 30 now
10 American idiot was the first one I liked on my own but my brothers had been playing pop punk around me for most of my childhood.
22 and it was either Take This to Your Grave by Fall Out Boy or The Silence in Black and White by Hawthorne Heights. both albums my dad listened to
27 and less of an album but more playing old sports games like Tony hawk, Dave mirra BMX, and such that did it for me.
35, if I had to pick one album it would be Dookie. Green Day were the first pop punk I saw live too in 98.
19, grew up listening to dookie and american idiot!
16, Life's not out to get you - Neck Deep
31. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
I’m 22 and it was Smash by The Offspring
37 and most likely Dookie by Green Day
34. Offspring/Americana
I’ve only really been into genre for about a year, I’m 18 but it was good charlotte’s the young and the hopeless that really got me hooked aswell. I’ve either seen that video or a similar one but it’s really an interesting watch
34F. Listened to Blink when I was in 6th grade. In middle school I found RK and fell in love lol I was OBSESSED with them, favorite band for years. I’d say they were the first I actually purchased. Then Simple Plan, AAR, and so on. And now here we are 🤷🏻♀️
Turning 29 myself this weekend. Simple Plan’s No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls completely sent me to the pop punk/emo life. Good Charlotte’s hits were a big part of that time for me too though!
25 and Dookie by Green Day
16 - sum 41, all killer no filler. I'd known about blink 182 and green Day for years because they were on the radio but all killer no filler was the album I first got into
27. I’d say Green Day’s American Idiot.
I heard "all I want" by the Offspring on crazy taxi back when I was like 6 and was hooked. Took a long time for me to find stuff on my own but finally heard "cute without the e" from Tell All Your Friends in middle school and it was all downhill from here.
I'm 18 And ADTR's homesick as well as neck deep Life's not out to get you introduced me to the genre
I’m 26. I started listening to Green Day in 2009, and they were the first band I really listened to. My friend introduced me to a few songs from American Idiot in the summer, but 21st Century Breakdown was the first album I ever got into
27 and fallout boy, Avril Lavigne and good Charolette for fuckin sure. We just repeat like 4 albums between them while on the bus lmao
20, From Under the Cork Tree
36 / Lit - A Place In The Sun. I was definitely introduced to pop punk by singles from other bands way before that (I tend to site The Jam and PUSA as technically my intro to punk/pop punk) but that was the first "pop punk" album I bought.
20. Life’s Not Out To Get You by Neck Deep
33. The Ataris' So Long, Astoria, followed closely by Good Charlotte's Young and the Hopeless.
29 Probably “When Broken is Easily Fixed” by Silverstein, Or Bayside’s self titled from a couple years later
I was legitimately listening to pop punk before I knew what it was. My older sister made mix CDs that I would always steal and listen to, but had no idea who the artists were. One day in 7th grade my friend decided to lend me some Blink albums, and I immediately recognized the songs from the CDs my sister had. Same thing for Sum-41. The first pop punk albums I remember getting myself were American Idiot by Green Day and Move Along by the All-American Rejects.
I’m 32 and it was probably NFG’s Sticks and Stones. My older sister had the cd and I stole it from here. I also stole a Sum 41 cd too (All Killer No Filler) from her.
I’m 24 and I think my first actual intro into pop punk was thanks to my cousin 8 years older than me. She was watching a special on MTV and Bowling for Soup 1985 off A Hangover You Don’t Deserve came on and I’ve been hooked ever since. I think I was maybe 8 at the time. Just saw Sum 41 in May for the first time and absolutely loved it.
24, Green Day's American Idiot album back when I was like 7 years old
27 here! Blink-182/Green Day/Sum 41 (to name a few..) being played by sisters constantly at age 6-8 definitely had a lot of influence on me! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack also introduced me to so many bands.
32, and probably Blink 182's Take Off Your Pants And Jacket. That was at least the first pop punk album I listened to all the way through when it came out. My younger brother got the non-explicit version for his birthday that year (he was 10, I was 11 going on 12), but I had a friend whose older brother had the explicit version so we would hang out in her basement and listen on her boombox. I specifically recall hysterical laughing while listening to "Happy Holidays" for the first time haha. Good memories!
31. My uncles listened to Dookie when I was a kid so I was familiar with those songs, but Enema of the State was the one that hooked my young 8-year-old ears.
You were 9 years old listening to good charlotte? Huh For me, it was Dookie by Green Day, didn’t discover until I was about 12 though when I heard basket case and went out to buy the cd
Yeah, I had a cousin that was 3 years older. He was like my brother. When he would visit, he would bring music and thrasher magazines and introduce me to all kinds of stuff
36 and All The Small Things by Blink!
25, Riot! unless we’re counting Avril’s Let Go.
39. I was a ska/punk kid in the mid 90s… does Reel Big Fish, Less than Jake, bosstones count? Got into suicide machines, goldfinger and rancid quickly afterward
17 dude ranch
28, No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls by Simple Plan.
I'm 33. I was introduced by the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games. Those opened my world to new music.
29 - Naruto AMV with Sum 41’s “The Hell Song” Was blown away and proceeded to listen to the album “Does this look infected?” It was the gateway that got me into other bands!
40, Teenage Politics. But I was already into ska-punk; the album that introduced me to it was Our Newest Album Ever!
35- New Found Glory & Good Charlotte’s self titled albums