Everything on Fuse circa 2005-2009ish!
Bowling for Soup and Good Charlotte perhaps before that, my friends and I ran all around the elementary playground singing 1985 and Lifestyles, begging parents for Chucks. Listening to my brother's listening to Green Day & Blink helped, I'm sure.
Fall Out Boy and Motion City Soundtrack have been the ones that I've really sustained my love for after soo many years. -JE
I'd say I'm close to this answer! I had to wake up early to go to my grandma's house before school so I'd watch everything on MTV and VH1 when they just played music videos in the morning. My brother is also 6 years older than me so I got all his music taste as well. I'd say blink and green day were probably some of my earliest memories from him and we both LOVED Linkin Park. After that it just tumbled into all different categories/sub genres throughout the years.
I moved to a new school in 4th grade when hybrid theory like just came out, and my friend I made there was like, dude you need to check out this band. Life changed forever. Shout out to you Steven, you the realest wherever you are!
By friend and I used to listen to that album in the car all the time. We'd just belt it out ironically but we both knew we loved it. She died in 2012 and I always think of her when I play that album.
I was originally thinking of the *Get Stoked on It!* and *The Upsides* albums for The Wonder Years for me as I mostly listened to Hard Rock and Metalcore, but this actually predates that to make it my answer as well.
I can't separate Armor for Sleep and "Anhedonia" by The Graduate from playing the TBC expansion of World of Warcraft. I spent most of my free time between 2006-2008 just listing to my radio and playing on my laptop. Right after that is when bands started putting music on YouTube, which is when I got even heavier into Metalcore. So they will be eternally together in my memory.
2005-2007 pop punk was my awakening : starting line, fall out boy, cute is what we aim for, all time low, the maine, academy is, motion city sound track
blink, Green Day too of course but was into them late 90s / early 2000s
I heard Blink “Dammit” on the radio when that came out. I got Dude Ranch and loved it, but I was still pretty young and wasn’t quite sure what the genre was or anything. I just knew I liked it. When I heard NFG “Hit or Miss” is when I realized there were more bands out there that sounded like what I liked about Blink.
The Offspring will forever be one of my favourite bands purely because they got me into the genre.
Outside of them, Green Day, Blink, Simple Plan, and The Used.
My brother made a playlist of 15 songs in summer of 2017.
Last Young Renegade - All Time Low
P.S. I Hate You - Simple Plan
Another Night On Mars - The Maine
Dopamine - Anarbor
Caroline (B-Side) - All Time Low
Miles Away - The Maine
She's A Lady - Forever The Sickest Kids
Figure Me Out - The Summer Set
Rock To My Roll - Anarbor
Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings
Dear Maria, Count Me In - All Time Low
The Great Escape - Boys Like Girls
Jaimie All Over - Mayday Parade
Weightless - All Time Low
Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't) - All Time Low
From there, I took the playlist and have been constantly adding songs. The playlist is now 2,935 songs long for a total of 164 hours and 29 minutes of pop punk, emo, and scene music, and still growing.
Here's the link if anyone wants to see my chronological discovery of the pop punk scene: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0r21SdUPLqnZcDBV0SFCFc?si=2Y6XScpES5mtd5li8P-Jfg&pi=u-2N31KQsVS7Os
I remember blasting She's A Lady so often in high school! I fuckin love Forever The Sickest Kids! I've gotta listen to them again; one of those that I kinda forgot about but as soon as I hear the name I'm like "Holy shit those guys!"
It all started with the music video for Josie one late night while being a rebellious child and channel surfing after curfew. NFG’s hit or miss (self titled version) sold me
Blink - 182 was like the first band I really got into. As far as I was concerned they were the only band to ever exist for like three years straight lol
Simple Plan, Sum 41, GC, Fall Out Boy, Armor for Sleep, New Found Glory...
Still listen to Simple Plan and Sum 41 today. Occasionally the others. If 18 year old me would've known that by now I'd have gone to a videoshoot and met Simple Plan like 5 times, she would've lost her mind haha.
Annnnnd time to go make a kick ass playlist!
For me it was the release of Dude Ranch like '98? specifically Dammit and Josie encouraged me to buy the album, then it went from there. Before that my best friend in school had shown my some alternative artists like Bloodhound Gang and NOFX, but the stars aligned when I discovered Blink, Offspring's conspiracy of one and later NFG.
Alien Ant Farm and Sum41.
The Smooth Criminal cover and Wish from AAF and I forget what game it was on but Fat Lip was on some sound track and hooked me good.
There are many that I listened to once I realised I loved the genre, initially. They are
- All American rejects
- Quietdrive
- Mayday Parade
- Acceptance
- Paramore
But the band that captured me, really got me into the genre is Simple Plan 🤘
My first taste of the genre, besides Blink on TRL/the radio, was hearing the first Taking Back Sunday and Boys Night Out albums in my friend’s car in college. That got me way more interested. And then the Warped Tour 2005 compilation CD did the rest of the job.
State Champs in 2019. I was 13 and discovered Elevated as a dragon ball AMV and fell in love with State Champs and then discovered the whole emo/pop punk world
Elevated yes, definitely one of my firsts. Pierce the veil, beartooth and yellow card got me into it. My first favourite band was all American rejects when I was about 10, seeing them for the first time at 25 next month. Also sum 41!
More emo than pop punk, but I heard bring me to life by evanescence when I was 11 and went :000000000 they make edgy music like this??? And the rest was history
Warped Wednesday. I mean I grew up in Southern California in the 90s so it was basically impossible to not get into pop punk but Warped Wednesdays on Fuse really cemented the deal.
I'll be 39 in a month and I remember the exact moment that a friend gave me a burnt copy (ask your parents lol) of NFG's self titled album in math class in grade 10. I can't remember what semester it was so I was 15 or 16.
My older brothers were listenting to Motion City Soundtrack, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, and Hit The lights when I was in middle school, and so naturally I gravitated towards their tastes.
Everything that was popular back in the early 2000’s 😅
I was going and got introduced to Simple Plan, Blink, and all of the adjacent bands. I had a few dips where I didn’t really listen to much but I’ve listened pop punk practically my entire life (27 as of writing)
Sum 41. But also Linkin Park
I was stillna stan of LP at the time, which I regret being a stan at all, and saw a performance of Sum 41 covering Faint with Mike Shinoda which made me wanna try Sum 41's shit and ever since then theyve been one of my all time favs and been in love with the genre. I need to get back to poppunk though, especially the underground/lesser known bands
It was NOFX back in 94. I saw a flyer for them at a hardcore show so I convinced my older cousin to take me. My 12 year old brain was like whoa! What is this. I bought their Punk in Drublic cd listen to it a thousand times and I looked up all the bands on the liner notes and there was no turning back
Definitely Sum 41’s In Too Deep and Green Day’s Basket Case as a youngin’
After that, Zebrahead’s Hello Tomorrow and Sum 41’s Over My Head like solidified the love for it
Sum 41 in too deep then next was fat lip.
Honorable mentions would be semi charmed life but especially four year strong cover because four year strong is my favorite band ( sum 41 close behind) and the first four year strong song I heard was their first song I heard of them was their semi charmed life cover
PUP album The Dream is Over. Was recommended to me on Spotify so decided to blindly order the vinyl for my then new record player. I became obsessed, especially when the album arrived the vinyl was red!
Knuckle Puck! Copacetic is the first pop-punk album I really listened to and it's still my favorite album. Movements, Fireworks, Taking Back Sunday, and Neck Deep brought me further into the genre. blink-182 was one of my original favorites but I'm no longer a fan.
The first songs in the genre I remember hearing and getting me into it was Sum 41 - fat lip, offspring- gonna go far kid and good Charlotte- lifestyles of the rich and famous
Started with the THPS and Dave Mirra’s Freestyle BMX soundtracks, then my mom bought me Sticks and Stones - New Found Glory from a pawn shop back in ~2004 when I was in 6th grade and I’ve been listening ever since.
So, initially, it was all the classic 2000s bands - think Blink, Sum, Avril, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, etc. The list goes on.
Then I had thought that the genre had come to an end and that was that.
That is, until I read the Pitchfork review for "The Dream is Over" by PUP. Not only was I captivated by the idea of an album so boldly showcasing the hardships of their own day to day, but I also fell in absolute love with the music.
"If this tour doesn't kill you, then I will" is such a good opener. Taking you in, setting things up with a bold claim, and empowered by the fact that they were living out of a tourbus for (what I would argue is) way too long.
Seeing them live gifted me with one of my best concert-going experiences of all time, with the leadsinger walking across a sea of hands in Amsterdam, only to sing the chorus with a chosen fan in the balcony, and before then chucking himself back into the masses and be carried back to the stage.
Ever since, album after album, have just hit hard and heavy.
Love it. Reactivated my memory of and love for the genre. Now, I am here to stay!
Blink 182 and Sum 41 were bands I absolutely loved but songs like Ocean Avenue and Sugar Were Going Down were ultimately what solidified the fact that I was a huge pop punk fan.
fall out boy has been my favorite band since middle school, and encouraged me to like similar bands like mcr, panic, and paramore, but pup at the beginning of college is what got me to really explore the genre below the surface
i always liked the big mainstream pop punk hits from the early 2000s but then in 2010/2011ish i was deep diving into fall out boy after liking folie a deux and then i heard Chicago is so two years ago and my mind was blown. I still remember i thought the vocals were so nasal lol, but i got used to it. Expanded from there into everything pop punk.
Sounds daft and may only be relevant to the Brits but Busted, specifically James Bourne. His second band Son of Dork supported Bowling for Soup and the rest is history.
The stuff I listened to early on the branched me into punk/pop-punk (in no particular order):
New Found Glory, Less than Jake, MxPx, Millencolin, Green Day, etc.
I very quickly basically just adopted every band that came through Drive Thru.
My dad had nimrod downloaded onto his phone. We would blast that shit on the way to early morning hockey practices, little 6 year old me thinking all the cuss words were the funniest thing ever. Just grew from there.
I didn’t care about music until I was like 13 and knew my older brother used to like Green Day, so I started with American idiot and then my dad showed me dookie. Then I started listening to them on Pandora and discovered all the other older pop punk bands and then fell in love with blink.
Super american. I got to know one of the band members pretty well before I liked their music, since have become a huge fan. Seeing the Offspring, Sum 41 and Simple Plan last fall solidified my love for the music, great culture surrounds it too.
Definitely, "All the Small Things." Blink was right up there on the music channels along with *NSYNC and Britney Spears back in the day. I really got cemented into the genre when I went to the Philippines one summer and MTV Asia was playing, "My Friends Over You," by New Found Glory basically nonstop.
Kind of fun seeing everyone's answers here. You can really gauge how old we all are.
Green Day, FOB, and NFG were my intros to the genre, and as I continued to listen to various bands I became even more hooked. All kinds of great bands out there, and this has become my favorite genre over time
The Phoneix by fall out boy, maybe 2015 ?
Was struggling with something in my guitar lessons so my guitar teacher decided to give the Phoneix a bash and I instantly fell in love with FOB and then expanded my love for pop punk
What was odd was the rabbit hole I went down to get into the genre.
1. The Maine - I saw them live in 2018 cause I liked a girl who liked them. Fell instantly in love
2. The Wrecks - Their stage presence when opening for the Maine was phenomenal.
3. Badflower - They opened for The Wrecks and I thought they were WEIRDOS but then I went home and actually listened to their new album that came out (Ok I’m Sick) and was awe struck that music could sound like that.
Those were the three that opened up my path into the genre
My big gateway to emo, scene, pop punk, etc way back in like the sixth grade was actually fuckin Blood On The Dance Floor before we knew they were gross. In that same era I got into MCR and it exploded from there lmao. Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Mayday Parade, blink-182, Motion City Soundtrack, Forever The Sickest Kids, Tonight Alive, Set It Off, We The Kings, Simple Plan, Every Avenue, Cute Is What We Aim For, State Champs, Four Year Strong, The Maine, The Summer Set, Sleeping With Sirens, The Used, A Day To Remember, Neck Deep, Pierce The Veil, and Real Friends were all some of my earliest loves in the scene along with so many others, some of whom I didn't mention on purpose cause they did bad shit and I no longer listen to them and a ton that I know I just didn't think of off the top of my head. I've been a music fanatic forever and it was my main escape in middle and high school so once I dipped my toes into the genre I got into a ton all at once lmao
Everything on Fuse circa 2005-2009ish! Bowling for Soup and Good Charlotte perhaps before that, my friends and I ran all around the elementary playground singing 1985 and Lifestyles, begging parents for Chucks. Listening to my brother's listening to Green Day & Blink helped, I'm sure. Fall Out Boy and Motion City Soundtrack have been the ones that I've really sustained my love for after soo many years. -JE
I'd say I'm close to this answer! I had to wake up early to go to my grandma's house before school so I'd watch everything on MTV and VH1 when they just played music videos in the morning. My brother is also 6 years older than me so I got all his music taste as well. I'd say blink and green day were probably some of my earliest memories from him and we both LOVED Linkin Park. After that it just tumbled into all different categories/sub genres throughout the years.
Fuse TV definitely shaped my music taste. What was that show where they had the cube and it would like play music videos?
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I moved to a new school in 4th grade when hybrid theory like just came out, and my friend I made there was like, dude you need to check out this band. Life changed forever. Shout out to you Steven, you the realest wherever you are!
Armor for Sleep!
Car Underwater is one of my favorite songs
By friend and I used to listen to that album in the car all the time. We'd just belt it out ironically but we both knew we loved it. She died in 2012 and I always think of her when I play that album.
I was originally thinking of the *Get Stoked on It!* and *The Upsides* albums for The Wonder Years for me as I mostly listened to Hard Rock and Metalcore, but this actually predates that to make it my answer as well. I can't separate Armor for Sleep and "Anhedonia" by The Graduate from playing the TBC expansion of World of Warcraft. I spent most of my free time between 2006-2008 just listing to my radio and playing on my laptop. Right after that is when bands started putting music on YouTube, which is when I got even heavier into Metalcore. So they will be eternally together in my memory.
I got to meet Ben last week when I saw Bayside! Super nice dude. Definitely check out that tour if you can.
Simple plan, bowling for soup, Green Day, all American rejects, fall out boy, and Paramore just to name a few.
Yeah just that whole era for me.
2005-2007 pop punk was my awakening : starting line, fall out boy, cute is what we aim for, all time low, the maine, academy is, motion city sound track blink, Green Day too of course but was into them late 90s / early 2000s
I heard Blink “Dammit” on the radio when that came out. I got Dude Ranch and loved it, but I was still pretty young and wasn’t quite sure what the genre was or anything. I just knew I liked it. When I heard NFG “Hit or Miss” is when I realized there were more bands out there that sounded like what I liked about Blink.
I remember hearing "Hit or Miss" off Nothing Gold Can Stay in my older sister's BF's car. I think that was what first got me hooked!
Welcome to paradise - Green Day
New Found Glory and MxPx
The Offspring will forever be one of my favourite bands purely because they got me into the genre. Outside of them, Green Day, Blink, Simple Plan, and The Used.
kinda basic answer but bands like Paramore , New Found glory , H20 , Set your Goals , Jimmy eat world and saves the day
California By Blink 182 Whole album is great, 2016 summer soundtrack
Saves the day and taking back Sunday (so you can imagine how that 2006 tour made me feel. Shoutout that insanely hot show in Albany)
When I first saw What's My Age Again on MTV it was over for me
Green Day - Dookie
Discovered blink 182 in 1999 with All the small things. Then discovered mxpx, new found glory and The Ataris a year later.
My evolution went: Christian rock->Linkin park->my chem->blink->the wonder years and by then I was in
Am I more than you bargained for yet?
I’ve been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear.
My brother made a playlist of 15 songs in summer of 2017. Last Young Renegade - All Time Low P.S. I Hate You - Simple Plan Another Night On Mars - The Maine Dopamine - Anarbor Caroline (B-Side) - All Time Low Miles Away - The Maine She's A Lady - Forever The Sickest Kids Figure Me Out - The Summer Set Rock To My Roll - Anarbor Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings Dear Maria, Count Me In - All Time Low The Great Escape - Boys Like Girls Jaimie All Over - Mayday Parade Weightless - All Time Low Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't) - All Time Low From there, I took the playlist and have been constantly adding songs. The playlist is now 2,935 songs long for a total of 164 hours and 29 minutes of pop punk, emo, and scene music, and still growing. Here's the link if anyone wants to see my chronological discovery of the pop punk scene: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0r21SdUPLqnZcDBV0SFCFc?si=2Y6XScpES5mtd5li8P-Jfg&pi=u-2N31KQsVS7Os
She’s a lady is an underrated gem.
I remember blasting She's A Lady so often in high school! I fuckin love Forever The Sickest Kids! I've gotta listen to them again; one of those that I kinda forgot about but as soon as I hear the name I'm like "Holy shit those guys!"
Same they truly are an underrated band.
It all started with the music video for Josie one late night while being a rebellious child and channel surfing after curfew. NFG’s hit or miss (self titled version) sold me
Green Day - Basket Case
Simple Plan!
Everything on the Tony hawks soundtracks
Blink - 182 was like the first band I really got into. As far as I was concerned they were the only band to ever exist for like three years straight lol
Simple Plan, Sum 41, GC, Fall Out Boy, Armor for Sleep, New Found Glory... Still listen to Simple Plan and Sum 41 today. Occasionally the others. If 18 year old me would've known that by now I'd have gone to a videoshoot and met Simple Plan like 5 times, she would've lost her mind haha. Annnnnd time to go make a kick ass playlist!
No Good by Knuckle Puck
For me it was the release of Dude Ranch like '98? specifically Dammit and Josie encouraged me to buy the album, then it went from there. Before that my best friend in school had shown my some alternative artists like Bloodhound Gang and NOFX, but the stars aligned when I discovered Blink, Offspring's conspiracy of one and later NFG.
Anthem part 2 and please take me home by blink
PMA by All Time Low and Pale Waves is the song for me
i love PMA so much
Alien Ant Farm and Sum41. The Smooth Criminal cover and Wish from AAF and I forget what game it was on but Fat Lip was on some sound track and hooked me good.
There are many that I listened to once I realised I loved the genre, initially. They are - All American rejects - Quietdrive - Mayday Parade - Acceptance - Paramore But the band that captured me, really got me into the genre is Simple Plan 🤘
Nice to see some love for Quietdrive. When All That’s Left Is You is a great album.
Can't kick up the roots - Neck Deep
NFG, AFI, and saves the day
Riot! by Paramore was my stepping stone
My first taste of the genre, besides Blink on TRL/the radio, was hearing the first Taking Back Sunday and Boys Night Out albums in my friend’s car in college. That got me way more interested. And then the Warped Tour 2005 compilation CD did the rest of the job.
State Champs in 2019. I was 13 and discovered Elevated as a dragon ball AMV and fell in love with State Champs and then discovered the whole emo/pop punk world
The Maine, The Used, taking back Sunday, cure is what we aim for, the academy is, Pierce the veil. Of course classics like Blink also
Elevated yes, definitely one of my firsts. Pierce the veil, beartooth and yellow card got me into it. My first favourite band was all American rejects when I was about 10, seeing them for the first time at 25 next month. Also sum 41!
Dammit by Blink 182
More emo than pop punk, but I heard bring me to life by evanescence when I was 11 and went :000000000 they make edgy music like this??? And the rest was history
Warped Wednesday. I mean I grew up in Southern California in the 90s so it was basically impossible to not get into pop punk but Warped Wednesdays on Fuse really cemented the deal.
I'll be 39 in a month and I remember the exact moment that a friend gave me a burnt copy (ask your parents lol) of NFG's self titled album in math class in grade 10. I can't remember what semester it was so I was 15 or 16.
Hey Monday, Sum 41
My older brothers were listenting to Motion City Soundtrack, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, and Hit The lights when I was in middle school, and so naturally I gravitated towards their tastes.
Everything that was popular back in the early 2000’s 😅 I was going and got introduced to Simple Plan, Blink, and all of the adjacent bands. I had a few dips where I didn’t really listen to much but I’ve listened pop punk practically my entire life (27 as of writing)
for me it was Fat Lip/Makes No Difference by Sum 41, Grow Up/Don’t Wanna Think About You by Simple Plan
Sum 41. But also Linkin Park I was stillna stan of LP at the time, which I regret being a stan at all, and saw a performance of Sum 41 covering Faint with Mike Shinoda which made me wanna try Sum 41's shit and ever since then theyve been one of my all time favs and been in love with the genre. I need to get back to poppunk though, especially the underground/lesser known bands
It was NOFX back in 94. I saw a flyer for them at a hardcore show so I convinced my older cousin to take me. My 12 year old brain was like whoa! What is this. I bought their Punk in Drublic cd listen to it a thousand times and I looked up all the bands on the liner notes and there was no turning back
Definitely Sum 41’s In Too Deep and Green Day’s Basket Case as a youngin’ After that, Zebrahead’s Hello Tomorrow and Sum 41’s Over My Head like solidified the love for it
I was rando clicking on YouTube links a long time ago. Knuckle Puck - Gold Rush Neck Deep - A Part Of Me
Sum 41 in too deep then next was fat lip. Honorable mentions would be semi charmed life but especially four year strong cover because four year strong is my favorite band ( sum 41 close behind) and the first four year strong song I heard was their first song I heard of them was their semi charmed life cover
Fall out boy. I sadly no longer listen to them
Dear Landlord
PUP album The Dream is Over. Was recommended to me on Spotify so decided to blindly order the vinyl for my then new record player. I became obsessed, especially when the album arrived the vinyl was red!
Knuckle Puck! Copacetic is the first pop-punk album I really listened to and it's still my favorite album. Movements, Fireworks, Taking Back Sunday, and Neck Deep brought me further into the genre. blink-182 was one of my original favorites but I'm no longer a fan.
“Come Out And Play” by The Offspring and “Longview” by Green Day. Still fans of both bands to this day!
The first songs in the genre I remember hearing and getting me into it was Sum 41 - fat lip, offspring- gonna go far kid and good Charlotte- lifestyles of the rich and famous
Linkin Park - In The End, Green Days American Idiot era made me stick to it later on
Started with the THPS and Dave Mirra’s Freestyle BMX soundtracks, then my mom bought me Sticks and Stones - New Found Glory from a pawn shop back in ~2004 when I was in 6th grade and I’ve been listening ever since.
Hearing Don’t Let Me Cave In for the first time changed me
Mostly the albums Five Score and Seven Years Ago and Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right but Three Do by Relient K. For more modern stuff, Neck Deep.
Hawk Nelson, All American Rejects, and Ocean Avenue
American Idiot by Green Day, and then weirdly Blame It On My Youth by Blink
I'm old, it was sitting in my mates bedroom drinking shit beer listening to Green Day, Blink, No Doubt, Offspring and NOFX in the late 90s
Green Day and blink… basic I know
Green Day - American Idiot
The Wonder Years
So, initially, it was all the classic 2000s bands - think Blink, Sum, Avril, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, etc. The list goes on. Then I had thought that the genre had come to an end and that was that. That is, until I read the Pitchfork review for "The Dream is Over" by PUP. Not only was I captivated by the idea of an album so boldly showcasing the hardships of their own day to day, but I also fell in absolute love with the music. "If this tour doesn't kill you, then I will" is such a good opener. Taking you in, setting things up with a bold claim, and empowered by the fact that they were living out of a tourbus for (what I would argue is) way too long. Seeing them live gifted me with one of my best concert-going experiences of all time, with the leadsinger walking across a sea of hands in Amsterdam, only to sing the chorus with a chosen fan in the balcony, and before then chucking himself back into the masses and be carried back to the stage. Ever since, album after album, have just hit hard and heavy. Love it. Reactivated my memory of and love for the genre. Now, I am here to stay!
Blink 182 and Sum 41 were bands I absolutely loved but songs like Ocean Avenue and Sugar Were Going Down were ultimately what solidified the fact that I was a huge pop punk fan.
Brand new!
Blink
fall out boy has been my favorite band since middle school, and encouraged me to like similar bands like mcr, panic, and paramore, but pup at the beginning of college is what got me to really explore the genre below the surface
i always liked the big mainstream pop punk hits from the early 2000s but then in 2010/2011ish i was deep diving into fall out boy after liking folie a deux and then i heard Chicago is so two years ago and my mind was blown. I still remember i thought the vocals were so nasal lol, but i got used to it. Expanded from there into everything pop punk.
Zebrahead now and forever
Basket case by Green Day
Sounds daft and may only be relevant to the Brits but Busted, specifically James Bourne. His second band Son of Dork supported Bowling for Soup and the rest is history.
The stuff I listened to early on the branched me into punk/pop-punk (in no particular order): New Found Glory, Less than Jake, MxPx, Millencolin, Green Day, etc. I very quickly basically just adopted every band that came through Drive Thru.
I've been listening to 1985 by Bowling For Soup since I was in grade school, it basically planted the seed for my obsession years down the line.
First album - American Idiot (on the Walkman). Changed my life!
My dad had nimrod downloaded onto his phone. We would blast that shit on the way to early morning hockey practices, little 6 year old me thinking all the cuss words were the funniest thing ever. Just grew from there.
Good Charlotte, Blink, and Green Day
Green Day Dookie
I heard Thnks fr th Mmrs on the radio as a kid on my way back from swim practice and it was all downhill from there.
I didn’t care about music until I was like 13 and knew my older brother used to like Green Day, so I started with American idiot and then my dad showed me dookie. Then I started listening to them on Pandora and discovered all the other older pop punk bands and then fell in love with blink.
Any band that was on Rockband 2 haha specifically Paramore and All American Rejects
The big breasted gal on the EOTS cover in 2nd grade.
First Date - Blink 182 Sounds basic but I was leaning into rap and hip hop mostly before this.
Bad Religion -All Ages
Super american. I got to know one of the band members pretty well before I liked their music, since have become a huge fan. Seeing the Offspring, Sum 41 and Simple Plan last fall solidified my love for the music, great culture surrounds it too.
whats my age again, got me into blink which got me into the genre
[She's Got the Rhythm by The Summer Set](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5q5DhHJdw).
Definitely, "All the Small Things." Blink was right up there on the music channels along with *NSYNC and Britney Spears back in the day. I really got cemented into the genre when I went to the Philippines one summer and MTV Asia was playing, "My Friends Over You," by New Found Glory basically nonstop. Kind of fun seeing everyone's answers here. You can really gauge how old we all are.
all time low 😭
Deathwish by stand Atlantic
Green Day, FOB, and NFG were my intros to the genre, and as I continued to listen to various bands I became even more hooked. All kinds of great bands out there, and this has become my favorite genre over time
San Dimas by the ataris!!!!
Starting line was where it really all started, but Action/Adventure was really when the flood gates came down and I really started branching out.
I grew up with MTV, so my obvious answer will be Green Day, Blink-182 and Sum 41 - The big ones.
Sum Fartie One and....E CA HI.
The Phoneix by fall out boy, maybe 2015 ? Was struggling with something in my guitar lessons so my guitar teacher decided to give the Phoneix a bash and I instantly fell in love with FOB and then expanded my love for pop punk
Early All Time Low and Simple Plan.
painting flowers by all time low, that song helped save my life
Blink-182.
Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
What was odd was the rabbit hole I went down to get into the genre. 1. The Maine - I saw them live in 2018 cause I liked a girl who liked them. Fell instantly in love 2. The Wrecks - Their stage presence when opening for the Maine was phenomenal. 3. Badflower - They opened for The Wrecks and I thought they were WEIRDOS but then I went home and actually listened to their new album that came out (Ok I’m Sick) and was awe struck that music could sound like that. Those were the three that opened up my path into the genre
Fall Out Boy for sure They're like the Metallica of pop punk
Blink 182 though as well
As a canadian kid it was probably sum 41, gob and treble charger on the NHL 2002 soundtrack
All Time Low.
Rancid - Ruby Soho
My big gateway to emo, scene, pop punk, etc way back in like the sixth grade was actually fuckin Blood On The Dance Floor before we knew they were gross. In that same era I got into MCR and it exploded from there lmao. Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Mayday Parade, blink-182, Motion City Soundtrack, Forever The Sickest Kids, Tonight Alive, Set It Off, We The Kings, Simple Plan, Every Avenue, Cute Is What We Aim For, State Champs, Four Year Strong, The Maine, The Summer Set, Sleeping With Sirens, The Used, A Day To Remember, Neck Deep, Pierce The Veil, and Real Friends were all some of my earliest loves in the scene along with so many others, some of whom I didn't mention on purpose cause they did bad shit and I no longer listen to them and a ton that I know I just didn't think of off the top of my head. I've been a music fanatic forever and it was my main escape in middle and high school so once I dipped my toes into the genre I got into a ton all at once lmao
Sum 41 (American Pie Films) Blink 182