00s Pop Punk

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The Academy Is... - About a Girl: 8 I mean it's a pretty killer chorus, and tbh that's all you need to be a good pop punk song at worst

Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me: 8 Ahhhh he said Chicago! He's from here!!!

The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing: 10 What his voice does in the verses is a prime example of a bad idea done so well it becomes incredible

The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret: 8 Who are you, the feds? You're getting nothing out of me

The All-American Rejects - Move Along: 10 A great song that gets a huge upgrade at the bridge

The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell: 7 "Then he's a fool" is truly one of the greatest twists in music history

All Time Low - Dear Maria, Count Me In: 8 Good shoutalong chorus

All Time Low - Weightless: 3 Meatless describes this better, straight-up nothing on this bone

American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak: 5 Always stoned, plays Nintendo, and has a girlfriend? This dude's livin' the dream!

blink-182 - First Date: 10 Favorite blink-182 song. There's just an earnest charm that puts a smile on my face instantly

blink-182 - The Rock Show: 8 This and First Date were them angrily writing for the record company "the cheesiest, catchiest, throwaway fucking summertime single you've ever heard" and by god they succeeded

blink-182 - Stay Together For The Kids: 10 This song placed 17th on a list of "The Top 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs"

blink-182 - Feeling This: 8 Shoutout to Madden 04

blink-182 - I Miss You: 8 Tom's verse taking this song from 0 to 60 in drama never gets old

Bowling For Soup - 1985: 1 People get hit with a wave of feelgood nostalgia when hearing the songs they loved when they were younger. Tbh it feels just as good to be reminded of the songs you absolutely despise

Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape: 7 For seven seconds this is the best song in the world

Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk: 3 Oh, this key change was not the play

Busted - Crashed The Wedding: 6 Tbh if you had put this in Disney/Nick rate, not only could I not tell, but I'd probably drop like 2-3 extra points on it

The Cab - One of THOSE Nights: 9 The title was originally One of THESE Nights but Don Henley's legal team don't sleep

Cute Is What We Aim For - The Curse of Curves: 2 This dude sucks

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down: 5 I like a little Dashboard but this one's pretty meh

Every Avenue - Tell Me I'm A Wreck: 5 Oh, I can tell two seconds in with that standard riff/voice combo exactly what I'm getting into

Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy’s Mom: 10 Is STAYC and STAYC's Mom the first mother/daughter duo to be rated?

Good Charlotte - The Anthem: 7 I remember this from a Madden soundtrack and thus it qualifies for a jock jam bonus

Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous: 8 Tbh I'm shocked I've giving good scores to Good Charlotte, turns out I remember some of their singles way more fondly than expected

Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys: 5 Material Girl if it had slay reduction surgery

Good Charlotte - I Just Wanna Live: 5 Would be solid pop rock in more capable hands

Good Charlotte - I Don't Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem): 7 In what dance floor... you know what, hell with it, it's a fun song I'll let it slide

Hoobastank - The Reason: 6 Thinking about how Zach Galifinakis hosted SNL twice, and at the end of each monologue he yelled "we're gonna have a great show tonight, Hoobastank is here! No? Who is it?"

Jimmy Eat World - The Middle: 8 I want to say overrated but I get it, it's The Middle, I get it

Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness: 11 Song of the summer for twenty-one of the last twenty-two years (streak only broken by Daft Punk - Get Lucky)

Jimmy Eat World - Pain: 9

Lustra - Scotty Doesn't Know: 7 Some of you didn't get forcefed a diet of raunchy 2000s comedies as a teenager and it shows

Marianas Trench - Cross My Heart: 6 Good claps

Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over: 8 Iffy on the voice, but something in the imagery & storytelling is clicking

Mayday Parade - Jersey: 4 Infamous climate change denial anthem Jersey by Mayday Parade

Motion City Soundtrack - My Favorite Accident: 6

Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out: 6 I was too busy thinking about the "Will & Grace/drum & bass" line to care about the rest of the song

Motion City Soundtrack - Everything is Alright: 8

New Found Glory - My Friends Over You: 7 A true bros anthem

Plain White T's - Hate (I Really Don't Like You): 3 Same

Plain White T's - Our Time Now: 6 Hey There Delilah dude telling me he's some rulebreaker? Yeah, okay

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down: 8

Relient K - Be My Escape: 8 Kinda hate that "ooh," the prechorus builds super well, and it lessens what should've been a more powerful punch to start off the chorus

Short Stack - Sway Sway Baby!: 1 This piles up Terrible Thing after Terrible Thing so fast I can't even recover from one before getting dropped with another

Simple Plan - I'm Just a Kid: 6 [Victorian orphan voice] please mister I'm just a kid

Simple Plan - Perfect: 6 Dad sucks, I know

Simple Plan - Welcome to My Life: 7 I mean, this feels paper thin to me today, but tbh this does nail a type of teenage mindset where everything feels so big and broad and just overwhelming. Wasn't for me back then but I get it.

Something Corporate - I Woke Up In A Car: 7 Finally, a pop punk song about the great American roadtrip. Oh wait its not?

Sugarcult - Memory: 7 Nothing special but just a feelgoodery pop punk track I have no objections to

Sum 41 - Fat Lip: 10 A group singalong classic, everyone even jumps in on "ABORTION -BORTION -BORTION -BORTION -BORTION"

Sum 41 - In Too Deep: 10 Might be my favorite band overall in this rate, incredible chorus and they got the ebb & flow of a great pop-punk song on lockdown

Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure: 5 "You hollow out my hungry eyes" is something a horror movie victim says when you turn them around and they're all possessed and self-mutilated and shit

Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team): 3 Cut from the team and the practice squad and the minor league team and the minor league practice squad and the little league team and the little league practice squad

The Used - The Taste of Ink: 5 This mf's eating ink cartridges

We The Kings - Check Yes, Juliet: 7

Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue: 10 The ultimate nostalgia-fueled "let's get out of this town" track, nobody did that or the power violin better

Yellowcard - Only One: 8 Putting my lighter up and shedding a minimum of four tears

Yellowcard - Rough Landing, Holly: 8 Honestly Yellowcard is one of the biggest sufferers of the "outside of your big album you do not exist to me" but this is good

+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating: 7 The way I was typing "this sounds like a dude doing a Blink-182 impression"

BONUS TRACKS:

Yellowcard - Everywhere: 7 Started off a bland cover, but they smartly cranked up the rock by the second verse

All Time Low - Umbrella: 3 The -ellas are the worst part

Mayday Parade - When I Grow Up: 6 Verses are hitting the So Bad It's Good button

The Cab - Disturbia: 7 I actually thought this might make a great pop punk cover and uhhhh well the thesis statement proved true even if the experiment wasn't exactly a success

Artist Vs Poet - Bad Romance: 6 An extra point for the enthusiasm of their "I'm a free bitch baby!"

The Ready Set - Airplanes: 4

Go Radio - Rolling In The Deep: 10 Honestly a pop punk cover of this was gonna be hard to screw up, so congrats on reaching expectations. Actually the brief guitar sound on the bridge was a big time move, kudos

The Downtown Fiction - Super Bass: 5 Give it up for punk friday you guys

Seaway - Closer: 8 We support an unintentionally(?) gay cover of Closer

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