r/poppunkers • u/jonisnonjewish • Mar 08 '12
Out of curiosity, what was the band that got you into pop-punk?
Mine was definitely New Found Glory, I remember my friend handing me Sticks and Stones. I listened to it on repeat for about 6 months. What was your band?
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u/aweymier Mar 08 '12
Anti-Flag (biggest influence, not so much pop), Green Day, Sum 41, and (i know they are not punk, but) Taking Back Sunday
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Mar 08 '12
Rufio. A guy in one of my college classes years ago got me into it. I was obsessed with death metal in those days and thought all pop punk pretty much sounded like Simple Plan. I loved Rufio because I could hear the Gothenburg, meldoic death metal in their guitars and felt the same intensity in the metal I listened to. That was in 2001 I would have to say. Still love it to this day.
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u/jonisnonjewish Mar 08 '12
I had Rufio's Perhaps, I Suppose in like 2002 that shit was insanely good. That summer I don't think we took it out of our CD players.
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u/illeatyourheart Mar 08 '12
Green Day got me into punk, which then got me into punk/hardcore, which got me into hardcore, which got me into post-hardcore, which got me into poppunk.
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u/skaguyy Mar 08 '12
Lucky Boys Confusion got me back into Pop Punk after years away from it
Their song Hey Driver made me start my own pop punk band!
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u/Simmons2pntO Mar 08 '12
All Killer, No Filler by Sum 41 was the album that got me listening to punk rock/pop punk in general. From there I went through kind of a metal/Nu Metal phase (Metallica, Linkin Park, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed etc.).
Then I remember listening to From Under The Cork Tree and loving it, by my friends made fun of me cause they were all still listening to "metal" and I liked Fall Out Boy.
FINALLY a few years ago (wow, I guess it was 6 years, doesn't seem that long) a friend showed me Rise or Die Trying by Four Year Strong and Brand New. Then from there, I myself found Set Your Goals and The Wonder Years and the rest is history. Now I just love me some Pop Punk... Carridale and With The Punches are some of my newer favorites
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u/Cubed77 Mar 08 '12
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon, still one of the greatest albums of all time.
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u/atticus18244fsas Mar 08 '12
Sum 41->blink-182 and then from there pretty much everyone else (Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, New Found Glory, TBS etc). Keep in mind this was in 2002-2003ish.
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u/SniperNoSniping Mar 08 '12
i grew up always hearing pop punk from my dad and my older brother, but Rise or Die Trying by four year strong and get stoked on it by the wonder years were the albums that really got me hooked into the genre
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u/hXc90sKid Mar 08 '12
Green Day's album "Dookie" set the foundation, along with growing up on THPS games, etc.
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u/AndrewSoup Mar 09 '12
The first two albums I bought myself were the first two bands that got me into the pop-punk genre. They were Green Day's "American Idiot" and Fall Out Boy's "From Under The Cork Tree". Fall Out Boy definitely had a bigger impact on me, FUTCT is still one of my favorite albums.
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u/ub3rr4v3 Mar 09 '12
No mention of the band that got me into pop punk.
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The first time I heard the album Wasting Time, I knew I was hooked forever.
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u/ghdana Mar 08 '12
I always liked blink-182, but Four Year Strong and Set Your Goals got me actually involved.