7-19-10

I absolutely adore pop-punk. Not early 2000's pop-punk like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte, because my 13 year old self would hate me for it. She's a music snob, who doesn't quite know how to put on eyeliner yet and is just learning how to function with breasts and the like. Obviously, a younger version of yours truly's (I'm being grammatically incorrect with reckless abandon) opinion is still totally relevant.
I guess I enjoy pop-punk because I like upbeat tempos and melody like any other human being. And I like catchy shit. And a degree of silliness at times. These traits don't exactly characterize everything that I listen to or even this genre but if it has these things I'm more than likely to warm up to it pretty fast. Here are some albums that I can listen all the way through without a problem:















I know some people get seriously butt hurt when others refer to the Ramones as "pop-punk". But how are they not? I guess those people just romanticize the band and put them on a pedestal, seeing them as unclassifiable pioneers. Or maybe I just have an ear that can't classify shit.
Besides the ones previously listed I do quite enjoy the Buzzcocks and Alkaline Trio (sparingly, the cut off point is 'Good Mourning'). I know there's a few that I missed but these were the bands/albums that I thought of right at the moment - anything more would be a grocery list of sorts. I was going to conclude this post by writing something incredibly witty, but those words escape me now. So I bid you adieu. Adieu!