The Ultimate POP-PUNK Iceberg (it goes deep...)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- The ultimate pop-punk iceberg, from Blink-182 and Sum 41 to Neck Deep, Cartel, New Found Glory and Forever The Sickest Kids to many more obscure pop-punk bands.
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Whew! As the “singer” of Freshman 15 I was absolutely terrified Finn would rip us to shreds. Came out relatively unscathed! But that photo… woof.
You singing "don't fucking like us" live, is one of the most legendary moments in pop punk history...LEGEND
City Lights and Freshman 15 tour in 2011ish!
Sup Davey
Freshman 15 bassist here! Stoked to have made the cut! Yes
Davey!! Alex from The Alumni Club here. Miss you bro, touring with you and F15 was such a great experience.
Whaddup Davey
@@emilyj9034 yo!!! How ya been?
@@TheAlexLamberty Alex! What’s up man?!
The fact that Cartel is mentioned on this list makes me so happy, mega underrated band
They made a new album and reuinted a year or 2 ago, along with the summer set, the academy is, yellowcard, and a bunch of the smaller sized but still great pop punk bands of the 2000s.
Boys Like Girls too, they just released a new album in October and did a song featuring 30H3, the ready set, the summer set, and state champs. Pretty cool almost like a rap cypher where they combine a bunch of bands.
They probably deserved their rating for their singer talking shit about early Panic out of sheer jealousy LOL
Chroma is such a solid album! I still keep the CD in my car 😅
I always say “Honestly” is the best pop punk song ever written.
Zebrahead, Rufio, Millencolin, Lagwagon, No Use For a Name, The Living End
Pop-Punk was my gateway to Metal as a 14 yr old. The Offspring, Green Day and Blink 182 and more... I moved on to MOSTLY listen to different things but I will always had a soft spot for this type of music.
Great to discover these "Hidden Gems" of Pop-Punk - this is like a MetalJesusRocks video for Pop-Punk! 😁
Same that was definitely my favorite music for a few years and when sum 41 came out with chuck I started to like heavier stuff. Not that Chuck was metal really.. but it was a bit heavier than the other stuff I was listening too.
I could listen to Finn talk about Pop Punk as much as most people love listening to him talk about Nu-Metal.
same
same, because pop punk has more than 2 good bands
Couldn't agree more
Same, I don't get how people could possibly be so into my metal
I actually dislike all the nu metal stuff he talks about. It’s called Punk Rock MBA and I’ll gaitkeep PRMBA all day!
Man, how insane was the Drive Thru Records lineup in the early 2000s? Home Grown, The Starting Line, New Found Glory, Allister were all great.
The Early November, Hidden In Plain View, Something Corporate, The Movielife, Midtown, Finch, Senses Fail, Houston Calls, Halifax, Rx Bandits, etc. Drive Thru rarely missed! So many pop-punk classics from that label alone!
I was a bonafide Drive Thru Records hoor. If a band was on that label, I at least gave them a shot if not had them in permanent rotation. Finch and Something Corporate are still two of my absolute favorite bands
@@jsandman21Finch is still to this day one of my all time favorites. Also Allister I think could have been way bigger.
@@spfadden082711 Finch and Allister as two of my favorites!
@@jsandman21 Also, little known Steel Train. Not really always pop punk, but included Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, Fun, Grammy winning producer)
outRAGEus drummer here. Thanks for the mention 😆😆🤘
Be careful with Relient K, they’ve got a song about going to the Sadie Hawkins dance in your khaki pants
There's nothin better
Mmhmm is still one of the better pop-punk albums from the 2000's.
Oh oh oh
Seems like a lot of people write them off for being christian but “mmhmm” and “TLDMARB3D” are perfect pop punk albums imo and it might be stupid but I appreciate the positivity and fun they brought to the genre. “High of 75” is a great song if anyone wants to look into it. Then later on they matured into a more alternative sound with “forget and not slow down” and “air for free” which are personally my favorite two albums by them. Idk if people have a hard time taking them seriously or what but I think you’ll be pleased if you check out any of the music I’ve mentioned. Their monthly listeners is way too low
@@Nik.No.K cus I'm sunny with a high of 75
This is my wheelhouse as a 39 year old who lived through all of the best years of pop-punk... I still spend countless hours searching out unknown pop-punk bands all the time:
Some more mid-tier bands not mentioned: The Academy Is, Hit the Lights, Count the Stars, Over It, The Matches, The Cab, Cute Is What We Aim For, Farewell, Every Avenue, Gob, Lucky Boys Confusion, The Maine, Marianas Trench, Matchbook Romance, Motion City Soundtrack, Punchline, Quietdrive, Set It Off, The Summer Set, Zebrahead, State Champs, Sugarcult, With Confidence, WSTR, Youth In Revolt, Bowling For Soup, Hands Like Houses, Hot Rod Circuit, Madina Lake, Mayday Parade, Rufio, Valencia, We The Kings
Some lower-tier but good pop-punk bands: Off By One, Crash Romeo, Amber Pacific, Armor For Sleep, Artist Vs. Poet, The Audition, Between You & Me, Broadside, Carousel Kings, Chin Up Kid, Danger Is My Middle Name, Crash Romeo, Don't Look Down, Faber Drive, Figureitout, FM Static, Friday Night Fever, Go Radio, Halifax, Hawk Nelson, Hey Monday, Hidden In Plain View, In Her Own Words, The International Drive, School Boy Humor, Last Night Saved My Life, Loveless, Milestones, Modern Maps, Never Heard Of It, Northstar, Novice, Red Car Wire, Sleep On It, Slick Shoes, Stand Atlantic, A Story Told, Take Cover, These Hearts, A Thorn For Every Heart, Too Close To Touch, Wakefield, We Are The In Crowd, The Years Gone By, You Vs. Yesterday, Yours Truly, Youth Fountain
More obscure pop-punk that is still awesome: 7 Minutes In Heaven, 15 Minutes Late, Ace Troubleshooter, All New Atmosphere, An American Skyline, As Night Falls, Aspire, Avion Roe, The Background, Barely Blind, Best Interest, Brighter Brightest, Calm Collected, Car Party, Dear Dakota, Digger, Ever We Fall, Eyes Catch Fire, False Image, Flashlight Brown, Forget Me In Vegas, The Great Valley, In Search of Symmetry, Jasper Drive, Kid Down, Late Night Habit, Late Night Reading, Lights Out Dancing, Ludo, Mugshot, My Aim Is True, Nuclear Saturday, Pathway To Providence, The Scenic, Shaded, Showoff, Snakefight, The Sophomore Year, Starting Over, Stellar Kart, Sunset Atlantic, The Victory Lap, The Wedding, Wester.
Yes, I just went down my itunes playlists basically, but I've been building it for almost 25 years. Left off a lot more too.
Youth in revolt is pop punk now?
Northstar rules
@@vld1998 Lots of pop-punk elements in their choruses. "Love is a Liars Game", "Alright" or "I'm Not Scared" are nice examples. Their cover of "Something in the Way You Move" also has lots of pop-punk stylings to me. They have some heavier elements more akin to post hardcore or bands like ADTR, but they definitely have a "poppier" side in many of their songs. Love the band though!
I saw Stellar Kart play at a coffee shop in Green Bay, WI and man was that magical
Not sure how popular they are but a newer band I've been enjoying lately is "As It Is"
When you're really into a c-tier band, it feels like you have a personal connection and it's your thing. Saying your favorite band is an s-tier band is like being a stan for Wal-Mart.
I found my old iPod Nano recently and it goes really far down the iceberg. Me Vs Hero, Chunk No Captain Chunk, etc. There was this band that only ever got popular in the Long Island bringer show scene called This Condition (yes they sound like Jack's Mannequin minus the piano) that I'm still sad never got more exposure. Their singer is a pretty successful songwriter in Nashville now.
I'd love to hear your take on Zebrahead sometime.
Anytime someone brings up Unwritten Law, Mest or Home Grown, my grinch heart smiles.
Elva is one of the best all around albums ever. The “music in high places” album ( I may have gotten that name wrong) where they played it in acoustic was great.
Relient K played at my highschool in the Poconos once back around 01 or 02. What a gig.
Rufio & Amber Pacific. My cousin burnt me a mixed cd in 05 & I remember being completely blown away at where they were taking the pop-punk sound. Underrated asl. Years before four year strong or Adtr too.
Rufio absolutely kicked ass
The Home Grown album with the closeup of a mouth on the cover was FANTASTIC fun.
Kings of pop
That album is incredible.
Yep, Kings of Pop, I listened to a few tracks off of it yesterday. Tomorrow, Give it Up, great album, awesome band.
My somewhat obscure pop punk band is Lucky Boys Confusion, also based out of Chicago, like the underground greats of the genre!
I had not heard of Me Vs Hero, Major League or ALL, thank you for that!
Here are some of my favorite honorable (mostly forgotten) mentions: Allister, Lucky Boys Confusion, Anberlin, Autopilot Off, Every Avenue, Twin Atlantic, Witterquick, Heartsink, June, Quietdrive, The Rocket Summer, Spitalfield, Stellar Kart, The Summer Set, We Shot the Moon 👌
Autopilot Off🖤🖤🖤 That’s a name I had forgotten about
Spitalfield mention! Love that band.
Northstar, hot rod circuit are two of my favorites. I may be stretching the pop punk term, though.
Dude autopilot off is so good! It’s sad they never took off
Saw Anberlin and I had to like
@@caesarorzell600 Right!?
First tape I ever bought (with my lawn mowing money) was MxPx Life in General. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.
We need a Finn McKenty deep dive into stuff like the late 90’s Christian music festival Tomfest, and how wild that era was.
Was expecting to see American Hi-Fi, Allister and Spunge I here somewhere, but man there's some blasts from the past the lower we get on the ice berg, love this video
The guitar tone on that Cartel album is delicious
Loved goldfinger. Very underrated
Those ALL and big drill car songs hit just right.
Thank you for the brain learning, professor mckenty.
Not very fun fact about Me Vs Hero - they had a hard time as their guitarist died falling over a railing and dropping 50ft inside a block of flats in Preston.
They did a reunion set at Slam Dunk festival a few years ago where they played the Days That Shape Our Lives album back to front, and it was outstanding.
I remember buying the album "Guitarded" when it came out by the relatively unknown pop punk band Limp. They sure had some fun songs in this genre !
Hell yeah, a Fenix TX shout out. I loved them!
Fuck Yeah! My little sister was really into them, so as I was going into way heavier genres, she was all about this sound. Goddamn amazing tunes.
Nobody talks about Belvedere anymore either.
Loved Fenix Tx. Ben is one of my favorites from them.
@@spfadden082711 Ben used to be the first song to play when going on my Myspace page. Damn I'm old 😂😭😂😭😂
@astralmass I saw belvedere about 2 months ago! Thier newer song "elephant march" absolutely slaps!
man i just wanna say that i have respect for all you older people talking about pop punk and having such a passion for it. im a 16 year old kid who found blink 182 a couple years ago on spotify and now i have become a full out pop punk and punk rock fan. i love how pop punk is coming back even through shit heads like mgk. but man it honestly is getting closer to what the 2000s pop punk sound used to be and the culture as well also quick thanks to finn mckenty for bringing me into the light of pop punk music without him i would never have found kennyhoopla, or better yet rancid.
As 30 year old it makes me super happy to hear the youth discovering this music ❤
Check out title fight bro. Start with the album “the last thing you forget” its their most pop punk album
Nvm u probably already know them I thought you said you got into it 2 months ago not 2 years lol
One of these days when you're older you gotta come to when we were young festival in Vegas. It's not the same as warped tour was but it's pure nostalgia for us.
Authority Zero never gets any love. One of my favorites from that time period and still putting out good music
I refer to bands like Cartel, Relient K, We the Kings, Cute Is What We Aim For, etc, as “Girlfriend Core.” While the dudes were listening to Job For A Cowboy or Terror their girlfriends were listening to All Time Low or The Summer Set 😂
Yeah. We also sang along to Relient K in the car with them, though.
@@RiggedandReady I sing that shit alone in the car fuck you mean lmfao
@@kingschlamiel good point bro haha
River Pheonix changed their name to Fenix TX due to a cease and desist from River Pheonix's mom. River Pheonix died before Fenix TX was a band.
Yes.
What therapy never managed to conclude was done here in the first 2 minutes. "I am not normal". So glad it's out of the system now. Lets celebrate with some Pop-Punk 😂
Omg I’m so glad you mentioned Me VS hero 😭😭😭
I started watching your videos a few months back and have been the featured stream comment more than once and now my youtube ads are exclusively temu and coors light. Thanks for outing me as an elder millenial.
I had a gf get me into Mest back in 2002. Their first two albums are great, especially “Wasting Time.” I saw them tour with UL and got a pic with them all after the show. Jeremiah was drunk and blatantly looking down my gf’s shirt.
When you paused for MEST’s drum rack I thought you were gonna talk about Tony’s tramp stamp 4:07
Pollen, Slick Shoes, Broken Cedar, Bodyjar, Melody Fall, Last Day Before Holiday, Ellegarden, For No One, F.O.D., Monoeyes, Hit The Lights, Can't Bear This Party, Reset, Radical Radical, Pop Disaster, Daylight, Better Luck Next Time, Dynamite Boy, Tonight Alive, Yours Truly
This episode was made for me. Thank you Finn.
This was so fun! Thank you for the video
Finn please make a playlist. I’m ready to get into some obscure pop punk.
I really need to get a better sleeping pattern. When I notice a new upload here I realize its like 7am my time lol. Good work, Finn.
I wish more people talked about Hit the Lights. Top tier pop punk
Growing up in San Diego in the late 90s....we all knew Unwritten Law. Finn is correct...they are awesome
Fenix TX was my favorite punk band for the longest time . They are really good ..
The singer battled throat cancer multiple times.. so the band split up and did a hiatus, came back in 2016 for an EP.. reformed -- then cancer reimurged.. Things have been tough for that band being able to continue what they do
I still have their debut cd when they were called River Fenix. They were local here in Houston and the bassist worked at Wherehouse Music in the mall.
I met Unwritten Law in a 7 Eleven parking lot around 2002. Knew they were band because of their van and we talked for a few minutes. I'm pretty sure I talked to the singer and he could have been chatting me up because I looked very ubergoth during that time, meaning I was wearing a corset.
Scott Russo is a great songwriter. I actually think his drinking and drug issues both helped (song writing) and hurt him. He also once dated Aimee Allen from The Interrupters who is an insanely hot punk rock star. I do remember hearing stories in the early to mid 2000's about him pissing off other bands he was on tour with.
I miss tumblr era so bad. Nothing like it. I wish someone would make a movie or something
Speaking of Sugar Ray, you should do a tier list on bands that totally changed their sound for commercial success. Goo Goo Dolls is another classic example.
I did a couple of those on my main channel!
Unwritten Laws latest album is slept on. Underrated band in general
For me, the ultimate pop punk label was Drive-Thru Records.
Is Zebrahead pop punk because I love that band
If so.. definitely my favourite pop punk band.
Zebrahead was sick
Saw them live in 2019 and even their later stuff isn't bad at all.
I saw Cartel in the thumbnail and haven’t clicked on a video that fast in my life 😂
Unwritten Law is one of my favorites. I'm definitely late to the game with them, but they're awesome.
Also Bodyjar from Australia is underrated af, they're my hometown pop punk band and have seen them a few times, you'll know them from the THPS3 soundtrack.
Anyone remember Fenix TX being the end credit music for the Nickelodeon movie “Clockstoppers”?
No love for classic Canadian pop punk like The Dough Boys, Gob, Chixdiggit and Boys Night Out?
I sure do! 'Crush' and 'Happy Accidents' by Doughboys are S-tier albums. Had a whole season in my life when all I listened to was canadian 90s alt-rock: Treble Charger, Our Lady Peace, Sloan etc.
I friggin' love Me vs Hero.
Finn, I got into easycore because of your main channel videos on it back in 2019.
I remember seeing that last music video once on a drunk TH-cam binge looking for new music a decade ago.
Great format!
You should do a video about egg punk and bands like snooper and Shrudd both really good bands
Unwritten law are definitely a vastly underrated band, had bangers
29:34 “chris d’elia’s fav band” sent me😭
I listened to boys will be boys alot back in the day. Stop calling me was my favorite song of theirs with jaded being a close second. Was not expecting to ever hear that name again. I think i stumbled across them while listening to school boy humor
Matt from Set Your Goals sings in our band. He’s probably played with a majority of these bands. I think one of the big factors of why so many of these bands did well is the production. Pop punk is already catchy and combine that with solid production and it’s going to gain a following.
Nothing to lose from San Diego is one of the greatest pop punk bands ever, and soooooo underrated
Homegrown has been one of my favorite bands since the early 2000s, they’re f’n rad…
Check out the album “Kings of Pop”
A few other people have mentioned Zebrahead too, another banger of a band…they opened for 311 back in 00 or 01, they have a rap-rock element to their sound as well.
Relient K is the best pop punk band ever. Mmhmm and TLDMARB3D are both perfect and they’re not even my favorite albums by them. “High of 75” is literally the best song ever and the most fun song to play on drums
Homegrowns king of pop album is a masterpiece
Fenix TX was my high school tune!
Lechuza is a quite legit album. I still listen to it sometimes.
The best pop punk is from the '90s and there's barely a mention of it. MxPx, AFI, Bracket, Chixdiggit, Diesel Boy, Hagfish, Limp, MTX, Samiam, Welt...
I do remember when Cartel collaborated with like Dr Pepper and they lived in a house and it was like a reality show, they had to write and record an album in 30 days
Should ALL be really that low down? Featured on Punk-O-Ramas, Them being a The Descendents continuation etc, I would put them in the same category as Unwritten Law, Lagwagon, Pennywise in terms of popularity and exposure...
Hell no, nobody knows who they are
Agreed! I know who they are.
One of my favorite bands way down the iceberg would be Such Gold! 🤩
The recording in the early 2000's started to get really good because we started using digital equipment and the price's on good gear dropped
Those were almost certainly analog mixes which is probably a big part of why they sound great
That me vs hero song grabbed me so fast. Thanks for the recommendation!
“Oz Factor” by Unwritten Law is one of my favorite albums. Always go back to it.
Dude, I'm sorry but peak warped tour was definitely without a doubt from like '03 to '06...
My great grandma would have loved Me Vs Hero but sadly she passed away in 2006 so they have always reminded me of her. RIP.
I saw Unwritten Law play the whole Black Album from start to finish, sick show
1:03
And I am glad that I am not normal in that sense.
I have all these bands on my Spotify playlist. This is confirmation that my parents were right: I am a weirdo.
I've known about Me Vs Hero since their '09 EP! Consider me a pop-punk weirdo. Another deep cut easycore band from France, 'Can't Bear This Party!'
I watched the entire video and not a single mention of Midtown. Kinda surprised. Maybe i missed it?
Unwritten Law - Seein Red was such a banger.
When All gets mentioned:
*Waves in turbo-virgin dork*
Still love the Alvarez-Egerton-Stevenson trio regardless of who's singing.
The Dave Smalley sung albums are my favorite
Was hoping for Goodnight Nurse to be mentioned somewhere on the iceberg, but I guess New Zealand pop punk is too deep in the ocean
How did you miss Schleprock? that song "Suburbia" was awesome
I first heard about mest and fenix because they featured on the last ice nine kills album!
Wow I completely forgot major league existed and then I saw that album cover. Listened to that a ton in my early 20’s.
IIRC, the estste of River Phoenix sent the band a cease and desist letter regarding the name. Nothing to do with it being in bad taste lol.
I feel like when Jerry Finn died he took the golden age of pop punk with him
Man was the magician of pop-punk. Gone way too soon.
Me vs Hero is so fucking incredible
Damn I knew I was really into pop punk but I didn’t know I was that much of a dork. I listen to all these bands except boys will be boys and outrageous. That outrageous song was pretty catchy though.
I often feel like Spraynard sounds so awesome they could've/sould've been bigger
Advice to my younger self: don't be the guy who plays Me Vs Hero at a party....
Love this list and 💯 agree with your logic on the iceberg! Stoked that you gave Unwritten Law a nod- they’re so slept on
When I worked at Hollister in high school, FTSK was doing a signing next door at Vans, and on my way into work, I ran up and cut the front of the line and high-fived a couple of the dudes. Felt pretty cool. Good times.
Better Luck Next Time from LA????????? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Unless you've got access to mom's mini van, you ain't got room for a drum rack.
Crucial dudes and with the punches are very underrated pop punk bands. Crucial dudes has that one album “61 penn” that’s awesome all the way through and with the punches early stuff is phenomenal. Check these bands out if you haven’t. If you like that era of pop punk it’s a must listen for real. Edit: after checking it seems with the punches took the best of their first few ep’s and released it as an album called “farewell” in 2015. That’s what you need to listen to.