One of the most respectable music magazines, Rolling Stone, released a new list on their website, which names 50 Greatest pop-punk albums of all time [see the original article here]. And while it could be debatable which of these bands are or are not pop-punk by someone’s standard, it’s safe to say that the list features 50 great albums that certainly had an undisputable impact on the pop-punk we know today – whether it’s because of Blink-182, Green Day, The Ramones, Jimmy Eat World or… Simple Plan.
For Simple Plan it is surely a great honor that their debut album, ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, is also included on this list – particularly in the 33rd place. Check out what Rolling Stone had to say about SP’s first studio effort below:
The teen-comedy film boom of the late Nineties and early 2000s helped to push pop-punk to larger audiences, and Canadian crew Simple Plan excelled at making snappy, catchy, sweet tunes that feel like the big scenes they complemented in flicks like The New Guy, The Hot Chick and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. The dramatic dejectedness of “I’m Just a Kid,” sweeping romance of “I’d Do Anything” and brooding family drama of “Perfect” captured the genre’s signature edge-of-seventeen mindset. “Until the day I die, I promise I won’t change so you better give up/I don’t want to be told to grow up,” Pierre Bouvier sings on the aptly named “Grow Up,” a song that also name-checks Good Charlotte, Sum-41, Blink-182 and MxPx. Adding to the album’s classically pop-punk feel, Simple Plan even got vocal assists from Blink’s Mark Hoppus and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden on a pair of songs.
And here’s the full list of 50 Greatest pop-punk albums by Rolling Stone. Are there any albums you would like to add to it?
49 – RVIVR – RVIVR
48 – 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer
47 – Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
46 – Good Charlotte – Good Charlotte
45 – All – Breaking Things
44 – The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House
43 – The Ataris – Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits
42 – Lagwagon – Let’s Talk About Feelings
41 – The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
40 – Bouncing Souls – Hopeless Romantic
39 – Screeching Weasel – My Brain Hurts
38 – Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
37 – The Undertones – The Undertones
36 – Saves The Day – Through Being Cool
35 – Pennywise – Unknown Road
34 – The Ergs! – dorkrockcorkrod
33 – Simple Plan – No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls
32 – Lifetime – Jersey’s Best Dancers
31 – Tsunami Bomb – The Ultimate Escape
30 – AFI – The Art Of Drowning
29 – Green Day – Kerplunk
28 – The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
27 – MxPx – Life In General
26 – The Jam – Snap!
25 – Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
24 – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
23 – Alkaline Trio – From Here To Infirmary
22 – The Rezillos – Can’t Stand the Rezillos
21 – Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy
20 – All Time Low – So Wrong, It’s Right
19 – Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless
18 – Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction
17 – Rancid – …And Out Come The Wolves
16 – Green Day – American Idiot
15 – Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler
14 – New Found Glory – New Found Glory
13 – The Offspring – Smash
12 – Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
11 – NOFX – Punk in Drublic
10 – Misfits – Walk Among Us
9 – Paramore – Riot!
8 – Blink-182 – Dude Ranch
7 – Generation X – Generation X
6 – Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
5 – Fall Out Boy – Take This To Your Grave
4 – Descendants – Milo Goes To College
3 – The Ramones – Rocket To Russia
2 – Blink-182 – Enema Of The State
1 – Green Day – Dookie
