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500 Essential Pop Punk Albums Slip-Cased Limited Edition
This 7”x 7”, 550+ page book, weighing nearly four pounds, and included in a special edition slipcase, chronicles the full history of the pop-punk movement. From its earliest sparks in the late 1970s with the Ramones through the underground breakouts of Green Day and the Descendents into the 2000s explosion of blink-182, Simple Plan, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, and Paramore up through today’s diverse pop-punk (and influenced) artists, from Neck Deep and YUNGBLUD to Maggie Lindemann, Honey Revenge, and many more.
This book is perfect for anyone looking to give a unique gift to a musician, music fan, or music historian. Coffee table-ready - this one-of-a-kind book is a must for any fan of pop-punk.
500 Essential Pop-Punk Albums is a sonic roadmap through a genre that ignited sparks across multiple generations of music lovers. Soaring from the breeding grounds of makeshift stages of grassroots venues—musty basements and crowded parking lots—packed air-tight with stage diving teenagers before catapulting to the summer stages of Warped Tour in the mid-2000s to today.
Throughout the evolving landscape of pop-punk—whether leaning poppier, embracing more emotional depth, or ringing with a louder punk-rock attitude—the consistent and core foundation remained intact as pillars of the infectious pop hooks, an unyielding punk spirit, and the relentless buzz of distorted guitars and power chords.
From the Ramones, Blondie, Green Day, and blink-182 to Sum 41, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, and New Found Glory, to Neck Deep, Waterparks, Machine Gun Kelly, NOAHFINNCE, Magnolia Park, Stand Atlantic, and more, pop-punk continues to renew itself with each new era, spawning the next generation of musicians from their garage to YouTube to the stage.
This book is perfect for anyone looking to give a unique gift to a musician, music fan, or music historian. Coffee table-ready - this one-of-a-kind book is a must for any fan of pop-punk.
500 Essential Pop-Punk Albums is a sonic roadmap through a genre that ignited sparks across multiple generations of music lovers. Soaring from the breeding grounds of makeshift stages of grassroots venues—musty basements and crowded parking lots—packed air-tight with stage diving teenagers before catapulting to the summer stages of Warped Tour in the mid-2000s to today.
Throughout the evolving landscape of pop-punk—whether leaning poppier, embracing more emotional depth, or ringing with a louder punk-rock attitude—the consistent and core foundation remained intact as pillars of the infectious pop hooks, an unyielding punk spirit, and the relentless buzz of distorted guitars and power chords.
From the Ramones, Blondie, Green Day, and blink-182 to Sum 41, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, and New Found Glory, to Neck Deep, Waterparks, Machine Gun Kelly, NOAHFINNCE, Magnolia Park, Stand Atlantic, and more, pop-punk continues to renew itself with each new era, spawning the next generation of musicians from their garage to YouTube to the stage.
570 pages, Hardcover
Published September 30, 2024
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September 24, 2024
It was very fun to see how many of these I own! Great coffee table book, a conversation starter in any pop punk loving home! Just wish there had been a bibliography at the end to follow up on the articles & interviews quoted to read in full, and then there was that one error on page 155 with the wrong release date (1978) on the 2003 release from The Copyrights.
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