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3 Pop-Punk Albums to Jump-Scare Millennials Who Finally Managed to Forget

And a dishonorable mention to Cute Is What We Aim For, whose 2006 album I would like to continue forgetting.

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You want to talk 2000s pop-punk? Let’s talk 2000s pop-punk. But no Mayday Parade, or Paramore, or Taking Back Sunday. I’m taking you to a place where the punishment for mentioning Fall Out Boy is public execution. Where we’re going, Gen Z fears to tread.

Just when you thought it was safe to finally relax, I show up in your house and force you to remember that these albums existed. And for a while, we liked them.

‘No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls’ by Simple Plan

Simple Plan debuted in March 2002 with the album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls. They instantly drew comparisons to bands like Blink-182 for their adolescent humor and class clown attitude. Of course, this album spawned the single “I’m Just a Kid”, which has since become pretty universally applicable.

Much of the album was concerned with feeling like a loser and an outcast, trying to reconcile........

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