Pop-Punk

Originating Location: United States

Originating Era: 1970s, popular in the 1990s.

Key Artists

 * The Mr. T Experience
 * Shonen Knife
 * Green Day
 * Blink-182

Key Albums

 * The Mr. T Experience - Love Is Dead
 * Green Day - Dookie
 * Shonen Knife - Brand New Knife

Genre Description
Pop-Punk is punk music that typically has the politics removed and a stronger reliance on melody and sometimes juvenile humor. In a way, The Ramones were Pop-Punk, as a huge influence on them was the Phil Spector produced pop and R&B records of the 1960s, particularly the girl groups. Pop-Punk tended to break in the 1990s, and its reign continues today with a bunch of bands that sound like Blink-182, only somehow worse.

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