Suggest songs for the pop-punk tournament

[Jorge]

I am finding a bunch of songs that fit perfectly except for the fact that they came out just after our 2005 cutoff (including that New Found Glory cover of "Kiss Me"). Everyone alright with extending the cutoff to like 2007? It'll give us about a dozen more terrible songs to work with, including "Welcome to the Black Parade".

[Norah]

do whatever will make the tournament more fun

[Jorge]

This opens us up to songs like

New Found Glory - "Kiss Me"
My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade"
My Chemical Romance - "Teenagers"
Fall Out Boy - "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Angels and Airwaves - "The Adventure"
Bowling for Soup - "High School Never Ends"
Paramore - "Misery Business"
Paramore - "That's What You Get"
Panic! At The Disco- "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
Cobra Starship- "Bring It! (Snakes On A Plane)"

This is gonna be terrible, I love it

[Jammer XCI]

Thrice - Image of the Invisible
My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
The Used - The Bird and The Worm
Alkaline Trio - Time to Waste

Do 'em

[bodysnatcher]

i don't think i've heard any of the additional songs in that list except for Kiss Me and Black Parade

i'm gonna hold off until the tournament so i can vote based on first impressions

[Jammer XCI]

You're gonna hate most of them.

I can't wait to relive the second embarrassing rock trend I lived through as a teenager, as if nu-metal wasn't embarrassing and bad enough.

[wease]

I nominate Fly by Sugar Ray

[bodysnatcher]

I nominate Fly by Sugar Ray

dammit wease now i have that stuck in my head

[wease]

I nominate Fly by Sugar Ray

dammit wease now i have that stuck in my head

Does it make you want to fly?

[Jorge]

I nominate Fly by Sugar Ray

Nahhh

[wease]

I nominate Fly by Sugar Ray

Nahhh

Put your arms around me baby

[Kevin Davis]

If you're extending it to 2007 and we're including crappy emo then "Hey There Delilah" is a must.

[4/5]

That Red Jumpsuit Apparatus song too.

[Jorge]

Okay, I feel pretty good about the song selection. Trimmed it down to a neat 128. Eliminated "Monkey Wrench", "What I Got", "Stacy's Mom" and a few other songs that never felt like they really belonged. We'll kick off when the nu-metal tournament ends.

[LoathedVermin72]

What I Got and Stacy’s Mom are out?! What?! Those are seminal songs of this terrible time!

[BurtReynolds]

What I Got and Stacy’s Mom are out?! What?! Those are seminal songs of this terrible time!

Agreed

[Jorge]

They both feel more like standard radio pop-rock than anything punk-related... I did include "Santeria" and "Wrong Way"

[Jorge]

If people really want "Stacy's Mom" and "What I Got" in this, speak up. I don't think they quite fit but I'm open to it

[LoathedVermin72]

I absolutely think they should be here

[Jorge]

Yeah I just listened to both songs and they feel completely removed from the pop-punk sound. "What I Got" is built on an acoustic guitar hook, has programmed drums, a weird Jamaican-accented rap, a turntable. It's not skanky, it's not whiny, it's not punky. It sounds more like a Sugar Ray song than anything else. "Stacy's Mom" is just a new-wavey pop-rock song. With the other outliers in this lineup, at least there's a shared sort of whinyness, like in the case of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". Look, I can knock off a Green Day and a Blink song each if people really want to include them, but they seem completely ill-fitting to me in sound, aesthetic and feel.