PoP-pUnK ToUrNaMeNt!!!: Come Out and Play WINS.

[Jorge]

Between Blink, Boxcar Racer and Angels and Airwaves, Tom Delonge has 14 appearances in this tournament and is therefore its biggest star

[Jammer XCI]

I fucking wish I could say Tom was the worst singer in the whole tournament, but we’ve already had Good Charlotte and Simple Plan taking that title away from him.

[Jorge]

I think Tom is a way worse singer than both of those guys

[washing machine]

I don't care one lick about this tournament. However, I'm throwing a few cuts from it onto a bar playlist for pre-Astros game happy hour. "Chick Magnet" is a better song than I remember, and fun at a bar.

[Jorge]

I don't care one lick about this tournament. However, I'm throwing a few cuts from it onto a bar playlist. "Chick Magnet" is a better song than I remember, and fun at a bar.

Thanks for prefacing this by stating how little you care about my passion project

[washing machine]

I don't care one lick about this tournament. However, I'm throwing a few cuts from it onto a bar playlist. "Chick Magnet" is a better song than I remember, and fun at a bar.

Thanks for prefacing this by stating how little you care about my passion project

Sorry. That sounded rude and I didn't intend it as so. Just trying to preempt the dozens of PMs from RMers asking me "If you like 'chick magnet' so much why aren't you playing????"

Here's the truth -- I care about the people participating and I'm impressed with the buzz you've generated as well as the streamlined tournament format that you have perfected.

[washing machine]

"Time Bomb" in the tournament is pretty good too.

[Jorge]

I just did a quick count and found that I genuinely enjoy 42 out of the 128 songs in the list, so about 33%.

[Jorge]

Advancing:
Guttermouth- "She's Got the Look"
Green Day- "Basket Case"
Blink 182- "Dammit"
Angels and Airwaves- "The Adventure"
The All-American Rejects- "Swing, Swing"
Blink 182- "What's My Age Again"
Paramore- "That's What You Get"
Blink 182- "I Miss You"

Eliminated
Simple Plan- "Perfect"
Brand New- "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows"
The Offspring- "Why Don't You Get a Job"
AFI- "Girl's Not Grey"
Bowling for Soup- "1985"
Against Me!- "Thrash Unreal"
Cobra Starship- "Bring It! (Snakes on a Plane)"
Good Charlotte- "Hold On"

- All three Blink songs advance!
- Will Good Charlotte or Simple Plan ever win a matchup? Probably not!
- There may have been some second-account voting during the Angels and Airwaves vs. AFI match. Please don't do that. It is honestly not worth it. This is all completely meaningless.

New matches going up shortly

[Jammer XCI]

I thought that vote rigging was an RM tradition at this point, it happens in every tournament right when the rounds are about to end.

I wouldn’t waste a burner account on this crappy tournament, but it’s par for the course at this point.

[bada]

This shit has aged worse than even Nu Metal. Yikes.

[E.H. Ruddock]

This shit has aged worse than even Nu Metal. Yikes.

I feel the same way. And to think, I've seen most of these bands live. What was I thinking?

[Jorge]

This shit has aged worse than even Nu Metal. Yikes.

Nu metal is way funnier therefore more enjoyable. So many of these songs are just obnoxious and exasperating

[Ello Sailor]

A lazy top 5 in no order:

Blink 182- "Dammit"
Goldfinger- "Superman"
NOFX- "Linoleum"
Jimmy Eat World- "Sweetness"
Millencolin- "No Cigar"

Jump in, it's cool.

[bodysnatcher]

i apparently know way more Nu Metal songs than I do pop punk. honestly, the only songs i've recognized so far are 2 blink-182 songs and the No Doubt song. i was just completely not on the pop punk radar whatsoever (thank god)

[Jorge]

Bullshit. You're gonna tell me you don't know "Basket Case"? "Why Don't You Get a Job"? "Santeria"?

[bodysnatcher]

Bullshit. You're gonna tell me you don't know "Basket Case"? "Why Don't You Get a Job"? "Santeria"?

ok i know basket case, but i never listened to sublime. i'm sure i heard it on the radio at some point though

the post-2000 pop punk era was when i started diving really hard into electronic music, so i was just completely unaware of a lot of stuff for a while

[BurtReynolds]

I haven't heard a lot of these. I hate how rigidly uniform so much of it is.


I think at this point in time I was mostly interested in older music. I didn't know where to look for good, new music. It certainly wasn't to be found on MTV or radio.

[bodysnatcher]

I haven't heard a lot of these. I hate how rigidly uniform so much of it is.


I think at this point in time I was mostly interested in older music. I didn't know where to look for good, new music. It certainly wasn't to be found on MTV or radio.

yeah it's kinda amazing how a large majority of these songs sound like they could have come from the same band

[Jorge]

Advancing:
Rancid- "Time Bomb"
Goldfinger- "99 Red Balloons"
New Found Glory- "Hit or Miss"
Taking Back Sunday- "Cute Without the E"
Sublime- "Santeria"
No Doubt- "Spiderwebs"
Green Day- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (by one vote!)
The Offspring- "Original Prankster" (by one vote!)


Eliminated:
American Hi-Fi- "Flavor of the Weak"
Less than Jake- "All My Best Friends are Metalheads"
Something Corporate- "Konstantine"
Good Charlotte- "The Anthem"
My Chemical Romance- "Helena"
Blink 182- "Not Now"
Dashboard Confessional- "Screaming Infidelities"
Sugarcult- "Bouncing Off the Walls"


New matches are up!