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

[Jorge]

Alright guys, we're doing this stupid thing

Bracket: https://challonge.com/tq57ukuq

Full song list:

Spoiler: show

AFI- "Girl's Not Grey"
Against Me- "Thrash Unreal"
Alien Ant Farm- "Movies"
American Hi-Fi- "Flavor of the Week"
Angels and Airwaves- "The Adventure"
Avril Lavigne- "SK8er Boi"
Bad Religion- "Sorrow"
Blink 182- "Adam's Song"
Blink 182- "All the Small Things"
Blink 182- "Dammit"
Blink 182- "Feeling This"
Blink 182- "First Date"
Blink 182- "I Miss You"
Blink 182- "Josie"
Blink 182- "Not Now"
Blink 182- "Stay Together for the Kids"
Blink 182- "The Rock Show"
Blink 182- "What's My Age Again"
Bowling For Soup- "Girl All The Bad Guys Want"
Bowling for Soup- "1985"
Bowling for Soup- "High School Never Ends"
Box Car Racer- "I Feel So"
Box Car Racer- "There Is"
Brand New- "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"
Brand New- "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows"
Cobra Starship- "Bring It! (Snakes On A Plane)"
Dashboard Confessional- "Screaming Infidelities"
Dashboard Confessional- "Vindicated"
Eve 6- "Inside Out"
Fall Out Boy- "Dance Dance"
Fall Out Boy- "Sugar We're Going Down"
Fall Out Boy- "This Ain't a Scene It's an Arms Race"
Fenix TX- "All My Fault"
Fountains of Wayne- "Stacy's Mom"
Goldfinger- "99 Red Balloons"
Goldfinger- "Superman"
Good Charlotte- "Girls and Boys"
Good Charlotte- "Hold On"
Good Charlotte- "I Just Wanna Live"
Good Charlotte- "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"
Good Charlotte- "The Anthem"
Green Day- "American Idiot"
Green Day- "Basket Case"
Green Day- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Green Day- "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
Green Day- "Hitchin' a Ride"
Green Day- "Longview"
Green Day- "Minority"
Green Day- "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Green Day- "When I Come Around"
Guttermouth- "She's Got the Look"
Harvey Danger- "Flagpole Sitta"
Jimmy Eat World- "Sweetness"
Jimmy Eat World- "The Middle"
Josie and the Pussycats- "Three Small Words"
Lagwagon- "May 16"
Less than Jake- "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads"
Less than Jake- "The Science of Selling Yourself Short"
Letters to Cleo- "I Want You to Want Me"
Lit- "Miserable"
Lit- "My Own Worst Enemy"
MXPX- "Chick Magnet"
MXPX- "Responsibility"
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes- "I Believe I Can Fly"
Mest- "What's the Dillio"
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- "Someday I Suppose"
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- "The Impression That I Get"
Millencolin- "No Cigar"
My Chemical Romance- "Helena"
My Chemical Romance- "I'm Not OK"
My Chemical Romance- "Teenagers"
My Chemical Romance- "Welcome to the Black Parade"
NOFX- "Linoleum"
New Found Glory- "Hit Or Miss"
New Found Glory- "Kiss Me"
New Found Glory- "My Friends Over You"
No Doubt- "Just a Girl"
No Doubt- "Spiderwebs"
Panic At the Disco- "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
Panic! At The Disco- "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
Paramore- "Misery Business"
Paramore- "That's What You Get"
Plain White Tees- "Hey There Delilah"
Rancid- "Fall Back Down"
Rancid- "Ruby Soho"
Rancid- "Time Bomb"
Reel Big Fish- "Beer"
Reel Big Fish- "Sell Out"
Reel Big Fish- "Take On Me"
SR-71- "Right Now"
Save Ferris- "Come On Eileen"
Saves the Day- "At Your Funeral"
Simple Plan- "Addicted"
Simple Plan- "I'd Do Anything"
Simple Plan- "Perfect"
Simple Plan- "Shut Up!"
Smash Mouth- "Why Can't We Be Friends"
Something Corporate - "Constantine"
Story of the Year- "Until the Day I Die"
Sublime- "Santeria"
Sublime- "Wrong Way"
Sugarcult- "Bouncing Off the Walls"
Sum 41- "Fat Lip"
Sum 41- "In Too Deep"
Sum 41- "Still Waiting"
Taking Back Sunday- "A Decade Under the Influence"
Taking Back Sunday- "Cute Without the E"
Taking Back Sunday- "MakeDamnSure"
The All American Rejects- "Swing Swing"
The All-American Rejects- "Dirty Little Secret"
The All-American Rejects- "Move Along"
The Aquabats- "Super Rad!"
The Ataris- "Boys of Summer"
The Distillers- "Drain the Blood"
The Get Up Kids- "Ten Minutes"
The Offspring- "All I Want"
The Offspring- "Come Out and Play"
The Offspring- "Gone Away"
The Offspring- "Original Prankster"
The Offspring- "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"
The Offspring- "Self Esteem"
The Offspring- "The Kids Aren't Alright"
The Offspring- "Want You Bad"
The Offspring- "Why Don't You Get a Job"
The Starting Line- "Best of Me"
The Vandals- "My Girlfriend's Dead"
Wheatus- "Teenage Dirtbag"
Yellowcard- "Ocean Avenue"

We're following the nu-metal matchup model:
-Thursday night - Monday morning
-Monday morning - Tuesday night
-Tuesday night - Thursday night

First 8 matches of round 1 are up right now.

[Jorge]

First 8 matches are UP. Go vote!

[E.H. Ruddock]

stickied

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

i'm all in favor of this thing, but seeing so many unfamiliar threads right after LV's tourney wrapped is kind of stressing me out.

Don't stress. Join in

[4/5]

This tourney is going to feel very different for me than the nu-metal one. Both genres are terrible overall, but I still enjoy pop punk to this day. It doesn't take itself too seriously and I still have fun putting on a lot of these songs.

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

I'm a big fan of both pop and punk, so comparisons are not meant to be dismissive

[run2death]

It's hard for me to look at these songs and not see Rancid winning.

Their first 6 albums were incredible, including their out-of-left-field hardcore self-titled album.

I really put them in a class by themselves.

[Jorge]

Life Won't Wait is my favorite thing they did, but none of those songs were big enough to include here

[Jammer XCI]

Life Won’t Wait and the 2000 album are definitely peak Rancid.

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

I love Rancid, but I only know "And Out Come the Wolves" and the 2000 self-titled. I need to explore them further. They're great.

[Jorge]

I love Rancid, but I only know "And Out Come the Wolves" and the 2000 self-titled. I need to explore them further. They're great.

You should listen to Life Won't Wait. It's a sprawling, eclectic collection of really strong songs. They pretty consciously went after a Sandinista type vibe. I love "Cocktails", "Cash Culture and Violence", "Crane Fist", "The Wolf"-- a band exploring the limits of their sound and having a blast with it. I don't think anything they ever did was as good as that.

I like Rancid a lot but I can only take so much of Tim's vocals. I'm not a huge fan of their first album, but Let's Go has a couple of really good songs. To me, the And Out Come the Wolves / Life Won't Wait / Rancid 2000 trilogy is where it's at. They became really shitty pretty soon after that.

[run2death]

I'm a huge fan of Indestructible. Some of the catchiest choruses they ever produced.

[tree_]

Too soon

[Jorge]

I won't be around tomorrow morning, and most of these matches seem settled, so I'm just going to go ahead and close them out + post new ones now.

[Jorge]

First 8 matches are locked!

Advancing:
The Distillers- "Drain the Blood" (by one vote!)
The Offspring- "Come Out and Play" (our first blowout!)
Millencolin- "No Cigar"
Sum 41- "In Too Deep"
Green Day- "Longview"
Reel Big Fish- "Sell Out"
Saves the Day- "At Your Funeral"
Fountains of Wayne- "Stacy's Mom"

Eliminated:
My Chemical Romance- "Welcome to the Black Parade"
Simple Plan- "I'd Do Anything"
Simple Plan- "Addicted"
Eve 6- "Inside Out"
Good Charlotte- "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"
New Found Glory- "Kiss Me"
Green Day- "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Green Day- "American Idiot"

Next 8 matches going up shortly

[chewm]

So this board really likes fucking Blink 182 doesnt it?

[Norah]

the blink songs in this tournament are pretty iconic