3 Pop Punk Songs From the 90s We Love To Sing Along To

It was around the turn of the 21st century when pop punk music really started to hit the mainstream. Bands like Blink-182 and artists like Avril Lavigne really put the fun, energetic genre into the forefront, thanks to songs like “All The Small Things” and “Sk8er Boi”. But just because the genre was uber successful starting in the aughts doesn’t mean it started right then.

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While punk rock music has been around for decades, the pop punk style as we know it today began in the 1990s. As a result, we wanted to highlight three songs from 90s pop punk bands that we love. A trio of tracks that we just can’t help but sing along with. Indeed, these are three 90s pop punk songs we love to belt along with at the top of our lungs.

“Burnout” by Green Day from ‘Dookie’ (1994)

The opening song to the California-born band Green Day’s third album, Dookie, this track helped the pop punk group break out into the mainstream in real ways. Of course, Dookie was filled with hits, leading the band to appear all over mid-90s radio waves. Other killer songs from the 1994 LP include “Longview”, “When I Come Around”, and “Welcome To Paradise”. For their part, Green Day was rambunctious and rebellious, but they wanted you to have fun and party as much as they wanted you to question the status quo. It’s a great combo.

“Spiderwebs” by No Doubt from ‘Tragic Kingdom’ (1996)

In 1996, No Doubt landed on the mainstream music landscape, and from then on, lead vocalist Gwen Stefani never left. When the band released its third LP, Tragic Kingdom, they were instantly the talk of music fans from middle school onward. Many 90s kids have fun memories of the local dances as No Doubt filled the speakers. Indeed, Stefani was a musical maven, a chameleon who could participate in many genres. But her breakthrough came with pop punk music. She raged into that good night, and she did so with music that you wanted to hear over and over and sing along with. Example No. 1 is “Spiderwebs”, that sticky, sticky hit.

“Self Esteem” by The Offspring from ‘Smash’ (1994)

In the mid-90s, The Offspring had a stranglehold on popular music. You couldn’t turn on alternative rock radio without hearing the band and one of their songs from their 1994 LP, Smash. With big riffs and lyrics that often highlighted the plight of the pitiful, the band found its way into the hearts of many young music fans from the era. So much so that their songs were sung and sung by fans all over the world. That trend continues today, to be sure.

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