Rolling Stone recently ranked the 50 greatest pop-punk albums of all time, and they put Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough album, “Dookie,” as their No. 1 pick.
“Green Day’s third LP is a pop-punk gut-punch, perfectly marrying tight melody with a get-bent mentality,” Rolling Stone stated. “After the grunge-dominated early Nineties, that irreverence was a breath of fresh air.”
While it’s awesome to be No. 1, don’t forget that Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t a fan of the “pop-punk” title. In 2015, Armstrong tweeted, “My mission for 2016? To destroy the phrase ‘pop-punk’ forever.” In reality, though, plenty of music critics and scholars refer to Green Day as pop-punk, so the label isn’t entirely incorrect.
Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, The Ramones, Paramore and Misfits also all made the Rolling Stone list. View the full tally below.
Here are Rolling Stone’s ’10 Greatest Pop-Punk Album of All Time’:
1. Green Day, “Dookie”
2. Blink-182, “Enema of the State”
3. The Ramones, “Rocket to Russia”
4. Descendents, “Milo Goes to College”
5. Fall Out Boy, “Take This to Your Grave”
6. Buzzcocks, “Singles Going Steady”
7. Generation X, “Generation X”
8. Blink-182, “Dude Ranch”
9. Paramore, “Riot!”
10. Misfits, “Walk Among Us”