10 Greatest Pop Punk Albums In Rock History

10. Move Along - All American Rejects

Once you started getting into the mid '00s, the pop punk explosion started to really come into its own. Apart from some of the skeptical fans who just threw everything into the emo category that sounded like this, there were still some quality bands that were willing to write songs with their hearts on their sleeve. It may have seemed like a party sometimes, but All American Rejects had some legitimate heart on Move Along.

Then again, if you were dyed in the wool for pop punk music, you would think that this is one of the more light weight versions of the genre to be released. What this album lacks in teeth though it makes up for with some of the best hooks of the genre, from the stuttered guitar breaks of the title track to the opener Dirty Little Secret, which is cemented in the brains of anyone who watched a teen comedy from the early '00s.

The strength of this record has to be in the deep cuts, with songs like Night Drive having a much more rock centric groove and Tyson Ritter really letting himself go on the song Stab My Back. This might not be the first record to tell you everything about pop punk, but this is the kind of thing that could get your pop-centered friends into the genre.