15 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Of The 2000s

In a genre overrun with over-emotive boys trying to capture the attention of insecure girls, it's an absolute delight to hear someone like Hayley Williams cut through the homogenous pool of dudes and belt out a fresh perspective.

All We Know Is Falling is the sound of a band trying to find its identity. And while that typically results in a messy, uneven album with a short shelf life, Paramore's freewheeling debut somehow manages to remain just as curiously engrossing today as it was in 2005.

It doesn't hurt that the album kicks off with all three singles straight out of the gate, smacking listeners in the face with the galvanizing blasts of "All We Know," followed by the expert-level hooks of "Pressure" and the blazing, passionate dynamics of "Emergency."

As a studio performer, Williams was in a class of her own, rocking out with an earnest ferocity that too many lead singers in the genre were afraid to fully embrace. And unlike Avril Lavigne - which Williams had the unfortunate experience of being compared to early on - nothing about it seemed faked.