8 Rock Bands Who Didn't Write Their Biggest Hits

At the start of the new millennium, pop punk ruled the airwaves and Bowling for Soup were one of the premier acts on the scene. They combined a strong sense of classic pop songcraft with loud power chords and made a major contribution to the toilet humour genre.

The band's defining 2004 album A Hangover You Don't Deserve bursts out of the speakers with a radio-ready sheen that is both irresistible and endlessly annoying to people who take rock seriously.

While the band enlisted notable pop and rock song doctor Butch Walker to produce the album and add even more shine to frontman Jaret Reddick's strongest set of songs, it was another songwriter who gave the album its biggest hit.

Mitch Allan from the talented, but overlooked pop punk band SR-71 suggested the song (co-written with his brother John) to Reddick, who made minor lyrical adjustments to the song. The slightly slower and heavier original faded into obscurity while Bowling for Soup's brisk updated version made it all the way to a very respectable number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.