500 ESSENTIAL POP-PUNK ALBUMS: FROM BLONDIE TO BLINK-182 - LIMITED SLIPCASE SPECIAL EDITION - HARDCOVER - BOOK

500 Essential Pop-Punk Albums chronicles the sound of a generation that ignited sparks in the late 1970s and soared from DIY venues or makeshift basement stages to the parking lots full of crowd surfing teenagers of Warped Tour to today. Nuanced echoes of the hybrid genre rang in not-so-subtle moments scattered throughout pop culture, such as the opening sequence of 1995’s teen drama Clueless soundtracked by The Muffs’ cover of “Kids In America” to blink-182’s “Mutt” becoming the (un)official anthem of 1999’s American Pie to Paramore’s “Decode” acting as the lead single of 2008’s Twilight. This anthology traces the roots of pop-punk, commencing with the groundbreaking and arguably debut pop-punk album, the Ramones’ 1977 full-length album, Leave Home, navigating through the genre’s foray into the mainstream in the ‘90s propelled by Green Day, The Offspring, and blink-182 before ascending to the spotlight of the 2000s through breakout stars like Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan, The Starting Li