Punk started in the 70's as a raucous, irregular take-over against mainstream pop music. Rock ensambles like Sex Pistols, the Offspring, and Pere Ubu helped bring punk back in the mid-1990's. This time the weave of lively, upfront rock music with catchy popular melodies cooled heels on the TV. These days, so-called pop punk is the main part in the sphere of chart music. These 10 albums are the best starting points to grasp pop punk.

1. blink-182 - Enema of the State

In blink-182's unbounded endeavour to insult any adults in the neighbourhood, this album showed a model dressed as an enema nurse on the cover. The music inside is teenage and catchy with the massive hit song “Adam's Song.”

2. The Donnas - Spend the Night

Girls perform punk, too, and this disc is a profuse proof of that. The group styled after the Ramones in NY with every performer going by the name Donna. Download Pressure to listen to it.

3. Good Charlotte - Young and the Hopeless

Good Charlotte blasted into the top 10 of the pop album chart with this set. It is filled with stories of college and difficult fathers. The smashing hit track is “Lifestyles Of the Rich and Famous.”

4. Green Day - American Idiot

After retreating from their mid-90's peak of popularity, Green Day retreated to the studio to put together punk rock's 1st rock opera. Though the popular punk band was nervous about their fanclub's reaction to Dearly Beloved, it turned out to be a UK punk rock classic topping the album chart and gaining a Grammy award for Best Punk Album of 2004.

5. The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

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