Many artists have used their singing talent to raise awareness about global warming, climate change, and environmental protection for Earth Day. This event honors the achievement of environmental movements and raises environmental protection awareness for future generations. Sadly, human activities have done more harm than good to our planet over the years.Įarth Day, celebrated annually on the 22nd of April, is an environmental event that started in 1970. From the thick green forests to the oceans, clear blue skies, dusty desert sunsets, and water creeks. Let me know if I left any of your favorites off of the list and I will appreciate (do little of substance to make up for) it.Nature is beautiful. If I had all of the space and time in the world, I could probably name one hundred more. These songs still make my heart race to this day and send a rush of different emotions surging through my body. The tune encompasses all of the pain, joy, and utter chaos of 'growing up.' Its iconic opening riff and catchy sing-along chorus seems to promise the listener another goofy and fun addition to the Blink-182 catalog, yet the lyrics paint a picture of heartbreak, confusion, and impending adulthood. New Jersey's own prince of pop punk gave us all a voice with this solemn ode to anonymity.įrom the moment 'Dammit' begins, the song is something of a paradox. Saves the Day's Chris Connelly forced out this song to show us that we are not alone. New Found Glory made the regrets and reminiscing a little bit easier to handle.Įveryone knows how it feels to be a voiceless loner struggling for recognition.

No song quite captures the flurry of doubts that ran through the hormone-laced pathways of my brain like 'Ten Minutes.'īreakups can be difficult, especially when you are a melodramatic teenager and you force yourself to remember every good time you ever had with your former flame. Listening to The Get Up Kids is like listening to a transcript of my 17-year-old self's worried thoughts set to some killer music. Brand New helped me vent all of that frustration in a questionably-healthy manner. I want to thank the Bouncing Souls for reminding me of that.ĭid you ever get so fed up with someone in high school that you just wanted to badmouth him/her in front of every single person he/she knew? And then have them run off of the road and die in a car accident? Yeah, me too. No matter how many seemingly terrible things happened during my teenage years, my best friends were always there to help me through it. Our favorite: 'Let's play this game called 'when you catch fire'/ I wouldn't piss to put you out.' Remember all of those perfect lines that popped into your head four seconds after your ex-girlfriend walked away from you junior year? Fall Out Boy was always there for us to deliver those lines for us, on time and in perfect pitch.

'Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today' (Fall Out Boy) This song helped us remember all of those special times long after we had managed to screw them up.ħ. In a lot of cases, that time came between the ages of about sixteen and nineteen. No one knows about the relationship between love and regret better than Alkaline Trio and no song better exemplifies this than the aptly titled 'Stupid Kid.' Even if we couldn't muster the courage to call the offender out, Midtown had our backs.īeing young and in love and fairly stupid doesn't always end well (I know this for a fact). To this day, these songs still cause little prickly twinges of nostalgia to dance around in my chest when they pop up in my headphones.Įveryone has had relationships ruined because someone had a big mouth. From the anthems of loneliness to the uplifting reminders that things would get better, pop-punk kept my little heart ticking through it all. Someone knew exactly what to say to get me through. They just could not believe that the pressure to not be myself became so intense that everything else just faded into the background.īut someone did understand. They could never comprehend how the way a girl looked at me (or didn't) could adversely affect my ability to turn in homework on time.

Sometimes those teenage years took a toll on my young fledgling heart.Īnd to make matters worse, adults never understood. Painful breakups and social awkwardness and angst-ridden lonely nights.

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