Die toten Hosen - Zurück zum Glück (2004)

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Die toten Hosen are Germany's most popular and commercially successful punk rock band. The quintet from Dusseldorf was formed back in 1982 and achieved critical acclaim with its inspired fifth studio album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau that went all...

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Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

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Green Day's iconic punk rock record American Idiot didn't only have a gigantic impact in its home country but also abroad in Germany and elsewhere. Many teenagers of my generation participated in demonstrations against the Iraq War. I remember a fellow...

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Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death (2004)

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Pop punk was incredibly popular in the beginning of the new millennium with bands like Blink-182, Green Day and Sum 41 hitting the charts, having their music videos on MTV and their songs being on airplay on almost all radio channels. Good Charlotte,...

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Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003)

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Before I fell in love with heavy metal, I listened to a lot of punk music varying from The Ramones to Die toten Hosen and I certainly wasn't the only one. Pop punk was incredibly popular in my teenage years around the turn of the millennium and bands...

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Drowning Pool - Sinner (2001)

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''Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention?'' (lyrics from ''Sermon'') This is the first of a series of reviews revisiting influential records of the past that walk off the beaten path. I rediscovered Drowning Pool's Sinner when I recently found...

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