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Simple Plan a band that grew heavily with songs that reminisced Blink 182's style, further grew into a band that showed it's members upbringing in music. However they were a band that I heard before any other as they did a Opening theme for Scooby Doo. Which opened my eyes to punk leading me into a world I could never have imagined.

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While they weren't directly musically influenced by Greenday. Jeff Stinco of Simple Plan in an interview with Gigwise stated that " when thinking of Greenday's ambitious releases, it wasn't the music, but it was the drive and desire to push and make grand statements." (Gigwise, 2008)

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Leader singer of Simple Plan states that the song What's My Age Again, paved the way for all future "Pop-Punk" bands to come up. Being one of the songs that solidified a genre. (Songfacts, n.d.). Chuck the drummer also mention in a letter to Blink in commemoration of 20 year of Enema of The State "This record came out 20 years ago today and it completely changed my life." (Dominika, 2019).

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Even Though Simple Plan grew up listening to the same music as most other "Pop-Punk" bands. They also liked the idea of trying to incorporate the earlier 80's pop music, prominently Cheap trick, as they said in an interview with designer magazine, "We grew up with a lot of the same influences, but we also tried to brink in a lot of the old school pop from the 80s like Elvis Costello and Cheap Trick. We try to make it even more catchy and poppy with more harmonies and we can do it all live because we've got three really good singers." (McCann, n.d.)

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The way the vocals and instruments effortless connect and collaborate with each other within their music, pushed me to better understand mixing and to learn how mix to convey a message and feeling in my mixes.

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“The Sex Pistols killed punk before it had the opportunity to go mainstream back then. What they had proved is that punk rock was not meant for the masses,” Armstrong continued. Jones, D. (2022, May 26). Which is heavily shown in his ideals of how Green Day is seen as a genre. Billie is a strong believer in punk being punk, He hates Green Day being called Pop Punk as he believes punk is not pop.

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"The Green Day punk icon told me Johnny Ramone was his favourite guitarist of all time and Joey Ramone was his among his favourite singers ever" (Baltin, S. (2018, August 27). They have also been credited with starting the fast, short, melodic brand of punk, that is clearly evident through Green Day's music.

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Green Day's influence from The Clash can be seen through recording techniques. Said by Billie Joe in a 2013 Rolling stones interview "I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realised. I think of the first Clash album... You could almost hear them doing it in a practise room." tying back to how The Clash had recorded their earlier albums, and used that style for their recordings. Starkey, A. (2022, February 6).

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Should I Stay or Should I Go - Remastered

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Should I Stay or Should I Go - Remastered