Pop punk was in its prime in the early 2000s — so many angsty teenagers full of emotions, and so many songs to express that angst. There's no denying that some of those songs were pure gold. So we've made a list of the best songs to come out of our emo pop punk early 2000s stage.

1. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic! At the Disco

Arguably everyone's jam, the bop that brought Panic! to fame, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" is the throwback song everyone loves.

2. "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers

This one is my next personal favorite, because I can't help but belt the lyrics every time it comes on. I've even heard remixes of this song at clubs, so you know it was a good one.

3. "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World

It doesn't much to get into this jam. When you listen to it, you know everything, everything will be just fine.

4. "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance

Would it really be a ranking of angsty teen songs without My Chemical Romance? This is arguably one of the OG My Chemical Romance songs that we all still sing along to.

5. "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne

Because Stacy's mom has always had it goin' on.

6. "Dirty Little Secret" by All American Rejects

While All American Rejects had a bunch of hit songs in the early 2000s, this was the best of them all.

7. "crushcrushcrush" by Paramore

This was the best to play on Rock Band with all of my other angsty friends at sleepovers.

8. "American Idiot" by Green Day

The song that inspired a musical, American Idiot was a song with a story that we all sang along.

9. "Sugar We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy

Arguably one of those songs that made Fall Out Boy famous, "Sugar We're Going Down" is a jam we can all still get down to.

10. "Dear Maria, Count Me In" by All Time Low

Need I say more?

11. "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence

This song really does bring you back to life. It's inspired so many memes and vines, that you can't really forget about it.

12. "1985" by Bowling for Soup

We'll always be preoccupied with "1985."

13. "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard

We would stay up all night listening to these songs.

14. "Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne

The best love song of the early 2000s. It was tragic yet the best burn song out there.

15. "All the Small Things" by blink-182

This is the song that carried me through middle school, and made us all want to see them live.

16. "Perfect" by Simple Plan

We all thought we related to this song when we were kids and our parents didn't understand us.

17. "My Friends Over You" by New Found Glory

"My Friends Over You" related to every broken relationship in middle school, because we all knew that we would pick our friends over any beau we had.

18. "Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Another great bop to finish off this list, when push came to shove we would put this on.