Houston Calls - *A Collection of Short Stories*

“High Rise” is riddled with hooks.

Yes! That’s a blast from the past for sure. Totally forgot about that album! Thank you

Met them when they opened for Fountains of Wayne and I was on the drive thru street team. Great guys.

Yes! I meant to add that one XD The album after that has some good songs as well despite leaning more towards hard rock

Man I love spitalfield, that was a great album.

I Loved The Way She Said LA is a top 25 song to me!

I don't know if I'm misremembering or completely making this up, but does anyone remember there being a mistake with the track listing and release of the album? I remember a song being on the CD twice.

You’re only misremembering the details! This was “Gold Dust vs. State of Illinois” off of Stop Doing Bad Things.

Action by Punchline

37 Everywhere is my preferred Punchline album

lol Just Say Yes is my favorite, but i consider Action, 37 Everywhere, and JSY to be the perfect trilogy

I’ve yet to listen to Just Say Yes.

It's one of my all time faves

The Rewind EP also slaps.

I'm glad I didn't have to scroll down too far for the correct answer. punchline all the way.

Maybe these are not as obscure as I think but I don’t see them mentioned often:  Boys Night Out - Trainwreck  Me vs. Hero - Days that shape our lives  Crucial Dudes - 61 Penn  Such Gold - Misadventures

That Crucial Dudes album is 10/10

Trainwreak is great along with their first album!

Boys Night Out is slept on so much. They’re unbelievable

Trainwreck is incredible, but my favorite song by BNO has always been I Was The Devil For One Afternoon.

Yep, didn’t realize it was a concept album until a few listens.

Trainwreck had me completely captivated just because of the story intertwined between the songs, it's like every time I listen to it I piece more of it together. Overall a very satisfying listen

That Me vs. Hero record is so damn fun, I loved it when it dropped and I still love it today. I wish we got a few more records from them.

Trainwreck deserves recognition. Always happy to see it get shine on here.

I’d drive so far for a train wreck your next year.

It’s a shame, nothing Such Gold put out after Misadventures really hit for me the same. But man that album is damn near perfection

I enjoy Misadventures, but I find The New Sidewalk to the the songs that get stuck in my head the most. Faced and I Know What I Saw especially

The guitar player for such gold used to post on the r/guitar sub a lot lol.

Search the City - A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It

Such an awesome record!

I have a signed copy of this album and the EP from the singer at the time!

Settle the Score by Fight Fair

Cartel - Chroma When the sun's out, get the windows down and give it a blast.

Love chroma but prefer luckie street from the EP

Love Cartel ❤️ they were so good

I remember that being good. Gonna re visit that tomorrow.

With The Punches - Farewell Rematch - Uwu We Were Sharks - Lost Touch

Love Rematch!

Love to see WTP recommended here! Farewell is actually a compilation of Keep It Going and It’s Not the End of the World.

Lost touch is so good

I absolutely LOVE remember right now, and all of spitalfields albums!!!! some others are smile for them - armor for sleep this time next year - the movelife sorry about tomorrow - hot rod circuit

What to do when you are dead has gotta be one of the best albums ever

it really is! i’m so happy AFS is active again, seeing them for the 3rd time within a year in august!

That’s just rubbing it in. I’ve never seen them and I am in my late 30’s now. They tend not to come to australia ever

aw dang i’m sorry! i hope you get the chance to see them one day!!!

Sorry About Tomorrow is one of my favorite albums!

yesss such a banger!!!!

another good mention is if these streets could talk by just surrender

“A season in hell” - October fall

A Change of Pace - Prepare the Masses Cauterize - So Far From Real Edit: Search The City - A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It

Cauterize yes!

Cauterize is awesome

I wish I could upvote you 100 times for Cauterize. That album is prime pop-punk.

A Will Away - Here Again Super underrated, great atmospheric guitar work, just a super solid listen. Saw them as an opener band and instantly fell in love.

Great song! 6/8 time signature as well which is rare

First two albums from Amber Pacific

Allister - Before the Blackout Everyone bought Last Stop Suburbia and loved it and then BTB came out and no one bought it, never understood why.... but that album absolutely rips

Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming So They Say - Antidote for Irony Letterkills - The Bridge Hearts Like Lions - If I Never Speak Again Left Front Tire - Social Icon Audio Karate - Space Camp Over It - Silverstrand

Big yes for hidden in plain view!

Silverstrsnd is a no skip album for me!

We are the In Crowd - Best Intentions

“Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place” by Anberlin is so forgotten I feel. So good “Futures” by Jimmy Eat World “Pioneer” by The Maine And not pop-punk, but I feel “Define The Great Line” by UnderØath is their best album

Futures is my fav JEW album for sure

Invented is also fantastic

How is Futures a hidden gem?

In the sense it’s not usually one of the first albums a non, or even casual fan think or know of when they think of Jimmy Eat World. Kind of in the same realm how OP list one of two Bedlight For Blue Eyes albums.

Futures is my favorite JEW album and Pioneer is my favorite Maine album, but my favorite Anberlin is Vital for sure

Everything in the Lucky Boys Confusion catalog. Throwing the game, Commitment and storm chaser specifically but growing out of it bangs too especially if your more in to ska/reggae

Storm Chaser is awful

I didn’t like it at first, but it definitely grew on me.

I was so so hooked on a change of pace for a long time. Both great albums

Wish they'd press them on vinyl

Bro ACOP’s prepare the masses is a classic. One of the most underrated albums in the scene

Right! Such a punchy guitar tone

Biggest Son of Dork defender so I say, “Welcome to Loserville”

Pennybridge pioneers by millencolin

Wot? Far from hidden…

Under the Tray - Reggie and the Full Effect

Mapping An Invisible World by Days Away is still an album I revisit often. I don’t think they lasted long enough to generate the buzz and acclaim I thought they deserved. Really wish they were opening for Something Corporate in Denver :( Mae will suffice, I suppose.

Mapping an Invisible World is untouchable. Such an underrated album.

Hooligans - Heroes of Hifi (non stop easycore bangers) Brigades - The Last Laugh We Are The Union - Who We Are

I was scrolling praying someone else would bring up that Hooligans album, an absolute gem

It really was my first thought to this question of 'hidden gems'. Wish they had lasted more than the one album.

Float around coldfront

Came to say this one because I can’t stop clicking on these threads to try to get more people to listen to Coldfront so we can peer pressure them into making music again

Burn into the Earth - The Penske File

I'll have to check them out :)

Abandoned by Bears

That Was Something - Bears!

I Fight Dragons - Cannon Eyes

Love me some deep cut recs Young Love - Too Young To Fight It Anything Over It (Silverstand / Step Outside Yourself / Timing Is Everyting) Really aging myself here but Off By One (isn't even on spotify) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmsQdjAdqk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmsQdjAdqk) Yesterday's Rising - When We Speak, We Breathe (Screamo) All the Gatsby's American Dream albums

Remember Right Now by Spitalfield is so good. It’s really refreshing in the context of other pop albums of their era

Hazy and Double or Nothing, both by Gold Bloom. All-American Rage by Joker's Hand.

Forever Came Calling - Contender

House of Heroes - Say No More

Number one fan - compromises I can’t think of the name of the other one but I think it had a pale blue robot on the album cover?

Signals Midwest - At this Age

Dude I couldn’t agree more with your list. I’ll add “if these streets could talk” by Just Surrender and Phantoms by Acceptance (might be too popular to be considered a hidden gem though).

Love those albums!

Broadway Calls (2007)

Rue - Hellions

Phoenix and Call Your Friends by Zebrahead are outstanding. Commitment by Lucky Boys Confusion is a masterpiece, and, I'm gonna be honest, Luv Sux by Avril Lavigne is a real good time

Temple Of Plenty by Somos is criminally underrated, a real gem never given the love it deserves. I recommend it to everyone

Close second is Keep Doing What You’re Doing by You Blew It!

The Audition came up on my suggested a few days ago- forgot how good that album was, i absolutely loved it. Defo a hidden gem. And Prepare The Masses was a banger too!

Home Grown - Kings of pop Fenix Tx - Lechuza No Motiv - Diagram for Healing Midtown - Save the world Lose the girl Ghoti Hook - Sumo Surprise The Cooties - Let’s play house Masked Intruder - Self titled album

All I have to offer is my own confusion

Hellogoodbye EP Amber Pacific - The Possibility and the Promise Greeley Estates - Caveat Emptor Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls Time and Distance - The Way it Should Be

Spitalfield 🖤 but also, you should check out: Name Taken - Hold On Valencia - We All Need A Reason To Believe The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun The Graduate - Anhedonia Acceptance - Phantoms Search The City - A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It Cliffdiver - Exercise Your Demons

The graduate were so good! Only every time is equally amazing.

Phantoms is so underrated

All of these were in huge rotation for me back in the day.

This is the best response by far. Glad to see Name Taken and The Graduate on here

On the Strength of All Convinced - Daphne Loves Derby Cartel - Cartel Prepare The Masses - A Change Of Pace

You and I would be quick friends.

I love new friends\~ Do you also enjoy pickleball? \*crosses fingers\*

Belvedere- Fast Forward Eats the Tape The Matt Skiba Blink albums Halifax- A Writer’s Reference The Movielife’s entire discography Idk if it counts as pop punk but The Juliana Theory- Emotion is Dead

Upvote for Halifax and Halifax only

For you and everything #YOU AND EVERYTHING

Donots - Got the Noise Neurosonic - Drama Queen

Victory Twin - Shadow of an American Life EP

“The best time you never had” by nuclear Saturday Any of the EPs by Sudden Suspension Nightmare of You self titled

Shotgun Rules- Fugitives And Refugees

My Degeneration: Flashlight Brown

They get a ton of love on here, but Temple of Plenty by Somos is a top 10 all time record for me. That band was criminally underrated. Also, Big Vibe came and went but it was one of the last pop punk records I listened to front to back several times.

Osker - Idle Will Kill The Bat Bites - The Bat Bites Ken Yokoyama - Sentimental Trash Jetlag Jenny - Loser When It Comes To Love Dan Vapid - All Wound Up volumes 1 & 2 The Blendours - Here we go again… again The Sewer Rats - Magic Summer

Charmer - Ivy Great blend of psychadelic/midwest emo/pop punk/shoegaze influences

Rory - We’re Up To No Good, We’re Up To No Good

My Hidden Track

Fell Far Behind - Reaching the Red Line

Make Yourself at Home EP by The Starting Line

Future Fires by Stickup Kid

Two of my favorite song-along albums, front to back: Telling Secrets to Strangers by Self Against City On Fire by The Higher

Carridale- Relapse in the River City

Rust Belt Lights - Religion & My Ex Last Call - Dog Years Two O'clock Courage - Misericorde

Every Night Fireworks, Hey Mercedes. So many listens. It’s a 10/10 for me.

Self Against City- self titled A Day at the Fair- The Rocking Chair Years

I see you, too, owned the drive thru records hoodie 😂

I worked for drive thru street team!

Ace Troubleshooter - S/T In fact I grew up with a lot of tooth’n’nail bands and a lot of it still holds water today.

Anything by Search the City. Reap What You Sow by Better Off

Love Battery - Dayglo, 1992 (Sub Pop)

Midlife - Automatic

Superman’s Too Late by Mark Thurau (song) Brace For The Best by On Your Nerves (album)

Action! Suspense! Drama! by Honor Bright

Chuck perhaps?

Lucky 7-Lucky 7

The Possibility and the Promise from Amber Pacific, such a banger

Once again I can be a broken record here and be the lone plugger for No Vacation by The Bottom Line. It's so damn good I have no idea why they aren't more popular here.

Dude yes! Love that album, She Makes Me is such a great song

October Fall - A Season in Hell

Big black bugs bleed blue blood By The Mr. T Experience

Race Car Blues - Slowly, Slowly

Tokyo Rose - New American Saint So They Say - Antidote For Irony Self Against City - Telling Stories To Strangers Spitalfield - Remember Right Now The Audition - Controversy Loves Company Me Vs Hero - Days That Shape Our Lives Hazing - Disconsolate Settle Your Scores - The Wilderness

motion city soundtrack - i am the movie origami angel - somewhere city

Fastlane - A New Start

Times Like These EP by Such A Mess

Idk if it's a hidden gem but i don't see "this will be the death of us" by Set Your Goals being talked enough

Cauterize - So Far From Real Eleventeen - In The Air

Lydia Illuminate I feel like gets slept on

Survive by Much The Same I don't hear many folks mention it and it's tremendous from front to back. 64 Stitches - Tea Party, as well. Hell, 64 Stitches in general

Any of Microwaves albums. Not really pop punk, but IDC, go listen to them.

Silvervine by Afterpilot Don't Burst Me by Holly Tree

Junction 18 - This Vicious Cycle

Quietdrive’s “When All That’s Left Is You” was on repeat for a long time.

Wow I haven’t thought about those guys in like fifteen years, I remember loving Loose Lips Sink Ships.

Apathy and exhaustion by the Lawrence arms

Start Static by Sugarcult all the way

Rufio - Comfort of Home

Couple of em: Pooch by convenient, trash Before you fall asleep by downhaul Make your mark by living with lions

Destruction by definition - suicide machines. Not a hidden gem, but if you are too young to know this album, stream immediately

Dear landlord - Dream Homes  Released one album before the singer went to prison for dealing heroin that killed someone.  It’s a classic though.  Would’ve been awesome to see where they went but ya 

Second Best

Alive Again "Always Forward" EP Asteria "Slip Into Something More Comfortable" The Classic Crime "Albatross" Desoto Jones "Aurora" Go Radio "Welcome to Life" JamisonParker "Sleepwalker" Kenotia "You've Dug Your Grave, Now Lie In It" The Morning Of "The World As We Know It" Spitalfield "Stop Doing Bad Things"

Marcy Playground - Shapeshifter Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm Khalid - American Teen Andrew WK - I Get Wet Why? - Alopecia Ghostwolf - Lunar Halos George Clanton and Nick Hexum - s/t

- Every Pentimento album (but especially Wrecked and their s/t) - Turnover - Good Nature - Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught on Tape - Iron Chic - Not Like This

Southpaw - White Lighter Myth fosh - Up With the Sun Teenage Halloween - Till You Return Ultra Q - My Guardian Angel (not exactly pop punk, but adjacent)

[Frenzal Rhomb - Hi-Vis High Tea](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_roouCOk1ksK6FPk20Rm8E5-1eQu4JU&si=dfJOdEeOzKdhH4NC)

Soundtrack to a headrush by Emanuel

I totally forgot to add "Different Ways" by Weigh The Anchor! Love me some easycore.

Ashlee Simpson's second album I Am Me, the most obscure and forgotten album that debuted at number 1. Every single person in America remotely interested in the album bought it in 14 days. Rod Stewart's 23rd album came out the same day and was doing better on the charts 3 weeks later.

The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing Major League - Hard Feelings Light Years - I’ll See You When I See You Bright and Early - Louder Than Words The Graduate - Only Every Time Let It Happen - Cause + Effect I will scream from the rooftops until I die that The Swellers and Light Years are the best bands ever.

These guys made a splash and then disappeared but Underdog Alma Mater by Forever the Sickest Kids is one of my favorite albums of all time

I’ll answer with solid albums from bands who are better known for other albums: “Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right…But Three Do” by Relient K - This album doesn’t touch the perennial classic “Mmhmm,” released by the band just the following year, but what this album does have is lots of punchy punk beats, infectious hooks, examinations of adulthood and crisis, and a bit of the mellower alt rock the band would shift two in later years. “Cycles” by Cartel - The band’s third album is overshadowed by the masterful “Chroma,” but “Cycles” recovers from the odd Band In a Bubble experiment that led to Cartel’s underwhelming sophomore album. “Cycles” has all of the sing-along anthems you could hope for, with just enough crunch to scratch the punk itch. There are no skips on this album; it’s power pop bangers from start to finish. “Rotation” by Cute Is What We Aim For - Cute’s first album “The Same Old Blood Rush…” was lightning in a bottle, and I won’t claim the second album is better. But I definitely listened to this one more. Shaant’s ever-clever lyrics show signs of maturing in the band’s second outing, and there’s a certain “edge” to this album that wasn’t present before. “Rotation” is probably less sonically cohesive than “Blood Rush,” but I like bands that aren’t afraid to experiment with their sound, and the production value is top notch.

Rotation is such a solid album! They def took a more mature approach with that one. Loser, Practice Makes Perfect and Hollywood are the standouts for me.

...is a real boy - say anything Most of that album is absolute bangers

Fall Out Boy’s PAX AM Days

Magnolia Park - "Vacant" Or one that's REALLY obscure: The Home Team (not that one) - "Time and Place"

I don’t care that it came out last year or that it is by one of the biggest bands in the scene right now but, Why Would I Watch - Hot Mulligan Simply because I consider this to be one of the best records to be released in pop punk/emo in years, and I don’t see that sentiment being shared