As a lifelong baseball fan, these lists come from the heart. Some lesser-known ballads will have their day in the sun while other too-oft worshiped pieces of garbage will finally be called out. I am not doing this to make any friends. It is all for the love of the game.

And don’t let the talent and success of the Yanks fool you, some of the best Celtic punk outfits of the past and present still have their roots on the other side of the Atlantic. Here is a list of the top five groups that actually have members from the Emerald Isle (or at least close by).

But someone did understand. Someone knew exactly what to say to get us through. From the anthems of loneliness to the uplifting reminders that things would get better, pop-punk kept our little hearts ticking through it all.

To this day, these songs still cause little prickly twinges of nostalgia to dance around in our chests when they pop up in our headphones.