Well, everyone seems to has a different vision when it comes to 'Pop-Punk' and a lot of different bands seem to have a phase of songs that fit it when maybe a lot of their other stuff doesn't. Brand New are a good example IMO as their first album fit it rather well, but none of their later stuff was anywhere close.
My first thoughts when it comes to Pop-Punk are still the likes of blink-182, New Found Glory etc as that's when I first got into it and they were the top bands at the time. I think they are more what I class as 'Pop-Punk' as it is a softer, often classed as more 'whiney-voiced' kind of Punk music. I think you are speaking more of the slightly hardcore punk kind of music, which makes me think of bands more like The Clash and The Ramones etc as the more major bands. Of course, the evolution of music is vast and there will have been bands before Blink and NFG that pushed that sound and influenced them, but I feel like these guys took it to the next level and have influenced what have been my favourite bands throughout the 2000's so far.
Pop-punk for me are indeed bands such as NFG and blink 182, but I really never liked them. As you say, I like my punk a little bit more edgy
It's just an opinion of course, but I think a lot more interesting things emerged from 70's punk than the pop-punk stuff. Probably also because I was listening to punk for a while before bands such as NFG emerged and became popular with the younger kids. I was more into the first wave of hardcore bands: Bad Brains, Minor Threat, DOA, Black Flag, Adolescents, Hüskür Dü... and punkrock bands such as Agent Orange, Social Distortion, Rancid, Bad Religion, Avail, Dead Kennedys, New Bomb Turks, Bouncing Souls... Also the whole emo scene with Jimmy Eat World, Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, Alkaline Trio I enjoyed a lot.
Later on I started listening a lot to the so-called postpunk bands, Mission of Burma, Fugazi, At the drive-in, Hot Snakes, Refused, The Thermals, Quicksand and others. It's this type of bands I still listen the most too.
My favorite "punk" bands throughout the 2000's are probably The Bronx, fecked Up, Night Birds, The Thermals and OFF!, but there are a lot of older bands who still release excellent records.
God, I've become an old bastard
