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Punk Goes Pop was a series of compilation albums by record company Fearless Records, in which alternative, pop-punk, post-hardcore, and metalcore bands of the 2000s and 2010s covered Top 40 pop songs. The broader Punk Goes… franchise featured a wider range of covers from classic rock to hip hop. More recently, Hopeless Records has released its Songs That Saved My Life project, where artists share covers of songs that helped them through difficult times. This playlist takes the best of these two iconic bodies of work and combines them with the cover song gems hidden in some of your favorite alternative artists’ discographies.

Since U Been Gone / A Day To Remember
Somebody That I Used To Know / Mayday Parade, Vic Fuentes
Torn / Neck Deep
Soak Up The Sun / Sincerely, Me
Just Like Heaven / Goldfinger
You Oughta Know / The Killing Moon
Any Way You Want It / Rise Against
Teenage Dream / The Plugs
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? / Ramones
Under Pressure / My Chemical Romance, The Used
Bullet With Butterfly Wings / Taking Back Sunday
She’s So High / Four Year Strong
Stay The Night / State Champs
Flagpole Sitta / The All-American Rejects
My Life / Braid
Losing My Religion / Movements
Beat It / Fall Out Boy
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now / The Starting Line
Girls Just Want To Have Fun / The Maine, Adam Lazzara
Ring of Fire / Social Distortion
This Charming Man / Death Cab for Cutie
Head Over Heels / New Found Glory
Beautiful Girls / Bayside
I Want U 2 Vant Me / Propagandhi
The Chain / Dikembe, Expert Timing
Just The Way You Are / Pierce The Veil
Straight Up / Halifax
Dancing with Myself / blink-182
Happy Together / Simple Plan