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Originally Posted by BastardofYoung
Pennywise to me seem like a poor mans Bad Religion. Where Bad Religion sing politics songs, they are also smart enough to back up their songs with credible thoughts.
Pennywise just say things like "Fuck Authority"... which is one of the stupidest songs. They are an example of something that is only done to appeal to the young demographic. While this is nothing new in punk rock, I think it kills some credibility and just looks sad when you do it in your 30s or 40s.
A song like that or even "Society" are just songs where they try and be political, but it comes across as too cliche to really matter.
I do not get the appeal in them in that way.
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Well then perhaps you would like the deep & meaningful politics of the last band I posted, lol, jk.
I disagree with your assessment of Pennywise, there music comes from a very liberal place, and sometimes it's nicer to have something conceptual thrown at you that is open to interpretation, than something explicitly stated.
When you get older, you realize that a lot of musichans, either liberal or conservative, aren't very intellectually steeped in the topics they are singing about, so for me the sentiment is more important.
I think dumbass blind rebbellion is Hatebreed singing "destroy everything" or Limp Biscuit helping incite a riot at the Woodstock revival. Pennywise doesn't belong in that category. So I wouldn't say poor man's Bad Religion, but I would say the runner up to the Offspring.