Pennywisdom

Since high school, so around five years now there has always been one band whose music has continued to inspire me. Pennywise. Not the greatest musicians the world has ever seen, nor the greatest American punk band. Yet their lyrics are powerful and intense and when combined with the repetitive base lines they usually produce they can get the blood pumping like few others. It's also refreshing to see a band so politically motivated. I can recall no clear-cut love song on any of their albums; their focus is mainly on politics and injustice in America. They have produced 6 or 7 albums and in doing so their actual songs can come across a little contradictory at times (protectionist in some, international in others) yet that is not the point. The point is that this is high paced politically fired stuff. Always refreshing. Makes a change from the constant stream of heartbreak obsessed Irish boy bands or the money/sex/drug obsessed southern/urban underclass of America. If you haven't heard of Pennywise I suggest you try them. Not to everyone’s taste but if you like them, you'll love them. F**k authority - as they so wisely say...