Straight Ahead Music Cd

Pennywise - Straight Ahead

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Straight Ahead      Artist : Pennywise      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-06-08      Studio : Epitaph / Ada      Label : Epitaph / Ada      Avg. Customer Rating : (76 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Straight Ahead      Regurgitated Punk      Rating:      Excellent musicianship. The lyrics are mundane, juvenile, and lame, the music is derivative, and unoriginal. This is just more regurgitated punk on steroids, and crank. SO WHAT ! ? YAWN! NEXT! ! !     Customer Reviews for Straight Ahead Cd      200 bpms!      Rating:      When the punk rock ska thing was big in bricktown, nj this was the first album i was introduced too. This cd would pump me up to go surfing in the winter at seaside when the water and air were both in the 30s. Classic punk power chords, hyper punk beat drums, poignent lyrics sung well. The album is long and hard to listen all the way through unless youve had a few cups of coffee, but dont quit at track 9 every song deserves to be heard and appreciated, take an interlude if you need too. You will not be dissapointed! Editorial Reviews for Straight Ahead Audio Cd      Amazon.com      OK, there's no way around it. Pennywise often sound an awful lot like Bad Religion. But in some ways Pennywise's biggest flaw is also their greatest strength. The band's melange of power and melody suits them well, making songs like "My Own Country" and "Victim of Reality" as engaging as Bad Religion cuts like "You Are (the Government)" and "21st Century Digital Boy." Indeed, Pennywise's penchant for hooks maximizes the impact of their more bombastic material, allowing them to play at blistering speeds without dissolving into a dissonant blur. "Can't Believe It," for instance, pummels with hard-core beats and buzz-saw guitars, and still manages to incite uncontrollable bouts of grinning and head bobbing. And when Pennywise find a groove, as on the metallic anthem "Can't Take Anymore" or the harmony-laden "Alien," they're one of the most captivating pop-punk bands on the indie circuit. --Jon Wiederhorn