Mine was actually their Self Titled, but every Pennywise album until Straight Ahead is my favorite. Straight Ahead and after started to lose it for me. Once Jim left, it was never the same.
followed by WOOOOO - WOOOOOHHHHH - WOOOOOOOOOOOO between every song. At least thats how it looks when they play Punkrock Holiday where I've seen them twice
To all my friends, present past and beyond Especially those who weren't with us too long Life is the most precious thing you can lose While you were here, the fun was never ending Laugh a minute was only the beginning Canton, Colvin, Nichols, Keith, Tony this one's for you
Your channel is the best thing happening on TH-cam right now! You are covering all the great bands that grew up listening to. For the record: Randy was Jason’s bass teacher.
For awesome 90’s/00’s era punk bass I’d recommend Bouncing Souls Bryan Kienlen is an absolute weapon, both rhythmically and musically. Manthem, True Believers and Hopeless Romantic are some of their biggest tracks. Would highly recommend checking them out!
Man, I got my first and only tattoo when I was in highschool, Pennywise logo. 22 years have passed and everybody said I'll change my tastes in music. They were wrong! Still listening day by day to punk, it's my diesel fuel. PS. You're great man! Cheers! ❤
at 52 my musical taste has definitely become more diverse, but I still listen to everything I grew up on the most. First time I saw PW was in 92 and I still listen to them on a regular basis. They always make it into my playlists.
My first but not only tattoo was the Pennywise logo. My first punk rock album that wasn't greenday/offspring/rancid or the older classics was Pennywise. I heard Dying to Know from the first Punk-O-Rama and I was hooked.
"Same old Story" from About Time, I was 14, it was life changing. Smash from the offspring, Dookie, Punk in Drublic, Stranger than Fiction etc etc. 94/95 were good years. btw, TH-cam is flooded with "x teacher reacts" videos but yours are the only ones I watch through. Keep it up!
Still need to get to some of those! Definitely feel like 9/10 songs lately are from the mid 1990s, ha! That’s so nice of you to say - means a lot! Glad to have you here, man! 🙏🏼
This is awesome. Pennywise is one of the bands I've listened to the most. Interestingly, after a long period of abstinence from punk music, I'm listening more and more again and enjoying this music even more (and differently). Thank you for that!
Hell yeah!!! One of my favorite bands. Bro Hymn definitely has their most recognizable bass riff. It's simple, but memorable. They do the song every concert as a tribute to Jason Thirsk.
"Bro Hym Tribute" from this album (actually a re-recording of an earlier version) was written by former bassist Jason Thirsk and the re-recording was done in his honor. It is an amazing singalong song that still serves as the closing number for almost all of their shows.
I was a big Pennywise fan in high school. After graduating, I enlisted in the Air Force after being given less optimal options. Toward the end of basic training, we were allowed to shop at the commissary and I was excited to see a new Pennywise album. I bought it on cassette as I only had a Walkman and dug into it right away. It wasn't until Bro Hymn did the penny drop that I realized the bass player had died and what I was listening to was basically a funeral.
There's a great documentary called 'The Other F Word' based on Jim Lindberg's (PW Vocalist) book about being a father while being in a punk band. The documentary follows him through a tour and also features many other top punk stars talking about their experience as parents while being working, touring musicians.
that is a fantastic movie. the bits with lars from rancid, josh freese from the vandals (and now the foo fighters), and jim dyeing his hair, such good snapshots of their lives.
I actually told the folks on Patreon that this entire time, I had never heard of ALL. I dug through my old music library on a hard drive, and found an Untitled track that turned out to be "Honey Peeps" by ALL. I just sat in confusion for like 3 minutes because I thought it was a Less Than Jake track for 20 years now. I can sing every lyric to it, it's so funny. Highly considering just doing a bass cover of it on here, because I remember it being way too difficult for me trying to learn it at 15. Little did I know, I've been hearing Karl's playing for over half of my life...but just that one song at the time!
@@LowEndUniversity All is so damn good. Breaking Things has Karl doing some great bass galloping. “Original Me”, “Right”, “Stick”…such good songs of that album. “Million Bucks” on Pummel. I like the albums where Chad is the lead singer 🤷🏻♂️
I've always considered Pennywise the better version of The Offspring. Unknown Road feels like a faster (and better) Ignition. Same with About Time and Smash.
Haha, this is my favourite Pennywise song and i didn't think anyone else really rocked with it so its great to see a comprehensive breakdown on the track!
Warped Tour '99 : Pennywise came on after Fenix*TX . The fun part was seeing the slower-moving fenix fans still around when Pennywise started. They were NOT prepared for the crowd's intensity many got caught in a quite raucus pit that formed. Hope they were ok lol.
YES as someone who has been listening to Thrash for almost all my life and just recently started getting into Punk aswell, Pennywise is definitely my favorite band so far!! Good Riddance are quite similar, definitely another band you should review at some point🤘🏻🔥
Pennywise was constantly screaming out of my JVC shelf system in the 90s. Fletcher was the reason I got into guitar, he has a lot of great riffs. I still get chills from these songs. Skating to this in the 90s I would get so hyped up with adrenalin. My favorite thrashy song from them is "waste of time" from the album "about time"
FINALLY!!!!!!! Please do Bro Hymn, iconic punk song with sick bass lines! Pennywise has been in my workout soundtrack since teenage years! Cannot go wrong with! I'm stoked that you did it!
First CD I ever bought was Pennywise's "About time". Oh jeez that's almost 30 years ago 🥹 Thanks for the inspiration for what music to play, haven't heard them since ages. Had one of those moments where I couldn't figure out what I was up for 😂
Just subbed through Firecracker by SO and was looking at the punkrock section of the channel to find my favorite bands and wondered which songs you would pick for each. First song that came to my mind for Pennywise was this very song. Most empowering punk rock song I've ever heard. Always thought despite their incredible love for Jason, this song was critical of his falling rock bottom. The lyrics fit so well to addicts and Jason was an alcoholic.
I´ve been loving your punk rock journey through bass, it reminds me when I was living it back in the day, when you are so exited to know so many new bands and albums, and people around you keep telling you, "if you liked that band wait 'til you hear so and so..." I love your channel, specially the punk rock stuff
Thanks so much! I relate to that so much in high school but with metal / prog. It was right as social media was really blossoming and it quickly became so easy to discover new music. It was almost like you wanted to one-up your friends with cool new bands. Cheers!
The 90's was a great time to be a teenager and be into punk rock. Started a band with my best friend primarily because of Pennywise and NOFX, we covered bro hymn at one of our gigs. Its one of those songs anyone can join in without really needing to know the lyrics. One thing about punk rock is the unity it creates, nothing like it
Always amazing with better and better songs each episode... got goosebumps by hearing Pennywise and such other punk bands... thank you again for this! SO COOL....SO COOL....
HECK YEAH. Love this song. This used to be my favorite record ever about 20 years ago and while it's not quite anymore, it's still one of my favorites. Especially like the lyrics on this album, particularly the bridge/breakdown/whatever on Get a Life.
Pennywise is tops, and I owe a lot to ‘em. People are often times down on them for various reasons, but for me, they were the music (and words) I needed at 16 and as well into my 40s. Unknown Road and S/T in particular will always be in my rotation.
Pennywise is one of the best live bands I have ever seen, regardless of the lineup. When Zoli took Jim's place before Jim came back, both shows are phenomenal. Highly recommend their live performances. They sound very close to the albums.
Well now you have to do Bros Hymn. I remember reading an interview around the time this album came out and they were talking about how hard it was to find a bass player... Not because their stuff is overly complicated but just because they play so fast.
I met this album almost 20 years ago... so nostalgic! and I still listening pennywise in my car. They has many other songs with nice bass line. Great video.
Going through all the bands I grew up with. After you pointed out the tragic passing of Thirsk, reminded me of the passing of the drummer in 28 days, a band from here in Aus. They were going to break up and decided to write another album since he was the only one that wanted to continue. I fully recommend “What’s the Deal?” By them
It's crazy how many bands and albums i think of as classics are ones that so many people never even heard of. And it's weird hearing someone call pennywise pop punk they were one of the heavier, faster bands of that era and really defined pure punk to me in that era
I started watching you when you picked up punk and now I stop by for each video. Being 44, youre definitely hitting a lot of the stuff from my youth. Id love to see you branch out to some of the rockabilly, psychobilly, horrorbilly etc. Tiger Army, Stray Cats, Misfits, etc etc
This album is the only one inside the punk rock world that truly broke all the rules and it really stood out in terms of musicality, extended notes and yeah, the vocals are quite familiar, but that thrash energy these guys power up, ohhhh man, that's something that not all bands would dare to do, much less in '97 with such commercial records. Thank you so much for this bro.
Bro Hymn is probably one of the most iconic bass lines in punk if you're looking for another Pennywise song. Not a challenging line by any means. Just iconic.
Pennywise was one of the first punk bands i ever got into. Still love them today. With that being said man youre really going heavy on the punk music lately
This guys speaks my life. Grew up on Metal/Thrash and bands like Pennywise turned me more towards punk rock music. The punk style thrash has such a different feel than the old school thrash of Metallica, Anthrax.
Pennywise is classic punk rock. This album is so good. The top 5 punk bands in the 90s for me that changed the game were Pennywise, Lagwagon, Ten Foot Pole, Rufio, and Offspring (Smash is one of the best albums). Obviously Vandals and NOFX were great too. But those others above are my favs. Can we get a clap for Byron on the drums, he is a beast. My drumming hero growing up.
Highly suggest Bad Religion soon if you're going through the greats of Punk Rock, Jay Bentley is a great bassist and great dude. Better off Dead and Turn on the Light are probably the best examples of his skills.
Check out "Reclamation" by Bigwig. Definitely another "thrash-metal" influenced punk band Edit: Title track from the same record. Entire album is insane, but I haven't joined patreon yet, lol
All of us wanted to be Pennywise when I was 17 and in a punk band. It totally made sense because we were raised on Megadeath and Metallica in our early teens formative years.
And you have now heard every PW song from their self titled to now. I'm personally here for it. Some bands just stick with their bread and butter and it works.
Bro you’ve got to review the band Mineral, the song is called Slower of their 1997 album “The power of failing”. I’m telling you this song won’t let you down. It’s incredible!! Keep up the great vids man! 🍻
It's always so funny seeing what's categorized as pop punk by bigger fish. I personally think of Pennywise as "classic punk rock" but it also edges into street punk and I can see it being classified as smt like thrash punk. But pop punk? Green Day's the bar for pop punk
I know I say this a lot, but when this album came out in ‘97, I thought it just couldn’t get any better than this. Full Circle is a non-stop pummeling force through all 13 songs. Not a single filler song on the album and that’s the way it should be. I was 12 or 13 when this album first came out and at 40 years old I still make my kids listen to this regularly on the way to school and back. Timeless album. The ‘91 self-title is even more thrash and when you listen to Fletcher’s guitar riffs on that album, you know he grew up on early Thrash like Metallica, etc… Another great album review.
I feel like skate-punk and thrash are so much closer in musical style than a lot of people acknowledge. Skate-punk was basically a more polished version of hardcore, but came out not long after crossover-thrash was becoming popular - and crossover was kinda like a lot rougher, less polished thrash. So if you take a genre, un-polish it and then polish it again, its not too hard to the step and similarities between thrash and skate-punk, certainly moreso than many other metal genres. Adding to that, there are a good chunk of punk bands in the 00s who sound waaay more metal than punk. A Wilhelm Scream, Adrenalized, Belvedere, Almeida to name a few....
i forget which bands youve already covered but id like to see you cover bad religion and or the offspring.. im not sure which songs would showcase their bass players best but maybe some of ur viewers who are more bass savvy can reply to this comment❤
Oh you hit a personal favorite. Randy and Jason were no slouch. And yeah, Pennywise are definitely drawing a lot from thrash. Lots of cues from Suicidal Tendencies, and also a some New York Hardcore, like Agnostic Front and Sick of it All.
Bro you gotta do Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song... He is a king among the DIY punk/indie scene and this song has a good bassline too. Definitely a must-add to your punk renaissance!
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I love how the 40 year old nostalgic ska/punk era dudes hijacked this man's channel.
I'm here for it 🤘
Facts😂
🙋♂️
Looks in the mirror...Check. Nailed it.
Hey bucko! I’m 38 😂😂😂
Full Circle. What a record.
Hopefully he does the full album review on Patreon!
Top 5 best skate punk albums of all time IMO.
My intro to punk was full circle!
Mine was actually their Self Titled, but every Pennywise album until Straight Ahead is my favorite. Straight Ahead and after started to lose it for me. Once Jim left, it was never the same.
@@phxdwn121 Bang on for me too. Self-Titled through Straight Ahead are great albums.
"What's up, we're Pennywise from Hermosa Beach, California!" - circle pit starts immediately
Are you ready???? Are you fucking ready??
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
@@thirdeyevision11Swuh! Pya pya! Cmon!
You look around; what do you see?
followed by WOOOOO - WOOOOOHHHHH - WOOOOOOOOOOOO between every song. At least thats how it looks when they play Punkrock Holiday where I've seen them twice
Lmao music hasnt even started and the pit’s already going
pennywise definitely ticks that "reliving my teenage years" box for me
To all my friends, present past and beyond Especially those who weren't with us too long Life is the most precious thing you can lose While you were here, the fun was never ending
Laugh a minute was only the beginning Canton, Colvin, Nichols, Keith, Tony this one's for you
Warped Tour 2001 - PW, 311, Alien Ant Farm, and SUM 41 in their musical youth. The nostalgia is real! Love the reactions!
💯!!
@@DaVe3112013 at warped 2001 I may or may not have thrown those little snap fireworks from the grocery store at people with the bouncing souls
Still living here. Geriatric punk rocker here!
The whole “unknown road” album was my teenage soundtrack
Nothing was my anthem for many many years.
My favorite album of theirs too!
Your channel is the best thing happening on TH-cam right now! You are covering all the great bands that grew up listening to. For the record: Randy was Jason’s bass teacher.
That’s high praise, truly - really appreciate you!
And, must’ve been somewhat special for Randy to carry the touch for him! Tragic stuff.
For awesome 90’s/00’s era punk bass I’d recommend Bouncing Souls
Bryan Kienlen is an absolute weapon, both rhythmically and musically.
Manthem, True Believers and Hopeless Romantic are some of their biggest tracks. Would highly recommend checking them out!
Yes!!! Apartment 5F or anything from Anchors would be good! Hopeless Romantic would be great too! Well really all the classics would be good as well.
For sure
Bouncing Souls would be rad! Quick Chek Girl in particular…
For me Bryan has the best " modern punk bass tone" .
In an interview he once said his tone comes from playing like an " Apeman" 🙈
true believers is a perfect song
One of my favorite bands ever since 1996! Thank you for covering them! You absolutely rule!
Love that Randy B. is getting some credit! Such a wicked bassline to this song
Man, I got my first and only tattoo when I was in highschool, Pennywise logo. 22 years have passed and everybody said I'll change my tastes in music. They were wrong! Still listening day by day to punk, it's my diesel fuel. PS. You're great man! Cheers! ❤
Love that! Glad they were wrong!! 😉
at 52 my musical taste has definitely become more diverse, but I still listen to everything I grew up on the most. First time I saw PW was in 92 and I still listen to them on a regular basis. They always make it into my playlists.
My first but not only tattoo was the Pennywise logo. My first punk rock album that wasn't greenday/offspring/rancid or the older classics was Pennywise. I heard Dying to Know from the first Punk-O-Rama and I was hooked.
@@leftofpunk nice. I have the entire warped tour 2001 concert poster on my calf . Love it
Lmao I’m 18 and just got a punk in drublic tattoo , friends had the same concerns lol
"Same old Story" from About Time, I was 14, it was life changing. Smash from the offspring, Dookie, Punk in Drublic, Stranger than Fiction etc etc. 94/95 were good years.
btw, TH-cam is flooded with "x teacher reacts" videos but yours are the only ones I watch through. Keep it up!
Still need to get to some of those! Definitely feel like 9/10 songs lately are from the mid 1990s, ha!
That’s so nice of you to say - means a lot! Glad to have you here, man! 🙏🏼
92-96 was the peak in Californian punk rock.
So many albums to name from so many bands.
Time to go skate! If only I could go back in time 25 years.. 😂
This is awesome. Pennywise is one of the bands I've listened to the most. Interestingly, after a long period of abstinence from punk music, I'm listening more and more again and enjoying this music even more (and differently).
Thank you for that!
Love it - thank you so much!
Man, Pennywise is and always will be my favourite band :D Been loving all the punk coming from this channel recently, it is the reason I subscribed!
Means a lot, Matt! Really appreciate you!
Hell yeah!!! One of my favorite bands. Bro Hymn definitely has their most recognizable bass riff. It's simple, but memorable. They do the song every concert as a tribute to Jason Thirsk.
Bro hym in the circle pit will live in my brain for ever
yeah gotta go with bro hym
I remembered it so well! Bro Hym st warped tour was the biggest pit I ever been in & seen!
he cannot miss bro hymn!
To me, Bro Hymn is the best punk song. For all our fallen brothers and sisters ✊
Pennywise is absolutely the 3-way intersection of thrash, hardcore, and pop punk. Great stuff.
I will heartily disagree with NME calling Pennywise "pop punk", but they are definitely a great punk band.
Looking back, I see what you mean, haha! Zero pop punk vibes to me, but it was still a fun listen in the same type of way.
I always put Pennywise in the skate punk category.
Definitely not "pop punk".
No way is PW a pop punk band. They are melodic but they’re still hardcore in their sound. Hooky without being wanky
Pennywise is more SoCal skate punk. NOFX, Bad Religion, Guttermouth, the Vandals. Straight up punk but usually kinda bouncey & melodic.
"Bro Hym Tribute" from this album (actually a re-recording of an earlier version) was written by former bassist Jason Thirsk and the re-recording was done in his honor. It is an amazing singalong song that still serves as the closing number for almost all of their shows.
I was a big Pennywise fan in high school. After graduating, I enlisted in the Air Force after being given less optimal options. Toward the end of basic training, we were allowed to shop at the commissary and I was excited to see a new Pennywise album. I bought it on cassette as I only had a Walkman and dug into it right away. It wasn't until Bro Hymn did the penny drop that I realized the bass player had died and what I was listening to was basically a funeral.
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@@LowEndUniversity you gotta do Bro Hymn at least listen it by yourself you cannot react to 90s punk without Ameican Jesus, Linoleum or Bro Hymn
There's a great documentary called 'The Other F Word' based on Jim Lindberg's (PW Vocalist) book about being a father while being in a punk band. The documentary follows him through a tour and also features many other top punk stars talking about their experience as parents while being working, touring musicians.
that is a fantastic movie. the bits with lars from rancid, josh freese from the vandals (and now the foo fighters), and jim dyeing his hair, such good snapshots of their lives.
Absolutely a killer doc with excellent soundtrack. I haven't watched it in five years because I'm a dad now and I'm afraid I'll cry my eyes out 🤣
@@mikekristin7201 I cry at the same point every time, yet I still go back and rewatch it!
@@skapunker21 the bit with Lars and his kid walking to the playground is the cutest
You’ve done Descendents, time to give some love to ALL. World’s on Heroin, Cause (from the live album) or Honey Peeps are all winners.
I actually told the folks on Patreon that this entire time, I had never heard of ALL. I dug through my old music library on a hard drive, and found an Untitled track that turned out to be "Honey Peeps" by ALL. I just sat in confusion for like 3 minutes because I thought it was a Less Than Jake track for 20 years now. I can sing every lyric to it, it's so funny. Highly considering just doing a bass cover of it on here, because I remember it being way too difficult for me trying to learn it at 15. Little did I know, I've been hearing Karl's playing for over half of my life...but just that one song at the time!
@@LowEndUniversity All is so damn good. Breaking Things has Karl doing some great bass galloping. “Original Me”, “Right”, “Stick”…such good songs of that album. “Million Bucks” on Pummel. I like the albums where Chad is the lead singer 🤷🏻♂️
That song still gets stuck in my head . Cuz the world is ha
@@LowEndUniversity i love that. that made me smile. music magic!
@LowEndUniversity 😆 🤣 at first, I was thinking you're out of your mind, but I can kinda excuse it... 😆
27 years later and this still sounds fresh and new
Since about a month or so youve been reviewing the music that followed me all my life ! Thanks a lot for that !
My pleasure!
Pennywise are just faster Bad Religion, and I say that with the highest praise for both bands.
BR is undoubtedly their biggest influence.
I've always considered Pennywise the better version of The Offspring. Unknown Road feels like a faster (and better) Ignition. Same with About Time and Smash.
Well damn it. Now I'm gonna hear that. LOL.
This doesn't sound that much faster than Suffer-era Bad Religion...
Also BR has a better vocalist, better melodies, and better lyrics
@@NinjaGaijinn It has such a great production Unknown road.
Haha, this is my favourite Pennywise song and i didn't think anyone else really rocked with it so its great to see a comprehensive breakdown on the track!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
F@ck Authority might be my favorite Pennywise song.
Your videos are great! It is like showing your best friend all of your favourite songs, and he loves them all! Thanks for doing this!!!
I'm partial to About Time if we're talking Pwise records but Full Circle comes in a close second for me.
Yeah, that's my ranking as well.
My top 3 are the first 3, in reverse order. Then this one. The songs in About Time were the most relatable for me.
Oh yeah, About Time & Straight Ahead are 1/2 for me
Society and Bro Hymn off this album were two of the first songs I ever learned on my Bass almost 26 years ago.
Warped Tour '99 : Pennywise came on after Fenix*TX . The fun part was seeing the slower-moving fenix fans still around when Pennywise started. They were NOT prepared for the crowd's intensity many got caught in a quite raucus pit that formed. Hope they were ok lol.
YES as someone who has been listening to Thrash for almost all my life and just recently started getting into Punk aswell, Pennywise is definitely my favorite band so far!! Good Riddance are quite similar, definitely another band you should review at some point🤘🏻🔥
Pennywise was constantly screaming out of my JVC shelf system in the 90s. Fletcher was the reason I got into guitar, he has a lot of great riffs. I still get chills from these songs. Skating to this in the 90s I would get so hyped up with adrenalin.
My favorite thrashy song from them is "waste of time" from the album "about time"
So glad you've gotten to Pennywise!
(I would've gone with Broken, but this works 😁)
Fishbone - Bonin' in the Boneyard
Rollins Band - Grip
Bonin in the Boneyard is a must.
This whole album is a must…every song is choice.
Man, I'm gonna have to go and listen to the album again aren't I? That album always moved me.
FINALLY!!!!!!! Please do Bro Hymn, iconic punk song with sick bass lines! Pennywise has been in my workout soundtrack since teenage years! Cannot go wrong with! I'm stoked that you did it!
First CD I ever bought was Pennywise's "About time". Oh jeez that's almost 30 years ago 🥹 Thanks for the inspiration for what music to play, haven't heard them since ages. Had one of those moments where I couldn't figure out what I was up for 😂
SoCal skate punk had so many killer melodies both instrumentally and vocally. And every instrument got to show off! Underrated genre.
Just subbed through Firecracker by SO and was looking at the punkrock section of the channel to find my favorite bands and wondered which songs you would pick for each. First song that came to my mind for Pennywise was this very song. Most empowering punk rock song I've ever heard.
Always thought despite their incredible love for Jason, this song was critical of his falling rock bottom. The lyrics fit so well to addicts and Jason was an alcoholic.
I´ve been loving your punk rock journey through bass, it reminds me when I was living it back in the day, when you are so exited to know so many new bands and albums, and people around you keep telling you, "if you liked that band wait 'til you hear so and so..." I love your channel, specially the punk rock stuff
Thanks so much! I relate to that so much in high school but with metal / prog. It was right as social media was really blossoming and it quickly became so easy to discover new music. It was almost like you wanted to one-up your friends with cool new bands. Cheers!
The 90's was a great time to be a teenager and be into punk rock. Started a band with my best friend primarily because of Pennywise and NOFX, we covered bro hymn at one of our gigs. Its one of those songs anyone can join in without really needing to know the lyrics. One thing about punk rock is the unity it creates, nothing like it
I know you're not a drum channel but this album has some great drumming on it. Fight till you die is insane
Always amazing with better and better songs each episode... got goosebumps by hearing Pennywise and such other punk bands... thank you again for this! SO COOL....SO COOL....
Appreciate you!!
HECK YEAH. Love this song. This used to be my favorite record ever about 20 years ago and while it's not quite anymore, it's still one of my favorites. Especially like the lyrics on this album, particularly the bridge/breakdown/whatever on Get a Life.
You can hear way more bass on Pennywise sings “Perfect People” & “Bro Hym”
I can vividly recall putting this disc in my Sony Shockwave Discman and skating to school. Love this album !
Was yours blue or red
@@mikekristin7201 blue , I also had a yellow one way back
Pennywise is tops, and I owe a lot to ‘em. People are often times down on them for various reasons, but for me, they were the music (and words) I needed at 16 and as well into my 40s.
Unknown Road and S/T in particular will always be in my rotation.
Pennywise is one of the best live bands I have ever seen, regardless of the lineup. When Zoli took Jim's place before Jim came back, both shows are phenomenal. Highly recommend their live performances. They sound very close to the albums.
the genuine, almost child-like "oh shit"s absolutely make my day.
Summer of 97' , S'Agaro, Catalonia. Learning first ollie playing nonstop this album & About time. Still play them almost everyday.
Played with Pennywise a few years ago, a proper good bunch of lads.
Well now you have to do Bros Hymn.
I remember reading an interview around the time this album came out and they were talking about how hard it was to find a bass player... Not because their stuff is overly complicated but just because they play so fast.
GOOD RIDDANCE could also be interesting for you. goes more in the direction of hardcore punk.
I met this album almost 20 years ago... so nostalgic! and I still listening pennywise in my car.
They has many other songs with nice bass line.
Great video.
My favorite band! So pumped you found them!
Going through all the bands I grew up with. After you pointed out the tragic passing of Thirsk, reminded me of the passing of the drummer in 28 days, a band from here in Aus. They were going to break up and decided to write another album since he was the only one that wanted to continue.
I fully recommend “What’s the Deal?” By them
It's crazy how many bands and albums i think of as classics are ones that so many people never even heard of.
And it's weird hearing someone call pennywise pop punk they were one of the heavier, faster bands of that era and really defined pure punk to me in that era
Great choice! So cool to see your enthusiasm for the stuff that shaped a lot of our lives. Cheers homey.
I started watching you when you picked up punk and now I stop by for each video. Being 44, youre definitely hitting a lot of the stuff from my youth. Id love to see you branch out to some of the rockabilly, psychobilly, horrorbilly etc. Tiger Army, Stray Cats, Misfits, etc etc
This album is the only one inside the punk rock world that truly broke all the rules and it really stood out in terms of musicality, extended notes and yeah, the vocals are quite familiar, but that thrash energy these guys power up, ohhhh man, that's something that not all bands would dare to do, much less in '97 with such commercial records.
Thank you so much for this bro.
I re-discovered my love for Pennywise with the release of their "Never Gonna Die" album.
Bro Hymn is probably one of the most iconic bass lines in punk if you're looking for another Pennywise song. Not a challenging line by any means. Just iconic.
Pennywise was a constant back in the day. Miss the 90’s. Now my 7 y/o just discovered Bro Hymn. Must be genetics.
Low End University continues to evolve into the Punk Appreciation Society!
Pennywise was one of the first punk bands i ever got into. Still love them today. With that being said man youre really going heavy on the punk music lately
Randy is such a cool dude too. I did a guided tour of the Punk Rock museum with him.
Amazing band. Never heard of them until this video. Now I’m hooked.
There is band that never blew up - but “donuts and glory” are amazing from this era as well
Pennywise will be in Dallas October 1st..with the dropkick Murphys...
This guys speaks my life. Grew up on Metal/Thrash and bands like Pennywise turned me more towards punk rock music. The punk style thrash has such a different feel than the old school thrash of Metallica, Anthrax.
Pennywise and StrungOut. Greatest skate/thrash punk bands ever.
"Bro Hymn" is one of my favorite basslines to play.
Pennywise is classic punk rock. This album is so good. The top 5 punk bands in the 90s for me that changed the game were Pennywise, Lagwagon, Ten Foot Pole, Rufio, and Offspring (Smash is one of the best albums). Obviously Vandals and NOFX were great too. But those others above are my favs.
Can we get a clap for Byron on the drums, he is a beast. My drumming hero growing up.
Highly suggest Bad Religion soon if you're going through the greats of Punk Rock, Jay Bentley is a great bassist and great dude. Better off Dead and Turn on the Light are probably the best examples of his skills.
Best pennywise album !! Saw Them last year playing it live from start to finish what a night it was
Full Album live would be so siiick!
@@andywhos it was insane they played 2 Nights in a row the 1st Night they played about Times and the 2nd Night they played full circle.
I’ve played bass all my life. Randy has been super influential in my own personal bass work.
I love Pennywise. One of the most underrated bands. Their whole discography is solid. Pop punk?
When i played drums for the punk rock girls. PW was one of the first big names we opened for.. so nostalgic..
Check out "Reclamation" by Bigwig. Definitely another "thrash-metal" influenced punk band
Edit: Title track from the same record. Entire album is insane, but I haven't joined patreon yet, lol
I love your tone so much. It so great.
Randy B actually recorded Unknown Road so technically that was his first PW album
All of us wanted to be Pennywise when I was 17 and in a punk band. It totally made sense because we were raised on Megadeath and Metallica in our early teens formative years.
No Pennywise without Bad Religion!
good on you, love this, always loved Pennywise
Shoutout to Byron for the ridiculous drums!! 🤘🏻
my absolute favorite band
And you have now heard every PW song from their self titled to now. I'm personally here for it. Some bands just stick with their bread and butter and it works.
love this band. seen em a bunch, can shout aling to all their old records. great lyrics too.
Full circle was the first album I got obsessed with when I was 10. Tony Hawk pro skater 1 with full circle playing in the background lol.
Bro you’ve got to review the band Mineral, the song is called Slower of their 1997 album “The power of failing”. I’m telling you this song won’t let you down. It’s incredible!! Keep up the great vids man! 🍻
It's always so funny seeing what's categorized as pop punk by bigger fish. I personally think of Pennywise as "classic punk rock" but it also edges into street punk and I can see it being classified as smt like thrash punk. But pop punk? Green Day's the bar for pop punk
I know I say this a lot, but when this album came out in ‘97, I thought it just couldn’t get any better than this. Full Circle is a non-stop pummeling force through all 13 songs. Not a single filler song on the album and that’s the way it should be. I was 12 or 13 when this album first came out and at 40 years old I still make my kids listen to this regularly on the way to school and back. Timeless album. The ‘91 self-title is even more thrash and when you listen to Fletcher’s guitar riffs on that album, you know he grew up on early Thrash like Metallica, etc… Another great album review.
I feel like skate-punk and thrash are so much closer in musical style than a lot of people acknowledge. Skate-punk was basically a more polished version of hardcore, but came out not long after crossover-thrash was becoming popular - and crossover was kinda like a lot rougher, less polished thrash. So if you take a genre, un-polish it and then polish it again, its not too hard to the step and similarities between thrash and skate-punk, certainly moreso than many other metal genres.
Adding to that, there are a good chunk of punk bands in the 00s who sound waaay more metal than punk. A Wilhelm Scream, Adrenalized, Belvedere, Almeida to name a few....
Great observations on thrash and skate punk, but I always considered PW more surf punk
Good morning, Mark! Keep up the great videos!
Thank you, friend! I love that you're here every time! 🙏🏼
"PW - A Word from the Wise" -> Best Album and still kick ass today 🥰🥰🥰
i forget which bands youve already covered but id like to see you cover bad religion and or the offspring.. im not sure which songs would showcase their bass players best but maybe some of ur viewers who are more bass savvy can reply to this comment❤
Oh you hit a personal favorite. Randy and Jason were no slouch. And yeah, Pennywise are definitely drawing a lot from thrash. Lots of cues from Suicidal Tendencies, and also a some New York Hardcore, like Agnostic Front and Sick of it All.
Bro you gotta do Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song... He is a king among the DIY punk/indie scene and this song has a good bassline too. Definitely a must-add to your punk renaissance!
REST IN PEACE JASON
FULL CIRCLE - COMPLETE ALBUM
THIS ONE IS FOR YOU
This band got me into punk rock. Great band