Teenage Politics

Description

Teenage Politics is the sophomore album by the American punk rock band MxPx, released on Tooth & Nail Records in July 1995.

I can’t remember another time when so many young artists seem to be releasing albums in prodigious quantities. Groups such as poor old lu, Sixpence None the Richer and Johnny Q. Public have recorded and toured before one (or all) of the members have finished high school. It’s as if these men and women sprang from the womb with guitars in hand. Less than a year after its dynamite debut, ‘Pokinatcha‘, MxPx returns with another punk treatise. Despite the stompin’ “Pokinatcha Punk” on the cover, MxPx never really gets as mad as the punk’s grimace might suggest. There’s anger in the lyrics, to be sure, but that’s balanced with compassion and humor (witness titles like «Punk Rawk Show», «Inquiring Minds Want to Know»). As for the “politics,” in the title track, lead vocalist Mike sings “No, I’m not mad but I think they forget/ What it’s like and how hard it is to be a teenager;” the more strident chorus of «Americanism» features the lyrics “They’re lying when they tell us/ This is the home of the brave and land of the free;” in «False Fiction», Mike shouts that “They guarantee our freedom/ But freedom isn’t real/ Unless you know Christ/ You won’t know how I feel.” Angst and pugnacity aside, the last statement is the key to appreciating the rapidly maturing music of MxPx. [Bruce A. Brown, CCM, August 1995]

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CD-tracklist:

01. Sugarcoated Poison Apple – 2:21
02. Do & Don’t – 3:37
03. Teenage Politics – 2:51
04. Punk Rawk Show – 2:32
05. The Opposite Of Intellect – 2:51
06. False Fiction – 3:25
07. Falling Down – 2:04
08. Moneytree – 1:41
09. Rainyday – 2:42
10. Like Sand Through The Hourglass… So Are The Days Of Our Lives – 1:57
11. Democracy – 1:53
12. Something More – 2:19
13. Different Things – 1:18
14. Misunderstanding – 2:42
15. Study Humans – 2:20
16. Inquiring Minds Want To Know – 2:17
17. I’m The Bad Guy – 1:42
18. Americanism – 2:28
19. Dolores (Hidden Track) – 2:37

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP (pressed on both black and blue vinyl), and CD by Tooth & Nail Records.

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A full-page advertisement for various new releases on Tooth & Nail Records, including MxPx’s Teenage Politics, was featured in the July 1995 issue of CCM Magazine.

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