Their music was poking at you, their attitude was poking out at you, their style was poking towards your general direction like crazy. There is a song on the first album where they call themselves the Pokinatcha Punks! That song is called "PxPx" because MxPx thinks that "x"s are periods. MxPx is an acronym and it stands for "Magnified Plaid. Songs on Pokinatcha! There was a lot of seriously poppy stuff, but mostly the album was focused on poking at you, or perhaps poking near you.
The "you" in question was you stodgy dogmatic churchgoers who don't know what it's like to just love Jesus on your own terms, maaaaaaan. In other words, no one listening to this album, ever. The be-all, end-all destination if you happened to be in an alternative Christian band or perhaps a band of Christians which is how MxPx chooses to define themselves, by the way.
Teenage Politics was where MxPx really solidified their sound and their general theme for the next million years. Even 17 years later, I have no idea what "Teenage Politics" is supposed to mean, although the lyrics to the title track's chorus offer no real help in the matter:. Teenage politics contained such inflammatory language as suggesting that "legalistic people suck" and that "legalism makes me sick" and that "I wanna go puke on it.
Teenage Politics is absolutely the archetype for everything else MxPx would ever do. It is also the first album featuring replacement guitarist Tom Wisniewski. Who even cares. The lineup was set, the sound was set, and Mike Herrera's -- for better or for worse -- insanely distinctive voice was front and center for their second-most-Jesus-y album ever. Behind Pokinatcha! Teenage Politics featured MxPx's most famous song ever for what it's worth and their anthem for the next eternity, "Punk Rawk Show.
Oh mercy, mercy me, that is one hell Bible pun of a video. MxPx created a legitimate flag-waving anthem for people attempting to rebel while still staying within extremely strict guidelines. Keep in mind that, for much of their audience, dying your hair blue and listening to fast music and running in a circle while not doing anything else rebellious and going to church three times a week was, legitimately, a form of rebellion.
So good for them! Plus, intentionally misspelling "rock"? That's the Christian version of participating in the Seattle riots, y'all! During this era, the videos for "Punk Rawk Show" and "Teenage Politics" were played on Minutes , which was the weekly late-night MTV alternative videos show hosted by prototype nerdcrush VJ "Kennedy," who was also apparently some type of Republican weirdo.
I would be remiss if I got any further without discussing MxPx's mascot, which was the star of the first two album covers. Depending on who you ask, this guy might actually be called "Pokinatcha," which blech. This popeyed, hair-plugged, lockjawed nightmare beast has persisted over alllll these decades! Think about that. Nothing really much to say about this one, but it is important you are aware of this for later on. Also lookit these pretty boys all poking toward us.
It also caused a serious rift among Christian fans, as MxPx made huge changes only noticed by the thumpiest of Biblers. For starters, the album cover was drawn by seminal lol punk artist Coop, who is best known for drawing pictures of BBW devil-ladies shoving popsicles in their hoo-hahs.
Another major, major change note: not major was that MxPx went from explicitly singing about Jesus in 16 of 18 songs per album, to tangentially talking about Jesus maybe on 2 of 18 songs per album, causing Christians to harrumph their mightiest harrumphs and say that the band was forsaking Him.
Regardless, MxPx only experienced an increase in popularity during this time, perhaps in part because they were less interested in talking about how Jesus is gonna do it again y'all, and more interested in talking about how girls named Cristalena are "so cool.
Sorry Cristalenas, but someone had to say it. This album was pretty split between songs about growing up or more accurately, songs about being a kid and songs about girls, but the last track on the album, " Southbound ," is a song about cruising around with your chill bros on tour with the windows down. This imagery would eventually claim the mind of Mike Herrera like the brain slugs from Wrath of Khan.
The album also featured their "hit single" "Chick Magnet," which belied Herrera's deep underlying desire to become Mike Ness and marries not only aped greaser culture but a soupcon of the burgeoning swing craze. Swing heil, MxPx. Swing heil. They making money outchea. I never got the inside scoop on this, but I can only assume one of two possibilities:. The Cootees had Tom playing drums, because Tom started out as a drummer, not a guitarist more on this in a second.
Yuri wasn't in The Cootees because Mike and Tom probably hate him. This album also began Herrera's fascination with the word "understand. So much Elvis Costello, you guys. So he thought he could make an MxPx Elvis Costello album. It didn't really work out that well. Just check out the rhyme scheme on the opener, " My Life Story. If you're a punk band and you spend any amount of time on a major label, you get to a point where you have to release a "too big for your britches" album.
While these bad boys formed in with Andy Husted on guitar as "Magnified Plaid" they soon abbreviated their name to MxPx the x's as periods , and found Tom to replace Andy due to creative differences.
A large part of the pop punk music scene since their beginning, MxPx has formed a large and very loyal fan base, though they have never had an official hit.
I drove 6 hours to see MxPx in concert , and it was worth it. MxPx's song "Small Town Minds " is absolutely dynamite! Filter by: Select category from list Couldn't find the full form or full meaning of MXPX? Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account.
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