Uglyband: PO'd at the P.O.D. people

P.O.D.
Latest Release: Greatest Hits
My wife, Mrs. Skippy, recently returned from a visit to San Diego, home of the Christian rock band P.O.D.

It's a beautiful, bright metropolis with many military families and an interesting racial mix, a wonderfully developed downtown area. Just a delightful place, she says.

So the members of P.O.D. are obviously lying when they claim to have started out there. Just look at 'em. OK, maybe they came from "bizarro world" San Diego, the dark inverse of the shining California jewel by the sea. But all I see in their publicity shot is a black-and-white world of dazed and scowling people in need of a fresh shirt and bus tickets back from a long weekend in Tijuana.

"Escape from Balboa Park" just doesn't resonate. The post-apocalyptic Frank Lloyd Wright/Burning Man/Lego background is confusing. The army-surplus jackets and ill-fitting trousers just scream "homeless shelter." (Or is that a Chinese-y type jacket on the frontman? If so, not an improvement).

The Billy Jack haircuts on the two gentlemen on the right suggest they've been on tour too long. (The bowler hat and cane on the guy second from left, while a nice touch, is too little, too late).

The whole effect is not helped by the scary, antique font in their logo and "Greatest Hits" title on their website.

They'd do better to get matching uniforms and conform, like the fellows in that nice Blue Men Group.

Or go with a blonde surfer motif.

Don't watch the music video of Going in Blind from their Greatest Hits CD if you're easily depressed. It's a downer, with several people sitting in parked cars arguing or looking sad. And cold. The cars are older, unstylish models. Hey, did anybody ever tell these people that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile?

Update! I just realized that P.O.D. stands for "Payable on Death." It's all making sense now. It's Gospel of Grunge music. They WANT to look this way.

Let 'em. Whatever.


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