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Reason to Believe by Pennywise
Reason to Believe is an album by Pennywise, released in 2008. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Western World”, on 12 lists and voted number one once.
Reason to Believe, Pennywise's ninth studio album, arrived in March 2008 as a free download for the whole world on MySpace, with MySpace Records pressing CDs and a limited vinyl edition carrying two extra tracks in the US, and Epitaph looking after Europe. The Hermosa Beach crew had meant to have it out in 2007 to keep up their album-every-two-years habit, and for a while it was going to be called Free for the People.
The lineup is the familiar one: Jim Lindberg shouting, Fletcher Dragge on guitar, Randy Bradbury on bass and Byron McMackin on drums, tearing through "The Western World" and "Die for You" with the fast, fists-up melodic punk they'd been sharpening since 1988. It was also the first Pennywise album to wear a Parental Advisory sticker. And it turned into a farewell of sorts: Lindberg left the next year and didn't come back until 2012, so All or Nothing had another singer out front.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Reason to Believe on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Western World | 12 | #1 | 1 | 2008–2009 | |
| 2 | Die For You | 3 | #25 | – | 2008–2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.