Bad Religion: C or D?

suffer -> no control -> against the grain

thats a special run. i listen to the latter two quite often really.

i need to listen to the post no substance stuff outside of process of belief.

I like The New America a lot more than Neanderthal does, it appears, but everything after The Process of Belief is kind of a samey blur to me.

No Substance was where I tapped out. Not that they were necessarily steering off a cliff, I’d just … had my fill.
I didn’t need any more, and got the point. (I was 21 then.) When the mood strikes, honestly, All Ages does the job. And I’ll always be glad they exist, and that new generations of 15 year olds discover them.

BR were a band a close group of friends in college were deeply into so it’s tied to that time/place, and is how I was introduced to this music (and also the Fat Wreck Chords verse, frankly).

I like The New America a lot more than Neanderthal does, it appears, but everything after The Process of Belief is kind of a samey blur to me.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, October 24, 2021 11:29 PM bookmarkflaglink

this is kinda true, tbh. I remember each album after Process being a lesser album until I outright stopped enjoying them around The Dissent of Man.

Empire Strikes First has a lot of great tunes on it, but none quite reach the heights of Process, but I was mega into it because it came out during Iraq War II and I was fucking ANGRY and a large portion of the album is about it.

New Maps of Hell was surprisingly good, but definitely didn't do as much for me on relistens recently.

I am a little bummed that "Sorrow" is the enduring song from Process that everybody knows. like, come on, it's an earworm, but it's like RAdiohead's "Creep".

same thing with "Los Angeles is Burning", fuck that song.

Has anyone else here read their new oral history autobiography? Pretty disappointing, especially after just finishing NOFX's tome immediately beforehand (and
I'm not a fan of NOFX, but it's a pretty remarkable book). Far too fawning from their co-writer, who essentially treats Greg Graffin like the Bertrand Russell of
punk music instead of a fairly articulate guy with a thesaurus. Very little on their process of working with various producers, save for a few critical words
about Todd Rundgren's shambolic Hawaiian study and even less on Gurewitz's expansion of Epitaph. Of all the other artists to come through that label, only a handful
are discussed in passing, like L7 (and even they show up way more in Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town, about the Seattle scene, even though they're from L.A.!)

Just finished the book today and yeah, this is sadly spot on. I didn't expect any tremendous bombshells from a book that the band is credited as co-writing, but even with that it feels extremely thin on Graffin beyond endless praise. Everyone else seems to get (surprisingly) candid about their struggles and addictions, but besides passing mentions of Graffin's divorce, he gets almost nothing. I feel like I learned a little bit more about pretty much every member of the band, except him. And, yeah, for as much time spent talking about Brett and mentioning how successful he was with Epitaph, it hardly touched on how the label survived after the Offspring and Rancid blew up.

I mean, if nothing else it has kickstarted another deep dive into their catalog, which has been fun, but it could have been better.

Just saw them tonight in Philly... In a friggin' opera house.

Punk rock in an opera house... pic.twitter.com/ISRie7cGNy

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) November 8, 2021

Had a great time, amazing that I first saw them 30 years ago and got to take my son.

It's @badreligion! pic.twitter.com/T3koZAtr48

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) November 8, 2021

Very solid set list, played one or two songs from like ten albums, giving it a "greatest hits" feel but also brought out some deeper cuts as well.

suffer -> no control -> against the grain

thats a special run. i listen to the latter two quite often really.

Glad you got to see the show! 21 year-old me is very, very disappointed in myself for not seeing a Bad Religion/Alkaline Trio joint tour. But, if only it would have been a few months from now...

the live version of infected is way better than the album version. just watched this at 1.2 speed and it became one of their best songs lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_lAB2WpTE

I’m 90% sure I saw BR at Warped Tour ‘98.