deathofasalesman
08.10.19 | 3 would be 1 if it had a couple more songs. |
Minushuman24
08.10.19 | 10 is actually my second favorite, but No Control will always be my number one |
Trebor.
08.10.19 | This is pretty much my ranking |
deathofasalesman
08.10.19 | curious minushu, was 10 your first bad religion record? no control is really close to being #1 for me too
@Trebor: another man of shtyle, any major difference? |
SlothcoreSam
08.10.19 | I did this list just before Age of Reason came out, recap of my ratings from worst to best. (Fav song in brackets)
No Substance (Hear it)
Into the unknown (million days)
The New America (A Streetkid named desire)
Age Of Reason (Chaos from Within)
True North (Popular Consensus)
The Dissent of Man (The Day that the earth stalled)
Recipe for Hate (American Jesus)
New Maps of Hell (Germs of Perfection)
Empire Strikes First ( Social Suicide)
Stranger than Fiction ( Television)
Process of Belief (Supersonic)
Grey Race ( Ten in 2010)
Generator (Atomic Garden)
No Control (I want to conquer the world)
Suffer (Best for You)
Against The Grain (Anesthesia)
How Could Hell be Any Worse (Fuck armageddon this is hell ) |
deathofasalesman
08.10.19 | I have an extreme aversion to "Into the Unknown." I just can't imagine stomaching it over something more traditional like "No Substance." Other than that, I'm shook you have HCHBAW at the top. Why is that one your fave? |
SlothcoreSam
08.10.19 | I love the rawness of HCHBAW, I'd actuality put 80-85 as number 1, i listened to that so much back in the day, it could even be my favourite record of all time.
I dig Greg's younger voice, and there is something about underproduced 80s punk i can't get enough of. Plus some of the tunes are catchy AF. Fuck armageddon, Part III, We're only gonna die, Faith in God, pity, i better stop otherwise I'll list all of them. Sooooo good.
I agree that into the unknown is a steaming pile of skunkshit, but No Substance has the worst songs ever, Raise your voice, hippy killers, so not Bad Religion.
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Masochist
08.10.19 | Oooh, a Bad Religion list!
You and I...have a very different ranking, lol (outside of #1, that is)
1. Against The Grain ("Anesthesia")
2. The Empire Strikes First ("Sinister Rouge")
3. The Process of Belief ("Epiphany")
4. No Control ("You")
5. True North ("Changing Tide")
6. The Gray Race ("Come Join Us")
7. Recipe For Hate ("Skyscraper")
8. Suffer ("Do What You Want")
9. How Could Hell Be Any Worse? ("We're Only Gonna Die")
10. Stranger Than Fiction ("Tiny Voices")
11. Generator ("Generator")
12. The Dissent of Man ("The Resist Stance")
13. New Maps Of Hell ("Heroes & Martyrs")
14. Age of Unreason ("What Tomorrow Brings")
15. The New America ("The Queen of the 21st Century" - b-side)
16. Into The Unknown ("Million Days")
17. No Substance ("Dream of Unity" - b-side)
The hardest part of this was choosing just one song from each album as my favorite. And as for all their albums starting 2007-on...'New Maps Of Hell' could have been better with better production. They somehow struck gold on 'True North', and the largest gap between numbers probably exists between 'Age of Unreason' and the last three albums |
Minushuman24
08.10.19 | Yeah, I believe Los Angeles is Burning or American Jesus to be my first BR song. But I Los Angeles is Burning was the first to really take hold. I still burn through that CD and get nearly every song stuck in my head. Love that album to pieces. |
Sinternet
08.10.19 | what is this suffer slander in this thread |
zakalwe
08.10.19 | Soulless Brat Shit |
JLR2DEG
08.11.19 | @Sinternet - I noticed the “Suffer slander” as well. I cannot believe that Suffer is not ranked higher. Suffer and No Control, in my opinion, are Bad Religion at their best. I never got the same feeling from Against The Grain or any of their albums after that. But I am old man and Suffer was the first Bad Religion Album I heard back in 1988. I would imagine that the younger fans on Sputnik started listening to later Bad Religion albums first. |
deathofasalesman
08.11.19 | 4 is a pretty high ranking imo |
Gallantin
08.11.19 | Probably not dissimilar from my ranking. Lol at Suffer being too low at 4, if anything the top ten here are so close to equal it doesn't actually matter what order they're in
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Masochist
08.12.19 | "I would imagine that the younger fans on Sputnik started listening to later Bad Religion albums first."
Yeah, I didn't become a fan of Bad Religion until Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, which had "You" on it. Then I got into the band, and by the time I was really into them, 'The Process of Belief' had already come out. That means that the first album that I actually got to be excited for them releasing was 'The Empire Strikes First'...hence my high ranking of those two albums.
Even still, I'd studied a lot of their discography by the time I got around to 'Against The Grain', but I still rank it as the best. While I do feel that 'Suffer' and 'No Control' are more...classic (and legendary), when it comes to straight quality of songs that best represent Bad Religion as a whole in their entire career, I feel ATG does it the best.
As for 'Suffer' specifically...well, I do love the album, and obviously there's an entire punk scene that wouldn't exist without it, but I find that a lot of the time if I'm going to listen to a whole BR record, I'd rather put on 'No Control'. Not sure...it just didn't hit quite as hard as the others did. Still a classic though. |
deathofasalesman
08.13.19 | "I would imagine that the younger fans on Sputnik started listening to later Bad Religion albums first."
Curiously, my first was "Stranger Than Fiction" as a kid before Tony Hawk games introduced me to more songs/albums. There was a period lasting a few months of me constantly listening to Bad Religion, and even though I didn't play "Against the Grain" as often as other albums, I also find it to be their best collection of songs in one piece. "Suffer" is a great batch of tracks, but the ones found on "No Control" and "Generator" are of a higher caliber imo due to their maturity in songwriting. |
