Against The Grain [Remastered] - Bad Religion > Reviews > Punklegends Part I

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Thought-provoking
Quality and consistency of tracks	Flawless
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Outstanding
Value for Money

Advantages:	nice CD
Disadvantages:	nothing

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This is my first opinion in english, so don't be shocked and please tell me how to write better. Thank you.

I noticed that under my CD-collection are lots of old Punk stuff, therefore I in irregular distances times over these classical authors of the music category will write and all those by the surprising headings "punklegends part XX " will mark.

Initiate become I this series with the album Against the Grain of Bad Religion. Bad Religion applies in the Punkscene as disputed, which condemn one, because all songs sound themselves according to their opinion directly, other dear it due to their musical ability and their sophisticated distorted texts.I personally like bath religion very gladly, because they are in music some very good, about which I could convince myself with various Live-concerts.

Bad Religion is manifested and existed despite all criticism for over 20 years in the Punkszene. At the point in time of the accommodation of the album from the following members: Greg count-catch-sang, "Mr. " Brett Gurewitz guitar, Greg Hetson guitar, Peter Finestone Finestone-Drums. For the album I paid forwards approx.. 6 years about 20 DM

The Cover is relatively simple and nevertheless much-saying. From a corn field many rockets sprout in and the same direction, only central sprout a correct ear of corn and lean exactly in the other direction. In the Inlay are the Lyrics of the following songs.

1. Modern Man

Bad Religion comes with a madly fast Opener to the thing, to a short guitar introduction joins in Graffin still relatively slowly and clearly into the song and accuse the \"Modern man \" and its handling to the environment.

2. Turn on the Light

With that same speed continues as with the first Song, this time we also the singing by far faster and so often I try to line up the words of the text just as fast it I will never succeed. The melody carries again the typical BR style, only to the end shows up the bass somewhat more.

3. GET off

One of the weaker songs, although no failure. The melody, faster mix from guitar, bass and Drum pulls itself by the whole song. The voice is often much carrying and for a long time-pulled.

4. Blenderhead

Again fast continuous rhythm draws itself the song by the Song, which ends itself at short notice only in the Refrain by a Leadguitar-riff, in the middle in the Song stops suddenly. The song is occupied with people, which swim with the current and always follow the mass

5. The positive aspect OF thinking

No introduction, it goes equal loosely with an be correct-enormous Graffin, to a very melodic start becomes the song to the end with a chord change super and to Graffin sings the text sovereign, where some other singers would have a node in the throat.

6. Anesthesia

Anesthesia was for me the actual reason for the purchase that CD, since the Song was noticeable to me already on concerts very positively. A short tidy introduction and then sounds the guitar, which pulls itself through completely that song with the same reef and is interrupted only briefly by the Refrain. The Song concerns of handling with any craze product.

7. Flat Earth Society

Lie lie lie, is the Haupthema of this fast Songs, with which Greg Graffin does not only sing alone, but one supports by tape members. Here the tape name becomes "bad religion" very strongly apparent , because the Flat earth society has like everyone knows, church origin.

8. Faith alone

The slowest piece on that CD, very melodic, to lose very basic without the bad religion rhythm typical thereby describes the song that the faith brings alone no responses "What the world needs now, is some answers to our problem....but it looks as though faith to alone won't sustain US anymore!"

9. Entropy

A song, which is not noticeable particularly, the typical Melody carries by the Song and before end of a short guitar-solo is briefly interrupted.

10. Against the Grain

In my eyes the best Song on the disk. Dark heavy beginning, with which the bass at most is noticeable, accompanied with the Refrain the singing \"Against the Grain " by a wonderful guitar reef. Here the typical punk-style shows up "swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain "

11 Operation Rescue

Operation Rescue was or is still in the USA a type religious community, it to life contents made themselves the life to protect to want and blocked for this reason of abortion hospitals. With fast reef condemns bath religion the members of these "cummunity "

12. God Song

Again a basic and very melodic song, which is interrupted briefly before end of a wonderful guitar-solo. Topic is again once the critical argument with the religion "Religion is just synthetic frippery, unnecessary… "

13. 21st Century digitally Boy

The probably most well-known song of bath religion. Here the Song is once not carried by only one melody, but, even if only small one gives, to versions. The text fits also exactly on the today's society, children blunt off at the Computer, does not get along in the real world however.

14. Misery and Famine

Crazy beginning of this Song, in order to become then again typically bad religion, only to the end a change of the voice rhythm. As I do not find necessarily the best Song on that to CD. This song is dedicated to God and its personal type of the selection.

15. Unacceptable

One notices immediately, who this Song does not come from Griffin and Gurewitz, absolutely atypical bath religion a Song, which penetrates very fast and variedly through the ears. The Song is described from the view of humans in the future, which over the irresponsible behavior of the environment opposite its ancestors deplores itself.

16.Quality or Quantity

Again typically bad religion, a melody accompanying of a society-critical history of the singer. Does not drop particularly up, in addition.

17. Mill away

In the end a very much responding Song, with a fast stamping seed singing and the typical BR company. "Walk away " refers to the society, before which one can run away actually only and which as far as possible. A worthy termination mad CD.

Surely bath religion is not necessarily world-moving in things alternation, but each individual Song has nevertheless somewhat own, so which one concerns the criticism, it a Song in different versions not particularly much faith can give . They behave their instruments, Greg Graffin has a very calm and good voice. One can hear this music to different causes, on the one hand is quite suitable her for parties of lovers of the harder music direction, because there is not one total failure on these CD, on the other hand moves it me again and again for thinking on, because again and again, if I read the texts and try to interpret, be added me completely new aspects, here have themselves young really the trouble given and placed some book author in the shadows. In my eyes the best album of bad religion, which reflects itself also in the concerts, because Songs like "Against the grain " plays bath religion particularly gladly. There the CD no absolutely bad song indicates and brilliant text material has assigns I here gladly 5 asterisks.

Religious greetings from kent