Bad Religion Album Tier Rankings (Suffer, Against The Grain, Generator, Stranger Than Fiction) 

Suffer and Empire are my personal faves. Also thanks for the shout out to Wes Hoffman and Friends! Glad you guys dig the music🤘🏻

I like hearing some love for New Maps of Hell. Very underrated album.

hello from Malaysia! just thought i'd share mine here! S - Suffer / No Control / Against the Grain / Generator A - Recipe for Hate / The Gray Race / The Process of Belief / The Empire Strikes First / The Dissent of Man B - Stranger Than Fiction / New Maps of Hell C - The New America / True North / Age of Unreason D - How Could Hell Be Any Worse / Into the Unknown / No Substance

Dood putting No Control in C tier is actual psychobabble bro 😭😭😭

Age Of Unreason is the album that got me into the band and is probably my favourite of theirs haha

No Control was recorded in Hollywood in June 1989. I believe I saw the first Bad Religion show loaded with No Control songs at The Spirit Club in San Diego June 11 1989. Bad Religion wanted to play the songs at a show before making the record and they didn't want the show in LA. I saw Bad Religion play at Iguana's in Tijuana many times between 1990 and 1992.

Enjoyed the chat here's my list in order of preference 1 recipie for hate 2 no control 3 generator 4 process of belief 5 against the grain 6 Grey race 8 new maps of hell 9 suffer 10 stranger than fiction 11 age of unreason 12 empire strikes first (sorry!) 13 dissent of man 14 true north 15 no substance 16 how could hell 17 new america

Bad Religion albums ranked: 1. How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (1982) 2. The Process of Belief (2002) 3. Stranger than Fiction (1994) 4. Recipe for Hate (1993) 5. Generator (1992) 6. The Gray Race (1996) 7. New Maps of Hell (2007) 8. Suffer (1988) 9. Against the Grain (1990) 10. The Empire Strikes First (2004) 11. True North (2013) 12. No Control (1989) 13. Age of Unreason (2019) 14. The Dissent of Man (2010) 15. No Substance (1998) 16. The New America (2000)

Maybe do the Clash, Buzzcocks, The Adicts, and also sex pistols. And also do Johnny rotten post punk music.

Been listening to BR since '92 (and still think I was late in the game lol). I actually like Into the Unknown (I like prog rock and this has that vibe) and think that the only 2 bad albums were The New America and No Substance. My tier list below: S - Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator, The Process of Belief A - Recipe for Hate, Stranger than Fiction, The Gray Race, The Empire Strikes First B - New Maps of Hell, The Dissent of Man, True North, Age of Unreason C - Into the Unknown, How Could Hell Be Any Worse D - The New America, No Substance

I had to smile when you guys talked about 52 seconds. I had the same conversation with a friend and we also found it odd that the song isn't 52 seconds long. But if you are particular about it, the song lasts 52 seconds if you leave out the "intro".

S - Stranger than Fiction / No Control / The Gray Race A - Generator / Against the Grain/ New Maps of Hell / Age of Unreason B - Recipe for Hate / Suffer / True North / C - The Process of Belief / Dissent of Man / New America / The Empire Strikes First D - No Substance / How Could Hell Be Any Worse / Into the Unknown * best to worst within a tier

Great stuff! My personal Top 10 BR Albums: Bad Religion 1. No Control 2. Stranger Than Fiction 3. The Empire Strikes First 4. Against the Grain 5. Process of Belief 6. Gray Race 7. True North 8. Suffer 9. Generator 10. New Maps Of Hell

My first experience with BR was the All Ages comp in a Tower Records listening station in 1995 so I'm always going to gravitate towards those early Epitaph records, especially No Control and Against the Grain. When Suffer came out nothing else sounded like that record, the influence of those albums are huge and I don't think we would have had the 90's skate punk explosion if not for those records. John I am with you on Gray Race, it's my favorite of the Atlantic Records years and I feel like I have to revisit Empire.

The cover model from No Substance is actually not Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock. Apparently, in 2017, she came out on Twitter and clarified that. Her post has since been deleted though.

1- STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Good ranking guys however I would move how could hell be any worse up too at least B tier just cause of the time when hardcore punk was originated.Stranger then fiction up a notch and grey race is a great album.But true north and empire are probably the ones I listen too the most and grey race.

26:30, the Crazy Taxi album is how I remember it as well lol

Go John on the 'No Substance'. Hell yeah!

Bad Religion is the best band that had ever been a band. I fucking love Bad Religion! Keep rockin punk rockers!

Brooks W. is just a beast! empire strike first and process of belief are the best albums!

Bad Religion = Beach Boys of punk. Their vocal harmonies would impress Brian Wilson.

Into the Unknown is fun for what it is, and they've played a couple of songs off it (like The Dichotomy) live in recent years. It's kind of cool in a quirky way. My top tier would be Process of Belief, Against the Grain and No Control, but I really love Recipe for Hate and Suffer of course. I think the Gray Race is super underrated and that The New America is not nearly as bad as people say. No Substance is meh but has a few bangers. Stranger than Fiction is cool. I find the output after Process of Belief decent but less remarkable. Age of Unreason is my least favourite but it's more because of the production than the songs. I -HATE- how the drums sound on that record, and it's not Jamie's fault, it's the producer's.

S suffer no control Against the grain A Generator stranger gray race process B true north, empire strikes, unreason, hell C dissent, new maps, recipe for hate D into unknown, new america no subs

My S tier are Stranger Than Fiction, Empire and True North. A tier: Suffer, Dissent, Age of Unreason. B tier: No Control, Against the Grain, Recipe, New America, New Maps of Hell. C tier: How could Hell, Gray Race, Process D tier: Into the Unknown, Generator, No Substance

The major complaint about most BR albums is that they could cut a couple subpar songs of their best albums and made a five minute shorter album with all killer songs and no fillers. Also, the last albums sequencing is not the best.

And also every single uk punk band.

Guys don't forget how could be any worse was recorded in a garage and bad religion were 15 and 16 years old

No substance has too many slow songs imo, while process of belief has so much energy like the opening 3 song punch of supersonic-prove it-can’t stop it, and destined for nothing, materialist, kyoto now, evangeline

Can anyone explain to me why Graffin sounds 10 years older on Suffer than he does on No Control? Also I'm curious as to why they took such a huge step back on recording quality... Suffer sounds pretty damn good while No Control sounds very brittle and lifeless.

My favourite album ever is Against The Grain 2nd place Generator 3rd place True North 4th Process of Belief 5th No control/suffer

You forgot my favorite track from "how could been any worse" which is " In the night"

I actually kinda like some of the stuff on Into The Unknown.

New Amarica was my first BR album, so don't get all the hate for it, one of my favourite

I think Louis list is pretty consistent, except for 'Gray Race' that should be boosted to A!

The BAD RELIGION expert put SUFFER in A ??? HaHa Into the unknown is a great Album, look at the harmonies which leads to what they are knwn for., plus they were late teens. This was entertaining though.

And also do the damged

Do biohazard and also downsett. And maybe do Kottonmouth kings. There mostly a rap group But there Done some punk rock. And also do zebradhead and Again this might be closer And also maybe do hed pe and also snot and also amen and maybe alien ant farm there Both pop punk and nu metal. ( Which closer thing you Will do that is nu metal ) And also be on roach koach When there do zebrahead or Kottonmouth kings and also biohazard

I agree with top right corner guy

Oh man... I don't have True North that high. I probably need to have another listen. Only 2 songs made my Top70 BR songs and they are well down the list.

Dissent of Man is far far better than Age of Unreason, New America and No Substance.... that's the only thing I'm really shocked by. It's a very solid mid-tier album for me... maybe a 'B' ... I appreciate how difficult this is though when you have a limit of 4.

And also do post punk

Age of Unreason gets so much hate. I really liked it. Chaos, Paranoid Style, Old Regime, Candidate are great. Big Black Dog it's fun! Just the drumming on the album that's subpar

My five favorites are in no order: How Could Hell Against The Grain The Gray Race (probably) New Maps True North Even though Suffer isn't bad, it's not on the list. A lot of people put Suffer high up, but I think that they have other albums that are a lot better.

I'm a newer fan (got into them in 2020), so my opinions are quite different. To start, there isn't a single album/song by Bad Religion I consider bad, so even my least favourites are still considered amazing by me. So here's my tier list. - - - S Tier - - - Age of Unreason True North Empire Strikes First New Maps of Hell - - - A Tier - - - Stranger Than Fiction The Dissent of Man The New America The Gray Race - - - B Tier - - - Process of Belief Against the Grain Generator Suffer - - - C Tier - - - No Substance No Control Recipe For Hate - - - D Tier - - - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Into the Unkown

'New Maps of Hell' has to be near the top. One of my favourites. I have it higher than 'Empire'. For the record, my Top70 Bad Religion songs. I agree with a lot of John's views too, but also love the old stuff. music.ru-vid.com/group/PLA-IizFuPTB_3STRrIjs_VKkt8zeEir25&si=KYXT56anR-glte5b

Suffer is their best record by miles

bad religions sound is always super affected by the drummer....it's no wonder generator was such a departure from the holy trinity. Bobby's got a particular way of playing.

Calling 'Into the Unknown' the "Unos Dos Tre of Bad Religion" is an insult to the Green Day Trilogy. Saying it was BRs "Father of all Motherf***ers" would have been much more apropos.

Y'all should do black flag.

The recording quality for HCHBAW? is abhorrent. Damn near unlistenable, especially around non BR fans.

also normally I appreciate johns takes but he has the worst bad religion takes I ever heard hahaha. it's okay though, you're allowed to be wrong

I think having minimums and limits for each tier pretty much defeats the purpose of a tier list. Having to follow these arbitrary rules means you have to do things like put how could hell be any worse in the same tier as into the unknown, which effectively eliminates any useful information regarding how good or bad you think each album is.