Greg Graffin (vocalista do Bad Religion), em uma de suas melhores performances, mostrando tudo que sabe e um pouco a mais... XXXX retirado do Live at The Palladium XXXX
Bad Religion was my uncs favourite band in the world, he even had a bad religion flag over his casket. This song makes me cry and smile simentaneously everytime. If you got someone battling addiction and mental illness, try spending as much time and truly appreciate them, listen to them, talk to them. Engage yourself and invest in them, sometimes the most disturbed minds are brilliant just misunderstood. Rock in Peace Erik❤️
Brings tears to my eyes every time. I'm 27 at the moment, been listening to Bad Religion since I was 13. So Greg's voice accompanied me through more than half of my lifetime. Pure magic.
I think The Grey Race is a highly underrated album. It's the first album on which Graffin didn't have Brett's songwriting skills to complement his own. Greg basically wrote the entire album alone (though Baker is credited as co-writer on a few tracks), yet it's incredibly powerful. So glad Brett's back though...best songwriting duo since Lennon/McCartney IMO. I love the fact that this album ends w/ this song..."Everything must...". Perfect.
One of their best I think, at least the best out of those that they released on Atlantic. Stranger Than Fiction was released on that label, but I think that this album is better.
I do have the American Lesion album (and I love it) but... I really wish Greg would make a whole acoustic album (maybe a 2 CD set even) of classic Bad Religion songs. There would be so many perfect songs for that! "Shades of Truth", "Parallel", "Victory", "Finite", "Streets of America", "Victims of the Revolution", "The Voracious March of Godliness", "Hello Cruel World", "In So Many Ways", "Generator", "The Answer", "Struck a Nerve", ......
The last album I bought was No Substance. I thought it was really really bad and I havent bought a Bad Religion album in the last 20 years. But no doubt I love the other ones from the 80s and 90s. All of them. Looking back I find it strange that a 14 year old me was able to realize how bad No Substance was. Even back then I could see how much they sold out.
There isn't anything as an almost 30-year old man that brings me to tears, but this song does. This song shows how versatile Graffin is and everything about it is perfect.
BEST LYRICS EVER. and the Voice really brings out the HEART of the song. Grave memorial, hewn white stone. Like a comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known. It evokes such pain and significance. what was oncem is reduced to rememberance and the generations pass without recompense.
xLevante dude if you lived in LA area or were at least 15 in 2004, then you had no excuse not to be there lol. I lived (and still do) in Orange County and me and my buddy most definitely did go. Want to know the best part? Tickets were normal price because they didn’t make a big deal about recording the two shows at the Paladium... My roommate is in this video and I’m in the “God’s love” video. Cool fact I was also in the Deadbolt video for Thrice at Chain Reaction (Anaheim Nov 2002). I miss being a kid haha..
wow greg is such an amazing song writer, if you ever actualy take the time to read some of his lyrics, they go over alot of stereotypical "punks" heads, his message and lyrics have an educated and intelligent reasoning behind them.
So weird to me. I googled this song to hear it, and I ended up seeing myself and my wife in the video. We didn't know they were filming until we got there.
I love how the crowd sings along and stays relatively quiet for the song. A true sign of respect when you can go way out of genre like this and your fans love you for it. Reminds me of when Mike McColgan(Street Dogs) just starts talking for 15 mins in the middle of a live show. Everyone shuts the fuck up and listens.
Greg is a highly intelligent man who used to be a professor and has a Phd, so its no surprise that his music and lyrics appeal to the more intelligent crowd. I have been a fan since I was 14, m 43 now, and I still love BR as much as did back then.
[Verse 1] Blacktop pavement cover me Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller spreading randomly There's a distant buzz at low frequency It tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet And it shakes the leaves off of every tree violently [Chorus] What pretension! Everlasting peace Everything must cease [Verse 2] Institution on the Hill Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to ignite a people's will There's a shadowed stain on the west facade It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud And the descendants find it oh, so odd [Chorus] [Verse 3] Grave memorial, hewn white stone Like the comforting caress of a mother Or a friend you've always known It evokes such pain and significance What was once is reduced to remembrance And the generations pass without recompense
Not sure how rebellious it is to be addicted, because then you can't change much. Not to say that every other punk band is made up by junkies, but you get the point.
i really love to see that musical growing he's lirycs rocks and he has one of the deepest voices in punk rock !but now that i see him on the piano like that i think he is a full musician!!
I absolutely love Bad Religion and when I saw Greg play this song on piano I lost my mind! Such a good song and it fits so well being played on the piano! Does anyone know where I can download this piano version?!
one of the greatest minds in united states history .... just hope i will be as great a warrior as his words are great ... i'll continue my artwork ... maybe my art will awaken others .... but when my art fails to awaken society ... i will lead an army to fight for freedom... once again.... hope for peace ... prepare for war
I hope this song last through the upcoming centuries and beyond and maybe before mankind sees its own end someone, somewhere out there will listen to this and understand that everything must cease!!!!
This has got to be the coolest song live ever. I mean, Generator's good because Greg always messes with the audience XD, but Cease goes from punk to beautiful. Whoo!
