I think it's understated just how much of an impact Brooks had on the band. His incredible drumming took them to a whole new level, in my opinion a level that will never be achieved by other bands in the genre.
@@kylehegedus5498Brooks Wackerman was so good in Bad Religion, he should of been the new replacement drummer for the Foo Fighters since Taylor Hawkins passing
This is probably not very popular but imo No Substance and New America were pretty good albums too, just very different from their usual sound. They sound more like classic rock than punk to be honest, but that's not a bad thing.
My brother, I am SO picky witch channels who cover topics like this. And you did such a damn good job with this video. This is my first time seeing one and what a great band to start with too. I'm grabbing a sub right now. Thanks for putting the work into this and doing such a fine job.
Process is my favorite clean produced album they have ever done. Did a college level paper on the song Kyoto Now and the long tradition of protest songs. Also you could feel that they were glad to be back together in new ways.
This album was like a nuclear bomb for me in high school. I was already getting deep into punk rock and this just solidified everything I loved about punk rock and I never looked back.
Dont forget Milo from Descendants, really smart and educated guy also, and you can always just say So Cal Punk, all that second wave of the first cousin once removed, shit was confusing and made brain hurt.
I jumped in with against the grain……..but struggle to accept that not many here are talking about their 2 greatest albums - Stranger than Fiction and The Gray Race😮
Without question one of the most important bands of the punk/pop punk genre and while I miss the talent and skill set of Brooks and Hetson, the current line up still kicks ass especially with the addition of Jamie Miller on drums 👍👍🤙🤙
There are a few disagreements I have, but this is a very well done, great and important video lesson of BAD RELIGION! You summed it up best at the end: "Meanwhile Bad Religion has managed to stay relevant for 4 fuckin decades. Bad Religion could've faded into obscurity; twice, and they dodged the bullet on that both times, and I'm thankful for that." Btw, Empire Strikes First is the best Bad Religion album I think.
Nice breakdown! Not sure my fav song F U and Dearly Beloved spring to mind (now). Bad Religion, Descendants and Lagwagon have been in my rotation for so long it could be fused to my DNA.
Yup. “Do What You Want” implies that he kinda decided that he accomplished as much as he wanted with the band. Who knows what happens if he never gets hurt.
what are you basing their "return" on? Everything they brought out between suffer and Process of belief was great, with the exception that im not a big fan of generator or The New America but new mapps of hell was great too.
I don't know why, but to me StF always sounded like a fully fledged BR album on the same level as the previous 5. Maybe because I literally did not realize a main guy was missing or that they had switched labels, I just listened the tunes.
I got started on No Substance which was a revelation for teenage me. Got StF next and still love that record. The Handshake, Leave Mine To Me, Tiny Voices (aka Bad Religions take on the Eye of the Tiger riff), the title track and Markovian Process are still amazingly good tunes. The Grey Race is a killed album. I only found the band started to get stale on The New America. So, the Process of Belief was a breath of fresh air after that. But apart from TNA I really like the Gurewitz-less era. Now on the flip side, I think most of what they put out post New Maps of Hell seems kind of meh. But up to then, oh boy were the good.
@@jonaskrainbring487 All Ages was my entry point, so between StF and Gray Race. I absolutely loved (and still do) everything from Suffer to No Substance, when I listen to these I might skip 1-2 songs per album at most. I don't really listen to New America at all. From Process of Belief and onwards my preferred way of listening is a playlist with the best 1-3 songs from each album on shuffle. It seems like the main difference between us is that you like Process, Empire and Maps more than me, these all fall into the "kind of meh" category here. Otherwise very similar take.
Great video! Funny and accurate. Do more! Rancid would be interesting starting with Op Ivy. I have always felt their self titled ‘93 is by far their best and is the only one I really listen to to this day.
Great video, man. Process is a top ten all-time record. I know it's punk rock heresy, but I think it's better than suffer (mainly because Brooks really seemed like he was trying to prove himself on this record).
@@ThePunkAughts hilariously Recipe for Hate is "my" bad religion album because that's the first one I heard. But I do genuinely think prices is their best work and suffer is their most important.
6:50 - 7:10 Um what? Stranger than Fiction, The Gray Race, No Substance and The New America were some of the band's BEST records. The New America is my 4th favorite of their discography. They cover ALL the bases in that record and it contains EASILY the best breakup song ever, 1000 Memories. I remember my first gf dumping me around the time that record dropped and damn, it hit like a train. To this day I'll argue that The New America is better than Process. To me Process is probably 7th on my list of favorite Bad Religion records, but damn, they are all fantastic in their own right. The only record of the band that I openly dislike was probably 2010's The Dissent of Man. And it's only a couple of songs (Where The Fun is, Turn Your Back on me, I Won't Say Anything) that just drag the record down.
@@SquabbleBoxHQ People can also have their own ideas of whats good and not. Bad Religion is the most overrated mundane to listen to punk band ever. Their love of pc culture imo revokes their punk card as well, cuckery at the highest level.
