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Bad Religion/Suffer/1988/hardcore/Los Angeles, C.A.



Group of Los Angeles 20-somethings get into fistfight with a Merriam-Webster's anthology.

That's one reason to like this album. The band members behind this album read lot of science fiction and thus, knew a lot of words.

Imagine, an album that never slows down, never relents in its attack, with such eloquently placed lyrics as

"I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea
Without direction or a reason to exist
The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain
Is persuading me, contritely, to persist"

Off the song 'Delirium of Disorder," which is probably the fastest song on here. Oh man. This album does zoom by with 15 tracks in 26 minutes. the longest being two minutes and fort-four seconds.

So, this is an intelligent album talking about the perils of 1980s america and Los Angeles at large. Its got hard hitting lyrics to match the breakneck speed.

This album, along with a few others of the time were the catalyst for the early-mid 90s punk explosion with Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, etc.

This is a fantastic album, from a band who's previous work, 1983's Into the Unknown sounded like arena rock and actually had a synth. It has some serious anthems on here, such as on "1,000 More Fools", Greg Graffin(im:https://imgur.com/a/ojXhHwU) plainly states:

"Brother, you'd better get down on your knees and pay
1000 more fools are being born every fucking day"

And yeah, like if you hate people, this is awesome. I know I do. This band has been around for 30 years; another essential album that covers a lot of albums and a lot of ground from the late 80s-mid 00s, the bands peak is the All Ages anthology.