Listening to Bad Religion's 1982 debut , How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, is like cupping your ear against the garage door of their practice space. Greg Graffin's vocal style isn't fully formed here, nor is his lyrical agenda, but the building blocks are significant and affecting, bigger than piles of collapsed cathedrals. Indeed, Voice of God Is Government begins with a caustic caricature of the money-grubbing preacher, who assures that donations will be used to censor TV and radio, ban questionable books, a...   [ read more ]

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Rock 'em, sock 'em punk rock always has a place when it's got the hooks, and hot guitar lines that So-Cal bands have been famous for since, oh, The Adolescents, Mommy's Little Monster, Milo Goes to College, and How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Recorded at the now legendary West Beach Recorders, and flawlessly mixed by THOM WILSON (the man responsible for so many of the those great early '80s L.A. punk LPs), this L.A. four have got the sound, the hyped-up moxie, the tunes, and the lyrics to make this stuff soun...   [ read more ]

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This 2004 version of Bad Religion's 1982 debut takes the place of 80-85, which had previously accounted for the group's earliest output. Fully remastered (as Epitaph has done for a bulk of early BR releases), the set includes the first LP's full track listing, as well as the first three EPs. The expanded booklet features a full lyric sheet, reprints of the EP cover art, and a great photo collage that's as informative a scene history as any wordy liner retrospective would be. The energy in those...   [ read more ]

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