Bad Religion - Bad Religion

This first, self-produced release from legendary Southern Californian punk band Bad Religion is a mere nine minutes in length, with pretty poor sound quality, but is still enough to introduce the beginnings of the so-called So-Cal sound. Guitarist Brett Gurewitz, later producer of major punk rock label Epitaph, doesn't really get a chance to display his talents in these very short songs, which tend to be less than a minute and a half in length if you do the math(s), but each one is distinguished by a distinctive riff and vocal melody from Greg Graffin... if very little else. Only 'Drastic Actions' can boast the epic duration of two and a half minutes (get ...  Read the complete review