No Control Bad Religion

• 1 Change Of Ideas 00:55
• 2 Big Bang 01:42
• 3 No Control 01:46
• 4 Sometimes I Feel Like 01:34
• 5 Automatic Man 01:40
• 6 I Want to Conquer the World 02:17
• 7 Sanity 02:45
• 8 Henchman 01:07
• 9 It Must Look Pretty Appealing 01:22
• 10 You 02:06
• 11 Progress 02:15
• 12 I Want Something More 00:47
• 13 Anxiety 02:08
• 14 Billy 01:54
• 15 The World Won't Stop 01:58
• Total Runtime 26:16

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This HiRes re-mastered version of "No Control" comes with new art and finally allows you to hear this album the way it was meant to be heard!

"No Control" is one of the albums that helped bridge the band's more reckless earlier direction with their more focused (but just as pissed-off) '90s-era. The strength of such cuts as "Big Bang," "Automatic Man," the title track, and "I Want to Conquer the World." NO CONTROL is one of the bands best all-time albums and an archetypal blueprint for the genre. Bad Religion has been setting the standard for years; this album is yet another stone in the band?s long road to identity and style.

“'No Control' was a special record because it was our second chance to make a sophomore album, if you know what I mean,” Gurewitz tells me with a self-deprecating laugh. He’s calling from the Epitaph office in Silver Lake, situated in a house they’ve been in since long before the LA neighborhood was “cool.”

“After ‘Into The Unknown,’ which sort of sent the band into a tailspin, we were redeemed by ‘Suffer.’ So now we wanted to prove we could follow up something good with something equally good. We wanted to make a record that was better than ‘Suffer’: faster, catchier, like ‘Suffer’ on steroids; the opposite of what we had done from ‘How Could Hell…’ to ‘Into The Unknown.’ We set out to prove that we knew what was good about ourselves.”

Mission accomplished, because ‘No Control’ is a perfect punk album. Even now, ‘I Want To Conquer The World,’ ‘You’ (which would later be popularized even further by its appearance on video game 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2') and the album’s title track are never missing from a Bad Religion set list. ‘Change Of Ideas,’ ‘Big Bang,’ ‘Sanity’ and ‘Henchman’ are often rotated into a Bad Religion shows, too. None of the 15 classic songs ever hits the three-minute mark; ‘Change Of Ideas,’ which opens the album, and ‘I Want Something More’ are over before even one full minute has elapsed. Pure fury.

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Celebrating three decades of influential, thought provoking and groundbreaking punk rock, Bad Religion will release their fifteenth studio album, The Dissent of Man, on September 28. The album’s first single “The Devil in Stitches” made its debut on the world famous KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles on Tuesday and can be heard now at www.myspace.com/badreligion. Fans can preorder The Dissent of Man now at http://www.badreligionstore.com. Additionally, Bad Religion will kick off a North American tour in October with support from Bouncing Souls and Off With Their Heads. Dates are listed below.

Produced by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool), The Dissent of Man finds Bad Religion pushing the boundaries of their music as much today as they did in their formative years as a genre defining punk band. Over the course of making the album, primary songwriters Greg Graffin and Brett Gurewitz’s songwriting was informed by life changing events, with Graffin writing his forthcoming book “Anarchy Evolution” and Gurewitz embarking on parenthood again.

“These are some of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” says Gurewitz. “A few of them took me way outside my comfort zone as a writer to a place I haven’t gone since Recipe or Stranger than Fiction.”

The result is one of the band’s most forward thinking and musically varied albums ever. The Dissent of Man is not only a snapshot of the band’s personal experiences of the past years but also of their continued maturity in songwriting, capturing an array of styles ranging from blazing punk rock songs like the opener “The Day That the Earth Stalled” and “Meeting of the Minds” and classic rock-tinged cuts like “Cyanide” and “Turn Your Back on Me” to radio rock ready hits like the first single “The Devil in Stitches.” “I feel like the last couple of records have been amongst our most conservative, never straying too far from a Bad Religion sound,” adds Gurewitz. “Whereas on this one we’re taking the songs to a lot of different places, exploring our influences and trying out some new things in a way we haven’t done in years.”

The Dissent of Man is a testament to why Bad Religion has remained relevant for the better part of three decades. Already having cemented their place in history as a groundbreaking band who helped create a movement in Los Angeles with classic releases like How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Suffer, Recipe for Hate, Stranger Than Fiction and Process of Belief, Bad Religion continue to inspire and create with a unique style that continues to cross boundaries and transcends genres.

As Bad Religion wraps up their 30th anniversary, they open the next chapter of their storied career with The Dissent of Man.

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