No Control

Bad Religion - No Control

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Artist: Bad Religion
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Music Label: Epitaph / Ada
Soundtracks:
  1. Change of Ideas
  2. Big Bang
  3. No Control
  4. Sometimes I Feel Like
  5. Automatic Man
  6. I Want to Conquer the World
  7. Sanity
  8. Henchman
  9. It Must Look Pretty Appealing
  10. You
  11. Progress
  12. I Want Something More
  13. Anxiety
  14. Billy
  15. World Won't Stop

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Music Review: Well...What's HERE Is Good, Anyway
Rating: 4 Stars

You know, I really do like Bad Religion. I really do. Though they have a tendency to overreach themselves a little in their lyrical choices (I'm convinced that it's all in an effort to sound smart, but that's not really the point), they have managed to be one of the most consistently good punk acts for twenty years now. No Control features the group arguably at their peak. Certainly, nobody will ever convince me that they've recorded a BETTER song than Big Bang, though they've equaled the effort. When it comes to recommending that somebody spend between ten and fifteen dollars on this piece of plastic, however, I have a couple of reservations that I should put down here as warning.

To start, for those not in the know, Bad Religion is, as mentioned before, a punk rock band, pretty typical of the sound you can expect. If you're a more mainstream music fan who's just wondered here out of curiosity, another person who'd never heard them before compared them to The Offspring, but, you know, better, and not as irreverent (or as gimmicky). This record in particular is more oriented toward the hardcore punk scene than their previous outing (the also-much-ballyhooed Suffer), at least according to the Wikipedia entry, which should imply "faster and louder." If you're okay with that, there's a pretty good chance that you'll like the CD. If you're not, I'd advise you to steer clear. This is pretty far from a mainstream pop rock record, though a couple of the more radio-friendly numbers (like the aforementioned Big Bang) might still appeal. For established Bad Religion fans or people just starting with the group, you either have this record or you should.

But, on to my problems, and it all boils down to how much music has been put on the disc in the first place. There's not much. The album length is somewhere in the 20s of minutes. For $10+, I kind of expect a little bit more than that. The sad thing is that this is really a problem that could have been easily remedied. In country music right now, there's a couple of labels that have taken to going back through the older LPs for their established artists (Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash and whatnot), pulling out two of them, and pressing them onto a single CD. Bad Religion and their various publishers need to learn from that. No Control is a masterful album, but a distressingly short one, and that's damaging to its value. Were this paired with, for example, Suffer (as I have done - and you still end up well under the 1 hour mark, so I could probably have shoved another half an album on there if I were just trying to maximize storage), I could recommend this CD to anybody who's down with the music.

As it stands, I downloaded this from eMusic. I'm not a big fan of digital downloading - I prefer to get my music in as uncompressed a medium as possible, and downloaded MP3s do not offer you any uncompressed format - but I just cannot justify recommending that anybody pay for a record this short unless that person is a true die-hard fan. It's not that I dislike the music at all, but that I think you ought to be able to get it at a better value. Certainly, if the return on investment doesn't bother you, I would unconditionally recommend purchase, but I'd politely suggest to the band that it might be a good idea to look into maybe double-packing some of its older catalog to cut new and incoming fans a break.

EDIT 9/17/2007: Well, now it would appear that Epitaph has seen fit to discontinue their relationship with eMusic, so your opportunity to download this at a reasonable discount is gone. I'm not feeling particularly generous to them as a company, given the decision, so I'm tempted not to recommend buying it on CD, but if you are a dedicated fan of punk rock, it's probably still worth your money.
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