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Do you know about the underrated, mostly forgotten about prog album hiding in a punk band’s discography?
After bursting onto the scene in 1982 with their album How Could Hell be Any Worth, socal punk band Bad Religion decided to make a prog album because, as they put it “they didn’t think the punk scene was going to last”.
So Bad Religion made Into the Unknown.
If you didn’t know that they had a prog album in their discography, you’re probably not alone. It is one of those lost albums that basically doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist on Spotify. It doesn’t exist on CD. It pretty much only exists on YouTube, and only because they haven’t taken it down yet.
The band hated it.
Yeah, it’s not a punk album. But it kind of makes sense, lead guitarist Bret Gurewitz’s label, Epitaph was named after a King Crimson song.
Yeah, the tempos are moderate, the guitars are almost jangly at times, it’s a little more introspective lyrically, a little less about the dangers of the excesses of capitalism, but they’re their too, just under the surface a little bit. It’s just a prog album made by a punk band who were convinced that the punk scene wouldn’t last.
So they added a bunch of electric keys and organ, made a 7-minute, four part prog song called Time and Disregard, got an epic drum sound that reminds me of ELO’s Time and then disavowed the whole thing. It’s a spacey weird fusion of prog, along with punkish gang harmony vocals. It’s closer to Yes than Dead Kennedys.
In 1985 they released an EP called Back to the Known, basically signifying that they wanted nothing to do with the album and never looked back, sticking to their punky sound in all subsequent albums.
They’ve only played a few songs from the album sparingly over the years.
But it’s definitely worth seeking out, even if you have to listen to a crappy YouTube rip.
Or if you’re really feeling nuts, buy the 15 album complete Bad Religion retrospective or pony up $250 dollars for it on Discogs (what a steal!).
Hopefully, someday when the band grows up, they’ll realize how cool the album is and finally get it remastered, or at least added to streaming.
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As a progger, I’ve known about it since a former coworker at a record store turned me onto the album. “Billy Gnosis” is a great tune and l enjoy the whole record, although it’s a huge outlier in their otherwise outstanding oeuvre.
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Holy shit, I just listened to it because of this little YT short, and I actually loved it! Thanks Joe! hehe 🤗💯
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You're talking Bad Religion and now you're just making me so fucking happy :)
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Great to have this geeky gem mentioned. A ranking of these legends would be amazing.
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My number one band on Spotify. I knew about it. Yeah, I know that I have to YouTube it though. Haven't listened to it in a while. I was busy trying to up my Spotify stats. However, I have been checking up the Tony Martin Sabbath albums since they're also not on Spotify. Sodom's best album Agent Orange isn't even up there as well. I'm hoping to get to Bad Religion's prog album, but I've been busy with school.
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Finally!
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I used to have it on vinyl. Very interesting album.
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Woah.. put this guy in clown makeup and think of “house of 1000 corpses”
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@echosmyron1278
9 months ago
I think this is the first time that Bad Religion has been mentioned on this channel (by a host, at least), but it’s unfortunately for what is likely their worst album. I will say that I think the album cover is kind of cool - in a cheesy, nostalgic 80s way - but there’s nothing on there truly worth revisiting. Most of the band members weren’t even in their twenties when it was recorded, so it was a tall order to make a prog album at that point in their lives. Despite not being a huge fan of Bad Religion, I own every album of theirs (2 on CD, 14 digitally) except for Into the Unknown. It’s available on a vinyl set called “30 Years of Bad Religion,” if anyone cares to hunt it down. Their third album, Suffer, released six years later, began a fantastic four-album streak that’s one of the defining landmarks of melodic skatepunk in the late 80s/early 90s. Plus, you can listen to Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, and Generator in less than two hours.
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