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No Control is the fourth album (and sixth release overall) by Bad Religion, which was released on November 2, 1989 (see 1989 in music) on Epitaph Records. Like their albums up to Generator, No Control was remastered on April 6, 2004. The 1989 original version is now out of print.
Along with its predecessor Suffer, it is often considered one of the highest selling albums in the history of punk music,[1] although the album was not charted in Billboard. Many also consider it to be the seminal work of Bad Religion[2], containing "Change of Ideas", "No Control", "I Want to Conquer the World", "Big Bang" and "You", all of which are considered the band's classics and are live show staples to this day.
Stylistically, No Control is a faster album than its predecessor, owing more to hardcore punk.
[edit] Production and marketing
Around mid-to-late 1988, vocalist Greg Graffin and guitarist Brett Gurewitz began writing an "album's worth of material" and the band debuted one of the new songs, "21st Century (Digital Boy)", on October 15th of that year at a concert in Northridge, California. A video clip for this version can be seen here. After the Suffer tour ended in early 1989, Bad Religion immediately decided to commence work on their next album and entered the Westbeach Recorders studio in June of that year to record it.
[edit] Reception
- Option - "...hot, tight, and very fast arrangements..." Reflex - "...perhaps the catchiest, purest and best punk..."
- Kerrang! (p.51) - "The melodic pummeling of their best music is once again present in abundance."
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[edit] Release History
[edit] Notes/Trivia
- Track 2, "Big Bang" was featured on video game Tony Hawk's Underground.
- Track 3, "No Control" quotes James Hutton,[3] "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."[4]
- Track 4, "Sometimes I Feel Like..." was labeled as "Sometimes I Feel Like... *?!%+!*" on the disc to the original CD version.
- Track 10, "You" was featured on video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 as in-game song and as song in the video of Rodney Mullen when you completed the game.
- Track 14, "Billy" was erroneously labeled as "Bizzy" on the cassette version.
- Track 15, "The World Won't Stop" was also labeled as "The World Won't Stop Without You" on the disc to the original CD version. Also, in some software-based audio players and CD rippers that use CD lookup databases such as CDDB, "The World Won't Stop" is erroneously tagged as "The World Won't Stop Without You".
- No Control (along with Suffer) is also referenced in the song "21st Century (Digital Boy)" (from 1990's Against the Grain and 1994's Stranger Than Fiction), when frontman Greg Graffin sings "tried to tell you about no control, but now I really don't know, and then you told me how bad you had to suffer, is that really all you have to offer".
- "21st Century (Digital Boy)" was also originally recorded for this album, but did not make the final cut. It is believed that this song was left out because it sounded different from their faster sound. So "21st Century (Digital Boy)" would end up on their next album, Against the Grain.
[edit] Credits
- Eddie Schreyer – mastering
- Norman Moore – art direction
- Pierre Deauville – art direction
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