I got off the Bad Religion bus a few years ago, after the release of their tepid "No Substance" album. They were still among my Desert Island bands at the time, and on the strength of all of their albums from "No Control" to "The Gray Race" ("Recipe for Hate" excluded, of course), there's still a fondness that I hold for their music.
I had hoped - in vain, as it turns out - that the band's politics had taken a Dennis Miller-like shift rightward in the years since 9/11. Alas, it's not to be, as their most recent album, 2004's "The Empire Strikes First," is a scathing rebuke of President Bush and the neocon cabal supposedly pulling the strings in our country. I don't know why I expected any different.
On the other hand, the music tears ass. For me, it's worth overlooking the message, because TESF is definitely their best record since "Stranger Than Fiction."
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