No control

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No control
Bad Religion studio album

Publication
(s)

November 1989

Label (s) Epitaph Records

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Punk rock

Title (number)

15th

running time

26:25

production

Bad religion

Studio (s)

Westbeach recorders

chronology
Suffer
(1988)
No control Against The Grain
(1990)

No Control is the fourth album by the Californian punk rock band Bad Religion and was released in November 1989 on Epitaph Records .

Emergence

Was recorded no control in June 1989 in the recording studio Westbeach Recorders in Hollywood . During the recording, the later single 21st Century (Digital Boy) was created, which appeared for the first time on the follow-up album Against The Grain . Stylistically, the album is closer to hardcore punk and faster than its predecessor.

With Big Bang and You two tracks on the album for different parts of the video game series were Tony Hawk's Skateboarding used as soundtrack.

Reviews

In retrospect, the album is considered one of the best releases by the band. So wrote laut.de that it "seamlessly to the quality" of its predecessor Suffer anknüpfe that "for everything that follows on melodic punk rock was ground-breaking." In Allmusic , the album also received a positive rating of 4.5 out of 5 points.

Ingo Knollmann , singer of the Donots , chose No Control as the most influential album of his life in the 250th issue of the music magazine Visions , which asked just as many musicians about their most important albums.

Tracklist

  1. Change of Ideas (Graffin) - 0:55
  2. Big Bang (Gurewitz) - 1:42
  3. No Control (Graffin) - 1:46
  4. Sometimes I Feel Like… (Gurewitz) - 1:34
  5. Automatic Man (Gurewitz) - 1:40
  6. I Want to Conquer the World (Gurewitz) - 2:19
  7. Sanity (Gurewitz) - 2:44
  8. Henchman (Graffin) - 1:07
  9. It Must Look Pretty Appealing (Graffin) - 1:23
  10. You (Gurewitz) - 2:05
  11. Progress (Graffin) - 2:14
  12. I Want Something More (Gurewitz ) - 0:47
  13. Anxiety (Graffin) - 2:08
  14. Billy (Gurewitz) - 1:54
  15. The World Won't Stop (Graffin) - 1:57

Individual evidence

  1. Bad Religion's biography at laut.de.
  2. Review at Allmusic (English)