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These are simply a few undisputed names of people who made the face of punk as information technology is today. No one can deny the impact that Bad Faith has had on the music scene since the tardily 80s. Do What You lot Desire follows the many members of Bad Faith throughout the decades cataloguing their work on an impressive resume of work. Jim Ruland has done a neat job at making you empathise the grind and decision that got Bad Religion to the
Joe Strummer, Sid Roughshod, Joey Ramone, Brett Geurwitz, Greg GraffinThese are but a few undisputed names of people who made the face of punk every bit information technology is today. No one tin deny the touch on that Bad Religion has had on the music scene since the late 80s. Do What Yous Desire follows the many members of Bad Religion throughout the decades cataloguing their work on an impressive resume of work. Jim Ruland has done a peachy job at making you understand the grind and determination that got Bad Organized religion to their status. There were many time where a lesser band would have thrown in the towel, but Bad Religion weathered the twists and turns. It's amazing that they are still relevant to music today.
I literally wouldn't exist the person that I am today if Bad Organized religion didn't exist. While I've e'er been a just casual fan, merely their influence has been strong on the music that shaped my behavior, my personality, my memories and my life since I was a teen. Jim Ruland has conspicuously and undoubtedly highlighted that legacy. As he says, their album Suffer was "a record that would mark a seismic shift in the punk rock landscape whose aftershocks can however be felt today."
For as much as I enjoyed the story of Bad Religion, Do What You Want was lacking for me. The writing style felt a little dumbed down. Bad Religion is an intelligent band, merely this book was missing that office of them. I know it wasn't written past Greg Graffin or anything, only information technology felt similar it was written past an outsider far removed from their circle. I didn't get the personality of any of the members fifty-fifty when they were talking about their toughest moments. It was missing that spark of passion.
Parts of Practice What You Want felt like reading a Wikipedia entry. It was so focused on listing who knew who or who played with who that we missing the existent stories and gems. It seems like the band has always had a weird and interesting dynamic, merely this book didn't make me feel similar I know what information technology'southward like to exist in Bad Religion. Perhaps I'grand asking as well much of it, but when I compare information technology to other bios I've read recently, at that place is a personal touch missing.
Despite that I did enjoy Do What You Want. I would only recommend it for a fan who already has some dearest of the band though. Someone who wasn't invested in the band may non find it as captivating.
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I experience very conflicted about the book. I've been listening to bad religion since I was a teenager and I really looked forward to reading the ultimate biography of my favorite band. Unfortunately the writing seems like a high schoolhouse essay, and not what I would expect from a band with such potential. Still it's a must read for bad religions fans, simply if y'all want dandy writing and amazing stories about southern Californian punk you'd be meliorate reading the NOFX book.
Amazing band, mediocre writingI feel very conflicted most the book. I've been listening to bad faith since I was a teenager and I really looked forward to reading the ultimate biography of my favorite band. Unfortunately the writing seems like a high school essay, and not what I would expect from a band with such potential. Nevertheless it'south a must read for bad religions fans, but if y'all want great writing and amazing stories about southern Californian punk yous'd be meliorate reading the NOFX book.
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I discovered BR as a 14-year-old swimming in outrage with no healthy outlets. The No Control al
"Bad Organized religion represents nothing less than the marriage of punk rock protestation and intellectual research....[their] legacy is...one that champions questioning authority, challenging dogma, and resisting easy answers. For the last forty years, Bad Faith has urged its audience to recollect for themselves, and by doing so has fabricated the world a more intelligent place, one lyric, 1 listener, at a fourth dimension." (304)I discovered BR equally a xiv-yr-old swimming in outrage with no healthy outlets. The No Control album began my half dozen-twelvemonth punk phase that evolved into listening to other bands that WERE characterized by "mindless fury, cocky-effacing debasement"(304) and those who merely cared to keep the party going. It was about finding a new community of agreeing people and finding the music that matched my inner turmoil. Listening together became that healthy outlet, and those were formative years. When I had my own kid, I put all the punk music away in favor of folk music and children's peace-promoting tunes. 20 years later, I still consider myself a punk at heart, even though my lifestyle, I figured, didn't reflect it. I haven't dropped the "punk" from my online handles, and wondered why I have held onto this for so long. I place mostly equally an "ex-punk."
I live the life of what I would've called a sellout back and so. I nourish education and applied science conferences in professional attire (with intentionally mismatching socks as my fashion of harmlessly just surely protesting my conformity), and twice I have met another educator who shared my punk history albeit on dissimilar coasts. We stayed upward all night reminiscing every bit if nosotros had been friends back then, and information technology's like meeting long-lost family. We no longer to heed to punk, but we cherish that part of ourselves. I will attempt to have something on me that communicates my experience in the punk scene in my youth, equally it's a beacon to others who shared that feel as a way to brand new connections with the kinds of people I want to know.
Reading this book made me realize that BR has been conveying on all of these years without me! I've been lilting along for the past xix days, immersing myself in punk songs (I played a track from every band mentioned, and oh, the sweet nostalgia!) feeling so comfy with myself, past and present. I've a lot to grab up on in terms of BR'southward music since 1998, but the nearly of import affair I learned is that I'chiliad still punk rock, no matter what I listen to anymore. It's non something I'm "holding onto" or trying to exist even though I'm not. It's non that I was a punk back then and a sellout now. This book reminded me that where I started, with BR, is where I still am. Greg says that BR's objective all along was to "get people to think, and reject the falsities of pseudo-science and superstition." Ya-hey! That is me. I love their lyrics, I love their mission, and I have chosen a profession in which I have the power to influence our youth to become disquisitional thinkers. I abet, I'm song, I protest, I am never satisfied with the condition quo. I may not dress the part of a teen punk rocker, but I am punk rock in the way I want to be. I practise what I want.
This biography of the ring couldn't be whatever more than well written. I learned a ton about the ring and leave with even more respect for them and a desire to catch upwardly on all of the albums I missed during my child-rearing years. But to exist honest, it was also pretty depressing despite the writer'due south attempts at ending with hope. Revisiting the lyrics from 30 and 40 years ago is an upsetting experience in that nix has changed. The relevance of the band's observations, fears, and complaints to today'south society and government is ridiculous and disturbing. In fact, things are significantly worse.
The chapter Shock and Awful is the most distressful. The chapter chronicles BR's reaction to the Iraq war afterward ix/11 and the re-election of George W. Bush. The authors claim that "most of the free world saw this for what information technology was: a shameless show of animal force by an imperialist power that needed to flex its muscles after the September 11 attacks." However, unconnected to a punk community and struggling with my commencement year of didactics and beingness a single mom of a toddler (and getting my Master's degree at the same time), I felt utterly solitary in my interpretation of events. I live in a rural part of upstate New York, but two hours from Greg Gaffin's liberal Ithaca, and could only encounter the blind support and false patriotism of conservatives, and I wondered where all the intelligent people were....they certainly weren't in congress. I felt like no one got information technology. Oh, how I wish I had been continued to BR and all its fans, listening to Empire Strikes Get-go! Anyway, about the book, the authors make statements like this:
-"In the wake of 9/11, protestation was painted as unpatriotic" (251)
-"The band's anger at the assistants was outpaced just past its incredulity that a simpleton like Bush could become elected in the start place. This was a man who, during the presidential election, couldn't remember the title of a single book he admired..."
-"To gainsay the xenophobia the assistants was cultivating...(252) and
-"On the 25th anniversary of "Fuck Armageddon..This is Hell", the state of war criminals in the White House could no longer lay claim to whatever moral loftier ground equally they...bamboozled their base into voting against its own interests with an calendar that pandered to Christian fundamentalism....their hypocrisy was out in the open up and Bad Religion was having none of information technology" (260).
These notes on the state of the Bush-league administration seen through the lens of today's Trump land is disturbing. Can all of this simply get progressively worse? Is this just a milder iteration of what's to come up despite our futile attempts at change? As I did at 14-20, I contemplated the text of this book and BR lyrics with a feeling of despair. To exist fair, the author does try to inspire you with hope, touting BR equally an influencer of modify and continuing the fight in the best way they can, via song writing, production of albums and stimulating shows, but I'1000 not buying it. RBG died last night, just to provide some context for my current mood every bit I write this review.
This book volition remind you how awesome BR is, and y'all will autumn in dearest with them all once more. Yous'll larn their whole story in the nearly entertaining manner, and your mind will exist stimulated also (as per usual with anything BR). You will hear from the band members about their intentions behind particular songs and what they had intended to achieve with each album. And y'all'll think what punk actually is and isn't if you've been out of the scene for 20 years. :) I can't recommend this volume enough to fans, and if you've been disenchanted with them because of some of their decisions you didn't support, read this to get a better understanding.
5 stars, and thanks for all the new perspectives!
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Jim's writing style is attainable and most people will detect this to exist an piece of cake read in learning the 40 year history (so far!) of an incredibly influential ring, without whom guitar music from the 80s onwards would be very different.
If I had one criticism it would be that you tin can tell Jim isn't a huge fan of the ring. It is clear that he likes the band, but a
Read this cover to cover the day it arrived. I am quite a large Bad Religion fan though... he says with more than a niggling understatement :-)Jim's writing way is attainable and well-nigh people will find this to be an piece of cake read in learning the 40 twelvemonth history (so far!) of an incredibly influential band, without whom guitar music from the 80s onwards would be very different.
If I had one criticism it would be that you can tell Jim isn't a huge fan of the band. It is clear that he likes the band, but at times I feel that he misses the things near the band that makes them so cracking. Then once more, perhaps he is more objective as a upshot, only I exercise sense that he started writing this from a very low base of operations of pre-existing knowledge.
Nevertheless, it is clearly a 'must read' for any fan of Bad Religion. I would argue it should also exist read past anyone who is interested in punk-rock and the other genres that spun off from that in the 90s, if you want to learn almost the ring that kicked all that off.
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I was a huge fan of Bad Religion in high school, but haven't really kept upwards with their work since then. I also didn't know much of their history or the history of Epitaph. Those sections of the book were the almost interesting.
Are yous a fan of Bad Religion? If and then, you'll enjoy this book. The writing leaves a little to be desired, in that location are only and then many words to describe music.I was a huge fan of Bad Religion in high school, but oasis't really kept up with their work since then. I also didn't know much of their history or the history of Epitaph. Those sections of the book were the virtually interesting.
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Even though I had lived and gone to school in Van Nuys (a few years earlier the ring members got together) and kept ties to the expanse, information technology wasn't until the Suffer anthology in 1989 or then that I heard them. Over the next thirty+ years they accept stayed on my radar even though I wouldn't say I was a diehard fan. Only I did like their music a lot. Only wanted to preface my comments on the book with
Do What You lot Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion with Jim Ruland is an enjoyable biography of the band.Even though I had lived and gone to school in Van Nuys (a few years before the band members got together) and kept ties to the area, it wasn't until the Suffer album in 1989 or so that I heard them. Over the adjacent 30+ years they have stayed on my radar even though I wouldn't say I was a diehard fan. But I did like their music a lot. Simply wanted to preface my comments on the book with this so you lot'll know where my opinions come from. Basically a coincidental fan of the band with only a cursory idea of their history.
I found this bio of the band to exist both an enjoyable read and serves to give me amend insight into their music. Nosotros, meaning me of course, and so often hear nearly musicians problems or bands breaking upwardly and reforming that nosotros tend to write off every example as self-indulgence or self-destruction. While these are certainly part of most of these events, they are simply small parts, much as they are for the majority of us when we become through life's ups and downs. Reading this gave me an appreciation for what they were trying to do, what they weren't trying to do (often just as important), and what simply happened and they reacted to.
I found the discussions of lyrics and what they were intended to convey enlightening. Just about the last thing I would call them is condescending, but then I am fairly secure in myself and don't feel similar writers explaining what they were trying to do is an insult to whatever I took from the song. I think the tone of the volume throughout was more than explanatory than blind praise. In other words, information technology read similar how most people reflect and explain their life (some subtle whitewashing simply largely honest attempts at understanding and explaining) rather than a Trumpian ode to self where every failure and misstep is blamed on someone else. But then I am not from the south or a cult member, then...
I would highly recommend this to fans of Bad Religion and/or punk, besides as most music lovers who like to know the hows and whys of an creative person'south career.
Reviewed from a copy fabricated available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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Ive been a fan of Bad Organized religion since high school so I probably am non a good unbiased source but I really enjoyed the insights into the band. They're one of those bands that is so on point that its easy to forget they existed years earlier Id even heard of them.
Its a fantastic read nigh a much beloved band.
I received a copy of this volume from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Ive been a fan of Bad Organized religion since loftier school and so I probably am not a good unbiased source but I actually enjoyed the insights into the band. They're one of those bands that is and then on indicate that its easy to forget they existed years earlier Id even heard of them.
Its a fantastic read about a much beloved ring.
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That being said, information technology was a fairly straight forward accounting of the bands long and legendary career. If you're familiar with punk likely you've heard the stories of the west coast hardcore punk revival a meg times, and at that place's far more in-depth books and documentaries about that
I tin can't think of a band that'southward been such a big role of my life, consistently, for as long as Bad Religion, and so fucking obviously when a new autobiography comes out most the bands history, it's an instant read for me.That existence said, it was a fairly straight forrard accounting of the bands long and legendary career. If you're familiar with punk likely y'all've heard the stories of the west coast hardcore punk revival a million times, and there'due south far more in-depth books and documentaries about that. Bad Religion were of course there simply they don't really add much to that story except their take, which is fairly uneventful, or maybe just not equally dramatic equally Henry Rollins or Keith Morris would recount them.
At that place'south some fun anecdotes and insight and overall it did a expert task of laying out exactly why Bad Faith is the legendary band they are. Even so, while reading it I kept wishing there was a book or documentary just about Epitaph Records, which I recollect is one of the most monumental and important music labels always, and one spawned into existence by necessity because of Bad Religion. At that place'due south nuggets of info in the book nearly unlike eras of Epitaph and I'm like "damn, that'due south interesting, that could be a whole chapter on its own." Alas, this is not that book, but probable if yous're a big enough Bad Religion fan that y'all'd read an autobiography about them, this is the volume for y'all. Of course, I'd recommend listening to all of their music, ever, so read this volume.
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Needless to say, this book was perfect for me. I needed the true crash course on everything Bad Religion: the scene they came from, the band members, the messages over time, the how tf practise you make this work while teaching at UCLA, were they really 16, and how truly epic are they? And this volume provided all that.
I do wish information technology got a niggling more personal. I nonetheless walked away with very superlative level agreement of the people in the band and their dynamic, and that lack of depth about the people involved was felt throughout.
Only still, information technology made me want to go back through the entire overwhelming catalog with a new clarity. It was also very cool to realize that I wasn't only getting the history of Bad Religion, just of the label that put out and then many of my favorite albums besides.
I loved hearing virtually the dynamics of how, for the first decade of the band, information technology was basically a side project for everyone, and then how, once they started touring regularly, they lived all over the continent. It's a strange dynamic that was intriguing to hear more than about, and clearly it produces something incredible.
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Only with this one its near more than than the writing itself. It well-nigh a band I discovered in my early teens and persisted to be a soundtrack for me, to this day. Its an interesting view of how ane band helped shape a whole civilization. Of how one bands lyrics influenced many of us and how these lyrics are st
I've never felt confident enough to write a review nigh a book i have read. Mostly because my excess isn't big enough to have decent perspective of what makes a practiced book or how i would review it.But with this 1 its most more than the writing itself. It most a ring I discovered in my early teens and persisted to be a soundtrack for me, to this day. Its an interesting view of how one band helped shape a whole culture. Of how i bands lyrics influenced many of us and how these lyrics are even so relative today. Nor is it afraid to explore the darker sides of living the life of a punk legend.
Do What You Want kept me enticed to last page and just made my love for this ring grow further, discovering more than songs and how they came to be.
If your not a fan of the genre i would still recommend this volume. The amazing journeying the long time members of this band went through is more than enough of a reason to option this one upwards.
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bad organized religion in i of my favourite bands of all time, and, with my mood the last year or two, it is the band i listened the almost this year, judging past my apple tree music stats. therefore, i am the key demographic for this book. it has a lot of history and prissy stories, but i really actually wish someone edited it meliorate. information technology west i am torn... i desire to give it v* even though it is not a 5* book just because of the sheer joy it gave me. i limited myself to but ane chapter per day so that it lasts longer.
bad religion in one of my favourite bands of all time, and, with my mood the terminal year or two, information technology is the band i listened the most this year, judging by my apple music stats. therefore, i am the key demographic for this volume. it has a lot of history and nice stories, but i really really wish someone edited it better. it would've easilly be a v* book if some parts were rewritten. i wished for more of band members imput, not just the basic history. some stories just get mentioned and never picked up (we all know brian is super healthy and rarely drinks, but the concluding thing we read about him is about him drinking himself to oblivion in jay'southward firm, never mentioning what happened after). love the story about mike's youth though, that was unexpected and fun. ...more
Simply I have so many pleasant and bright memories of listening to various albums on total blast in my room or auto, while driving around during the sweltering Southern California summers. I remember wearing my cross buster t-shirt and feeling so smug when a young man student
Bad Religion was probably one of my top 3 favorite bands while growing up as an angsty teenager. As I've gotten older, I've lost some of my punk rock sensibilities and the want to keep upwards with the bands that I used to love so much.Merely I take so many pleasant and brilliant memories of listening to diverse albums on full blast in my room or motorcar, while driving effectually during the sweltering Southern California summers. I recollect wearing my cross buster t-shirt and feeling and then smug when a fellow educatee (who went to i of these crazy mega churches) in a high school form asked "why on Earth would you lot clothing something like that?" I remember keeping a dictionary nearby to look up every third word of a song considering their wordy lyrics were then ridiculously complex.
And although some of their albums came out one-half a decade or more before I started listening to them, "Suffer", "No Control", "Against the Grain", and "Generator" were critical components in the sound rails of my teenage life.
Anyway, it's been awhile since I've given them a serious mind, so, imagine my surprise when I meet a friend add together "Practice What You Want", a biography about Bad Faith, to their reading list. A book?! Most Bad Religion?!
The book spans 40 years of the band's history, from their first do sessions inside a hot garage in the valley, to their most contempo album (Age of Unreason). (Accept they actually been at it for xl years and have something like 17 albums!? It's really unbelievable to me that these guys are pushing lx and nonetheless at it and enjoying it.)
Despite being adequately emotionless and dry (imagine reading about a history of a ring in a newspaper article), this volume was a really easy read. There'due south null scandalous or uncommonly profound within, just information technology does share interesting anecdotes from tours and recording sessions of every anthology they've put out. And hey, I definitely learned some interesting things nearly the band!
I as well constitute myself flipping back and forth between this book and then loading up Spotify in society to mind to various songs and albums that were mentioned. I forgot how skilful some of these early albums are. And I've really missed out on some of the more recent stuff. There are some expert tunes at that place.
All in all, the book provided a squeamish sense of nostalgia and even helped me rediscover some more than recent tunes from one of my all-time favorites.
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Overall though it reads similar an extended Wikipedia article. Information technology's non terribly well written and I came across a few typos. It reads easy and flows nicely but some sentences and phrasing are superfluous or just downr This is a fun read if you're a long standing Bad Faith fan such as myself. I really enjoyed hearing the whole affair specifically the parts where band members came and went. Since BR doesn't comment on a members departure information technology was interesting to see how people came and went and why.
Overall though it reads similar an extended Wikipedia article. It's not terribly well written and I came across a few typos. It reads easy and flows nicely just some sentences and phrasing are superfluous or just downright useless. Even so it was worth the four days it took me to read this. Would have been faster if I didn't take to work. ...more
On a personal level, Bad Organized religion has been such an of import part
Ruland'southward narration is well-done. He paces the narrative and tells the 40-twelvemonth history of the greatest ring on earth in a manner that focuses on the creation of the music without devolving into soap-opera or anecdotal litanies of famous friends. The dramas of the grouping are told from the members' points-of-view and those that couldn't (or wouldn't) speak on their behalf were handled tactfully, much to the chagrin of the gossip-mongers.On a personal level, Bad Religion has been such an important part of my life for so long, I can't imagine the person I'd take get without them in my life. They had their commencement rehearsal a few months earlier I was born. I get-go heard them the same twelvemonth I first asked myself what kind of person I wanted to become. I found myself reliving the years of my life as I read along with the overlapping chapters of the band's history. One of the all-time things about Bad Faith is how earnest and human they've always been despite their success. Reading through their ups and downs humanized them even more, and—similar their music has always inspired me to practice—made me reflect back on my ain decisions, regrets, triumphs and failures I've lived along the manner. Every bit the book caught up with today, a melancholy hung over me. Some day, Bad Faith volition release their terminal song and play their last bear witness. I'm not by hyperbolic to say I dread that day as much as I dread the inevitable terminal time I e'er pick upwards my kids. Merely, everything must cease, and the inevitability of that end just means nosotros have to cherish the present and gloat the history, similar all those things that leave their marks upon us.
No Bad Religion song can make your life consummate, simply more than 400 of them over xl years can certainly enrich information technology in a meaningful and profound way that I, at least, volition exist forever grateful.
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The early yea
Every bit someone else wrote hither, this is basically an extended Wikipedia entry; it won't tell you annihilation you won't already know if you're a fan of the band and have read a footling most them over the years. You'd think given the brains behind the band that something creative and interesting could have been washed in the style of NOFX's Hepatitis Bathtub or Motley Crue'south The Dirt. Only this is well-nigh as by numbers as it gets. It gets the job done but I'm left wondering what could accept been.The early on years stuff is the most interesting, and had a bit more than energy than the rote latter sections. Merely as someone who adores The Grey Race, I was sad to see so petty time spent on it. And after hearing so much nigh the New America sessions, it's pretty much glossed over bar one or two benign anecdotes. Perhaps it's because they're nice guys, merely the gloves are always on and nothing juicy really ever transpires, which I observe difficult to believe later twoscore years in a touring punk band. And I'd probably be fine with that if the stories almost the album sessions or writing process had any item to them, just even these aren't notable. Why did Greg sing songs so loftier on The Gray Race? How did Brett feel virtually the Geurwitz cracked line in the Tested version of Stranger than Fiction? Why no mention of the song Hate You by Brett and his side projection The Daredevils? Why did the various excellent b-sides get cut from the albums?
The function that best captured my feelings about the missed opportunities in this book was when Jamie joined the band late on, and he'd heard of these notorious Bad Organized religion barbeques and how Jay will probably attack you with a burn down hose if y'all prove up. And I was similar, wow, that all sounds amazing. Someone should probably put those stories in a volume ane day.
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