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Some bands survive by evolving; Bad Religion have made a career out of sticking to their guns. The twenty-year veterans remain punk laureates of the SoCal scene; The New America -- their fourteenth album, give or take a few compilations -- continues their late-Nineties tradition of mixing melody, politics and standard three-chord shifts but fine-tunes the process with some glossy production by studio wizard Todd Rundgren. Lyrically, the band is still pugnacious and hardcore, even with its catchy choruses -- ellipses in taste on lines such as "Melody is the key/It will set you free" ("A World Without Melody") are tempered by crafty anthems like the title song. Bad Religion may be founding fathers, but here's betting your parents will still hate them. That's pretty punk at any age. (RS 841)
NEVA CHONIN
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Track List
- You've Got A Chance
- It's A Long Way To The Promise Land
- A World Without Melody
- New America
- 1000 Memories
- A Streetkid Named Desire
- Whisper In Time
- Believe It
- I Love My Computer
- The Hopeless Housewife
- There Will Be A Way
- Let It Burn
- Don't Sell Me Short
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