Bad Religion - Into the Unknown | A 2 Bois, 1 Brain Cell Album React!

[@tim.kaiser_aka_timmaay]

I love the rollercoaster of this reaction from the start! That pretty much sums up this album/EP.

[@martynw377]

They played The Dichotomy and an awesome version of It's Only Over When You give up on their Decades specials. So cool to hear thosw tunes with a much more refined sound and Greg's older voice

[@joemiller7082]

I heard an interview on the Turned Out a Punk podcast that Jawbreaker used to cover Chasing the Wild Goose live sometimes. Lol. By the time I first heard this, late 90s maybe, I already heard it was weird, but I still couldn’t listen to it. Now I get a good chuckle out of it😅

[@joemiller7082]

I heard an interview on the Turned Out a Punk podcast that Jawbreaker used to cover Chasing the Wild Goose live sometimes. Lol.

[@LongGone77]

I think a lot of the negative hype surrounding the legend of this record was due largely in part to the band member's themselves. Their own public reactions seem to be of embarrassment and regret, and that feeds into a lot of fan's preconceived biases. It's not THAT bad. It's obviously a huge change in direction from their first album, but imo they deserve a fair bit of credit for taking such a chance during a time period where a lot of bands were just doing the fast-and-faster formula of hardcore and LA punk. My personal fav BR record is "How Can Hell Be Any Worse", but they didn't need to follow that up with another album that sounded exactly the same. Not perfect by any means, but "Into the Unknown" is a really interesting record from a band whose eventual formula (which you can begin hearing with "Back to the Known" EP and perfected with higher production values by Suffer) was copied by countless bands after.

[@bpogueg2]

Chucks reaction when Joel mispronounced ‘Dichotomy’ is priceless. 😂

[@skapunker21]

you gotta remember that these were still kids at this time. they made their first album when they were 17-18 years old. this album is is pretty much their interpretation of the music they grew up with in the late 60-s through the 70's - jackson browne, rush, a lot of synthesizer in there, prog rock etc. as an album, it's not terrible. but, it doesn't sound like bad religion. to me it sounds like they made an album to say to their parents "hey, we made an album and it sounds kind of similar to the albums that you own."

[@Eyedunno]

My hot take is that this album is a step forward from their first album in terms of songwriting, performance, and recording. Brett Gurewitz has called it a misstep, which is fair, but that doesn't mean it's a bad album; it was just perhaps naive to think that people who liked their first album would like this one. (It's kind of fun to think about what a weird band Bad Religion would have become if this album had found an audience though. I mean, they're already kind of a weird band in terms of how over-the-top their studio overdubs are.)