(words and music by Greg Graffin)
Against the Grain is the fifth album (and seventh release overall) by punk rock band Bad Religion released on November 23, 1990.[1] This is the last album recorded with drummer Pete Finestone who left in 1991 to concentrate with The Fishermen and was replaced by the next drummer Bobby Schayer shortly before their 6th release, Generator.
Along with the last two albums (1988’s Suffer and 1989’s No Control), Against the Grain is considered by many to be the band’s greatest album, and it contains many songs that are constantly cited as the band’s best, including “21st Century (Digital Boy)”, “Anesthesia,” “Walk Away,” and “Modern Man.”[citation needed] More than just an influentual album, Against The Grain gave many punk fans and many punk bands hope for the survival of punk in the 90s.
Like Bad Religion’s albums up to Generator, Against the Grain was remastered on April 6, 2004. The 1990 original version is now out of print.
Against the Grain also marks the 10th anniversary of Bad Religion playing together after their formation.
Some parts by G. Graffin from the book ‘is belief in God, good, bad or irrelevant?
‘Human knowledge is created by a collective of workers in all sorts of fields. Neurobiology is one of the newer fields of inquiry. When we add the data to the wealth of data from psychology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, medicine, etc. we are one step closer to answering the mystery of human life.’
Greg Graffin; ‘The intolerance of the Inquisition is, I believe, a natural outcome of traditional theology. History is the result of causes. Although we probably can’t always figure out exactly what caused certain things to happen in history, we can examine some of the dominating factors’
‘Did you know that my great grand-father, E.M. Zerr, wrote a multi-volume Bible commentary in the 1930s that is still in use in rural areas of the Midwest in a sect called Church of Christ?’
‘It seems that most people want to believe there is more meaning in the universe than actually exists. There is strong emotional drive to find meaning, wich may be “hard-wired” in our brains or a cultural universal found in all human societies perhaps. The drive leads many people to accept religion readily because theologies reassure us that indeed there is an ultimate meaning and an ultimate purpose to human life’.
‘My religion, wich is of course as yet undefined and totally unpopular, accepts morality as a set of prescribed rules that came not from an supernatural being and his mysterious wisdom, but rather came from a recognition of human behavior. We humans can recognize our own behavior and we can codify it. We are smart beings who can characterize good and bad behavior and relate it to how it makes us feel(good or bad).’
‘The facts of naturalism are too powerful for people to ignore, but they haven’t had time, or haven’t had the need to think deeply about how that conflicts with the tenets and implications of traditional theology’
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Part 10 of the DVD Documentary. Maybe the videos over, but the music? , no.
droppin dub style heavy vibes. in Puerto Rico
randomly picked the best bands ever out of my music library and yep i got bored and wasted 2 hours of my life oh well! but to be fair there aint many decent ‘top’ punk and pop punk band lists on youtube that are worth watching, because most of it is crap and poser and fake . 
Out of all of the Southern Californian hardcore punk bands of the early ’80s, Bad Religion stayed around the longest. For over a decade, they retained their underground credibility without turning out a series of indistinguishable records that all sound the same. Instead, the band refined their attack, adding inflections of psychedelia, heavy metal, and hard rock along the way, as well as a considerable dose of melody. Between their 1982 debut and their first major-label record, 1993’s …
The Bad Brains was an influential hardcore punk band from Washington DC 
My favourite 15 punk rock bands.
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