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Bad ReligionBad Religion: Live at the Palladium DVDLive at the Palladium DVD (2006)Bad Religion Reviewer Rating: 4.5 User Rating: Contributed by: Phantom_MaggotPhantom_Maggot (others by this writer | submit your own) I don't care what anyone says, I love Bad Religion. They honestly have changed my life. Ever since I first heard "Infected" in 5th grade I have been hooked. The harmonies, guitar solos, and lyrics (when I was studying for my GRE test, I knew the definitions of five or six vocabulary words like sagac.
I don't care what anyone says, I love Bad Religion. They honestly have changed my life. Ever since I first heard "Infected" in 5th grade I have been hooked. The harmonies, guitar solos, and lyrics (when I was studying for my GRE test, I knew the definitions of five or six vocabulary words like sagacious and misanthropic simply because I had listened to Bad Religion and I worship Greg Graffin) have always made them stand out above any other modern day punk band in my mind. During their 20-plus-year career, Bad Religion have created a sound and style all their own, which has influenced almost any punk band that you listen to today. I have seen them live 7 times including November 21st, 2004, live at the Hollywood Palladium, the second night taped for their Bad Religion: Live at the Palladium DVD. I have to say that night at the Palladium was the worst time I had seen Bad Religion. The band played flawlessly, but there was a huge barricade between the crowd and the band, and a huge barricade down the middle of the huge venue for a camera on a crane, plus insanely tight security. That night the band and crowd gave it their all, but to me the show felt like what it was: staged for a DVD. Nevertheless, I was out on March 17th buying my copy of Live at the Palladium and seeing how the show I went to turned out on video.
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cause they like to trade off solos and they have tight rythmn. to the guy who complains about the stereo and mono (by the way, no idea what you mean by that) mixing, the dvd has no stereo track, its your dvd player who automatically is downmixing the 5.1 track. nevertheless i dont understand how they didnt add an additional stereo track, like many live dvds have, cause it would result in a better sound for everybody. i am listening to it with my 5.1 receiver, and i think the sound is fine, well the guitars could be a little louder and harder. Great picture, insightful commentary, good history, horrible sound. It doesn't even sound like they have three guitarists. "the goal of everything is to make money" Punk started in reaction to corporate labels and bloated arena rock. Punk was a way for kids who couldn't play like Emerson, Lake and Palmer to be able to start something of their own. Isn't that anti-corporate? The '77 bands that made it really big are still "un-sell-able" because: Tell you the truth, I enjoyed the DVD....however the stereo mix is pretty brutal. I haven't listened to the 5.1 surround mix yet, but the stereo and mono mixes are pretty bad. They didn't mic Hetson's cabinet, which is quite comically noticable (if you don't believe me, find the section of the DVD where Graffin introduces Hetson, and Hetson begins one of the songs [I forget which one]---but you can hear that his guitar isn't miced and is being picked up by some of the other stage mics, which sounds...weird). and the whole 'pretentious' debate is so fucking stupid... Using a word like 'pretentious' is pretentious in itself. so you're all pretentious hypocrite douchebags. once again, those sellout bands have very little to do with the punk scene. i love green day and i will always find their albums fun to listen to, but I know they are not directly involved with the modern punk scene in any way. "most pretentious lyrics ever?" BR can do know wrong look around the country, an abundance you'll find I really hope that this new band Bad Religion gets some mainstreem success like that band Green Day has gotten in the past year. I think that they're debut American Idiot kicked ass. I've had it in the CD player of my moms volvo since last october. So anyone whos been hating on these rookies BR just let them keep at it and try to get a fan base. teh whole warped tour crowd has seemed to change this band for the worse. They're last few releases have really sucked. They're live shows are lacking intensity and energy. What happened to Bad Religion being Punk. either tehy stop making music or get of VH1. The Grey Race is better than Stranger Than FIction. Discuss. The Grey Race is better than Stranger Than FIction. Discuss. Since when has punks history shown it to be "un-sell-able"? The media coined the term punk rock and the Sex Pistols, Clash, and Buzzcocks were huge. FuckYouOiOiOi, how old are you, exactly? Do you expect me to believe that you're really sooo much older, wiser, and more punk than I am? Listen: I'm not punk. At all. Okay? I just think exploiting anything for profit is not cool. The fact that TV shows have commercials in them REALLY bothers me. Same w/ preview before movies, or corporate sponsorships for community theaters, etc. Punk rock is something that has a history of being "un-sell-able", but obviously that's not true anymore. And I really do like Bad Religion...as well as other poppy or major-label stuff. Elvis Costello, Toots & the Maytals, New Pornographers, Screeching Weasel, Bauhaus, Hank Williams, Woody/Arlo Guthrie....(Still not bragging) coolllll thats what i heard I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but Tim from Rise Against does the rap on "Let them eat war".... Bad religion was superb the two times i saw them in 04. thank you feeding5000 for proving that you just got into punk a year ago and have never been to a diy show (or any show for that matter). good charlotte and simple plan are not part of the punk scene, and therefore, cannot destroy it. so to blame an amazing band thats been around for over 25 years and defined the modern punk sound for the shit you see on mtv is so stupid. "I like Bad Religion ALOT, they introduced me to Punk Rock...my only problem now is that I can't get into the music like I used to. It's no fault of them.....just many of their "Fans". Their shows are so full of morons and knuckleheads nowadays that the real intensity of it is lost. It's hard to get into music when you're surrounded by a bunch of knuckleheads who only know the band from playing Tony Hawk or same lame shit." I like Bad Religion ALOT, they introduced me to Punk Rock...my only problem now is that I can't get into the music like I used to. It's no fault of them.....just many of their "Fans". Their shows are so full of morons and knuckleheads nowadays that the real intensity of it is lost. It's hard to get into music when you're surrounded by a bunch of knuckleheads who only know the band from playing Tony Hawk or same lame shit. and the award for "Most Overused Word @ the Org" goes to..... Having an IQ above 60 is pretentious. damn, if that was Mr Brett posting below, Rock on BUDDY! No Substance is awesome, Glad to see it getting some love. to add to my last comment, it would have been cool for them to represent each album with at least one song. like what about "dont sell me short" or "you've got a chance" from new america. all in all great dvd though. i agree,no substance is very underrated. i too was dissapointed that no songs from it were on the dvd. they could have played "in so many ways" at the very least. i was somewhat disappointed that there was nothing from No Substance on here. suffer...dissapointing?? "I bought 'Suffer' about three years ago and every song sounds like the 'King Of The Hill' theme tune with "whoa"s in. Disappointing." bad religion is anything but pretentious, fuckin douche. its not their fault you cant understand what they are expressing. you know thesaurus core is a term that was coined in a bad religion press release years ago (because besides themselves, their was no such genre) so to use it as an insult against them is pretty silly, and confusing. Graffin has a PhD in evolution/biology from Cornell(correct me if i'm wrong on that) so he's obviously an intelligent guy. So maybe the level of vocabulary he uses in his songs is fitting based on the field of work he's from? Or is it still a strike against him regardless since educated and learned people don't belong in punk rock? Dude, your comments below said it all. BRAVO! I agree with Scruffy. If you seriously think that How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is better than anything post '88, you're hopeless. Seriously. I talk a lot of crap on here, but it's mostly because I'm bored. I'm serious here. "Hey, I'll come up with some words that are multisyllabic and that rhyme. And from there you can make a Bad Religion song:" Bad Religion was an OK band in 1982, and they steadily went downhill from there. By the mid-1990s they were the standard bearers for the thesarus core movement. Face it, Bad Religion's silly, pretentious lyrics rank up there with Kansas and Rush: existentialism for 12 year olds. And these guys are like45 years old now. Not that being old means you can't make good music -- BUT BAD RELIGION CAN'T MAKE GOOD MUSIC. Their trite shit just gets more and more trite and shitty. Don't forget the Descendents! They did the whole pop-punk thing years before most bands! I bought 'Suffer' about three years ago and every song sounds like the 'King Of The Hill' theme tune with "whoa"s in. Disappointing. "Fallingupwards84 are you really a high school teacher?" does anyone else notice noise fluctuations while watching the dvd? cuz i do. but someone said thats cuz i watched it on my computer, which is how i do watch dvds. so if i watch it on a regular dvd does that mean the volume levels wont go up and down??? I think the only problem with this Bad Religion DVD is that they have so many great songs that they could release two or three DVD's with totally different set-lists and you'd still be able to find songs that they left out that you'd want to hear. To blame a band for sounding the way they naturally do is asinine." JOEG Damn you mr brett with your weird look in the DVD kind of like noodles from the offspring by george, I think we have the next Will in training.... Thanks to someone for doing a "...I thought this was PUNKnews..." comment. That just restored my faith in the general stupidity of, like, everyone. I have to say, first off, that BR is one of my top 3 all-time favorite bands. I have 6 of their albums (no, I'm not bragging), and I LOVE each and every one. However, BR is pretty much responsible for the whole crappy major label pop-punk boom, as well as the crappy Warped Tour-type bands. By taking the basic hardcore sound and making it more palatable, they brought punk to...the bands that brought punk to the masses. If not for the success of Suffer, I don't think that Green Day could have "broken" punk. Now Mr. Brett thinks that being successful gives him the right to ruin punk. Look at Epitaph's latest stuff: Matchbook Romance, Escape the Fate, Motion City Soundtrack. This is the kind of made-for MTV2 fashion concious pop-rock that is making punk "good business". But, come on! "Punk belongs to the punks, not the businessmen. They need us, we don't need them, punk will never be dead!" Those words are still true after 20 or so years. We DON'T need them. Best Buy offers low prices on the BR DVD: It's also running independent record stores out of business. Epitaph bands appear on the Warped Tour, sponsored by companies like Sony and Circuit City, who just HAPPEN to want to sell "punk rock" CDs, video games, and TVs to a "punk rock" fanbase of rich white teenagers. Brett may not be a greedy person, but when you start a company, it takes on a life of its own. If Epitaph continues after Brett "retires", then what will it be? Just another corporate entity, out for more of your money. I like 80-85 a lot...it's just a very different kind of BR sound. In the `80, clip the band looks like what it was: a bunch of teenage punks pounding through their 3-song set with Graffin doing much more screaming than singing and Jay Bentley standing incredibly stoic (compared to his now lively stage performance I thought No Substance was bad, Grey Race was decent, and New America was really good. In the interviews they called the period without Brett "the dark years" but to me that seems like Greg just trying not to piss off Brett. Fallingupwards84 are you really a high school teacher? good review, the editing and authoring of the concert/interview mix is poor, doesnt do justice to the music and visual quality. do you think they added back up vocals to the show? like in a studio then edited it into the sound mix of the dvd. i mean, im not doubting their ability to do it that good live, but its just a thought i had. this should be 10 stars No multiple angles? I am a drummer who bought the DVD for one purpose. To watch Brooks play. The Vandals DVD has a Josh cam, which is the best thing ever for drummers. I'll have to say I was VERY disappointed that there was no angle function on this DVD. Overall the editing was poor at best. The interviews were great and made the DVD worthwhile. if you don't think "the show must go off" stuff is edited you are fooling yourself. why does Skiba pull away from the mic in the Alk3 one and you can still hear the vocals just as loud? or watch Warren from the vandals play guitar and listen to the solo on "albacore." they don't match at all. picked it up, it's awesome. Thanks BR. "Does this have 'in so many ways on it' I love that song and have never seen them play it." Well..havent seen the DVD yet but, how can any one on this site say that "BAD RELIGION" is not one of the best punk bands of all time! i thought this was PUNKNEWS, not EMO-NEWS....Thats all i gotta say bout that. "its the venue who sets the prices" Does this have 'in so many ways on it' I love that song and have never seen them play it. great dvd...long as hell...last time i saw them live i paid Last time BR played here it was a 21 and over show with ticket prices of $55 or "VIP tickets that included a table close to the stage and bottle service for four" that were like $130. At the risk of sounding like Will, that is everything wrong with punk rock. I'm not really an everything has to be totally diy type dude, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. I'll probably be digging Suffer, HCHBAW, and some of the others forever but there is no way I could possibly support these dudes now. This dvd is absolutley great. It's also one of the first dvds without any flaws (such as being off-synched, or the most annoying, that the first track and it's intro is 0 and not 1). So, does this have pictures or videos of Greg beating it off on a webcam? Yeah I got mine for 13.99 from Tower. It was worth it. I also forgot to mention that the sounds are synced up with the video 100% of the time. I know big chains aren't "punx", but Best Buy has this fucker on sale for $13 this week. This DVD is ficking intense...Sorrow kicks some major ass... Most pretentious band ever (lyrically)? im not gonna complain about the footage being spliced and whatnot because the "along the way" dvd is much guitier of the two. i will say that the action you do see is just to frantic and you don't see the same view for very long. excellent from what i saw. i must have it "Most pretentious band ever (lyrically)?" Good DVD if you like Bad Religion, which I do, but I'm biased. someone once told me there wasn't much a difference between yellowcard and bad religion except the lack of vocal talent. i need to get this asap. Second best live DVD I've seen. My favorite would have to be the Vandals one because the sound quality is superior on that one. Nice review. I wish I had some money to pick this up. "The most over rated punk rock band of the past 25 years. who? " I worship Greg Graffin" yea i noticed the glasses being on brett one second, and off the other. but if you dont focus on it much it doesnt really fuck up the viewing experience. any fan of br should pick it up. the interviews really give you a good feel for these guys personalities. jay is such a fucking goofball. i love him. haha. they are all really cool guys. im never going to shut up about wanting "god song" on this dvd. ok ill shut up about it. but! its one of the their top 5 songs, hands down. This DVD is very good. That's interesting about the editing, I didn't notice that when I watched this for the first time. The piano version of Cease is great. The sound quality is excellent. The 80 -82 clips are halirious... Greg is a goofy teenager and Brett is an angry serious guy. .. but then again, Greg is still goofy at whatever age he is now. Brett mellowed out a bit. "For example, during several songs Mr. Brett has his glasses on, and then in the next shot, they are off." gotta pick this bad boy up I watched this on VH1 and it was terrible. Again, the only good stuff this band did was on "How Could Hell..." or 81-85 or whatever it's called. This is just based on what I saw on Vh1 |
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My only complaint is with the guitars not being loud enough. Other than that, it's a good dvd. If you're a BR fan, pick it up.