Holy fuck. I didn't think Bad Religion could get any better but I was wrong. Very wrong. I'd say the new The Dissent of Man is the best album since Generator. And this one might hold one of the best punk rock songs of all time: The Resist Stance. It embodies everything Bad Religion, and true punk rock, stand for. It's kind of like William Wordsworth's poem The Tables Turned from 1798, in which he managed to express (in one stanza) the whole romantic idea:
"One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can."
Another song on this album, Wrong Way Kids, has a couple of lines that I think every grownup should take to heart:
"The kids today are gone away petitioning the dust
With nobody to look up to because they're looking up to us
Just misfit melancholy dregs gone lost in the mall
Wanderers to nowhere at all"
To me Bad Religion is to modern music what William Wordsworth was for 18th century poetry. The best, most poetical and most important artist of the day.
That's all for today folks, I've got some serious listening to do before I go to my friend's party. Sleep well or fuck hard tonight, I don't care as long as you all enjoy yourselves. Peace out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment