{"id":540,"date":"2008-06-12T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:22:41","slug":"bad-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Bad Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a hold of the veteran punksters’ New Maps of Hell<\/em> album the other day, the deluxe edition no less. It’s a good record overall — especially “Honest Goodbye” — but I also liked the acoustic bonus tracks. “Sorrow” works very well, although the solo seems a bit dropped in out of nowhere, and the chorus of “Adam’s Atoms” feels quite haunting for some reason.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why the band recorded or included the acoustic set, but can’t help wonder if it is connected to Greg Graffin’s solo album, Cold As The Clay<\/em>. The obvious difference is that the Hell<\/em> tracks are reworkings of Bad Religion numbers, whereas Clay<\/em> is deeply rooted in the folk traditions of Wisconsin. It’s another album I really enjoy, perhaps because I don’t normally listen to that genre of music. Not too keen on the title track, though. It’s at its best when picking through a sombre number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a hold of the veteran punksters’ New Maps of Hell album the other day, the deluxe edition no less. It’s a good record overall — especially “Honest Goodbye” — but I also liked the acoustic bonus tracks. “Sorrow” works very well, although the solo seems a bit dropped in out of nowhere, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}