{"id":1415,"date":"2010-11-30T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:28:49","slug":"review-bad-religion-the-dissent-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/11\/30\/review-bad-religion-the-dissent-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Bad Religion &#8211; The Dissent of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bad-Religion-Dissent_of_Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1422\" title=\"Bad-Religion-Dissent_of_Man\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bad-Religion-Dissent_of_Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nConflicted.  That is the first word that comes to mind listening this newest Bad  Religion record. It&#8217;s not a bad album and it&#8217;s not necessarily a good  record either. The musicianship &#8211; topnotch. The hooks &#8211; abundant. The  harmonies &#8211; straight out of Van Halen&#8217;s songbook (they&#8217;re awesome).  Unfortunately, where the record falls apart is both its strength and its  weakness. The songs that sound like old school Bad Religion -which  could have easily blended into albums like <em>No Control<\/em> or <em>Suffer<\/em> &#8211; are fantastic. However, they sound exactly like those albums and that  smells of formula and stagnation. Now Bad Religion have been around  long enough to know that they need to throw some &#8216;experiments&#8217; into the  mix. This is a good thing, however for this record those &#8216;experiments&#8217;  reek of desperation. Pedal steel does not belong on a Bad Religion  record. And, after multiple listens, it makes sense that Weezer is now  on their label. (Epitaph, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epitaph.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.epitaph.com<\/a>) <strong>c.frsn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflicted. That is the first word that comes to mind listening this newest Bad Religion record. It&#8217;s not a bad album and it&#8217;s not necessarily a good record either. The musicianship &#8211; topnotch. The hooks &#8211; abundant. The harmonies &#8211; straight out of Van Halen&#8217;s songbook (they&#8217;re awesome). Unfortunately, where the record falls apart is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bad-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}