Nite Songs

  As a few entries since we did the last Footnotes should hopefully demonstrate, by 2003 the music scene was starting to change again. By now, nu-metal was pretty much dead and buried after the Darkness had nuked it (the likes of Limp Bizkit and Korn were starting to see their chart positions wane) while the pig-headedness of fratpunk was starting to be subsumed by its less humourous whiny younger sibling emo. Garage punk was still grimly hanging on at this point but a lot of the bands who'd broken through in the Strokes' wake were starting to run out of road a bit by this point while the rise of the Darkness and the publication of Motley Crue's The Dirt  were seeing the start of a new noughties Britrock revival (although a lot of the bands in this variant were looking across the Atlantic, specifically Sunset Strip, for their influences rather than their homeland). Me? Well, I was out of Uni by this point and still trying to get my bearings back in Leeds. I seem to remember...

Well, we did the intro yesterday and I guess we can't put this off any longer unfortunately. Hold yer noses, we're going in, the Nite Songs Worst 50 Albums Ever countdown officially starts here... *** 50. BAD RELIGION - "Into The Unknown" (1983) Of course, nowadays Bad Religion are rightly hailed as a seminal LA punk band (we'll ignore the fact that Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph label was responsible for inflicting the musical abortion that is Falling In Reverse on the world in recent years) but it almost didn't happen like that. Following their furious 1982 debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse? , the group decided on a radical change of direction by going prog, complete with synthesisers. I mean, fair play, they weren't the only early US punk band to try a change of sound that confused their fans (fellow early '80s hardcore types TSOL infamously first went goth/art-rock and then biker rock) but it's safe to say that jumping over to the sort of music ...