Bad Religion - "Wrong Way Kids"

[lockebox]

Third single from the album, "The Dissent of Man". These guys should be getting some success after Social Distortion have been. I enjoyed the previous two singles from this album, too.

Goes for adds April 5th.

[American Idiot]

This was my thought process after reading the post above. "Hmm. 3rd single eh? Ok... I know they had an album come out last year. I don't remember anything from it, but I remember thinking it was decent and nowhere as awesome as their older material. What was their first single? ::about a minute goes by and I have to look it up on Wikipedia:: Oh yeah! The Devil in Stitches! I think I remember how that one goes. Oh... Cyanide was second? I don't remember that song at all.... or this Wrong Way Kids one either. Yeah... I think it's time to listen to that album again."

[Nicholas2.0]

I never read anything anywhere about "Cyanide" being released as a second single. It's actually my least favorite song on the album. The guitar riff is too bouncy and the tone is too clean. It might even be in a major key for all I know. Musically, it's too jarring to my ears to work as a Bad Religion song. It's a new direction I'd rather not see pursued.

"Wrong Way Kids" is right down there toward the bottom of my favorites, as well. #13 out of 15. (#14, for the curious, is "I Won't Say Anything.") Not that "Cyanide" (allegedly) or "Wrong Way Kids" even matter as singles, because it's not like either of them (or anything else, for that matter) would be commercially successful whatsoever at this point.

Even "The Devil in Stitches" I have ranked down at #8. And this isn't some ranking I did last fall; I just did this earlier this month, actually.

My three favorite songs are "Only Rain," "Ad Hominem," and "The Day That the Earth Stalled."

Still, I'm looking forward to seeing them play a longer set than I've seen from them in 11 years. And even that one wasn't a headlining set. My older brother (who got into them because of me) has actually seen a headlining tour. And even that was probably 8 years ago already.

[lockebox]

Yeah, "Cyanide" is in major key. It didn't recieve an adds date, but was under CNM on allaccess, so it depends how you want to view that.

[Nicholas2.0]

Mar 24, 2011 13:09:44 GMT -5 lockebox said:

It didn't recieve an adds date, but was under CNM on allaccess, so it depends how you want to view that.

Really? On Alternative? It must never have been up for very long. I check that page regularly (I assumed I did at least once a week). It's entirely possible I was so busy with work last fall that I went a week or two without viewing it, but I can't believe I never saw it at all.

[lockebox]

Yeah, I know you do, that's why I was surprised you didn't remember. I thought they'd only just replaced it with "Wrong Way Kids"? Pretty sure it was Alternative. They don't send stuff to AAA, as far as I'm aware.

[lockebox]

Yeah, Allaccess has it as the third single. Slipped under the radar, Nicholas. :)

Southern California's iconic punk rockers Bad Religion will be hitting the road with Rise Against beginning April 5th in Las Vegas. The third single, "Wrong Way Kids" is from Bad Religion's landmark 15th album, The Dissent Of Man

[Nicholas2.0]

Apr 5, 2011 11:21:40 GMT -5 lockebox said:

Yeah, Allaccess has it as the third single. Slipped under the radar, Nicholas. :)

I saw that recently. Yet, when I tried to type in "Cyanide"'s assumed song ID abbreviation into their .wma URL, like we were shown how to do recently, it didn't turn up. At any rate, KROQ apparently added it back in mid-November, which seems about right.