1. Cease 2. Skyscraper 3. Them and Us 4. All There Is 5. Kyoto Now! 6. The Devil In Stitches 7. Atomic Garden 8. The Gray Race 9. Stranger Than Fiction 10. Robin Hood In Reverse 11. True North 12. Let Them Eat War 13. Empty Causes 14. Parallel 15. No Control 16. The Answer 17. Come Join Us 18. Punk Rock Song 19. Generator 20. Recipe For Hate 21. You 22. Materialist 23. Do the Paranoid Style 24. Chaos From Within 25. Anesthesia 26. Modern Man 27. Incomplete 28. Ten in 2010 29. Drunk Sincerity 30. Suffer 31. Along the Way 32. Pity the Dead 33. Better Off Dead 34. Infected 35. A Walk 36. In Their Hearts Is Right 37. Only Rain 38. Destined for Nothing 39. Broken 40. Evangeline 41. God's Love 42. Live Again (The Fall of Man) 43. Sorrow 44. Epiphany 45. Social Suicide 46. The Resist Stance 47. Dept. Of False Hope 48. My Sanity 49. My Head Is Full Of Ghosts 50. The Profane Rights of Man 51. Beyond Electric Dreams 52. Pride And The Pallor 53. Slumber 54. In so Many Ways 55. A Streetkid Named Desire 56. The Hopeless Housewife 57. Yesterday 58. Against The Grain 59. Change Of Ideas 60. I Want To Conquer The World 61. Big Bang 62. Automatic Man 63. Leave Mine To Me 64. Don't Pray On Me 65. Do What You Want 66. Best For You 67. 1000 Memories 68. Supersonic 69. The Defense 70. News From The Front 71. Delirium of Disorder 72. Man With A Mission 73. Watch It Die 74. Struck A Nerve 75. Grains of Wrath 76. New Dark Ages 77. Requiem for Dissent 78. Dearly Beloved 79. Cyanide 80. Nothing To Dismay 81. Fuck You 82. Atheist Peace 83. Los Angeles Is Burning 84. Overture/Sinister Rouge 85. Prodigal Son 86. Can't Stop It 87. Turn On The Light 88. Two Babies in the Dark 89. American Jesus 90. Portrait Of Authority 91. Hear It 92. Sometimes I Feel Like... 93. The Surface of Me 94. End of History 95. Shattered Faith 96. Age of Unreason 97. I Want Something More 98. The World Won't Stop 99. Henchman 100. Nobody Listens 101. The Streets of America 102. Honest Goodbye 103. The Day That The Earth Stalled 104. Lose Your Head 105. We're Only Gonna Die 106. Changing Tide 107. Crisis Time 108. Past Is Dead 109. Meeting Of The Minds 110. You Are (The Government) 111. Heroes & Martyrs 112. Prove It 113. Strange Denial 114. Dharma And The Bomb 115. Land Of Endless Greed 116. The Biggest Killer in American History 117. Vanity 118. The Island 119. Old Regime 120. Flat Earth Society 121. Operation Rescue 122. Get Off 123. Lookin' In 124. Heaven Is Falling 125. 21st Century Digital Boy 126. Too Much to Ask 127. Fertile Crescent 128. Fuck Armageddon.. This is Hell 129. Forbidden Beat 130. Give You Nothing 131. New Leaf 132. It Must Look Pretty Appealing 133. Don't Sell Me Short 134. Lost Pilgrim 135. Germs of Perfection 136. Before You Die 137. Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever 138. To Another Abyss 139. The Quickening 140. You Don't Belong 141. Bad Religion 142. Billy Gnosis 143. Whisper in Time 144. Finite 145. Who We Are 146. Popular Consensus 147. Submission Complete 148. Wrong Way Kids 149. The Approach 150. Avalon 151. Ad Hominem 152. Someone To Believe 153. All Fantastic Images 154. Bored and Extremely Dangerous 155. Shades of Truth 156. Entropy 157. Spirit Shine 158. What It Is 159. Tiny Voices 160. Hooray for Me... 161. 21st Century (Digital Boy) 162. No Direction 163. Land of Competition 164. Misery And Famine 165. Faith Alone 166. Only Entertainment 167. Tomorrow 168. Walk Away 169. Blenderhead 170. Inner Logic 171. Unacceptable 172. 1000 More Fools 173. Billy 174. What Can You Do? 175. Pessimistic Lines 176. Progress 177. Sanity 178. Anxiety 179. The Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking 180. Quality Or Quantity 181. No Substance 182. Marked 183. Victory 184. The Handshake 185. Individual 186. The Fast Life 187. Candidate 188. Markovian Process 189. What Tomorrow Brings 190. Scrutiny 191. The Empire Strikes First 192. Fields of Mars 193. Sowing the Seeds of Utopia 194. The Same Person 195. Part II (The Numbers Game) 196. Part IV (The Index Fossil) 197. How Much Is Enough? 198. When? 199. God Song 200. My Poor Friend Me 201. All Good Soldiers 202. Kerosene 203. Modern Day Catastrophists 204. Chimaera 205. Hello Cruel World 206. The Grand Delusion 207. New America 208. The Voracious March of Godliness 209. I Won't Say Anything 210. Since Now 211. Mediocrity 212. Big Black Dog 213. 52 Seconds 214. Victims of the Revolution 215. You've Got a Chance 216. A World Without Melody 217. Mediocre Minds 218. The Lie 219. At the Mercy of Imbeciles 220. Murder 221. It's Only Over when.. 222. The Dichotomy 223. Television 224. How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 225. In the Night 226. Latch Key Kids 227. Won't Somebody 228. Turn Your Back On Me 229. Faces of Grief 230. Downfall 231. Time & Disregard 232. Chasing the Wild Goose 233. The Hippy Killers 234. I love My Computer 235. It's a Long Way to the Promise Land 236. Emancipation of the Mind 237. Oligarchy 238. Queen Of The 21st Century 239. Let it Burn 240. Believe It 241. Part III 242. Faith in God 243. Damned to be Free 244. Voice of God is Government 245. There Will Be a Way 246. What Are We Standing For? 247. Leaders And Followers 248. The Dodo 249. Frogger 250. Raise Your Voice! 251. The Kids Are Alt-Right 252. ..You give Up 253. Pity 254. Doing Time 255. American Dream 256. White Trash (2nd Generation) 257. Losing Generation 258. Million Days 259. Eat Your Dog 260. The State of the End of the Millenium Adress 261. Where The Fun Is 262. Pretenders 263. Lose As Directed 264. Follow The Leader 265. The Universal Cynic 266. Stealth RANK EM ALL!
I think I'm one of the few BR fans that really likes New America. Definitely better than No Substance in my opinion.
I love most of New America. The production isn’t my fave, but Todd Rundgren is a really cool pairing, and it’s cool to have some variety from a band with 30 records that sound the same
I think Rundgren did a great job of bringing out the hooks and choruses more. If anything, I think it gets a bad rep simply due to "I Love My Computer" which definitely sounds dated since its lyrical content focuses on the y2k "Computers are taking over!" type scolding. "Hopeless Housewife" and "Streetkid Named Desire" are fucking bangers and the rest of the album is just as melodic and catchy.
I like most of New America, but the ones I don’t like I REALLY don’t like. Let It Burn, Believe It, and There Will Be a Way are amongst their most forgettable songs for me.
I struggled to get into their most recent album...not sure what it was. A little bit of it was missing Brooks Wackerman's drumming...
Yeah, the drums on Age of Unreason feel mostly programmed, which is a shame because Jamie proved on the Decades live streams that he is an excellent drummer.
Jamie is very good. Brooks is up there with the best to ever do it. It’s an unfair comparison, but the right one.
Brooks and Jamie are the best drummers this band has had. Brooks is more technical and Jamie is an all around musician. Brooks and Travis Barker are even very different. Brooks has incredible technique as a drummer and Travis is more flashy. For instance, Travis plays his drums flat and it looks like it hurts lol. He conditioned himself to play that way.
I think Brooks, for technique and variety, is the best drummer in the scene. It could also be the way those albums were recorded but his stuff absolutely SLAMS through the speakers in a way most other drummers couldn’t pull off. It’s amazing to me that drummers are such a great and valued part of the scene (Travis, Tre, Cyrus, Tony Thaxton, even LP from YC!) that all play their own way and it’s instantly recognizable. That doesn’t really happen in rock and roll aside from Dave.
Brooks is one of the best out of this scene as well. But I agree, he has a very distinct way of hitting drums and filling empty spaces!
I don't understand why The New America gets so much hate, especially when people constantly rank No Substance above it. No Substance sounded really tired/bland whereas The New America how Todd Rundgren producing really giving the songs more of a pop as well as varying the tempo to allow for a more dynamic album (although it DOES have "I Love My Computer" so...yeah).
No Substance has the best guitar tones in the world. I love the production of that album. I especially love the quirkiness of the whole album. New America is a great summer album though.
Yeah it does kind of irk me that this article says to skip Hear It and that the vocals are inaudible on the record? I've never once thought that.
Crazy. Avalon and Only Rain are the standouts on TDOM imo. Don't really care for any of the last five tracks on that album.