Ranking the Discographies

[Sparky]

The Damned

The Damned

Machine Gun Etiquette
Damned Damned Damned
Strawberries
The Black Album
Music For Pleasure
Phantasmagoria
Anything
So Who's Paranoid?
Grave Disorder
Evil Spirits
I'm Alright Jack & the Beanstalk / Not of This Earth

[Sparky]

The Jam

This one seems to vary based on what I'm in the mood to listen to, but overall great albums IMO.

The Jam


Setting Sons
This Is the Modern World
In the City
Sound Affects
All Mod Cons
The Gift

[Sparky]

The Replacements

Tim
Let It Be
Pleased To Meet Me
Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Hootenanny
Don't Tell A Soul
All Shook Down

[WestwayKid]

Bad Religion

No Control
Against the Grain
Suffer
New Maps of Hell
Recipe for Hate
Generator
The Process of Belief
The Empire Strikes First
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Stranger than Fiction
The Gray Race
True North
The Dissent of Man
The New America
Into the Unknown
Age of Unreason
No Substance

[WestwayKid]

The Replacements

Tim
Let It Be
Pleased To Meet Me
Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Hootenanny
Don't Tell A Soul
All Shook Down

Let It Be
Tim
Please to Meet Me
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash
All Shook Down
Hootenanny
Don't Tell a Soul

I would probably rate Don't Tell a Soul higher if they had released the original Matt Wallace mix.

[WestwayKid]

The Jam

This one seems to vary based on what I'm in the mood to listen to, but overall great albums IMO.

The Jam


Setting Sons
This Is the Modern World
In the City
Sound Affects
All Mod Cons
The Gift

Sound Affects
Setting Sons
All Mod Cons
In the City
The Gift
This Is the Modern World

[WestwayKid]

The Damned

Machine Gun Etiquette
Strawberries
The Black Album
Damned Damned Damned
Phantasmagoria
So Who's Paranoid?
Grave Disorder
Evil Spirits
Music For Pleasure
Anything
I'm Alright Jack & the Beanstalk / Not of This Earth

Machine Gun Etiquette
Damned Damned Damned
The Black Album
Strawberries
Phantasmagoria
Evil Spirits
So, Who's Paranoid?
Music for Pleasure
Grave Disorder
Anything
Not of This Earth

[WestwayKid]

Stiff Little Fingers

Go For It
Inflammable Material
Nobody's Heroes
Now Then
Guitar and Drum
Flags and Emblems
Hope Street
Tinderbox
No Going Back
Get A Life

Nobody's Heroes
Inflammable Material
Go For It
Guitar and Drum
Hope Street
Tinderbox
Get a Life
Now Then…
No Going Back
Flags and Emblems

[WestwayKid]

Talking Heads

Remain in Light
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Fear of Music
Talking Heads: 77
Speaking in Tongues
Little Creatures
Naked
True Stories
No Talking, Just Head ...

[WestwayKid]

One more for the night...

Blondie

Parallel Lines
Blondie
Eat to the Beat
Plastic Letters
Autoamerican
Pollinator
Panic of Girls
Ghosts of Download
The Curse of Blondie
No Exit
The Hunter

[Flex]

Bad Religion

No Control
Against the Grain
Suffer
New Maps of Hell
Recipe for Hate
Generator
The Process of Belief
The Empire Strikes First
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Stranger than Fiction
The Gray Race
True North
The Dissent of Man
The New America
Into the Unknown
Age of Unreason
No Substance

Hmmmmmmmm. Probably mostly agreement. Let's see:

No Control
Generator (title track is probably my all time favorite BR song)
Recipe for Hate (most underrated BR album imho)
Suffer
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
*Bad Religion EP
Against the Grain
Stranger than Fiction
*Back to the Known
The Process of Belief
*Christmas Songs
True North
The Empire Strikes First
Into the Unknown
New Maps of Hell
The Dissent of Man
Age of Unreason
The New America (I have a bit of a soft spot for this since it may have been the first proper BR record I owned - having already got All Ages and their early years comp, but it's not really that good)
The Gray Race
No Substance

I asterisked in the BR EPs since I think they're all pretty major works for the band. If we're counting comps. I'd put All Ages and 80-85 at the first two spots, respectively. Those two comps are still BR perfectly distilled, imho. The live albums Tested and 30 Years Live I don't have much of an opinion on, they'd land somewhere just south of the "Into the Unknown" line where I don't really care about the records much at that point.

Broadly speaking, their 80s-early 90s Epitaph stuff is all their best, then the cream of the post-Atlantic albums, then you hit the weird and kinda bad but kinda good Into The Unknown demarcation line, and below that it's the lesser latter day records and the crappy Atlantic records.

[revbob]

Bad Religion

No Control
Against the Grain
Suffer
New Maps of Hell
Recipe for Hate
Generator
The Process of Belief
The Empire Strikes First
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Stranger than Fiction
The Gray Race
True North
The Dissent of Man
The New America
Into the Unknown
Age of Unreason
No Substance

Hmmmmmmmm. Probably mostly agreement. Let's see:

No Control
Generator (title track is probably my all time favorite BR song)
Recipe for Hate (most underrated BR album imho)
Suffer
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
*Bad Religion EP
Against the Grain
Stranger than Fiction
*Back to the Known
The Process of Belief
*Christmas Songs
True North
The Empire Strikes First
Into the Unknown
New Maps of Hell
The Dissent of Man
Age of Unreason
The New America (I have a bit of a soft spot for this since it may have been the first proper BR record I owned - having already got All Ages and their early years comp, but it's not really that good)
The Gray Race
No Substance

I asterisked in the BR EPs since I think they're all pretty major works for the band. If we're counting comps. I'd put All Ages and 80-85 at the first two spots, respectively. Those two comps are still BR perfectly distilled, imho. The live albums Tested and 30 Years Live I don't have much of an opinion on, they'd land somewhere just south of the "Into the Unknown" line where I don't really care about the records much at that point.

Broadly speaking, their 80s-early 90s Epitaph stuff is all their best, then the cream of the post-Atlantic albums, then you hit the weird and kinda bad but kinda good Into The Unknown demarcation line, and below that it's the lesser latter day records and the crappy Atlantic records.

I missed WWK's initial post. A tough one to do I think. Suffer would be my top pick and No Substance the weakest of the lot. Great band, great catalog.

[WestwayKid]

BR is a great band who I think don’t get the credit they deserve.

[Flex]

BR is a great band who I think don’t get the credit they deserve.

That's right!

[revbob]

BR is a great band who I think don’t get the credit they deserve.

That's right!

FlexWayBob