BAD RELIGION/GENERATOR

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EDICION REMASTERIZADA CON BONUS TRACKSGENERATOR IS THE SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM BY THE PUNK ROCK BAND BAD RELIGION. ALTHOUGH THE ALBUM WAS COMPLETED IN THE SPRING OF 1991 IT WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL 1992 THE BAND WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE ARTWORK AND PACKAGING AND WENT THROUGH SEVERAL IDEAS THAT WERE EVENTUALLY SCRAPPED.GENERATOR WAS THE BANDS FIRST RELEASE WITH DRUMMER BOBBY SCHAYER WHO REPLACED PETE FINESTONE DURING THE AGAINST THE GRAIN TOUR.GENERATOR INCLUDES SOME FAN FAVORITES AND CONCERT STAPLES SUCH AS GENERATOR NO DIRECTION HEAVEN IS FALLING ATOMIC GARDEN AND THE ANSWER. THE ALBUM WAS PROMOTED WITH BAD RELIGIONS FIRST MUSIC VIDEO WHICH WAS FILMED FOR THE SONG ATOMIC GARDENGENERATOR MARKED A SHIFT IN SONGWRITING-STYLE FOR THE BAND. ALTHOUGH MANY SONGS HOLD TRUE TO THEIR HARDCORE-PUNK ROOTS (GENERATOR TOMORROW FERTILE CRESCENT) SELECT TRACKS SUGGESTED THE BAND MOVING TOWARDS A SLOWER MORE EXPERIMENTAL ROUTE (TWO BABIES IN THE DARK THE ANSWER) AS WELL AS A DARKER ONE (ATOMIC GARDEN). WHILE NOT AS DARK THIS EXPERIMENTAL PERIOD WOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR NEXT ALBUM 1993S RECIPE FOR HATE.WRITING SESSIONS FOR GENERATOR BEGAN AROUND LATE 1990/EARLY 1991. AFTER SCHAYER JOINED BAD RELIGION IN APRIL 1991 THE BAND IMMEDIATELY STARTED WORK ON THEIR FOLLOW-UP TO AGAINST THE GRAIN. WITH AN INTENDED RELEASE DATE OF MID-TO-LATE 1991 THEY RECORDED IT AT WESTBEACH RECORDERS IN HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA IN MAY OF THAT YEAR.GENERATOR WAS RECORDED ALMOST LIVE IN THE STUDIO1 BECAUSE AT THE TIME GUITARIST BRETT GUREWITZ HAD MOVED WESTBEACH TO LARGER PREMISES AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ENTIRE BAND COULD PLAY IN THE STUDIO AT THE SAME TIME. HE STATED THAT IT WAS TIME TO CHANGE AND THE BAND DID IT IN A DIFFERENT STUDIO BUT AS FAR AS THE SONGWRITING IT WAS A DELIBERATE EFFORT TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT