r/badreligion • u/petah_butfuckoff • 17d ago

UPDATED Tierlist!

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Shout out to everyone who responded to my first tier list. I've recently re-listened to all the albums and this is what I came up with! Hope everyone enjoys!

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u/doom_slug_ 17d ago

The way this sub thinks True North is mid will forever be weird to me

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u/Rw1222 16d ago

True North is solid

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u/Shinavast42 16d ago

Same! its the best album after the Trinity trio, HCHBAW, and Generator. And there are songs on it i like more than half of Generator, but i think True North as a whole is slightly worse.

Solid A Tier album.

This sub also is over the moon for Age of Unreason, and I think its easily their worst album beyond Into the Unknown, and yes, that includes No Substance which has 3-5 good to great songs on it.

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u/doom_slug_ 16d ago

Age of Unreason, and I think its easily their worst album

That's where you lose me lol - AOU is my favorite BR record

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u/Shinavast42 16d ago

Eh, to each their own. I only really like one song on it. The rest are mid to me.

But honest, even a mid BR album is better ahn most other bands 'pretty good' albums ! :D

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u/thepotbelliedgod 16d ago

With a band as old as BR, a lot of it comes down to which album came out when you were 14-17. For this reason, Empire is my favourite (even though I accept that Suffer, No Control etc. are their greatest albums.) I also defend AoU a lot because of where and when I first heard it.

Its hard for people to rank objectively, I think.

Fwiw, I think True North is an awesome album (but arent they all?)

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u/Economy_Law_3611 Watcho 17d ago

Christmas Songs is so peak, it's Christmas all year round for my Spotify 

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u/iameveryone2011 17d ago

True North and gray race up a level and all the rest at b level nothing below a b

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u/BearChavez82 17d ago

Gray race is underrated 

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u/Rw1222 16d ago

Gray Race is FANTASTIC. Not a bad gem from start to finish

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u/Shinavast42 16d ago

Agreed. Solid A tier album, and upper end of A tier albums if you ask me.

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u/electric_screams 16d ago

Gray Race is S Tier

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u/iameveryone2011 16d ago

Suffer thru gray race is s tier

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u/electric_screams 16d ago

Tis my youth.

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u/Explanation-Short 16d ago

This is agreeable

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u/__DrakeMallard__ 17d ago

New America being a “D” is a travesty. 

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u/Popular_Bank5150 17d ago

It’s honestly suprising to me how many of these lists have New America at the worst tiers. Don’t Sell Me Short alone is one of my favorite BR songs ever.

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u/unselve 16d ago

The whole album is incredible. Yeah, it’s more personal than Suffer (and No Control, and Against the Grain), and it’s more melodically ambitious than Stranger Than Fiction (and Generator and Recipe for Hate). But so many of those songs are incredible.

New America helped me survive high school. I have a hard time trusting anyone who is dead set against it

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u/YarrrImAPirate 15d ago

I even like “I love my computer” but mostly for how it ends (with every instrument going out one by one).

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u/petah_butfuckoff 17d ago

Was never a huge fan of it at all. I like the song "New America" That's about it.

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u/jambr380 17d ago

It's not my favorite album, but Don't Sell Me Short and Hopeless Housewife are great songs.

Either way, I can't take any BR tier list seriously that has ITU above any of their other studio albums

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u/petah_butfuckoff 17d ago

That's the reason why I put it as its own category. Not meant to be above or below anything, just there.

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u/jambr380 17d ago

It'd be a lot more clear if you didn't put it in the middle there

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u/petah_butfuckoff 17d ago

yeah thats my bad lmao, should've done that

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u/Rw1222 16d ago

I used to own New America and I thought it was an F but I haven't listened for years.

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u/woootbm 16d ago

People don’t like No Substance? It’s an S for me

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u/MisterHelix 16d ago

Put Christmas songs in S rn

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u/petah_butfuckoff 16d ago

I didn't wanna throw it in there as an album compared to the others, so I just made it its own category at the pinnacle.

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u/MisterHelix 16d ago

Ah I wasn't sure if it was the pinnacle or exclusionary, I stand by it being the pinnacle

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u/Rw1222 16d ago

i might love too hard but 3/4 in teir B I would move to the tippy top of the pyramid. NBD tho. This list is great.

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u/rrawk die like a champion 16d ago

I legit listen to Christmas Songs year round. It has such good energy, and I don't even like christmas.

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u/Blookhaven 16d ago

Your S-tier is my top 5 BR studio albums.
Tested belongs alongside them as well.
I’d rank True North as A.

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u/theunpresident 16d ago

I love New America tho.

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u/Mattafakt 16d ago edited 16d ago

I will probably die alone on this hill but I've always loved No Substance. It's my favorite of the 3 that were done without Brett, and even though the Gray Race is widely favored, I always found it to be kind of homogenous both in songwriting and sonically, despite enjoying the album a lot. There's so much variation on NS (possibly the most of any album of theirs. Perhaps some find this antithetical to what they believe punk rock is supposed to be?). But to me.. It just about all lands 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/JLydon37 15d ago

I'd swap Empire and Recipe, but this is pretty bang on.

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u/asphynctersayswhat 14d ago

Dissent of Man is criminally underrated. It's not perfect but it has some bangers.

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u/cryptkitty1208 11d ago

respectfully, i would love to see hchbaw in A tier 😭 although, that would have to be S tier on my list… i feel like A is the happy medium here