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How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion
14 tracks
How Could Hell Be Any Worse? - 12" - 1982
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Details
Label: Epitaph Records Release date: 1/19/1982
Country: United States Disc / Label details: Vinyl: Black / Label: Red
Format 12"
Misc: 14 tracks - Limited 12000 - Thick cardboard sleeve (Brown inside) and dust sleeve
Remark: First pressing has the old address: 22713 Ventura Blvd. / Suite F/ Woodland Hills, CA 91364.
It has a heavy cardboard sleeve, with brown coloured inside has NO barcode on back and a 23x11" double-sided b/w insert with lyrics and photos.
Date on the labels is 1981 but the album was released in 1982.
Identification
Catalog ID: EPI-BRLP1
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Matrix / Runout (AA-Side): SOLIDARNǑSČ S-9418 L-8201*X JBGPNOJZ-AA
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    • Tracklist
    Click the song titles for more information, lyrics and interpretations
    Song title Song writer(s) Version Length Interpretations
    A 1 We're Only Gonna Die Greg Graffin Album version 2:17 11
    2 Latch Key Kids Greg Graffin Album version 1:44 2
    3 Part III Jay Bentley Album version 10
    4 Faith In God Greg Graffin Album version 5
    5 Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell Greg Graffin Album version 14
    6 Pity Greg Graffin Album version 2
    7 In The Night Brett Gurewitz Album version 4
    AA 1 Damned To Be Free Greg Graffin Album version 5
    2 White Trash (2nd Generation) Brett Gurewitz Album version 4
    3 American Dream Brett Gurewitz Album version 6
    4 Eat Your Dog Greg Graffin Album version 4
    5 Voice Of God Is Government Jay Bentley Album version 3
    6 Oligarchy Brett Gurewitz Album version 1
    7 Doing Time Brett Gurewitz Album version 2
    Info from 'The Answer'
    Production How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is Bad Religion's first full-length album and was released in 1982. It was financed partly from some money left over (after having paid back the borrowed money) from the sales of the first EP and partly by a $1,000 loan from Brett's father. They brought in Jim... Read more
    Release and distribution On January 19 1982 How Could Hell Be Any Worse? was released. It made the new wave charts in the LA Weekly.  They drove the LP around to the stores but there were also a few dealings with distributors (Green World, Bomp, Gem). Originally only 6,000 copies were pressed, but the recor... Read more
    Reception Professor Stone wrote in 1995 (in the liner notes of the bootleg Radiation Hazard) that the album "nowadays is looked upon as being one of the greatest American punk albums ever".
    Liner notes According to the record's credits, Pete plays the drums and timpany and Jay plays the timpany on some tracks. Pete's surname is misspelled "Fienstone". Johnette Napolitano gets thanked as does Greg Hetson (for guitar on Part III). "Pity" is spelled properly in the line... Read more
    Re-releases The album was reissued in 1988. The only difference between the original and the later edition is the catalog number and Epitaph's address (the original had a "Ventura Blvd" address and the reissue had a "Sunset Blvd" address). It came with a 23x11" double-sided poste... Read more
    Artwork The photograph on the cover was taken by Edward Colver at the Hollywood cross, near the Hollywood Bowl. It was taken with the title of the record in mind. The image on the backsleeve is a wood engraving illustration by Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883), a French artist, engraver, illustrat... Read more
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