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How Could Hell Be Any Worse? - CD - 2004
Details
| Label: | Epitaph Records | Catalog ID: | 86700-2 |
| Country: | United States | Barcode: | |
| Format | CD | Matrix / Run-out #: | |
| Release date: | 1/1/2004 | Disc / Label details: | |
| Misc: | 28 tracks - Remaster - Jewel case | ||
Tracklist
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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 Mankey as... Read more |
| Release and distribution | On February 25 1982 How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is 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 record sold mu... 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 liner notes. ... 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 poster-inse... 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.<ref>http://www.thebrpage.net/media/item.asp?itemID=549 The Big Takeover #36</ref> The image on the backsleeve is a wood engraving... Read more |
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