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Suffer - 12" - 1988

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Details

Label:	Epitaph Records	Release date:	9/8/1988
Country:	United States	Disc / Label details:	Vinyl: Black / Label: Red
Format	12"
Misc:	15 tracks
Remark:	This is the first pressing with the Burbank address on the back cover. Later editions have this address covered by a black box and the new address (Hollywood) printed over it instead. Pictures have a greenish tinge when compared to other represses.

Identification

Catalog ID:	E-86404
Barcode:	45778-64041
Matrix / Runout (Side A):	E-86404-A G-1 L 31287 YOUR NAME HERE ___ ___
Matrix / Runout (Side B):	E-86404-B G-1 L 31287-X ☻ I AM JUST A PIECE OF AIR! ☺
Matrix / Runout (Stamped both sides):	MASTERED BY CAPITOL

Images

Front
By: Jesse

Side One
By: EHCRecords

Vinyl Label 1
By: Jesse

Side Two
By: EHCRecords

Vinyl Label 2
By: Jesse

Back
By: Jesse

Insert
By: EHCRecords

Tracklist

Click the song titles for more information, lyrics and interpretations

	Song title	Song writer(s)	Version	Length	Interpretations
1	You Are (The Government)	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:22	11
2	1000 More Fools	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:35	7
3	How Much Is Enough?	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:23	4
4	When?	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:40	3
5	Give You Nothing	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:02	6
6	Land Of Competition	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:05	4
7	Forbidden Beat	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:53	14
8	Best For You	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:57	1
9	Suffer	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:45	8
10	Delirium Of Disorder	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:39	5
11	Part II (The Numbers Game)	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:38	5
12	What Can You Do?	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:44	5
13	Do What You Want	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:05	7
14	Part IV (The Index Fossil)	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:02	6
15	Pessimistic Lines	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:07	3

Info from 'The Answer'

Writing process	Brett Gurewitz: "I spent the time between 1983 and 1987 developing a pretty phenomenal drug habit and learning how to be a recording engineer. I hadn’t been in the band for a few years but Greg had kept Bad Religion going through his college years. I ultimately got clean by April 1987, w... Read more
Lyrics	Suffer was influenced by the writings of Fyodor Dostoyevski. Brett: "(...) the whole concept comes from how Dostoevski felt that sublimation and catharsis can be achieved through suffering, how one can't really come without the other. Almost all his books have that central theme. It's not t... Read more
Recording	Suffer was recorded in April of 1988 in no more than seven or eight days. To record his bass tracks, Jay used a Hiwatt SA212 combo into an Electro-Voice EVM12L speaker mounted in in a KK Audio closed back cabinet. The same method was used on all albums from Suffer through No Substan... Read more
Artwork	The cover artwork was done by Jerry Mahoney. Greg Graffin: "The image occured to me and Jerry while they were working as salad-bar hosts at an L.A. restaurant. That image seemed to capture the simultaneous anger, powerless, and defiane of my teenage years, emotions that fueled my songwriting ... Read more
Reception	It was released on 9.8.88 and it sold 4,000 copies, which was cool to them considering how utterly insignificant Epitaph was at the time. In 1993 Brett said it was his favorite BR album. In 1988 the album was voted best album of the year by the editors of Trust Magazine and Maximum Rock and Roll ... Read more
Rumors	There were rumors of an 8-track tape release of the album. However, Jay denied that rumor as Epitaph never released it. In fact It's said that no 8-tracks were released in the 80s at all.

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