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| Bad Religion - Tested Band: Bad Religion Tracks: - Operation Rescue - Punk Rock Song - Tomorrow - Walk - God Song - Pity the Dead - 1000 More Fools - Drunk Sincerity - Generator - Change of Ideas - Portrait of Authority - What It Is - Dream of Unity - Sanity - American Jesus - Do What You Want - Part III - 10 in 2010 - No Direction - Along the Way - Recipe For Hate - Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell - It's Reciprocal - Struck a Nerve - Leave Mine to Me - Tested - No Control Stranger than fiction... Throughout most bands' careers, you expect to hear some sort of Change as The Band members mature, their interests change, they learn to play their instruments, line up changes or any number of other reasons. Results vary, from outstanding success to unmitigated failure. For some bands however, they drop straight into a groove and stick with it. Bands like AC/DC, Motorhead, Manowar and Deicide are not far removed from their original sound, even two or three decades into their careers. Bad Religion is another which could be added to that list. One of the inadvertent architects of the current pop punk sound which emanates from Southern California, Bad Religion found their musical feet early in their careers, and have done very nicely with it ever since. Unlike many of The Pretenders to the SoCal punk throne however, Bad Religion are better Live than in the studio. 'Tested' is Testament to this fact. "Live" energy is often difficult to transfer to an album, but Bad Religion manages it here. Lots of crowd noise does not equate to Live energy, and Bad Religion didn't even bother to record crowd noise. Any crowd noise you hear on the album comes through the bands' mikes. The liner notes go into depth about how the album was recorded. To summarise it all, Bad Religion recorded everything live, cheaply but effectively, and then reassembled it into what equates to a Live "Best Of..." album. The results show a lot of thought and preparation was put into recording. The guitars have a rougher edge than in the studio, and vocalist Greg Graffin's vocals are raspier. The melodies in the vocals, backing vox and guitar lines and counter-lines are near perfect, and there are even nuances apparent which are missing from the studio albums. There are mistakes and adlibs all over the place, one of the best being when Greg Graffin starts the crowd in Dortmund on the wrong key for the opening verse of "Generator". Elsewhere, the odd guitar solo is slightly off key, and the backing vocals are sometimes a little out of tune or drowned out. For fans of Live albums, it's a pure delight to hear. As for highlights, well, this is Bad Religion. There aren't any. That's to say, the entire album is incredibly consistent, and is an accurate record of the band's back catalogue up until 1996. Nothing sounds out of place, and everything sounds like it could be from any of the band's album. While this lack of musical development may annoy the hell out of self-important, pseudo-intellectual critics, it's exactly what The Band want to play, and what their fans want to hear. It may be predictable, it may have been done before, but so what? 'Tested' ROCKS! BR IS MY FAVE Band BUT.................. THIS JUST DOESNT CUT IT!!!!! This is with out Mr, Brett, brian cant pull off bretts stuff here. If you want something more like a bad religion best of album get All Ages, a mix of the absalute best songs of the first 4 epitaph albums. ALso the new one proccess of belief you must pick up, it's back on epitaph with mr brett and features no cheezy old sounding [stuff]like on the 3 albums before it. And look at all the songs that are better than anything on this album that are missed out: 21st centuary digital boy<BR>infected<BR>incomplete<BR>stranger than ficture<BR>lookin in<BR>atomic garden<BR>the answer<BR>anethesia (how could they miss this????)<BR>modern man<BR>faith alone<BR>against the grain<BR>flat Earth society<BR>walk away<BR>i want to conquer the world (how the hell is this song not on here??????)<BR>you<BR>suffer<BR>you are the government<BR>give you nothing, with all these songs missing, all these songs above were hits and they r all missing. The majority of them can be found on all ages. Pick that cd up first becuase tested is no way near a best of bad religion. Although some good points are 1000 fools, operation rescue, a cool american jesus and no control. Only pick this up if you really need to have some Live br without getting bootlegs. And for new fans stay far away from the grey race, no Substance and new america. Just get all ages ok? It's almost a Live greatest hits album... As Live albums go this is one of the better ones out there. The best thing about it is that it a real Live album. They didn't use studio tricks to cover their mistakes. If you haven't had a chance to see Bad Religion live, this is the next best thing. I think the recording quality is pretty good. All of the levels seem about right. The only problem that I have is that is sounds slightly hollow, but that is probably part of the limitation of DAT tape. The only other complaint is that it is missing a few of My Favorite songs like "digital boy" and "What can you do?". What it is missing it makes up for, however. It even includes songs that they probably don't play often like "portrait of Authority" and "Drunk Sincerity". All in all, I'd say that this is the next best thing to being there. I saw them in Kansas City and i hope to see them again in a couple of months. So, if you can't go to a show buy this. In fact, buy it anyway. 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