The first release under the new name was the “It’s Up To You” 7″ single in 1990.
In 1990 future members of Bodyjar formed a rock group, Damnation, in Melbourne with Cameron Baines on guitar, Ben Petterson on guitar, Grant Relf on bass guitar and Charles Zerafa on drums. Baines, Petterson and Relf had grown up in the same Melbourne suburb of Vermont and attended the same…
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A compilation of their finest moments, Stranger Than Tannadice – The Hits, Misses and Own Goals was released in 1990 on the Worker’s Playtime label, to coincide with the 1990 World Cup, with a couple of singles also emerging in the 1990s.
In 1990, Suicidal Tendencies released the album that many fans consider to be their masterpiece, and the album that almost broke them into the rock mainstream, Lights…Camera…Revolution! . This album featured the same line-up as Controlled By Hatred… , with Trujillo on bass guitar. The songs were much more complex…
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The band resurfaced in 1990 with a new single on Subterranean, “Some Day”/”Distant Illusion”, and began performing again. Nürnberg Fish Trials , another live album, was released in 1991. This lineup released an all-new studio album in 1992, American Grafishy , on Rick Rubin ‘s Def American imprint, which was…
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Green Day recorded two extended plays later that year, Slappy and Sweet Children , the latter of which included older songs the band recorded for Minneapolis independent label Skene! Records .
Bad Religion’s hardcore punk style continued with their next album, Against the Grain , which was released in 1990. While the album still did not break the band into mainstream audiences, it was the first 100,000 seller, and showed how quickly they were growing. ” 21st Century (Digital Boy) “,…
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In December 1989 the Victims material was issued as a compilation album, All Loud on the Western Front , on Timberyard Records. This included all the tracks from their first single and EP, as well as a previously unreleased track, “Perth Is a Culture Shock”. It was re-issued on CD…
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During the Suffer tour in 1988, Bad Religion began writing new material. In early 1989, while the band was on break from touring, they commenced work on their next album, and entered the Westbeach Recorders studio in June of that year to record it. The resulting album, No Control ,…
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Their next single, ” Love Shack “, with its party vibe and colorful music video , became their first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, ultimately reaching number three in November 1989. That peak was matched in March 1990, when their follow-up single, ” Roam “, also reached…
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