A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion

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A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion
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Studio album by
Good Riddance
ReleasedJune 4, 1996 (1996-06-04)
RecordedRazor's Edge Studios, San Francisco
Genre Punk rock, melodic hardcore, skate punk, post-hardcore
Length37:27
Label Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 539)
Producer Ryan Greene, Good Riddance
Good Riddance chronology
Decoy
(1995)		A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion
(1996)		 Good Riddance / Reliance
(1996)

A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion is the second album by the Santa Cruz, California-based hardcore punk band Good Riddance, released June 4, 1996, through Fat Wreck Chords. It was the band's first album with drummer Sean Sellers, replacing Rich McDermott who had left the group. The album includes two cover songs, of The Kinks' "Come Dancing" and Government Issue's "Hall of Fame", the latter included as a hidden track. "Last Believer" was titled after an episode of the 1991 PBS documentary series on President Lyndon B. Johnson; the song had previously been released on the band's debut EP Gidget in 1993 and was re-recorded for A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion. [1]

Santa Cruz, California City in California, United States

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2018 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 64,725.

Hardcore punk Subgenre of punk rock

Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by New York punk rock and early proto-punk. New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy, and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically-charged lyrics."

Good Riddance is an American punk rock band from Santa Cruz, California. They released seven full-length studio albums on Fat Wreck Chords, then disbanded after releasing a live recording of their farewell concert in 2007. They reformed in 2012 and released an eighth studio album, Peace in Our Time, in 2015. Led by vocalist Russ Rankin, the band's longtime lineup includes guitarist Luke Pabich, bassist Chuck Platt, and drummer Sean "SC" Sellers. Their sound is influenced by the hardcore punk scene and the band was known for their combination of fast punk with catchy melodies. Lyrical themes vary from political protests and critical analyses of American society to personal struggles and alienation.

Contents

Singer Russ Rankin later remarked that "I think [A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion] is important because that's when I found out that I was a song-writer ... [it] was where I realized like, 'Hey I guess I'm the song writer for this band'". [2]

Russ Rankin is an American musician, record producer, hockey scout and writer from Santa Cruz, California. He is best known as the singer for the punk rock bands Good Riddance and Only Crime.

Seven songs written during the demo sessions for A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion were left off of the album. These tracks—"Remember When", "Flawed", "Class War 2000", "Twenty-One Guns", "Lame Duck Arsenal", "Off the Wagon", and "What We Have"—were recorded in a separate session with Andy Ernst at Art of Ears and released on split EPs with Reliance, Ignite, Ill Repute, and Ensign through other record labels over the following year. [1] [2]

Demo (music) song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release

A demo is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas in a fixed format, such as cassette tape, compact disc, or digital audio files, and to thereby pass along those ideas to record labels, producers, or other artists.


Andy "Andro" Ernst is a music producer, engineer, musician, and songwriter from San Francisco. Artists he has worked with include: Green Day, AFI, Sway & King Tech, Rancid, Tiger Army, The Nerve Agents, Malo, Link 80, Screeching Weasel, Swingin' Utters, Screw 32, Good Riddance, Fury 66, Shock G and Money B. The majority of his work has been punk rock. Ernst owns and operates the Art of Ears Studio in Hayward, California, previously located in San Francisco.

A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs of the same variety, which are often called "split singles" and "split EPs" respectively. Split albums differ from "various artists" compilation albums in that they generally include several tracks of each artist, or few artists with one or two tracks each, instead of multiple artists with only one or two tracks each.

Reception

Andy Hinds of Allmusic rated A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion four stars out of five, remarking that "the band have improved their songwriting chops considerably, finally bringing the music up to the level of Russ Rankin's always powerful lyrics". [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Russ Rankin, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Weight of the World" (lyrics: Rankin; music: Luke Pabich; contains dialogue from the film They Live )2:08
2."Steps"2:14
3."A Credit to His Gender"2:46
4."Trophy" (lyrics: Rankin; music: Pabich)0:35
5."Up & Away"2:03
6."Last Believer" (lyrics: Rankin; music: Pabich)2:33
7."Static"2:48
8."Favorite Son"1:21
9."West End Memorial"2:29
10."This Is the Light"3:18
11."Bittersweet" (lyrics: Rankin; music: Pabich)1:47
12."Token Idiot"1:38
13."Come Dancing" (Ray Davies; originally performed by The Kinks)2:21
14."Lampshade"1:33
15."Think of Me"2:08
16."The Sky Is Falling" (lyrics: Rankin; music: Pabich)0:45
17."Sometimes"
"Hall of Fame" (hidden track; written by John Stabb, Tom Lyle, Mitch Parker, and Marc Alberstadt and originally performed by Government Issue)		5:47
Total length:37:27

Personnel

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The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.

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References

  1. 1 2 Rankin, Russ (2010). Capricorn One: Singles & Rarities (CD liner). Good Riddance. San Francisco: Fat Wreck Chords. 756-2.
  2. 1 2 Jain, Sean (2010-06-17). "Interviews: Russ Rankin (Good Riddance, Only Crime)". Punknews.org. Archived from the original on 2 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
  3. ↑ Hinds, Andy. "Review: A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion". Allmusic . Retrieved 2010-09-01.
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