Greg Graffin is entirely allergic to subtext, yet literary enough to occasionally drop shit like "incipient senescence" and "loneliness saunters in [freedom's] breeze like a disease it drags along" into his lyrics. this was actually the perfect combination for me when i was 14 years old and really into no bullshit! but also big words!.

of course this album is… often cartoonishly didactic lmao. these days i find it sometimes earnest and endearing, sometimes self-righteous and exasperating… sometimes both at once. not really an album i revisit, but one that feels… deeply instrumental in the construction of my worldview during those early teen years.

there is, in my opinion, a single indisputable best song on this album. i am not going to say what it is, but i think it can be figured out easily if one listens to the album while pretending to be me 😎 the very first domain name i ever bought for a personal website/blog came from a lyric in this song, and now you know that i thought of this album in the first place since i've been thinking about setting up a personal website/blog (real) again. haha! 👍