Bad Religion - 'Old Regime' (Full Album Stream)

"Old Regime" by Bad Religion from the album 'Age of Unreason,' available now

Lyrics

Privilege from birth, abhorrence of work, obsessed with sovereignty
Aristocrats claim an exemption from the standards of Democracy

A secret antipathy to justice and equality
And a tightly constrained definition of who is free

Old Regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells like the Old Regime

They think that they can alter and sway which version of freedom reigns
If everything is subjective then what good is truth anyway?

A plutocratic strategy or technocrat conspiracy.
Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?

Old Regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells like the Old Regime

An unabated tendency to tyranny is still in place
And the ancient nobility's complexion differs just in name

Old Regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
A new season dawns with ominous prophecy
Yeah the new aristocracy just smells like the Old Regime

#badreligion #ageofunreason #epitaph

[coversongthriftshop]

This might be my favorite tune off the new album! So good!

[patrykpogwizd]

first 5 seconds sounds a little bit like entrance in "Infected" hah
EDIT: now I'm reading comments and i see that I was not the only one who think about it XD

[MrRandalFlagg]

15 years later, still listening to their songs with a booklet on one knee and a dictionary on the other.
Thanks for educating me as a youngster, thanks for continuing to do so in my young adulthood!

[haroldthefrog]

Im getting a tattoo that has the lyrics from this song “if everything is subjective, than what good is truth anyway?”

[W.A.F]

Second!, , , time to loop this album for the next few years like the last 17 🤣

[arcerudy]

This whole album freaking rocks, bar none. Bad Religion killed it. This track though, man, perhaps my favorite on Age of Unreason.

[benitoayllon]

40 años después siguen sacando discos buenísimos. Para mí, la mejor canción de este disco y una de las mejores de la banda. Ya-hey!!!

[squandr]

did anyone else recognize that the song starts suspiciously familiar? :) ‚Infected‘ all the way - besides that: absolutely fantastic ass-kicking song!!

[viviananobre]

Só orgulho dessa banda. PQP QUE MÚSICA. <3

[foodlord]

if everything is subjective then what good is truth anyway?

[SolidInnercore]

I fucking love the I don't want to conquer the world solo intro. One of my favourites too

[colleenkowalczyk]

Now this sounds like old school Bad Religion. 👍💀

[Pendelook]

This one sounds like it came from The Empire Strikes First. So good.

[thiagobozo]

Impressionante a solidez e consistência desta banda, com músicas absurdamente emocionantes. Há algo melhor que bad religion?

[diamondkid]

What an album!!!! Bad Religion is the best and most talented punk band of all time!! Always impressive as hell!!!!

[erja]

Bad religion is so badass that makes me learn words that never heard about even in my home native language. Damm

[cris.kilterrier]

this song describes perfectly Piñera's "democracy" (Chile 2019)


ps: i hope you can play this saturday anyways

[abc-ckmt]

I’ve been listening to BR since I was 10 years old . 20+ years later their latest music is hitting hard as ever. With lyrics that at extremely relevant to today’s issues and music which takes me back to 80-80 and suffer/no control . What a great album...can’t overstate how great this album is.

[pierreboucher]

This album has the same progression in sound as The Empire Strikes First, getting slower and dull in the last third... But there are many killing tracks, which saves the album. I removed "Lose Your head", "Downfall" and "Since Now" from my tracklist, and the album plays much tighter. It's still 11 very good tracks.

[NicoJParco]

without a doubt the best word in this song is besotten, which means infatuated or obsessed, and takes its meaning from old English to be a sot, or a foolish person.