How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (studio album) by Bad Religion

How Could Hell Be Any Worse? by Bad Religion
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 12,898th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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74/100 (from 55 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1982 (195th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,792nd)
Award Best albums of all time (12,898th)
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Bad Religion bestography

How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is ranked 11th best out of 24 albums by Bad Religion on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bad Religion is Stranger Than Fiction which is ranked number 2264 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 715.

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 55 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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From 02/22/2024 04:58
Excellent debut. All songs are good, but a couple stand out as particularly great. Agree that this (like much punk/rock music from this time period) is probably best as a live experience, but what can you do. Best tracks: 1,3,5,12
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From 01/23/2020 16:03
One of my favorite Punk rock albums. The production is terrible, but I think it adds to the charm of the album. Greg's lyrics are excellently written, delivering scathing criticism of various topics ranging from government corruption to religion. He also has one of the best voices in the genre. This album has some of Bad Religion's best tracks, "We're Only Gonna Die", "Faith In God", and especially "Fuck Armageddon This Is Hell" are my personal favorites. Not their best, but a fantastic debut and an essential punk record.
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From 11/15/2015 09:44
It's production is a little bad, but it's a debut what do you expect. When I listen to this I imagine what it would be like to be at their liveshows back than. This one + Into The Unknown are my fav's BR records, ITU for it's uniqueness... Proggy Bad Religion wasn't that bad
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A classic in a long line of great punk debuts. We're Only Gonna Die, Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell, Bad Religion, Drastic Actions but really every song is good. I highly recommend as an example of the 2nd wave of hardcore punk bands from California.
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