{"id":178,"date":"2006-05-18T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2006-05-18T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T20:21:08","slug":"bad-brains-i-and-i-survive-destroy-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/bad-brains-i-and-i-survive-destroy-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Brains &#8212; I And I Survive \/ Destroy Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/badbrainsdestroybabylon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"Bad Brains -- I And I Survive \/ Destroy Babylon\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/badbrainsdestroybabylon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Bad Brains<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> I And I Survive \/ Destroy Babylon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Not sure, mail order I think.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Punk rock, heavy metal, and separately reggae, with heaping helpings of spirituality and weirdness from four black guys from D.C.? Sign me up for some of that! Bad Brains, despite not being that prolific, or maybe because of it, is probably my favorite band, ever, for all-time, into the future even. I can&#8217;t imagine a new band creating music this special to me. Their music has a sophistication, and their playing a musicianship pretty much unheard of in the world of &#8220;punk&#8221; or &#8220;hardcore.&#8221; From the moment I heard their music I thought it was as exciting as it was unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>This four song EP must be pretty rare. All of the songs, &#8220;I And I Survive&#8221;, &#8220;Destroy Babylon&#8221;, &#8220;Coptic Times&#8221;, and &#8220;Joshua&#8217;s Song&#8221;, were also released on &#8220;Rock For Light&#8221; a year later. I&#8217;m not sure if they are the same versions. I was unable to quickly find another picture of this awesome cover art on the web. So, enjoy it while you&#8217;re here. I liked the art on the label on one side of this record so much that it was basis for the tattoo on my massive right bicep. See the pic.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting tidbit is that this record was produced by Ric Ocasek, of The Cars. Didn&#8217;t know Ric was that cool, did ya? To learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bad_Brains\">read this article about Bad Brains at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Bad Brains Title: I And I Survive \/ Destroy Babylon Year: 1982 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: Not sure, mail order I think. Keeper: Yes Punk rock, heavy metal, and separately reggae, with heaping helpings of spirituality and weirdness from four black guys from D.C.? Sign me up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,452,453],"tags":[506,563,725,728,913,930,1033],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-506","tag-bad-brains","tag-hardcore","tag-heavy-metal","tag-punk","tag-reggae","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}