Bad ReligionAll Ages

Buzzsaw guitars, breakneck tempos, and those soaring three-part 'oozin' aah' harmonies that make Bad Religion sound like a punk choir. 'American Jesus' gallops in on a furious riff and a sneering hook, the kind of melodic hardcore that hits your gut and your head at once. Twenty-two cuts the band pulled from their Epitaph years, leaning on the untouchable Suffer/No Control/Against the Grain run, plus two live tracks from 1994. The fastest way into melodic hardcore. Slam it from the first second.