Good Riddance

   
Artist: Good Riddance

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   Punk
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 My Republic

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14


   
 Bound By Ties Of Blood And Affection

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Cover Ups

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Phenomenon Of Craving

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 6


   
 Operation Phoenix

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 17


   
 Ballads From The Revolution

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15


   
 A Comprehensive Guide To Modern Rebellion

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


   
 For God And Country

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Gidget (EP)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4

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Good Riddance is a straightedge hardcore punk band from Santa Cruz, CA. Led by vocalizer Russ Rankin, the band's longtime card included guitarist Luke Pabich, bassist Chuck Platt, and drummer Sean "SC" Sellers. Although it was formed in 1986 by ex-Fury 66 member Rankin as a voice for his political frustrations and protests, the band did not gel until Pabich's arrival. In 1990, they released their first 7", Gidget, on Little Deputy Records.


Beneficial Riddance was finally discovered by NOFX bassist and Fat Wreck Chords owner Fat Mike. After recruiting Platt, the isthmus produced the powerful For God and Country, which was released in 1995. Their place as a top marketer in Fat Wreck's card established, the band went on to grow the remarkable 1996 acquittance A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion. Playing sour of their strong antiwar and straightedge attitudes, Good Riddance cultivated a large undermentioned in the hood community. During the summer of 1996 and virtually of 1997, Good Riddance toured the U.S. and much of Europe with such headliners as Sick of It All, No Use for a Name, and Propagandhi.


Positive with the constancy of their calling, Good Riddance went back to the studios to record the 1998 record album Ballads from the Revolution. Seeing the band's music as a direction to extend to multitude with his message, Rankin packaged the CD with an silver-tongued essay. Although sure as shooting not the commencement band to do such a thing, Good Riddance stepped outside of the new-school toughie initialize and hearkened back to the days of early protest punk rock. In early 1999, the band released their fourth album, Operation Phoenix; however, Sellers foregone late that twelvemonth.


Good Riddance continued to duty tour with other Fat Wreck Chords artists, initially recruiting Lagwagon's Dave Raun as a impermanent stand in for Sellers. Raun played on the mid-2000 EP The Phenomenon of Craving earlier late Kid Dynamite drummer Dave Wagenschutz officially joined the band. The following year, the band released Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit. A split disk with Kill Your Idols preceded an all covers album, Pass over Ups, featuring versions of classics from Black Flag and the Psychedelic Furs.


Beneficial Riddance returned to all-original corporeal in 2003 with the raging social, political, and personal hard-core rants of Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection. A two-week European tour was completed in former 2006 ahead the band's seventh full-length, My Republic, appeared that summer, featuring Sellers back behind the Good Riddance brake drum kit. As members of the isthmus became progressively meddlesome with outside commitments and syndicate, it became harder for them to tour with the like frequency as they (and their fans) were used to. This fact conjugated with the ever-changing melodious climate off from their brand of hard-core, causation Good Riddance to at last decide to send for it a day in 2007, so that they could "walk off from this with a academic degree of seemliness and dignity," alternatively of just fading away. A triplet of California shows over Memorial Day weekend after became the band's last stands.