Gnarly war photo on the back cover! Point taken. The white vinyl was the original limited colored vinyl for this release. I know most hardcore kids liked this one best, but I don’t know, I preferred the previous formulas. Good Riddance – “Operation Phoenix” LP This is most definitely the most “hardcore” of GR’s LP’s, and oddly enough, I didn’t like it as much as the previous records. The blue vinyl was the original colored pressing on Fat out of ~300-500. The last song, “Years From Now”, was another really good one – “…when you hear this song, you’ll know it comes, straight from the heart”. That song “Salt” was definitely a hit, as well as “Waste”, a pro-Animal Rights song that was uncharacteristically heavy and distorted which really stuck with me. Good Riddance – “Ballads From The Revolution” LP “Ballads” was a strong follow-up to “Comprehensive Guide”.
Note the 1996 dates, denoting it is a test pressing from the original 1st pressing. I recently sold it to Adam Bender, a fellow lover of GR’s “Comprehensive Guide” LP, so I’m glad it went to a good home!Ī closer look at the test pressing. I’m not sure why they don’t pop up more often, but I’ve never seen another. It’s absolutely the only Fat Wreck Chords test pressing of any Good Riddance LP that I’ve ever seen sold or traded. He must have gotten it from the band around the time he was releasing the Good Riddance / Ill Repute split 7″ on It’s Alive. Here’s an original 1st pressing test pressing of the “Comprehensive Guide” LP from 1996 that I scored from Fred Hammer (It’s Alive Records). I know there have recently been some represses by Fat (yellow vinyl, etc). Like most Fat Wreck stuff, it was out of ~300-500 copies only, with all the rest being black vinyl. The red vinyl version is the original colored vinyl that was pressed for this release (not sure if it was 1st press or if it came a little later). As I said above, I think I love it today as much as I did when I was a kid listening to it a hundred times a week. Good Riddance – “A Comprehensive Guide To Moderne Rebellion” LP This is far and away my favorite GR album. These vinyl labels were the beginning of that whole theme, haha. Good Riddance always used these old conservative American images to poke fun at past and current conservative socio-political positions. Sometime in the 2000’s they pressed these copies on blue vinyl. Good Riddance – “For God And Country” LP The first Good Riddance LP on Fat Wreck Chords did not originally have any colored or limited versions. Over the years, my tastes have obviously changed somewhat, but I still regularly throw on Good Riddance “A Comprehensive Guide To Moderne Rebellion” and I think I love it today just as much as I did back then. I was hooked on hardcore, and I never looked back.
The singers of all 3 bands just seemed to bring it, in such a different way than any other pop punk or goofy punk that I had seen up to that point. The first show I can remember feeling like “Yup, this is for me, I’ve finally found something that clicks with me” was an AFI / Good Riddance / Fury 66 show at the Zocolo Room in Chico, CA. As I got further into their material, I was increasingly drawn to the straight edge lifestyle and their animal rights focus. I was initially drawn into the passion and aggression of their live shows (obviously now I realize that these bands were relatively tame compared to any other hardcore/punk/metal, but compared to what I had seen up to this point, it was intense).
They were also the first 2 bands that really stuck with me, mostly because I was able to see them play semi-regularly, growing up in Northern California. Other than random local bands, Good Riddance and AFI were the first hardcore punk bands that I ever saw.
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