Bad Brains Discography - Studio Albums

Studio Albums

Year Title Comments
1982 Bad Brains
  • Label: ROIR Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • Debut studio album.
  • This album was originally released only on cassette.
  • In-Effect Records released a CD version with the same track listing entitled Attitude: The ROIR Sessions in 1991.
1983 Rock for Light
  • Label: PVC Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • Contains a number of re-recorded tracks from their first album.
  • Reissued by Caroline Records in 1991. The reissue was remixed by the album's producer Ric Ocasek and bassist Darryl Jenifer.
  • Bad Brains broke up for the first time after the release of this album.
1986 I Against I
  • Label: SST Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • First release on SST Records.
  • Regarded as the highest selling album in the band's catalogue, I Against I is a critically acclaimed album of American hardcore punk mixed with funk, soul, and heavy metal.
  • This is the only Bad Brains album that does not include reggae music.
1989 Quickness
  • Label: Caroline Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • Last album with H.R. on vocals and his brother Earl, who remains credited but didn't actually play on the album, on drums. Mackie Jayson of Cro-Mags handled the drum tracks instead.
  • On this album, the band continues the same style they used on I Against I.
1993 Rise
  • Label: Epic Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • First Bad Brains album on a major label.
  • The only Bad Brains album without H.R. and his brother Earl. Their respective replacements were Israel Joseph I on vocals and Mackie Jayson, who was a session musician on Quickness, on drums.
1995 God of Love
  • Label: Maverick Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP, Cassette
  • The first Bad Brains album recorded with the original lineup in nine years.
  • Final album before disbanding again.
2002 I & I Survived
  • Label: Reggae Lounge
  • Formats: CD
  • Mostly an instrumental dub album featuring a large amount of reggae, ska, and dub elements with only occasional forays into hard rock and punk music, as opposed to their other albums which are the other way around.
  • Contains remakes of Bad Brains' past material.
  • H.R., the voice of the band, does not appear on this album.
2007 Build a Nation
  • Label: Megaforce Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP
  • Bad Brains' first album of original material in twelve years.
2012 Into the Future
  • Label: Megaforce Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl LP

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