- Los Angeles Is Burning
Infobox Single
Name=Los Angeles Is Burning
Artist=Bad Religion
from Album=The Empire Strikes First
Released=2004
Format=CD
Recorded=
Genre=Punk rock
Length=3:23
Label=Epitaph Records
Writer=Brett Gurewitz
Producer=Brett Gurewitz Greg Graffin
Chart position=* #40 (US Modern Rock)
* #67 (UK)
Reviews=
Artist=Bad Religion
Last single="The Defense"
This single="Los Angeles Is Burning"
Next single="The Empire Strikes First""Los Angeles Is Burning" is the first single by punk band
Bad Religion from their 2004 album "The Empire Strikes First ".The lyrics in the bridge after the second chorus read:
"More a question than a curse "How could hell be any worse?"
"
How Could Hell Be Any Worse? " is also the name of their first album released in 1982.According to
Jay Bentley Fact|date=July 2008, the lyrics argue that the media is sensationalistic. The music video features men with cameras replacing their heads firing flame into the animated landscape ofLos Angeles . It was written at a time when there was a major fire nearbyFact|date=July 2008, but Bentley makes clear that the song was using the fire as a metaphor.Mike Campbell ofTom Petty and the Heartbreakers contributed to the guitar on this track.Fact|date=July 2008
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