{{About|the punk music album|the online technology channel|Tested.com}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Tested | type = Live album | artist = Bad Religion | cover = Bad_Religion_Tested.jpg | alt = | released = January 1997<ref>{{cite book |last=Ruland |first=Jim |date=2020 |title=Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion |location=New York City |publisher=Hachette Books |page=199 |isbn=978-0306922220 }}</ref> | recorded = April 17 – October 14, 1996 | venue = | studio = | genre = Punk rock<ref name="amg"/> | length = 65:49 | label = {{hlist|Dragnet|Epic}} | producer = {{hlist|Bad Religion|Ronnie Kimball}} | prev_title = The Gray Race | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = No Substance | next_year = 1998 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="amg">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tested-mw0000548144|title=Tested - Bad Religion | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Great Rock Discography'' |rev2score = 5/10<ref>{{cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |author-link=Martin C. Strong |date=2002 |title=The Great Rock Discography |url= |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Canongate Books |page=53 |isbn=9781841953120}}</ref> |rev3 = Punknews.org |rev3score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/1078/bad-religion-tested|title=Bad Religion - Tested|website=www.punknews.org}}</ref> | noprose = }} '''''Tested''''' is the first official<ref name="amg"/> live album by punk rock band Bad Religion.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=bad_religion|title=TrouserPress.com :: Bad Religion|website=www.trouserpress.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&q=tested+bad+religion+1997&pg=PP65|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Peter|last=Buckley|date=May 24, 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781843531050|via=Google Books}}</ref> It was recorded in the USA, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Denmark, Italy and Austria, in 1996, and released in 1997. It is Bad Religion's second live album.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} Instead of using crowd microphones and mobile studios like most live albums, the band tapped the inputs, for a result that portrays Bad Religion's live sound without crowd noise.<ref name="auto"/> It also includes three new songs; "Dream of Unity," "It's Reciprocal," and the title track.
==Background==
Bad Religion's US label, Atlantic, turned down releasing ''Tested''; however, the band's German label, Sony, agreed to release the album in Europe and the rest of the world through its imprints Dragnet and Epic.<ref name=brpage>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebrpage.net/theanswer/?article=tested%5F%28album%29|title=Bad Religion - Tested|website=The Bad Religion Page|access-date=April 11, 2024}}</ref> The album was released in January 1997 in Australia, followed by a European release in February.<ref name=mtv>{{Cite web|last=Kaufman|first=Gil|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/v4mqjw/bad-religion-live-album-out-now|title=Bad Religion Live Album Out Now|website=MTV|date=February 3, 1997|access-date=April 11, 2024}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In March, it was available as import-only in the US.<ref name="auto"/><ref name=mtv/>
"Dream of Unity" was released as a single in Germany in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebrpage.net/discography/variation.asp?varID=128|title=Dream of Unity|website=The Bad Religion Page|access-date=April 11, 2024}}</ref>
In 2008, ''Tested'' was reissued in Europe by Epitaph.
==Critical reception== Dave Thompson, in ''Alternative Rock'', wrote: "Disconcerting the first listen, energizing thereafter, few live albums have been this brave."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=tested+bad+religion+1997&pg=PA170|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=May 24, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref>
In his review for AllMusic, Jack Rabid called the album "a bit of a letdown." He felt that the album lacks a "you are there" feel and that the overall sound is "merely average." He concluded, "Nonetheless, with a band this top-notch, even such a merely passable, perfectly clear recording demonstrates their awesome punk prowess enough (especially that of singer Graffin, whose phenomenal pipes soar all over this) to make ''Tested'' a large pleasure just the same." Rabid said of the three new studio tracks: "Dream of Unity" is uncharacteristically half-baked and slightly dull, but both "Tested" and "It's Reciprocal" burn the laser off the player."<ref name="amg"/>
==Track listing== {{track listing | collapsed = | headline = | extra_column = Recording date and place
| title1 = Operation Rescue | writer1 = Greg Graffin | extra1 = June 26, 1996; The Arena, Berlin, Germany | length1 = 2:11
| title2 = Punk Rock Song | writer2 = Graffin | extra2 = July 10, 1996; Olympic Stadium, Rome, Italy | length2 = 2:24
| title3 = Tomorrow | writer3 = Graffin | extra3 = July 10, 1996; Olympic Stadium, Rome, Italy | length3 = 1:54
| title4 = A Walk | writer4 = Graffin | extra4 = June 27, 1996; Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark | length4 = 2:27
| title5 = God Song | writer5 = Graffin | extra5 = September 19, 1996; Metropol, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | length5 = 1:48
| title6 = Pity the Dead | writer6 = Graffin | extra6 = June 22, 1996; The Amphitheater, Loreley, Germany | length6 = 2:59
| title7 = 1000 More Fools | writer7 = Brett Gurewitz | extra7 = September 7, 1996; Holidome, Melbourne, Florida, United States | length7 = 1:39
| title8 = Drunk Sincerity | writer8 = Graffin | extra8 = April 24, 1996; RPM Warehouse, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | length8 = 2:17
| title9 = Generator | writer9 = Gurewitz | extra9 = June 30, 1996; Westfalenhallen, Dortmund, Germany | length9 = 3:23
| title10 = Change of Ideas | writer10 = Graffin | extra10 = April 25, 1996; State Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, United States | length10 = 0:59
| title11 = Portrait of Authority | writer11 = Graffin | extra11 = June 26, 1996; The Arena, Berlin, Germany | length11 = 2:52
| title12 = What It Is | writer12 = Graffin | extra12 = April 17, 1996; Roseland Ballroom, New York City, New York, United States | length12 = 2:20
| title13 = Dream of Unity | note13 = studio track | writer13 = Graffin | extra13 = September 4, 1996; Polypterus Studio, Ithaca, New York, United States | length13 = 2:50
| title14 = Sanity | writer14 = Gurewitz | extra14 = September 11, 1996; Button South, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | length14 = 2:43
| title15 = American Jesus | writer15 = Gurewitz, Graffin | extra15 = June 22, 1996; The Amphitheater, Loreley, Germany | length15 = 3:15
| title16 = Do What You Want | writer16 = Gurewitz | extra16 = September 19, 1996; Metropol, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | length16 = 1:15
| title17 = Part III | writer17 = Jay Bentley | extra17 = June 19, 1996; Circus Krone, Munich, Germany | length17 = 2:54
| title18 = Ten In 2010 | writer18 = Graffin | extra18 = July 7, 1996; Tallinna Lauluväljak, Tallinn, Estonia | length18 = 2:24
| title19 = No Direction | writer19 = Graffin | extra19 = September 12, 1996; Hammerjack's, Baltimore, Maryland, United States | length19 = 3:07
| title20 = Along the Way | writer20 = Graffin | extra20 = May 3, 1996; PNE Forum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | length20 = 1:38
| title21 = Recipe for Hate | writer21 = Graffin | extra21 = April 28, 1996; Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, United States | length21 = 2:15
| title22 = Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell | writer22 = Graffin | extra22 = May 8, 1996; Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, United States | length22 = 3:00
| title23 = It's Reciprocal | note23 = studio track | writer23 = Graffin, Brian Baker, Bobby Schayer | extra23 = October 14, 1996; Polypterus Studio, Ithaca, New York, United States | length23 = 2:04
| title24 = Struck a Nerve | writer24 = Graffin | extra24 = September 8, 1996; Shades, Jacksonville, Florida, United States | length24 = 3:36
| title25 = Leave Mine to Me | writer25 = Graffin | extra25 = April 22, 1996; Verdun Auditorium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | length25 = 2:13
| title26 = Tested | note26 = studio track | writer26 = Graffin | extra26 = September 2, 1996; Polypterus Studio, Ithaca, New York, United States | length26 = 3:05
| title27 = No Control | writer27 = Graffin | extra27 = September 8, 1996; Shades, Jacksonville, Florida, United States | length27 = 2:03 | total_length = 65:49 }}
==Personnel== Adapted from the album liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Tested |others=Bad Religion |date=1997 |publisher=Dragnet/Epic}}</ref>
;Bad Religion * Greg Graffin – vocals * Brian Baker – guitar, backing vocals * Greg Hetson – guitar * Jay Bentley – bass guitar, backing vocals * Bobby Schayer – drums ;Technical * Bad Religion – production, recording, mixing, concept * Ronnie Kimball – production, mixing * George Marino – mastering * Steve Raskin – art direction, design * ION Design – art direction, design, photography * Peter Hayes – cover stamp, flag stamp * Jerry Mahoney – backdrop * John Allan – photography * Thorsten Martin-Edingshaus – photography * Olaf Heine – photography * Rob Myers – photography
==Notes and trivia== * The songs "Tested", "Dream of Unity" and "It's Reciprocal" are previously unreleased studio tracks. * The live songs were recorded in Berlin (Germany), Rome (Italy), Roskilde (Denmark), Pittsburgh (PA, USA), Loreley (Germany), Melbourne (FL, USA), Toronto (Ontario, Canada), Dortmund (Germany), Detroit (MI, USA), Berlin (Germany), New York (NY, USA), Ithaca (NY, USA), Raleigh (NC, USA), Munich (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), Baltimore (MD, USA), Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), Chicago (IL, USA), San Francisco (CA, USA), Jacksonville (FL, USA) and Montreal (Quebec, Canada) * The disc has the phrase "No Bad Religion song can make your live complete" printed on it – a slightly modified quote from the song ''No Direction'', in which the lyric is “life” instead of “live”.
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Chart performance for ''Tested'' ! scope="col"| Chart (1997) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"|Australian Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/YSsFoXv.jpeg|title=Bad Religion chart history, received from ARIA on June 21, 2024|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date=June 25, 2024}} N.B. The High Point number indicates the release's peak on the national chart.</ref> |67 |- {{album chart|Austria|49|artist=Bad Religion|album=Tested|rowheader=true|access-date=April 11, 2024}} |- ! scope="row"| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)<ref>{{cite web |title=Finnishcharts.com – Bad Religion – Tested |url=https://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Bad+Religion&titel=Tested&cat=a|publisher=Hung Medien |access-date=April 11, 2024}}</ref> | 25 |- ! scope="row"| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)<ref>{{cite web |title=Offiziellecharts.de – Bad Religion – Tested |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-7772|publisher=GfK Entertainment charts |language=de|access-date=April 11, 2024}}</ref> | 74 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== <!-- This is a licensed stream for the album, which is allowed under Wikipedia polices --> *[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKArKK2vi6TcgSV-GV1SHsmWEJj_iWij ''Tested''] at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
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