Lyrics
Overture
Instrumental.
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First released on The Empire Strikes First · 2004
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Overture
Song details
- Bad Religion original
- Yes
- First released
- 2004
- First release
- The Empire Strikes First (album)
- Songwriter
- Brett Gurewitz
Song statistics
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27release versions
#182
182nd most featured song
397documented shows
#26
26th most played song
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In operas, composers wrote an overture as an introduction to the rest of the opera and usually it used musical themes that would later be heard throughout the opera. So it makes a lot of sense that Bad Religion took the music from Sinister Rouge, slowed it down, and called it the "Overture".