The Empire Strikes First

[U4Loosing]

Some people here are so young (or stoned) they wont even know what "10 million souls marching in february" means...

Think its time to pull out the troops...

Or Iran WILL have that nuke.

[LordCorinth]

there is no ''i'' in ''team bad religion'' :)

[tofuneko85]

Amazingly done! Nice work.

[Vindex1990]

DONT WANNA LIVE DONT WANNA BE

E M P I R E :) EPISCH!!!!

[manwizzle323]

Awesome dude just awesome!

[XchucknoresX]

great song and a nice video

[TheKraig]

I'm sure Bad Religion would give this a big thumbs up, that was a lot better than I was expecting!

[Punkouttacontrol]

fuck yeah!!! legos and bad religion!!! good vid man. oi from vegas! ;)

[DotATheNoob]

My favorite The Empire Strikes First

video i like it ^^ :-)

[HoldenCaulfieldXXX]

nice

[oscarballs]

For all the folks saying that there is a "Mariah Carey part" at 3:00... you are half right. Greg sings, "I can't live if living is with you". The original quote is, "I can't live if living is WITHOUT you", from the song "Without You" by Air Supply.

[oscarballs]

Mariah Carey covered the Air Supply song.

[G420S]

COOOOOL. The American flag was awesome!

[kirayuy833]

This is a really cool video.

[Seli125]

GREAT SONG!

[Fakeone1710]

Bad religion RULES! (A) >=D /m/

[Rainb0wProductions]

This is a great video, really creative

[Ziggy89legalizeit]

Good job lol 5 stars! legos For Your win!

[drdude17]

Bad Religion always makes kick ass songs. >=D

[madeyes99]

awesome song

[MansoorClan]

legos fucking kick ass!

[Darth0Chicka0HeYzues]

This is a the work of genuine genius (sorry I cant spell, it doesn't mean I cant read between lines)

[akfaas]

hey great works! how about nofx (the decline)??? its take a year to finish i guess! lol..overall ***** (5 star)

[Mafon2]

great work

[duartesofia]

what a song............GOD!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[TheAtheistPriest]

"I can't live, if living is with you" - Great reference to the Mariah Carey song 'I can't live without you'!!!!

[Superterrestrial]

lolwut? This isn't a reference to any Mariah Carey song.

[TheAtheistPriest]

Not the whole song, duh...

2:59 to 3:07 in this video sounds very much (or exactly) like 1:10 to 1:19 in this song:

watch?v=r6sW-4FzN5U ...come on man, tell me you can hear it, and tell me you appreciate Bad Religion's intentional twist to it.

[Superterrestrial]

What are you talking about? The only similarity is that one lyric...Which isn't even the same. Believe it or not, Mariah Carey didn't come up with that phrase, either. I'd also bet, although I can't be bothered looking it up, that this song came first.

[theoffspringguy]

ummm it does sound exactly the same..and it's intentional you fucking retard ...if you don't hear it youre a moron

[arcadeb]

it's so nice to see,some americans disagree with their own country,i love this band man,they really say what's on their heart.thanks for the great video man....

[ryannrotten]

very nice A for effort and A 4 presentation good job you do the song justice prooving that you dont need millions of dollars to make a good video

[NerdInHisShoe]

E M P I R E

[TheAtheistPriest]

WOW!!! 5 stars! Love the animation

[ModeStudios]

make more of these, now.

[Welcome2MyHell6]

Awesome song!

(One time i wore their shirt to school and i got in serious trubble)

[Iamkl132]

So much for freedom of expression eh?

[swordsmaster6]

not bad man! good job!

[gr1mr34p0r]

Awesome man!

[Superterrestrial]

I love the chorus into breakdown section. Such a great song.

[thedevil482]

DUDE! thats totally awesome1 i like anti war messages and stop motion animation, perfect combo

[thisisfun815]

is the line but even 10 million souls marching in february couldnt stop the worst a refernce to world war 1 or 2? or is it arefernce to something else?

[Prankard]

It's referencing an anti-war protest against the invasion of Iraq in February 2003.

[outshined]

A bitterly cold day that I'll never forget. Glad to have been there.

[Roborat1]

great vid, 5 stars and fav'd :D

[thisisfun815]

great job with the video

[tfp1973]

Fantastic job to a fantastic song!

[AstralSight]

Brilliant. Seriously. It's stop animation (which is all on it's own amazing), put to Bad Religion. Applaud you for using this style and hanging on!

[TheBrotherin]

Awesome!

[MONSTERMAKEROFDOOM]

KICKASS VID

[smanfan10]

Two minutes hate. Nice referrence to 1984, love that book.

[Prankard]

I really want to read that book but I haven't gotten around to it yet :(

[smanfan10]

you should try to get to it. However, if you dont like unhappy endings, you shouldnt read it.

[HeavierThanWater]

@Prankard Best book ever written, IMHO

[GodOfTheInternets]

@smanfan10

1984 is overrated, sure it is a pretty good book but I feel as if everyone just says "OH it's sooo good" for no other reason that others express themselves in a same fashion.

[mtlgtr420]

@GodOfTheInternets I can't help but disagree with you. Read it in an AP Literature class. Analyze it. Scrutinize it. Study it everything about it. The book is godsent

[RobehEdg]

Incredible video mate.

[sremle99]

bad religion kicks ass early punk!!

[Alibi175]

wow actually a good song and im not a fan of rock

[Mangostuff]

*Punk* rock :)

[DocTight]

congratulations, you've found access to the incredibly beautiful music of Bad Religion! :-)

[Thunderwolf666]

@Alibi175 I like to think of Bad Religion as more "Aggressive Folk" ;) DISCLAIMER: I know it's punk rock before I get a torrent of abuse.

[ash0ppingcart]

@Thunderwolf666 hey, that's actually a nice way to put it! I always told my friends about BR and how they're a punk band but there's more to it.

[resarf9]

@Thunderwolf666 I think thats actually a really good description of them

[Lindsaylou1785]

@Alibi175 its punk...

[NLoog]

hi all =]

[jbxspartan]

Wow. That was amazing. Great job dude.

[jesusninjapants]

very nice

[guijac]

good job!!!

=D

[spinkwotzer]

I like this video. It's cool.

[1001rants]

sick vid dude. its not the animation that i thought was so impressive as it was the lego scene. what a bitch it must have been trying to spell out empire and making the flag like that.

peace love and chicken grease

[TrinaYurami]

whoa, that's really nice work! Great job, great band :D 5/5

[sknkface7]

Holy hell that was sooooo awesome.. Good job!

[dankru]

Well done!

[GlennRekkoha]

Great stop motion, plus the best song, I simply love it ;)

[shoy01]

el signo de la paz esta alrevez XD

[PawBadReligion]

Amazing video! Just three days? O.O

[studmunky412]

hey great video man just looked up the song and found this. Very nice work.

[fehersolyom]

I haven't noticed the Mariah Carey part of the song at 3:04 before. :) My bride told me to listen carefully. :)

Very nice clip, it had to be a hard work!

I'm so glad that Bad Religion will come on Wednesday for gig to Hungary!!! I waited such a long time for them!

[LordXehenniar]

THAT MUst have taken SO long. 5/5

[ThaGMan51]

That's one messed up map of North America.

[Prankard]

Haha, trust RISK.

[suicidexmind]

very nice !

bad religion the best sound !

:D come to chile!!

[Fenrisuplex]

Kick ass, mate.

[W1K1DxFONZ]

sick nastey, gud $h1t

[paulopilha]

I love it!! Really nice work!!

[morethatmeetstheeye]

the best song  bad religion rockss

[colind1993]

hey prankard i just searched this song expecting some crappy live video but you completely destroyed my expectations great video!

[Prankard]

Thanks, this comment made my day (I didn't expect it being I actually filmed a few years ago).

But even worse than a crappy live video is a crappy clip of Anime footage with a rock audio track on top!

[colind1993]

ahaha your right!

[jbarry716]

amen to that

[pill0x]

yes, he is. really nice video. and great song. but could anybody explain me who (what) is 'nam? i'm really interested in this thing.

[pill0x]

ok, i'm an idiot. just realize he's talkin' about viet'.

[metalhead91]

Also, I'm not sure, what is the "Ten million souls marching in February?" referencing?

[pill0x]

in february 2003, ten million people all around the world participated in the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world. i think it's referencing to this =)

[blasbeb]

Vietnam and also Iraq (We strike first, USA attacked Iraq and so on)

[pill0x]

yes I know the song refers to preventive attacks of the US in general terms, I just said that 'nam stands for vietnam...I think...it's taken me weeks to understand this and it's oh so simple...

[BernhardtFIN]

"Preventive attacks". Since when hasn't violence created more violence?

[ThaGMan51]

They're actually called "pre-emptive" strikes or attacks.

[metalhead91]

Isn't Graffin a life sciences professor at UCLA?

[blasbeb]

nice work.

too bad Bad Religion didn't make a video for this song.

[PhillyPartTwo]

Not bad. Pretty impressive. This may be BR's most underrated song.

[metalhead91]

This, and Epiphany, off of Process of Belief.

[cuentosdepapel]

totally agree metalhead... epiphany is a badass song

[PawBadReligion]

Epiphany is not underrated, we all know we love it xD.

[lcurtizz]

that map is fucked to the tits

great song and a good video

[WadeRatliff]

Not bad, honestly. I thought it would suck. Thanks for the idea on the EMPIRE flag of legos. I put one up in my room about 4 times as big after.

[Prankard]

Sounds awesome!!!

Got any pics?

[WadeRatliff]

If only I had a camera. I will see what I can do, I will message you with a pic.

[Repulse1988]

haha pretty cool, good job

[mudmanthree]

nice work

[justinkk11]

what a gay vid l0l

[CarstenSand]

Very simple, but very impressive. N1!

[MamaEden]

Wow!

Impressive :D

[headknocker2020]

wow, that was really cool

[denali5599]

Great song!

[kurtangle83]

Impressing, I especially like the Lego part.

[mvonneumann]

yeah here

Bad religions lyrics are always political in one way or another, one of the reasons why they rock.

Two min's hate thank u George Orwell

[Doitwich]

Anyone really thought about the meaning of this song?

[shortattentionspan47]

Yeah, why?

[yupfrank]

lol this is really good

i liked it

[Prankard]

Glad you liked it, thanks for taking the time to post.

[henrywgillard]

That was so cool and i love the song, keep it up

[Prankard]

Cool, the song is "The Empire Strikes First" by Bad Religion. Check them out, the album is pretty cool.

Glad you enjoyed it, it makes all the work a little more worth while :)

- James

[BadHabit1994]

I have the album and I love it. This is a great video.