Although many accused the band of selling out by signing to a major label, this, in my opinion is their best album. It is consistantly excellant with not a duff track amongst them. Geg Graffin's voice is at its best and the excellant songwriting of Brett Gurewitz was sorely missed on their ... Read review
Advantages: Every tracks a classic Disadvantages: none at all !
Although many accused the band of selling out by signing to a major label, this, in my opinion is their best album. It is consistantly excellant with not a duff track amongst them. Geg Graffin's voice is at its best and the excellant songwriting of Brett Gurewitz was sorely missed on their albums released after he left. Every song from start to finish is great and its definately the sort of album that you'd listen to the whole way through. Definately ... more
Although many accused the band of selling out by signing to a major label, this, in my opinion is their best album. It is consistantly excellant with not a duff track amongst them. Geg Graffin's voice is at its best and the excellant songwriting of Brett Gurewitz was sorely missed on their albums released after he left. Every song from start to finish is great and its definately the sort of album that you'd listen to the whole way through. Definately recommended, an essential purchase for any fan and also for anyone who has only heard the odd track - buy this album before the rest !
Although many accused the band of selling out by signing to a major label, this, in my opinion is their best album. It is consistantly excellant with not a duff track amongst them. Geg Graffin's voice is at its best and the excellant songwriting of Brett Gurewitz was sorely missed on their albums released after he left. Every song from start to finish is great and its definately the sort of album that you'd listen to the whole way through. Definately ...
big-balls 18.09.2000
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Advantages: Consistant Disadvantages: some songs sound better live
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Advantages: A few good tunes Disadvantages: patchy
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Advantages: A great album by a band i don't like Disadvantages: A couple of weak tracks
, with Green Day's 'Dookie' in february, Rancid's 'Let's Go' in june, NoFX's 'Punk In Drublic' in july and BadReligion's 'StrangerThanFiction' and this album in august. I was having a whale of a time.
Tracklist
1. Time to Relax (0.27)
2. Nitro (Youth Energy) (2.28)
3. Bad Habit (3.46) *
4. Gotta Get Away (3.54)
5. Genocide (3.33)
6. Something to Believe in (3.19)
7. Come Out and Play (3.19) *
8. Self Esteem (4.19) *
9. It'll Be a Long Time (2.45)
10. Killboy Powerhead (2.04)
11. What Happened to You? (2.14)
12. So Alone (1.19)
13. Not the One (2.57)
14. Smash (10.39)
*= outstanding tracks
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Product details
Title
Stranger Than Fiction
Performer
Bad Religion
Genre
Hardcore & Punk
Release Date
25/01/1999
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1994
Label / Distributor
Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Producer
Andy Wallace; Bad Religion
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5099747734328
Catalogue Number
4773432
Additional notes
Album Notes
Bad Religion: Greg Graffin (vocals); Brett Gurewitz (guitar, background vocals); Greg Hetson (guitar); Jay Bentley (bass, background vocals); Bobby Schayer (drums). Additional personnel: Tim "Lint" Armstrong (vocals); Wayne Kramer (guitar); Andy Wallace (Hammond organ); Jim Lindeberg (background vocals). Bad Religion is punk-rock's Bonnie Raitt, a cult band that persisted and persisted until the world finally came around to them. Around the time Robert Johnson's old Delta blues records started selling in the hundreds of thousands, Raitt started collecting platinum records and Grammys; likewise, in the era of Nirvana's and Green Day's run up the charts, Bad Religion began seeing big returns for the same kind of records they used to make for peanuts. STRANGER THAN FICTION is where Bad Religion cashes in--at the alternative register, anyway. Far from a sellout, it's a confident reaffirmation of all the band's strengths: anthemic rhythm-guitar hooks that are equal parts 70's punk, 80's hardcore and classic heavy metal; a fast but super-tight rhythm section; unswervingly political lyrics; and, in defiant contrast to all of the above, pop harmonies. Songs like "Incomplete," "Stranger Than Fiction" and "Handshake" (which equates record-company business deals with class and race warfare) enter your head as hurricanes of information about the world's ills. They remain there because they're built upon blistering punk-rock guitar hooks.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (11/3/94, p.98) - 3.5 Stars - Good - "...like the Ramones' early albums, STRANGER THAN FICTION is a thrill ride that threatens to hurtle off the track at any second, the melodies coming in great, breathless bunches..." Musician (10/94, p.86) - "...On a stylistic level, Bad Religion are punk fundamentalists...yet these guys are virtual Unitarians when it comes to songwriting, opting for easily accessible pop melodies and even the occasional cushion of harmony vocals....It makes for a wonderfully bracing album..." Q (11/94, p.105) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...no-holds-barred yet melodic...Their battleplan is matching poignant socio-politically aware lyrics to grungy yet powerfully soaring guitar rock..." NME (10/15/94, p.55) - 8 - Excellent - "...Bad Religion write great tunes...that place them firmly within that fine punk rock tradition of The Ramones and the sadly neglected Hard-Ons..." Entertainment Weekly (9/9/94, p.84) - "...What's strange about these California power punk veterans' major label debut is that their slammin' riffs, tersely punctuated guitar solos, and ambitious harmonies remained underground for so long..." - Rating: A-
Titles on disc 1
1.
Incomplete
2.
Leave Mine To Me
3.
Stranger Than Fiction
4.
Tiny Voices
5.
Handshake
6.
Better Off Dead
7.
Infected
8.
Television
9.
Individual
10.
Hooray For Me
11.
Slumber
12.
Marked
13.
Inner Logic
14.
What Is It
15.
21st Century (Digital Boy)
16.
News From The Front
17.
Markovian Process
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