BAD RELIGION-Stranger Than Fiction

SONY MUSIC Germany 1994

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Stranger Than Fiction (album) Stranger Than Fiction Studio album by Bad Religion Released 30 August 1994 Recorded April-May 1994 at Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park, California Genre Punk rock Length 38:28 Label Atlantic Producer Andy Wallace and Bad Religion Professional reviews

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Bad Religion chronology Recipe for Hate
(1993) Stranger Than Fiction
(1994) All Ages
(1995) Singles from Stranger Than Fiction

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Stranger Than Fiction is the eighth full-length studio album (tenth release overall) by Bad Religion, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). It was their first album released on the major label Atlantic Records (although that label re-released its predecessor, Recipe for Hate) and also guitarist Brett Gurewitz's last release with Bad Religion, until his return in 2002 with the release of The Process of Belief.

With sales continuing fourteen years after its release, Stranger Than Fiction is widely considered Bad Religion's most successful album, due to the success of the two singles, "Infected" and "21st Century (Digital Boy)", that eventually earned airplay on radio stations, such as KROQ.

 

[edit] Musical style

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The album found the band retreating from the experimentation of Generator and Recipe for Hate and producing a fast and harmonic punk record, perhaps in response to allegations of the band 'selling out' when they signed with Atlantic Records.

[edit] Production and marketing

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After the Recipe for Hate tour ended, Bad Religion immediately began writing songs for their eighth studio album. The band teamed up with producer Andy Wallace (of Nirvana, Sepultura and Slayer fame), then entered Rumbo Recorders in April 1994,[1] booking five weeks of studio time in which to record the album. This would be the first time Bad Religion had not recorded an album at Westbeach Recorders since 1984's Back to the Known. As far as the song selections, bassist Jay Bentley commented:

“ That was an ordeal! We chose the songs, but man did we fight. The songs that were left off the U.S. release were voted off by a majority. You should've seen the lobbying! ”

[edit] Reception

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Stranger Than Fiction was released on August 30, 1994 and became the first Bad Religion album distributed via Atlantic Records. On September 24th of that year, the album peaked at number 87 on the Billboard 200 album chart,[2] and on March 4, 1998, also became Bad Religion's first (and only) album to be certified gold in the United States.[3]

All Music Guide's Jack Rabid (The Big Takeover) praised this album as a "rare case of selling out in reverse" and songs such as "Leave Mine to Me," "Individual," "Tiny Voices," and "Marked", calling them "all uptempo barnburners, pulverizing in their rapid passion". He also describes "'Infected' into 'Television'" as "the two least effective songs of their 15 years, the former a third-rate 'Sanity'", referring to the track from 1989's No Control.

[edit] Re-releases

Stranger Than Fiction was re-released several times, with different labels, covers and formats in different countries (see the table below).[4]

Year Country Format Label Note 1994 Europe CD Sony 477343 2 Bonus Tracks 1994 USA Vinyl LP Atlantic 82658-1 1994 Germany CD Dragnet DRA 477343 6 Alternate Cover; Bonus Tracks; Collector's Edition 1994 USA Cassette Atlantic 82658-4 1994 USA CD Atlantic 82658-2 1995 Germany CD Dragnet DRA 477343 60 Bonus Tracks

[edit] Track listing

# Song Length Credits 01 "Incomplete" 2:28 Brett Gurewitz 02 "Leave Mine To Me" 2:07 Greg Graffin 03 "Stranger Than Fiction" 2:20 Brett Gurewitz 04 "Tiny Voices" 2:36 Greg Graffin 05 "The Handshake" 2:50 Greg Graffin 06 "Better Off Dead" 2:39 Brett Gurewitz 07 "Infected" 4:08 Brett Gurewitz 08 "Television" 2:03 Brett Gurewitz, Johnette Napolitano 09 "Individual" 1:58 Greg Graffin 10 "Hooray for Me..." 2:50 Brett Gurewitz 11 "Slumber" 2:39 Greg Graffin 12 "Marked" 1:48 Brett Gurewitz 13 "Inner Logic" 2:58 Greg Graffin 14 "What It Is" 2:08 Greg Graffin 15 "21st Century (Digital Boy)" 2:47 Brett Gurewitz 16 "News from the Front"(Europe and Japan bonus track) 2:22 Brett Gurewitz, Jay Bentley, Bobby Schayer 17 "Markovian Process"(Europe and Japan bonus track) 1:29 Greg Graffin 18 "Leaders and Followers"(Japan only bonus track) 2:40 Greg Graffin[5]

[edit] Personnel

• Greg Graffin – vocals
• Brett Gurewitz – lead guitar
• Greg Hetson – rhythm guitar
• Jay Bentley – bass guitar
• Bobby Schayer – drums
• Tim Armstrong of Rancid – guest vocals on "Television"
• Jim Lindberg of Pennywise – guest vocals on "Marked"
• Andy Wallace – production
• Norman Moore – art direction

[edit] Collaborations

• Wayne Kramer (of the MC5) plays lead guitar on opening track "Incomplete".
• Tim Armstrong (of Operation Ivy, Rancid and The Transplants) contributed lead vocals on "Television", which Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano co-wrote with Brett Gurewitz.
• Jim Lindberg (of Pennywise) contributing backing vocals on "Marked"

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