Stranger Than Fiction (Deluxe Edition Remastered) Bad Religion

• 1 Incomplete 02:29
• 2 Leave Me To Mine 02:07
• 3 Stranger Than Fiction 02:20
• 4 Tiny Voices 02:37
• 5 The Handshake 02:50
• 6 Better Off Dead 02:39
• 7 Infected 04:09
• 8 Television 02:03
• 9 Individual 01:58
• 10 Hooray For Me... 02:50
• 11 Slumber 02:40
• 12 Marked 01:48
• 13 Inner Logic 02:58
• 14 What It Is 02:08
• 15 21st Century (Digital Boy) 02:48
• 16 News From The Front 02:22
• 17 Markovian Process 01:29
• 18 Leaders And Followers 02:41
• Total Runtime 44:56

Info for Stranger Than Fiction (Deluxe Edition Remastered)

Bad Religion haben seit ihrer Gründung 1980 und dem Debüt "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?" (1982) 16 Studioalben veröffentlicht. "Stranger Than Fiction" war das achte. Es kam 1994 auf den Markt und ging mit einer Abkehr vom bisherigen, vom Bandgitarristen Brett Gurewitz gegründeten Stammlabel Epitaph einher. Stattdessen brachte der Major Atlantic die Scheibe in Umlauf. Doch die Fans zogen mit, das Album verkaufte sich über 600.000 Mal und erlangte in den Staaten Goldstatus. Mitverantwortlich dafür dürften die drei Hitsingles "21st Century (Digital Boy)", "Infected" und "Stranger Than Fiction" gewesen sein. Prominente Gastauftritte am Mikrofon steuerten Tim Armstrong von Rancid ("Television") und Jim Lindberg von Pennywise ("Marked") bei. Wayne Kramer, legendärer Gitarrist von MC5, ist im Song "Incomplete" zu hören. Für die Neuauflage des Erfolgsalbums mischte der preisgekrönte Toningenieur Bob Ludwig die originalen Masterbänder neu ab, was zu einem druckvolleren und klareren Sound führte.

Greg Graffin, Gesang
Greg Hetson, Gitarre
Brett Gurewitz, Gitarre, Gesang
Jay Bentley, Bass, Gesang
Bobby Schayer, Schlagzeug, Percussion
Gäste:
Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Gesang (on "Television")
Jim Lindberg of Pennywise, Gesang (on "Marked")

Recorded April–May 1994 at Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park, Los Angeles
Produced by Andy Wallace, Bad Religion

Digitally remastered

Celebrating three decades of influential, thought provoking and groundbreaking punk rock, Bad Religion will release their fifteenth studio album, The Dissent of Man, on September 28. The album’s first single “The Devil in Stitches” made its debut on the world famous KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles on Tuesday and can be heard now at www.myspace.com/badreligion. Fans can preorder The Dissent of Man now at http://www.badreligionstore.com. Additionally, Bad Religion will kick off a North American tour in October with support from Bouncing Souls and Off With Their Heads. Dates are listed below.

Produced by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool), The Dissent of Man finds Bad Religion pushing the boundaries of their music as much today as they did in their formative years as a genre defining punk band. Over the course of making the album, primary songwriters Greg Graffin and Brett Gurewitz’s songwriting was informed by life changing events, with Graffin writing his forthcoming book “Anarchy Evolution” and Gurewitz embarking on parenthood again.

“These are some of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” says Gurewitz. “A few of them took me way outside my comfort zone as a writer to a place I haven’t gone since Recipe or Stranger than Fiction.”

The result is one of the band’s most forward thinking and musically varied albums ever. The Dissent of Man is not only a snapshot of the band’s personal experiences of the past years but also of their continued maturity in songwriting, capturing an array of styles ranging from blazing punk rock songs like the opener “The Day That the Earth Stalled” and “Meeting of the Minds” and classic rock-tinged cuts like “Cyanide” and “Turn Your Back on Me” to radio rock ready hits like the first single “The Devil in Stitches.” “I feel like the last couple of records have been amongst our most conservative, never straying too far from a Bad Religion sound,” adds Gurewitz. “Whereas on this one we’re taking the songs to a lot of different places, exploring our influences and trying out some new things in a way we haven’t done in years.”

The Dissent of Man is a testament to why Bad Religion has remained relevant for the better part of three decades. Already having cemented their place in history as a groundbreaking band who helped create a movement in Los Angeles with classic releases like How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Suffer, Recipe for Hate, Stranger Than Fiction and Process of Belief, Bad Religion continue to inspire and create with a unique style that continues to cross boundaries and transcends genres.

As Bad Religion wraps up their 30th anniversary, they open the next chapter of their storied career with The Dissent of Man.

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