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Stranger Than Fiction - MC - 1994

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Details

Label:	Dragnet Records	Release date:	1/1/1994
Country:	Spain	Disc / Label details:
Format	MC
Misc:	15 tracks - Cassette Case
Remark:	Made In Spain. Dragnet 50

Identification

Catalog ID:	477343-4
Barcode:	5 099747 734342
Label code:	LC 5852

Images

Front
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Stranger Than Fiction - Cassette (Side A) (1567x1000)

Cassette (Side A)
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Stranger Than Fiction - Cassette (Side B) (1536x1000)

Cassette (Side B)
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Stranger Than Fiction - Back + Side (724x1000)

Back + Side
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Stranger Than Fiction - Inlay (2973x1000)

Inlay
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Tracklist

Click the song titles for more information, lyrics and interpretations

	Song title	Song writer(s)	Version	Length	Interpretations
1	Incomplete	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:38	6
2	Leave Mine To Me	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:07	3
3	Stranger Than Fiction	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:20	13
4	Tiny Voices	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:36	5
5	The Handshake	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:50	7
6	Better Off Dead	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:39	38
7	Infected	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	4:08	14
8	Television	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:03	4
9	Individual	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:58	7
10	Hooray For Me...	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:50	4
11	Slumber	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:39	13
12	Marked	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:48	8
13	Inner Logic	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:58	17
14	What It Is	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:08	3
15	21st Century (Digital Boy)	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:47	15

Info from 'The Answer'

Recording	The album was recorded at Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park, CA.The album was produced by Andy Wallace. It took five weeks to record. As far as the song selections, Jay says "That was an ordeal! we choose the songs, but man did we fight. The songs that were left off the U.S. release were ... Read more
B-Sides	There were four B-sides for Stranger Than Fiction: News From The Front Markovian Process Mediocrity Leaders And Followers Demos & unreleased songs For both Brett's and Greg's songs demos exist. Brett's songs: Hooray For Me Infected &nb... Read more
Demos & unreleased songs	For both Brett's and Greg's songs demos exist. Brett's songs: Hooray For Me Infected Marked Stranger Than Fiction Greg's songs: Leave Mine To Me Fucked Up Children (unreleased) The Handshake Slumber Fanat... Read more
Singles & Release	Three singles were released: Stranger Than Fiction, 21st Century (Digital Boy) and Infected. They were all Brett songs. Brett Gurewitz: "Stranger Than Fiction is one of our best records and I am very proud of it. I still think “Infected” should have been the first single. Maybe we... Read more
Golden album	On March 3rd 1998, Stranger Than Fiction officially became Bad Religion's first gold album (over half a million copies sold in the US).
Artwork	All the images in the booklet and on the front/back cover come from issues of Popular Science magazine. Atlantic Records didn't have a say in the album cover. The band just chose it because they couldn't agree on anything.
Liner notes	The booklet also thanks a number of notable musicians and relatives: Grant Graffin, Greg's brother Gina Davis, the woman who worked with Brett at Epitaph and eventually married him Dexter Holland (as Brian Holland), singer and guitarist of The Offspring, who were one of BR's labelm... Read more
Trivia	Tim Armstrong of Rancid provided the vocals to the song Television. In the credits he was called Lint, his name when he was the guitarist of Operation Ivy. Rancid were also labelmates with Bad Religion for a very brief time before Bad Religion signed to Atlantic Wayne Kramer of the MC5 played lead... Read more
Review	Suburban Voice Issue 36 (Spring 1995): “You always know what to expect with a Bad Religion album, though they have mixed things up on their last few albums. ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is a significant return to form, after the moderately-disappointing ‘Recipe For Hate.’ ... Read more

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