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Stranger Than Fiction - 12" - 2021

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Details

Label:	Epitaph Records	Release date:	11/29/2021
Country:	United States	Disc / Label details:	Vinyl: Half Grey Half Red w/Black Splatter Note: Slight color variations exist (e.g. lighter, darker, hints of another color)!
Format	12"
Misc:	15 tracks - Reissue - Remaster - Colored vinyl - Limited 500 - Cardboard sleeve and dust sleeve
Remark:	Special Edition Zia Records Exclusive Available only on ZiaRecords.com until December 3rd. Limit 1 per customer. Although this was an American exclusive is was pressed in CZ and has Epitaph Europe address on the back cover.

Identification

Catalog ID:	6994-3
Catalog ID (Sticker On Shrink):	86994-1GRHB
Barcode (On Sticker):	0 45778 78571 1
Barcode (Printed):	8 714092 699432
Matrix / Runout (A-Side):	PIRATES PRESS - EPIT 6994-3 A 170372E1/A
Matrix / Runout (B-Side):	PIRATES PRESS - EPIT 6994-3 B 170372E2/A
Label code:	LC 02576

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Tracklist

Click the song titles for more information, lyrics and interpretations

	Song title	Song writer(s)	Version	Length	Interpretations
1	You Are (The Government)	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:22	11
2	1000 More Fools	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:35	7
3	How Much Is Enough?	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:23	4
4	When?	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:40	3
5	Give You Nothing	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	2:02	6
6	Land Of Competition	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:05	4
7	Forbidden Beat	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:53	14
8	Best For You	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:57	1
9	Suffer	Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:45	8
10	Delirium Of Disorder	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:39	5
11	Part II (The Numbers Game)	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:38	5
12	What Can You Do?	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:44	5
13	Do What You Want	Brett Gurewitz	Album version	1:05	7
14	Part IV (The Index Fossil)	Greg Graffin	Album version	2:02	6
15	Pessimistic Lines	Greg Graffin	Album version	1:07	3

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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