- rock, punk, punk rock, hardcore punk
- 42 min
- 17 tracks
- Dragnet
Stranger Than Fiction is the eighth full-length studio album and major label debut by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released in 1994. It was a major breakthrough for Bad Religion, being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and becoming the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at 87.
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Spare, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic2.5/5 ★
- Chicago Sun-Times3.5/4 ★
- Chicago Tribune3.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10
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Tracks
- 1Incomplete2:29
- 2Leave Mine to Me2:07
- 3Stranger Than Fiction2:20
- 4Tiny Voices2:37
- 5The Handshake2:50
- 6Better Off Dead2:39
- 7Infected4:08
- 8Television2:04
- 9Individual1:58
- 10Hooray for Me…2:49
- 11Slumber2:41
- 12Marked1:48
- 13Inner Logic2:58
- 14What It Is2:08
- 1521st Century (Digital Boy)2:48
- 16News From the Front2:22
- 17Markovian Process1:30
17 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Bad Religion
- Label
- Dragnet
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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