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With their ninth album, this Los Angeles-based hardcore band continue their distinctive recipe of slashing, frenetic guitar, inviting vocal harmonies and socially-conscious lyrics. THE GRAY RACE showcases Bad Religion's chaotic, two-guitar punk, which is driven by an intense, high-strung urgency; each track provides just the right amount of unapologetic melodicism along with Greg Graffin's rough-voiced yet lucid vocals.
The band's sound is loud, fast, and basically simple, in contrast to the broad, complex themes they tackle. Many songs are a variation on the "think for yourself" motif, including "A Walk," a defiant rant against the system ("Who the hell are you to tell me what to do?/You can't even tie your own haggard shoes/Your closet is a mess, and your backyard's falling down"). There are also brilliant feats of multisyllabic rhyming here, betraying Graffin's striking intellect as a lyricist, as on "Them And Us": "Despite that he saw blatant similarity/He struggled to find a distinctive moiety/All he found was vulgar superficiality."
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York in October and November 1995.
Personnel: Greg Graffin (vocals); Greg Hetson, Brian Baker (guitar); Jay Bentley (bass guitar); Bobby Schayer (drums).
Recording information: Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY (10/1995-11/1995).
Bad Religion: Greg Graffin (vocals); Greg Hetson, Brian Baker (guitar); Jay Bentley (bass); Bobby Schayer (drums).
Rolling Stone (3/7/96, p.48) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Bad Religion are working to bring a deeper sense of purpose to a music they can honestly call their own."
Spin (3/96, p.107) - 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...a hell of a record for a band that just lost 52 percent of its songwriting, proof that Graffin's voice and vision define the band..."
Q (4/96, p.105) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...at one bound THE GRAY RACE pushes American punk forward....a level of sophistication that calls for endless, depth-creating harmonies and the technical ability to carry off more adventurous concepts like `Ten in 2010'..."
New York Times (Publisher) (2/25/96, Sec.2, p.34) - "...The messages can be didactic, but the songs--burly rockers, full of minor chords--wrap desperation in choruses that aim to be anthems despite their own alienation..." Bad Religion Gray Race Songs Purchase Gray Race CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Bad Religion Recipe For Hate CD (1993)
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Although longtime Bad Religion fans may ...
| | Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction CD (1994)
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$6.15 
Bad Religion is punk-rock's Bonnie Raitt, a cult band that persisted and persisted until the world finally came around to them. Around the time Robert Johnson's old Delta blues records started selling in the hundreds of thousands, Raitt started collecting platinum records and Grammys; likewise, in the era of Nirvana's and Green Day's run up the charts, Bad Religion began seeing big returns for the same kind of records they used to make for peanuts.
STRANGER THAN FICTION is where Bad Religion cashes in--at the alternative register, anyway. Far ...
| | Bad Religion No Substance CD (1998)
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When Green Day and The Offspring re-introduced the American public to punk in the early '90s, it was only natural that a few old-timers would try to capitalize (witness the Sex Pistols). Bad Religion was one of those who made the jump to the majors with 1993's RECIPE FOR HATE, but it is unfair to accuse them of trying to ride the coattails of their more successful brethren. On their fourth Atlantic release, NO SUBSTANCE, they continue making punk rock music in the same uncompromising style that served them so well for the first 16 years.
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| | Bad Religion New America CD (2000)
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Best described as thinking man's punk rock, the 20-year veteran of a style at times diluted by weak imitation returns with its first studio release since 1998's NO SUBSTANCE. THE NEW AMERICA triumphantly reunites Bad Religion with founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz, and if that isn't enough to capture the attention ...
| | Bad Religion Process Of Belief CD (2002)
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Bad Religion has been the iron man of Southern California hardcore punk for more than two decades. The core of the group, founded in the San Fernando Valley in 1980 by teenagers Brett Gurewitz (guitarist), Greg Graffin (vocalist) and Jay Bentley (bassist), are reunited on their twelfth album, THE PROCESS OF BELIEF. Gurewitz rejoined the band for a second time in 2001 to record 14 blasts of melodic punk that take off with the hyperdrive rocker "Supersonic," in which Graffin yearns to live "decently, meaningfully" over double-time drums and buzzing guitars. The album is a return to form for the group, mixing pop-inflected hard rock songs about alienated, throwaway teens ("Broken") with intricately worded, mile-a-minute rants like "Materialist," which slams dollar-chasers obsessed with "nonsense and incipient senescence."
Its ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering ...
| | Brand X Moroccan Roll CD (1977)
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"Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Yours Off Already)à" isn't as goofy as it sounds; it's 10-plus minutes ...
| | Filippo Voltaggio Love In Italiano CD (2001)
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FOR MORE INFO VISIT: WWW.OOFILIPPO.COM or the NEW: Cooking/Entertaiment/Music Show: WWW.FilippoandtheChef.comALSO NOW CD AND INDIVIDUAL SONGS ARE AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL DOWNLOADS AT iTunes, MusicNet AND MORE! In this CD Filippo addresses the long-lived love affair the world has had with the Italians, their music, and their art of making love. The songs cleverly take the listener through the moods, trials and tribulations of an Italian man's journey through love, without explanation and without apologizes. So like an Italian. For example, when an Italian man wants to dance with a woman, he does not ask for permission, he simply offers his hand and once accepted leads the woman onto the dance floor. In the same spirit the songs vary from the frivolous "dance with me" exclamations of "Dimmi, Dimmi, Dimmi" to the "I don't know how I ever lived without you" sentiments in the English and Italian version of "And I Love You So." Not without their faults you will hear the pleas of forgiveness from a man who didn't mean to fall in love with a woman or have her fall in love with him in "Amore Scusami (My ...
| | Barclay James Harvest Baby James Harvest CD (1972)
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| | Sincerely: Mariya Takeuchi Songbook CD (2004)
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| | Evens CD (2005)
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| | Larry Pierce Horny Hits CDs (1997)
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| | Dante's Lounge Vices CD (2008)
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