| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/atlantic | | UPC: 00075678287022 | | Release Date: 2/27/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60148635 | | Item#: MCJWW7 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23555 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Bad Religion: Greg Graffin (vocals); Greg Hetson, Brian Baker (guitar); Jay Bentley (bass); Bobby Schayer (drums). | | 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). | | 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." |
Producer: Ric Ocasek; Bad Religion |
Engineer: Bruce Calder |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/27/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 82870 | | Label : Atlantic (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075678287022 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | 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..." |
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