Anti-rant: This album

[UK]

Very good choice.

That was their most commercial album.

21st century digital boy and infected were my two fav. songs off that album.

[StatmanCrothers]

Very good choice.

That was their most commercial album.

21st century digital boy and infected were my two fav. songs off that album.

When I hear 21st century digital boy it always sounds wrong to me, as if it is a remake... did they do that song once for Epitaph and then do it over again for the major label?

[OmahaCard79]

Bad Religion (along with social distortion) is arguably my favorite band. I've had the priveledge of seeing them live three times. I saw them once in KC in 2000, Minneapolis in 2002, and Council Bluffs in 2002.

I love ALL of their albums. I celebrate their entire catalog. I even like the early albums like How Could Hell Be Any Worse and Back To the Known. I can even listen to the non-explainable Into The Unknown (but not very often).

If you like Stranger Than Fiction, then I've got a few more suggestions. My favorite Bad Religion albums are Suffer (only 30 minutes, but a landmark punk album), Recipe For Hate (a mellow change of pace album), The Gray Race (a little poppier than STF, but still good), and The Empire Strikes First (released in 2004. BR makes their best albums when a republican is in the white house).

Listen to them all!!!!

[Popeye_Card]

When I hear 21st century digital boy it always sounds wrong to me, as if it is a remake... did they do that song once for Epitaph and then do it over again for the major label?

It was on Against the Grain (on Epitaph), and then they re-recorded it for Stranger Than Fiction. The STF version sounds much "cleaner", but it loses a bit of it's edge.

--P--

[OmahaCard79]

When I hear 21st century digital boy it always sounds wrong to me, as if it is a remake... did they do that song once for Epitaph and then do it over again for the major label?

It was on Against the Grain (on Epitaph), and then they re-recorded it for Stranger Than Fiction. The STF version sounds much "cleaner", but it loses a bit of it's edge.

--P--

I prefer the Against the Grain version, but I'm still sentimental about the STF version since that was the album that first introduced me to BR.

[Molly]

I'm old and never heard of them. But I am shocked you guys are using the term "album" as opposed to CD

[OmahaCard79]

While this is on the topic of Bad Religion, anyone else want to list their 10 favorite Bad Religion songs? Here's mine...

10. Cease
9. ...Armageddon, This Is Hell
8. Stranger Than Fiction
7. New Dark Ages
6. Epiphany
5. Suffer
4. I Want To Conquer The World
3. All There Is
2. American Jesus
1. 21st Century Digital Boy

[thrill]

I enjoy Sorrow more than any other Bad Religion song.

[Popeye_Card]

While this is on the topic of Bad Religion, anyone else want to list their 10 favorite Bad Religion songs? Here's mine...

10. Cease
9. ...Armageddon, This Is Hell
8. Stranger Than Fiction
7. New Dark Ages
6. Epiphany
5. Suffer
4. I Want To Conquer The World
3. All There Is
2. American Jesus
1. 21st Century Digital Boy

Wow. I'd be hard-pressed to pick 10 and rank them, but just off the top of my head (with no rankings)...

Only Entertainment
Atomic Garden
I Want To Conquer The World
Generator
Fertile Crescent
Modern Man
Struck A Nerve
Come Join Us
Broken
Shattered Faith

Oddly, I didn't include a track from Stranger Than Fiction, though it may be my favorite overall album (close call with Generator).

--P--

[maddash]

I'm old and never heard of them. But I am shocked you guys are using the term "album" as opposed to CD

I wonder if I'm in the minority, but I always thought of "album" as the generic term for a collection of items (be it songs, pictures, whatever). So while a lot of people see "album" and think vinyl record, I see it as a catch-all phrase for a collection of songs in any format: vinyl, tape, 8-track, cd, etc...