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Review title: I wish this album was only fiction
Product review: As much as I love Bad Religion, I hate this album. Compared to such classics as How could Hell..., Suffer, No Control, and Against the Grain, Stranger than Fiction is pretty weak. While it may appeal to the fans of Rolling Stone and Newsweek, loyal fans who haven't heard this album will be sorely disappointed. Not only is the tempo slowed down considerably, the songwriting is subpar. While their lyrics are normally enhanced by the large words used by Greg Graffin, on Stranger Than Fiction, they're pretty cumbersome (see the song "Tiny Voices"). There were high points on this album, but even classic cuts such as Marked and Inner Logic couldn't help but be drowned in a sea of dreck like Hooray for me and the album's title track. I'm writing this after they released The Gray Race and No Substance, which were also pretty weak. It seems to me that Bad Religion is merely going through the motion to produce new albums without much enthusiasm.
