The Gray Race by Bad Religion

Pros: Socially conscious and musically gifted lyrics. Great music.
Cons: Repetitious and pretentious at times

The Gray Race was purchased in haste. Fortunately, it turned out to be one of my better ‘blind’ buys.

Bad Religion is old fashioned punk rock music. The life expectancy of So Cal punk is usually pretty short, but this band has...

Pros: Lyrics, Greg Graffin, catchy, instrumentation
Cons: None

As some of you might know, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Bad Religion for a long freaking time. I really enjoyed their Process Of Belief CD with Epitaph, but hated their New America album with Atlantic. Everyone told me they were ...

Pros: Extremely catchy, some classics within here, just awesome
Cons: Some songs are just boring, Gurewitz's lyrics are missing

Bad Religion's 1996 effort, titled The Gray Race, was subjected to unfair and harsh criticism due to 2 things that were big no's in the punk community. First off, Bad Religion since 1993 had been on Atlantic Records (from which they left band member...

Pros: It has some classic Bad Religion songs.
Cons: Some songs are just average.

Release date: February 26, 1996

This is the band’s first album without co-founder Brett Gurewitz, who left the band after Stranger Than Fiction to work on the Epitaph record label that he created. He also supposedly did not like the contract...

Pros: full-on energetic instruments and vocals, outstanding social commentary, timeless songs
Cons: somewhat repetitive style, one or two filler songs

I must now stand before the world and shamelessly admit it. It took me 19 years to discover the glories of Bad Religion. Of course, I'd heard their name scattered here and there, and mentioned in plenty of publications hailing them as music titans and...

Pros: awesome lyrics, a nice street punk sound
Cons: songs all sound similair, this is nothing new

About two years ago, I started to like punk rock. I bought a couple CDs by NOFX, Pennywsie, and Less Than Jake. I didn’t really know any other punk bands. This was before I got into the whole Napster and mp3 thing. A kid at my school named Dugan let me...

Pros: The bulk of the songs are good. "A Walk" Is GREAT
Cons: Some songs just don't have enough Momentum

So now Bret (Longtime Bad Religion Member, and respectable lyricist) Is gone. This automaitcly means a bad album? No. Bad Religion comes out with an ablum that raves about the usual; politics, religion etc. But now and then, most noticeably on the fun...

Pros: Every song has great depth, wonderful structure, and excellent lyrics
Cons: none

Gray Race by Bad Religion, another excellent album by the greatest punk band in history. Even with the loss of guitarist and songwriter Brett Gurewitz, this album gets better every time one listens to it. Although there was a change in the style of...

Pros: Great sound, tons of energy, "badder" than ever!
Cons: People thinking they sold out when they switched labels

I bought this album at a music store, after owning some of Bad Religion's earlier CD's. This is just as good, if not better. Tracks like "10 in 2010" and "Pity the Dead" pack so much energy, you cannot help but love this album. Some...

Pros: When the band folds it'll look like they had a healthy litter of albums.
Cons: There is so much better Bad Religion stuff than this.

Listen very carefully.
This album is one of those mistakes that people who don't listen to Bad Religion enough will tell you it's great.
This album is one of those mistakes that people who've never grown up with political punk will say it's so...