Stranger than Fiction (Bad Religion song)
| "Stranger than Fiction" | ||||
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| Single by Bad Religion | ||||
| from the album Stranger than Fiction | ||||
| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, skate punk | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Brett Gurewitz | |||
| Producer(s) | Andy Wallace Bad Religion | |||
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| "Stranger than Fiction" on YouTube | ||||
"Stranger than Fiction" is a song by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featured on their 1994 album with the same title.
More than a decade after its release, "Stranger Than Fiction" remains one of the band's concert staples. The live version also appears on their 2006 live DVD Live at the Palladium.
At a Bad Religion concert in 1996, frontman Greg Graffin sang "I wanna know why Gurewitz cracked, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction", referring to then-former and now-current guitarist Brett Gurewitz, as opposed to "I want to know why Hemingway cracked, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction". In other shows Graffin substitutes the line "Life is the crummiest book I ever read" with "Life is the shittiest book I ever read"