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No Substance is the tenth full-length album by the punk rock band Bad Religion. It was the band's third (or fourth, if the reissue of Recipe for Hate is counted) release on Atlantic Records, and their second studio album since guitarist Brett Gurewitz's departure.

No Substance was anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 major label debut Stranger Than Fiction and its 1996 follow up The Gray Race. The album has been met with mixed reviews and was not as successful as band's past releases. The album was re-released by Epitaph Records on September 15, 2008. No songs of the album would turn into live staples; "Raise Your Voice" is occasionally played live in Germany due to Die Toten Hosen singer Campino's guest vocals.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Alternative Rock	8/10^[3]
Robert Christgau	^[4]
CMJ New Music Monthly	(positive)^[5]
The Indianapolis Star	^[6]
NME	^[7]
Rolling Stone	^[1]
San Antonio Express-News	(positive)^[8]
Spin	^[9]
Wall of Sound	70/100^[10]

Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), wrote that the shared songwriting credits make this the band's "most eclectic album ever, eagerly exploring new sounds and styles... ah, Into the Unknown II! Only better."^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hear It"	Greg Graffin	1:49
2.	"Shades of Truth"	Graffin	4:01
3.	"All Fantastic Images"	Graffin, Brian Baker	2:08
4.	"The Biggest Killer in American History"	Graffin	2:14
5.	"No Substance"	Graffin	3:04
6.	"Raise Your Voice!" (featuring Campino)	Graffin	2:55
7.	"Sowing the Seeds of Utopia"	Graffin	2:01
8.	"The Hippy Killers"	Graffin	3:01
9.	"The State of the End of the Millennium Address"	Graffin, Baker	2:22
10.	"The Voracious March of Godliness"	Graffin	2:27
11.	"Mediocre Minds"	Graffin, Greg Hetson	1:56
12.	"Victims of the Revolution"	Graffin, Baker	3:17
13.	"Strange Denial"	Graffin	3:02
14.	"At the Mercy of Imbeciles"	Graffin, Baker, Hetson	1:34
15.	"The Same Person"	Graffin, Baker, Jay Bentley	2:49
16.	"In So Many Ways"	Graffin	3:04

Japanese bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Dream of Unity"	Graffin	2:50

US limited edition bonus promo disc
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Universal Cynic" (B-side, 1996)	Graffin	2:18
2.	"Markovian Process" (B-side, 1994)	Graffin	1:30
3.	"News from the Front" (B-side, 1994)	Brett Gurewitz, Bentley, Bobby Schayer	2:23
4.	"Leaders and Followers" (B-side, 1994)	Graffin	2:42
5.	"Dream of Unity" (from Tested, 1997)	Graffin	2:52
6.	"Tested" (from Tested, 1997)	Graffin	3:04
7.	"The Answer" (live) (B-side, 1998)	Graffin	3:11
8.	"The Dodo" (B-side, 1996)	Graffin, Baker	2:10
9.	"Follow the Leader" (previously unreleased)	Graffin, Bentley, Baker, Schayer	4:28

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Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.^[12]

Bad Religion

Greg Graffin – lead vocals, backing vocals
Greg Hetson – guitar
Brian Baker – guitar, backing vocals
Jay Bentley – bass guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Schayer – drums

Additional musicians

Campino from Die Toten Hosen – guest vocals on "Raise Your Voice!"

Technical

Bad Religion – producer, engineer
Alex Perialas – producer, engineer
Ronnie Kimball – producer, engineer
Jason Arnold – additional engineer
Mike Dy – additional engineer
Fred Kevorkian – additional engineer
Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
Gavin Lurssen – mastering
Danielle Gibson – art coordination
Steve Raskin – art direction, design
Valerie Wagner – art direction, design
Terry Richardson – photography
Chris Toliver – photography

Notes

"The State of The End of The Millennium Address" is written like a speech, very similar to the beginning of "Voice of God is Government" from How Could Hell Be Any Worse?.
If you dial the 800 number, it will link through to ConAgra Foods customer service (No longer in service - April 16, 2017).
On the European release, Campino sings alternating lines on "Raise Your Voice". On the US version, he only provides backing vocals.
The cover art model has been widely reported^[13]^[14]^[15] as being actress Kristen Johnston, but she refuted this claim in 2019 via a Twitter post.^[16]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b archive
^ No Substance at AllMusic
^ ^a ^b Thompson 2000, p. 170
^ "CG: bad religion". Robert Christgau. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
^ Jacks, Kelso (June 1998). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly (58): 36.
^ Bacon, Scott (May 31, 1998). "Corgan is one sensitive Pumpkin on 'Adore'". Indianapolis Star. p. I4.
^ Beaumont, Mark (April 4, 1998). "Bad Religion - No Substance". NME. Archived from the original on October 9, 2000.
^ Johnson, Robert (August 12, 1998). "Quick Spins". San Antonio Express-News.
^ Milner, Greg (June 1998). "Reviews". Spin. 14 (6): 138.
^ Graff, Gary. "Review: No Substance". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on April 15, 2001. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
^ "No Substance - CD - 1998". The Bad Religion Page. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
^ No Substance (Media notes). Bad Religion. Atlantic. 1998.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Kristen Johnston". TVGuide.com.
^ "Johnston, Kristen 1967– Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
^ "Kristen Johnston". Film Beat.
^ "thekjohnston". Twitter.

Sources

Thompson, Dave (2000). Alternative Rock. Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion. San Francisco, California: Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-607-6.

External links

No Substance at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

v t e Bad Religion
Greg Graffin Brett Gurewitz Jay Bentley Brian Baker Mike Dimkich Jamie Miller Jay Ziskrout Pete Finestone Paul Dedona Davy Goldman Greg Hetson Tim Gallegos John Albert Lucky Lehrer Bobby Schayer Brooks Wackerman
Studio albums	How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Into the Unknown Suffer No Control Against the Grain Generator Recipe for Hate Stranger than Fiction The Gray Race No Substance The New America The Process of Belief The Empire Strikes First New Maps of Hell The Dissent of Man True North Age of Unreason
EPs	Bad Religion Back to the Known Christmas Songs
Other releases	80–85 All Ages Tested Punk Rock Songs 30 Years Live
Videos and DVDs	Along the Way Live at the Palladium
Singles	"American Jesus" "21st Century (Digital Boy)" "Infected" "Stranger than Fiction" "A Walk" "Punk Rock Song" "Sorrow" "Los Angeles Is Burning" "The Devil in Stitches"
Related articles	Discography Members Epitaph Records Punk rock in California Hardcore punk Warped Tour
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