No Substance

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]
Spin	^[4]
CMJ New Music Monthly	(positive)^[5]
The Indianapolis Star	^[6]
San Antonio Express-News	(positive)^[7]

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 with the exception of Raise Your Voice which is occasionally played live in Germany due to Campino's involvement in the recording of the song.

Album cover

The actress on the album cover is Kristen Johnston, most famous for her two-time Emmy Award-winning role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun.^[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hear It"	Graffin	1:49
2.	"Shades of Truth"	Graffin	4:01
3.	"All Fantastic Images"	Graffin, Baker	2:08
4.	"The Biggest Killer in American History"	Graffin	2:14
5.	"No Substance"	Graffin	3:04
6.	"Raise Your Voice!" (ft. Campino of Die Toten Hosen)	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, 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, Bentley	2:49
16.	"In So Many Ways"	Graffin	3:04

Japanese Version
No.	Title	Length
17.	"Dream Of Unity"	2:50

Bonus B-Side Disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Universal Cynic"	2:18
2.	"Markovian Process"	1:30
3.	"News From The Front"	2:23
4.	"Leaders And Followers"	2:42
5.	"Dream Of Unity"	2:52
6.	"Tested"	3:04
7.	"The Answer" (Live)	3:11
8.	"The Dodo"	2:10
9.	"Follow The Leader"	4:28

Personnel

Greg Graffin - lead vocals
Greg Hetson - guitar
Brian Baker - guitar, backing vocals
Jay Bentley - bass guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Schayer - drums, percussion
Campino from Die Toten Hosen - guest vocals on "Raise Your Voice!"
Ronnie Kimball - producer, engineer
Alex Perialas - producer, engineer
Gavin Lurssen - mastering
Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
Jason Arnold - engineer
Mike Dy - engineer
Fred Kevorkian - engineer
Danielle Gibson - art coordination
Steve Raskin - art direction, design
Valerie Wagner - art direction, design
Terry Richardson - photography
Chris Toliver - photography
Taylor Nidoski - trumpet

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 - 4/16/2017).
On the vinyl release, Campino sings alternating lines on "Raise Your Voice". On the CD version, he only provides backing vocals.

References

↑ No Substance at AllMusic
↑ "CG: bad religion". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
↑ archive
↑ Milner, Greg (June 1998). "Reviews". Spin. 14 (6): 138.
↑ 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.
↑ Johnson, Robert (August 12, 1998). "Quick Spins". San Antonio Express-News.
↑ Gormely, Ian (February 2013). "Bad Religion Empire State of Mind". Empire.ca. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

External links

No Substance at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

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
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"
Tours	Against the Grain Tour Generator Tour The Gray Race Tour The New America Tour No Control Tour No Substance Tour The Process of Belief Tour Recipe for Hate Tour Stranger than Fiction Tour Suffer Tour Tested Tour
Related bands	Black President Circle Jerks Daredevils Dag Nasty Error Government Issue Minor Threat Wasted Youth Fear and the Nervous System
Related articles	Discography Members Epitaph Records Punk rock in California Hardcore punk Warped Tour
Related albums	American Lesion (1997) Cold as the Clay (2006)
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