“Punk Rock Song” by Bad Religion

"Punk Rock Song" was the second single off Bad Religion's 1996 album The Gray Race, and it's all Greg Graffin's: he wrote it and sings the lead, with Brian Baker, Jay Bentley and Bobby Schayer piling in on backing vocals. Baker and Greg Hetson handle the electric guitars over Bentley's bass and Schayer's drums, and Ric Ocasek, of all people, co-produced it with the band.

It never charted in the US, but in Finland, Germany and Sweden it remains the band's highest-charting single. Collectors got a gray marbled seven-inch on Unplayable Records carrying two otherwise unreleased songs, "The Universal Cynic" and "The Dodo", plus a CD that added a German-language take, which also landed on the European Gray Race as a bonus track. The British CD single censored the swearing and printed dates for UK shows that were later canceled.

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