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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="225" align="right" !align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|I Against I |- |align="center" colspan="3"|
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!align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|LP by Bad Brains
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!align="left" valign="top"|Released
|colspan="2" valign="top"|1986
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!align="left" valign="top"|Recorded
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!align="left" valign="top"|Genre
|colspan="2" valign="top"|Alternative rock
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!align="left" valign="top"|Length
|colspan="2" valign="top"|31 min 53 sec
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!align="left" valign="top"|Record label
|colspan="2" valign="top"|SST
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!align="left" valign="top"|Producer
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!bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews
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!align="left" valign="top"|Alternative Press review
|valign="top"|Favorable
|valign="top"|Jul 1995, p.77-78
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!align="left" valign="top"|Rolling Stone review
|valign="top"|3.5 stars out of 5
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!align="left" valign="top"|Allmusic.com review
|valign="top"|4.5 stars out of 5
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!align="left" valign="top"|Robert Christgau
|valign="top"|Grade: B-
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!bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Bad Brains Chronology
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|valign="top"|Rock for Light(1983) |valign="top"|I Against I
(1986) |valign="top"|Live
(1988) |}
I Against I is an alternative rock album by Bad Brains, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music) as SST Records number 65. Widely regarded as the highest-quality album in Bad Brains' catalogue, I Against I is a critically praised album of American punk rock mixed with Jamaican reggae music. Both genres have frequently socially aware lyrics, and I Against I continues that tradition with diatribes against violence and other social evils.
The title I Against I presumably refers to a common Rastafarian phrase, I and I, which is used in place of the first-person plural (e.g. we) in order to signify the union of the speaker, audience and Jah (God) in love and peace.
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