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Recipe for Hate is Bad Religion's seventh full-length album, released on September 21, 1993. This was their last album on Epitaph Records and the band switched to Atlantic Records before its release.
While the album was released on a major label, Recipe for Hate initially received mixed reviews from music critics, who generally found it to be less impressive than Bad Religion's past releases, though it has gained a cult following in recent times. The album got the band's highest U.S. chart position to date, debuting at #14 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, with "American Jesus" and "Struck a Nerve" in particular becoming major rock radio hits at their time.
Like many Bad Religion albums, Recipe for Hate is now considered one of the band's most important records both musically and technologically.
[edit] Album cover
The album cover features an image of two dog-faced humans (suggested to be two of the band members' bodies) dressed in black uniform. The artwork was designed by Fred Hidalgo (known for drawing the cover for The Offspring's highly acclaimed 1994 album Smash, which was also released on Epitaph).
[edit] Musical style
The album finds Bad Religion continuing the experimentation of its predecessor, Generator, introducing elements of country and folk on songs like "Man With a Mission", and "Struck a Nerve", the latter of which includes a guest vocal by Johnette Napolitano (of Concrete Blonde). "Man With a Mission" featured a slide guitar part over a standard punk guitar "gallop".
[edit] Production and marketing
Like Bad Religion's albums up to Generator, Recipe for Hate was recorded at Westbeach Recorders in Hollywood, California in 1993. This was the last time they would record an album there, until 2002's The Process of Belief.
During the recording of the album, Johnette Napolitano (of Concrete Blonde) and Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam) were invited to the studio to provide backing vocals on some of the songs. Napolitano's backing vocals can be heard on "Struck a Nerve", where she shouts "It struck a nerve!". Vedder also provided backing vocals on "American Jesus" and sings the second verse of "Watch It Die".
[edit] Reception
Recipe for Hate was released on September 21, 1993 and became the last Bad Religion album distributed via Epitaph Records before their return to the label in 2001. The album album peaked at number 14 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart,[1] marking the band's highest-ranking album so far. Although no singles for this album were charted, it scored two radio hits, "American Jesus" and "Struck a Nerve", which also earned airplay on MTV.
[edit] Track listing
- "Recipe for Hate" (Graffin) - 2:02
- "Kerosene" (Gurewitz) - 2:41
- "American Jesus" (Gurewitz/Graffin) - 3:17
- "Portrait of Authority" (Graffin) - 2:44
- "Man With a Mission" (Gurewitz) - 3:11
- "All Good Soldiers" (Gurewitz) - 3:07
- "Watch It Die" (Graffin) - 2:34
- "Struck a Nerve" (Graffin) - 3:47
- "My Poor Friend Me" (Graffin) - 2:42
- "Lookin' In" (Graffin) - 2:03
- "Don't Pray on Me" (Gurewitz) - 2:42
- "Modern Day Catastrophists" (Graffin) - 2:46
- "Skyscraper" (Gurewitz) - 3:15
- "Stealth" (Bentley/Gurewitz/Schayer) - 0:42
- "Skyscraper" is misspelled as "Sky Skraper" on the CD, but spelled correctly on the back cover and in the booklet.
[edit] Personnel
- Greg Graffin – vocals
- Brett Gurewitz – guitar, backing vocals
- Greg Hetson – guitar
- Jay Bentley – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Bobby Schayer – drums
- Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam – guest vocals on "American Jesus" and "Watch It Die"
- Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde – guest vocals on "Struck A Nerve"
- John Wahl – guitar on "Kerosene"
- Chris Bagarozzi – guitar on "Kerosene"
- Greg Leisz - Slide guitar on "Man With a Mission"
- Joe Peccerillo - Lead guitar on "All Good Soldiers", assistant engineering
- Paul Dugre - engineering
- Donnell Cameron - engineering
- Scott Stillman - assistant engineering
- Alison Dyer - photography
- Doug Sax – mastering
- Frederico Carlo mel Hidalgo – art direction
[edit] Trivia
- Track 3, "American Jesus", was covered live by the Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan.
- The lyrics for "Stealth" were spliced together from President Bush's 1992 State of the Union address.
- A Recipe for Hate tour poster is pasted on the walls of "the Pit" in the movie PCU.
- Videos for "American Jesus" and "Struck a Nerve" are available for watching here.
- This album marks the first time that Graffin and Gurewitz had written a song together since Suffer.
[edit] References
- ^ "Recipe for Hate's entry at Allmusic.com". Allmusic.com. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wnfrxqugld0e~T3. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
