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Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate Audio CD

A fair review of the Bad Religion "Recipe for Hate" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bad Religion reviews here, or go back to the Bad Religion tabs.

Bad Religion Band: Bad Religion
Title: Recipe for Hate
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Release Date: 1993-09-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Recipe for Hate 2: Kerosene 3: American Jesus 4: Portrait of Authority 5: Man With a Mission 6: All Good Soldiers 7: Watch It Die 8: Struck a Nerve 9: My Poor Friend Me 10: Lookin' In 11: Don't Pray On Me 12: Modern Day Catastrophists 13: Skyscraper 14: Stealth

My personal favorite BR album
I have been a fan of them since I was 15, and they have been my favorite band for over 10 years. Although few people will probably agree with me, this is by far my favorite Bad Religion album. I have owned all of the albums, and I appreciate them all, but when I finally found this one among some other neglected cds, I was ecstatic. Recipe for Hate is so deep and it really makes me emote. I love the different sounds on this record - some twangs of country, the military sound on "all good soliders", and the smooth melodies on skyscraper - and I just love belting the songs out as loudly as I can on the way to work. It really pumps me up. Conversely, my 2 year old daughter loves when I sing the songs slowly, especially Skyscraper, my favorite song from the album, to her when I put her to bed. [. . . ].


Great middle-period Bad Religion
This is one of my favorite records by one of my favorite bands. Yeah, I'm biased. This is angry music with substance for the fringe, not the radio friendly pop, mascara and emo bangs, garbage sung by super famous, rich 20 somethings about how alienated and sad they are. But enough of that crap. This is good, honest punk rock and while there are highlights (Kerosene, American Jesus, title track, Struck a Nerve) it's a good record beginning to end and a great representation of the middle years of Bad Religion (90's. ) If you're thinking about getting into this band and you want to know what they're all about this or All Ages (a comp of mostly 80's stuff) would be a great place to start. It's music with a social conscience. .


Recipe for almost hating this cd
Kerosene is weird/funny, not really a bad song but the rest of the cd sucks. I love the song Recipe For Hate but after that the album nose dives. Bad Religion is one of my favorite bands but I have found that most of their songs are duds but then others are freakin awesome. I think the most consistently good album by them is Suffer.


Very good stuff
There are several BR classics, however, that make this album a must-buy for any fan. This album is a mix of great and not-so-great songs. I thought that some of the lyrics were especially sharp on this one. I had forgotten how good this album is! (I lost mine about 10 years ago and just repurchased). Intelligent punk! What a rare find. How can you not love this band. . .

Highly recommended!.


My all time favorite Bad Religion album
This was sometime in early 1993. A long while back a friend of mine turned me on to Bad Religion and their music by playing me some tracks from his "Against The Grain" cassette that he had recently purchased. Months later, this album - "Recipe For Hate" - was released. This same friend brought me his CD that he had purchased of this album and excitedly played me the entire album. I had thought the songs he played me from "Against The Grain" were good, but when I heard this album I truly became a huge Bad Religion fan immediately. Within a few months following the release of this album, I had the entire collection on CD. To this day, they're now one of my top favorite bands of all time.

Greg Graffin's lyrics are among the very best of Bad Religions output throughout this record and the musical hooks bleed all over the place from the beginning to the end. Even Eddie Vedder makes a vocal appearance on "Watch It Die" which is mixed so well that you'd barely know it's him given how his vocals were mixed on Pearl Jam's "Ten" which was released a year before this. Mr. Brett's production is slick and punchy at the same time which was a highlight on the previous album "Generator" but with this album it's more rounded out. If there's a bad track on this album I surely can't name one (we can't count "Stealth").

Of course, it's well known that this is the album that lead to Bad Religion signing to Atlantic Records. It was with good reason. Unfortunately, that label was never able to generate any real money out of Bad Religion and the band would suffer a bit musically once Mr. Brett had to leave the band to concentrate on Epitaph Records unexpected rise in sales thanks to The Offspring & Rancid. This is the album that sort of began an interesting period for Bad Religion. One that I feel they managed to survive very well given the trends they were put up against and with Greg Graffin having to assume most of the writing responsibilties with Mr. Brett absent from the band until "The Process Of Belief" came out in 2002.

If you're a new fan of Bad Religion it's not a bad idea to start with this album. The older fan would tell you to start with "Suffer" or "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?" but I feel that the band reached it's musical peak with the lineup that played on "Recipe For Hate" and the follow-up album (and the 1st officially recorded for Atlantic Records) "Stranger Than Fiction".

Standout tracks include - "Recipe For Hate", "Kerosene", "American Jesus", "Portrait Of Authority", "Watch It Die", "My Poor Friend Me", "Lookin In", "Modern Day Catastrophists" & "Skyscraper".


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