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Recipe for Hate by Bad Religion
Recipe for Hate is an album by Bad Religion, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Struck A Nerve”, on 5 lists with a best position of #82.
Recipe for Hate, Bad Religion's seventh studio album, came out on June 4, 1993, on Epitaph, the label run by guitarist Brett Gurewitz, and it turned out to be the band's last Epitaph record for nine years. They had already signed with Atlantic, and the major reissued it a few months later. The band produced it themselves, and the formula is honed to a point: songs about religion, politics and the media set to breakneck melodic punk, with Gurewitz and Greg Hetson's guitars ringing, Jay Bentley and Bobby Schayer pushing hard, and Greg Graffin's lead riding on top of those stacked three-part harmonies.
No Bad Religion record had charted in the U.S. before this one, which entered Billboard's Heatseekers chart at number 14, with "American Jesus" and "Struck a Nerve" sent out as singles. Gurewitz would quit just before the follow-up, Stranger than Fiction, came out.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Recipe for Hate on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Struck A Nerve | 5 | #82 | – | 1994–2008 | |
| 2 | American Jesus | 2 | #575 | – | 2002–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.