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“Jesus Built My Hotrod” by Ministry

From the album ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (1992)

“Jesus Built My Hotrod” by Ministry appears on 25 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1991 and 2025. It was first released in 1992 on the album ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ. Its best result is #3 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #46 alternative song of 1992, #1,278 alternative song of all time and #403 of the '90s.

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Ministry turned "Jesus Built My Hotrod" loose in November 1991 as the first single from ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ, the fifth album that goes by Psalm 69 and landed in 1992, and it's industrial metal jumping the median. Frontman Al Jourgensen and bassist Paul Barker co-produced, writing the music with drummer Bill Rieflin and session keyboardist Michael Balch, then gave the wheel to the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes, who supplied the lyric and the vocal.

Under the hood it's a polyrhythmic pile-up with rockabilly and psychobilly bolted on, nodding to "Surfin' Bird", the Trashmen's 1963 hit, and to Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood. Backed with "TV Song", built on Chris Connelly's words, it reached number 19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and had sold about 128,000 copies by mid-July 1992, a warm-up for what Psalm 69 was about to do.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 50 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 91
1991 63 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 105
1991 17 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 91 Songs of 1991 91
1992 49 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1992 91
1992 7 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 102
1992 3 John Peel (BBC Radio 1) John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1992 50

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1992 211 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) 299
1994 247 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1995 242 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1999 417 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 876 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 992 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2003 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1376 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 520 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 971 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2008 1998 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 54 Studio Brussel Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2009) 70
2021 655 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2025 483 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500

Also listed as: Jesus Built My Hot Rod.

Charting alongside it in 1992

Best songs of 1992 →
  1. 1Friday I'm in LoveThe Cure
  2. 2Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers
  3. 3DriveR.E.M.
  4. 4OneU2
  5. 5JeremyPearl Jam
  6. 6TomorrowMorrissey

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