Recipe for Hate

Again, Daniel Mate of Bad Hasbara, who... goes over all this stuff in a much more uh much more entertaining way than i do oftentimes i often do very bleak at all times without being very funny you guys are very funny in what you do even when it's on very dire straits of conversations but as well as an award-winning songwriter lyricist composer music theater writer um one thing i usually ask people at the beginning when there's some musical inclined things but we got the ball rolling but i do like to end things on kind of a a positive note and i see you do this in your podcast and your intros all the time yeah and i love talking music with people is just give me to end things off here and maybe this uh is it's just uh you know you show records all the times that you're excited about that you've gotten recently i always like to ask people this is usually the icebreaker but this will be the conclusion of Just what is a band or an artist or a couple of artists you've been listening to a lot lately or things that you'd like to shout out or something that you think deserves a little recognition? Whether it's a local artist or the biggest artist in the world, what have you been listening to lately? What do you want to give a shout out to? Thank you for asking.

Well, behind me is the Bad Religion album, Recipe for Hate from 1994, which was my first year at university.

Just

a terrific album.

Generator.

It just kept going until I think then they stopped Recipe for Hate, and then they went pro, you know?

Yeah, totally.

Yeah, yeah.

Baker brought a more traditional riffing style than Mr. Gurewitz’s angular power chords, which made the Atlantic era feel less raw, but also made it more radio-friendly.

When you look at Recipe for Hate, reissued on Atlantic in ’93, the production quality is noticeably polished compared to the original eight-track analog master.

You hear that slick guitar sustain and tighter drum overheads.

And then comes Stranger Than Fiction, released in September of ’94, which hit number eighty-seven on the Billboard 200, a milestone for a punk band that had never had that kind of visibility before.

They didn't rely on one breakout act, but built a diversified roster across sub-genres like metalcore and indie rock.

In 1993, when Bad Religion signed with Atlantic for their album Recipe for Hate, Bret stayed on as producer and label head.

illustrating the complex relationship between punk acts and major labels during that era.

Atlantic reissued several Bad Religion albums via Epitaph's network, ensuring fans abroad had access to both old and new releases without waiting for a major label push in every territory.