S6E260 - Bad Religion 'Recipe For Hate' with Aaron Fruitstone

<p>Listening back to it now, it's hard to believe that <strong>Bad Religion</strong>'s seventh studio album - 1993s '<strong>Recipe For Hate</strong>' - was at the time considered a polarizing record that many hardcore fans felt was a sell-out. 30 years later, it's clear this was a band at the top of their game - maturing and expanding musically while still delivering ferociously intelligent songs about class, religion and navigating a treacherous path towards the 21st century. Our guest, personal trainer and Taekwon-Do Studio owner <strong>Aaron Fruitstone</strong>, makes the case that their brand of cerebral punk is as presciently valid now as it was when he was an angry teen.<br /> <em>"Well madness reigned and paradise drowned</em><br /> <em>When Babel's walls came crashing down</em><br /> <em>Now the echoes roar for a story writ</em><br /> <em>That was hardly understood</em><br /> <em>And never any good."</em></p> <p>Songs featured in this episode: <em>Recipe For Hate (Live Hollywood Palladium, 2004)</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Strike First</em> - Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson; <em>No Control, Only Entertainment</em> - Bad Religion; <em>White Riot</em> - The Clash; <em>Commando</em> - Ramones; <em>Recipe For Hate, Kerosene</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Vigil Smile</em> - Claw Hammer; <em>American Jesus</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Porch</em> - Pearl Jam; <em>Portrait Of Authority</em> - Bad Religion; <em>House Of Wolves</em> - My Chemical Romance; <em>Wichita</em> - Karen Landau and Greg Leisz; <em>Man With A Mission, All Good Soldiers, Watch It Die</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Still In Hollywood</em> - Concrete Blonde; <em>Struck A Nerve</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Harder Than You Think</em> - Public Enemy; <em>My Poor Friend Me</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Growing Up</em> - Fall Out Boy; <em>Lookin' In</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Kids Of The Black Hole</em> - Adolescents; <em>Don't Pray On Me</em> - Bad Religion; <em>Sorrow</em> - Greg Graffin (Live acoustic); <em>Modern Day Catastrophists, Skyscraper, Stealth, Skyscraper (Piano