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Average customer rating:

Grabs you and never lets go..
too bad they sold out
Notch below classic, but easily Hot Water Music's best CD.
showcases all of the band's potential- early on!!!
rancid gone emo

Fuel for the Hate Game
Hot Water Music
Manufacturer: No Idea Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Forever and Counting
Never Ender
Finding the Rhythms
A Flight and a Crash
Moonpies for Misfits

ASIN: B00000IFQ3
Release Date: 1998-10-19

Tracks:

220 Years
Turnstile
Black Jaw
Trademark
Freightliner
The Sleeping Fan
Facing And Backing
Rock Singer
North And About
Difference Engine
Drunken Third

Customer Reviews:

Grabs you and never lets go.........2006-08-24

This is still one of my favorite CDs to listen to 5 years after I first heard it. People will say that HWM has changed for the worse due to Epitaph Records but don't get sidetracked with all of that. The one amazing thing about HWM is that no two records are ever alike and each one has its own feel and flavor to it. However, Fuel for the Hate Game has to be one of their best releases ever. Between the driving gutar parts of songs like "Rock Singer", and the melodic dual-guitar riffs of "Blackjaw" and "Freightliner", this record will amaze everyone from the hardcore fan to the first-time listener.

too bad they sold out.......2006-03-17

HWM used to be amazing, just listen to this cd and you will see. god damn epitaph ruins everything!

Notch below classic, but easily Hot Water Music's best CD........2005-12-18

Equal parts, Fugazi, At the Drive-in, Rancid, Pennywise, and Nirvana; This is an album rooted in hardcore rock. Upon one listen it is clear this music stands almost on par with the best alternative/emo/indie/hardcore/punk records of the past decade. It is unrelenting, every song is delivered with a punishing rough edge while the band still manages to create stong melodies. The duel guitar attack never lets up, interchanging chaoticly, and the two vocalist sound good together, screaming, yelling, and chanting angily but still giving the cd an element of melodic harmonys. The first half, namely the first 5 songs, are all stand out tracks and are truely the highlight of the enitre LP. As the record goes on some may say the quality of the songs starts on a slight path downhill, if it's true it still doesnt take away from the amazing, merciless rock that fills most of the album.
My only problem with this album, is that while it is similar to the bands I mentioned before, it is just a notch below the other classic discs of it's era, and will often be overlooked when people are building their cd collection.

showcases all of the band's potential- early on!!!.......2005-06-09

Ok, I'm biased. HWM are one of my favorite bands, have been for years. They put on some of the best, most impassioned, most frenetic shows I've ever seen.

This is technically their second CD, but it may as well be their first, as "Finding the Rhythms" is all but unlistenable. Thus, most fans start counting here, with FFTHG: It demonstrates the band really fleshing out their sound, testing their dynamic boundaries. The singers ably back each other- the call/response harmonic shouting/screaming/singing is alchemical in drawing the listener's emotions out. Some of their best stuff is on this CD: Turnstile, Trademark and Freightliner are wonderfully excellent. Having said that, there are some sleeper tunes on this, at least in my opinion. Some of the cuts later in the CD- I find myself skipping them repeatedly. The good ones more than take up the slack. If you're into kinetic, brutal yet melodic rock (I hate all the interminable emo subcategorizations that people forever dredge up- it's ROCK when it just plain rocks people), you could do far, far worse.

Recommended!

rancid gone emo.......2004-04-12

this cd sounds like rancid decided to go emo one day. it sucks.

Average customer rating:

It ROcks So Much It Hurts

Fuel for the Hate Game
Hot Water Music
Manufacturer: No Idea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Post Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Tracks:

220 Years
Turnstile
Blackjaw
Trademark
Freightliner
Sleeping Fan
Facing and Backing
Rock Singer
North and About
Difference Engine
Drunken Third

Customer Reviews:

It ROcks So Much It Hurts.......1999-06-04

If you like hot water you'll love fuel for the hate game. it combines their screaming vocals with those poppy melodic guitar parts. It will have you urinating your pants by the time you are done with it.

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