Editing Fuel for the Hate Game

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Fuel for the Hate Game
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Hot Water Music]]
| cover      =Fuel for the hate gaem.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = February 28, 1997
| recorded   = Recorded at Morrisound and Nordic Helmet Studios. Spring of '96.
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Post-hardcore]],<ref name=Allmusic/> [[emo]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/hot-water-music-forever-and-counting-1997-the-year-emo-broke/|title=Hot Water Music Bookended 1997 with Two Seminal Albums|website=Vice.com}}</ref> {{nowrap|[[punk rock]]<ref>[https://www.brooklynvegan.com/23-punk-pop-punk-albums-from-1997-that-turn-23-this-year/ Brooklyn Vegan]</ref>}}
| length     = 41:02
| label      = [[Toybox Records|Toybox]]/[[No Idea Records|No Idea]]
| producer   = Hot Water Music
| prev_title = Finding the Rhythms
| prev_year  = 1995
| next_title = [[Forever and Counting]]
| next_year  = 1997
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r382255}}</ref>
| rev2      = Punknews.org
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/2527/hot-water-music-fuel-for-the-hate-game|title=Hot Water Music - Fuel For The Hate Game|website=www.punknews.org}}</ref>
| noprose   = yes
}}

'''''Fuel for the Hate Game''''' is the first full-length [[album]] by [[Hot Water Music]]. ''Fuel...'' was released by [[Toybox Records]] and [[No Idea Records]] in 1997, later repressings only listed No Idea. The album features artwork by Scott Sinclair (not to be confused with [[Scott Sinclair]]) and was designed by [[Sean Bonner]].

The track "Freightliner" was featured on the soundtrack to the [[skateboarding]] [[video game]] ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/10/09/tony-hawk-4-soundtrack-2|title=Tony Hawk 4 Soundtrack - IGN|via=www.ign.com}}</ref> ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' included the song on a list of "20 Best Drinking Songs".<ref>[https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/the-20-best-drinking-songs/#18-hot-water-music-%E2%80%93-freightliner- Pastemag]</ref>

==Reception==
''[[Allmusic]]'' reviewed the album as "raw and unrelenting, but it is also a refreshing release of energy, and an infectious one at that. This is the record that saw the band rise to the top of the hardcore/punk scene, and, years after its release, it is still as deserving of credit as it ever was."<ref name=Allmusic/>
''[[The A.V. Club]]'' stated the album (and [[Forever and Counting|their next]] album released later that year) "stand as two of ’90s’ punk’s proudest monuments—records that cut through all the squabbling, all the second-guessing, and all the politics of the punk scene and straight into its aching heart.<ref>{{cite web |title=In 1997, Blink-182 broke away from the pop-punk pack |date=2014-04-15 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530200330/https://www.avclub.com/in-1997-blink-182-broke-away-from-the-pop-punk-pack-1798268589 |archive-date=2023-05-30 |url-status=live |url=https://www.avclub.com/in-1997-blink-182-broke-away-from-the-pop-punk-pack-1798268589}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track list
|title1 = 220 Years 
|length1 = 4:47
|title2 = Turnstile 
|length2 = 3:28
|title3 = Blackjaw 
|length3 = 3:13
|title4 = Trademark 
|length4 = 3:16
|title5 = Freightliner 
|length5 = 3:18
|title6 = The Sleeping Fan 
|length6 = 4:29
|title7 = Facing and Backing 
|length7 = 4:02
|title8 = Rock Singer 
|length8 = 3:53
|title9 = North and About 
|length9 = 3:26
|title10 = Difference Engine 
|length10 = 3:19
|title11 = Drunken Third 
|length11 = 3:59
}}
{{Track listing
| headline    = Expanded Edition bonus tracks
| title12     = You Can Take the Boy Out of Bradenton
| length12    = 2:59
| title13     = Hate Mail Comes in August
| length13    = 3:59
| title14     = Elektra
| length14    = 3:25
| title15     = Things on a Dashboard
| length15    = 5:09
| title16     = Difference Engine
| note16      = demo
| length16    = 3:32
| title17     = The Sleeping Fan
| note17      = demo
| length17    = 4:44
}}

== Personnel ==
*[[Chuck Ragan]] - [[guitar]]/[[Singing|vocals]]
*[[Chris Wollard]] - [[guitar]]/[[Singing|vocals]]
*Jason Black - [[bass guitar]]
*George Rebelo - [[Drum kit|drums]]

==References==
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{{Hot Water Music}}

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[[Category:Hot Water Music albums]]
[[Category:1998 albums]]