For over 40 years Rancid Vat has championed hatred. There are plenty of bands that will sing mediocre drivel that you hear at your local grocer, or that attempts to imitate that tripe. Yet, Rancid Vat is one of a kind, and that is an undeniable fact! We are a force, powered by hatred and you deserve every single minute. Why? This world is a mess, and Rancid Vat is here to tell it like it is for the Pencil Neck Geeks, and give some hope to the fans of our twisted outlook. Further, we champion the true sport of Kings Professional Wrestling.
“Lonely at the Bottom” is the lone rerecord present. Originally released on “Burger Belsen” in Portland, 40 years has gone by and this is just such a fun one to play. This song goes out to the losers and loners that aren’t wanted by anyone. We probably don’t want you close enough to smell you, but you’ll understand this song.
“It Ain’t Me (So it’s Obviously You)” is where we call out the pathetic breed of humanoids that like to go around playing the victim, laying blame on everyone but themselves, and never look in the mirror. I promise to this breed of parasitic human, that your perception of reality needs to hear how it’s obviously them.
The riff of “Run You Down” was written years before the vocal inspiration. Images of dumbass protesters, waving their signs in the middle of not just little streets, but major bridges and even highways had us laughing all the way to creating this masterpiece.
“Fun Hate” It was on “Dricore Show” on WCSB in Cleveland, Ohio. Marla Vee and myself had been invited to be phone-in guests to talk about Rancid Vat past, present and future. There were a few phone calls from night owl rubes, that had no clue what in the world Rancid Vat was all about. Tried as I might, and tried as I may to explain to this slack jawed toe-rag, that it was all in good fun, I naturally utter “You know, Fun Hate.” And the listener sounded like he was going to barf, “What did you just say?”
Dricore Show chimes in “I think he said ‘Fun Hate’ and played it back “You know, Fun Hate.” But the Rube was incensed at the notion of us reveling in the joys of hating, expressing that hate, and singing about how great and mighty we are in the meantime. A new phrase was born!
“Kamala” was a riff that began inception in 2002, but it wasn’t until the great Ugandan Giant’s passing that The Texas Stud thought to memorialize the legendary Heel in song. As an example that genius takes time some time, “Kamala” is one HELL of a song! Plus, for surprisingly the first time in Rancid Vat’s history of celebrating wrestling, we have local hardcore superstar “Ruben Steel” singing backup vocals!
“Don’t Measure Up” is the snottiest song of all time, and we wrote it!
“Mad Gasser” is lyrically a telling of the case of an unknown and unidentified figure that tormented houses with various gasses in Botetourt County, Virginia (and maybe a decade later in Illinois) Yet nothing was ever left as a trace except footprints in the snow that led to nothing.
“Too Stupid to Live” came up while discussing specimen activity that made us shake our heads. As well as the warning labels, instructions, and laws that society has incorporated for those that would be otherwise, too stupid to live.
If you have made it to the end of the album, and the end of these liner notes with a smile on your face, then you understand Fun Hate and will let your family and friends know this with two Brodies and a Flair
“Huss! HUSS!! WOOOOOO!!!”

King Elvis
September 14,2023