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| Single by Ministry | ||||
| from the album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs | ||||
| B-side | "TV Song" | |||
| Released | November 7, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
| Studio | Chicago Trax! Studios (Chicago, IL) | |||
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"Jesus Built My Hotrod" is a song by American industrial metal band Ministry, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs. It was written by the band's frontman Al Jourgensen, bassist Paul Barker, drummer Bill Rieflin, session keyboardist Michael Balch, and guest vocalist Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, and was co-produced by Jourgensen and Barker. An industrial metal track with a polyrhythmic structure, the song also features elements of rockabilly and psychobilly, and is influenced by the Trashmen 1963 hit "Surfin' Bird"[citation needed], and Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood.[citation needed]
The song was first released as a single in November 1991, backed with the B-side "TV Song" based on lyrics by Chris Connelly; re-edited versions of both tracks were included in Psalm 69, as well as various compilation albums. The single reached No. 19 in the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart with approximately 128,000 copies as of mid-July 1992, preceding the later success of Psalm 69.