Hate Your Friends is also one of only three albums to feature the Lemonheads' original lineup with Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz.

The six songs on side two were recorded before Trachten joined the band back when Dando and Deily traded duties on guitar and drums.

With the 1988 release of the Lemonheads' second album, Creator, Taang launched the group's debut CD as Create Your Friends containing the 13 tracks from the LP version of Hate Your Friends and the 13 tracks from the original Creator LP..

When Taang reissued both albums in 1992 as individual discs, the CD version of Hate Your Friends followed the 20-track sequence of the cassette.

[3] The cassette/CD bonus track "I Am a Rabbit" is originally by early New Zealand punk band Proud Scum.