Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
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Album Review
Release date: 02 February 2011
Renegades
Rage rest in peace? Hardly. No justice - no peace. -Motherf**ker.
At the end, then, they've left us with a record of their beginnings. Instead of the long-promised live album, Rage Against The Machine's final salvo is a collection of cover versions. The live album will probably come too, with Rage's paymasters keen as mustard to cash in on their legacy. For all their sound and fury, Rage didn't actually manage to upend the profit...
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- Bombtrack
- Killing In The Name
- Take The Power Back
- Settle For Nothing
- Bullet In The Head
- Know Your Enemy
- Wake Up
- Fistful Of Steel
- Township Rebellion
- Freedom
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What does this parade of heavyweights amount to? Refreshingly, the answer proves to be nothing very much at all.
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Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine: Wikipedia Album Entry
Rage Against the Machine is the debut album by rock band Rage Against the Machine, released November 3, 1992. The songs on Rage Against the Machine tend to feature political mantras with the vocals rapped. The album peaked at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, and at #45 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
Tom Morello's guitar soloing is somewhat traditional on this album, taking influence more from heavy metal music, in comparison to later releases where it is more experimental and geared toward emulation of DJs and hip hop.
In 2001 Q magazine named Rage Against the Machine as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 368 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album is known for its high production values, which are almost to the strictest audiophile standards. Some audiophile sites and magazines even go as far as using the album — in particular the song "Take the Power Back" — to test amplifiers and speakers.
Acclaimed BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe named Rage Against the Machine as one of four albums to be added to his list of 'Masterpieces', and his personal favourite album, on December 2nd, 2008.
The cover artwork features a famous photo of Thích Qu?ng ??c, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô ?ình Di?m's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support of the Ngô ?ình Di?m's government. It was taken by Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne; a similar photograph earned the award of World Press Photo of the Year in 1963.
Activists such as Provisional IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton are listed in the "Thanks For Inspiration" section. Also thanked were Ian and Alec MacKaye – de la Rocha was straight edge at the time, though he later took up smoking.
The lyrics for each song were printed in the album booklet with the exception of those for "Killing in the Name", which were omitted; the booklet reads "2. KILLING IN THE NAME", skips the lyrics and continues with the next song.
The statement "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" can be found at the end of the sleeve notes, and similar statements were made in the band's subsequent albums. The band also refer to themselves as "Guilty Parties" for each album.
"Wake Up" is featured in the credits of The Matrix and in the video game Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX 2, while "Killing in the Name" is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Guitar Hero II. Edits of "Bombtrack" and "Take the Power Back" are featured in the Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers.
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Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Lyrics
Rage Against the Machine - Township Rebellion Lyrics
Rebel, rebel and yell
'Cause our people still dwell in hell
Locked in a cell, yes, the structure's a cell
Mad is the story I tell, how long can we wait?
Rage Against the Machine - Fistful Of Steel Lyrics
Huh!
Check it!
Uh!
Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up Lyrics
Come on
Uggh
Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
Rage Against the Machine - Settle For Nothing Lyrics
A jail cell is freedom
From the pain in my home
Hatred passed on, passed on
And passed on
Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back Lyrics
Crank the music up
Bring that shit in, uhh
Yeah, the movement's in motion
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