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| Track Listing 1. Bombtrack 2. Killing In The Name 3. Take The Power Back 4. Settle For Nothing 5. Bullet In The Head 6. Know Your Enemy 7. Wake Up 8. Fistful Of Steel 9. Township Rebellion 10. Freedom
Album Notes Rage Against The Machine: Zack De La Rocha (vocals); Tom Morello (guitar); Timmy C. (bass); Brad Wilk (drums).Additional personnel: Maynard James Keenan (background vocals).Engineers: Stan Katayama, GGGarth, Auburn Burell.Recorded at Sound City, Van Nuys, California; Scream Studios, Studio City, California; Industrial Recording, North Hollywood, California.On paper, Rage Against The Machine reads like Beavis, Boogie Down Productions and Butt-Head: an angry and enlightened rap frontman who preaches a multi-cultural alternative to what they teach you in schools and show you on TV, backed by a funky heavy metal rhythm section whose vampage and riffing pay direct tribute to the likes of the Edgar Winter Group and Led Zeppelin.But there's no sense of fusion here. Neither a metal band toying with rap nor a rap group fronting as a rock band, R.A.T.M. is four guys who were never told that there's a difference, and who don't care to know. The knowledge-is-good-but-schools-are-bad rap, "Take The Power Back," gives way to a metal instrumental bridge; and the guitar that introduces the Martin/Malcolm/Cassius homage, "Wake Up," pays its own tribute to Zeppelin's "Kashmir." The closest spiritual--but not stylistic--reference point are the alternative raps of the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy; and Rage's "Bullet In The Head" may be the best song about TV since the Heroes' "Television, The Drug Of The Nation."Rapper Zack De La Rocha has a thin voice that sounds more like a bored suburban thrasher than an inner-city rhyme animal, but his lyrics are something else altogether. Rising high above the nihilism of both hard-core rap and punk, he offers not just good slogans for a t-shirt, but the promise of a system to replace the one he's bent on destroying. His is a revolution with a purpose. Editorial Reviews Q (07/01/2001) | |||||||||||||
Reviews  Drive out the anger!Review created: 05/04/07 by:  Rage' have a reputation for being the political voices of a generation and this album shows why. Full of verbal assaults against the governments of the world (mainly America) and the stupid culture of drugs and war, Rage' mix high-powered rock riffs (stunning bass work) and rap vocals. Listen to this album, if you can get all the way through without having enough of the angry outpourings you need to go buy another and keep listening until you realise that shouting at people isn't the answer! Review ID: 10000000003318968 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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