Rage Against the Machine, is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991. The band's continual members are rapper Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk. Rage Against the Machine is noted for its blend of hip hop, heavy metal, punk and funk as well as its revolutionary politics and lyrics. Rage Against the Machine drew inspiration from early metal instrumentation, as well as rap acts such as Public Enemy and Afrika Bambaataa. The group's music is distinguished primarily by de la Rocha's rhyming styles and powerful stage energy, and Morello's unorthodox guitar techniques.
Rage Against the Machine released their debut album Rage Against the Machine in 1992, which became a commercial success. Following a slot on the 1993 Lollapalooza, the band did not release a follow-up record until Evil Empire in 1996. The band's third album The Battle of Los Angeles was released in 1999. During their initial nine year run, they became one of the most popular and influential political bands in contemporary music.
The band released their fourth studio album Renegades in 2000 and broke up shortly afterwards. Zack de la Rocha started a low-key solo career; the rest of the band formed the rock supergroup Audioslave with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. In April 2007 Rage Against the Machine performed together for the first time in seven years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The band has continued to perform at multiple live venues since.
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.
"Bombtrack" – 4:05
"Killing in the Name" – 5:14
"Take the Power Back" – 5:37
"Settle for Nothing" – 4:48
"Bullet in the Head" – 5:09
"Know Your Enemy" – 4:55
"Wake Up" – 6:04
"Fistful of Steel" – 5:31
"Township Rebellion" – 5:24
"Freedom" – 6:06
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Evil Empire is the second album by Rage Against the Machine. It was released on April 16, 1996, almost four years after the band's first, self-titled album named Rage Against the Machine
The album's title is taken from the phrase evil empire, which was used by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and many Western conservatives in describing the former Soviet Union.
The overall sound of the album differed from the group's other three albums: their previous self-titled debut, The Battle of Los Angeles and Renegades three years later. Stylewise, the album continues to blur the line between rap and rock, but unlike the prior (and subsequent) albums' large and looming heavy metal riffs dominating, the album more involves the rhythms and Zack de la Rocha's rap-style vocals. The unusual time signature that concludes the end of "Year Of Tha Boomerang" is a prime example, though the style can be easily seen on (roughly) 8 of the 11 tracks. To some this proved to be a more popular style, to others it was less favorable. The track "Bulls on Parade" became the first single and, as with their debut, five singles were released in total.
Interestingly, Tom Morello once remarked in an interview that recording and writing sessions for Evil Empire were extremely difficult, as conflict ensued within the band over musical direction. Rage Against The Machine nearly broke up at this time, but decided to continue on after the completion of the album.
Evil Empire debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The song "Tire Me" won the 1996 Grammy award for Best Metal Performance. The tracks "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were both nominated for Grammy's for Best Hard Rock Performance in separate years.
"People of the Sun" – 2:30
"Bulls on Parade" – 3:52
"Vietnow" – 4:40
"Revolver" – 5:30
"Snakecharmer" – 3:55
"Tire Me" – 3:00
"Down Rodeo" – 5:22
"Without a Face" – 3:36
"Wind Below" – 5:50
"Roll Right" – 4:22
"Year of tha Boomerang" – 4:00
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The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine. It was released on November 2, 1999, one day short of the seven-year anniversary of the release of their first album, and over three years after their second studio album, Evil Empire. Between Evil Empire and Los Angeles, the band released a live album, titled Live & Rare.
The song "Calm Like a Bomb" is featured in the credits of The Matrix Reloaded. The videos to "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify" were directed by documentor Michael Moore.
The album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 selling 420,000 copies its first week. That week saw a busy CD release schedule. The album denied Mariah Carey's highly anticipated album the chance to open at #1. "Guerrilla Radio" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, albeit heavily edited on the Nintendo 64. Time named it the Best Album of 1999. It was listed as #53 in SPIN Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005.
The album cover art was an original artwork by the LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs aka Joel Jaramillo, a well-known Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at numerous galleries in Los Angeles, New York City and throughout the United States. Despite claims to the contrary, the image was not inspired by images from the 1992 street riots of LA or from images of Munich, but by the band's own music and words, and represents one in a series of images of the artist's work, which can also be seen on various street murals in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
The Battle of Los Angeles was heavily influenced by the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. "Testify", "Sleep Now in the Fire", "Voice of the Voiceless", among other songs, include direct quotes from the novel, and mention key Orwellian terms in the lyrics.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
"Testify" – 3:30
"Guerrilla Radio" – 3:28
"Calm Like a Bomb" – 4:58
"Mic Check" – 3:34
"Sleep Now in the Fire" – 3:26
"Born of a Broken Man" – 4:42
"Born as Ghosts" – 3:22
"Maria" – 3:49
"Voice of the Voiceless" – 2:32
"New Millennium Homes" – 3:45
"Ashes in the Fall" – 4:37
"War Within a Breath" – 3:37
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It consists entirely of cover songs and includes covers of artists such as Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, EPMD, MC5, the Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill, and Devo. It was released in 2000, after Rage singer Zack de la Rocha had already left the band, but featured his vocals. It is rumored that Zack did not want the album to be released, and the band secured separate management to ensure it would come out. After the release of Renegades, the remaining three members of the band reformed with Chris Cornell on vocals as Audioslave. Rage did, however, release one final album, Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, a live recording of their final two concerts in Los Angeles on September 12 and September 13, 2000. The bonus live version of "Kick Out the Jams" on the European version of this album also appears on Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium.
"Microphone Fiend" (Eric B. & Rakim: Follow The Leader) – 5:03
"Pistol Grip Pump" (Volume 10: Hip-Hopera) – 3:19
Contains portions of "More Bounce to the Ounce" by Zapp
"Kick Out the Jams" (MC5: Kick Out the Jams) – 3:11
"Renegades of Funk" (Afrika Bambaataa: Planet Rock - The Album) – 4:36
Contains samples from "Renegades of Funk" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force & "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey
"Beautiful World" (Devo: New Traditionalists) – 2:36
"I'm Housin'" (EPMD: Strictly Business) – 4:57
"In My Eyes" (Minor Threat: In My Eyes) – 2:55
"How I Could Just Kill a Man" (Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill) – 4:08
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" (Bruce Springsteen: The Ghost of Tom Joad) – 5:39
"Down on the Street" (The Stooges: Fun House) – 3:39
"Street Fighting Man" (The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet) – 4:44
"Maggie's Farm" (Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home) – 6:56
"Kick Out the Jams" (Live) - 4:32
"How I Could Just Kill a Man" (featuring B-Real and Sen Dog) (Live) - 4:31
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"Killing in the Name" (often misnamed, due to the lyrics, as "Killing in the Name Of") was the first single released by Rage Against the Machine from their self-titled album, and is arguably the band's signature song. On 31 August 1999, it was reissued together with one previously unreleased track, "Darkness of Greed" the track "Clear the Lane" originally released on a white only pressing at the time of first release on the b-side to 'killing in the name'. The album's cover pictured ThÃch Quảng Ä�ức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the murder of Buddhists by Prime Minister Ngô Ä�ình Diệm's regime.
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1. Killing in the Name
2. Darkness of Greed
3. Clear the Lane
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Live & Rare is a compilation of live and rare performances written and performed by Rage Against the Machine, released only in Japan. It is an album made up of "official bootlegs" previously available on other singles (such as the cover of N.W.A's "~censored~ tha Police", previously found on the "red", limited version of the Guerrilla Radio single).
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"Bullet in the Head" – 5:44
"Settle for Nothing" – 4:57
"Bombtrack" – 5:55
"Take the Power Back" – 6:13
"Freedom" – 6:00
"Intro (Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos)" – 3:42 (with Chuck D from Public Enemy)
"Zapata's Blood" – 3:49
"Without a Face" – 4:06
"Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" – 8:04 (a poem by Allen Ginsberg)
"~censored~ tha Police" – 4:09 (N.W.A cover)
"Darkness" – 3:41
"Clear the Lane" – 3:50
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Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium is the final album released by the band Rage Against the Machine, on November 25, 2003. It is a recording of the final two shows Rage played at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on September 12 and 13th, 2000. The album was originally planned to be released in November 2000, but was delayed due to the break-up of the band shortly after the September concerts. It was then slated for release a year later, but was again delayed due to the formation of Audioslave by the remaining three members of Rage (Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk) with vocalist Chris Cornell (formerly of Soundgarden). The album was finally released amid mixed reviews in November 2003, mainly due to poor mixing rather than musical performance, where on the other hand the DVD version was praised by fans and critics alike.
"Bulls on Parade" – 5:17
"Bullet in the Head" – 5:29
"Born of a Broken Man" – 4:20
"Killing in the Name" – 5:03
"Calm Like a Bomb" – 4:50
"Testify" – 3:22
"Bombtrack" – 4:06
"War Within a Breath" – 3:22
"I'm Housin'" – 4:47
"Sleep Now in the Fire" – 4:11
"People of the Sun" – 2:27
"Guerrilla Radio" – 3:54
"Kick Out the Jams" – 3:21
"Know Your Enemy" – 5:18
"No Shelter" – 3:59
"Freedom" – 7:05
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