RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Rage Against the Machine (s.t, 1st, debut) CD 1992. Check videos “Killing in the Name”, “Bullet in the Head”, “Bombtrack”, “Freedom”

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Rage were a musical Molotov cocktail that was backed by activism not seen since the likes of Crass and Conflict. Certainly never seen in the mainstream. And then there was the cover art featuring a picture of a Buddhist monk named Thích Quáng Đúc meditating as he burned himself to death in protest against the South Vietnamese government.

“Yeah, one more reason we thought people would never hear the record!” says guitarist Tom Morello. “The idea in the music was that it was going to be an uncompromised and uncompromising expression of our world views as musicians and as activists. The photo on the cover of the monk self- immolating for his beliefs was one that we thought captured the integrity and the power that we were striving for in our songs!”

Killing In The Name is the most important song on the record,” reflects Morello. “It’s taken on a life of its own that’s really separate from Rage, where it’s become one of the rebel rock anthems for people who are on the frontline trying to change the world. Frederick Douglas, a freed slave who became an abolitionist, in his autobiography he wrote, ‘The moment I became free was not when I was physically released from my chains, the moment I became free was when master said yes and I said no.’ And that’s what that song is about! It’s about standing up to illegitimate authority wherever it rears its head. Sometimes that might be parental or it might be your school, or your place of work or in your government. That ‘fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ resounds on a lot of levels.”

Rage Against the Machine= Studio album by Rage Against the Machine
Released:November 10, 1992
Recorded: AprilMay 1992
Sound City, Van Nuys, CA; Scream Studios, Studio City, CA; Industrial Recording, North Hollywood, CA
Genre: Rap metal, alternative metal, funk metal
Length:52:56
Label: Epic
Producer: Garth Richardson and Rage Against the Machine

Singles from Rage Against the Machine
“Killing in the Name” Released: November 12, 1992
“Bullet in the Head” Released: 1992
“Bombtrack” Released: June 20, 1993
“Freedom” Released: November 10, 1993

Rage Against the Machine is the debut studio album by rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. The album was released on November 10, 1992. It went to #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #45 on the Billboard 200 chart.
“Know Your Enemy” features Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan on “additional vocals”, and also features Janes Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins on trashcan percussion. Keenan has been known on occasion to appear onstage with the band to perform the song.

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 magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Rage Against the Machine at number 11, just after Electric Wizards Come My Fanatics… and before Cathedrals Forest of Equilibrium, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.
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 ‘Masterpieces’. This was his best album, on December 2, 2008.
In October 2011, Rage Against the Machine was ranked number five on Guitar World magazines top ten list of guitar albums of 1992.

Artwork and sleeve notes:
The cover features a photo of Thích Qu?ng Ð?c, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Ðình Di?ms administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support for Ngô Ðình Di?ms 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.
The songs on Rage Against the Machine all feature political messages. 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. Similar statements were made in the bands subsequent albums. The band also refer to themselves as “Guilty Parties” for each album.

Track listing:
All songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine and all lyrics by Zack de la Rocha.
“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
“Wake Up” is featured in the credits of The Matrix, in the video game Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 and in the credits for GAA Beó on TG4, while “Killing in the Name” is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Guitar Hero II (as a cover version) and Guitar Hero Smash Hits (using the master track). Edits of “Bombtrack” and “Take the Power Back” are featured in the Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers.


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