Rage Against The Machine
by Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against The Machine by Rage Against The Machine
Year: 1992
Release date: 1992-00-00
Overall rank: 112th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,675 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1992 (2nd)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1990s (22nd)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (112th)

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Rage Against The Machine rankings summary
Overall rank: 112th | 1990s rank: 22nd | 1992 rank: 2nd  Overall chart history
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90/100
Absolutely thunderous. If I ever we going to go ape-shit on some fascists, I'd listen to this at full volume first. (Edited)
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I've never heard an album that brings out the title's feelings in me like this one. After spinning this disc how can you not feel rage? Brilliant.
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It not only helped to reinvigorate rock and roll it also reinvented it, which is a fucking amazing accomplishment if you think about it. Tommy Morello: one of the three most creative guitarists ever. Oh, and the best revolutionary rock and roll album cover ever.
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One of the rare examples of rap combined with metal, which doesn't come off as cringe for me. Energy is absolutely unparalleled and lyrics are equally furious and guitar playing is top notch with many brilliant parts. (Edited)
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In some ways Rage Against the Machine don't deserve that hate that is thrown their way. Musically, for ten minutes or so, they are great, and they get your head banging. Tom Morello's use of effects is interesting to listen to and to attempt to recreate.

However, in many other ways they are massively overrated. They are creditted as this 'political band' with a 'message' however, the band name says it all. 'Rage Against the Machine', they come across as if they really have no idea what they are raging against, they fling buzz words around, the singer shout-raps his way through a stream of cliched sayings, telling the listeners to 'wake up' and 'stand up' or whatever. But you hardly listen to the lyrics and think 'good point'.

So, not bad for ten minutes, but this album really does sound like they had success with 'Killing in the Name' and pulled an albums worth of songs out of the arse of it. The 'singer' starts as engaging, but ends up just acting as noise. The basses is clearly good, so is the drummer. Tom Morello is a guitarist to be admired, but I question if anyone would give a shit about him if he didn't turn up with a double decker buses worth of effect pedals.
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