Rage Against The Machine in general

When i first listened to some of Rage Against The Machines songs, I thought what the hell is this rubbish, as I was into garage music and used to that. But after I got bored of garage and I started listening to rock, and I began to like Rage Against The Machine. Also by watching their music videos, it made me like the music a lot more. I dont know why , but it just did! :) Unfortunately their vocalist, Zack De La Rocha left the band earlier in the year and I was very disappointed because he was the one along with Tom Morello, the guitarist, who gave the band a boost and made them sound more better. They produced four albums, one in 1992, 1996, 1999, and 2000. ...  Read the complete review

This RATM covers album is the last studio album featuring their recently departed singer Zack De La Rocha - there's plans for a live album release after this, but in studio terms it's the last, and it's just a shame that it's covers not originals. Hopefully this won't be the last RATM album either if the band are fit enough to continue, in any form. Anyhow, it's a fabulous piece of entertainment! It's 12 songs worth of rock, hip-hop and punk covers of various diversity. It's great because many of the bands Rage have namechecked (i.e. Public Enemy, Kiss, Bad Brains, The Sex Pistols)...are not on here! It's an unpredictable variety. ...  Read the complete review

‘Rage Against The Machine’ have been called the best band ever by a hell of a lot of people, I myself have three albums of theirs, and I would say that it might just be right. Rage Against the Machine was formed in Los Angeles in 1991. Vocalist Zack De La Rocha was previously in a band called ‘Inside Out’ and took the name "Rage Against The Machine" from ‘Inside Out's’ second unreleased album. And so the name was found, the name that would create shockwaves through both the music industry, but also the political world. This is a timeline of what happened to the band from there: [1991] First public ...  Read the complete review

Update: At the end of this review you may note a paragraph about rifts in the band and so on. Well recently Zach De La Rocha, the rapper/lyricist, left the band and is, as yet, unreplaced. There are rumours of the Cypress hill rapper filling the void but the future is still uncertain. I for one sincerely hope they can get it together and continue. Oh yeah, and soon what's left of Rage are releasing a live/covers compilation - I'll review it here once I've given it a good listen. A few people have said that they're going to buy Rage's first album on the back of this review. This has brought up horrid images of people spenging a wad of their ...  Read the complete review

In a galaxy far away the spaceship trooper Spock utters with whimper "Captain, We've an unidentified object straight ahead. I think it's some form of covers album". Captain Kirk replies with a haughty disdain "Get with the program man!!!!!! A covers album it may be, but this is no ordinary covers album. Re-adjust your ears". After several months in planet Rage the wait is finally over and we get to hear what is sadly going to be RATM's final album. The fact that its a cover album doesn't even come into the equation in most cases as the band have taken the lyrics as a blueprint and taken them to places they've never seen before. ...  Read the complete review