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. Their last album in the year 2000 was called Renegades and it wasnt completely their own songs, because it was done by other people but they just improved it into a rock version.
I think all their albums were great, except for that im not sure on their album in 1996, called Evil Empire, the first 2 songs were good but the rest I didnt like. Their album in 1999, called Battle Of Los Angeles was rated the best rock album!
Tom Morello is famous for doing his own scratching noises and using switches which are his own guitar effects that he does, this makes the music sound better from my point of view.
I never get bored of listening to their music, i still listen to their album from 1992 which has one of their songs called Wake Up which featured in The Matrix soundtrack at the end of the film. That song was actually produced in 1991.
If you have seen any songs around of Rage Against The Machine, be sure to listen to them because i dont think you will be disappointed especially if your already into rock music!
On a good note, they have a new singer from Soundgarden, another rock group, and they will be releasing an album in October and have already written around 20 songs, but I think they will be changing their band name.
So current Rage Against The Machine fans, like myself, will be
looking forward to that.