Road Rage Against the Machine! (Rage Against The Machine in general)

Member Name: ajarvis174

Product:	Rage Against The Machine in general
Date:	05/02/02 (170 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic heavy guitar, Songs to Rage along with, Great lyrics

Disadvantages: No more Rage as we know it, May not appeal to everyone

A few years back, my younger brother became a bit of a metalhead. He used to come home with CD's from an all manner of strange bands, with names that resembled Nazi Death Squads. At first we ridiculed him, calling him names and laughing at his strange dress sense (something about wearing black in the middle of summer...). Then as time passed we grew to accept him for what he was...a teenager with a rather large CD collection and money to burn.

Whilst looking throught his room for some of my own CD's, I happened upon a CD entitled "Rage Against the Machine", with a picture of a man on fire on the front. I made the sign of the cross and put it back in its place and left the room in a hurry, making sure to avoid making eye contact with the pictures of "Ozzy" on his wall.

Then one day while I was sitting in my room, I heard a different type of music coming from my brothers 1000watt speaker system, which sounded completely different from anything he usually played. For one thing the vocalist didn't sound like he was being choked to death whilst simultaneously being kicked in the groin.

I was intruiged, so I asked him what it was. To my surprise he told me that it was Rage Against the Machine, and that was when my love affair with Zach de la Roche and co. began.

Now as you may have read at the top of this op, I wrote "Road Rage Against the Machine". The reason for this is simple. When I'm driving in town and feeling a bit under the weather, out comes my Rage tape and things all seem better (that was almost like some lyrics there...). In fact, even if I'm NOT feeling under the weather, the tape goes on. And just for the record I'm not some angst ridden teenager who hates everything, I just know good music when I hear it. And the original album, of which my tape mostly consists of, is one of the greatest albums I have ever had the pleasure to listen to.

To be honest, I had nev
er really heard anything like it at all before. The heavy guitar mixed with the rap style lyrics, shouting out about opression and racism, really appealed to me. I've never been a big rap or hip-hop fan, I mostly like something with a bit of guitar and some singing, but this was fantastic. It was also relaxing in a strange sort of way, as singing along to the songs helped you get rid of all of the pent up rage inside you! Nice one!

So when I heard that Zach had left the band, I felt that it was a bad day for the music world as even with a new vocalist I don't believe that Rage would be the same. But even so, if you see any of Rages albums in a store anywhere I would advise you to buy them. Even if your a heavy metal fan and don't like rap, the heavy riffs that are banged out should appeal to you, and the pure energy and rage that the band emits should send the hairs on the back of your neck standing tall.

I cannot stress enough how good this band are and how good they're records are.

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