Picture This…
Twin albums
Rage Against The Machine
TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – Here’s RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE With ‘The Battle Of Los Angeles’…
Memorable longplayers from the past…
‘The Battle Of Los Angeles’
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Released: 2 November 1999
Third album
ROLLING STONE wrote: “There are no love songs, just abused altar boys. No cries of alienation, just calls to arms for peasant Mexican rebels. The fact that music about events so removed from the lives of most American teens has become immensely successful speaks to Rage’s preaching style: They come armed not with a sword but with a microphone. RATM may never ignite the youth war they want to see. But at last, with The Battle of Los Angeles, they’ve managed to win a war within — one in which the band’s notoriously feuding members have come together to produce a sound that’s not quite louder than a bomb but that’s definitely as loud as Led Zeppelin II.” – Score: 4/5
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favorite track: SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE …
Album in full…
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RATM: Website – Facebook – Discography
RATM at Woodstock Festival 1999 – looks rather like 2018…
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Released Their Political Rap Metalhouse Debut 25 Years Ago…
Going back in sonic history…
2 November 2017
Band: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Album: self-titled debut
Released: 3 November 1992 – 25 years ago…
Rolling Stone wrote: “This debut album is a grenade that keeps exploding. Among Nineties albums, only ‘Nevermind’ and ‘The Chronic’ rival it for cultural impact. RATM made hip-hop-tinged funk metal the new rebel music, taking over the alienation beat from grunge slackers
and making Marxist sloganeering seem badass. Rage were machinelike, yes, but built to
change worlds.”
Cover sleeve: “A photo of the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support for Ngô Đình Diệm’s government. It was taken by Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne.”
Turn Up The Volume!: says: The first band that made me like metal madness because they did it the way nobody else did back then. With overwhelming intensity, with ferocious rage, with forceful scream along raps, with biting messages & scorching concerts…
Three Top Tracks: Killing In The Name / Bombtrack / Bullet In The Head
* KILLING IN THE NAME – timeless molotov cocktail…
* BOMBTRACK – loud and clear…
* BULLET IN THE HEAD – “Ya gotta bullet in ya fuckin’ head!”
The Furious Full Album…
10 Memorable Albums Turning 25 in… 2017
Looking back in time… memorable moments in sonic history!
Here are 10 memorable albums released in 1992, turning 25 in 2017. Ten big ones that, for different reasons, had an impressive impact back then & still sound monumental today…
1/ ‘Magic And Loss’ by LOU REED
Inspired by the deaths of two close friends. Heartbreaking observations about illness, pain and mortality. Not an easy listening LP, not an easy one to write either. Deeply affecting…
‘Magic And Loss’ on Spotify
Release date: 14 January 1992 – his 16th album
2/ ‘Generation Terrorists’ by MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Their (double) debut LP didn’t sell 9 million copies as predicted but the Manics slashed and burned big time & made it loudly clear to all that they weren’t a one-noisy-album-wonder…
‘Generation Terrorists’ on Spotify
Release date: 10 February 1992
3/ ‘Code: Selfish’ by THE FALL
Techno influenced guitars, electronic dance rhythms and Mark E. Smith on harsh corrosive and visionary mode. Spectacular! Included one of their rare hit singles with ‘Free Range’.
‘Code: Selfish’ on You Tube
Release date: 23 March 1992 – 14th The Fall album
4/ ‘Lazer Guided Melodies’ by SPIRITUALIZED
After psychedelia explorers Spaceman 3 broke up Jason Pierce came back with a new band and a most innovative dream-pop album. Spacey symphonies to get completely lost in…
‘Lazer Guided Melodies’ on Spotify
Release date: 30 March 1992
5/ ‘Slanted And Enchanted’ by PAVEMENT
Californian frontman Stephen Malkmus’ homemade sonic dreams sounded messy, out
of tune, rough and damn cool. Glorious debut album that changed indie rock radically…
‘Slanted and Enchanted’ on Spotify
Release date: 20 April 1992
6/ ‘Henry’s Dream’ by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
The Australian legend and his fab cohorts explored love, lust and death as never before. Drama from start to finish as only Nick Cave can orchestrate so intensely and powerfully.
‘Henry’s Dream’ on Spotify
Release date: 27 April 1992 – 7th album by Cave & his Seeds
7/ ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ by THE LEMONHEADS
Jingle jangle pop brilliance with a catchy & punky edge. Evan Dando on his way to stardom!
‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ on Spotify
Release date: 2 June 1992 – their 5th album
8/ ‘Bone Machine’ by TOM WAITS
An ominous masterpiece about the fragility and the decay of human life by the poetic punk howler. Dismal in content, rattling in tone, fervid in vocal scariness. To the bone!…
Bone Machine on Spotify
Release date: 8 September 1992 – the legend’s 10th LP
9/ ‘Automatic For The People’ by R.E.M.
A gloomy magnum opus for heart and soul. Timeless, epic songwriting as we know it…
‘Automatic For The People’ on Spotify
Release date: 5 October 1992 – their 8th longplayer
10/ ‘Rage Against the Machine’ by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
A smashing ‘fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’ debut LP. Furious, metallic rap protest…
‘Rage Against The Machine’ on Spotify
Release date: 3 November 1992