Buoyed by massive radio hits “Guerrilla Radio,” “Testify,” and “Sleep Now in the Fire,” the first half of the album is as KROQ-ready as their debut. Released when I was 12, “The Battle of Los Angeles” was my introduction to Rage. Play it again: “Maggie’s Farm” Skip it: “Street Fighting Man” 3. Some tracks are pretty forgettable (“Kick Out the Jams” is just a lesser version of the original, “Street Fighting Man” whiffs), but most of the album delivers, including standouts like “Microphone Fiend,” “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” and “How I Could Just Kill a Man.” You could always hear varied funk, punk, and hip-hop influences incorporated in Rage’s music, but “Renegades” is the furthest they ever leaned away from riff-heavy rap/rock to dip into those other genres. and Rakim (sure), Minor Threat (yup), and Devo (wait, what?). “Renegades” has to go last, right? I am fond of this collection of off-the-wall covers, as Rage branched out musically to take on the likes of Eric B. How do their records stack up against one another? Well, chug that Mountain Dew Code Red and tell your stepdad to fuck off, because it’s time for us to rank ‘em. And, most importantly, they have the best song on the 1998 “Godzilla” soundtrack.Īlthough they’ve reunited for tours over the years, RATM’s studio albums were all released in a brief 8-year window. Politically, their message inspired a generation of anti-authoritarian leftists. However, Rage has been reappraised in recent years as people slowly realized that there are more important things in life than keeping a laundry list of which bands have or have not “sold out.” Musically, their sound clearly influenced current acts like Turnstile and MSPAINT. For nearly a decade thereafter, it was “uncool” to still listen to bands like the Deftones, System of a Down, and, perhaps most maligned of all, Rage Against the Machine. Unfortunately, in our haste to flush nu-metal and post-grunge buttrock down the cultural toilet like the turds they were, we also discarded some of the only good heavy music from that era.
The late 90s and early aughts were a rough time for rock.
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