Rage Against the Machine

[Generic Wheaties]

Is the coolest band ever, I can listen to them all day. I think i'm so obsessed with them I can play a lot of their basslines on my bass. Zach is just an insane lyricist, Tom Morello definatley had the most original guitar riffs of the 90s. Wilk and Morello just kept everything together with the strong drum beats and killer basslines. FUCK man. Once Know Your Enemy goes off I go nuts.

Okay, that's my rant. What's your favorite album/song?
For me it's
Album: Self titled
Song: So many to choose but I like No Shelter, Bomb Track, Wind Below, Know Your Enemy, Killing in the Name, Without a Face, Tire Me, ... I like all their songs. I just hate it that I wasn't really old enough in the 90s to go to any of their shows, but what can you do.

[Stay Vertical]

Broken man was a good song.

Thats the only song of theirs I have on my computer so, yeah. Broken man was a good song.

[Generic Wheaties]

Born of a Broken Man is an alright song, you should get other songs though if you even remotley liked a song like that.

[Spatula]

I love Rage Against The Machine...I own most of their albums, got Live and Rare a few months ago, so now I'm only missing a few singles to get a complete discography.

Mmmmm, Rage.

[Omega]

Morello is the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

[Greg]

Rage Against the Machine is a great band I have there live album and The Battle of LA. I don't really have one favorite song I just like them all. Tom Morello is a great guitarist.

[Moses]

I have all RATM.

[Bryan]

They're one of my favorites.

Their CDs in order of personal favoritism:

RATM
LA
Live & Rare
Renegades
Evil Empire
Live at The Grand Olympic

[Jesus]

I think Rage are an awesome band but to say Morello is the best guitarist ever is a bit of an over statment. He has awesome riffs and an awesome effects rack but thats about it.

I love Rage though.

Fave Song; Bullet to the Head.

[Generic Wheaties]

A lot of people say Morrello is a shitty guitarist who hides his shittyness with effect pedals. I don't think he's the greatest, but he's by far the most orignal and best of the 90s. Like i said.


RATM
LA
Live & Rare
Renegades
Evil Empire
Live at The Grand Olympic
You liked Renegades (which was mostly a collection of covers) more than Evil Empire?

[Omega]

People can say what they will about him but he's far too underrated. He's a Hall-of-Famer in my opinion.

[Generic Wheaties]

Yeah, definatley. If you think he's good listen to some Steve Vai, Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom), Dimebag, and John Petrucci (dream theater). Those guys fucking shred.

[Blaksmoke]

Well I just typed a response to this thread for almost forty minutes. During that time i cleared my cookies so this ad would stop bothering me and when I went to post my response it was all gone, so fuck you all. I like Rage Against the Machine.

[Generic Wheaties]

Haha

[Gilly]

Morello = Amazing
I love Rage. I have all their albums on my mp3 player.
And I really wanna learn Bombtrack for my bass. I love the opening.

[Jesus]

Finally some love for Alexi...

[Blaksmoke]

Click this, scroll down, click free, download, watch.

http://rapidshare.de/files/10364116/RATM-Wake_Up_live_JCDobbs_1-22-932.wmv.html

[Rizon]

okay i need to point something out, I know rage are really good but Morello isnt a riff mirical man. I think its Maria, is one note different from Audioslave his current bands Cochise. Theres a few other songs as well, where the riff has been changed round slightly.
But still Sleep Now In The Fire, How can you not do the morello leg movment.

Guerilla Radio is my favourite track by them.
and Gasoline by Audioslave.

[Blaksmoke]

Rage Morello is better than Audioslave Morello. In Audioslave he gets a little over-indulgent with the whack-ass guitar solos and the riffs aren't quite as good. Cochise and Your Time Has Come have the same exact notes as the muted picking intro to Bombtrack, just at different speeds and in a slightly different order. But riffs like Wake Up, Guerilla Radio and Maggie's Farm are so good they should've been written back in the seventies, but somehow he found some unused ones in a box somewhere and brought them to the 90s and the 00s.

But the Sleep Now in the Fire riff is lifted shamelessly from a song called TV Eye, by the Stooges.

[Rizon]

audioslave morello has a full on addiction to solo wah pedaling.
Sleep now in the fire, come on, its catchy aint it?

[Generic Wheaties]

Rage Morello is better than Audioslave Morello. In Audioslave he gets a little over-indulgent with the whack-ass guitar solos and the riffs aren't quite as good. Cochise and Your Time Has Come have the same exact notes as the muted picking intro to Bombtrack, just at different speeds and in a slightly different order. But riffs like Wake Up, Guerilla Radio and Maggie's Farm are so good they should've been written back in the seventies, but somehow he found some unused ones in a box somewhere and brought them to the 90s and the 00s.

But the Sleep Now in the Fire riff is lifted shamelessly from a song called TV Eye, by the Stooges.

The intro to Wake Up sounds like the intro to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir.

also: can anyone else agree that the best Morello solo is in Township Rebellion? I went nuts when I heard that for the first time.

p.s. sweet video man, thats staying on my computer.

[Blaksmoke]

It does a little, but I wasn't referring to the beginning.

[Generic Wheaties]

Well according to one of my friends a lot of their songs have to do with the book 1984 by George Orwell, ever read it? I read a bit of it http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/.... it seems really interesting I think i'm going to try finding it and buying it.

[Spatula]

On another note, George Orwell understood governments like it was nobody's business.

[Ravster]

Know your enemy rocks!

[Blaksmoke]

I did an analysis on 1984 in my senior year of highschool. There are a couple tracks from the Battle of LA that have some Orwellian metaphors and the breakdown of Testify is straight out of the text, but there aren't really Rage songs about the book.

[MONSTER ZERO]

Vietnow is my favorite Rage against the machine song