|
An Entire CD of rapping with loud guitars, powerful messages.not cheesy girl meets boy stuff, this was raw crazed in your face music to mosh to, to listen carefully to, and to get absolutely crazy to(o). Body Count was another band (with Ice T) that was around while this was out and the two together were quite a combination, throw on some Rob Zombie, Biohazard, Beastie Boys, even some Urban Dance Squad too if you want and right there you have got yourself quite the early to mid 90's playlist for your retro party. Listening to this back in '93 seemed like the most explosive, invigorating type of music there was available to the ears. All the songs are good, and they are all different, it's truly amazing the sounds Morello makes with the guitar, the energy of Zach. And with all the (millions) of imitators and really bad rap rock that would come soon after that never even came close to this one no less, it remains the most influential and imitated perhaps of it's genre. Of course that really depends on your tastes and what get's you off, but to me nothing could create such emotions like Rage's first Cd.Going into a Coconuts record store (we had those back then), and wanting to find this one, I asked the sales clerk and she didn't seem to have ever heard of them.although she did laugh with me that Jennifer Love Hewitt had a CD out about that time. Anyway, I did find the CD and tell her they were this amazing band I had heard in a club recently.and they were on Mtv probably on 120 minutes or something.This to me was the crowning achievemnet in rap.rock/metal, whatever it is called nowadays, you know that stuff Anthrax and Public Enemy were doing and Run DMC dabbled with back in teh day.
And that guitar -- how does he do that. This explosive album converges at a crossroads of rap, heavy metal, and rage against the crushing machine we call American government. But even if you don't subscribe to all of RATM's lyrics, which I certainly don't, this is still very energizing music that is sure to get your heart thumping and your body moving to the beats.
The guitar riffs are somewhat more memorable to me than they were all those years ago, and while the vocals don't appeal to me at all, at least some of the lyrics are quite refreshing and I understand the point the band was trying to make. Rage Against the Machine was considered one of the most offensive bands back in the day to true rock fans, because the band would combine a rap vocal style with heavy metal and make some of the most annoying music you could imagine. Well, time has actually been a little bit nicer to this band compared to others, and I find myself not totally hating the music on here which is a BIG surprise because I thought I'd absolutely hate this album when I came back to it 10 years later.
The group might have refined a few songwriting techniques in future releases but never sounded as urgent again, only pulling away from what their moniker and manifesto originally ordained. Rarely had a group debuted, in singles-form no less, with a more potent attack than the last track of their most powerfully raw output, making radio radical if just for a moment.
I ordered this on the 29th od december, an never recieved it from the supposed shiping location.
|
