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Rage Against the Machine – Free listening, videos, concerts, sta. EXCLUSIVE unedited Rage Against the Machine on BBC. Rage Against the Machine. Rage Against the Machine. Rage Against the Machine (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclope. Allmusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album four and a half stars and stated "it was the first album to successfully merge the seemingly disparate sounds of rap and heavy metal", he also praised the album's "meaningful rhymes and emotionally charged conviction".[2] The album is known for its high production values, which are almost to the strictest audiophile standards.

Some audiophile sites and magazines even go as far as using the album—in particular the song "Take the Power Back"—to test amplifiers and speakers.[14] Acclaimed BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe named Rage Against the Machine as one of four 'Masterpieces'. This was his best album, on December 2, 2008.[1] In October 2011, Rage Against the Machine was ranked number five on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992.[15] The cover features a photo of the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in Saigon in 1963. The songs on Rage Against the Machine all feature political messages. Evil Empire (album) For use of the phrase by Ronald Reagan and United States' conservatives, see Evil empire. The album's title is taken from the phrase "evil empire", which was used by former U.S.

President Ronald Reagan and many conservatives in describing the former Soviet Union.[1] The cover is the altered image by Mel Ramos and features Ari Meisel as the subject.[2] The caption "EVIL EMPIRE" and letter "e" on the boy's costume were originally "c" and "CRIME BUSTER".[3] Additional themes for the album were created by Barbara Kruger, and some of her artwork appears in the video clip for "Bulls on Parade", which became the first single for the album. As with their debut, five singles were released in total.

The inside of the CD booklet shows a picture of a pile of various political and philosophical books including A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and The Anarchist Cookbook.[5] The Battle of Los Angeles (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclop. The album cover art was an original artwork by the LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs aka Joel Jaramillo, a well-known Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at numerous galleries in Los Angeles, New York City and throughout the United States.[1] Despite claims to the contrary, the image was not inspired by images from the 1992 street riots of LA or from images of Munich, but by the band's own music and words, and represents one in a series of images of the artist's work, which can also be seen on various street murals in Los Angeles.

[citation needed] The Battle of Los Angeles was heavily influenced by the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. "Testify", "Sleep Now in the Fire", "Voice of the Voiceless", among other songs, include direct quotes from the novel, and mention key Orwellian terms in the lyrics. [citation needed] "Voice of the Voiceless", a song referring to Mumia Abu Jamal, contains a quotation from the writings of Mao Zedong[where?]. Album Singles.

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