Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles – 180 Gram Vinyl LP
'The Battle of Los Angeles' is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine, released in November 1999. The album was nominated at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards for 'Best Rock Album' and was recognized by both Time and Rolling Stone magazines as the best album of 1999.
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It's kind of hard to really rage against the machine when your band is like a supercharged battery cell that helps the machine operate more efficiently. Such is the dilemma that has plagued Rage Against the Machine since their career hit terminal velocity. But instead of coming up with reasons to justify their existence, Rage just continue to rage. Lyrically, they'll probably open some more young minds with their antigovernment, proletariat agenda, but it's their music that speaks most loudly. On its third album, THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES, the band expands upon its combustive rap-metal foundation, flavoring "Guerrilla Radio" with a guitar-generated "harmonica" solo, upping the burning funk quotient on "Calm Like a Bomb," and embellishing "Mic Check" with skittering beats, echoing feedback, and a staccato chorus that sounds not unlike electronica kingpins Prodigy. Throughout the disc, guitarist Tom Morello coaxes more otherworldly noises from his instrument than a DJ with a stack of sound-effect records, as vocalist Zack de la Rocha rails against the evildoers and capitalists who oppress the masses -- and, well, pay the band members' salaries.
Side A
- Testify
- Guerrilla Radio
- Calm Like A Bomb
- Mic Check
- Sleep Now In The Fire
- Born Of A Broken Man
Side B
- Born As Ghosts
- Maria
- Voice Of The Voiceless
- New Millennium Homes
- Ashes In The Fall
- War Within A Breath
Legacy/Epic
UPC: 0190758511917
Release Date: 9/28/2018
