Masters of the Form: Rage Against the Machine (1992) (Sound Affects)
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Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.
"Anger is a gift." -- Rage Against the Machine, "Freedom" Anger was a pretty standard component of popular music by 1992. Grunge and gangsta rap had a stranglehold on both radio and MTV (where the "M" still stood for "music"), and words like "nihilism" and "violent" were musical buzzwords. It seemed that anybody who could write a riff or sample a George Clinton song was pissed off. And then, in the midst of all the…
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