Rush released after the late-2000 split between Zack de la Rocha and the rest of Rage Against the Machine, the covers album Renegades salutes the band's musical and philosophical roots, ranging from the old-school Bronx to the hard-rockin' Motor City to protest-central Greenwich Village to gangsta-ridden L.A. As could be expected, the set works best when the group focuses on material from its most recent forebears: rappers and hardcore bands. Indeed, Renegades begins with a pair of powerful hip-hop covers -- Eric B & Rakim's "Microphone Fiend" and Volume 10's "Pistol Grip Pump" -- that spotlight Rage's immense strengths: Tom Morello's clean, heavy riffing and vocalist de la Rocha's finely tuned spray of vitriol, just this side of self-righteous. Another hip-hop blast (and the one closest to home), Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill a Man," is even more devastating, an easy pick for the highlight of the album. Listeners familiar with the originals, however, may have trouble with Rage's covers of EPMD's "I'm Housin'," the Stones' "Street Fighting Man," and Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," a trio of original versions whose anger and emotion were conveyed more in the lyrics than the performances. Still, drummer Brad Wilk sets an appropriately frenetic hardcore tempo for the excellent version of Minor Threat's "In My Eyes," and de la Rocha stretches out well on the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams." With just a bare few excepions, Renegades works well, in part because Rage Against the Machine is both smart enough to change very little and talented enough to make the songs its own.
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesThey can be fucking with other niggaz shit, but they can’t be fucking with minePistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesThey can be fucking with other niggaz shit, but they can’t be fucking with mineI wa
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could anyone recommend a rage against the machine album to get? i already own renegades, but i now know that its an album of only cover songs (not really complaining, although pistol grip pump will get stuck in your head for the day). please recommend any good rage against the machine albums with original stuff on it.
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Found this on the NME web site. I am sure you Coachella heads will enjoy the news.Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha are set to play together before their high-profile festival reunion. As previously reported the reunited band are set to play together for the first time since 2000 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which will take place over the week...
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Pistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesThey can be fucking with other niggaz shit, but they can’t be fucking with minePistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesPistol grip pump on my lap at all timesThey can be fucking with other niggaz shit, but they can’t be fucking with mineI wa
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Found this last night on "zdlr.net":http://www.zdlr.net/news/ once i got back into town...decent quality video of Renegades of Funk from CoachellaI'll post about my experience out there soon and i'll have plenty of pictures going up in the coming dayspeace
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The Ghost of Tom Joad is the eleventh studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1995. The album is mainly backed by acoustic guitar work and the lyrics on many of the tracks are a sombre reflection of life in the mid-1990s in America and Mexico. Tom Joad is the hero of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.Here is a cover version done by Rage Against The MachineHere is the original as done ...
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Renegades....what an album. It didn't get the attention it deserved due to being entirely covers and being released on the heels of the band's breakup in 2000. This album has some amazing stuff. For a few months when my addiction itches, it has been the album I reach for.Unfortunately they never released official videos and have only played a few of these songs live. Here are a few homemade...
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could anyone recommend a rage against the machine album to get? i already own renegades, but i now know that its an album of only cover songs (not really complaining, although pistol grip pump will get stuck in your head for the day). please recommend any good rage against the machine albums with original stuff on it.
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These are some great and intense pics of the show Rage put on yesterday at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, ( beautiful photography by Tim Hussin and Noah Rabinowitz). Almost makes Denver look like a police state. Funny what peace looks like. Rage Against the Machine joined with Iraq Veterans Against the War and approximately [...]~~
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This song kicks @$$. It made me fall in love with the 'sensitive' side of Zack DeLaRocha.
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Can't really go wrong with rage covering a little bit of springsteen.
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| 1 Microphone Fiend |
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| 2 Pistol Grip Pump |
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| 3 Kick Out the Jams |
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| 4 Renegades of Funk |
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| 5 Beautiful World |
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| 6 I'm Housin' |
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| 7 In My Eyes |
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| 8 How I Could Just Kill a Man |
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| 9 The Ghost of Tom Joad |
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| 10 Down on the Street |
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| 11 Street Fighting Man |
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| 12 Maggie's Farm |
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