Rage Against the Machine

Posthumously released in the waning days of 2000, this is a collection of covers which effectively introduces the band's influences to their fans. While nobody really needs to hear another cover "Kick Out the Jams," it is interesting to note the MC5 influence in Rage's music. Other songs are more successful and for fans, Renegades takes the band out with style.

Thanks to Limp Bizkit and their legion of imitators, rap metal now gets dismissed as an
evolutionary mistake, the bastard realm of repetitive two-bar guitar riffs and
sledgehammering monochrome beats. But the pioneering Rage Against the Machine were
always deeper than that, and this Rick Rubin-produced covers collection -- recorded on a
whim while the quartet was finishing its now-delayed live album -- shows why: N... More >