(Alternative Rock) [LP][24/96] Rage Against The Machine - Discography, FLAC (tracks)

Rage Against the Machine is the debut studio album by alternative metal band Rage Against the Machine. The album was released on November 11, 1992. It went to #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, and #45 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

Tom Morello's guitar technique is more traditional on RATM relative to other albums. His guitar technique features a greater influence from metal on this album, as opposed to the hip hop and electronic inspiration that would mark his later work.

One track, "Know Your Enemy", features Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist, Maynard James Keenan on "additional vocals" as well as Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins on percussion. Keenan has been known on occasion to appear onstage with the band to perform the song.

Critical recognition

In 2001 Q magazine named Rage Against the Machine as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 368 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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.

Acclaimed BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe named Rage Against the Machine as one of four 'Masterpieces'. This was his best album, on December 2nd, 2008.

REM GENRE Rock; Metal
REM DATE 1992
REM COMMENT Epic LP (1st Pressing)
PERFORMER "Rage Against The Machine"
TITLE "Rage Against The Machine"
FILE "A1 - Bombtrack.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Bombtrack"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A2 - Killing in the Name.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Killing in the Name"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A3 - Take the Power Back.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Take the Power Back"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A4 - Settle for Nothing.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Settle for Nothing"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A5 - Bullet in the Head.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Bullet in the Head"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B1 - Know Your Enemy.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Know Your Enemy"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B2 - Wake Up.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Wake Up"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B3 - Fistful of Steel.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Fistful of Steel"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B4 - Township Rebellion.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Township Rebellion"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B5 - Freedom.flac" WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Freedom"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

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Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable with Pro-Ject Speedbox
Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for redbook convertion

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal >
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Rage Against the Machine – co-producer, art direction
Zack de la Rocha – vocals
Tim Commerford – bass
Brad Wilk – drums, percussion
Tom Morello – guitars
Maynard James Keenan – additional vocals ("Know Your Enemy")
Stephen Perkins – additional percussion ("Know Your Enemy")
Garth 'GGGarth' Richardson – producer, engineering
Andy Wallace – mixing
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Stan Katayama – engineer
Craig Doubet – assistant engieer
Jeff Sheehan – assistant engineer
Steve Sisco – mixing assistant
Nicky Lindeman – art direction

Evil Empire is the second album by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. It was released on April 16, 1996, almost four years after the band's first, self-titled album.

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.

The track "Bulls on Parade" became the first single and, as with their debut, five singles were released in total.

Evil Empire debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The song "Tire Me" won the 1996 Grammy award for Best Metal Performance. The tracks "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were both nominated for Grammy's for Best Hard Rock Performance in separate years.

On May 24, 2000 the album went Triple Platinum.

REM GENRE Rock; Metal
REM DATE 1996
REM COMMENT Music On Vinyl 180g LP
PERFORMER "Rage Against The Machine"
TITLE "Evil Empire"
FILE "A1 - People of the Sun.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "People of the Sun"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A2 - Bulls on Parade.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Bulls on Parade"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A3 - Vietnow.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Vietnow"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A4 - Revolver.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Revolver"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A5 - Snakecharmer.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Snakecharmer"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B1 - Tire Me.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Tire Me"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B2 - Down Rodeo.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Down Rodeo"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B3 - Without a Face.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Without a Face"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B4 - Wind Below.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Wind Below"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B5 - Roll Right.flac" WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Roll Right"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B6 - Year of tha Boomerang.flac" WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Year of tha Boomerang"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable with Pro-Ject Speedbox
Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for redbook convertion

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

Rage Against the Machine – producer, art direction
Zack de la Rocha – vocals, lyricist
Tom Morello – guitar
Tim Commerford – bass (credited as "tim bob")
Brad Wilk – drums
Aimee Macauley – Art Director
Nick DiDia – engineer, recording technician
Clay Harper – assistant engineer
Lisa Johnson – photography
Paul Kosky – recording technician
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Brendan O'Brien – producer
Andy Wallace – mixing
Caram Costanzo – second engineer
Dave Rat – recording technician

Allmusic.com rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine. It was released on November 2, 1999, and over three years after their second studio album, Evil Empire. Between Evil Empire and Los Angeles, the band released a live album, titled Live & Rare.

The song "Calm Like a Bomb" is featured in the credits of The Matrix Reloaded. The videos to "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify" were directed by documentarian Michael Moore. Both "Testify" and "Guerrilla Radio" are also featured in the video game Rock Band 2, being on-disc and downloadable, respectively.

The album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 selling 420,000 copies its first week. That week saw a busy CD release schedule. The album denied Mariah Carey's highly anticipated album the chance to open at #1. "Guerrilla Radio" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, albeit heavily edited on the Nintendo 64 version, and it is also heavily edited on "Madden NFL 10". Both Time and Rolling Stone named it the Best Album of 1999. It was listed as #53 in SPIN Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005.

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. 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.

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.

Saul Williams sampled "Born of a Broken Man" for his song "Om Nia Merican", which appeared on his 2001 album Amethyst Rock Star.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing
All songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine and all lyrics by Zack de la Rocha.

REM GENRE Rock
REM DATE 1999
REM COMMENT Music on Vinyl 180g LP
PERFORMER "Rage Against The Machine"
TITLE "The Battle of Los Angeles"
FILE "A1 - Testify.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Testify"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A2 - Guerrilla Radio.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Guerrilla Radio"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A3 - Calm Like a Bomb.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Calm Like a Bomb"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A4 - Mic Check.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Mic Check"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A5 - Sleep Now in the Fire.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Sleep Now in the Fire"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A6 - Born of a Broken Man.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Born of a Broken Man"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B1 - Born as Ghosts.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Born as Ghosts"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B2 - Maria.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Maria"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B3 - Voice of the Voiceless.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Voice of the Voiceless"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B4 - New Millennium Homes.flac" WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "New Millennium Homes"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B5 - Ashes in the Fall.flac" WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Ashes in the Fall"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B6 - War Within a Breath.flac" WAVE
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "War Within a Breath"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

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Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal > analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

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Rage Against the Machine – Producer, Art Direction
Zack de la Rocha – Vocals
Tim Commerford (credited as "Y.tim.K" and "tim.com") – Bass
Brad Wilk – Drums
Tom Morello - Guitars
Kevin Dean – Assistant Engineer
Nick DiDia – Engineer
Russ Fowler – Engineer
Kevin Lively – Assistant Engineer
Stephen Marcussen – Mastering
Brendan O'Brien – Producer, Mixing
Aimee MacAuley – Art Direction
Roger Sommers – Assistant Engineer
Danny Clinch – Photography
Andrew Garver – Digital Editing
Ryan Williams – Engineer
Michael Parnin – Assistant Engineer
Monique Mitzrahl – Assistant Engineer
Tim Harkins – Assistant Engineer
Karl Egsieker – Assistant Engineer
Erin Haley – Production Coordination
Cheryl Mondello – Production Coordination
German Villacorta – Assistant Engineer
Joey Krebs – Artwork
Sugar D – Engineer
Steven Tirona – Photography
Eye Cue - Photography

Renegades is the first cover album and the last studio album by American band Rage Against the Machine. The album consists entirely of cover songs and includes covers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, Eric B. & Rakim, EPMD, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill, and Devo. It was released in 2000, after Rage singer Zack de la Rocha had already left the band, but featured his vocals. After the release of Renegades, the remaining three members of the band reformed with Chris Cornell on vocals as Audioslave. Rage did, however, release another album, Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, a live recording of their final two concerts before their initial break-up, in Los Angeles on September 12 and September 13, 2000. The bonus live version of "Kick Out the Jams" on the European version of this album also appears on Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium.

The album achieved platinum status a little over a month after its initial release.

REM GENRE Funk Metal
REM DATE 2000
REM COMMENT Music on Vinyl 180g DoLP (MOVLP073)
PERFORMER "Rage Against The Machine"
TITLE "Renegades"
FILE "A1 - Microphone Fiend.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Microphone Fiend"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A2 - Pistol Grip Pump.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Pistol Grip Pump"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A3 - Kick Out the Jams.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Kick Out the Jams"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A4 - Renegades of Funk.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Renegades of Funk"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A5 - Beautiful World.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Beautiful World"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "A6 - I'm Housin'.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "I'm Housin'"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B1 - In My Eyes.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "In My Eyes"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B2 - How I Could Just Kill a Man.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B3 - The Ghost of Tom Joad.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B4 - Down on the Street.flac" WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Down on the Street"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B5 - Street Fighting Man.flac" WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Street Fighting Man"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "B6 - Maggie's Farm.flac" WAVE
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "Maggie's Farm"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

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E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Silent Wire NF 5
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Vacuum Cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > Laptop > Wavelab 6.1 (24/192) > manual click removal
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resampling and dithering to 24/96 with iZotope RX Advanced >
split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

"Rage Against the Machine – Co-Producer, Art Direction
Zack de la Rocha – Vocals
Tom Morello – Guitar
Tim Commerford – Bass
Brad Wilk – Drums
Rick Rubin – Producer
Brendan O'Brien – Producer of "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"
Jim Scott – Engineer
David Schiffman – Engineer
Rich Costey – Mixing
D. Sardy – Mixing of "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and "Street Fighting Man"
Katie Teasdale – Assistant Engineer
Darren Mora – Assistant Engineer
Matt Marin – Assistant Engineer
Mike Scotella – Assistant Engineer
Geoof Walcha – Assistant Engineer
Rich Veltrop – Assistant Engineer
Greg Fidelman – Digital Editing
Mark Moreau – Digital Editing
Aimee Macauley – Art Director
Lindsay Chase – Production Coordination
Jake Sexton – Political Coordinator
Jake Koppell – Inside Booklet

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.