![]() ![]() Here, we count down their 25 greatest songs. ![]() They somehow created the soundtrack for our time a quarter-century ago. There’s no hint that they’ve recorded any new music, but they really have no need to. And when they announced a reunion tour, which finally kicks off July 7 after several pandemic-related delays, tickets sold out with remarkable speed. Rage broke up in 2000 and left behind just three albums of original material, but those songs aged remarkably well during the chaos and tumult of the past two decades. The fucking tables were turned over and rafters pulled down. I had never seen a place destroyed sweat and blood on the walls. ![]() ![]() “I saw them in concert, and what I remember most is how wiped-out the crowd was afterwards. “It was one of those rare instances when the planets just lined up right and the alchemy of musical magic and history just poured out,” Chuck D recalled of Rage in 2016. This was a time when most bands were looking inward toward their own pain, not outward to the struggles of minorities in America and people living under oppressive regimes across the globe. They not only fused rock with rap at a time when there was a stark divide between the two genres, but their radical lyrics called for a political revolution during the supposedly peaceful decade after the Cold War and before 9/11. When Rage Against the Machine emerged in the early Nineties, there was no other band even remotely like them. ![]()
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