Rage Against the MachineBest Rage Against the Machine Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
32
Opinions
11
Albums
16
Reviewers
Summary from 32 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Rage Against the Machine's catalog across 11 albums from 32 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Rage Against the Machine album is Rage Against the Machine (1992) with a 9.5/10 average from 12 ratings, followed by The Battle of Los Angeles and Evil Empire. The discography on Wavelength spans 1992 to 2025. Killing In the Name ranks as the highest-rated Rage Against the Machine song on Wavelength with a 8.8/10 average.
The Battle of Los Angeles
“The Los Angeles group's final album of original material perfected the Rage Against the Machine formula”
Rage Against the Machine
“Rage Against the Machine’s debut is a radical fistful of funk, rap, and rock. Through its power, it remains an essential call to activism and a necessary lesson on how to withstand the opposition.”
Rage Against the Machine
“Rage Against the Machine's 1992 debut is a grenade that keeps exploding; among Nineties albums, only Nevermind and The Chronic rival it for cultural impact. Rage made hip-hop-tinged funk metal the new rebel music, taking over the alienation beat from grunge slackers and making Marxist sloganeering seem badass. Like any good revolutionary sect, Rage weren't without their contradictions and tensions”
The Battle of Los Angeles
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the third album from the radical rap-rock band, their sharpest revolutionary screed dropped into the dead zone of 1999.”
Renegades
“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 […]”
The Battle of Los Angeles
“Have you ever tried writing your own Rage Against the Machine song? It’s easy. Just grab a religious pamphlet off the street. Replace the word God with killing, Jesus or Christ with a political prisoner like Mumia Abu-Jamal or Leonard Peltier, and scripture citations with swear words. Lines from a recently distributed tract — "Jesus […]”
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