Customer Reviews
Fitting Departure Album From RAGE - By: Arth Jay tha Mic Fiend, 24 Aug 2007 
In 2000 in the midst of a break up Rage decided to treat their fans to one last record,a record made also in tribute to some of the bands who inspired them. And so it was that Renegades came about. The Album opens with a couple of Hip-Hop covers, the Eric B & Rakim classic "Mic Fiend" & a more obscure but L.A favourite, Volume 10's "Pistol Grip Pump". Both of these are an exellent example of rage making songs their own, with Tom Morello serving up a tasty riff, Brad & Tim keeping a tight rythym & Zachs smooth rapping becoming the icing on the desert. And the fun doesn't stop there, The MC5 becoming an obvious choice for a political cover song, Rage serve up a stomping version of "Kick out the Jams" that perfectly suits there radical musings.
While there are many other exellent covers, particularly where rage go punk on "In My Eyes" with some astonishing drumming from Brad Wilk, a blazing live cover of The Boss's "Ghost of Tom Joad" & a touching version of Devo's "Beautiful World" where zach actuallly sings, the band do hit a couple of false notes here & there. E.P.M.D's "Im Housin'" for example isnt a very enjoyable listen, & they do soften up The Stooges "Down On The Street" a little too much for my liking. However Dylans "Maggies Farms" isnt half bad & an ambitious cover song for a Rap/Rock band! so overalll Kudos to rage for providing a fitting cover album, that im sure most Rage fans will enjoy & perhaps the bands can have a giggle too! Good Times.
A fine curtain call. - By: dynamitekid156, 18 Apr 2006 By 1999, RATM felt like a spent force. Having spent aeons producing their second & third albums (four years between their debut & Evil Empire; three years between that & The Battle of Los Angeles) the cracks were starting to show. But the band confounded alll expectation, releasing a covers album in tribute to the artists that influenced them growing up, produced by - who else, for a record of this nature? - Rick Rubin.
All told, this is a patchy album, but the better tracks more than make up for it, & a good way for the band to bow out. Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' is a gloriously echoing epic that made it justifiably into their latter-day setlists. 'How I Could Just Kill A Man' is a faithful, if slightly rocked up, Cypress hill song that feels like it was written for RATM. 'Kick Out The Jams' is one of the weaker moments due to Tom Morello's outlandish solo; always an inventive player, just this once the song would have been more suited to a normal solo.
There are less enjoyable covers here as well - 'Pistol Grip Pump,' 'Street Fighting Man' - but alll the songs here, good or bad, are blown away by the closer, 'Maggie's Farm.' Previously one the standouts of Dylan's wondrous Bringing It All Back Home album, it's the song the band rework to the best effect. The song is almost completely unrecognisable except for the fantastic lyrics, with Morello's multi-textured, explosive solo replacing Dylan's wheezy harmonica with ease. It's six & a half minutes in length, & - just like 'Freedom' on their first album - is a fitting closer to the album & the band's career.
This album is not perfect; it may not even have been necessary. But if you want to complete alll the pieces of the Rage Against The Machine picture, you need to buy this album, to see where the ideas came from for the most incendiary band of the 1990s.
The Original Artists - By: Michael Schoenborn, 03 Feb 2006 1. Microphone fiend - Eric B & Rakim
2. Pistol grip pump - Volume 10
3. Kick out the jam - MC5
4. Renegades of funk - Afrika Bambattaa
5. Beautiful world - Devo
6. I'm housin' - EPMD
7. In my eyes - Minor Threat
8. How could I just kill a man - Cypress Hill
9. The ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
10. Down on the street - The Stooges
11. Street fighting man - The Rolling Stones
12. Maggies farm - Bob Dylan
MOLOTOV wipes the floor with r.a.t.m. - By: , 27 Jan 2005 
MOLOTOV is the only Real Metal/Rap Band out there that reallly matters,there music is mainly in spansih but many of it also contain parts in english,belive me even if you dont understand anything you will notice right away that the band is a million times better & more raw than that electronica based mainstream "Rage against the machine" there just that good!
Want proof?
listen to their album "Donde jugaran las ninas" & judge for yourself.
Well... - By: , 04 Jul 2004 It might be worth noting that alll these songs are covers, & so those who enjoy the style of lyrics that rage provide might find this album lacking, but simply for the music, it deserves a good 4 stars & shows Zack De La Rocha going back to Hip-Hop, but giving them rage's special brand of furious guitars & screaming vocals. If you enjoy this album, then you will probably enjoy Zack's solo album which should be coming out this year(2004) fingers crossed!
