Rage Against The Machine - Bullet in the Head (REACTION!)

This whole album is straght fire, one of the best debuts of all time. Bombtrack, Take the Power Back, Settle for Nothing, Freedom, Township Rebellion...so many great tunes from this album

32 years later and that album has lost none of its power. Back when I was 18, that album was a game changer.

Tim Commerford is a criminally underappreciated bassist.

"Cellular phone sounding a death tone corporation's gonna turn you to stone before you realize" was WAAAAY ahead of its time.

Ryan & George: this album is pure fire, front-to-back, all killer, no filler. Absolutely deserves a full-album dive.

"calm like a bomb". that song is incredible.

Down Rodeo, Sleep Now In The Fire

Tom Morello and the guitar player from Tool (Adam Jones) went to high school together. Both bands were active together early on. Maynard appears on ‘Know Your Enemy’ on the Rage debut.

One of the best albums ever written - sadly still on time with their messages

“All sounds made by guitar, bass, drums and vocals” RATM

Highly recommend that you guys review the remaining songs from this album that you haven’t reacted to yet.

"No Shelter" is arguably one of the best Rage tracks of all time and the nastiest baseline ever. Highly recommend!!!

The song was already laid down and complete on their 1991 demo tape, transferred in its entirety to their '92 self-titled album. So it was written during or very shortly after the Gulf War, very jingoistically pushed at the time as a pallet-cleanser to wipe away the sour taste left by Vietnam. Same thing we got during the 'war on terror' in a sense. "Load the clip in omnicolor, said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime-time", it's about mass media being used as a means to manufacture consent, something very much known at the time, something very much happening now

Down Rodeo and People of the Sun are BIG tunes.

This whole album is fire. Take the Power Back and Freedom could be the next one of this same album. But all other albums are great to.

You can imagine how that last build up goes off in a live setting. Crazy build up of energy!

The in-house drive by refers to the television. People be just glued to the TV and they don't ever bother to question what they are watching. The brain just goes dead.

This album was huge when I was in later years of high school in the UK around 2000-2002. I can't believe it came out in 1992! It was so ahead of its time.

The drummer keeps it both heavy and funky. So unique and powerful, in line with the string instruments and the vocals. Definitely one in a kind band

When I was at Pinkpop in 1994, the Dutch seismological institute even measured a small earthquake during the performance of Rage Against The Machine with 'Killing In The Name'