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Renegades

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Play   2. Pistol Grip Pump 3:17 £0.89
Play   3. Kick Out The Jams 3:11 £0.89
Play   4. Renegades Of Funk 4:34 £0.89
Play   5. Beautiful World 2:34 £0.89
Play   6. I'm Housin' 4:56 £0.89
Play   7. In My Eyes 2:54 £0.89
Play   8. How I Could Just Kill A Man 4:04 £0.89
Play   9. The Ghost Of Tom Joad 5:38 £0.89
Play 10. Down On The Street 3:38 £0.89
Play 11. Street Fighting Man 4:42 £0.89
Play 12. Maggie's Farm 6:34 £0.89
Play 13. Kick Out The Jams (Live Version) 4:31 £0.89
Play 14. How I Could Just Kill A Man (Live Version) 4:30 £0.89
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Critics generally passed this off, with the exception of a few music magazines that hailed what would be Rage Against The Machine's last album. But as one magazine said about RATM's previous album, "who cares? This rocks."

Rage make every song on this album their own. Even turning the Rolling Stones' 'Street Fighting Man' into a breakneck speed, beat and effect-driven whirlwind, Zack's voice going from lazy drawls to heavy whispering, to classic Zack screams.

The angry, violent 'How I Could Just Kill A Man' or the thunderous bass displayed on the cover Volume 10's 'Pistol Grip Pump' are amazing lessons in how rap and metal should be combined, as is the opening 'Microphone Fiend', or Afrika Bambattaa's classic 'Renegades Of Funk'. The last is practically a description of Rage in one chorus.

A groove-laden version of Bruce Springsteen's haunting 'The Ghost Of Tom Joad' is here, also a almost apocalyptic cover of Bob Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm'. There is one problem, but I am nitpicking, is that that the haunting whispered acoustic cover of Devo's 'Beautiful World' is not the closing song, but hey, Rage never did anything the orthodox way.

The only covers album to ever be essential. You need this album.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A fine curtain call. 17 April 2006
By dynamitekid156 VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
By 1999, RATM felt like a spent force. Having spent aeons producing their second and third albums (four years between their debut and Evil Empire; three years between that and The Battle of Los Angeles) the cracks were starting to show. But the band confounded all 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, and 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 all 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 and a half minutes in length, and - just like 'Freedom' on their first album - is a fitting closer to the album and the band's career.

This album is not perfect; it may not even have been necessary. But if you want to complete all 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.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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After the shock announcement which leaves one of the most explosively vibrant bands of our time without a front man, and many fans without the band which was their inspiration and drive, comes RENEGADES; Rage Against The Machine's 4th album. Perhaps at first a curious concept for a band so inventive- its an album of cover versions- Rage's choice reworkings of a selection of politically conscious hip-hop, rap and rock songs blend perfectly. Stand out tracks include 'Kick out the Jams' (which will be familiar to anyone fortunate enough to witness their amazing live set), the anger unleashed that is 'In My Eyes', furious hip-hop groove 'How I could Just Kill A Man' and a storming version of the 80s classic 'Maggie's Farm'. Tom Morello's characteristically forceful guitar solos and Zack's hard-edged though surprisingly versatile vocal talents give RENEGADES a fresh, cutting-edge feel which recaptures the power of their self-titled debut. Add to this 2 bonus live tracks and you have an unmissable album no Rage fan should be without.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Just immense
Full of power and skill and vary and surprise. Yes, surprise! BOO! It really does do things nobody is used to seeing from Rage. Listen to understand is all I can say.
Published 19 months ago by Cal
More Rage!
I bought this album because it had been recommended to me. Not expecting much, I listened to it and had my mind blown. Read more
Published on 4 July 2009 by Conrad Marinkovic
Renegades
`Renegades' is RATM's covers album and although it's not as fresh or immediate as their other albums, it has plenty to offer existing fans. Read more
Published on 19 May 2009 by Spider Monkey
Certainly not their best!
This album is really bad. I've tried to like it. I've had it for years and every so often I go back and listen to it. Even the Rolling Stones cover is awful. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2008 by T. Jones
Not simply a covers album
This album appears to many as a covers album, using none of their own material. This is definately not the case. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2008 by Mr. P. D. Bryant
Fitting Departure Album From RAGE
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. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2007 by Arth Jay tha Mic Fiend
An album of covers? It works.......and it works good !
1991 I believe it was. What a year for music, Pearl jam, Nirvana, RATM, etc etc. Brilliant days! Anyway, if like me you used to sway to the sounds of rap/hiphop/rock in the form of... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2007 by Mr. M. Tornya
The Original Artists
1. Microphone fiend - Eric B and Rakim
2. Pistol grip pump - Volume 10
3. Kick out the jam - MC5
4. Renegades of funk - Afrika Bambattaa
5. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2006 by Michael Schoenborn
MOLOTOV wipes the floor with r.a.t.m.
MOLOTOV is the only Real Metal/Rap Band out there that really matters,there music is mainly in spansih but many of it also contain parts in english,belive me even if you dont... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2005 by "kautik"
Well...
It might be worth noting that all these songs are covers, and so those who enjoy the style of lyrics that rage provide might find this album lacking, but simply for the music, it... Read more
Published on 3 July 2004
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