25 Years Ago Today

Kinja'd!!! "Jcarr" (jcarr)
11/03/2017 at 16:08 • Filed to: musiclopnik

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This album kicked the door down. Listen to it. Feel it. Try not to kick some ass.


DISCUSSION (18)


Kinja'd!!! functionoverfashion > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:16

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Kicked the door down, indeed. How on Earth has it been 25 years, I’m not that old, right?

I am sure there are some others, but very, very few bands have walked the line of punk-rap-metal-rock so well. Others have tried, but are too hardcore, or too “pop” (ahem, kid rock) but Rage just... wow. Battle of Los Angeles is one of the albums I always go back to, have always had either a CD, ipod, or have it on my phone via spotify offline. I regret not seeing them live.


Kinja'd!!! PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:17

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I blew speakers in my first car playing this album. That was over 20 years ago.


Kinja'd!!! TheRevanchist > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:17

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I felt old this morning looking in the mirror. I feel even older now.


Kinja'd!!! Ash78, voting early and often > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:19

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Remember, kids: until bands like RATM, 311, and the Chili Peppers, bass guitars and drums usually faded into the background (Lars, Peart, Claypool, some exceptions). Also, rockers didn’t “rap” over the music. A handful of mainstream bands really changed music pretty substantially.


Kinja'd!!! Jcarr > Ash78, voting early and often
11/03/2017 at 16:26

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Or in the case of Lars and “...and Justice”, the bass faded, but the drums didn’t.


Kinja'd!!! ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:32

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Look what you made me do.

EDIT: I’ve had these three CD’s since middle school, but they’re worn out and I had been wanting to replace them anyway. I have Spotify and a bluetooth adapter, but CD’s sound so dang good on my WJ’s 90s-tactular Infinity stereo.


Kinja'd!!! Ash78, voting early and often > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:33

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They were just hazing Jason Newstead :D


Kinja'd!!! McMike > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:34

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This album cost me $150.

I wanted it, couldn’t find it in vinyl, then had to buy a DC player on the way home.

And... have you seen this pre-studio performance? (they recorded the album a few months after this)

It’s worth visiting the video just for the description alone.


Kinja'd!!! Jcarr > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
11/03/2017 at 16:36

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You’re welcome.


Kinja'd!!! Jcarr > McMike
11/03/2017 at 16:37

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Zach looks like a baby.


Kinja'd!!! boredalways > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:40

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I feel like kicking ass...espcially since I can’t find any of my RAtM cd’s right now.

It’s just like college again when I had to replace my copy of “License to Ill” 4 separate times because someone stole it!


Kinja'd!!! Klaus Schmoll > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:43

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“Fistful of steel” is my favourite on this album. Which one’s yours?


Kinja'd!!! Jcarr > Klaus Schmoll
11/03/2017 at 16:47

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I think Bombtrack. Or Bullet in the Head. Or Know Your Enemy.


Kinja'd!!! vondon302 > TheRevanchist
11/03/2017 at 16:47

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It gets worse.


Kinja'd!!! Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 16:59

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I have the 20th anniversary picture vinyl.


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
11/03/2017 at 18:07

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Biohazard was rapping over hardcore music as far back as ‘87 and quite a few hardcore bands were doing the same in early ‘90s. Makes sense since De La Rocha was a hardcore kid. His first band:


Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > Jcarr
11/03/2017 at 18:43

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Gotta be Know Your Enemy. Where else can you get Zach and Maynard on the same track


Kinja'd!!! aquila121 > Dusty Ventures
11/03/2017 at 23:02

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YES. The track hits hard not once, but twice: 3:13 and 4:02. I was going to say this one is one of my favorite Rage tracks, but then I thought about it—I’m really having a hard time ranking the following: The Ghost of Tom Joad, Maggie’s Farm, How I Could Just Kill a Man, Pistol Grip Pump, Guerrilla Radio, Renegades of Funk, Microphone Fiend, I’m Housin’, Kick Out the Jams...

Shit, man. They put out a ton of good work.