{"id":18296,"date":"2026-06-05T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:55:42","slug":"sunday-afternoon-vinyl-rage-against-the-machine-rage-against-the-machine-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/sunday-afternoon-vinyl-rage-against-the-machine-rage-against-the-machine-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Vinyl &#8211; Rage Against The Machine &#8211; Rage Against The Machine XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11256188_1592092847704729_1498049504_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11256188_1592092847704729_1498049504_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine XX\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11256188_1592092847704729_1498049504_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11256188_1592092847704729_1498049504_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11256188_1592092847704729_1498049504_n.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rage Against The Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rage Against The Machine XX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discogs:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/4093460-Rage-Against-The-Machine-Rage-Against-The-Machine-XX<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Of Release: <\/strong>1992<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the twentieth anniversary picture-disc pressing of Rage Against The Machine\u2019s debut album. I remember when this album first came out, a friend gave me a tape with the uncensored version of <em>Killing In The Name<\/em> on it, sourced from a late-night Rage session. I remember being amazed by the (new to me) combination of rap and rock, along with what I understood to be super political lyrics. I had no idea about what most of the songs were really about, and it wasn\u2019t until much later that I started to understand just what the band was talking about with its music.<\/p>\n<p>This album remains a compelling listen, with De La Rocha\u2019s powerful lyrical delivery combined with Morello\u2019s amazing guitar work, ably supported by the pounding drums of Brad Wilk and some impressive bass work from Tim Commerford. I remember discussing this album at a party late in 1993. I was in disbelief that all the sounds on the album were made just with instruments, assuming that some kind of electronic music or at least record scratching was involved. I was young and extremely ignorant. Now I\u2019m older and not quite as ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>Standout tracks on this album for me were <em>Killing In The Name<\/em>, <em>Bullet In The Head<\/em>, and <em>Wake Up<\/em>. There are no skips on this album. If you can get your hands on it, the Australian CD single version of <em>Killing In The Name<\/em> also has the most excellent tracks <em>Darkness Of Greed<\/em> and <em>Clear The Lane<\/em> \u2013 worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong> 9\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine XX Discogs: https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/4093460-Rage-Against-The-Machine-Rage-Against-The-Machine-XX Year Of Release: 1992 Review This is the twentieth anniversary picture-disc pressing of Rage Against The Machine\u2019s debut album. I remember when this album first came out, a friend gave me a tape with the uncensored version of Killing In The Name on it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1459],"tags":[791,1479,1460],"class_list":["post-18296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sunday-afternoon-vinyl","tag-music","tag-rage-against-the-machine","tag-sunday-afternoon-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18297,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions\/18297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}