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Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
That was one of my favourite angry guitar music things. We’ve pretty much done this backwards. Rage Against The Machine – when you’re a teenage kid and you’re pissed off about nothing in particular, it’s just a great album for exorcising those demons. [laughs] You know, go and break your neck in a moshpit, and everything’s alright again. That was one of the few albums where I did listen to a lot of the lyrical content, and not just the ‘fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ – which is just such simple joy to the ears of a twelve year old boy, just fingers up at everything, and not just swearing in a tune but blatantly. It’s just original rebel growing-up kid music, and the perfect soundtrack for those things. There was Soundgarden, Nirvana and others I was listening to at the time, but that album stood out as having a really self contained sense of frustration, and it gave some sense of release in that context. Big album. Wasn’t so fussed on what they did afterwards, though. Rage Against The Machine was a big, strong hit of crack from a glass bong compared to the hashy spliff that followed. [laughs]
