Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back

Rage Against the Machine

Studio album by Rage Against the Machine
Released November 3, 1992
Recorded May -- September 1992
Genre Alternative metal
Funk metal
Rapcore
Length 52:56
Label Epic Records

Tom Morello's guitar soloing is somewhat traditional on this album, taking influence more from heavy metal music, in comparison to later releases where it is more experimental and geared toward emulation of DJs and hip hop.

The album is known for its high production values, which are almost to the strictest audiophile standards. Some audiophile sites and magazines even go as far as using the album — in particular the song "Take the Power Back" — to test amplifiers and speakers.

In 2001 Q magazine named Rage Against the Machine as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time.
Artwork and sleeve notes
The cover artwork features a famous photo of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.

The statement "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" can be found at the end of the sleeve notes, and similar statements were made in the band's subsequent albums. The band also refer to themselves as "Guilty Parties" for each album.

Track History: Take the Power Back is a song from the first album of 1990s political rock band, Rage Against the Machine. In the song front man Zack De La Rocha urges listeners to rebel against the current government of the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and various European nations, and he goes on to discuss the flaws of the American education system.
The song was never released as a single, although a live version did appear on the "Freedom" single. Many Rage fans consider it as one of the bands most influential songs and feel it should have been released.

Lyrics:Bring that shit in! Uggh!

Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!

In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and write

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Whose inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it,
break it down
Awww shit!

Uggh!

And like this...uggh!

Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies
No more lies
(repeated)

Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
(repeated)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Rage
• Against
• The
• Machine
• Zack
• De
• La
• Rocha
• Tom
• Morello
• Rapcore
• 1992
• Rap
• Heavy
• Metal
• Guitar
• Riffs
• Audioslave
• Killswitch

[daWKin548]

WHY STAND ON A SILENT PLATFORM? FIGHT THE WAR, FUCK THE NORM,

FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

HOW LONG? NOT LONG, COS WHAT YOU REAP, IS WHAT YOU SOW

WHATS IT GONNA TAKE? ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH

come on, if you can find better quotes from ANY other band then post them, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ARE GODS, LIKE THIS IF YOU AGREE

[ZeroOrDie991]

This song makes me wanna kick the president in the balls

[Numonkei]

@HodBenYair Nope. Maybe if we have to fight extra-terrestrials, but until then, nope, you are simply positing something that has been ignored for the entirety of recorded history.

[invulnerabledr]

@TheHiphopdrunkie

Yeah thats what i ment... Tim Commerford. Isnt that him all the way to the left.

[TheHiphopdrunkie]

@invulnerabledr thats LMFAO!!!!! not tom tom is the one in between "swazye" and zach de la rocha

[TheBoyozzy]

WE WILL TAKE IT BACK FROM WALL STREET !!

[uaujuan]

putos genios

[splaterdbyme]

i dont care about the anti goverment shit but their still awsome

[invulnerabledr]

Tim looks like patrick swazye here lol.

[edrtfgghghgh]

by far their most potent and meaningful song rage ever wrote. Just listening to it today gets me fuckin pumped. This was by far the best album om 1992. I was 19 when it hit the streets. I was angry then and 20 years later I'm still angry. Did you know that anger is a gift?