Review of Rage Against The Machine 20th Anniversary Edition [Vinyl]

I woke up almost with a start tonight. I heard a strange noise, a mixture of scratches and loose soil. But the cat was asleep on my legs and under the framework alarm in the house did not move anything, and there had been no tampering. It took me a while 'to understand what it was, I must confess. But it was actually really simple. It was the soundtrack of my subconscious a little 'joker who, after learning that we reviewed "Rage against the machine XX", played the evocative symbolism and produced a sound that evoked the classic fantasy nails scraping the bottom of the barrel. Moreover, the ghost of the nineties began to be a disturbing presence, the subject of a revival more or less explicit and perhaps about to explode in a not too distant future - and seeing repeat Rage Against The Machine with their debut weblog 1992, the twentieth anniversary of the output, in cataphract a skeptic like me could not even Sorting prejudices too free.
Well, I was wrong. Of course, propose a disk 20 years ago - for a band that has more or less clearly hinted want to continue to march on the glory rightly earned, without publishing new material - not a momentum that puts in a good mood, but excluding these considerations, what remains is an album that has aged very well. The funk-rap-alternative-metal De La Rocha, Morello and his cronies has stood up well to the passage of two decades and several new generations. Who had 20 years or less in '92 most likely has experienced this debut as a kind of revolution, the soundtrack of rebellion against the system (perhaps a rebellion traveling a bit 'too much on the binary system, but they are old and sterile speeches, within certain limits), and who is 20 years old now easily if you will enjoy it for what it is ... a good hard rock record contaminated, a milestone of a kind mestizo and bizarre, a collection of 10 tracks that are still in their classic yet several cartridges to shoot, before resorting to chemical weapons of nostalgia.
This reprint of the twentieth anniversary "Rage against the machine" has been entirely remastered, to make it sound crystal clear like a shining blade: a choice that, for once, does not interfere too much work that has been consolidated over time (do you remember the disaster of the various remixes and remastering, for example, of "Raw Power" Stooges? Here, fortunately none of that). In fact, the pieces in this capacity are even more sharp and violent, armed with a ferocity almost icy.
The album was released in three different editions, if you procured the basic (with a single cd) you will find just the songs revisited with the addition of three bonus tracks live, taken from three individual age. Not bad, but you know ... if you already have the original disk, apart from the appearance of new remastering there is very little and will change your perspective on this album whatever it was. In the other two editions, instead, in addition to a certain number of video material on which fly over because it is not exactly the most interesting point but is a sauce contour, is included the real gem of the whole operation. Yeah, what - in my humble opinion - would have merited a publication in itself, perhaps avoiding the rest of the brass band I'm talking about 13 demo tracks (most of which then reincise for the album). In this second CD you can listen to the tracks of "Rage against the machine" before they became parts of "Rage against the machine" and we are surprised to see how they were already substantially structured and defined - if we exclude the solos Morello, very different (the one in "Killing in the name", for example, is really bizarre, in its tamarraggine metalhead from guitar hero swab). A truly remarkable document.
To conclude: the disc is still valid and the demo are the strong point of this output celebration. It is no small thing, after 20 years.

TRACKLIST
"Bombtrack"
"Killing in the Name"
"Take the Power Back"
"Settle for Nothing"
"Bullet in the Head"
"Know Your Enemy"
"Wake Up"
"Fistful of Steel"
"Township Rebellion"
"Freedom"
"Bombtrack" (live)
"Bullet in the Head" (live)
"Take the Power Back" (live)