The Battle of Los Angeles

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE / / CD /

鋭いリフとヒップホップ的なフロウを結び、RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINEが緊張感あふれる政治的ロックを鳴らした一作。

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The Battle of Los Angeles / RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

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Track List

  1. Testify
  2. Guerrilla Radio
  3. Calm Like a Bomb
  4. Mic Check
  5. Sleep Now in the Fire
  6. Born of a Broken Man
  7. Born as Ghosts
  8. Maria
  9. Voice of the Voiceless
  10. New Millennium Homes
  11. Ashes in the Fall
  12. War Within a Breath

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Liner Notes

Japanese

『The Battle of Los Angeles』は、RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINEが跳ねるベース、硬いドラム、異様なギター音、鋭い言葉を一体化させた1999年11月2日発表の第3作だ。各曲は短く強く、グルーヴを保ったまま怒りと緊張を積み上げていく。本作も全米初登場1位、翌夏までにダブル・プラチナへ達した。オリジナル曲によるアルバムとしては、これが最後となる。 トム・モレロのギターは単なるリフ楽器に収まらず、ノイズやスクラッチのような音で曲の景色を変える。“Guerrilla Radio”はグラミー最優秀ハード・ロック・パフォーマンスを獲得し、“Sleep Now in the Fire”のビデオはマイケル・ムーアが撮り、撮影のためにニューヨーク証券取引所を一時閉鎖させた。“Testify”と合わせて3曲がシングルとなっている。“Calm Like a Bomb”“Born as Ghosts”“War Within a Breath”と、終盤まで密度は落ちない。全12曲。前二作から続く政治的な姿勢も変わらず、1999年には死刑囚ムミア・アブ=ジャマールの支援公演を行って物議を醸した。ロック、ヒップホップ、ファンクの力を高密度に結び付けた一枚だ。

English

The Battle of Los Angeles, released on 2 November 1999, is the third album, on which Rage Against the Machine unified springing bass, hard drums, uncanny guitar sounds and sharp words. The songs are short and strong, stacking anger and tension while holding the groove. This one also entered at No. 1 in the US and went double platinum by the following summer. It is their last album of original material. The guitar refuses to sit still as a riff instrument, changing the scenery of a song with noise and scratch-like sounds. “Guerrilla Radio” won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance, and the video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” — shot by Michael Moore — briefly forced the closure of the New York Stock Exchange. With “Testify,” three songs became singles. “Calm Like a Bomb,” “Born as Ghosts” and “War Within a Breath” keep the density up to the end. Twelve songs. The political stance of the first two records is unchanged: in 1999 they played a controversial benefit for the death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. A record that ties the force of rock, hip-hop and funk together at high density.

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