There seems like a lot of filler and a few of the songs could've used some more thought in the creating process.Rage Against The Machine, Zack De La Rocha, Lawrence Muggerud, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, Louis Freese, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Y. Overall, the album never really connected with me. When I go back to listen to this album today, those songs are still the ones I gravitate to. I was originally tuned into tracks like "Microphone Fiend," "How I Could Just Kill a Man," and "Maggie's Farm"-they seemed to me to be more naturally connected to the Rage Against the Machine I knew and loved. I'm still not sure if there is any truth to this rumor or not, but I know it impacted my approach to listening. I have a distinct memory surrounding the release of Renegades and the reason behind it being a cover album: Zack had writer's block. The oldest cover on both albums is 35 years old: "Maggie's Farm" on Renegades and "Since I Don't Have You" on The Spaghetti Incident?.īy the time this album was released, Zack de la Rocha had already left the band and this album had the opportunity to be the ashes of one of my favorite bands or the phoenix-either way, the fifteen year old version of myself was skeptical at first and ultimately disappointed in this album. The Spaghetti Incident? cover choices have a median age of 17.67 years, many of them from roughly the same time period (a third of the album's originals are from 1978 alone). Renegades has a median age of 19.75 years in the songs they chose to cover, choosing newer songs and much older songs.
I was interested to see the age of the songs covered relative to the album's release date and so I did the math and their medians are actually quite close. I've always thought that RATM's career arc and Guns N' Roses's career arc where weirdly similar, but nowhere are their careers more alike than their contractually obligated final covers album that are, similarly, not so great.īoth albums have 12 tracks ( The Spaghetti Incident? has the controversial - and pointless - hidden track and Renegades has two different bundles of bonus tracks depending on the version).
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