Again, I've waited far too long to buy this album. As certain people have been constantly reminding me for years, it is much better than their debut album. The songs are tighter and more powerful, Tom Morello's riffs are meaner and his solos are crazier, and Zack's vocals are angrier and more catchily delivered.
Of course, Rage's political lyrics are far off the deep end on the crazy hippie scale, but that's easily forgivable when the music is this good and the words are so cleverly composed. Besides, who doesn't like shouting angry slogans against the man every now and again?
The most appealing aspect of the album to me is Tom Morello's guitar playing, it's his original, catchy riffs that the songs are built around, and it's his creative, unusual uses of his instrument in his solos that set Rage apart from similar bands of the era. And he does it all with a minimal number of effects pedals. But maybe that's only exciting to me because I'm a great big music geek!
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