The Battle Of Mexico City (Live) Rage Against The Machine

• 1Testify (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)04:06
• 2Guerrilla Radio (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:25
• 3People of the Sun (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)02:23
• 4Calm Like a Bomb (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)04:44
• 5Sleep Now In the Fire (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:33
• 6Born of a Broken Man (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)04:31
• 7Bombtrack (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)04:02
• 8Know Your Enemy (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)04:58
• 9No Shelter (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:57
• 10War Within a Breath (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:29
• 11Bulls On Parade (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:55
• 12Killing In the Name (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)05:09
• 13Zapata's Blood (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)03:18
• 14Freedom (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)06:10
• 15Township Rebellion (Live, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1999)02:33
• Total Runtime01:00:13

Info for The Battle Of Mexico City (Live)

Outside Mexico City's Sports Pavilion, hundreds of young Rage fans rattle metal fences and throw rocks at the increasingly nervous police. Inside, a seething crowd of 5,000 lucky ticket holders cram into the cavernous pavilion chanting anti-government slogans and poking their middle fingers into the thick, sweaty air while waiting for Rage Against the Machine to storm the stage.

One of the greatest live acts in music history, Rage only affirms that fact with this show. Whatever club, theater, arena, or stadium they're in, the opening of each Rage Against the Machine show always feels like a grenade has gone off. But this night it was as if a truckful of bombs blew up as the band tore into the opening salvo of "Testify." Fans cascaded toward the stage like rippling waves stopping only to pogo up-and-down like jackhammers.

Longtime supporters of various political causes in Mexico, Rage were performing for the very first time in Mexico City. The connection between the band and the audience is electric. From the early "all hell can't stop us now" chant in "Guerilla Radio" to the blood-curling screams in the finale of "Freedom," there is an urgency at this show that is unrivaled. This is live rock & roll as it's meant to be heard: fierce, funky, uncompromising. This is Rage Against the Machine in their finest hour. 68 minutes. Zack de la Rocha, vocals; Y.tim.K, bass; Brad Wilk, drums; Tom Morello, guitars.

Zack de la Rocha, vocals
Tom Morello, guitars
Y.tim.K., bass
Brad Wilk, drums

Recorded October 28, 1999, Mexico City, Mexico

Digitally remastered

Rage Against the Machine
is an American alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California. The band's line-up comprises vocalist Zack De La Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk. Critics have noted Rage Against the Machine for its 'fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash.

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