Critical Response
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Alternative Press | |
| BBC | very favourable |
| Kerrang! | |
| Melody Maker | 10/10 |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Sputnikmusic | 5.0/5 |
Allmusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album four and a half stars and stated "it was the first album to successfully merge the seemingly disparate sounds of rap and heavy metal", he also praised the albums "meaningful rhymes and emotionally charged conviction".
In 2001, Q magazine named Rage Against the Machine as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 368 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Rage Against the Machine at number 11, just after Electric Wizard's Come My Fanatics... and before Cathedral's Forest of Equilibrium, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.
The album is known for its high production values, which are almost to the strictest audiophile standards. Some audiophile sites and magazines even go as far as using the album — in particular the song "Take the Power Back" — to test amplifiers and speakers.
Acclaimed BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe named Rage Against the Machine as one of four 'Masterpieces'. This was his best album, on December 2, 2008.
In October 2011, Rage Against the Machine was ranked number five on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992.
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