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The best album of the 90's - Leftism vs Rage Against the Machine

Which album is better

  • Leftfield - Leftism

    Votes: 8 47.1%

  • Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

    Votes: 9 52.9%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
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Jack L. Jones
I'm starting this one early because I need my sleep.

Our twelfth heat of the first round sees plucky challengers Leftfield (two votes guaranteed) take on strong favourites Rage Against the Machine.

Leftfield - Leftism

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Leftism is the first studio album by electronica musicians Paul Daley and Neil Barnes under the name Leftfield. The album was released in 1995 on Columbia Records. Leftism consisted mostly of reworked versions of previous singles by Leftfield and new original pieces. The album contains guest spots from musicians not associated with dance music at the time such as John Lydon fromPublic Image Ltd. (and formerly of Sex Pistols) and Toni Halliday from Curve. The album was described as progressive house, although some journalists found that label too limiting, suggesting the album incorporated many genres. After completing the album, the duo in Leftfield initially were not happy with it.

On its release, the album was well received from the British press with positive reviews from the NME and Q. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1995 but lost to Portishead. Leftism sold well and was released months later in the United States. Critics have praised the album as one of the major album-length works of dance music, with Q referring to it as "the first truly complete album experience to be created by house musicians and the first quintessentially British one".

Vs.

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

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Rage Against the Machine is the debut studio album by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine.[1] The album was released on November 3, 1992. It went to #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #45 on the Billboard 200 chart.

"Know Your Enemy" features Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan on "additional vocals", and also features Jane's Addiction drummerStephen Perkins on trashcan percussion. Keenan has been known on occasion to appear onstage with the band to perform the song. The album cover features the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức that occurred on June 11, 1963.
 
I think that Open Up feels really out of place on Leftism but it is still the stronger album of the two. RATM is still good though, it's high points are very high but it lacks the variety and change in tone that is needed to make it a great album.
 
RATM is an album with two good tracks. The rest is just fill in tracks. It's not very well put together. Leftism is probably the the best electronic/house album from the 90's. It's excellent, and amazingly, still sounds quite up to date. Leftfield wins this one quite easily, although I still like bullet in the head and killing in the name.

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Kandi1977 said:
RATM is an album with two good tracks. The rest is just fill in tracks.
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Nonsense.
This is not a thin album.
Drop trou and feel the width:

1. "Bombtrack" 4:04
2. "Killing in the Name" 5:14
3. "Take the Power Back" 5:37
4. "Settle for Nothing" 4:48
5. "Bullet in the Head" 5:07
6. "Know Your Enemy" 4:55
7. "Wake Up" 6:04
8. "Fistful of Steel" 5:31
9. "Township Rebellion" 5:24
10. "Freedom" 6:06


The guitar work, the delivery, the power, awesome.
 
It's not a brilliant ALBUM! You are probably their biggest fan so your view is tinted. As a musician I don't regard it as a good album. Some good tracks, but as a whole it falls through.

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The 90s were long gone by time I first listened to the whole RATM album, but I was quite surprised at how solid it was. Not one dud.
 
I think it's a foregone conclusion, but I put my vote in for leftfield. Not just because I think ratm sucks big hairy balls, but also because leftism is a superb piece of work, a feeling, a snapshot of the 90s club scene, and the bass lines in this album put ratm to shame

This will fall on deaf ears (pardon the pun), because ratm are the champions-elect, but if you're on the fence, whack both albums on today and you will see that leftism is musically far superior to the screaming din of ratm
 
The first time I heard RATM, it was both something I liked and a sound that was nothing like anything I'd ever heard before.

That is a very rare combination, and for that reason it has to go through.
 
Kandi1977 said:
It's not a brilliant ALBUM! You are probably their biggest fan so your view is tinted. As a musician I don't regard it as a good album. Some good tracks, but as a whole it falls through.

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As a fellow musician, I wholeheartedly disagree.
 
Boo. As much as I like RATM (as an ex hard rock guitar player) there is no way it should be beating an album like Leftism. It was a landmark album in the dance scene.
 
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