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Renegades is the fourth studio album by American rock band Rage Against the Machine (RATM), released on December 5, 2000, by Epic Records, almost two months after their first breakup. The album consists of covers of songs by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Afrika Bambaataa, Minor Threat, Eric B. & Rakim, The Stooges, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill, Devo, and others.

Renegades
Studio album by Rage Against the Machine
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	April–September 2000
Studio	Cello Studios, Hollywood, California The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Rap rock[1] rap metal[1]
Length	51:14
Label	Epic
Producer	Rick Rubin Brendan O'Brien Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine chronology
The Battle of Los Angeles (1999) Renegades (2000) Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (2003)
Singles from Renegades
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" Released: November 25, 1997 "Renegades of Funk" Released: February 20, 2001

Renegades is RATM's only album not to be accompanied by a supporting tour. Shortly after the release of the album, three of the four band members (minus vocalist Zack de la Rocha) formed a new band, Audioslave, with former Soundgarden vocalist/guitarist Chris Cornell. RATM did, however, release the live album Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in 2003, consisting of their final two concerts before their initial break-up.

The album achieved platinum status a little over a month after its initial release.

Artwork

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The album's cover art is a tribute to the pop art work LOVE by Robert Indiana, with the word "love" replaced with "rage" and the letter G at the bottom left corner slanted (in the original sculpture, the slanted letter O is at the top right corner). The album shipped with four different versions of the cover: either red lettering with black and either blue or green background, or with the red and black switched. The album's packaging also includes a poem by Josh Koppel. The artwork ends with a photograph of an American one dollar bill with the message "You are not a slave" written on the back.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Alternative Press	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[5]
Melody Maker	[6]
Mojo	[7]
NME	8/10[8]
Q	[6]
Rolling Stone	[1]
Select	[9]
Spin	7/10[6]

Renegades received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 78 based on 26 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[2] AllMusic critic John Bush wrote that the record "works well with just a bare few exceptions, in part because Rage Against the Machine is both smart enough to change very little and talented enough to make the songs its own."[3] Alternative Press described the record as "a tour through three decades of sonic recalcitrance" and "the genome map of seditious sound".[4] Entertainment Weekly's Rob Brunner described the record's sound as "a remarkably diverse, if not exactly surprising, mix of heavy rock, hip hop and protest music", while remarking that it "would still be a raging success even if this disc does nothing but introduce a new generation to the joys of Bob Dylan and Minor Threat."[5]

On Renegades, Mojo has remarked: "This crisp, Rick Rubin-produced outing packs away a machine that was well-oiled to the last."[7] Kitty Empire of NME labeled the record as "a brilliant archaeology" and "a sonic history lesson".[8] Rolling Stone critic Tom Moon believed that the band executed "diverse tracks" such as Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad", the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man", Afrika Bambaataa's "Renegades of Funk" and Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" with "the roaring, fearless spirit that’s been missing in action since these songs were new",[1] while Select regarded it as the band's "most satisfying record since their debut".[9]

Track listing

Best Buy limited edition

Limited edition albums sold at Best Buy contained a bonus disc with live recordings of "People of the Sun" and "No Shelter". The songs were later released as part of Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in 2003, as was "Kick Out the Jams (live)".

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Renegades

Chart (2000–2001)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[10]	10
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[11]	66
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12]	13
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[13]	25
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14]	47
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[15]	33
Scottish Albums (OCC)[16]	59
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[17]	49
UK Albums (OCC)[18]	71
US Billboard 200[19]	14

Year-end charts

2000 year-end chart performance for Renegades

Chart (2000)	Position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[20]	157

2001 year-end chart performance for Renegades

Chart (2001)	Position
US Billboard 200[21]	121

Certifications

Certifications for Renegades

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[22]	Platinum	70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[23]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[24]	Platinum	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Renegades at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Renegades

Renegades ist das vierte Musikalbum der Crossover-Band Rage Against the Machine und enthält ausschließlich Coverstücke.

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- [en] Renegades (Rage Against the Machine album)

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[es] Renegades (álbum)

Renegades (en español: Renegados) es el cuarto disco de estudio de la banda Rage Against the Machine, que consiste íntegramente de canciones de otros grupos (cover) tales como Minor Threat, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill y Devo. Fue lanzado en el 2000, un tiempo después de que Zack de la Rocha anunciara que dejaba al grupo. Después del lanzamiento de Renegades, el resto del grupo se unieron con el exvocalista de Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, para formar el supergrupo Audioslave. Rage tuvo de todos modos, otro disco, Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, un disco póstumo que contiene las canciones de los dos últimos conciertos que realizaron como banda. La versión europea de este disco contiene la canción Kick out the Jams y How I Could Just Kill A Man (con Cypress Hill) de regalo, tocada durante esos conciertos en Los Ángeles.

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[ru] Renegades

Renegades — четвёртый студийный альбом американской рэп-метал группы Rage Against the Machine, выпущенный 5 декабря 2000 года лейблом Epic Records. Запись проходила в Cello Studios (Голливуд) и в The Village Recorder (Лос-Анджелес). Альбом состоит из кавер-версий песен таких артистов как Брюс Спрингстин, Боб Дилан, Minor Threat, Eric B. & Rakim, EPMD, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill и Devo. Альбом вышел после того как Зак де ла Роча покинул группу. После релиза Renegades, три оставшиеся члена группы создали новый коллектив Audioslave, а на место вокалиста пригласили Криса Корнелла из Soundgarden. Тем не менее, RAtM выпустили Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, концертный альбом содержащий записи двух последних концертов в Лос-Анджелесе, 12 и 13 сентября 2000 года, после которых группа распалась. За месяц с начала продаж альбому был присвоен статус платинового.

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