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Renegades by Rage Against the Machine
Renegades is an album by Rage Against the Machine, released in 2000. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 61 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Renegades of Funk”, on 54 lists with a best position of #5.
Renegades, Rage Against the Machine's fourth and final studio album, arrived on Epic on December 5, 2000, and by then the band was already gone, having split almost two months earlier. It's a covers record produced by Rick Rubin, and the song choices range far and wide: Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Afrika Bambaataa, Minor Threat, Eric B. & Rakim, the Stooges, MC5, the Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill and Devo, among others.
Tom Morello's guitar squeals and scratches like a turntable, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk lock into heavy funk grooves, and Zack de la Rocha spits every line like it's a call to arms, so "Renegades of Funk" and "How I Could Just Kill a Man" come out sounding like Rage originals. With no tour to push it, the album still went platinum in a little over a month, the sleeve riffs on Robert Indiana's Love series, and the other three were soon off forming Audioslave with Chris Cornell.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Renegades on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renegades of Funk | 54 | #5 | – | 2000–2026 | |
| 2 | How I Could Just Kill a Man | 7 | #38 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.