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“Down Rodeo” by Rage Against the Machine

From the album Evil Empire (1996)

“Down Rodeo” by Rage Against the Machine appears on 18 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1997 and 2026. It was first released in 1996 on the album Evil Empire. Its best result is #63 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #279 alternative song of 1997 and #2,005 alternative song of all time.

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#63best position

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Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo (Official Audio)

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"Down Rodeo" rolls off Evil Empire, Rage Against the Machine's 1996 album, and it's the band at its most menacing, a slow, coiled groove that keeps threatening to snap. Zack de la Rocha wrote the words and spits them out, while the music belongs to all four: Tom Morello's guitar scraping and lurching, Tim Commerford's bass thick as tar, Brad Wilk's drums landing like body blows.

Brendan O'Brien produced it with the band and Andy Wallace mixed it, and neither of them sanded down the edges.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#1,619 of the '90s

Hard Rock & Metal

#2,037 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1997	63	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	935	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	602	107.7 The End	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1077
2002	72	The Buzz	The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial)	144
2002	792	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2004	272	Q101	Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004)	300
2004	399	107.7 The End	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)	500
2005	656	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2007	211	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500
2008	459	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)	500
2009	310	Live 105	Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009)	500
2020	175	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2020)	420
2021	182	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2021)	420
2022	183	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)	420
2022	308	101X	101X 500 (2022)	498
2023	795	The Current	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s	893
2023	191	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)	420
2026	357	101X	101X 500 (2026)	500

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