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“Bombtrack” is the song by Rage Against the Machine that opens their self-titled debut album. Like most of Rage Against the Machine’s songs, the song’s lyrics discuss social inequality, proclaiming that “landlords and power whores” were going to “burn”. The intro riff was composed by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello when he was playing with the band Lock Up, and, upon hearing it, they told him it was too “heavy”. Impressed by their song, Rage Against The Machine named it Bombtrack in reference to hip hop terminology in which the word ‘bomb’ means ‘the greatest’. A music video was released, depicting support for the Sendero Luminoso Maoist revolutionary group and its leader Abimael Guzman. Interestingly the video clip did not appear on the... Read on...