this belligerent monster of a song, with its 'Burn, burn, yes you're gonna burn' refrain takes some beating. And, as promised, dope hooks did make punks take another look.

RATM were adept at slowly building the tension until it exploded right in your face. The climax of this song was enough to have you reaching for a post-coital cigarette.

ANOTHER CLASSIC riff, some wondrous wah-wah and a solo that sounds more like a turntable than a guitar, helped turn this tirade against the industrial-military complex into one of the band's most recognisable songs.

NOT CONTENT with restricting the wah-wah effect to the six-string, here they weird up Commerford's bass while Morello, not to be outdone, makes his guitar sound like a turntable again. The big show-offs!

FEATURING YET more trick-whizzery from Morello, 'Down Rodeo' is more restrained in pace if not power and passion. 'These people ain't seen a brown skin man since their parents bought one' they bitingly claim.

IT'S ironic for a band built on sonic bombast that a quietly spoken line (namely 'Anger is a gift') was one of their most powerful moments. Also notable for the video supporting controversially jailed activist Leonard Peltier.

IF THERE was one trademark RATM song on '...Los Angeles', this was it. All the elements mesh together perfectly and how Morello got his guitar to sound like a harmonica, Che only knows.

'FUCK YOU I won't do what you tell me!' they raged, succinctly providing an instant anthem for would-be revolutionaries and kids who didn't like what they'd been given for tea alike.

ALSO TACKLED by Muse, U2 and avant-garde collective The Residents, this Bob Dylan cover is beefed up while retaining the downtrodden worker vibe of the original.

HOW IRONIC that a song detailing how movies distract the masses from the real issues ('Godzilla pure motherfuckin' filler/ Get your eyes on the real killer') should wind up on the soundtrack to a Hollywood blockbuster.

THE catchiness of that repetitive riff, coupled with some awesome drumming, propulsive bass lines and the usual string of invective, ensured that RATM's loooong-awaited second album arrived with a flourish.

"THE THUMPING percussion and rebel roll call ('Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom PaineDr Martin Luther King, Malcom X') meant this Afrika Bambaataa track could have been custom made for its RATM reworking."

FEATURING THE infamous video which resulted in the New York Stock Exchange shutting down, and director and professional shit-stirrer Michael Moore getting arrested.

EDUCATION = POWER is the equation set out here, in among the fantastic funk grooves and yet another deceptively simple hook.

HUGE BASS, a funky groove, a satirical Michael Moore video, proving humour and proselytising are not mutually exclusive, an attack on the media and a quote from George Orwell's '1984'. Have we left anything out?

A LONGTIME live favourite, they made this version of a Bruce Springsteen song their own long before 'Renegades' hit the streets.

ECLIPSED BY Zach's ranting and Tom's invention he might have been, but Tim Commerford's bulging basslines were an integral part of the RATM trademark sound. Here he gets to show off, launching the song on a short but loopy bass solo.

BUILT AROUND a relatively simple beat and stop-start machine-gun riff, this muscular little number railed against media manipulation and right-wing radio shows in particular.

A SONG in support of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, controversially jailed for a cop killing, this song sparked policed protests and a righteous shitstorm of controversy.

"PROPERTY IS theft", wrote anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Which is just as well considering Tom Morello blatantly steals the riff from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' for a song which would later pop tumescently up in Hollywood blockbuster 'The Matrix'.