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Encyclopedia > Calm Like a Bomb
"Calm Like a Bomb"
"Calm Like a Bomb" cover
Single by Rage Against the Machine
from the album The Battle of Los Angeles
Released 2000
Format CD, 7", 12"
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4 min 58 s
Producer(s) artist
Brendan O'Brien
Rage Against the Machine singles chronology
"Testify"
(2000)		 "Calm Like A Bomb"
(2000)		 "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
(2001)

"Calm Like a Bomb" is a song by American rap/rock band Rage Against the Machine, off their third album The Battle of Los Angeles. It is notable as a display of guitarist Tom Morello's creative use of a whammy pedal. The song was featured in the end credits of 2003 movie The Matrix Reloaded. Like all of RATM's songs, the song's lyrics discuss social inequalities, such as "post no bills", a phrase that was spray-painted onto walls to discourage political expression. The song also features a reference to Emiliano Zapata. Tim Commerford uses a pedal on his bass throughout the song. In Rolling Stone Magazine's feature article this past year on the new "Guitar Heroes," a section was printed about Tom Morello, and Calm Like A Bomb was cited as the prime example of his skill and fame on the guitar. He has occasionally referred to the extremely high whammy-pedal effects used in songs such as this as "pterodactyl sounds." Image File history File links Calmlikeabomb. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Rage Against the Machine (a. ... The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine. ... See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 other events of 2000 list of years in music 2000s in music // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ... A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... 12 single for U2s Beautiful Day The 12-inch [30 cm] single gramophone record came into existence with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... Look up second in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Rage Against the Machine (a. ... Testify is a single by rap/rock band Rage Against the Machine off their third studio album The Battle of Los Angeles. ... Tracklist The Ghost of Tom Joad Vietnow [Live Version] The Ghost of Tom Joad [Live Version] ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... Rage Against the Machine (a. ... The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by Rage Against the Machine. ... the very definition of a guitarist is cody allen and taylor hines because of there un ending guitar skills and awsomnes. ... Thomas Baptist Morello or Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist who played in Rage Against the Machine. ... A 4th Generation Whammy Pedal A Whammy Pedal is an effects pedal produced by Digitech that bends the pitch of a guitars signal. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... The Matrix Reloaded is the second installment of The Matrix series, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. ... Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of material wealth in a society. ... Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. ... Tim Commerford (born February 26, 1968 in Irvine, California), also know by his various monikers/stage names as (Tim Bob, Y. tim K. , Simmering T, Timmy C. , and tim. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Track listing

  1. "Calm Like a Bomb"


 v • d • e  Rage Against the Machine
Tim Commerford | Tom Morello | Zack de la Rocha | Brad Wilk
Discography
Studio Albums: Rage Against the Machine | Evil Empire | The Battle of Los Angeles | Renegades
Live Albums: Live & Rare | Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
Singles: 1993: "Killing in the Name", "Bullet in the Head", "Bombtrack" | 1994: "Freedom" | 1996: "Bulls on Parade", "People of the Sun", "Down Rodeo", "Tire Me" | 1997: "Vietnow" | 1998: "The Ghost of Tom Joad", "No Shelter" | 1999: "Guerrilla Radio" | 2000: "Sleep Now in the Fire", Testify", "Calm Like a Bomb", "Renegades of Funk" | 2001: "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
Videography
Videos and DVDs: Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Mexico City | Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
Related
Rage Against the Machine albums | Rage Against the Machine songs | Inside Out | Lock Up | Audioslave | The Nightwatchman


 
 

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