Among Rage Against the Machine’s punchiest and most thrilling moments on record, the band’s 1996 single Bulls on Parade motored through a range of unpredictable arrangement choices.
It came in like a freight train, with its pulverising syncopated opening riff, before switching gears into the menacing hip-hop of its verse - bridged by a pace-setting wah-wah pedal motif (the almost comical-sounding ‘wah-wah-wicky-wah-wah’ bit).
But, it was its spotlight solo - a signature focus-pulling moment from guitarist Tom Morello - that was quite unlike anything that had been heard on a rock record prior.
The sound coming out of Morello's guitar was something that nobody had ever tried to emulate before. It was nigh-on indistinguishable from a DJ, scratching a vinyl record rhythmically.
Many didn't even realise that the sound they were in hearing was in fact, just one man and his electric guitar.
