“Killing in the Name is the hit that got me into hard rock”

• Killing in the Name

  is the second song from the self-titled album

  Rage Against the Machine,

  which

  was released in 1992. The huge hit turns 30 this month.

• The opportunity for

  20 Minutes

  to probe you to find out what were the cult albums of your adolescence.

  These sounds reminiscent of pogo parties, tiags, packs of beer in the parking lot before the concert...

• Among the readers of

  20 Minutes

  , Virginie, for whom

  Killing in the Name

  will mark the passage to hard rock and Ian who devotes a real cult to the

  American Idiot

  of Green Day.

We are in 1992 or just a little later.

We're in college, quiet or talking about the first Radiohead hit, maybe.

And buddy Stéphane arrives with a new sound: that of RATM, or Rage Against the Machine.

For months, it's the hit

that will be thumping in CD players.

For decades, it is this daunting sound that will end our high school evenings, our Bordeaux student Thursdays, our weekends in Haute-Savoie to see Stéphane and the gang again.

It's also the one that will shake the walls of the older sister's room, which was already making our ears bleed with Metallica.

The same year, we will howl on

while spinning towards our first Eurockéennes de Belfort.

The Body Count tube will end up making us opt for skull and crossbones t-shirts.

" 

is the album that made me switch to hard rock, it's the one that made me put away my Elsa K7s," says 34-year-old Virginie.

The 30-year-old,

went to look for her in the streets of Paris (hello la igne 4), in order to offer a female voice to this synthesis of a call for testimonies.

Because

at 30, the editorial staff asked you what were your cult albums, those that marked your youth.

And, bam, only guys.

Tastes are sure, we even share them.

But apparently, music (rock) is a matter of guys.

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We continue with Virginie: “ 

, it's like a Proust madeleine: as soon as I hear it I'm 18 years old.

I knew it long after its release in the United States and I heard my big brother listen to it on repeat.

Then I appropriated it and replaced my posters of series actors with those of Gun's n Rose, Korn or Linkin Park.

»

“ 

Smack my Bich up caused

me to sprain my ankle”

Virginie will then cite IAM

as her second "monster album".

And our other readers,

by Portishead,

by Slayer, the “stainless”

by Nirvana or, like Mathieu,

by The Prodigy.

“I listened to it on repeat.

The flagship title

even caused me to sprain my ankle jumping off the sofa.

A work stoppage difficult to justify”, remembers the young quadra who “loved the group so much” that he bleached his hair.

“It's the very first CD I had as a teenager and there's not a bad song on it.

Every time I hear it, I have lots of images of my adolescence that come back to me, ”says Thomas, talking to us about

of Oasis.

And if our 38-year-old reader also cites

AC/DC's

by Muse and

by Radiohead who succeed Oasis on the charts of albums that definitely "marked" him: "I I listened on repeat while reading

.

I can't hear a title without having an image of the Battle of Khazad-Dûm, a Rohirrim Charge, or Helm's Deep in my head.

»

“The 1990s will never be equaled!

»

We, listening to

, we cry.

So.

And if there is one who would be on the verge of shedding a tear by testifying, it is Yannick, 43 years old.

“The 1990s will never be equaled!

There will be no better.

Auto-tune did not exist, digital was in its infancy.

An almost perfect decade for the world of music”, slice the follower of “it was better before”. 

And there is the big plunge into nostalgia.

From that of when we “got our records in mail order with Club Dial, like we got books with France Loisirs”.

“The big slap when this RATM came home.

This CD has been listened to more than reason,” adds Yannick.

The quadra continues by quoting the double album of the Smashing Pumpkins (

) or the

of Green Day.

American Idiot

, "the last great rock album"

Green Day, however, is Ian who talks about it best.

At 31, he left us a comment worthy of a review in

The group led by Billie Joe Armstrong is, according to him, "the greatest group of the last twenty years" and

"certainly the last great rock album".

"Green Day signed an opera-rock album just like Queen had done before", continues Ian, before delivering a parallel between the politics of the Bush administration of the 2000s and "the iconic album with the heart of pomegranate which shows that politics can devastate everything in its path”.

An anti-Trump plea will follow, knowing that, “Inscribed in time,

resonates even stronger today”, according to our melancholy.

"remains musically and ideologically as true as ever".

“Your readers can say whatever they want, but no album will ever match

.

The ax fell this weekend in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine): Stéphanie spoke.

“This album is about hours spent in my room pretending to be her.

I dressed like her, I wanted to be her.

I was 14 and my parents couldn't take it anymore, ”recalls the one who still lives in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine).

"I think that since then we haven't done better, that a woman will never do better," says Stéphanie quite simply, quoting

Destiny's Child's

which ( l)'has been dancing for a whole summer": "As soon as I hear this song, I scream.

»

"Rolling a Shovel on

Under the Brigde

"

As for Mathieu, 47, he cites

.

Alice In Chains' album is, according to him, "a true monument of grunge, carried away by the single

which breaks everything".

“He accompanied a pair of hangovers with my holey jeans.

It is timeless, I take it to the grave”, he concludes while, lower down, Alain, 50, remembers “the 1990s, with the Tiag', the skinny jeans and the metalhead t-shirt”.

For Alain, it was the time of “packs of beer in the parking lot before the concert”.

And that of Noor and “big pogos during their concerts”: “I was ejected three meters away, I had pain in my buttocks for three days.

When I think back on it, I was a diehard.

»

Hoang, he remained at the time of

of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

“It came out in 91, I was in 5th grade and the older brother of a classmate had bought it.

My buddy recorded it for me on cassette: it was THE slap.

A new world has opened up.

“

” has helped “Hoang” through the years, with its ups and downs.

And he is “trying” today to “pass it on” to his daughters: “for the moment, it's a waste of time, but I don't despair”.

Give them time, Hoang, as friend Caroline, 41, says, everyone ends up "rolling a shovel on

 ."

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