Wind Below

The story behind

Rage Against the Machine recorded Wind Below in 1996, within the album Evil Empire. The song lasts five and a half minutes, and feels like a gust of wind that cuts through the air. The album title, Evil Empire, was a phrase that then U.S. president Ronald Reagan used to describe the USSR. The band, which had socialist ideology, took it as a criticism of the capitalist system, and used it to denounce the United States. Wind Below is one of those songs that leaves you speechless, with a rhythm that drags you along and a voice that gets you up on your feet. People listen to it a lot, according to Last.fm, with over a million plays. It's a song that never stops being played.