The Swedish rock album that came with a supplemental reading list

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Perhaps even more famously, the liner notes of Rage Against the Machine’s “Evil Empire” album had a photo of a bunch of “radical and leftist thought for beginners” books:

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Was it Rush who sent listeners off to read Ayn Rand trash? (Though maybe not directly along with their albums.) :thinking:

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More or less. (I don’t think they had a reading list per se on their albums, but 2112’s liner notes included “Dedicated to the genius of Ayn Rand.”) I vaguely recall that Neil Peart, who seems to have been the real Rand-fan, tried to downplay any allegiance to her in later years.

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