Tire Me

1996 song by Rage Against the Machine

"Tire Me"
Song by Rage Against the Machine
from the album Evil Empire
Released	April 16, 1996
Genre	Alternative metal, rapcore
Length	3:00
Label	Epic Records
Composer(s)	Tim Commerford, Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk
Lyricist(s)	Zack de la Rocha
Producer(s)	Brendan O'Brien, Rage Against the Machine

"Tire Me" is a song by American rock band Rage Against the Machine from their album Evil Empire . Although "Tire Me" never had a music video, was never released on any media formats, and had no radio airplay, the song won a Grammy Award in 1997 for the Best Metal Performance.^[1]

References

v t e Rage Against the Machine
Zack de la Rocha Tim Commerford Tom Morello Brad Wilk
Studio albums	Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire The Battle of Los Angeles Renegades
Live albums	Live & Rare Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
Demo albums	Rage Against the Machine
Video albums	Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Mexico City Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Live at Finsbury Park
Singles	"Killing in the Name" "Bullet in the Head" "Bombtrack" "Freedom" "Year of tha Boomerang" "Bulls on Parade" "People of the Sun" "Down Rodeo" "Vietnow" "The Ghost of Tom Joad" "No Shelter" "Guerrilla Radio" "Sleep Now in the Fire" "Testify" "Renegades of Funk" "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
Other songs	"I'm Housin" "Kick Out the Jams" "Know Your Enemy" "Maggie's Farm" "Microphone Fiend" "Street Fighting Man" "Tire Me" "Calm Like a Bomb" "Wake Up"
Concert tours	Reunion Tour Public Service Announcement Tour
Related articles	Discography Songs Political views and activism Audioslave Future User Prophets of Rage Inside Out Lock Up One Day as a Lion Street Sweeper Social Club The Nightwatchman Wakrat

v t e Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
1990s	"One" – Metallica (1990) "Stone Cold Crazy" – Metallica (1991) Metallica – Metallica (1992) "Wish" – Nine Inch Nails (1993) "I Don't Want to Change the World" (Live) – Ozzy Osbourne (1994) "Spoonman" – Soundgarden (1995) "Happiness in Slavery" (Live) – Nine Inch Nails (1996) "Tire Me" – Rage Against the Machine (1997) "Ænema" – Tool (1998) "Better than You" – Metallica (1999)
2000s	"Iron Man" (Live) – Black Sabbath (2000) "Elite" – Deftones (2001) "Schism" – Tool (2002) "Here to Stay" – Korn (2003) "St. Anger" – Metallica (2004) "Whiplash" – Motörhead (2005) "Before I Forget" – Slipknot (2006) "Eyes of the Insane" – Slayer (2007) "Final Six" – Slayer (2008) "My Apocalypse" – Metallica (2009)
2010s	"Dissident Aggressor" (Live) – Judas Priest (2010) "El Dorado" – Iron Maiden (2011) "God Is Dead?" – Black Sabbath (2014) "The Last in Line" – Tenacious D (2015) "Cirice" – Ghost (2016) "Dystopia" – Megadeth (2017) "Sultan's Curse" – Mastodon (2018) "Electric Messiah" – High on Fire (2019)
2020s	"7empest" – Tool (2020) "Bum-Rush" – Body Count (2021) "The Alien" – Dream Theater (2022) "Degradation Rules" – Ozzy Osbourne featuring Tony Iommi (2023) "72 Seasons" – Metallica (2024) "Mea culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" – Gojira, Marina Viotti and Victor Le Masne (2025)
Between 2012-2013, the category was merged into Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.

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