Lounge Against the Machine is the first album of Richard Cheese, released October 17, 2000. The album title is a play on the name of the band Rage Against the Machine.Unlike his subsequent albums featuring his band, which takes its name from this album, the instruments on this debut album are synthesized. Select songs have been re-recorded as "big band versions" for his 2006 greatest hits album, The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese.