calm like a lol: the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE singles poll

like a stone

― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have very fond college memories of "Killing In The Name Of"

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol @ "year of that boomerang." thanking u firefox autocorrect.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love "Guerrilla Radio" so much, in part because it boils down so much of what they do well into a fast three and a half minutes, without a big repetitive breakdown dragging out the end like most of their songs

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

i still love this band tbh and think battle of los angeles is a tremendously underrated album.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

i remember when they made a video for "Freedom" and MTV made a big deal out of it and played it a lot, and it wasn't until years later that i realized that nobody really cares about that song and all that probably just happened because there wasn't a video for "Killing In The Name Of"

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

the few times i've heard "Down Rodeo" on the radio have made for good road rage moments

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

no pun intended

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

bulls on parade easily

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

i wont lie, i crank up the radio any time these guys come on

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

the only things these guys did that I liked were "Killing in the Name Of" and "Renegades of Funk", otherwise I totally understand the scorn

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

fuck.. either Freedom or Tom Joad..

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp Renegades of Funk is bullshit

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't like that ratm youtube hopping has led me to "nookie" but i understand.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Renegades of Funk is bullshit

― billstevejim, Monday, August 8, 2011 10:38 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

tamtam otm; bulls on parade really is all you need

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

eh never liked that song. feels kind of leaden and like it's just alternating between 2 sections that aren't different enough.

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

killing in the name is all-time classic. nothing else they did even came close for me, though the first record is pretty solid all the way through.

― charlie h, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's very leaden. that's ratm!

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp i get that; i think i like leaden rage the best tho

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

actually damn i maybe could have voted for tom joad speaking of leaden

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

i like zippy RATM. "Guerrilla Radio" is like the perfect little Rage jingle, verse chorus verse chorus wheeoop wheeop guitar solo whispery part shouty part BOOM over.

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

re. leaden rage, these guys only had one "heavy" groove but it was a good one

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

thats why it always cracked me up whenever people praised morello... the guy only has one riff

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah but riffs weren't his thing, his thing was SQUEEEEEOOOOOLOOOOOOSWEEEEEEEEEEPWEEEEEDEEEOOOODOOOOP

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

every rage against the machine guitar/bass riff ever: DOO DA DOO DA DOO DA DOOOOOOOOOOO, DOO DA DOO DA DOO DA DOO DUNNNNNNNNNNN

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

it really wasn't very shocking that the bassist turned out to be dumb enough to call himself "y tim k" and get arrested for climbing an mtv awards set

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

bulls on parade w/great fondness for freedom, bombtrack & guerilla radio

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

so disappointed "great fondness for freedom" isn't the title of a ratm deep cut

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

great fondness for freedom is a north korean ratm cover band

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol i had no idea until right now that sleazy from coil/throbbing gristle directed the "freedom" video

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's the video with neo flying into the sky in the matrix right

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah but riffs weren't his thing, his thing was SQUEEEEEOOOOOLOOOOOOSWEEEEEEEEEEPWEEEEEDEEEOOOODOOOOP

― some dude, Monday, August 8, 2011 10:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the way guitar magazines used to jack off over morello was disgusting.

"this guy can shred like vai but he'd rather make, like, weird sounds!"

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

man listening to this song for the first time in forever i am with some dude in that i am glad they progressively phased out the jam band "funk" breakdowns all over the first album

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

though i am uncomfortable with how much the breakdowns sound like the live breakdowns in fugazi songs from the same period where brendan and joe would just ride out for a while

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

BROTHA DID YOU FORGET YOUR NAME
DID YOU LOSE IT ON THE WALL PLAYIN' TIC TAC TOE
YO
CHECK THE DIAGONAL
THREE MILLION GONE
COME ON
CAUSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE COUNTING BACKWARDS TO ZERO

ENVIRONMENT
THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVEL
OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
FOR EXAMPLE
WHAT DOES THE BILLBOARD SAY?
COME AND PLAY AND PLAY
FORGET ABOUT THE MOVEMENT

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVEL
OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

lol

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

the most 90s sentence ever uttered

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

you could think about that for the rest of your life and never come close to cracking what the hell dude thought he was actually talking about

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

it makes sense if you think about what the billboard says

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

isn't it "succeeding on the level of our unconsciousness," ie a line about marxist false consciousness?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

are you telling me that metrolyrics.com fucked me over?

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

ie the billboard aids in the construction of a false "consciousness" that everything is ok and you should come and play and forget abt the movement

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

i mean i'm not defending ratm lyrics here i'm just sayin lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

of course if anyone could peer into the mind of de la rocha and make out the pattern it would be our hoos

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

"i read noam chomsky after a few monster bong rips: the complete rage against the machine lyrics"

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love the way he angrily yells FOR EXAMPLE

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

yo its time for rage

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Edutain us!

― Now he's doing horse (DL), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

fwiw i bear markers no ill will and consider the brief mini-beef squashed

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

i heard a Rage song on the radio today, it took me 30 seconds to figure out if it was "Sleep Now In The Fire" or "Testify," as it always does. obviously they're not the most versatile band in the world but it still blows my mind how they were able to release two virtually identical singles back to back.

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol tamtam

agreed ums

― markers, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

tamtam otm btw

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Dunna dunna deddu
dunna dunna deddu
dunna dunna dunna
dunna dunna dunna

Yeah, people float UP!

Better turn the bass up on this one
Check it

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

SINCE ABOUT FIFTEEN HUNDRED B.C.
they've attacked from underseas
Only leaving broken ruins of the Egyptian dream
Crossin' the border and puttin'
Harpoons in us
Bringin' harsh war from the top
of their aquatic acropolis
This is how they get what they need to gut
The fish-eaters' bad breath got offensive on Tut
The sun god's kingdom is what they claim,
The spirit of Akhenaton...alive but tamed
The sea people came, but the Egyptians were weaker
ON THE THRONE! CAIRO! EGYPT-A!
The mummy tried to save his name... but he had to flee
Yeahhhhh THIS IS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA!

They're comin' back around again!
This is for the People of the Sea!
They're comin' to your house again!
They're ravagin' the land again!
This is for the People of the Sea!
They're comin' to Los Angeles!
Unh....

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh, and i just remembered that the band would have been called Rage Against the Time Machine which is maybe the best band name I've ever been involved with making up, oh man

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

ahaha

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

yo it's time for doctor casino!

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Freedom

― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Killing In The Name is gonna win.. that sucks.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

How I Could Just Kill A Man

ok this title is lol

― lol is not enough (blank), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh it's a cover I see... Still lol imaging Zachary intoning those words.

― lol is not enough (blank), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Zachary = Zach, dumb iPhone

― lol is not enough (blank), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

tbf his name is actually zachary so yr phone is otm

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

actually i have no idea what his real name is

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

zorro de la rocha

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh my god

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

i am forever going to call him "zorro de la rocha" now. it's like when my mom called r. kelly "romulus kelly." he would always be romulus to me from then on out.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

ahahaha, that's good!

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

im listening to tom joad rn and i forgot that zorro de la rocha does a hilarious mumbly bruce impression on this

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

i would never start an ILM poll that at the drive-in would win

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 04:14 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah, burn piano island burn is the true rr masterpiece

canks otm all over this thread. they had some amazing songs, and i lived and breathed that first album all through my sixteenth year, but i'm torn between people of the sun and bulls on parade.

― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

that said, the covers album was dogshit.

― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha i lived and breathed the covers album during MY sixteenth year. loved the street fighting man cover tbh

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have very fond college memories of "Killing In The Name Of"

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Monday, August 8, 2011 9:25 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM. I can still taste the Souther Comfort and amateur vandalism.

― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

YO IT'S TIME FOR RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't live and breathe this but it def played a part in my 16th year:

―  (gr8080), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

down rodeo got robbed

― call all destroyer, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

YO IT'S TIME FOR RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:07 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

DUN DA DUN DA DA DUN DAAA DAAAAA

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha i lived and breathed the covers album during MY sixteenth year. loved the street fighting man cover tbh

yeah for w/e reason during my youth we jammed the covers album waaay more than any of the others, although the s/t is the one i own

still maintain that 'tom joad' is getting way undersold here

― bb (Lamp), Monday, 15 August 2011 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

nahhh. strongo OTM.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 15 August 2011 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

saw a band dressed as Batman, Superman, Spiderman & Aquaman tear through "Killing In The Name" in the Latin Quarter this June, & it ruled, so I voted that

― Euler, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

i would never start an ILM poll that at the drive-in would win

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 04:14 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah, burn piano island burn is the true rr masterpiece

― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, August 14, 2011 9:17 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

you know that, and i know that, but fake-ass ilm consensus as a whole would not favor blood brothers over at the drive-in, i'm afraid

― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Bulls" beating "Killing" is an unjustice so great i want to write a fiery rap rock anthem in protest

― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

i do wonder if this is an age split too

bulls on parade was the first rage single i ever heard and i submit that i'm not the only one who was 6 when the debut came out

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 August 2011 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

I wasnt't 6 but yeah, Bulls was the first Rage i ever heard and it totally blew my 10th grade MTV mind.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

YO IT'S TIME FOR RAGE

― billstevejim, Friday, 4 May 2012 05:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love the way he angrily yells FOR EXAMPLE

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, August 8, 2011 11:29 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 05:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Bulls" beating "Killing" is an unjustice so great i want to write a fiery rap rock anthem in protest

OTM!

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

doont doont doont DUNT DUNT DUNT doont doont doont DUNT DUNT DUNT

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

<3 you guys

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 May 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

dunno if this has made the rounds on here but it's probably the greatest RATM related thing ever:

http://tindeck.com/listen/4n8l5

― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

yo it's time for rage

― horseshoe, Friday, 4 May 2012 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sometimes, RATM is the only thing that satisfies.

― Poliopolice, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink