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
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
― 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 NAMEDID YOU LOSE IT ON THE WALL PLAYIN' TIC TAC TOEYOCHECK THE DIAGONALTHREE MILLION GONECOME ONCAUSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE COUNTING BACKWARDS TO ZERO
ENVIRONMENTTHE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVELOF OUR CONSCIOUSNESSFOR EXAMPLEWHAT DOES THE BILLBOARD SAY?COME AND PLAY AND PLAYFORGET ABOUT THE MOVEMENT
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVELOF 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
guy had one of the great collection of ad lib grunts and unghs and YEAHS! for sure
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:31 (1 year ago) 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, Monday, August 8, 2011 11:07 PM Bookmark
― call all destroyer, Monday, August 8, 2011 11:07 PM Bookmark
I remember an interview or something where he was proudly proclaiming that he practiced guitar 8-10 hours a day, every day. And you just had to go, "...wow, really?"
There are some great singles in this list - all of the Evil Empire ones are just relentless beasts on record (well, not "Year of tha Boomerang," but I have no memory of that even being a single). I'm gonna give it to "No Shelter" actually, which is pretty forgotten but I think does the best job of encapsulating their whole thing in one song, plus, I mean, it was on the fucking Godzilla soundtrack, an act of weird corporate synergy that de la Rocha tries to offset by hating on it in the lyrics. Good times.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
battle of los angeles is a tremendously underrated album.otm
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol i forgot they had a song called 'vietnow'
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
bulls
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"be yourself"
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Please tell me "How I Could Just Kill a Man" isn't a cover
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
my best friend in high school looooved these guys and so i associate them w/ like smoking in parking lots and high school roadtrips and just that weird aimless driving around you do when you first get a license & they always just rocked so hard cummin outta the ~killer~ stereo my friend put in the used camry his parents bought him, windows rolled down headbanging along like yeah fuck you, im no slave to yr corporate greed machines and i COULD just kill a mannnn
but honestly voting tom joad cuz its so overwrought and heavy and ballsout
― Lamp, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well there is clearly only one choice here. Every other song they ever wrote is a pale reflection of their magnificent first single.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Please tell me "How I Could Just Kill a Man" isn't a cover― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:34 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark
From their horrendously awful covers album, yes...
battle of los angeles is a tremendously underrated album.I feel the exact opposite about it.. It's the only one I ever see getting any credit, and to me it's the most derivative out of the three 90s records.. They sounded like the lost something exciting and gained something dreadful on those last 2 albums from 99 and 2000, foreshadowing the Audioslave disaster. Their image around the time of those 2 albums didn't help either.. YTimK .. the VMA's thing .. and those lame Michael Moore-directed videos - all of which charted on TRL .. They seemed to become a caricature.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
the guy only has one riffI disagree, but he sure loves Tony Iommi.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i still fuck with evil empire. they lost the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink song structures of the first record but still had ideas. it's just a great-sounding record too, everything sounds really organic and big.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I used to hate these guys. Loved their politics, hated their music. Ham-fisted, comically overwrought, monochromatic. But I love Battle Of Los Angeles. They learned how to swing. Voted "Guerilla Radio."
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:17 (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
zorro de la rocha
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.
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
― 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
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
― 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
― 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
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