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

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

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

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 riff
I 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

KOOWITITNAHH

― 5ish finkel (goole), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

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― 5ish finkel (goole), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

As much as I love the first album, "bulls" is totally the perfection of that sound. Best riff too.

― lol is not enough (blank), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

I never got into most of the rest of evil empire, though

― lol is not enough (blank), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

hardcore-ish riffs with breakdowns was a good look for them, instead of the other way around:

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp markers, you like that song, dont you...

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

first two records are still awesome. i wish i had them to listen to right now.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

poor markers having to make the same weak joke twice

i gotta say, guerilla radio, but lots of these are pretty awesome.

this is the ultimate band ppl diss but like tamtam said if the shit comes on your local active rock station you can't front on it

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

by which i mean

bow wow...bow wow...chikka chikka chikka...bow wow...bow wow...COME WIDDIT NOW!

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

The s/t album.. You just had to lol with delight the first time you heard badass "bombtrack" kick into gear.

― lol is not enough (blank), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I gotta admit, if there actually had been a mass youth revolution against global capital in the late '90s, Rage would have made a kick ass soundtrack for it, no pussyfooting around with these guys. "ALL! HELL! CAN'T STOP US NOW!" vs. "I'd like to teach the world to sing..." etc.

Also, when I first heard it, was convinced the title line in "Bulls on Parade" was "Yo, it's time for rage!"

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

i've thought about making this poll so many times over the past few years but the thought of it becoming a two horse race between "Killing" and "Bulls" just depressed me so i didn't bother

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

omg "yo it's time for rage" is amazing

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm gonna say that every time i sing along now

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

totally

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

IT'S TIME FOR RAGE

DUN DA DUN DA DAAA DUN DA DA

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

thakig u

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

bulls on parade or bombtrack

― 69, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

yo it's time for rage or bombtrack

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

my high school band performed "yellow ledbetter" by pearl jam and "killing in the name of" at our senior year talent show.

― 69, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol up until "talent show" I was all "okay that is a bad-ass marching band"

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:57 (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