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

"yr talent show experiences" could be its own thread

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

poor markers having to make the same weak joke twice

twice? twice?? for markers this is notably parsimonious

― full on... mask hysteria (history mayne), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

you're an idiot

― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't give a shit that you don't like me, but stop turning up in every fucking thread to say something about me, no one cares

― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

My favorite 45 seconds are the start of Killing In the Name Of, but I don't like the rest of the song as much as I like the rest of Bulls on Parade or Renegades.

Bonus points for the Down Rodeo came on when I was driving back from Westwood to the apartment I lived in on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, and I detoured down Rodeo Dr. and turned the radio all the way up for fun. Even though mostly it reminded me that the most of the wealthy people one sees on Rodeo Drive are not exactly the grandchildren of slaveholders.

― C-L, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

rage against the mayne-chine

― buzza, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

― full on... mask hysteria (history mayne), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

guys, a rage against the machine thread is no place for taking a stand or making a point.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

markers generally thought we were cool, i didn't think that was a real hard diss anyway, but i guess we are not.

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, we're fine -- apologies for overreacting, just getting tired of getting called out all the time

― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

but i do deserve some of it and should be posting less and will post less

― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm cool nbd, thx

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yo, it's time for reconciliation.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Bullet in the Head. The way it builds is ludicrously exciting. Amazing that they pretty much had the whole album written and recorded within a few weeks of getting together. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Admire No Shelter for it's shitting-where-you-eat lyric and video.

― Now he's doing horse (DL), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

but i do deserve some of it and should be posting less and will post less

― markers, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i'd rather you post differently than post less fwiw

also sorry but i had to sb you for sb'ing m@tt, you don't go against the family

― some dude, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"yr talent show experiences" could be its own thread

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

ha i have both my anecdotes all lined up

― some dude, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

rage were hella corny and one dimensional but i'll be damned if any band in the 90's as popular as they were did big dumb undeniable riffs as well as they did.

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

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 8:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm

― thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

otm^

but TESTIFY is the only jam i fully LOVE

lol michael moore video

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

its just got the perfect groove... i wanna go off-roading while drinking canned beer and screaming "wooooooooohhh!" whenever i listen to it

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

the s/t was one of the first cds i ever bought, i blasted the shit out of it on my discman, gotta go with bombtrack here

― max, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

those songs still pop into my head unbidden at random moments

― max, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have to say, few major selling bands of the era had such a high level of WTFness about them. Case in point, how they turned de la Rocha losing his voice before a gig into this NSFW and rather embarrassing photo-op.*

*Don't click on this. Really.

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rise Against have picked up the mantle of 'popular radio band with strident politics and humorless frontman and heavyhanded statement videos with the word against in their name' but it's just nto as much fun because there's no rapping or woop woop guiturntablism

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:40 (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 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha otm this is the first thing i always think about if i think about RATM

i remember 'evil empire' being very well-produced

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm trigger happy with my MOR '90s threads, don't make me do a Brendan O'Brien production poll

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^would vote

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^as would I, but for Mirror Ball and not for the execrable production job on Black Ice.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

do a ross robinson one

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:12 (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 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

come on, man. we live in a post-markers world now.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Brendan O'Bririen! Damn I was trying to remember which ubiquitous 90s rock producer did EE.

― lol is not enough (blank), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

an albini RATM album would be legendary

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

now there's a ratm album i would actually buy

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

totally otm about morello the so called guitar "genius", esp cuz most of the time it's like some dumb pedal setting he's using to make the wacky sound, those whammy pitch shifter deals and all that

great mosh pit riffer tho

― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

i wonder what has happened to whammy pedal sales since dimebag, morello, and the guys for korn are no longer popular and/or alive.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

thank this thing in part for a generation of shitty guitar playing.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, we're fine -- apologies for overreacting, just getting tired of getting called out all the time

― markers, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

dont shitpost if you dont want nasty reactions. people are just recoiling at/gagging on the pungent turdsmell that your posts have created - i for one really didnt appreciate your contentless audioslave posting in a very serious rage against the machine thread

sorry for derailing again, i just felt like this was an important 'teaching moment' for markers

anyway, thread's made me reevaluate a few of these. i think i leapt for bulls because its the one i hear on the radio most and probably the one that puts me in a state of maximum stokedness when im driving, but a lot of these are pretty rockin' & cool.

my fav ratm deep cut is 'Revolver' btw

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

BTW, and I feel like I've posted about this on ILX before but I can't find it, so: In the same vein as "yo it's time for Rage," a high school friend and I spent a few math study hall sessions working out the details of Roman Empire, a historical edutainment album born the day we learned about the Egypt-raiding "People of the Sea" in 10th grade history. Obviously, the "People of the Sun" variation was just around the corner. Other hits: "Revolver" became "Republic," "Tire Me" became "Ptolemy," and of course "Bulls on Parade" became "Byzantium." Will post what I can remember of the POTS lyrics if y'all care!

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

please do

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 13:35 (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