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

the most 90s sentence ever uttered

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

it makes sense if you think about what the billboard says

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

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

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

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

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

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

haha

i love the way he angrily yells FOR EXAMPLE

guy had one of the great collection of ad lib grunts and unghs and YEAHS! for sure

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEoesmnYU4&ob=av3n

battle of los angeles is a tremendously underrated album.
otm

lol i forgot they had a song called 'vietnow'

bulls

"be yourself"

Please tell me "How I Could Just Kill a Man" isn't a cover

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

Well there is clearly only one choice here. Every other song they ever wrote is a pale reflection of their magnificent first single.

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.

the guy only has one riff
I disagree, but he sure loves Tony Iommi.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QU1nvuxaMA

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."

KOOWITITNAHH

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Everyone has the same hair in the crowd!
chris16durban 1 day ago 24
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the world is in dire need of new material by rage against the machine. the world screams ""revolution now!" & r.a.t.m. are able to give us the most perfect sound & content to support this need.

WHAT BETTER PLACE THAN HERE, WHAT BETTER TIME THAN NOW!

thumb up & repost this under each r.a.t.m. related video!
Feuerlighter 1 day ago 21

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

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

hardcore-ish riffs with breakdowns was a good look for them, instead of the other way around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXDoQiirPI

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

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

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

by which i mean

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

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

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!"

lol

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

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

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

totally

IT'S TIME FOR RAGE

DUN DA DUN DA DAAA DUN DA DA

thakig u

bulls on parade or bombtrack

yo it's time for rage or bombtrack

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

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

haha well it wouldnt be the first time rage's message had been "undermined" by being used to soundtrack a sporting event

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)

thanks for this? sb

capitalism! xp

My biggest problem with the band (besides its inadvertent mook-rock legacy) is that whenever I hear a song of theirs I'm digging, on the right day, in the right mood, and put on an album, I get pretty bored/exhausted after about three songs. I get it, but I don't really want it, and do think Morello is some sort of cornpone poseur, well-intentioned or not.

I do often wonder what ZdlR is doing on a random Tuesday.

xxxp I still enjoy a good bit of their stuff, but veronica moser is so not wrong too.

xxp and this too. They are good in small doses - I eventually sold the three albums I had and made a "best of" for myself.

purity discourse around this band is exhausting.

yet-you-participate-in-society-curious.jpg

morello having an NYT column about being a 'rebel' is pretty funny

That said, I've had "Sleep Now In the Fire" stuck in my head a surprising number of times.

map otm

I do often wonder what ZdlR is doing on a random Tuesday.

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this. and people have been saying it since the first album.