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

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

xxxp my other talent show experiences:

- rapping "parents just dont understand" at the talent show in 3rd grade
- auditioning for the talent show in 4th grade with "blame it on the rain," not making the cut ;_;

"yr talent show experiences" could be its own thread

poor markers having to make the same weak joke twice

twice? twice?? for markers this is notably parsimonious

you're an idiot

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

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.

rage against the mayne-chine

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doggie.gif

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

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

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

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