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

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

i'm cool nbd, thx

Yo, it's time for reconciliation.

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.

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

"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

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

otm^

but TESTIFY is the only jam i fully LOVE

lol michael moore video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0

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

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

those songs still pop into my head unbidden at random moments

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.

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

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

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

^^^would vote

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

do a ross robinson one

i would never start an ILM poll that at the drive-in would win

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

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