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

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

I wasnt't 6 but yeah, Bulls was the first Rage i ever heard and it totally blew my 10th grade MTV mind.

YO IT'S TIME FOR RAGE

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

"Bulls" beating "Killing" is an unjustice so great i want to write a fiery rap rock anthem in protest

OTM!

doont doont doont DUNT DUNT DUNT doont doont doont DUNT DUNT DUNT

<3 you guys

dunno if this has made the rounds on here but it's probably the greatest RATM related thing ever:

http://tindeck.com/listen/4n8l5

yo it's time for rage

Sometimes, RATM is the only thing that satisfies.

fuck u i won't do what u tell me

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pugAklByimc/SOUWsVu2_qI/AAAAAAAAA4U/YcO0AhwYvzQ/s400/nader.jpg

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, August 8, 2011 10:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ burned into my brain, will never again hear this song without picturing this exact nader.jpg

Am I alone in thinking Rage were one of the worst bands of all time?

i gotta say this is hitting the spot tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDszr6A8tas

or as i said before:

DUN DA DUN DA DA DUN DAAA DAAAAA

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, August 14, 2011

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, Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:08 PM

Am I the only one who wants to know what Aquaman was playing? He's got a harpoon for an arm.

Am I alone in thinking Rage were one of the worst bands of all time?

aw c'mon mr snrub, have you never attended a "local music" show? nobody has ever heard of the worst band of all time. any band that can manage to have any number of actual fans is well, well ahead of the pack...

what does ilm think about prophets of rage?

Would have voted for 'Sleep Now In The Fire'

Just had to go and watch the video again, because I haven't seen it for years... is that someone holding up a "Trump For President" sign at 1:04 !?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI

Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he's got a dope pair of Nikes on
Godzilla, pure mothafuckin' filler
Keep your eyes off the real killer
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture, Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin' for
The thin line between entertainment and war

i know these guys are kind of easy to clown on but these are some pretty awesome anti-capitalist, Seattle '99 type lyrics that they somehow got onto the platinum-certified soundtrack of a $150 million dollar Godzilla movie. that kind of trojan-horse corporate subversion thing shows its weaknesses a lot more in 2020 than it did in 1998 but it's still p cool they did that imho. i mean if they just wanted the paycheck they could have just rapped about special effects and the terrible chemistry between Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo.

i do not find it easy to clown on rage. i listened to all three records yesterday and they undeniably rock

would've voted for "down rodeo"

Yeah, idk why ppl clown on Rage

either drop the hits like De La O
or get the fuck off the commode, son

agree, i love all three albums. and the covers album still rips, maybe my fave

yo it's time for reevaluation

also i am happily imagining that Brad's revive here is in some sense Matrix-related

seems like most the hate i see around ratm revolves around killing in the name

idk why anyone hates on it
it GOES

"Renegades of Funk" totally passed me by. I wasn't a fan of that covers album, but it does seem like the highlight, one of the few that successfully rearranges the song...I have to say it kind of remind me of a meowing cartoon cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXdU3cZbNQ

I like Bulls on Parade but how KITN didn't win this easily is anyone's guess

lol "meowing cartoon cat," absolutely

I can tell you guys why I clown on this band… namely, cuz Tom Morello continued to be associated with Sony Music well into the 00s, when, if his band's ideology was to be worth more than a fuckin' plugged nickel, they could quite easily have affiliated with…I dunno… Am Rep or Touch and Go, or probly the best fit would be Alternative Tentacles after making an impact on Sony… if one wishes to speak truth to corporate power, then one should not be involved with a multinational at any level, particularly after one has the ability to extricate oneself legally as such, as surely Morello did… I won't put de la Rocha in the same category, as he doesn't seem to be interested in operating as a big time rock star in the music business, as the inveterate schmoozer Morello does… perhaps dlR is involved in grass roots organizing? he stays out of sight in any case… I also wouldn't put the rhythm section therein either, as those guys seem to be most interested in sustaining a big band lifestyle and thus do not seem to exactly be Chomskyites…

I expressed this concern to Morello once, and he replied with the old "if one kid gets into leftist activism because of my band's advocacy, then it will be worth it" routine. I think that's self-serving bullshit… there may be some committed leftist activists because of this band, but there is also Paul Ryan, surely not a few 1/6/21 revolutionaries who get pumped to that song and vast misappropriation at all levels for 27 years.

that song = fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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.

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

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