Rage against the Machine S/D

I think that Battle of Los Angeles is a good album and I don't care who knows it

i am happier to hear rage than pretty much any other 90s mainstream rock band

when i was a kid i was AFRAID of RATM! like people would wear their shirts and i'd think "i bet that band is too out of control for me. i like beethoven's Eroica symphony, and i'm too young and sheltered to even know what the word erotica means."

i'm not sure i ever heard "killing in the name of" until just now. it is flagrantly bad! if you just listen to the guitar riff and concentrate on it, it is unbelievably boring and tame and completely at odds with the lyrics.

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
*endless jam band slappy guitar riff plays in the corner of a coffeeshop in the 3rd largest collegetown in a state that has between 3 and 5 members in the house of representatives*

Definitely one of the worst bands of all time.

Everyone I knew in high school that listened to RATM are Tories now

Capsule history of Ned and RATM -- warm July night, 1992, some time before the first album came out.

FRIEND: "Come, Ned, let us go to this benefit with lots of bands on it. Rage Against the Machine are playing, and I have seen them and they are great. You will like them."

NED: "I trust you, friend."

[at show, RATM take the stage and the entire crowd goes nuts]

NED to self: "My friend alas lied. This is absolutely terrible jock rock pig-headed fucking crap."

loooool NED otm

Quarter century later and I stand by it all.

haha that's too good

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El Paso, TX March 26, 2020
Las Cruces, NM March 28, 2020
Phoenix, AZ March 30, 2020
Indio, CA April 10, 2020
Indio, CA April 17, 2020

coachella is p unwoke

this is kinda like the system of a down thing. only 5 shows finishing with a festival headliner. and both played phx... im in.

I would def go if I lived near tx,nm,az

Wonder if Beto's gonna sit in at the El Paso date?

coachella's gonna be lit (i.e. Woodstock 99)

Search Urban Dance Squad
Destroy RAGTM

This band has always been absolute shit and I can’t believe they’re being critically rehabilitated. Fucking revisionist history bullshit.

Another thing to blame the millenials for I guess.

Critics loved this band

I have no particular feelings about RATM but I enjoyed this video of a guy listening to killing in the name of for the first time.

You don't *need* to call me out, Jordan.

Capsule history of Ned and RATM -- warm July night, 1992, some time before the first album came out.

FRIEND: "Come, Ned, let us go to this benefit with lots of bands on it. Rage Against the Machine are playing, and I have seen them and they are great. You will like them."

NED: "I trust you, friend."

[at show, RATM take the stage and the entire crowd goes nuts]

NED to self: "My friend alas lied. This is absolutely terrible jock rock pig-headed fucking crap."

Further encounters with the group's work over time merely confirmed this. You are welcome to their idiocies. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, May 4, 2002 7:00 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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