pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

corporate rock RAtM = does not compute

yea dude they hung american flags upside down on snl

never listened to Rage outside of videos on TV. we had a Rage fan in high school, she had dreadlocks and Che Guevara shirts and stuff, and she was cool. i remember their music videos, they played alot on MTV and The Box when that was the Over-The-Air alternative. at one point i would see "Guerrilla Radio" every morning before high school.

this was one of those bands you would find their t-shirts at Hot Topic and stuff. i think it's cool that a band was politically active back then, imo there was a lot of cultural complacency. i dont think you can deny they were good performers and the guitarist was always doing cool stuff. i did like their funkier material (in this way they seem akin to RHCP).

fuck pitchfork for their Stereolab "Cobra" review.

xp there is literally a wiki about this topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_and_activism_of_Rage_Against_the_Machine

I mean, you know this is going like, "Wow, Daft Punk sucks this reminds me of Deadmau5 or something"

the reason i brought up fly/sugar ray in comparison to killing in the name of/ratm is because i think the guitar riffs are roughly equal in intensity. it's just that one is supposed to be the peak of a song to mosh to in 1992, while the other is meant to meant to provide a calming listening experience while looking for a scarf in a department store.

karl you're implying lenny kravitz doesn't have riffs. or was that sugar ray? song has riffs. or at least a riff.

sugar ray! i didn't mean to imply that the songs don't have riffs. both songs definitely have riffs! maybe they really get you going, i don't know. to me, they seriously bring me back to high school days, listening to a guitarist play the same slappy part on a 10-watt amp in an adjacent practice room.

adam otm re Cobra the best stereolab album

damn y'all sure are owning the shit out of an 18-year-old brent dicrescenzo review. shame on you pitchfork

i gave rage legitimate props for introducing radical leftist politics to me as a teenager and thousands of other teenagers. even that fold-out CD insert just showing a bunch of radical books in evil empire had an influence on things i read and discovered as a teenager. seeing a brown frontman and a black guitar player in a popular rock band also was inspiring to this latino kid living in white suburbia. they were easily my favorite band as a teenager.

some of their sounds are good, i think evil empire especially, prob their best record

but they are also bad and many of their lyrics and riffs are terrible and embarrassing

http://shamebell.com/

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me - I'm going to my room!"

i literally did this! my dad came in and took the cd out of the player and broke it.

What an asshole! You should run away

That's so awesome.

Thank goodness teenagers have streaming these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrb5AGizjoY

the need to rage against the machine has been nullified by our internet overlords

They're the Banksy of music

well, once raged-against, the machine started giving us free music so we became bros with it

I caught a set yesterday by a dubstep dj/producer named Rezz and the highlight was her remix of "Killing in the Name", so clearly they are still relevant

Yeah, seriously, RATM were a joke from the moment I first heard them. "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me - I'm going to my room!"

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how is this not a Turrican post

At a 1993 Lollapalooza appearance in Philadelphia, the band stood onstage naked for 15 minutes with duct tape on their mouths and the letters PMRC painted on their chests in protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center. Refusing to play, they stood in silence with the sound emitted being only audio feedback from Morello and Commerford's guitars. The band later played a free show for disappointed fans.

otm

RATM are one of these bands I dislike in theory but then when I hear them, they def got the head nodding beats and riff

they are completely ridiculous but also sort of amazing for how dumb and ludicrous and shameless the whole thing is

(full disclosure: i wore a parental advisory warning tshirt from like 1992 to 1996 until it fell apart)

Oh hell yeah, was gonna say that stunt will forever make rage CLASSIC

Xp Nevermind & Rage s/t we're recorded at the same studio lol

xp didn't see the previous posts, so i assumed the stunt you were talking about was when the bass player climbed the set of the VMAs and wouldn't come down.

hey, that stunt ended hunger

https://i.imgur.com/Tvt18aI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dHlmGRM.png

I wish any VMAs moment from this decade was half as interesting as that one.

“Black Mirror” Season 4 Out Now on Netflix: Watch

Journalism lives

haha, this is the end

finally a place where i can find netflix news

It's like an episode of Black Mirror, right

what if yer music site was part of a multimedia conglomerate

For like 1 full second I thought that was a joke post.

It’s a miracle Pitchfork managed to ascend to what it is now. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7618-come-pick-me-up/

Shit, cat

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-blue-nile-hats/

Oh my god this review is beautiful

that's a really great review, except the score is too low

i actually blurted out "what the fuck" when I first saw it but complaining about a pitchfork score just feels so trite

though a higher score could've gotten more people to check them out :(

Good review. Does seem a weirdly conservative score.

I blurted out "wtf" but only cause they didn't assign it to brad

Hmm. Never really thought of Nile Rodgers when I listen to the Blue Nile.

Who is responsible for the last few years of millennial interest in/knowledge of the Blue Nile?

Like I def lived through the Hats era of MTV and the first time I remember hearing their name was via J0rdan S.

the 1979 def helped

The Blue Nile are to Millenials what Talk Talk were to my generation

I don’t know how or why but it’s most jazz school grads around age 30 I know who listen to them, take cues from them

Who is going to be the aging No Doubt type band that scores a huge hit covering a Blue Nile song?