What is the best line in Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine?

what about "anger is a gift"

sorry that's a different song

Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!

i expected this to be the only poll option

i think that one might get my vote but it's too close to call at the moment.

incredibly awkward word choice and forced rhyme of "were forces" line FTW

I like "Motherfuckerrrrr!" myself.

Some of those that were forces are the same that bore crosses

i always heard this as 'some of those (that? the?) law enforcers are the same that burn crosses.' clunks either way.

Some of those that work forces
are the same that burn crosses. Uggh!

from sing365.
this song would be a great candidate for "don't forget the lyrics."

yeah, thats what i heard too. voted URGH!

i thought it was "wear farces"

http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~jlkuure/board/anger_is_a_gift.jpg

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" FTW. "political" "commentary" re-imagined as an adolescent tantruming because he's been told to tidy his bedroom.

spoken like a true mod.

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lol j/k.

"Fuck you I'm going to engage in the mature consensus politics which has served America's poor and disenfranchised so well up to this point".

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" FTW. "political" "commentary" re-imagined as an adolescent tantruming because he's been told to tidy his bedroom.

-- Pashmina, Monday, April 14, 2008 5:13 PM (13 minutes ago)

I think I read this in Spin a few years ago.

I think I read this in Spin a few years ago.

Faced! :( (I never read spin in my life! yr probably right though)

tho I think they had the equation the other way around as a comment on the banality of the band's politics

Some of those that were forces are the same that bore crosses

I'm pretty sure this is actually "burned crosses" in the song, not "bore crosses"

"Teenager's whiny tantrum unduly given the weight of a political rallying cry" or something

xp yeah latebloomer correct

it's OK, Pashmina, I think I saw HOOS's Spin zing in an old dylannn post.

Wasn't even a zing! Just a comment.

it's already been determined that hoozings are nonstarters where you been at

URGH

Dude can't pull of slant rhyme worth shit, and yet he never stops trying.

I used to hate this track for that specific reason (whiny adolescent-ness), but I kind of like it a little bit now thanks to GTA:San Andreas, it worked very well when you were doing the car races. Fuck if I'd ever listen to it in any other context.

I could never take the band's guitarist, or the band's politics seriously after reading him propping the shining path in some guitarist rag in the 1990s. WTF, dude.

URGH
MOTHER FUCKERRRRRR

this song is fun to play on guitar

I think Zach (Zack?) just needs a big old hug, like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

i like his playing.

xp

yeah pash but weren't a whole lot of misinformed radicals biggin up shining path in the early 90s? xxp

"Fuck you, I won't tidy my bedroom."

Things I have enjoyed immensely, part 45893: Catholic church wedding in rural Donegal, hymns in Irish and epic sermon to please bride's strict traditionalist family members, trek out to expensive marquee (inc. chandeliers!) in garden of their family home (no guests inside house please) where polite meals are eaten and many carefully uncontroversial speeches given, duo plays traditional Irish music quietly while dining tables are removed and the groom's friend's rock band sets up, launches into first song which is a cover of this - hair and sweat everywhere, all non-family attendees slamming into each other shouting MOTHERFUCKARHGHHHHH

A shining path shows us the way to vote.

Haha, it's funny that 15 years after the song was released people still don't what's the correct transcription of the lyrics. And what the hell is that "chosen one/white" part even supposed to mean?

Rebecca, I played it when I DJed a friend's wedding last year. IT went down a storm :)

Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!

i expected this to be the only poll option

-- Jordan, Monday, April 14, 2008 11:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I expected this to be several poll options.

(I voted for "Motherfucker!")

Why is this in ILE?

(setting myself up for 'it's not music' zing?)

"Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" = some cops are also KKK members. Right?

i thought this was about KKK and i thought for a while the other bit was "those who died are justified for wearing a badge and your clothes in white" as in like white KKK gear.

but then i also thought it was "your trojan wife" which makes no sense

Bloody Helen of Troy causing trouble again

aren't the lyrics printed in the liner notes? (yes i loved this album as a young teenager)

No, for some reason the album sleeve has lyrics for all the other songs except this one.

ICE KREAM KOAN

I remember them playing at the Big Day Out in Adelaide years ago, doing this song, and being amused by Zac(h?) deDoodaa telling the crowd the sing along with the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" bit, and them all doing it, all without any sense of irony.

they're all just victims of the in-house drive by
he says jump and they say how high

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/08/fondue_lifeofbrian_wideweb__470x318,0.jpg
-You are all individuals
-WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS
..
-I'm not.

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UNNNNGGGHHH!

Motherfucker!

I think someone cut out the wheedly-wheedly guitar solos out of this mp3 I downloaded

This is way less energetic than I remember. Did they get funkier over time?

oh wait, no, there's the wheedly-wheedly-weeeeeeee

motherjumper

i always clown on Rage but then i hear like "wow wow...wow wow...wocka wocka wocka...wow wow....wow wow....COME WITH IT NOW!" and secretly get all crunk.

I thought he was saying "QU-IT IT NOW!"

guys you should see the sheet music for this album

i always clown on Rage but then i hear like "wow wow...wow wow...wocka wocka wocka...wow wow....wow wow....COME WITH IT NOW!" and secretly get all crunk.

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, April 28, 2008 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

hahaha srsly. they're kinda one dimensional but i can't bring myself to hate em. evil empire is an underrated album.

My favourite line is "Bruno Brookes, you're fired" after he absent-mindedly played the uncensored version on the Top 40 show.

Glad not to be the only one with an insane Rage love/hate dichotomy. I was going to vote for the burn crosses line but apparently I've been mishearing it for like 10 years. What the hell I'll still vote for it.

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Urgh!

I kind of miss music trying really hard to be political but coming off all retarded... At least Rage inspired something in a generation of teens despite their "tear your posters off your walls in a fit of adolescent stroppiness". That whole thing seems to have disappeared in music now and has been replaced by... well I dunno, nothing really.

Emo I suppose, but there are hardly any politics in Emo really.

You know, Facebook page/group, 400,000 members, um.. could this happen?

Simon Cowell seems displeased, which seems to have fed the fire.

oops.

ha, what?

See ILM for related thread.

Fuk u I wont post what u tell me

So, does anyone still know what the correct lyrics to this tune are? "Work forces" or "were forces"? "Bore crosses" or "burn crosses"? "Chosen ones" or "chosen whites"? And what does it all mean?

some of those what were horses are of those that ran courses.

those mince pies are justified

shagging a badger than your trojan wife

those who died are drawing flies
you're wearing a bath
you're the frozen kite

Can't believe this got any votes for anything besides the winner and 'Urgh!'