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

like a stone

I have very fond college memories of "Killing In The Name Of"

lol @ "year of that boomerang." thanking u firefox autocorrect.

i love "Guerrilla Radio" so much, in part because it boils down so much of what they do well into a fast three and a half minutes, without a big repetitive breakdown dragging out the end like most of their songs

i still love this band tbh and think battle of los angeles is a tremendously underrated album.

i remember when they made a video for "Freedom" and MTV made a big deal out of it and played it a lot, and it wasn't until years later that i realized that nobody really cares about that song and all that probably just happened because there wasn't a video for "Killing In The Name Of"

the few times i've heard "Down Rodeo" on the radio have made for good road rage moments

no pun intended

bulls on parade easily

i wont lie, i crank up the radio any time these guys come on

^^

the only things these guys did that I liked were "Killing in the Name Of" and "Renegades of Funk", otherwise I totally understand the scorn

fuck.. either Freedom or Tom Joad..

xp Renegades of Funk is bullshit

i don't like that ratm youtube hopping has led me to "nookie" but i understand.

Renegades of Funk is bullshit

― billstevejim, Monday, August 8, 2011 10:38 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm

tamtam otm; bulls on parade really is all you need

eh never liked that song. feels kind of leaden and like it's just alternating between 2 sections that aren't different enough.

killing in the name is all-time classic. nothing else they did even came close for me, though the first record is pretty solid all the way through.

it's very leaden. that's ratm!

xp i get that; i think i like leaden rage the best tho

actually damn i maybe could have voted for tom joad speaking of leaden

i like zippy RATM. "Guerrilla Radio" is like the perfect little Rage jingle, verse chorus verse chorus wheeoop wheeop guitar solo whispery part shouty part BOOM over.

re. leaden rage, these guys only had one "heavy" groove but it was a good one

thats why it always cracked me up whenever people praised morello... the guy only has one riff

yeah but riffs weren't his thing, his thing was SQUEEEEEOOOOOLOOOOOOSWEEEEEEEEEEPWEEEEEDEEEOOOODOOOOP

every rage against the machine guitar/bass riff ever: DOO DA DOO DA DOO DA DOOOOOOOOOOO, DOO DA DOO DA DOO DA DOO DUNNNNNNNNNNN

it really wasn't very shocking that the bassist turned out to be dumb enough to call himself "y tim k" and get arrested for climbing an mtv awards set

bulls on parade w/great fondness for freedom, bombtrack & guerilla radio

so disappointed "great fondness for freedom" isn't the title of a ratm deep cut

great fondness for freedom is a north korean ratm cover band

lol i had no idea until right now that sleazy from coil/throbbing gristle directed the "freedom" video

that's the video with neo flying into the sky in the matrix right

yeah but riffs weren't his thing, his thing was SQUEEEEEOOOOOLOOOOOOSWEEEEEEEEEEPWEEEEEDEEEOOOODOOOOP

― some dude, Monday, August 8, 2011 10:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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!"

man listening to this song for the first time in forever i am with some dude in that i am glad they progressively phased out the jam band "funk" breakdowns all over the first album

though i am uncomfortable with how much the breakdowns sound like the live breakdowns in fugazi songs from the same period where brendan and joe would just ride out for a while

BROTHA DID YOU FORGET YOUR NAME
DID YOU LOSE IT ON THE WALL PLAYIN' TIC TAC TOE
YO
CHECK THE DIAGONAL
THREE MILLION GONE
COME ON
CAUSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE COUNTING BACKWARDS TO ZERO

ENVIRONMENT
THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVEL
OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
FOR EXAMPLE
WHAT DOES THE BILLBOARD SAY?
COME AND PLAY AND PLAY
FORGET ABOUT THE MOVEMENT

THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEEDING ON THE LEVEL
OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

lol

the most 90s sentence ever uttered

you could think about that for the rest of your life and never come close to cracking what the hell dude thought he was actually talking about

it makes sense if you think about what the billboard says

isn't it "succeeding on the level of our unconsciousness," ie a line about marxist false consciousness?

are you telling me that metrolyrics.com fucked me over?

ie the billboard aids in the construction of a false "consciousness" that everything is ok and you should come and play and forget abt the movement

i mean i'm not defending ratm lyrics here i'm just sayin lol

of course if anyone could peer into the mind of de la rocha and make out the pattern it would be our hoos

"i read noam chomsky after a few monster bong rips: the complete rage against the machine lyrics"

haha

i love the way he angrily yells FOR EXAMPLE

down rodeo got robbed

YO IT'S TIME FOR RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:07 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

DUN DA DUN DA DA DUN DAAA DAAAAA

haha i lived and breathed the covers album during MY sixteenth year. loved the street fighting man cover tbh

yeah for w/e reason during my youth we jammed the covers album waaay more than any of the others, although the s/t is the one i own

still maintain that 'tom joad' is getting way undersold here

nahhh. strongo OTM.

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

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

― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 04:14 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah, burn piano island burn is the true rr masterpiece

― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, August 14, 2011 9:17 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

you know that, and i know that, but fake-ass ilm consensus as a whole would not favor blood brothers over at the drive-in, i'm afraid

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

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.