― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I think most 'real' mc's are too laid back to do this sort of thing justice, which is what makes Zach so cool. I can't wait for Mos Def's rock album though.
― Jordan, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway, there are a couple of Rage songs I like OK (uhh, can't really remember how they go, but they probably sound pretty much like all the other ones) but the rapping is just too adolescent and silly. I really think they should hire Sammy Hagar to be their next singer. They DO get credit for understanding that the purpose of propaganda is not to preach to the like-minded. That a multiracial bunch of commies from LA -- the white-minority dystopia -- were able to draw a few million Johnny Rebels into their pit is success on some sort of practical level, so I'll give the fuckers a little red merit badge to hang next to their platinum records. Perhaps the next best thing to Ice T getting a full time gig with Slayer.
― Kris, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Clarke B., Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― briania, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Colin Meeder, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― adam, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dare, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
One can still think the 'system' is fucked, etc., without agreeing with Rage's cartoonish approach to things -- and if the argument is that being cartoonish is part of their appeal, I'll note that the band expressed support on stage for folks like the IRA Provos. For a band that claims awareness as part and parcel of their whole package to support *those* idiots is a sign, and not a good one.
Musically, enjoy what you like. Politically, it seems to me Rage is a band to grow out of rather than hold allegiance to.
RATM... I really liked them when I first heard "Killing (In The Name Of)". Then I heard everything else they did and got a severe case of the Creeping Horror. Getting rid of Zack is quite possibly the best thing they could have done as far as I'm concerned. As far as Tom Morello's talent is concerned... He seems talented enough, but I'd much rather talk to him than listen to him play.
― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Goes without saying, m'friend.
― nathalie, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ant, Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I really think they should hire Sammy Hagar to be their next singer.
Ask for Sammy, get Chris Cornell.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ant, Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
lawl the student who lives next door to me is trying out 'killing in the name of' on his/her 'axe'.
― banriquit, Thursday, 3 April 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
So, when is the Inside Out reunion again?
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 3 April 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure why I've decided to take this question seriously, but anyway...
S: "Freedom," "Down Rodeo," "The Ghost Of Tom Joad," the song from The Crow soundtrack
D: Most of Battle of LA (WAY overrated.. especially "Sleep Now In The Fire"), "Renegades Of Funk," the Cypress hill cover, most of the covers album
― billstevejim, Sunday, 6 April 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
people STILL give a shit about this band?!?
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 6 April 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I think that Battle of Los Angeles is a good album and I don't care who knows it
― paolo, Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
i am happier to hear rage than pretty much any other 90s mainstream rock band
― adam, Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
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*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Definitely one of the worst bands of all time.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Everyone I knew in high school that listened to RATM are Tories now
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
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."
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
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Quarter century later and I stand by it all.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
haha that's too good
― niels, Sunday, 15 October 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
http://www.brokker.jp/ratm/
― StanM, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Tw4qFlA3D/
El Paso, TX March 26, 2020Las Cruces, NM March 28, 2020Phoenix, AZ March 30, 2020Indio, CA April 10, 2020Indio, CA April 17, 2020
― StanM, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
coachella is p unwoke
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
this is kinda like the system of a down thing. only 5 shows finishing with a festival headliner. and both played phx... im in.
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I would def go if I lived near tx,nm,az
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Wonder if Beto's gonna sit in at the El Paso date?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
coachella's gonna be lit (i.e. Woodstock 99)
― DT, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
Search Urban Dance SquadDestroy RAGTM
― nathom, Saturday, 2 November 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link
This band has always been absolute shit and I can’t believe they’re being critically rehabilitated. Fucking revisionist history bullshit.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 November 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Another thing to blame the millenials for I guess.
Critics loved this band
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 2 November 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
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
Capsule history of Ned and RATM -- warm July night, 1992, some time before the first album came out.
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
nerd
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 13 September 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link