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Morello nails it.... FTW
While I absolutely love RATM and ZACH, lyrical genius?
Sometimes he gets a little repe ive
I'm also of the opinion that Audioslave WERE good, and had some really good songs. But the first RATM album is a ing classic album, with some really inspired songs. Audioslave cant hold a candle to old RATM.
Also, have you guys seen this?
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Rage Against The Machine performed 'Killing In The Name' live on British radio this morning (December 17) - including full swearing in the chorus - as their Christmas Number One battle with The X Factor escalated.
Interviewed on BBC 5live, the band took the opportunity to criticise Simon Cowell before playing their song live down from the line from Los Angeles.
Despite being asked to perform a "radio edit", singer Zack de la Rocha slipped into the full " you I won't do what you tell me" lyrics, resulting in the station pulling the plug.
The band are currently the subject of a Facebook campaign to get their 1992 song to the Christmas Number One spot ahead of The X Factor winner Joe McElderry's 'The Climb'.
Speaking about the race, de la Rocha attacked Cowell, saying: "Simon is an interesting character. He seems to have profited greatly off humiliating people on live television and has a unique position of capturing the attention of people on television, but also the airwaves. We see this [campaign] as a necessary break of that control."
Meanwhile guitarist Tom Morello explained why the band had decided to back the fan-led campaign.
"People are tired of being spoon fed one schmaltzy ballad after another," he said. "They want to take back their own charts. We're honoured they've chosen our song to be the rebel anthem to topple The X Factor monopoly.
"People aren't buying 'Killing In The Name' to protest a record coming out on a major company. We wrote 'Killing In The Name' in a small industrial slum in Los Angeles. The X Factor song is written by a cabal of overpaid songwriters to shove the schmaltzy business down your throats. So there is two very different choices.
"The thing the listeners need to know is, it's a really close race and its a real liberating musical revolution and we’re honoured to be a part of it."
'Killing In The Name' recently became the bookies favourite to bag the Christmas Number One slot.
Simon Cowell has slammed the campaign, calling it "stupid", "cynical" and "very Scrooge". Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has publicly given the campaign his backing.
For more on The X Factor and its effect on British music, get the new issue of NME, on UK newsstands nationwide, for an exclusive interview with Cowell.
Morello nails it.... FTW
RATM got just as much, if not more, MTV play than Audioslave.
Rage was so interested in ing the system they join a major record label, release singles for radio and have their videos all over MTV.
They ed the system real good there.
destroying it from the inside, man
so true. but if i never heard them when i was a kid i would have never been turned on to artist that actually practice what they preach. like crass, rudimentry peni, conflict, aus rotten, immortal technique, well you get the idea. plus i probably wouldn't have heard of mumia abu jamal or leonard peltier until i hit college if it wasn't for them. so they maybe just cashing in on angst, but it does have its good points.Rage was so interested in ing the system they join a major record label, release singles for radio and have their videos all over MTV.
They ed the system real good there.
seriously lady do you flick the bean to pics of yourself or something? when did i ever try to shutdown anyone who had a valid opinon? you're en led to your own as well.............i just find it odd that some have so little of an actual life that they get off on just trying to bully people around in the internet, but hey whatever gets you off..........
I'm not sure Zack's lyrics should be compared to Dylan or anyone of the sort - his mission is not similar. I just think most people see RATM exactly as some here described them, encompassing proverbial 14 yr olds with anarchy shirts and I don't think that's what they wanted or even the fanbase Zack wanted. it's just like I said: most people jam RATM without actually trying to decipher what he's talking about.. that doesn't mean anyone in this thread did that, just saying.
I think the one post about him 'repeating himself' makes a misjudgment, because he's repeating himself for a reason. I've read interviews where he was disappointed with the fanbase, with their very lack of that understanding - the counterpoint is that there's nothing fantastically deep to his lyrics, but maybe that's the whole problem (or reason).
power is omnipresent. they were just trying to escape that network and... actually i dont know what im saying but they make good music
MDMA is a of a drug.
Get over it, you whiney got.
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