I need to vent a little

LaFours

So after looking at the post on this IS Severed Hand in a Honda Commercial?
I was thinking about the bigger issue....music today has become so homogenized that we can't decipher the original from the copycats. Long gone are the originators that had something to say. You look at what's in the Billboard top 5 and it's all shite. Even in rock today where the hell are the people that make us feel something. For me music, real music isn't just something you listen to, it moves you.
I mean if someone tells me they get a chill when listening to say Nickleback or Godsmack(way to sulley a great bands song), fine, I'll say they're lying. Now some tunes today do have a catchiness to them, but hell if you can play a guitar you can play a hook.
Someone posted about RATM, man I miss those guys. Sure their message was overt but when you heard them you KNEW how they felt not only in the lyrics, but the beats, Morrello's playing, hell the name itself...no now we get the watered down version of two seminal bands that has no real focus, each album is all over the place.
Allright I'm getting off my soapbox.

catefrances

the minute i hear a rage against the machine song appropriated by the advertising industry to sell product, is the minute i stop listening to music.

trappedinmyradio

catefrances wrote:

the minute i hear a rage against the machine song appropriated by the advertising industry to sell product, is the minute i stop listening to music.

why? what if that advertisement is to promote alternative fuels?

catefrances

trappedinmyradio wrote:

why? what if that advertisement is to promote alternative fuels?

can't imagine the RATM song that could be used in that manner. their songs are fairly issue specific.

Binaural

catefrances wrote:

can't imagine the RATM song that could be used in that manner. their songs are fairly issue specific.

I know but corporate idiots still manage to fuck up. I mean how did the Godzilla guy's miss the lyrics to No Shelter?

No Shelter

The main attraction - distraction
got ya number than number than numb
Empty your pockets son; they got you thinkin that
What you need is what they sellin
Make you think that buyin is rebellin
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be no shelter here
Speilberg the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered and tarred
Memory erased, burned and scarred
Trade in your history for a VCR

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

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

Hospitals not profitful
The market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View the world from American eyes
The poor adore keep fiendin for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla pure muthafuckin filler
Get 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

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

American eyes, American eyes....
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin behind

Just stare
Relive the nightmare










PEACE

catefrances

Binaural wrote:

I know but corporate idiots still manage to fuck up. I mean how did the Godzilla guy's miss the lyrics to No Shelter?

No Shelter

The main attraction - distraction
got ya number than number than numb
Empty your pockets son; they got you thinkin that
What you need is what they sellin
Make you think that buyin is rebellin
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be no shelter here
Speilberg the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered and tarred
Memory erased, burned and scarred
Trade in your history for a VCR

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

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

Hospitals not profitful
The market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View the world from American eyes
The poor adore keep fiendin for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla pure muthafuckin filler
Get 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

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

American eyes, American eyes....
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin behind

Just stare
Relive the nightmare










PEACE

tell me about it.

And Godzilla pure muthafuckin filler
Get your eyes off the real killer

my fave lyrics in that song.

i sat through two matrix films just to hear RATM.