Rage Against The Machine

RATM, System and Public Enemy all sang about shit I still don't understand...

"What does the billboard say? Come and play, forget about the movement"  Huh?
"The gambucha mushroom people, sitting around all day.  Who can believe you, let your mother pray"  Sure...
"Laughing while they're searching for my 98"  I think he's talking about some test is the only thing I can come up with...

I wanna be Jackie Onassis

I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses...

Merkin Baller said:

I wanna be Jackie Onassis

I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses...

Their worst song in my opinion. Just awful. 

"Jackie O-Oh-Oh-Oh Please Don't Die!" 

I gave up on RATM after their debut, after which they should've just officially changed their band name to The Machine. 

Merkin Baller said:

Funny to see SOAD brought up in here...

Much like Rage, I absolutely loved their first two albums, and also just like Rage, I lost interest in them when their 3rd album came out.

Steal this Album was pretty awesome too and it came from those Toxicity sessions. Mesmerize and Hypnotize had some good songs, but not as solid as Toxicity. I still remember illegally downloading Sugar and being blown away by that song when I first heard it. So damn awesome and lyrically nonsensical at the same time. Another band that I really fell in love with at the same time was Incubus. They had the equally crazy lyrical song Take Me to Your Leader.

tbergs said:

Merkin Baller said:

Funny to see SOAD brought up in here...

Much like Rage, I absolutely loved their first two albums, and also just like Rage, I lost interest in them when their 3rd album came out.

Steal this Album was pretty awesome too and it came from those Toxicity sessions. Mesmerize and Hypnotize had some good songs, but not as solid as Toxicity. I still remember illegally downloading Sugar and being blown away by that song when I first heard it. So damn awesome and lyrically nonsensical at the same time. Another band that I really fell in love with at the same time was Incubus. They had the equally crazy lyrical song Take Me to Your Leader.

I did like a lot of Steal This Album... and the album w/ BYOB (Mesmerize) had some fantastic music and vocals, but I just couldn't take it seriously based on the lyrics, and eventually lost interest.

I gave the 4th studio album one or two listens, but that was it for me.

Back to Rage, if they were to do a NA tour next year, I might try to see them on the local stop for nostalgia's sake, but nothing will ever be as great as when I saw them with Wu Tang in '97. And I certainly wouldn't go out of my way or pay above face value for them.  

dankind said:

tempo_n_groove said:

RATM, System and Public Enemy all sang about shit I still don't understand...

"What does the billboard say? Come and play, forget about the movement"  Huh?
"The gambucha mushroom people, sitting around all day.  Who can believe you, let your mother pray"  Sure...
"Laughing while they're searching for my 98"  I think he's talking about some test is the only thing I can come up with...

Never got into SOAD, but RATM lyrics are about how corporations entice us to "play" so that we'll stick our heads in the sand and forget about all the hard work we have to do to achieve social justice (i.e., "the movement"); PE is about how the cops can't catch him in his Olds. Chuck loved his 98. Referenced it a lot. "My 98 was 87 on a record, yo. So now I go Bronco:"

Hold it, so he drove an 1987 98 oldsmobile and got rid of it for a bronco?  I always thought they were searching for a test score of 98, lol!!!!

As for RATM how about this And if the vibe was suicide, then you would push the button
But if you're bowin' down, then let me do the cuttin'  - First part is nuclear war?

tempo_n_groove said:

goldrush said:

tempo_n_groove said:

goldrush said:

vant0037 said:

Evil Empire is a top 5 rock album of all time and best in RATM catalogue, there I said it.

Evil Empire is definitely in the Top 4 RATM studio albums of all time, that's for sure...

They really only had 3... But I like what you tried to do there.

I was aiming for a polite way of saying that it’s my least favourite (including Renegades), but it’s still a great album 

You rank renegades above Evil?

Yep. Even though Bulls on Parade is one of my favourite Rage songs, I prefer Renegades as a whole

The Ghost of Tom Joad, best cover, ever.