Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything
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#2RATM's first public show in 91: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMq-qAn3otE
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#3I've been a huge fan of RATM since the early 90s, but I don't think that "A brand new band mixing metal and hip hop like no one had done before" is quite true. My understanding is that the music scene in LA had a lot of bands like this. I believe the band Downset pre-dates them, and they had a big hit called "Anger".
I only wish they had a bigger impact in politics. For all of their incredible songs, almost nothing came of it, besides the famous protest of the DNC conference in LA. I wish they had more impact especially during the Bush years, when we really needed an anti-government voice, but it never came to be, unfortunately.
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#4And then Rage Against the Machine's sound in the GTA San Andreas soundtrack changed everything again.
Combining an open world game and a flight-simulator together with baked-in FM radio stations was literally the best thing to ever happen to gaming.
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#6Never understand how the Beastie Boys don't get more acknowledgement for contributing to the sound that RATM used.
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#7Funny how fame changes people.
Started out as a gang of activists, rapping about social justice and all the equality stuff - ended up throwing tantrums for not receiving special treatment for being rock stars:
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/tom_...
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It was always political. The lyrics didn’t change.
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#9Funny how fame changes people. Started out as a gang of activists, rapping about social justice and all the equality stuff - ended up throwing tantrums for not receiving special treatment for being rock stars: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/tom_...
I always thought Zach was the one who believed in activism the most.
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#10Here's: "Killing In The Name" performed by The North Korean Military Chorus