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Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything
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#32Never understand how the Beastie Boys don't get more acknowledgement for contributing to the sound that RATM used.
Or Run DMC and Aerosmith with "Walk this way" produced by none other than Rick Rubin which role in the emergence of hip hop is extremely underated, as he one of the founder of most famous hip hop label, Def Jam.
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> Too bad that they went all political.
Since when have RATM ever been anything other than highly political?
Have you ever paid attention to their lyrics from back in the day?
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#34Caught them live a couple months ago at Madison Square Garden. I couldn't believe how good they sounded or how energetic they were. Zach had to sit down throughout the whole performance due to an injury, but it didn't bring down the intensity at all. And you'd have absolutely no idea Tom Morello was 58 years old. I found myself wondering how much better their shows could have been 30 years ago -- it didn't seem like they'd lost a single step.
Needless to say, it was well worth the price.
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#35Never understand how the Beastie Boys don't get more acknowledgement for contributing to the sound that RATM used.
The Beastie Boys were never out to change things. They wanted to have fun and gave us the best live performance of a one chord song ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA
>> The Beastie Boys were never out to change things
Musically there is pre-Paul's Boutique and post-Paul's Boutique.
They changed things. If you haven't listened to it for some reason, listen to it.
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#36Here's: "Killing In The Name" performed by The North Korean Military Chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcYS-_8L2s
My feelings are jumbled about this. They are playing it straight. And that audience.
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#37I'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 c…
They had a tremendous effect on many young peoples politics at the time. At least on my politics. That is much more than most political bands by a wide margin. Anyway, I don’t really think music can have a big effect on politics per se, but music can be important for political movements.
I do think music's effects are underappreciated.
You can hear about plenty of artists uniting or representing a movement in the USA esp 60s.
The story of Rodriguez is one of my favorites. He literally had no idea he had been the root of music for social change in Apartheid South Africa.
https://www.npr.org/2012/07/28/157478577/rodriguez-forgotten...
"The first white anti-Apartheid movement derived [inspiration] from a few rock bands," Bendjelloul explains. "Rodriguez was the first artist that actually had political content that was anti-establishment that got heard. ... By remote control, Rodriguez was actually changing a society."
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> I've got so many fragmented memories from early nineties parties fueled by moonshine that we bought from some shady russian rust bucket cargo ship down at the docks and by RATM played far too loud.
You should attend a Mogwai show. How loud they were was probably illegal in the country where I saw them.
"Killing in the name of" was very much political and extremely controversial.
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#40I'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 c…
These days they're doing what a lot of those 90s bands ended up doing: raging with the machine.
gotta sell tickets. Don't forget the merch!