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Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything

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Post by sdenton4 »

mcv wrote: post #166
sdenton4 wrote: post #148

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I really don't think gen-xers voting for Biden is in any way analysis to boomers voting for Reagan. I think this is the dominant sentiment on Biden: https://youtu.be/KGmXGkIr7w0 He's a stop gap against fascism.

If ever there was a song that truly captured political sentiment, it's that one. I fully support the stop gap against fascism, but it would be nice to have had better options available.

In the spaces I inhabit, people have pretty much given up on national politics as a theory-of-change and focused on state level politics. Hold your nose and vote the D to avoid fascist takeover, and then work on getting important changes where you can actually make a difference. The national level government is pretty broken, due to poor design which has given us gridlock and tyranny of the minority.

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Post by pictureofabear »

wefarrell wrote: post #171
hulitu wrote: post #164

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> Bush and Gore were not the same It's funny how, after those people come to power, you don't see any difference. At least from abroad.

Gore wouldn’t have invaded Iraq and would have made a much bigger push towards reducing carbon emissions.

You truly cannot prove that with any level of certainty.

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Post by mung »

nyokodo wrote: post #101
jvanderbot wrote: post #37

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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…

> artists uniting or representing a movement in the USA esp 60s. They sold music to the huge boomer population when they were young, by the 1980s those same Boomers voted for Reagan in considerable numbers and were buying Debbie Gibson and Rod Stewart albums. RATM sold music to pissed off GenXers when they were young, by 2020 they were voting for Biden. It’s not revolution, it’s youthful angst that gives way to respo…

I'm sorry, should they have voted for Trump instead? Those where the only real pragmatic choices. I'm not sure if the boomers listening to music with messages about political change are the same boomers who voted for Reagan. Those who want real change are always dwarfed by "moderate" status quo types, who are largely apolitical and uninformed and therefore easily swayed by fascist messages such is the fundamental nature of the average person throughout time. It takes effort and thought to remain progressive.

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Post by crtasm »

jansan wrote: post #26
type0 wrote: post #10

Here's: "Killing In The Name" performed by The North Korean Military Chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcYS-_8L2s

Thank you. I can now say with confidence that I have seen it all.

Not quite yet, the video is not real.

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Post by fsckboy »

nanidin wrote: post #121
soulofmischief wrote: post #68

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The San Andreas FM station wasn't baked in, unlike its predecessors. It featured dynamic playlists, randomized commercials, news and interview segments which reflected the progression of the game's arching plot and more. https://www.soundonsound.com/people/allan-walker-craig-conno... > In all the previous titles, each radio station was a loop of about an hour and a half with the adverts and the DJs all mixed in, so I…

To me, baked in means it is on the DVD and new content isn’t pulled from the internet. Dynamic selection of tracks and ads doesn’t seem to disqualify them from all being baked in.

to me, baked in means it's a purposeful feature of the software and part of the package you get, baked in during development just like baking a cake.

"in the new version, downloading radio from the internet was baked in, just as the jukebox music had been baked in to the previous version"

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Post by at-fates-hands »

acomjean wrote: post #147
ninjin wrote: post #145

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Body Count really was and is something special. I discovered them far later than I discovered Rage, but they really are putting out gems even now with “No Lives Matters” [1] in 2017 and their take on Ice-T’s “Colors” in 2020 [2]. Apparently there is a new album in the works and I certainly hope they will continue putting out excellent music and social commentary of a kind you otherwise would only see coming out of hi…

I discovered rage because they gave out tapes at a body count concert and a friend picked one up. Rage was the opening band. I have the original body count cd, I got on release day. They had one and they had to go looking for it in the back. I believe it was the same day as Bruce Springsteens double album. We saw Rage at UMass student Union ballroom and Body Count later that year at a club in Amherst. Those 90s had s…

>> Those 90s had some good shows.

Oh man you are so right.

Saw this at a small venue in North Dakota:

Danzig

With opening bands:

Marilyn Manson (and yes, he did drop trow about 3 min into their set. Hilariously my best friend called it before the show)

Korn

In Minneapolis at First Ave:

Fear Factory

With opening bands Hed(Pe)

Static X

System Of A Down

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Post by Sporktacular »

bentt wrote: post #62
Sporktacular wrote: post #53

Great band but these articles always need to talk up the originality or uniqueness of a given band when they just don't need to. Rage against the machine came at the right time, had/have great energy, technical skill, an important message etc. all of which make for a great piece. But mixing metal and hip hop in some new way? There were a dozen big name acts at the time doing exactly that.

In 1991? Who?

Mr. Bungle, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Faith No More.
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