Fav lines from this: “Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war” “They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells”
In the fourth grade, the teacher told Zack to sit down and be quiet... He has been staging revolutions ever since. I may have made that story up, but I believe it anyway.
@@Onlyspaceman and after being denied a bathroom trip, zach used the plant in corner as a urinal while screaming at the teacher "i wont do what you tell me"
I know he got caught doing a pirate radio station in the '00s and I'd be surprised if there hasn't been more surveillance on him. The concert footage is from their performance at the Big Day Out festival in Australia.
“Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells” he is speaking about the military industrial complex which our country spends billions on while children go without food and clothing. Rage flew under the radar of the authorities in the 90’s. My personal opinion is that their fans were mainly white kids, and the band is made up of several different races. Mean time NWA ( all black group) was preaching a similar message and getting hassled by the cops every show …..why? A group of all black young men with a fan base of mainly black teens was challenging the powers that be. Rage was big in the early to mid 1990’s.
Rage Against the Machine made great music. I love Bombtrack and Down Rodeo. Some great grooves. Although sometimes they start with a great groove, then move to a new more up tempo part and never return to the original groove. You should also check out the live cover of Bulls On Parade by Denzel Curry. I appreciate the enthusiasm and energy he put into his performance. Definitely check out more Rage though...
Another great reaction to to the best rap-metal band of all time (lead by one of the best conscious rappers of all time - along with British rapper Akala). Zack’s rap style and lyrical approach was very much inspired by Chuck-D of Public Enemy. And Zack and Chuck collaborated a few times during Live shows. Then more recently the rest of the band were part of a ‘supergroup’ called ‘Prophets of Rage’ with Chuck-D and B-Real from Cypress Hill. Zack also did a track with one of his other old skool rap heroes, KRS-One from BDP, on a track called ‘C.I.A (Criminals In Action)’. You being born in 2000 makes me feel old man, lol. I still feel 25 but sometimes forget I’m 47 now. 😂
37 here. I still remember when I first heard RATM at 90s and said to myself 'wtf is that dude is spillin bars in guitar riff' and WTF with 'guiltar turn table?"
@@MrNerdyBrit I always called them “Rap-Metal” because that’s what everyone called them since they came out in the early 90’s. Tom Morello refereed to it as “Rap-Metal” in a Kerrang interview too. But like most decent artists they blend numerous music styles and genres, most notably Rap/Hip-Hop with metal, punk and funk.
@@RebornLeveller Yeah I get that, I know they get lumped in as Rap-Metal or even Nu-Metal (somehow), people seemed to have a hard time categorizing them.
This group is amazing. The band, minus Zak ,went on to be in Audioslave with Chris Cornell as the lead. You gotta check them out. Tom Morello is amazing in both groups.
If you're interested, after they broke up Zach had a (semi) solo project called One Day as a Lion that was pretty decent (very..lo-fi. Good but not as intense). He's also had some fairly well recognized shit with Run The Jewels (even though he was pretty much the chorus guy) and did some shit with DJ Shadow that was pretty cool. Famously, every other member of RATM founded Audioslave with the singer from Soungarden, and they were mostly pretty alright. Like A Stone and I Am The Highway are both pretty classic. They broke up too. They also formed a band with Chuck D called Prophets of Rage, bur they only lasted one album. Tom (the guitarist) is now mostly a pretty decent folk singer. His shirts good but nothing like Rage. As for the rhythm section, as far as I know their bassist retired after Prophets, and their drummer kinda settled in as a session artist.
Was lucky enough to have rage against the machine be my very first concert on their first album tour……then the crème de la crème!!…..rage with Wu tang!! It got no better than that for me 1996-1997
To answer your question, it has been confirmed that the FBI had an open file on Zach (their lead singer) They made live protest videos on their last album (Battle for LA). One of them was Sleep Now in the Fire (which I think paused the new York stock exchange) and guerilla radio which was in front of the democratic national convention (I may have those reversed) But yeah. You're right. They were absolutely on the governments radar. They made a point to be
Great reaction. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reacting to down rodeo, take the power back, know your enemy, and wake up all of those video with lyrics. Also, the music video for renegades of Funk is so good. There are so many others as well.
PLEASE REACT.... 1.SADE kiss of life (lovers live) 2.SADE nothing can come between us (live from san diego) 3.SADE no ordinary love (live video from san diego) 4.SADE cherish the day ( live 2011) 5.SADE sweetest taboo( live 2011) 6.SADE smooth operator (live video from san diego) 7.SADE paradise (live 2011)
Ummm... for a glimpse into their activism check out the song "Sleep Now in the Fire". "Rally Around the Family" was a slogan that was being used by politicians in the 90s to garner support for traditional American values. RAGE used it to point out the hypocrisy of them "caring about the people" yet they continue to spend an exorbitant amount of tax payer's money on the military industrial complex, instead of things like housing, food, clothing, education, etc. So they "rally around your family, with a pocket full of shells". The "bulls on parade" has multiple meanings, first and foremost the bull market aka the stock exchange where these kind of deals are made with company's like Lockheed Martin but also the colors red and black are traditionally the colors of the Anarchist Movement, so RAGE was trying to rally their own bulls to parade against the politicians. RATM wasn't just another band, they were a movement. ✊
Hi, don't know if any comment mentioned this but that song was written after a racist cop killing. Don't remember the name of the poor lad but maybe the most famous cop kill before Floyd. Peace all.
You asked if they ever came aftee him,, I dont think they came after him cause then it would all be so obvious, you know , if you make your statement this clear to the world, and have so many people who know you then all those people would understand very clear if something happened to him , and then shit would get really crazy. But then again i know way to little about the bandmembers personal life to say anything im just speculating here..
I hate to be one of those guys to admit this but... I was so into the beat, the tasty riffs and sounds of Tom... and Zachs intensity that I skipped over the profound and meaning behind the songs. RATM🤘🏽😎
So there’s a whole genre about reacting to rage and tool and others. What people want is your honest reaction but also they want your acknowledgment of the lyrics. React to the lyrics. What they mean to you. Yes the music too. But break down the lyrics. Just you like them isn’t enough.
Zack (Vocals) I believe studied History and Tom (Guitar) studied Political Science. They share Socialist/Communist views, so they are very much for the people.
@@LanceThompsonKssooner Some of it's core principles are to give more power to the working class through things such as public ownership of the means of production, much more ethical distribution of wealth and catering more to the material needs of the working class.
@MrNerdyBrit not sure why YT found it necessary to delete my reply. So here it is again...what you are so ignorantly describing is called slavery. I don't want to live at the level of the lowest bar set by people with your kind of thinking. If YOU want more. Get off your a$$ and go get it. There is nothing stopping you but your own whining.
@@MrNerdyBrit I guess I'm not allowed to tell you communism is bad because YT will use communist tactics (censorship) to make sure my comments are not seen.
Be careful when you say "fighting for the people." The imagery in this video harkens to Chinese Communist propaganda as well as Soviet propaganda videos. The big red flag flying over the monument is meant to recall the Soviet taking of the Berlin Parliament(?) building during World War II. The famous original film itself being staged. The red star insignia on the album cover(?) displayed at the beginning and end of the video is a dead giveaway along with all the red flags. Why is this a problem? Well, the Soviet Union went on to conduct purges that killed untold thousands and ethnic cleansing programs that resulted in 30 million dead amongst its own people. Mao's communist China policies added another 60 million dead through starvation alone. When you go this far to the left, it surpasses most people's tolerance for the minimums of basic humanity. And yet today there are still people who refuse to look at the destruction these ideologies caused. Recently the band broke up (as it had multiple times before) due to what the bass player called irreconcilable differences, politics being the only one he specifically referenced--as one might expect when dealing with people who hold such extremist views, which for many become uncompromising. I know you're probably not aware of the background to all this and why so many people refer to them as "controversial." Maybe someone else with better background knowledge could list some occurrences of institutional blow back from these views, but the only one I know of is just people expressing what I just did above. One thing young people today always get wrong is that somehow everything that occurred prior to them happened in a societal context something akin to the 1950s. The last elements of that sort of construct pretty much was dead by the early 70s and never came back. Nobody was censoring music by writ of any institution by then (unless you dive deep into conspiracies or some one-off occurrence that a person might suggest as being emblematic in any way of the times.) Aside from that, great music.
nah. You are TOTALLY missing it. This has to do with the Zapatista (google the flag) movement. De La Rocha comes from a long line of Mexican revolutionaries fighting for justice and Indigenous sovereignty. The lyrics in this song are pointing to the way in which the colonial governments historically and (currently) attempt to take down the family unit, as Indigenous stability is a direct threat to the colonial agenda.
Due to copyright blocks, I had to edit the video to be able to share with you all!
Rage won awards for this song “Best Live Performance” for Bulls on Parade
Fav lines from this: “Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war” “They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells”
In the fourth grade, the teacher told Zack to sit down and be quiet... He has been staging revolutions ever since. I may have made that story up, but I believe it anyway.
lmao, that's funny. A majority of it is probably due to his knowledge of history and politics.
I will continue this story
The oppression he felt from that day on was always unmatched... And it was because he needed to sharpen a pencil
@@Onlyspaceman and after being denied a bathroom trip, zach used the plant in corner as a urinal while screaming at the teacher "i wont do what you tell me"
It was a teacher that started his rage. Read up on it
I know he got caught doing a pirate radio station in the '00s and I'd be surprised if there hasn't been more surveillance on him.
The concert footage is from their performance at the Big Day Out festival in Australia.
Rage is the truth! Love the reactions!
Thank you!
I’ll say it once, and I’ll say it again Tom Morello plays his guitar 🎸 like it’s a turntable and it’s insane😅
“Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells” he is speaking about the military industrial complex which our country spends billions on while children go without food and clothing.
Rage flew under the radar of the authorities in the 90’s. My personal opinion is that their fans were mainly white kids, and the band is made up of several different races. Mean time NWA ( all black group) was preaching a similar message and getting hassled by the cops every show …..why? A group of all black young men with a fan base of mainly black teens was challenging the powers that be.
Rage was big in the early to mid 1990’s.
what I like so much about you....your fondness for rock is absolutely genuine! subbed!
Thank you!
Rage Against the Machine made great music. I love Bombtrack and Down Rodeo. Some great grooves. Although sometimes they start with a great groove, then move to a new more up tempo part and never return to the original groove. You should also check out the live cover of Bulls On Parade by Denzel Curry. I appreciate the enthusiasm and energy he put into his performance. Definitely check out more Rage though...
Another great reaction to to the best rap-metal band of all time (lead by one of the best conscious rappers of all time - along with British rapper Akala). Zack’s rap style and lyrical approach was very much inspired by Chuck-D of Public Enemy. And Zack and Chuck collaborated a few times during Live shows. Then more recently the rest of the band were part of a ‘supergroup’ called ‘Prophets of Rage’ with Chuck-D and B-Real from Cypress Hill. Zack also did a track with one of his other old skool rap heroes, KRS-One from BDP, on a track called ‘C.I.A (Criminals In Action)’.
You being born in 2000 makes me feel old man, lol. I still feel 25 but sometimes forget I’m 47 now. 😂
Try Down Rodeo. That one will have you shook.
Evil Empire is Rage's best album, full stop. Possibly in the top 10 albums of the 90s. Every song is amazeballs.
3:49 their entire discography was banned from radio after 2001.
Also check out official video of "sleep now in the fire" for more insight.
This song is so so so so applicable to the current US-funded atrocities in Gaza while Americans can't afford rent or medical care.
You should check out there song called freedom that’s my favourite song by them.
37 here. I still remember when I first heard RATM at 90s and said to myself 'wtf is that dude is spillin bars in guitar riff' and WTF with 'guiltar turn table?"
Fellow 37 yo, and same
Check out Bombtrack or Take the Power Back by them! Love your reactions man, nothing better than seeing a metalhead being born haha
I second those 2 recommendations. Both great tracks.
I wouldn't say Rage are Metal, they're much more Punk than anything, as that's one of Zack's biggest influences
@@MrNerdyBrit I always called them “Rap-Metal” because that’s what everyone called them since they came out in the early 90’s. Tom Morello refereed to it as “Rap-Metal” in a Kerrang interview too. But like most decent artists they blend numerous music styles and genres, most notably Rap/Hip-Hop with metal, punk and funk.
@@RebornLeveller Yeah I get that, I know they get lumped in as Rap-Metal or even Nu-Metal (somehow), people seemed to have a hard time categorizing them.
This group is amazing. The band, minus Zak ,went on to be in Audioslave with Chris Cornell as the lead. You gotta check them out. Tom Morello is amazing in both groups.
Sick video Bro!
My favorite from RATM is "Know Your Enemy"
Calm Like a Bomb and Down Rodeo🔥🤘☮️💜
Bro I’m binge watching…..you bringing banger after banger brother
Check out the video for Sleep Now in the Fire. They shut Wall Street down for the day and got arrested for playing there. It’s also great lyrically.
If you're interested, after they broke up Zach had a (semi) solo project called One Day as a Lion that was pretty decent (very..lo-fi. Good but not as intense). He's also had some fairly well recognized shit with Run The Jewels (even though he was pretty much the chorus guy) and did some shit with DJ Shadow that was pretty cool.
Famously, every other member of RATM founded Audioslave with the singer from Soungarden, and they were mostly pretty alright. Like A Stone and I Am The Highway are both pretty classic. They broke up too.
They also formed a band with Chuck D called Prophets of Rage, bur they only lasted one album.
Tom (the guitarist) is now mostly a pretty decent folk singer. His shirts good but nothing like Rage.
As for the rhythm section, as far as I know their bassist retired after Prophets, and their drummer kinda settled in as a session artist.
Was lucky enough to have rage against the machine be my very first concert on their first album tour……then the crème de la crème!!…..rage with Wu tang!! It got no better than that for me 1996-1997
Check out the video for Sleep Now in the Fire. You'll get an idea of what the govt and police thought about them
Testify Live. Amazing concert!
Great
Know your Enemy with Maynard from Tool!
To answer your question, it has been confirmed that the FBI had an open file on Zach (their lead singer)
They made live protest videos on their last album (Battle for LA). One of them was Sleep Now in the Fire (which I think paused the new York stock exchange) and guerilla radio which was in front of the democratic national convention (I may have those reversed)
But yeah. You're right. They were absolutely on the governments radar. They made a point to be
Zack be preaching!
Love your reactions, keep it up my man! A couple deep cut, off brand recommendations for you:
Skindred - Nobody
Tyr - Hold the Heathen Hammer High
Thank you and I’ll be happy to check those out!
🖤RATM!!!
Great reaction. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reacting to down rodeo, take the power back, know your enemy, and wake up all of those video with lyrics. Also, the music video for renegades of Funk is so good. There are so many others as well.
I’ll definitely add those to the list!
@@NatReacts_the music video for Renegades of Funk has a shortened version of the song so you should unfortunately avoid that one 😬😬
PLEASE REACT....
1.SADE kiss of life (lovers live)
2.SADE nothing can come between us (live from san diego)
3.SADE no ordinary love (live video from san diego)
4.SADE cherish the day ( live 2011)
5.SADE sweetest taboo( live 2011)
6.SADE smooth operator (live video from san diego)
7.SADE paradise (live 2011)
A band has never done so much with just two notes.
Ummm... for a glimpse into their activism check out the song "Sleep Now in the Fire". "Rally Around the Family" was a slogan that was being used by politicians in the 90s to garner support for traditional American values. RAGE used it to point out the hypocrisy of them "caring about the people" yet they continue to spend an exorbitant amount of tax payer's money on the military industrial complex, instead of things like housing, food, clothing, education, etc. So they "rally around your family, with a pocket full of shells". The "bulls on parade" has multiple meanings, first and foremost the bull market aka the stock exchange where these kind of deals are made with company's like Lockheed Martin but also the colors red and black are traditionally the colors of the Anarchist Movement, so RAGE was trying to rally their own bulls to parade against the politicians. RATM wasn't just another band, they were a movement. ✊
There’s plenty more bangers just like this one
They were public enemy #1
Hi, don't know if any comment mentioned this but that song was written after a racist cop killing. Don't remember the name of the poor lad but maybe the most famous cop kill before Floyd.
Peace all.
Zack went to Harvard. Prison song by System of a Down is the song you want.
Okay bet!
Great reaction! RATM is amazing. Maybe try Audioslave - Cochise or Show Me How to Live.
I'll check it out!
The rodney king riots in LA and the reaction of LAPD inspired some of their music. Hiw about Gorilla Radio?
You need to be watching the Live versions only.
I will from now on!
You asked if they ever came aftee him,, I dont think they came after him cause then it would all be so obvious, you know , if you make your statement this clear to the world, and have so many people who know you then all those people would understand very clear if something happened to him , and then shit would get really crazy. But then again i know way to little about the bandmembers personal life to say anything im just speculating here..
SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE!
It's their best video. Song is🔥(😜), but video is somethin else altogether.
I hate to be one of those guys to admit this but...
I was so into the beat, the tasty riffs and sounds of Tom... and Zachs intensity that I skipped over the profound and meaning behind the songs. RATM🤘🏽😎
So there’s a whole genre about reacting to rage and tool and others. What people want is your honest reaction but also they want your acknowledgment of the lyrics. React to the lyrics. What they mean to you. Yes the music too. But break down the lyrics. Just you like them isn’t enough.
Time for DOWN RODEO
RO-DE-O
@@JohnHull-hi9qk Aint seen a brown skin man since their grandparents bought one. RO DE O enough for you?
Try the band "Godsmack"
Zack (Vocals) I believe studied History and Tom (Guitar) studied Political Science. They share Socialist/Communist views, so they are very much for the people.
How is socialism/communism "for the people?"
@@LanceThompsonKssooner Some of it's core principles are to give more power to the working class through things such as public ownership of the means of production, much more ethical distribution of wealth and catering more to the material needs of the working class.
@@MrNerdyBrit it's called slavery
@MrNerdyBrit not sure why YT found it necessary to delete my reply. So here it is again...what you are so ignorantly describing is called slavery. I don't want to live at the level of the lowest bar set by people with your kind of thinking. If YOU want more. Get off your a$$ and go get it. There is nothing stopping you but your own whining.
@@MrNerdyBrit I guess I'm not allowed to tell you communism is bad because YT will use communist tactics (censorship) to make sure my comments are not seen.
Please react bring me the horizon
Next do Renegades of Funk by RATM
Not even close to their best song!!!
They're mid songs are better than most
Always be with God people second right
Best song? Nowhere near.
Its up there, lyrically.
Be careful when you say "fighting for the people." The imagery in this video harkens to Chinese Communist propaganda as well as Soviet propaganda videos. The big red flag flying over the monument is meant to recall the Soviet taking of the Berlin Parliament(?) building during World War II. The famous original film itself being staged. The red star insignia on the album cover(?) displayed at the beginning and end of the video is a dead giveaway along with all the red flags. Why is this a problem? Well, the Soviet Union went on to conduct purges that killed untold thousands and ethnic cleansing programs that resulted in 30 million dead amongst its own people. Mao's communist China policies added another 60 million dead through starvation alone. When you go this far to the left, it surpasses most people's tolerance for the minimums of basic humanity. And yet today there are still people who refuse to look at the destruction these ideologies caused.
Recently the band broke up (as it had multiple times before) due to what the bass player called irreconcilable differences, politics being the only one he specifically referenced--as one might expect when dealing with people who hold such extremist views, which for many become uncompromising. I know you're probably not aware of the background to all this and why so many people refer to them as "controversial." Maybe someone else with better background knowledge could list some occurrences of institutional blow back from these views, but the only one I know of is just people expressing what I just did above. One thing young people today always get wrong is that somehow everything that occurred prior to them happened in a societal context something akin to the 1950s. The last elements of that sort of construct pretty much was dead by the early 70s and never came back. Nobody was censoring music by writ of any institution by then (unless you dive deep into conspiracies or some one-off occurrence that a person might suggest as being emblematic in any way of the times.)
Aside from that, great music.
ok neoliberal
nah. You are TOTALLY missing it. This has to do with the Zapatista (google the flag) movement. De La Rocha comes from a long line of Mexican revolutionaries fighting for justice and Indigenous sovereignty. The lyrics in this song are pointing to the way in which the colonial governments historically and (currently) attempt to take down the family unit, as Indigenous stability is a direct threat to the colonial agenda.
@@pitchfowl390 So why all the Asian people?
@@pitchfowl390but, but...he saw a red flag..
Now you must do down Rodeo I believe that is their best song