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Rage Against the Machine
One thing i especially love about RATM is that there music is acually about somthing as opposed to most songs being about love or heartbreak and other random and pointless meanings. The lyrics are very deep and can get quite complicated at some points but they still play some bitchen tunes. State your opinion on Rage here like em love em or hate em. Post questions you have about there lyrics or whatever you feel like if you have a question im sure myself a or others will help you out.
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yeah baby. if it wasn't for RATM, i probably wouldn't have made this site. i remember when working on the very first few pages, i had RATM playing in the background, for inspiration and fueling my rage.
i wish they were still around, making new music. i still listen to their old stuff tho, but i wish there was more 
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RATM! I LOVE THEM!!!!! *strokes cd case* hmmmm my bro got me into them but now he wont listen to em just coz i do! :biggrin:
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RATM is great. It's lyrics actually MEAN something too. Unlike all of those other crappy modern rock bands (  "fuck this, fuck that, screwed all of these girls, blah blah blah":embarrassed  . I want to strangle Good Charlotte and all of those other meaningless bands. RATM actually had a message that meant something. Hmm...what should I listen to: Renegades or The BAttle of LA?
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[21:58] <CaptainAhab> im glad that one person realized korn were losers and turned his life to jesus
[21:58] <CaptainAhab> because jesus is at least cooler than fucking korn
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[quote=lifeischeese I want to strangle Good Charlotte and all of those other meaningless bands. [/quote]
goodcharlottes music int that meaning less. i mean i dont listen to em but "lifestyles" is saying that u dont need money and shit.
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The sad thing is no one seems tho know who RATM is any more. I am one of 2 kids in my school (that I know of ) who knows who they are. Instead teen today listen to garbage like blink182, Him, Good charlotte, and the rest of those posers (sorry if i'm offending anyone, but the whinning about how hard their privleged lives are really grates after a while). Personally, I think that the most talent is in underground bands. sure, there is a lot of crap, but there is some good stuff too.
some stuff to listen to
Revielle(I think thats spelled right) good rap metal with political interest
KRS-One- rap group
AfroPunks- its nice to see something other then the stereotypical "Black people rap and white people do punk)
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thoughtcriminal Wrote:some stuff to listen to
Revielle(I think thats spelled right) good rap metal with political interest
sounds good, pretty hard to find though :(
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more stuff to listen to:
Tool - good original band that sings about more obscure topics
Candiria - also breaking out of stereotypical white-boy rock, lotsa songs about revolution and such
[21:58] <CaptainAhab> im glad that one person realized korn were losers and turned his life to jesus
[21:58] <CaptainAhab> because jesus is at least cooler than fucking korn
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YES!
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees through narrow chinks of his cavern."
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Re: Rage Against the Machine
RATM'sa big influence on my music, especially my more rap-oriented stuff. I have their first and third albums, and I plan on getting their second album, sometime in the near future.
"There's no 'I' in 'Team'." Yeah, but there is a "me" in "Team" spelled backwards!
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