The Onion-Where are you now, Rage Against the machine?

[Room101]

The Onion, ounce again takes the words right out my mouth while making me laugh.

Where are you now, when we need you the most, Rage Against the machine?

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For nearly 10 years, Rage Against The Machine provided a voice for the disaffected, the disenfranchised, and the angry. Blending punk, pop, hip-hop, metal, and thrash, their music fought corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression head on during a time when most of America was lulled into a Clinton-induced torpor. When Rage Against The Machine's cry for justice was amplified by a major-label debut in 1992, hundreds of thousands of American youths turned to them for guidance. Over the course of eight years, Rage released three original albums and one covers album, each a new and varied challenge, a 60-minute call to arms, a soul cry for the low and lost.

But then, in October of 2000, the unthinkable happened: Singer Zack De La Rocha left the band. On that fateful election night in November, there was no one to articulate the outrage and denounce the Supreme Cult's appointment of George W. Shrub to Commander-In-Thief. Where were you then, Rage Against The Machine? Where are you now?

.............. http://theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4032

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Too true, too true....

:evilfrown:

[LostInAnomie]

2. I've been saying that for the past 3 years

RATM and SOAD should go on a anti-bush tour through Nov.

[Melodybe]

4. No shit! Man where is RATM? Just one song, is that too much to ask?

[Jose McGillicutty]

3. i remeber when Zach de la Rocha

left his band inside out and blew up the hard core scene with forming a commercially successful band -rage against the machine. a lot of new haven kids resented all the subordinate 'new jacks' that would come to shows and act like they owned the place.

i'm grateful for Zach's commerical success that inspired and informed a lot of young people. rage's music actitived a lot of hither to apathetic and uninformed youth.

my thought is that rage broke up before they burned out. kind of like the police. there are however plenty of bands out there informing on the man. you just gotta look harder for them.

keep up the fight
:)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. twould be funny

if it werent so true