arm the homeless

burndtdan: arm the homeless

damn you.

Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed tha war canibal animal
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a
Library
Line up to tha mind cemetery
What we dont know keeps tha contracts alive an
Movin
They dont gotta burn tha books they just remove em

burndtdan: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

Cue dozens of Farkers saying that RATM sucks and the music they like is better, along with a scattering of right-wing Farkers accusing Tom of being a dumb musician who doesn't know what he's talking about.

How does Tom Morello feel about the fact that I absolutely pwned him in Guitar Hero 3?


Huh?

I don't know anything about the guy but he is a real pain in the ass when you are trying to play Guitar Hero III.

..before people start with the, "how can he be in a million dollar band and claim to be communist shiate," I just want to say he is asked this question, and has answered it, in almost every interview he does.

You are not clever by trying to point out this seeming hypocrisy.

"So if America elects McCain over, you know, the clearly intelligent, erudite, fair-minded Barack Obama, then either way we'll get the President we deserve."

Suck on the teet... yes.. suck on it Tom

Tom Morello melts my face.

Toilet McWalker for the win!

Pinko commie bastard.

culebra: burndtdan: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherf*ck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

If Obama would play that song before one of his rallies it would be incredibly awesome.

"So if America elects McCain over, you know, the clearly intelligent, erudite, fair-minded Barack Obama, then either way we'll get the President we deserve."

Tom Morello speaks up about politics? The guitarist from Rage Against The Machine, that Tom Morello? Really?

Hmm, I've always wondered about his political views. Too bad he's never voiced them in the past...

I for one, am glad to see RATM back together.

Always enjoyed their music, not always agreed with their politics though.

Still want to see them in concert someday though.

RATM does suck though.

Huh... that's so weird, Audioslave never seemed like a particularly political band...

Edsel: Cue dozens of Farkers saying that RATM sucks and the music they like is better, along with a scattering of right-wing Farkers accusing Tom of being a dumb musician who doesn't know what he's talking about.

I won't attack their music because if they would STFU and just play it would be decent.

I know he's a Pol-Sci major from Harvard but I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

Yup, that's the level of sophisticated analysis I've come to expect from RATM.

Omorda: culebra: burndtdan: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

Take the skinheads bowling

culebra: burndtdan: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

An erudite farker would consider it a A Modest Proposal.

ZachF81: socialist propaganda

A good friend of ours once said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II [...] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot-and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive-and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation...Wake up.

Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double I'm mad
Still knee-deep in the system's shiat
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give ya a dose
But it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy

Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease
When their heads are flown
'Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges, the feds
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Yeah!
Yeah, back in this...
Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya up, to break the structure up
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like takin' photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end
Ya better beware
Of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
Ya know they murdered X
And tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Uggh!
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!


I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot


'He may be a real contender for this position should he
abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine
of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism'
'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers...And neutralize them,
neutralize them, neutralize them'

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

How long? Not long, cause what you reap is what you sow

Edsel
...accusing Tom of being a dumb musician who doesn't know what he's talking about.

A few months ago I would have agreed with the sentiment of your comment. Having heard Morello's Nighwatchman project, I can't help but question his integrity.

ZachF81: I know he's a Pol-Sci major from Harvard but I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

Being a millionaire rockstar isn't accomplishing anything?

arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

ake the skinheads bowling

kiss the girl

GonzoNihilist: Edsel
...accusing Tom of being a dumb musician who doesn't know what he's talking about.

A few months ago I would have agreed with the sentiment of your comment. Having heard Morello's Nighwatchman project, I can't help but question his integrity.

Huh? He plays acoustic hippie songs in coffeehouses and he released an album that did a rinky-dink 25,000 in sales. WTH does that have to do with questioning his integrity?

ZachF81: I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

The guy is the guitarist for a multi-platinum band, and has untold millions of dollars and thousands of fans. What would he have to have done with his life in order for you to say he "accomplish[ed] anything?" Win the Nobel Prize, cure cancer, save the maidens fair, and come up with a recipe for grape nuts that doesn't taste like sawdust?


Tough crowd.

RATM is white boy Public Enemy. And if it weren't for the Digitech Whammy pedal Tom Morello would sound like crap.

RATM is about the politics, they've said as much. Don't like the politics, don't listen, they won't change.

And I've decided that, if there is ever a Grand Theft Auto movie, there needs to be a scene where the main character brutally murders a bunch of cops while "Killing In The Name Of" plays in the background. It'd be over the top and ridiculous and give great joy to the 13 year old anarchist in us all. "fark YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! fark YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!"

Not that RATM is only for 13 year old anarchists, but there is only a certain level of political sophistication you can achieve in a song. As Dylan said, "Songs can't save the world."

Edsel: Cue dozens of Farkers saying that RATM sucks and the music they like is better, along with a scattering of right-wing Farkers accusing Tom of being a dumb musician who doesn't know what he's talking about.

...but you know what, this is America. In America, success is determined by fame and wealth. I'm willing to lay cash money that Tom Morello has champed at least 95% of the same American right-wingers in both categories.

I hate people who think it's okay for only those celebrities who agree with you to use their status to push a political message. What, it's not cool for RATM to write and play a song criticizing American politics (forget partisanship), but it's all sunshine and rainbows when Billie Jo Chickenfarker writes and plays his next big hit, "Yee Haw We're Gonna Bomb them Sand Nigras ('cuz We're 'Murica!)?"

I loved Rage Against the Machine when they were called Living Colour and had a genuine black member.

that bosnian sniper: Billie Jo Chickenfarker

Green Day called Bush (and all who voted for him) American Idiot. Why are you insulting Billy Joe Armstrong?

PruneTracy: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

take the skinheads bowling

kiss the girl

Taking retards to the zoo



the thing about Morello, is that his solos never quite seem to fit with the song. just my two cents.

danlpoon: RATM is white boy Public Enemy. And if it weren't for the Digitech Whammy pedal Tom Morello would sound like crap.

I'm fairly certain that "white boy" doesn't really describe this band. You also failed to point out that, without his strings Tom Morello would sound like sh*t. Also, without his picks, he would sound like sh*t (and his hands would be f*cked). Furthermore, withou his tuner he'd sound like sh*t.

You're just a goddamn musical malcontent... SRV is average, Tom Morello is just a whammy pedal, blah blah blah. Newsflash, hater: the pedal doesn't write the riffs, doesn't create the sound, doesn't orchestrate or arrange. It is just a tool that no one has used as effectively as Tom Morello.

Faux Shizzle: Tom Morello speaks up about politics? The guitarist from Rage Against The Machine, that Tom Morello? Really?

Hmm, I've always wondered about his political views. Too bad he's never voiced them in the past...

I LOL'ed.

Moses To Sandy Koufax: ZachF81: I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

The guy is the guitarist for a multi-platinum band, and has untold millions of dollars and thousands of fans. What would he have to have done with his life in order for you to say he "accomplish[ed] anything?" Win the Nobel Prize, cure cancer, save the maidens fair, and come up with a recipe for grape nuts that doesn't taste like sawdust?


Tough crowd.

attackingpencil: Being a millionaire rockstar isn't accomplishing anything?

Now let me quote myself:

I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

Sure being a rock star is cool, but you dont need a political science degree to be one. He could have been a politician and in my book been 100 times more sucessful because he could have made an actual difference.

Although theres not an office in the country he could get elected to with his views.

danlpoon: I loved Rage Against the Machine when they were called Living Colour and had a genuine black member.

Shifting gears into 100% troll mode, I see. You used to make a point, now you just make a fuss.

puckhead: PruneTracy: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

take the skinheads bowling

kiss the girl

Taking retards to the zoo

give the old man a sponge bath

template for every RATM song:


*wisper about something you're upset with... *
*wisper about something you're upset with... *
*SCREAM ABOUT HOW YOU ARE UPSET ABOUT IT!!!!!*
*SCREAM ABOUT HOW YOU ARE UPSET ABOUT IT!!!!!*

rinse, repeat

Edsel
Huh? He plays acoustic hippie songs in coffeehouses and he released an album that did a rinky-dink 25,000 in sales. WTH does that have to do with questioning his integrity?

The integrity of his judgement. Sorry, poor attempt at levity.

puckhead: the thing about Morello, is that his solos never quite seem to fit with the song. just my two cents.

i love what was said about him in the review for guitar hero 3 on zeropunctuation. something along the lines of "they should really call the game legend of rock and some other guy i've never heard of"

PruneTracy: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

ake the skinheads bowling

kiss the girl

I lol'd. Well played.

factoryconnection:
You're just a goddamn musical malcontent... SRV is average, Tom Morello is just a whammy pedal, blah blah blah. Newsflash, hater: the pedal doesn't write the riffs, doesn't create the sound, doesn't orchestrate or arrange. It is just a tool that no one has used as effectively as Tom Morello.

Oddly, I've never seen him disparage Cher's use of autotune. Hmm...

ZachF81: Sure being a rock star is cool, but you dont need a political science degree to be one. He could have been a politician and in my book been 100 times more sucessful because he could have made an actual difference.

He did make a difference - look how many CDs he's sold. You don't think maybe people listened to some of those songs and actually cared enough to read into the subject matter?

Duke_Phillips: ZachF81:

Sure being a rock star is cool, but you dont need a political science degree to be one. He could have been a politician and in my book been 100 times more sucessful because he could have made an actual difference.

Nobody cares about your book

Then why are you reading from it?

ZachF81: I won't attack their music because if they would STFU and just play it would be decent.

I know he's a Pol-Sci major from Harvard but I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

Heard this line a million times. I'm perplexed why some people just don't get it. Actually, I do but I don't want to troll.

Art is the product of the artist. As with any artist you don't separate their thoughts, experiences, and agenda from their art. It's how artists communicate.

ZachF81: I'm upset that he uses his musical talent to spit his socialist propaganda because he isn't able to accomplish anything with the degree he got.

Sure being a rock star is cool, but you dont need a political science degree to be one. He could have been a politician and in my book been 100 times more sucessful because he could have made an actual difference.

Although theres not an office in the country he could get elected to with his views.

He gets a degree in political science, then through his understanding of politics develops an extremely successful artistic endeavor that spreads his political message. He uses this endeavor to endorse movements, rallies, and others of similar political thought. So basically what you're saying is, because he doesn't work at a desk his job isn't political and has nothing to do with his studies.

I disagree, and think yours is a strange basis for an argument.

PruneTracy: arm the homeless

Kill the poor

eat the rich

ake the skinheads bowling

kiss the girl



I lol'd