OK it would appear we are living in a world run by corporate scum who don't really care about us they just wanna line there own pockets with our hard dollars,pounds,rupees,euros etc.Now before you think this is a political rant and nothing to do with music well your wrong on the contrary its all about music,I mean how else do you get to call the government a c**t without getting busted?write and release a song.Now there are a few political bands out there who do political music but for me there is one that really stand out the band is ,Rage Against the Machine.Now Rage against the machine formed in are probably most the most prolific band with song titles like "Guerrilla Radio" which includes the lyrics:Transmission third world war third round A decade of the weapon of sound above ground No shelter if you're lookin' for shade I lick shots at the brutal charade As the polls close like a casket On truth devoured A Silent play in the shadow of power A spectacle monopolized The camera's eyes on choice disguised Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil? Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
The band who are infamous for there revolutionary politics and lyrics have regularly voiced there viewpoints which where highly critical of the domestic and foreign policies of the US Government,and lets face it who ain't?They would also regularly take part in political protests to advocate these beliefs.The band saw its music as a vehicle for social activism,Zach De la Rocha explained that "I'm interested in spreading those ideas through art, because music has the power to cross borders, to break military sieges and to establish real dialogue.
Right ain't it,Fellow band member Tom Morello was quoted as saying:
"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."
This was said to Guitar World in reference to wage slavery in America.At the Coachella festival 2007 during the song "Wake Up" De la Rocha made a speech citing a statement by Noam Chomsky regarding the Nuremberg Trials:
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.
The statement created a storm with a clip of the statement being broadcast of Fox news program hanity and colmes,the on-screen headline being Rock group Rage Against the Machine says Bush admin should be shot. Ann Coulter a right wing political commentator who was a guest on the show blasted the band saying "They’re losers, their fans are losers, and there’s a lot of violence coming from the left wing".This out burst from Coulter led to Zach,the band co-headlining Rock the Bells hip-hop festival on the 28Th and 29Th of July,doing another speech during the song Wake Up defending the band from Fox news:
A couple of months ago, those fascist motherfuckers at the Fox News Network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the president should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was that he should be brought to trial as a war criminal and hung and shot. THAT'S what we said. And we don't back away from the position because the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lives they have destroyed here and in Iraq. They're the ones. And what they refused to air which was far more provocative in my mind and in the minds of my band mates is this: this system has become so brutal and vicious and cruel that it needs to start wars and profit from the destruction around the world in order to survive as a world power. THAT's what we said. And we refuse not to stand up, we refuse to back down from that position...
Subsequently, De la Rocha added Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister who supported and facilitated Bush's war plans, to the list of those who ought to be tried and hanged at the Reading Festival on the August 22, 2008. The Reading and Leeds Festivals organizer announced after the 2008 festival that Zack had requested Friday and Saturday slots specifically so he could be back in the U.S. for the Democratic and Republican conventions taking place in the week of the 25Th.
"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."
This was said to Guitar World in reference to wage slavery in America.At the Coachella festival 2007 during the song "Wake Up" De la Rocha made a speech citing a statement by Noam Chomsky regarding the Nuremberg Trials:
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.
The statement created a storm with a clip of the statement being broadcast of Fox news program hanity and colmes,the on-screen headline being Rock group Rage Against the Machine says Bush admin should be shot. Ann Coulter a right wing political commentator who was a guest on the show blasted the band saying "They’re losers, their fans are losers, and there’s a lot of violence coming from the left wing".This out burst from Coulter led to Zach,the band co-headlining Rock the Bells hip-hop festival on the 28Th and 29Th of July,doing another speech during the song Wake Up defending the band from Fox news:
A couple of months ago, those fascist motherfuckers at the Fox News Network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the president should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was that he should be brought to trial as a war criminal and hung and shot. THAT'S what we said. And we don't back away from the position because the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lives they have destroyed here and in Iraq. They're the ones. And what they refused to air which was far more provocative in my mind and in the minds of my band mates is this: this system has become so brutal and vicious and cruel that it needs to start wars and profit from the destruction around the world in order to survive as a world power. THAT's what we said. And we refuse not to stand up, we refuse to back down from that position...
Subsequently, De la Rocha added Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister who supported and facilitated Bush's war plans, to the list of those who ought to be tried and hanged at the Reading Festival on the August 22, 2008. The Reading and Leeds Festivals organizer announced after the 2008 festival that Zack had requested Friday and Saturday slots specifically so he could be back in the U.S. for the Democratic and Republican conventions taking place in the week of the 25Th.
Basically it shows the government like to control us and lets face it they do they ain't starting wars they are taking people prisoner and keeping them in cages or they send people to war why don't presidents fight the war?why do they always send the poor?The following are lyrics written by a band called Avenged Sevenfold,who usually aren't political but I found this awesome song titled Critical Acclaim and goes a little something like this:
Shhh… quiet you might piss somebody off
like me motherfucker you've been at it for too long
While you feed off others' insecurities
You stand in front of me and bite the hand that feeds
Self-righteousness is wearing thin(Lies inside your head, your best friend)
Heart bleeds but not for fellow men(Broken glass, your fake reflection)
I've had enough It's time for something real
I don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
So how does it feel to know that some one's kid in
the heart of America has blood on their hands
fighting to defend your rights
so you can maintain a lifestyle
that insults his family's existence
Well, where I'm from we have a special salute that we aim high in the air
towards all those pompous assholes
who spend their days pointing fingers(Fuck You)
Shhh… quiet you might piss somebody off
Like the heartbeat of this country when antagonized too long
I'll be damned if you count me in as part of your generous hypocrisy
collecting enemies
Tabloid gossip queen worthless man(There's no need for us to bury you)
Selfish agenda once again(Right this way you've dug your own grave)
I've had enough It's time for something real
I don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
All the way from the east to the west we
got this high society
looking down on their very foundation
constantly reminding us that our actions
are the cause of all their problems
Pointing their fingers in every direction and blaming their
own nation for who wins the elections
They've never contributed a fucking thing to the
country they love to criticize
Excuse the obscene, ignore the untrue
Depictions we see try and get through
Admitting mistakes can hurt
I'm not the last but I sure ain't the first
Shhh… quiet you might piss somebody off
Self-righteousness is wearing thin(Lies inside your head your best friend)
Heart bleeds but not for fellow men(Broken glass your fake reflection)
I've had enough
It's time for something real
I don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
WOW hard hitting stuff! I agree with a lot of what your saying as well as the bands you have quotoed, but I wonder if the band Average Sevenfold might not be a Christian band and they are crtizing RAM and bands like them or even The Dixie Chicks now infamous quote about Bush. Lyrics sound a little conservative to me. What d you think? Either way they are being political.
ReplyDeleteok I think you took the band name too literally for a second there no i think like everyone else they have seen the way bush has destroyed america and they just felt that they had to have there say too
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your point and what you're saying. I like that you're saying it also. Good blog keep up the controversey.
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