If someone doesn't know that RatM have a college sophomore-level grasp of liberal politics, then they haven't been paying one whit of attention to the lyrics.obxbes said:On Twitter Armstrong posted a picture of his ipod showing the album cover from a group called Rage Against the Machine. I wonder if he would give this group free press if he knew they participated in benefit concerts for a cop killer mumia abu jamal.
obxbes said:On Twitter Armstrong posted a picture of his ipod showing the album cover from a group called Rage Against the Machine. I wonder if he would give this group free press if he knew they participated in benefit concerts for a cop killer mumia abu jamal.
Ahahaha.IH8LANCE said:I'm sure Lance just likes RATM for the prevailing sentiment at the end of "Killing in the Name of".
Maybe some are doing that, but I heard of RatM before I heard of LA....spinner32 said:Come on now. I feel as though some people are hating on RAtM simply because of the Armstrong connection now .
And you prefer Linkin Park to RAtM? Now, I'm just nit-picking, but from what I've seen, Linkin Park can't perform worth a darn - like fish out of water when they weren't in a studio. But that's my $0.02, and my taste I guess.
bigpedaler said:Maybe some are doing that, but I heard of RatM before I heard of LA....
You're entitled to your opinion, and I do not try to get you to justify it -- allow me the same courtesy. After all, some people like Beyonce' while others like Lil Jon and the Outsidas. Some still like Sinatra, others live for bluegrass.
If you prefer, and even have use for, the product issued by RatM, go ahead -- I prefer LP, but they're not even anywhere CLOSE to my fever for the Scorpions, BTO, Journey, etc. I don't jam while I ride -- it diminishes the experience for me. Music is for wrenching, and falling asleep at night, or relaxing during rainy times...in my lil corner of paradise.
Hypnospin said:Mumia makes a lot of sense, have you heard his radio broadcasts?
I hear Dwight Yoakam is a douchebag but I still think he's one of the best country songwriters going.obxbes said:I am not disparging the music itself. In fact when I have heard ratm on the radio it wasn't half bad. The problem I have is they performed benefit concerts for a convicted cop killer and LA politics lean to the right so I am really surprised that LA would give free press to this band.
Well said. Could be said for women too. Though, I'd really prefer if we didn't get into a discussion of LA's pursuits of the opposite sex. Oops.Chavez said:I hear Dwight Yoakam is a douchebag but I still think he's one of the best country songwriters going.
I lean to the left but still think John Milius' movies (Big Wednesday, Red Dawn, Conan the Barbarian) are great.
Sometimes politics don't mean anything, you like what you like.
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