Music Friday: "Testify"

I'm late, so this is a belated Music Friday post. 

I had thought of doing "Hurt" by NIN, but I featured that recently. 

Thinking of the 90s, an album that I haven't listened to as much from Rage Against the Machine is The Battle of Los Angeles. 

Here's the opening track on that album. 

Music Friday: "Year of the Boomerang"

 These guys need to put out a new album since they've joined back together. I miss their political commentary. 

Music Friday: "Killing in the Name"

Times they are a-changin'. Hopefully. 

Rage provided this anthem way back in '92. Still relevant. 

Music Friday: "Take the Power Back"

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." ~H. L. Mencken



"The present curriculum,/ I put my fist in 'em./ Eurocentric every last one of them."

Music Friday: "Take the Power Back," "Know Your Enemy," "Freedom," & "People of the Sun"

This morning I noticed a student wearing a black t-shirt sporting the cover for Rage Against the Machine's album Evil Empire, and that reminded me a status update from one of my FB friends a week or so ago that linked a short article by Tom Morello's about Paul Ryan reportedly liking Rage's music. 

I suspect Mr. Ryan has not been listening closely to Rage's lyrics. So here's a few songs that contrast Ryan's ideas and positions. 

"Take the Power Back" is a rhetorical hand grenade against Eurocentrism and Eurocentric curricula. 





Here's more of that with a revolutionary tinge in "Know Your Enemy." 

A stanza of note:
Come on. 
Yes, I know my enemies.
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me.
Yeah compromise, conformity, assimilation,
Submission, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. 





Here's the video for "Freedom," which is self-explanatory.



And to close, here's "People of the Sun." 

Music Friday: "Cochise" & "Show Me How to Live"

I was a little late to the Audioslave listening party since I started really enjoying their tunes after they broke up. But it was a good amalgam: Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine sans Zach de la Rocha.

So here are the first two songs from the band's self-titled and first album. Rock on, people.

Music Friday: "Ghost of Tom Joad"

I'm linking one great song with two excellent versions.

Click HERE for the original by Springsteen

Click HERE for the cover by Rage Against the Machine.

Music Friday: "Freedom"

Because I'm in a crappy mood stemming from a meeting this afternoon, I need some music that fits my mood. Should it be Rollins Band, Suicidal Tendencies, Rage Against the Machine, or Kyuss?

Click HERE for some rage.

Thank God it's Friday and all that.

"FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOM .... YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"