Theme:KILLING IN THE NAME.
Disc:Rage Against The Machine.
Year:1992.
The revolution is on the march. In Rage Against The Machine there was no room for half-measures, here things were said directly and in the face, without mincing words. Few bands have been as politically committed as these subversive and insurrectionary Yankees. Revolutionary in thought and musically speaking, the Rage were one of the top bands of the 90's in every sense. More than just playing, they expressed their rage against injustice and protested in a musical and innovative way, mixing rap and hard rock in a search for new ways of openness and freedom as big as their thoughts.
True pioneers of everything that was later labeled “rap-metal”, RATM set the standard, with Zack De La Rocha's incendiary rhymes and phrases and the range of effects and textures of Tom Morello's guitar, who proved that with imagination, the phrase “everything has been invented” will always be in disuse. Evolution, genius, commitment... “Killing In The Name” is a time bomb of devastating effects and unstoppable shockwave.
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A first single that burst with the strength of those who fight for equality and truth, and like many who have given their lives for such causes throughout history, it was censored, trying to mitigate its impact and silence its voice. But there was too much power condensed here to keep the flame alive, the song was censored because it pronounced the word “fuck” sixteen times, something that the most retrograde and hypocritical positions of the Anglo-Saxon mentality could not allow. Consequently, the song never entered the American charts, but it did in England, even if by accident, the BBC Radio 1 top 40 DJ, Bruno Brookes, radioed the uncensored version of the song by accident, and later the band would capture even more attention from the British public by playing the song on the TV show “Yoof”, reaching the 25th position in the English charts.
Not easy for a lyric that spoke of the Ku Klux Clan, of its intransigent and murderous methods, and of the irony that some members of the racist sect belonged to the forces of law and order. An explosive musical and ideological cocktail that the ingenuity of these Hispanic places has given another sense, replacing that phrase as a refrain, “Now you do what they told ya”, for another not so serious and reflective, but more vulgar and fun, but equally insulting and explicit for those who are still shocked by what rock has to say and represents. We suppose that all of you who have chanted the song in clubs and concerts will know what we are talking about...ahem. A throwing weapon in the key of modern rock and without fissures.
Thanks for reading and see you in a new post with more from these publishers. A thousand blessings.
