rage against machine songs?

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Mak0602
can't use any songs with swears

are you in middle school?

nah high school, i can have hardcore swearing.

 

[Luagsch]

ratm-selftitled
ratm-evil empire
ratm-battle of la
soad-seltitled
soad-toxicity
are all good ones
(as always don't forget to check the symbolism )
you also might want to look at nothingface's newest album "skeletons".

EDIT forgot to mention that nothingface lyrics are mostly through the eye of the guilty part. so example: it's not the view at a serial killer but the thoughts of serial killer. (example taken from nothingface-violence; song is "same solution")

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
antiflag would also be a good source of songs like that

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
The Ghost of Tom Joad

for sure. Also meets your no swearing req. You'll even get points from your teacher (since this is most likely for school) for using Tom Joad as literary reference. (though steinbeck can eat my ass)

omg this is like so perfect for my oral poem presentation!!! you are the man! here's the poem:

Bury Me in a Free Land

MAKE me a grave where'er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth's humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom.

I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,
And the mother's shriek of wild despair
Rise like a curse on the trembling air.

I could not sleep if I saw the lash
Drinking her blood at each fearful gash,
And I saw her babes torn from her breast,
Like trembling doves from their parent nest.

I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay
Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,
And I heard the captive plead in vain
As they bound afresh his galling chain.

If I saw young girls from their mother's arms
Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,
My eye would flash with a mournful flame,
My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.

I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might
Can rob no man of his dearest right;
My rest shall be calm in any grave
Where none can call his brother a slave.

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

Frances E. W. Harper

thanks again:beer: !!!!

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Mak0602

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
The Ghost of Tom Joad

for sure. Also meets your no swearing req. You'll even get points from your teacher (since this is most likely for school) for using Tom Joad as literary reference. (though steinbeck can eat my ass)

omg this is like so perfect for my oral poem presentation!!! you are the man! here's the poem:

Bury Me in a Free Land

MAKE me a grave where'er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth's humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom.

I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,
And the mother's shriek of wild despair
Rise like a curse on the trembling air.

I could not sleep if I saw the lash
Drinking her blood at each fearful gash,
And I saw her babes torn from her breast,
Like trembling doves from their parent nest.

I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay
Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,
And I heard the captive plead in vain
As they bound afresh his galling chain.

If I saw young girls from their mother's arms
Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,
My eye would flash with a mournful flame,
My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.

I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might
Can rob no man of his dearest right;
My rest shall be calm in any grave
Where none can call his brother a slave.

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

Frances E. W. Harper

thanks again:beer: !!!!

glad I could help will

 

[Luagsch]

tom joad is a cover-song
(like ratm's album renegades was)
but it fits

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Luagsch
tom joad is a cover-song
(like ratm's album renegades was)
but it fits

True, but the Rage version's mood fits this better

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: Soybomb
antiflag would also be a good source of songs like that

Someone posted the lyrics to seattle was a riot earlier, that'd be good.....anatomy of your enemy could be decent although it was more applicable months ago

 

[tweakmm]

I think the question is what RATM songs don't have messages about how fvcked up society is. Well, except for Renegades, but those are only covers.

<--queues up The Battle of Los Angeles