I love incredibly dumb songs that are amazingly awesome because they are so incredibly dumb! Or is that what you meant? Especially ones that are hilariously and awesomely stupid. I like slightly morbid songs sometimes too. I was just asking the same question... I edited posts a lot last time but I forget how to completely.
Hmm. That's weird. I thought I posted a comment on here yesterday. Anyways...where did Rage Against the Machine get their name? Its kind of funny, really, because you said that your music is mad, and the artist is called Rage Against the Machine...rage against what machine? Sorry, I'm just interested in the names...its interesting how some artists come up with their name, I was really surprised (and somewhat amused) when I found out how Sting got his stage name.
My music is wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy different than Metallica. Because I listened to Metallica and they don't scream as much and they don't sing/scream about Jesus raping people.
I have noticed that RAM sings/screams about rape a lot. I am not sure if like one of the band member's girlfriend got raped or something. Or maybe they just like singing about that stuff.
c is someone in our class that's name begins with a c and is not charlie. I've posted this same exact thing before but it's not there anymore. Do you like your music? How many people are in RAM? p.s did you come up with that acronym yourself?
Hi Ian, it was interesting to hear the piece you shared last week! Have you read more of their lyrics or done research on RAM yet? They are fascinating to me, but definitely a lot heavier than what I feel comfortable with (future stretch project for me, maybe!).
Oh my gosh! They are kind of awesome! I just watched Sleep Now In The Fire, and I love it! It was hard to understand what he was saying before I looked up the lyrics, but they are really powerful. We have done exactly that: slept through every fire, from the moment we drop the match until the moment the last embers die. We hope that if we close our eyes, that someone else will have the courage to face the flames and attempt to the extinguish the destruction they have created. Rage Against the Machine is telling us to Rage Against the Machine. We are not a machine. We are not controlled by machines. A machine continues to do exactly what it has always done until it wears out and falls apart. It plods along, never changing or growing or doing anything important or making a difference. A machine is immune to the suffering of others, because it cannot feel or see or hear. We are living, breathing people. We live, we love, we care, we grow, we change. We have the power. We have the power to make the world we live in what we want. We have the power to do things differently this time. There are a hundred matches dropping. Will you close your eyes, knowing that the next time you open to them you will be greeted by a scorched and barren field of ash? Or will you suffer the burns, and save everything you care about?
"The Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria The noose and the rapist The fields overseer The agent of orange The priests of Hiroshima The cost of my desire To Sleep now in the fire"
The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria were Christopher Columbus's ships. The ships that first brought European's to America, and with them horrible disease, war, the lust for gold... Columbus's men killed thousands and thousands, mercilessly and pointlessly. If we want to trace this all back and find something solid to throw our blame at these three ships are a pretty good choice. I did not understand "The fields overseer" until I Google-searched it. The top result was this poem:
"The Fields Overseer My Mind is a tyrant and it's taken control Over my body, my spine and my soul. With conquest its quest, domination its goal It has captured me, ravaged me, Beaten me savagely, leaving me scattered, Alone in the cold.
This monsoon breeze Mind is now steering the ship, Which is tattered and torn and starting to split. I strive to regain control but I slip 'Neath The Fields Overseer - cracking His whip."
-Chris J Warner
I had no clue as to the significance of "agent of orange." Agent Orange, apparently, is a highly toxic herbicide used by our military that causes cancer. These are the prices we have had to pay, to satisfy our greed. These are the costs of our desires. So let us not sleep in the fire now. Let us fight the fire with water. Let us fight violence and hatred with kindness and peace. We have slept through far too many fires.
The video of Sleep Now In The Fire is awesome, so everyone should definitely see it. It is really funny as well, even if it is funny in a kind of depressing way. I wonder what gave them the idea to do that. I would like to find out more about what happened with them performing on Wall Street, and the police arresting them. Whatever they did, it sure gave them a lot of power. Stuff like that tends to give you a lot of power. I mean, you can do a lot if you don't do it violently or with hatred. If all they are doing is playing music, then they make the police look like the violent ones. You can't accomplish anything by fighting fire with fire, and Rage Against the Machine may be furious in their songs, but they are certainly using a peaceful method of protest, and honestly they have a right to be furious.
Wow. Amelia did you just figure out those lyrics or look them up? Because from what Ian played from us it seems like it might be hard to determine the lyrics.
I listened to it once, and got maybe two or three lyrics out of it. Like I heard part and thought "Well, since the title is "Sleep Now In the Fire" and that kind of sounds like that, I assume that is what they are saying... But other than that I didn't get anything the first time. I looked up the lyrics and read them through, and then suddenly, when you listen to the song again, you find it incredibly weird that you did not understand them at first! As soon as you read the lyrics, you can understand what they are saying perfectly well. It also takes a little bit to get used to the way they sing... But that is true of every artist (slightly more true of RAM though, I must admit.) Like this one artist: Me and my father were listening to music in the car, and there was just this one line that neither of us could understand! And we played that darned song over and over and over again for nearly an hour, trying to understand the lyrics. I was quite convinced they were "Tree meat like genre cuss bubbles they're fake." my dad though the lyrics were "Trust me in Jennifer's gravy to bake." Suddenly, after an hour of listening to the same few seconds of this song I say "Treat me like China 'cuz baby I break." Which turned out to be the real lyrics. Me and my dad both started cracking up.
by the way Synthesia Doxyro Peregrine (be warned my name may change from week-to-week) is going to have like a billion points all of there posts are longer than the thesis we did last year in sixth grade
Ya ure right I looked up the lyrics of the song testify and the lyrics of master the puppets and there is nothing alike. Rage against the machine trys to protest using music. Metallica is more just trying to freak people out. One simallarity is that both bands sing in the same way and there music sounds the same.
Okay, what is the cool dude's name? The one who is singing and spencer says looks like bob marley and I actually remember what bob marley looks like and spencer is RIGHT... Yeah, that guy. But Sleep Now in the Fire is AWESOME. And by the way, I am Synthesia Doxyro Peregrine, Ariadne Elorian Scian and Sarafin Azrael Zinetta. No, I am not transcendent, I just change my screen name almost every week. And Maddy has WAY more points than I have. By the way, what is a thesis? I think that Streetlight Manifesto, Rage Against the Machine and Arlo Guthrie do a really good job of protesting. They really get the message across. Well, Arlo's one about pickle juice on a motor cycle (or whatever that was) was not really the best protest song... Unless it is protesting canned and bottled... vegetable... liquids taking part in dangerous... activities...
WOW... My music is hilarious!! It is so mad an morbid. There are a few songs that i like but most of them are either funny or just plain'ol dumb.
ReplyDeleteIs there any way to edit posts?
ReplyDeleteIan have you listend to Metallica. If yes is Metallica any simmilar to Rage aganist the machine?
ReplyDeleteThat's fabulous that your music morbid.
ReplyDeleteI love incredibly dumb songs that are amazingly awesome because they are so incredibly dumb! Or is that what you meant? Especially ones that are hilariously and awesomely stupid. I like slightly morbid songs sometimes too. I was just asking the same question... I edited posts a lot last time but I forget how to completely.
ReplyDeleteHi Ian! How is Rage Against the Machine different from what you usually listen to??
ReplyDeleteHmm. That's weird. I thought I posted a comment on here yesterday. Anyways...where did Rage Against the Machine get their name? Its kind of funny, really, because you said that your music is mad, and the artist is called Rage Against the Machine...rage against what machine? Sorry, I'm just interested in the names...its interesting how some artists come up with their name, I was really surprised (and somewhat amused) when I found out how Sting got his stage name.
ReplyDeleteRAM is a lot different than my other music because in my other music people don't scream... And my other music isn't anger ridden.
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ReplyDeleteMy music is wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy different than Metallica. Because I listened to Metallica and they don't scream as much and they don't sing/scream about Jesus raping people.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that RAM sings/screams about rape a lot. I am not sure if like one of the band member's girlfriend got raped or something. Or maybe they just like singing about that stuff.
ReplyDeleteWHO IS C???
ReplyDeleteum that is kind of strange that they sing about that. how many songs do you have from them.
ReplyDeletec is someone in our class that's name begins with a c and is not charlie.
ReplyDeleteI've posted this same exact thing before but it's not there anymore. Do you like your music?
How many people are in RAM?
p.s did you come up with that acronym yourself?
Hi Ian, it was interesting to hear the piece you shared last week! Have you read more of their lyrics or done research on RAM yet? They are fascinating to me, but definitely a lot heavier than what I feel comfortable with (future stretch project for me, maybe!).
ReplyDeletewho is C?????????????
ReplyDeleteI CAN FINALLY POST!!!!! I TOOK ME A WHOLE HOUR TO FIGURE THIS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletevocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk.
ReplyDeleteThese are the names of the people in RAM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3xM3v4-rI&feature=related
These are the links to some music vids. I thought they were pretty cool/creepy. Please don't watch during school.
Oh My God. This is my favorite vid of them all. It is so cool how they did this.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8wU9DdbqU&feature=related
That was a cool video.
ReplyDeletedo you like your music?
HUNTER....
ReplyDeleteFOR THE LAST TIME C IS CADENCE!
I HOPE YOU GOT THAT.
Oops. I didn't realize I was typing in Caps Lock. Sorry, don't mean to sound mean or anything.
ReplyDeleteIan I hope you got that too.
ReplyDeleteAnyways... i like to video too.
i dident wtch it but do u like ur music
ReplyDeleteHey Ian, I need to check out some of those videos - I'll try to next week! Tell us about your favorite song!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! They are kind of awesome! I just watched Sleep Now In The Fire, and I love it! It was hard to understand what he was saying before I looked up the lyrics, but they are really powerful.
ReplyDeleteWe have done exactly that: slept through every fire, from the moment we drop the match until the moment the last embers die. We hope that if we close our eyes, that someone else will have the courage to face the flames and attempt to the extinguish the destruction they have created.
Rage Against the Machine is telling us to Rage Against the Machine. We are not a machine. We are not controlled by machines. A machine continues to do exactly what it has always done until it wears out and falls apart. It plods along, never changing or growing or doing anything important or making a difference. A machine is immune to the suffering of others, because it cannot feel or see or hear.
We are living, breathing people. We live, we love, we care, we grow, we change. We have the power. We have the power to make the world we live in what we want. We have the power to do things differently this time.
There are a hundred matches dropping.
Will you close your eyes, knowing that the next time you open to them you will be greeted by a scorched and barren field of ash?
Or will you suffer the burns, and save everything you care about?
"The Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agent of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
To Sleep now in the fire"
The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria were Christopher Columbus's ships. The ships that first brought European's to America, and with them horrible disease, war, the lust for gold... Columbus's men killed thousands and thousands, mercilessly and pointlessly. If we want to trace this all back and find something solid to throw our blame at these three ships are a pretty good choice.
I did not understand "The fields overseer" until I Google-searched it. The top result was this poem:
"The Fields Overseer
My Mind is a tyrant and it's taken control
Over my body, my spine and my soul.
With conquest its quest, domination its goal
It has captured me, ravaged me,
Beaten me savagely,
leaving me scattered,
Alone in the cold.
This monsoon breeze Mind is now steering the ship,
Which is tattered and torn and starting to split.
I strive to regain control but I slip
'Neath The Fields Overseer - cracking His whip."
-Chris J Warner
I had no clue as to the significance of "agent of orange." Agent Orange, apparently, is a highly toxic herbicide used by our military that causes cancer.
These are the prices we have had to pay, to satisfy our greed. These are the costs of our desires.
So let us not sleep in the fire now. Let us fight the fire with water. Let us fight violence and hatred with kindness and peace.
We have slept through far too many fires.
The video of Sleep Now In The Fire is awesome, so everyone should definitely see it.
ReplyDeleteIt is really funny as well, even if it is funny in a kind of depressing way. I wonder what gave them the idea to do that. I would like to find out more about what happened with them performing on Wall Street, and the police arresting them. Whatever they did, it sure gave them a lot of power. Stuff like that tends to give you a lot of power. I mean, you can do a lot if you don't do it violently or with hatred. If all they are doing is playing music, then they make the police look like the violent ones. You can't accomplish anything by fighting fire with fire, and Rage Against the Machine may be furious in their songs, but they are certainly using a peaceful method of protest, and honestly they have a right to be furious.
Wow. Amelia did you just figure out those lyrics or look them up? Because from what Ian played from us it seems like it might be hard to determine the lyrics.
ReplyDeleteI listened to it once, and got maybe two or three lyrics out of it. Like I heard part and thought "Well, since the title is "Sleep Now In the Fire" and that kind of sounds like that, I assume that is what they are saying... But other than that I didn't get anything the first time. I looked up the lyrics and read them through, and then suddenly, when you listen to the song again, you find it incredibly weird that you did not understand them at first!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as you read the lyrics, you can understand what they are saying perfectly well. It also takes a little bit to get used to the way they sing... But that is true of every artist (slightly more true of RAM though, I must admit.)
Like this one artist:
Me and my father were listening to music in the car, and there was just this one line that neither of us could understand! And we played that darned song over and over and over again for nearly an hour, trying to understand the lyrics.
I was quite convinced they were "Tree meat like genre cuss bubbles they're fake."
my dad though the lyrics were "Trust me in Jennifer's gravy to bake."
Suddenly, after an hour of listening to the same few seconds of this song I say "Treat me like China 'cuz baby I break."
Which turned out to be the real lyrics.
Me and my dad both started cracking up.
I can post now
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I think that rage aginst the machine is kinda funny because of what they do to protest by singing about certain things that you mentioned earlier.
ReplyDeleteby the way Synthesia Doxyro Peregrine (be warned my name may change from week-to-week) is going to have like a billion points all of there posts are longer than the thesis we did last year in sixth grade
ReplyDeleteI know
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to post
ReplyDeleteYa ure right I looked up the lyrics of the song testify and the lyrics of master the puppets and there is nothing alike. Rage against the machine trys to protest using music. Metallica is more just trying to freak people out. One simallarity is that both bands sing in the same way and there music sounds the same.
ReplyDeleteIan,
ReplyDeleteif Rage Against the Machine was an ice cream flavor what would it be?
The music video was very wierd and random. It had pictures of George Bush and Bill Clinton and the guy singing looked like bob marley.
ReplyDeleteOkay, what is the cool dude's name? The one who is singing and spencer says looks like bob marley and I actually remember what bob marley looks like and spencer is RIGHT...
ReplyDeleteYeah, that guy.
But Sleep Now in the Fire is AWESOME.
And by the way, I am Synthesia Doxyro Peregrine, Ariadne Elorian Scian and Sarafin Azrael Zinetta.
No, I am not transcendent, I just change my screen name almost every week.
And Maddy has WAY more points than I have.
By the way, what is a thesis?
I think that Streetlight Manifesto, Rage Against the Machine and Arlo Guthrie do a really good job of protesting. They really get the message across. Well, Arlo's one about pickle juice on a motor cycle (or whatever that was) was not really the best protest song... Unless it is protesting canned and bottled... vegetable... liquids taking part in dangerous... activities...
I find this possibility rather unlikely though.
And everyone should join my blog, by the way.
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