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Do you know what band I miss? I miss Rage Against the Machine. I know that Audioslave is the same band with a different singer. But it\u2019s really not the SAME band. There\u2019s something missing in Audioslave. It\u2019s not in the musicianship. Tom Morrell is still amazing. Chris Cornell is one of the best rock vocalists ever. The musical ability of Audioslave is tremendous.<\/p>\n
Well, let me qualify what I just said. Audioslave’s musicianship is tremendous. But it\u2019s lacking something. I think that something is the RAGE. Audioslave is all sanitized and warm and fuzzy compared to Rage Against the Machine. For instance, \u201cBorn of a Broken Man\u201d by Rage just played on my iTunes. The guitar riff, the vocal passion, the urgency of the song were all intense. Compare that with \u201cDoesn\u2019t Remind Me\u201d by Audioslave. See what I\u2019m saying? \u201cDoesn\u2019t Remind Me\u201d is nice. It\u2019s warm. I can relate to it. How many times in my life do things remind me of some lost love or some long gone circumstance that I wished never passed? Yeah, I can relate to the idea of liking some things in life because they DO NOT remind me of anything. That\u2019s nice. But how does that compare with a song like \u201cBroken Man\u201d with lyrics such as these:<\/p>\n
\nMy fears hunt me down
\nCapturing my memories
\nThe frontier of loss
\nThey try to escape across the street where
\nJesus stripped bare
\nAnd raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
\nIn the name of my
\nIn the name of my<\/p>\nBorn of a broken man
\nBut not a broken man
\nBorn of a broken man
\nNever a broken man<\/p><\/blockquote>\nNo, I don\u2019t completely understand the complete meaning of the song. But I FEEL it. \u201cMy fears hunt me down, capturing my memories.\u201d In my opinion, and that is all this article is about, I\u2019d rather be hunted down by my fears and FEEL the affect of that than to be temporarily numbed by thinking of things that don\u2019t remind me of anything that I FEEL. Do you see what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n
Just as I\u2019d rather listen to Rage Against the Machine and lament their break up than listen to Audioslave, I\u2019d rather FEEL something in my existence in this passage we tenderly refer to as LIFE. I\u2019d rather feel the pain and the fears, the cutting and bleeding. I\u2019d rather bang my head along with Rage than smile along with their new incarnation. I want something that\u2019s relevant. I want something that feels like it matters. I want the feeling of the sword through my chest as I spit in my enemy\u2019s eye just before giving up the ghost. I want THAT more than I want to sit in my slippers and robe and collect my pension one day.<\/p>\n
All of this talk reminds me of some obscure piece I wrote almost a year ago after drinking. I admit, I was driving too. Please hold your Mothers Against Drunk Drivers lectures. Let\u2019s stick to the point here. What the hell is the point? Oh yeah, getting drunk. No, the point is FEELING something, something that MATTERS. Here\u2019s what I wrote (and I apologize in advance for lacking the necessary writing ability to make what I want to say clearer):<\/p>\n
Sometimes you just have to punch the person next to you in the inside of their arm so goddamn hard that they yell, \u2018What the fuck did you do that for??\u2019, then smoke a big joint and listen to Pink Floyd\u2019s \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d with headphones and learn what dysfunction can teach you.<\/p>\n
Is the status quo all that it\u2019s cracked up to be? Is politically correct always correct? Fuck. I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s something to learn from CHAOS, something of order in the disorder. Something to claw into. Something to rip your heart open and implant something of essence.<\/p>\n
Just drink your big ol\u2019 bottle of booze, hop in your car and drive your brain right out of your skull. (Just make sure you only kill yourself, dick.)<\/p>\n
Or maybe you just need to crank up some Madonna and dance until you bleed, slam yourself into a wall and convulse in a fit of laughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
See what I\u2019m saying? It\u2019s the correctness of it all that\u2019s fucked up. It\u2019s phoney. It\u2019s bullshit. I\u2019m so tired of it. I\u2019m so tired of LIFE AS USUAL. I\u2019d rather have the chaos. I\u2019d rather have THE RAGE. At least then there\u2019s the possibility of something significant, something that MATTERS. Is it possible that society is so scared that it has insulated itself from CHAOS and DYSFUNCTION? Have we really tricked ourselves into believing that politically correct is actually correct? Have we merely LABELED that which we don\u2019t understand and that which prevents the system from functioning the way we have grown accustomed to? Aw! To hell with that! That precludes PASSION. Without passion what can you feel? NOTHING. And that is exactly the point! Give me passion. Give me chaos. Give me rage. Give it to me any day, especially TODAY. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally posted on the website: Do you know what band I miss? I miss Rage Against the Machine. I know that Audioslave is the same band with a different singer. But it\u2019s really not the SAME band. There\u2019s something missing in Audioslave. It\u2019s not in the musicianship. Tom Morrell is still amazing. Chris Cornell is … Continue reading “GIVE ME RAGE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,86,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-test-monkey","category-music","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}