Do you know Rage Against The Machine Music Meaning and immigration views.?
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I DONT BELIEVE THAT THEIR MUSIC SPEAKS MUCH ON IMMIGRATION POLICY. THEY DO SPEAK A LOT ABOUT PERSECUTION AND GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND HOW THEY WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR LAND BY THE WHITE MAN. THEY ARE VERY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT THE \nPOLITICS INVOLVED WITH THESE ISSUES. AS FAR AS A POLITICAL \nAFFILIATION, DEMOCRAT/REPUBLICAN, THEY ARE NEITHER. THEY SEEM TO JUST BE ANTI-GOVERNMENT ALL TOGETHER. \nIF YOU ARE A RATM FAN AND WOULD LIKE TO GET A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT A GREAT RESOURCE I WOULD RECOMMEND ARE THEIR CONCERT DVD'S. EXCELLENT DVD'S ON THEIR OWN, BUT THE SPECIAL FEATURES AND BONUS MATERIAL WILL TELL YOU A LOT ABOUT THEM.
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I've not heard that one, unfortunately, but Anti-Flag are pretty damn good.  I think this sounds like a good song, it has a similar message to many of their other songs, but is specifically about Iraq and not war in general. My personal favourite A-F song is "Turncoat", about George Bush.\n\nTurncoat!\nKiller!\nLiar!\nThief!\nCriminal with protection of the law!
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Yeh Love the Irish music!  My all time favourite irish band was Planxty...  You know I have this theory that nearly all modern music came from the Irish. The influence is obvious. Music was and still is a very big part of Irish culture and the opression in their own country for hundreds of years drove them to all corners of the globe and they took their music with them...  *Raises a Guiness to the old country*
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Music is an expression of self. It is very powerful. It can affect mood, trigger memories...\nI think We attach to songs for two reasons. 1) The song conveys a message that reflects who we are and what we believe in. or\n2) It just has a snappy beat and we like the sound of it.\n\nCould music change the way the society perceives other cultures.  I'm guessing no. Primarily because there would typically be a language barrier and most people would not take the time to find out what the lyrics mean. But I believe if they did take that time, it would have some sort of positive impact. For example. Con Te Partiro sung by Anthony Bocelli is a very powerful love song when you look up the lyrics and then listen to it.\nAnyway, could music bring peace between cultures. I'm still thinking no on that. Interesting question.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:06:49 -0700\nSubject: [PAG] An ugly reality\n\nAn ugly reality\n\nBy Thomas Sowell\n\nApr 18, 2006\n\nThank heaven for the massive marches across the country by those \nfavoring illegal immigrants. These marches revealed the ugly truth \nbehind the fog of pious words and clever political spin from the media \nand from both Democrats and Republicans in Washington.\n\n"Guest workers"? Did any of the strident speakers, with their \nin-your-face bombast in Spanish, sound like guests? Did they sound like \npeople who wanted to become Americans?\n\nWere they even asking for amnesty? They didn't sound like they were \nasking for anything. They sounded like they were telling. Demanding. \nThreatening.\n\nSomebody must have told them that their Mexican flags that dominated the \nearlier marches were not making a good impression on television, so they \nstarted flying American flags. But such cosmetic changes did not keep \nthe ugly reality from coming through in their hostile speeches.\n\nThese were not the speeches of people who wanted to join American \nsociety but people who wanted their own turf on American soil -- in \ndisregard and defiance of what American citizens want.\n\nEurope has already been through this "guest worker" policy that we are \nbeing urged to follow. They have learned the hard way what it means to \nhave a growing foreign population in their midst -- a population that \ninsists on remaining foreign and hostile to the culture, values and \npeople around them.\n\nSome European countries have learned this lesson at the cost of riots \nand bloodshed in the streets and lives lost in terrorist attacks. Others \nhave only had to contend with national polarization -- thus far -- but \npolarization is not a small thing.\n\nIn this country, however, there are still people who refuse to learn any \nlesson at all. Some business interests see only an opportunity to get \ncheap labor. Some intellectuals see only abstract principles about \nabstract people crossing an abstract border.\n\nSome tell us loftily that earlier generations of immigrants who were \nonce thought to be unassimilable turned out over time to become as \nAmerican as anyone else and patriotic citizens.\n\nThat might well be true of immigrants from Mexico, both legal and \nillegal, if the circumstances of today were the same as the \ncircumstances during an earlier era of immigration from Europe. But \ncircumstances are not the same -- and those circumstances are not going \nto become the same by pretending that they are.\n\nThe ugly display of grievance-mongering bombast at the illegal immigrant \nmarches is just one of those circumstances that are not the same as in \nan earlier era.\n\nWhen people came here from Europe, they came here to become Americans. \nThere was no prouder title for them.\n\nAmerican generals of German ancestry led the fight against Germany in \nboth World Wars. The Irish "Fighting 69th" earned its fame on the \nbattlefields of the First World War and Japanese American fighting units \nwere among the most highly decorated in World War II. They proved they \nwere Americans.\n\nThe underlying tragedy of the present situation is that it is doubtful \nwhether the activist loudmouths, who were too contemptuous of this \ncountry to even speak its language while demanding its benefits, \nrepresent most immigrants from Mexico.\n\nBoth legal and illegal immigrants have come here primarily to work and \nmake a better life for themselves and their families. But a country \nrequires more than workers. It requires people who are citizens not only \nin name but in commitment.\n\nAmericanization did not happen automatically in earlier times and it \nwill not happen automatically today. Immigrants in an earlier era had \nleaders and organizations actively working to transform them into \nAmericans -- the Catholic Church with the Irish and numerous \norganizations among the Jews, for exampl
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This may give you some insight...\nhttp://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1199
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Lately discovered Rage Against the Machine. Those guys are pissed off, and for good reason.
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It's not easy to profess the exact reasons for some of the elements. But it is easy to explain where it comes from. Maynard James Keenan is a huge fan of an artist (the name escapes me) and his style is what you see in the videos.Maynard was allegedly molested by his father growing up. It seems Maynard's music style has tapped into those emotions and has given it a certain angry quality. Can't say as I would blame him for being angry. Many people misunderstand Tool. If you examine the lyrics closely you'll find there's more there than mindless anger.
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Music, religion, languages and politics..
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i got a copy of it on ebay, as well as tom morello's first band, inside out. they're both nowhere near as good as rage tho.
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Watching the video the song has to be about the fall of communism, however you get a hint of sarcasm that perhaps the west isn't that much better at running it's countries.\n\nOK, let's try this again..other then there being a bunch of guys wearing "Devo-type" outfits, and different statues with different forms on top (a man, a star, a black Statue of Liberty) I really don't know what you're asking.
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It means you listen to emo music (emotional).  People will probobly hate you for that.
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Oh wow. yes.  NIN's "Head Like a Hole" from "Pretty Hate Machine" is an incredibly powerful song, and as I recall the original video was equally as powerful.  Who says Music isn't good propaganda?  I think that song is awesome.  I'd use it, if I were you.  Hehe.
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Music enhances unification under a common cause with patriotic or military tunes. Music is the soul of ideas. Music is the morale of people that risk their lives. With music you remember the reasons you have to be where you're at. With music you become sentimental an passionatly strong against your enemy. It's an execellent psicological weapon. One of the reasons Russians respected Western culture so much was because of rock music.
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Absolutely not.  They were quite left-wing, not right-wing.  There were some nazi punk bands in the West Coast scene (see Dead Kennedys "Nazi Punks F*ck Off" as reference), but BF and Henry Rollins were never a part of that, and their lyrics have never been racist at all.\n~~~~~\nAdded: Skinhead culture was originally a punk thing that was taken up by nazi punks.  Once the nazi punks made skinheads synonymous with racism, most punks grew their hair or proclaimed themselves to be "SHARPs" (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice).  Just because someone's a skinhead does not make them racist.
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isn't it rage against the machine? i dont know if i'm thinking of the right ad though...sorry!
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Korn, NIN & Rage Against the Machine.