VEGANGELICA

Phantom, I like Jay Reatard's "Oh It's Such A Shame" quite a bit, especially after 1:20 when it gets noisier and sounds more serious. What's a shame is that he died at age 29! I just read about that. His song reminds me a little of Polvo's "Time Isn't On My Side" due to the guitar.

^ Interesting, skaltezon. The bass line and the song's meaning kept my attention. The similarities between the "alien-designed mutants" Bush and Gore were rather startling to hear...but in Gore's defense at least he included fair trade as a goal and not just the disastrous free trade (government hands-off) that Bush mentioned!

I read on Wikipedia that critics disliked Rage Against the Machine for its "fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash." "A Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash." That's a beautiful compliment intended perhaps as a criticism!

"Testify" inspired me to listen to more songs by Rage Against the Machine. I liked this one especially:

Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up"
I love that they work so hard to share what they've learned about people's violent, underhanded misuse of power...and they do it by creating music that sounds like rage feels. The beginning of the song reminds me of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" guitar intro, which I like. Then it shifts to a bass line more intense than, but reminiscent of, the bass line in Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole" before the lyrics start. I also enjoyed the documentary film footage someone used for this video:

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