My First Time Hearing Rage Against The Machine!

RESPECT for not censoring the artist's lyrics. The intention is 100% important in those words in the way he expresses them.

Seeing a trained Opera singer vibe out to Killing in the Name is the craziest shit I've seen in a long time.

Lady you have no idea what this song does to us 90's kids. Listening to it at 40yrs old means even more. 🎉

Can we just appreciate what a genius Tom Morello is on the guitar?

To me the F you part is so cool because at first it sounds like he's repeating it to himself in his head, gathering courage, and when the guitar comes in it just bursts out of him in a wave of rebellion and outrage.

This song was important in the UK because it kept a Simon Cowell corporate monstrosity off the Christmas No. 1 spot in the charts. This was a deliberate act by the UK public, made easier by it being a great piece of music.

Give Tom Morello 4 notes, and he'll give you a masterpiece. You can recognize his unique sound immediately.

I love that this song had the exact effect, emotionally, on her which was intended. It makes you wanna DO SOMETHING! It’s a call to arms…”WE ROLL AT DAWN!!!”!! If this song doesn’t make you wanna push back against oppression, injustice etc…your feelers are broken. ✊🏼

In 2009, people in the UK were tired of Simon Cowell getting the Xmas #1 song year after year with his TV manufactured songs. There was a massive petition to get this song to #1 to show him. It worked and RATM were #1 at Xmas that year. The band really appreciated it and came to England a few months later and put on a free show!

Its simultaneously the best thing and the saddest thing how well this song held up after 30 years.

Also, when the singer quit, the other bandmembers formed a band with Chris Cornell from Soundgarden, and they named it Audioslave, and that band is incredible too. And TOM Morello is the absolute best at scratch guitar playing ever

This song has so much tension and building anxiety. Knowing what's coming and waiting for you to experience it even adds to it.

"Woah, that's real political" "That's such a funky shift" You have distilled Rage down to their essence! Please do more RATM!

One cool detail about this when they do it live: in the second “now you do what they told ya” section, Zach lets the audience do that part and switches to doing the “now you’re under control”. Literally brings the audience into a chant and then tells them they are sheep. Dudes a legend.

That giggle at about 19:24 gets me. I don't rememeber when I started watching but the fact that you find joy in so many different musical disciplines, just amazes me. I love your channel.

I wish any of my professors and teachers brought even half the infectious joy you emote in these videos to their instruction. I'm learning all these things about how my favorite artists express themselves and vocalize music, it's just brought with such joy and reverence for the craft...you'd be the perfect date for a concert. I bet your significant other is walking on air seeing you experience a new artist for the first time and being able to share those moments. All the best to you and your family, and thanks for these. You're head and shoulders above the majority of this new "reaction video" trend.

The way Zach sings here (repeating lines with different intensities) it's like a rumor told from mouth to mouth, getting bigger, louder, stronger, anger, until turns into the voice of the people... A ragefull scream.

Funny story- when i was in community college, I signed up for a history of the latin americas class with a professor named "Ismael De La Rocha", and on the first day of class, I walked in to him bumping this song on an old boombox and bouncing his head kind of awkwardly (it was amazing), and he went on to tell us that Zach is his nephew. It was easily one of the most surreal and funny moments I had throughout my college career and I miss that dude dearly (he died awhile back, RIP)

Zack puts his all into every song he's ever done! Love this reaction!

The pure joy on your face as you experience some of my favorite music (bent towards the heavy side) is just so infectious. Not sure why I find so much pleasure in your honest expression at hearing the music I grew up loving, but thank you. I am always left feeling better after watching your videos.