hadda been playing on the jukebox

Of course, I do love US bands. In the US, they have a lot of good bands, some great.. Well, only one for me stands out.. Rage against the machine!!!!

While listening to college days, or even HS days, that was the time, Linkin crap sets in. Getting famous.. But you have Limp Bizkit, Korn and Deftones with so called nu metal. New kind of rock music with a fusion of turntables and old skul hip hop then rock music. Except for Korn of course..

I discovered this damn band wayback high school, as they releasted their 3rd studio album, Battle of Los Angeles, which is damn great! I first look at them and heard at MTV, they're rocking awesome. From well, simple bass of Tim C who went crazy at a MTV awards night. hehe Brad Wilk at drums hmmm simple again but just right for the band. You have a guitar god under Tom Morello, looks simple but hella good at guitars, especially when he does the rifts and standalone in betweens, damn good in live as well. He's damn good and crazy, I love it. hehe He's one of the best lead guitar in rock, history. period. Iconic.

Then another icon is in this band under the name of Zack dela Rocha. The guy with dreadlocks yet with a powerful voice and sense of fight for freedom and patriotism. I guess. hehe But he's serious about it, look at his lyrics and how he say it. I know it's like rap, but damn it just fits right. Well, he is also one of the iconic rock vocals we have in this generation, even not that famous, he should be in the hall of fame as well. The whole band. They are only one of the bands that not only making good music but also awareness politics and social action. If I were the president, I'll invite them here to have a concert, for free. Of course, I'll pay them. hehe

You won't believe that because of them, if there were times I'm angry or down or in a bad mood, I listen to them, until now.. They indeed have a rage in their song. A rage that is for the better... Soothes away the anger or bitter and fear..

Definitely, my favorite US band.. Yes, after JD and New Order, they are next in my list. I do hope that after they united these days, they should go back to studio and do more albums!!!! You sucka!!

My 5th fave song from them, is a poet turned to a rock track.

I love the live and rare version. Way better that I recently discovered version, the studio version..

Hadda Been Playing On The Jukebox

Written by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Rage Against the Machine

It had to be flashin' like the daily double

It had to be playin' on TV

It had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour

It had to be announced over loud speakers

The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots

It had to be said in old ladies' language

It had to be said in American headlines

Kennedy stretched and smiled and got double crossed by lowlife goons and agents

Rich bankers with criminal connections

Dope pushers in CIA working with dope pushers from Cuba working with a

big time syndicate from Tampa, Florida

And it had to be said with a big mouth

It had to be moaned over factory foghorns

It had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts

It had to be screamed in the kitchen

It had to be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting

It had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors

It had to be foghorned into New York harbor

It had to echo onto hard hats

It had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms

It had to be written in library books, footnoted

It had to be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde

It had to be barked on TV

It had to be heard in alleys through ballroom doors

It had to be played on wire services

It had to be bells ringing

Comedians stopped dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas

It had to be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello syndicate

mouthpiece meeting in Central Park, New York weekends,

reported Time magazine

It had to be the Mafia and the CIA together starting war on Cuba,

Bay of Pigs and poison assassination headlines

It had to be dope cops in the Mafia

Who sold all their heroin in America

It had to be the FBI and organized crime working together

in cahoots against the commies

It had to be ringing on multinational cash registers

A world-wide laundry for organized criminal money

It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI together

They were bigger than Nixon

And they were bigger than war

It had to be a large room full of murder

It had to be a mounted ass- a solid mass of rage

A red hot pen

A scream in the back of the throat

It had to be a kid that can breathe

It had to be in Rockefellers' mouth

It had to be central intelligence, the family, allofthis, the agency Mafia

It had to be organized crime

One big set of gangs working together in cahoots

Hitmen

Murderers everywhere

The secret

The drunk

The brutal

The dirty rich

On top of a slag heap of prisons

Industrial cancer

Plutonium smog

Garbage cities

Grandmas' bed soft from fathers' resentment

It had to be the rulers

They wanted law and order

And they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo

They wanted junkies

They wanted Attica

They wanted Kent State

They wanted war in Indochina

It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI

Multinational capitalists

Strong armed squads

Private detective agencies for the rich

And their armies and navies and their air force bombing planes

It had to be capitalism

The vortex of this rage

This competition

Man to man

The horses head in a capitalists' bed

The Cuban turf

It rumbles in hitmen

And gang wars across oceans

Bombing Cambodia settled the score when Soviet pilots

manned Egyptian fighter planes

Chiles' red democracy

Bumped off with White House pots and pans

A warning to Mediterranean governments

The secret police have been embraced for decades

The NKPD and CIA keep each other's secrets

The OGBU and DIA never hit their own

The KGB and the FBI are one mind

One mind, brute force, yet full of money

One mind, brute force, yet full of money

One mind, brute force, yet full of money

One mind, brute force, yet full of money

It had to be rich and it had to be powerful

They had to murder in Indonesia 500000

They had to murder in Indochina 2000000

They had to murder in Czechoslovakia

They had to murder in Chile

They had to murder in Russia

And they had to murder in America