Zack De La Rocha en Chile

Escuché en la Rock & Pop que Rage Against The Machine anunció visita a Chile para el 2010 ¡con Zack De La Rocha!

Yo no soy una persona a quien le gusten los conciertos masivos. Los lugares muy llenos me angustian. Pero esta es una excelente noticia para todos a quienes les encanta ir a los estadios y otros lugares al aire libre con otros miles de humanos a apretujarse y a oir música en vivo.

Un grupo totalmente jugado por sus ideas, fueron incluso censurados en algunas radios en Estados Unidos acusados de "antipatriotas".

Les dejo una canción que llevo conmigo todos los días en mi MP4 y creo que he escuchado más de 100 veces. Atención a la letra. A que no adivinan quién es "Mister X".



Wake Up! (de http://www.sing365.com/)

Come on!
Uggh!

Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never read it
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double I'm mad
Still knee-deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give ya a dose
But it can never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy

Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease
When their heads are flown
'Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges, the feds
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Yeah!
Yeah, back in this...
Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya up, to break the structure up
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like takin' photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end
Ya better beware
Of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
Ya know they murdered X
And tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Uggh!
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!

I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

'He may be a real contender for this position should he
abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine
of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism'
'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers... and neutralize them.
Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers... and neutralize them
and neutralize them, and neutralize them, and neutralize them'

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

How long? Not long, cause what you reap is what you sow

Conoce a tus enemigos - Know your enemy de Rage Against The Machine

Esta canción es del álbum homónimo de Rage Against The Machine, disco que escuchaba en cassette. ¡Sí, en cassette! Me acuerdo que me lo prestó mi primo Ale y no se lo devolví en años, me encantaba.

Know your enemy se trata de una crítica al estilo de vida americano en forma bastante violenta y anárquica. Yo diría que es la canción más emblemática y representativa de la postura de Rage Against The Machine. Su visión de mundo es tan radical que se dice que los censuran en las radios estadounidenses.

Polémica aparte, estos gallos tiene dos grandes cosas que los distinguen: la voz de Zack De La Rocha y la guitarra con efectos que están presentes en todos los álbumes y que hace que uno siempre los reconozca.

Leí por ahí que se reunieron y que siguen dando conciertos. Ojalá sea verdad y vengan a Chile.

Por mi parte, no conozco a mis enemigos, porque no tengo: nadie está a la altura. A lo más alguna que otra persona insignificante que me odie por aquí o por allá, pero nada de importancia.

En fin, conozcan a sus enemigos y que tengan una rockeada tarde de domingo.

Know your enemy de http://www.lyricsfreak.com/

Huh!

Yeah, were comin back then with another bombtrack
Think ya know what its all about
Huh!

Hey yo, so check this out
Yeah!
Know your enemy!
Come on!

Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist, thats with
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key
Well break in

Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em

Fist in ya face, in the place
And Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy...know your enemy!

Yeah!

Hey yo, and dick with this...uggh!
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the d the e the f the I the a the n the c the e
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane

The finger to the land of the chains
What? the land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now something must be done

About vengeance, a badge and a gun
cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Now action must be taken

We dont need the key
Well break in
 Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of sick of sick of sick of you
Time has come to pay...
Know your enemy!

Come on!
Yes I know my enemies
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are american dreams (8 times)