Yep, he might rival Kurt Cobain in pure shittiness. The singer sucks dick too, and uses too many delay effects to sound like hes talking through a radio in every song. |
I don't know... that's a tough one to beat. IMHO Kobain is about one of the most overrated shithead (maybe not a good expletive considering his lack of a head) "rockers" to date.
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RATM rocks. Their politics suck. The drummer and bass player groove together harder than any pair since JPJ and Bonzo. The singer is a whiny bitch, but can communicate emotion, so he gets a pass from me. While I don't think the guitarist is a God, he's got some interesting playing. |
My point. Badass/commie pinko leftists. 
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I'll go ahead and say that I like their music. It has a solid groove and has an appealing vintage rock/metal/blues vibe to it. It's kind of fun to listen to some times. HOWEVER, their lyrics are some of the dumbest shit that I've ever read. To a 13 year-old junior wannabe anarchist/communist, it might sound rebellious, but if you actually read and try to understand the lyrics, the vast majority of them have no substantial meaning. It's just sorta anti-society/anti-government/anti-US bullshit. Jesus fucking Christ they are DUMB! |
Yeah, I doubt that they have any idea about how many people were murdered by Che Guevara, in the name of communism. But what do you expect from a band who's guitarist wears a ball cap that says "COMMIE" on it. |
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my favorite is sleep now in the fire youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8wU9DdbqU&feature=related |
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I think you will all like them more after this song Rage Against The Machine - How I Could Just Kill A Man youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfIZSh_chg&feature=related |
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This is the best: youtube.com/watch?v=fkuOAY-S6OY (ETA: Just go ahead and skip to 4:10 for the best hook EVAR) -p. |
They need to get their fat walrus looking ass off your obstacle? 
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Off my planet would suffice 
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Umm...no |
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It would be interesting to see how many of the "They Suck!" respondants are musicians. Knowing that every odd sound contained in the songs is produced by guitarist Tom Morello, it's a hard conclusion for a musician to come to. The dude is impressive, right up there with Larry LaLonde and Les Claypool with his ability to coax new sounds from an old instrument. |
I am...and I have not heard anything that impressive from him. |
Being able to cable together every effect pedal you can pick out of a Musician's Friend catalog does not make you "impressive" and to even read that someone puts him on the same level as Les Claypool makes me physically ill. |
I'm sorry, but I just watched that video again, and commie pinko leftists or not, that dude can fuckin jam. Extremely intense for a front man. |
| I'm not a huge RATM fan, but I do enjoy some of their music, and Tom Morello is a creative guitarist who coaxes some fucking cool sounds out of a guitar. Fuck, for all anyone knows, he might be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen, but that's not what playing in his band calls for. It's the collaborative effort of four guys, not the "Tom Morello shreds in every song to show his skills to Arfcom Project." Technical ability doesn't have shit to do with creativity and passion for making music. As far as their politics, I could give two shits. I know they're douchebags, a lot of entertainers are. I can overlook that silliness, and just enjoy the music. |
Morello gets all of his sounds running through a digital wah, an overdrive, and a delay through a Marshall 50w head. That's pretty much his entire system. IOW, he makes your namesake look like Tom Scholtz.  I stand by my statement, AND it's context, which you seem to have missed.
Jazz musician? 
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUbsFQiLBE I don't care how many retarded sounds he gets out of what pedals, until Tom can play something like that he's just another hack guitarist in a shitty band. |
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Rage Against The Machine Shoots New Video With Michael Moore Old news, I know. |
Check out who pops in the video at about 2:26 and the credits at around 3:35 |
all around.
He directed it. 
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Me neither, except they don't just wear their's on their sleeve... it's also injected into their lyrics. With them you can't even tell them "shut up and sing"... |