Yeah I bet they're so sad they peaked early, they're all crying & blowing their noses with million-dollar-bills in their mansions for the rest of their lives.

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dejected_warp_core 5 points 7 months ago

Also, in the words of Dee Snider and Twisted Sister: "We're not gonna take it, anymore."

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AngryCommieKender 5 points 7 months ago

Also in the words of Dee Snyder: "the only sado-masocism going on in the song 'Under the Knife,' is happening in Tipper Gore's head."

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Brother 2 points 7 months ago

😂

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder 19 points 7 months ago

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AffineConnection 10 points 7 months ago

Rage Against The Machine is what happens when I see AI in my web search results.

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Brother 1 point 7 months ago

Rage Against The Machine is when someone introduced a new piece of music to me. And they think it's real and trying to convince me at how dope it is. And me side eyeing them, thinking..I can't wait to get this fake crap up out my ear. It's clever. But ummm, fake ain't the new real homie. Duces. ✌️

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BreadOven 3 points 7 months ago

I preferred when they weren't political.

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SethTaylor 4 points 7 months ago

Yea RATM is so woke now. I miss the good old days when they were just about having fun 🤭

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BreadOven 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah. I miss that song about rainbows and butterflies and unicorns and candy.

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Buddahriffic 3 points 7 months ago

Muse too.

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Brother 1 point 7 months ago

Agreed!!

Brother

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Thedogdrinkscoffee 15 points 7 months ago

Punk was always right.

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Peppycito 6 points 7 months ago

Maybe not about the heroin.

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SparkyBauer44 2 points 7 months ago

Definitely not about the heroin.

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Asfalttikyntaja 3 points 7 months ago

I have always loved punk and especially the Clash.

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spinner 2 points 7 months ago

They had some great riffs and lyrics

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somethingsnappy 5 points 7 months ago

Just need to add church officials to that separate bathroom.

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dejected_warp_core 4 points 7 months ago

Early Gen-X went from seeing the horrors of the Vietnam war on TV, straight into Reganism, Iran Contra, and more. All while under the looming shadow of global thermonuclear war, which was pushed heavily into the zeitgeist by cold-war politics at the time. Sure, there's a lot good stuff from that era too, but there was also plenty to rage about.

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Zink 1 point 7 months ago

Yeah, it's come up a few times lately but even the big popular ones you could have seen on MTV like SOAD and RATM can be chilling to listen to today.

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RememberTheApollo_ 63 points 7 months ago

I can’t find a direct quote from Trent saying this anywhere except reposts on various social media, none of which appear to be Reznor official.

Can anyone verify this is a real quote or is it just made up crap?

Edit: more digging…looks like the earliest edition of this was on instagram about a day ago and for some reason took off about 16 hours ago. My search-fu isn’t good enough to find the origin.

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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean 35 points 7 months ago

I can’t find it either…but I found this in The Village Voice from 2017: “the president of the United States is a complete fucking moron,” he seethes. “That’s what gets me the most — that he’s this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people.”

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Kolanaki 26 points 7 months ago

This particular quote is made up.

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backalleycoyote 21 points 7 months ago

So, it’s a terrible lie? I’m hurt. Makes me wish this fragile society wasn’t in such a downward spiral.

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dejected_warp_core 11 points 7 months ago

Now there's a comment with teeth.

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TerdFerguson 8 points 7 months ago

These days, I'm afraid of Americans.

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yggstyle 3 points 7 months ago

Tragic. Any possibility he said it on tour?

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Kolanaki 6 points 7 months ago

Probably not this exact thing, but he has said a lot against Trump and MAGA.

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yggstyle 1 point 7 months ago

I'll take that over the alternative of say.... A creepy video with RFK any day.

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Thedogdrinkscoffee 3 points 7 months ago

Technically, they all are.

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Kolanaki 4 points 7 months ago

And now, here's a few non-made up words;

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Zephorah 49 points 7 months ago

As GenX, Xennial, whatever we’re called these days, I miss this guy. I have to remind myself, 40s and 50s isn’t dead, yet.

Bite the Hand that Feeds comes to mind. Reznor refused to perform it at an awards show during the Gulf War because they wouldn’t let him display a giant head shot of George W. Bush during. Then there’s Bowie. Reznor was “Johnny” in the “I’m Afraid of Americans” video.

We also had Rage. What music is being produced now, rock side, that’s worth a damn?

ETA: Head. Like a Hole is fitting, in the billionaire era.

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darkdemize 18 points 7 months ago

Check out Rise Against. Very much a "fuck the establishment" band.

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acantharea 15 points 7 months ago

It's all underground and decentralized into its own communities. Takes a good amount of digging but its not like say the 70s-early 00s where smaller to medium sized labels were taking risks and funding all kinds of music that allowed for bands like NIN and Rage to hit the stratosphere. With all the M&A and industry contraction, risk taking is severely discouraged. Hence, the generic slop seen in the surface today.

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PapaStevesy 13 points 7 months ago

Parquet Courts, IDLES, Mannequin Pussy, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, black midi (recent rip), Kneecap, Turnstile, shame, Squid, Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, SPRINTS, Amyl & the Sniffers, so many more, the list goes on and on!

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anomnom 12 points 7 months ago

Run the Jewels has collaborated with Zach De la Rocha and Nobody Speak with DJ Shadow is an anthem.

Viagra Boys has some catchy antifascist lyrics.

I kinda like the Idles’ album Tangk. It more rock and makes some good points, mainly to “fuck the king”

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whoisearth 3 points 7 months ago

El-P collabed with Trent on Flyentology.

Fuck I'm old now aren't I?

Proceeds to crank Thot Squad to feel young.

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anomnom 1 point 7 months ago

Yeah I’m up there too, but missed a lot of the better early indie rap because I lived outside good radio coverage in the 90s. The college stations near me were all grunge/indie rock (and lots of Phish). So that’s what I listened to.

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Snowcano 2 points 7 months ago

The Nobody Speak video is so good!

And while they’re not current, I recently discovered a late 90’s early-aughts rap group called The Coup that was basically writing the soundtrack for everything happening now (which just goes to show that these issues have been with is for a long time).

A few notable tracks that spring to mind:

Kill My Landlord
5 million ways to kill a CEO
and while the title doesn’t express it, the anti-billionaire track Pimps is as fucking hilarious as it is biting. These guys were clowning Trump back when he was just a simple civilian bigoted moron rapist.

Can’t believe I didn’t hear about this group back in the day, they’re one of my favorite discoveries in recent memory.

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breadsanta 2 points 7 months ago

Boots Riley from The Coup and Tom Morello from RATM teamed up for a minute and put out the project Street Sweeper Social Club which has some bangers. Also the best indie political hip hop that's come out lately is hands down from Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals. Their album A City Drowned in God's Black Tears was my favorite album from last year.

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anomnom 2 points 7 months ago

Oh man I forgot about them.

Busdriver and a bunch of his collaborators rap about similar stuff. Lots of anti rich rapper lyrics too. Indie rap has been a great fill in for the lack of RATM over the last 20 years.

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Snowcano 1 point 7 months ago

Oh shit, Busdriver! It’s been a minute, I got some relistening to do!

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TheFinn 2 points 7 months ago

I saw Viagra Boys open for Queens of the Stone Age. What are their freedom oriented songs?

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anomnom 1 point 7 months ago

Troglodyte is a pretty solid rebuke of the terminally online MAGA gun but.

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ArgentRaven 12 points 7 months ago

The entire Year Zero album was Trent's revive of what would become MAGA. Unfortunately, the only solution for the problem in his album was aliens killing everyone.

It's still a great album and very relevant today.

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roundup5381 11 points 7 months ago

Seriously prophetic. The ARG for the album’s release was such a mind blowing experience.

Also Art.Is.Resistance. felt like what was prescriptive for the situation.

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0x0f 6 points 7 months ago

There was also SoaD and their singer Serj Tankian, who went solo. Their songs are still fucking dead on.

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P00ptart 5 points 7 months ago

Check out run the jewels. Corporate avenger was good but didn't last very long. A lot of Slipknot is in the same vein.

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RaoulDuke85 5 points 7 months ago

RTJ make songs for Turbo Tax now. Sold out fucks.

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P00ptart 4 points 7 months ago

Well, that's disappointing.

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SailorFuzz 5 points 7 months ago

Killer Mike is your textbook definition libertarian. He's capitalist af with specific interest in specific progressive policies that he is personally invested in. Especially if those interest align with his brand image. He's was rahrah Bernie until it wasn't making him any money.

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cheffrey 2 points 7 months ago

Echoing good bands: IDLES, Grandson, Turnstile, Dropkick Murphys are still putting out stuff, St. Vincent, High Vis, Knocked Loose

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alekwithak 1 point 7 months ago

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breadsanta 1 point 7 months ago

Hardcore punk as a genre is all good political rock. Incendiary is a great band that is reminiscent of Rage. One of my favorite bands is Hostages, but enough of their songs are calls to violence against pigs and politicians that it'll probably put you on a list lol

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Zink 21 points 7 months ago

Much like with healthcare, all this bullshit with who uses what bathroom is a solved issue in other parts of the world.

... but being an American I assume it will never happen because building bathrooms to respect human privacy and dignity probably costs wealthy commercial property builders and owners at least $1 more than doing the bare minimum required by building code.

The solution, if you're wondering, is that there isn't a giant ladies' room and giant men's room. There are several individual bathrooms, each with its own little sink to wash hands and a real door. It doesn't even take up much space. It's just a short section of hallway with 3-4 doors on each side.

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Tenderizer 6 points 7 months ago

I'd just start by building toilet stall without gaps in the door so wide that people can see into the stalls whenever they walk past.

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Obi 3 points 7 months ago

I heard that's something American companies do on purpose, so that you don't spend any longer than needed in there, using company time.

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quinacridone 3 points 7 months ago

I went into one of those toilets you describe not too long ago in a restaurant

It was a pleasant novelty to have 'my' own individual space

It seems a practical solution for a problem that some dickheads are making for people that they're unlikely to ever meet

Edit spacing

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db2 15 points 7 months ago

That reminds me, we should make a list of people not in the files, it would be shorter.

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yggstyle 18 points 7 months ago

Know what else would make the list shorter?

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SethTaylor 5 points 7 months ago

Did he actually say that? Can anyone confirm? Cause that's pretty cool

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JigglySackles 1 point 7 months ago

Trent Reznor is a bad ass, so I wouldn't doubt it.

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Nooodel 5 points 7 months ago

Would also seem like an excellent stimulus package. Install an extra bathroom for an, type of gender identity and one more for maga

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musubibreakfast -1 points 7 months ago

I want gender reassignment surgery for everyone in MAGA, they're way too sure of themselves.

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Sam_Bass 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed

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TheRealShadeSlimmy 2 points 7 months ago

We have those, and they can be found at any Barnes & Noble. You can find them by the stench. 🤢

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 1 point 7 months ago

Not let’s get back to charging fans $500+ for tickets, yay capitalism

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oozynozh 2 points 7 months ago

i know you're exaggerating but i stood in line for 4 hours to pay $150 for a ticket to the Cold and Black and Infinite tour and it was worth every second and penny

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yucandu -8 points 7 months ago

This the guy that sang

I left her on the bathroom floor, I think I knew when it crossed the line, I think I knew the whole goddamned time

That Trent?

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SlurpingPus 16 points 7 months ago

I keep wondering if the inability to understand that a character is not the artist is a particular mental illness, or just regular abject stupidity. If you ever get diagnosed, please let me know.

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MummifiedClient5000 6 points 7 months ago

Did you know that Eminem wrote increasingly deranged fan letters to himself under the name Stan and killed a woman?

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yucandu -1 points 7 months ago

Well at least I'm mature enough not to refer to people I disagree with my childish insults.

But please, tell me, who is the character in question?

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SlurpingPus 0 points 7 months ago

childish insults

That's rich coming from a person who evidently believes that Dr. Seuss and Grinch are the same entity.

But please, tell me, who is the character in question?

I don't give a shit about NIN's lyrics, at least not on that album, and still I can comprehend that many popular songs employ the device of an imagined protagonist recounting a fictitious tale of their life.

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yucandu 0 points 7 months ago

who evidently believes that Dr. Seuss and Grinch are the same entity.

Care to elaborate? Because I have literally no idea what you are talking about. I have never commented on Dr Seuss or Grinch in my entire existence on this website.

I don't give a shit about NIN's lyrics

Then could you kindly fuck off and not join a conversation you don't give a shit about?

I can comprehend that many popular songs employ the device of an imagined protagonist recounting a fictitious tale of their life.

Can you comprehend that many popular songs employ the device of an actual truthful history, recounting an autobiographical tale of their life?

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minorkeys -14 points 7 months ago

Yeah Trent Reznor isn't a good figure head of anything...

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