yeah, im sure the album will be ok, but the live show is mindblowing.

A mass of hands press on the market window
Ghosts of progress
Dressed in slow death
Feeding on hunger
And glaring through the promise
Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
A mass of nameless at the oasis
That hides the graves beneath the master's hill
Are buried for drinking
The rivers water while
Shackled to the the line at the empty well

This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound, over new ground

Listen to the facist sing
"Take hope here
War is elsewhere
You were chosen
This is Gods land
Soon we'll be free
Of blot and mixture
Seeds planted by our Forefathers hand"
A mass of promises
Begin to rupture
Like the pockets Of the new world kings
Like swollen stomachs In Appalachia
Like the priest that fucked you As he whispered holy things
A mass of tears have transform the stones now
Sharpened on suffering
And woven into the slings
Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress
Taking today what tomorrow never brings

This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound, over new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
Ain't the new sound, just like the old sound
Look at the noose now, over the, over the, over the burning ground

Just watched the 2010 Finsbury Park show and goddamn I wish these guys would get back together.

A grassroots movement from an English couple led to something pretty amazing. A 10 year old RATM song went head to head with Simon Cowell's X-factor winner, which had been the number 1 Christmas single for 6 or 7 years. Rage said they'd play a free show in London if their song won....not only did their song sell more copies, they played a free show in London, and 80,000 people showed up.

...fuck you I won't do what you tell me...

This was like ten years ago, dude

Brad Wilk was a guest on the Let There Be Talk, and it was awesome.

He discussed the Rage story but also his relationship with Ed Ved. Great talk.

Just listening to this now.

Gotta say I had no idea he’d auditioned for Pearl Jam post-Krusen or had been in a band with Ed in the 80s!

Both were mentioned in the PJ20 book.

Both were mentioned in the PJ20 book.

There is a lot more from what i knew. Wilk actually went to London and jammed with the guys for a time. He also picked up eddie wne he came back from seattle...lots of stories.

Brad Wilk was a guest on the Let There Be Talk, and it was awesome.

He discussed the Rage story but also his relationship with Ed Ved. Great talk.