It was a great upset. And then for #1 spot on the UK Christmas charts, BBC invited RATM to play the song live. They were asked to keep it censored, of course they did not. Show was awkwardly cut short. Performance went viral. The rest is history.
Yeah, that happened. It isn’t what made the song huge though. It was was a massive hit and a rebellion anthem since 1992.
The 2009 Christmas blip was so minor, Morello decided to give the earnings away to charity.
RATM’s eponymous album considered to have one of the best Mix and Master ever, so we sound engineers use that exact track to test and calibrate different sound systems. I always play Killing in the Name first to hear what’s different in a sound system. I’m sure me only contributed around 5k of that stat over the years.
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WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today · 45 pts · 1y
Because RATM is one of the greatest albums of all time and screaming "Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me" is massively badass.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
And many people don't actually understand their political stance. People actually got mad they "became political".
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
What do you mean? They weren't political back then.
/S haha.
smeg@feddit.uk · 40 pts · 1y
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
It was a great upset. And then for #1 spot on the UK Christmas charts, BBC invited RATM to play the song live. They were asked to keep it censored, of course they did not. Show was awkwardly cut short. Performance went viral. The rest is history.
https://youtu.be/AmPN8MPw2dk
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Yeah, that happened. It isn’t what made the song huge though. It was was a massive hit and a rebellion anthem since 1992. The 2009 Christmas blip was so minor, Morello decided to give the earnings away to charity.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Saw them in concert in ‘94. Zach tried to start a riot against the cops. I was young, scared, thought he was wrong.
He was right
Ugurcan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Gonna give another interesting take,
RATM’s eponymous album considered to have one of the best Mix and Master ever, so we sound engineers use that exact track to test and calibrate different sound systems. I always play Killing in the Name first to hear what’s different in a sound system. I’m sure me only contributed around 5k of that stat over the years.
More: https://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/ratm_e.html
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Damn that's a cool take I had never known about - thanks for that
einkorn@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y
That's probably just Paul Ryan listening to the song on repeat.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
To answer your question, I'd say no: you do not wonder why this song has so many plays.
Glad I could help answer that question.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
there was just a tiny bit of sarcasm with that question
adam_y@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Big_Moth00@lemmy.world · -39 pts · 1y
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
It's divisive? I can't think of a single person I know who doesn't like that song. Even the ones that are boot lickers.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Only shitheaded Nazis don’t like that song.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Nah, even they like it because they think it gives them the right to use the n word.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I'll bite. How popular should it be?