我的90's唱盤(美國篇之Rage Against the Machine Pt.1)

因為Rage Against The Machine對我的影嚮實在太深遠，所以要獨立寫一篇關於他們的東西。我的blog名，就是以RATM主音的名字Zack變合出來的。當年實在太愛Zack了，友人說我mad掉﹐便叫我Zackiemad 。

我對政治歷史一直不大清楚，只靠看名人傳記來補充補充。1996的某一天﹐聽到RATM的"People of The Sun"﹐感如五雷貫頂﹐地陷天裂般的震撼（誇張了）。就是這樣﹐這隊樂隊將我帶到另一種境地。那是很廣的一個知識庫﹐看不完聽不盡追不了。我的視野擴闊了。


(我揀了MV版。看Zack當時幾後生。)

This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow the rules when the set commands ya
They said it was blue
When the boold was red
That's is how you got a bullet blasted through your head

Blasted through your head
Blasted through your head

I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched at the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before you realize

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
Play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they are tellin' ya
Buying all the products that they are selling ya
They say jump
You say how high

"Bullet In Your Head"不是我第一首聽的歌﹐但卻是他們的成名作。收錄於第一張的同名大碟《Rage Agains The Machine》。這張碟帶出了美國政府對國民玩的一種mind-control遊戲、政府的propaganda如何潛移默化在國民的生活中；種族主義在美國的橫行﹐3K黨﹑新納粹還是這樣的肆無忌憚。時為1992年。離二次大戰後47年﹐有甚麼是進步了的？


People of The Sun收錄於第二張大碟《Evil Empire》內。(註：Evil Empire一詞原出美國前總統列根對解體前蘇聯的稱呼。)

Since 1516 Mayans attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
Wit their borders and boots on top of us
Pullin' knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
But how you gonna get what you need ta get?
Tha gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
Tha fifth sun sets get back reclaim
Tha spirit of Cuahtemoc alive an untamed
Now face tha funk now blastin' out ya speaker, on tha one Maya, Mexica
That vulture came ta try and steal ya name
But now you got a gun, yeah this is for the people of the sun

It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again! Uh!

It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again! Uh!

Yeah, neva forget that tha wip snapped ya back
Ya spine cracked for tobacco, oh I'm the Marlboro man, uh
Our past blastin' on through the verses
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin' Broadway like hearses
Troops strippin' zoots, shots of red mist,
Sailors blood on tha deck, come sista resist
From tha era of terror check this photo lens,
Now tha city of angels does the ethnic cleanse
Uh, heads bobbin' to tha funk out ya speaker, on tha one Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal ya name
But now you found a gun, you're history, this is for the people of the sun

It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
It's comin' back around again! Yeah!

就是這一首歌﹐讓我認識了RATM。Zack的爸爸是墨四哥人﹐Los Four成員之一。 雖然生長於美國﹐卻不忘墨西哥的農民革命運動。他一直都致力幫助Zapatista 。在他們的《The Battle of Mexico City》DVD裡﹐便有一段介紹Zapatista﹐Subcomandante Marcos的片段﹐還有重量級人馬Noam Chomsky與Zack的對談。RATM從不談空想﹐他們身體力行﹐為自己的理念作出努力。撰些文章﹑出現在遊行隊伍中（不是那些預早話你知我會去邊道邊道遊行﹐有十九幾個人傍住那種）歌曲是道具﹐目的是要普及大眾。簽約Sony﹐講到明係要挑戰大集團。大企業有理無理﹐搵錢至上。竟然可以俾"Wake Up"出現係《The Matrix》的soundtrack中。看過The Matrix的朋友﹐有否留意一出casting播的歌﹐那便是RATM的"Wake Up"了。歌詞諷刺美國政府﹐實不知美國佬胸襟這樣廣闊﹐自己踩台踩得這樣過癮。


"Wake Up" live performed in Woodstock 99'(超愛RATM這次在Woodstock的表演。)

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?

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!

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

-未完-