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  • rising up against all of this

    Does Rise Against count?

    I am not a good gatekeeper of “mainstream” or “sellout” etc but this feels like a hostile thread so I guess criticism is incoming.

    I feel like the entirety of RA’s discography fits this theme perfectly. The songwriting is part of why I can’t get enough.

    (I can’t speak for their recent Ricochet album - the sound quality is poor and lots of fans hate it; we hope we get a rerecording some day. Set aside Ricochet and I feel like you can’t go wrong with anything else of theirs.)

    Trying to list deeper cuts that might be good hooks:

    Album / Song:

    The Black Market / Bridges
    The Black Market / People Live Here
    Endgame / Disparity by Design
    Endgame / Midnight Hands
    Endgame / A Gentleman’s Coup
    Nowhere Generation / The Numbers
    Nowhere Generation / Sudden Urge
    EP Nowhere Generation II / Holding Patterns
    Wolves / Welcome to the Breakdown
    Appeal to Reason / Entertainment
    EP / Megaphone

    And you can’t go wrong with the back to back tracks “Prayer of the Refugee” followed by “Drones” from the album The Sufferer and the Witness.

    Even older albums have good stuff but I didn’t list them since idk if you’d call them “modern”. Tip the Scales + Give It All are good tracks.













  • Hey friends,

    Take it from an ally - this is a misleading headline.

    The utterance was uttered in the context of things one would want to avoid. It doesn’t even strike me as a threat by Brian Kilmeade, and is more of a gaffe.

    The whole clip is STILL a steamy shitty take.

    They are saying “mental illness sufferers, particularly the subset who are inclined to commit public violence, need to ‘come to Jesus’ and take the overly-bountiful government assistance available to them. That silver bullet will cure them of their issues such that they’ll no longer threaten poor old me. And if any refuse, they deserve whatever else might happen to them which, as stated earlier, is to be involuntarily placed into a mental institution.”

    And then Brian Kilmeade, the homunculus muppet that he is, thinks “I’m helping,” grabs the bag of Shake’n Bake his parents never gave him, and chimes in "and other bad things could happen, uhh hyuck, even inVoLuntaRy letHaL injEcTion (as a consequence of the implied context of a person who refuses help for their mental illness, who later takes a life during a mental episode, and who will suffer ramifications up to and including being tried for murder and sentenced to death).

    Maybe it would have been a dog whistle call to violence if anyone other than Brian Kilmeade said it.

    Maybe it’s foolish of me to disregard the words because the words were still aired, on a network with a vested interest in launching wind-up murder meatbots towards the left. If this is the point of the report, then this is a criminal choice of headline.