RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE • “BANNED FOR LIFE” from SNL after performing this gasoline drenched raging version of "BULLS ON PARADE" on 4/13/96
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productofyourinviro@reddit
This must be the only version I have ever heard, not sure why they were banned for it. Played it perfectly 👌
GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit
Via Tom Morello in April 13, 2026,
Tom posted this to X on the 30 year anniversary of Rage Against The Machine being 'banned for life' from SNL after trying to hang upside down flags on stage prior to playing 'BULLS ON PARADE' in protest of host...Steve Forbes.
"Today's the 30th anniversary of
RATM'S um, 'memorable' performance on SNL.
There was a fight onstage between our crew and SNL stage hands moments before our performance, wrestling over some upside down American flags which adorned our amps.
Timmy C then attacked host/ billionarie/presidential candidate
Steve Forbes' family in the dressing room with a wadded up flag.
Secret Service flooded the hallways.
SNL cut (censored?) our second song and kicked us out onto the sidewalk.
MmmSteaky@reddit
What does gasoline have to do with any of that?
4kr0m4@reddit
I'm with you. It just sounds silly to me. I have never heard such a phrase. I kept waiting for them to literally soak the stage in flammable liquid.
NightWriter500@reddit
I thought I was crazy, that I somehow missed the part where they drenched themselves in gas. Thanks everyone. The straight jacket isn’t necessary yet.
CaptServo@reddit
nothing OOP is karma farming.
the reason they got banned has nothing to do with the performance.
wooq@reddit
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metaphor
aquavelva23@reddit
WHAT? Steve Forbes should have been banned just for being a Forbes. lorne gets a mjor demerit here.
Johnykbr@reddit
As much as I loved RATM back in the day, this is a solid reason to be banned. Good on Forbes for not pushing for charges unlike modern politicians.
Ghoulie_Marie@reddit
Do you season your boot leather or do you like it bland to go with your personality
Johnykbr@reddit
Do you enjoy watching rich people give shit to common workers?
IchooseYourName@reddit
Please, expound.
mykymyk@reddit
Can’t right now, he’s licking boots at the moment.
Indubitalist@reddit
This makes way more sense. The performance was pretty much exactly what you’d expect Bulls On Parade to look and sound like. I didn’t get how that resulted in a ban. Obviously the backstory is the entire story here.
taleofbenji@reddit
I was gonna say.... What were they expecting? Quiet time versus the machine?
this_knee@reddit
Nah. Lullaby versus the machine.
AmishDatacenter@reddit
You know, if there was lullaby versions of their music, I'd have played it to my kids
Eschen19@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8OIu_dSnM
taleofbenji@reddit
Lol
saiga_antelope@reddit
Lorne Michaels has always been a corporate sellout
QuesoChef@reddit
So they got banned for raging against the machine?
The upside down flags were ousted because of Forbes, right? And the show sided with him. That sounds like the machine doing machine things.
Redjaw_coyote39@reddit
Yep. Glad they raged against it.
QuesoChef@reddit
Agreed. I feel like we need more of this energy in present times. I know people would say there are protests, or social media and it reaches more people. But I was more moved in my youth by music written by artists who you could tell FELT it. I want people to express themselves, and feel it. Not to be popular, but to get it out of their body, and being along others who relate.
iambarrelrider@reddit
DreadPirateZoidberg@reddit
Who okayed Rage Against the Machine and Steve fucking Forbes on the same night?! Someone either wanted the chaos or was completely brain dead.
marmot1101@reddit
I’d venture to say everyone involved wanted the chaos. Maybe not Forbes, but if SNL wanted chaos Rage was born ready
foxinabathtub@reddit
You know who'd be a good host to go with Rage Against the Machine?
The Machine.
armyofant@reddit
Yea this is what I remember hearing at the time. Stage manager was yelling at the band manager to get them under control.
productofyourinviro@reddit
Oh got ya, ya that would do it. Lol
HolidayCards@reddit
Well, it's not like we weren't all warned.
debaser64@reddit
Agreed. Apparently the song wasn’t the issue:
"Today's the 30th anniversary of RATM'S um, 'memorable' performance on SNL. There was a fight onstage between our crew and SNL stage hands moments before our performance, wrestling over some upside down American flags which adorned our amps. Timmy C then attacked host/ billionarie/presidential candidate Steve Forbes' family in the dressing room with a wadded up flag. Secret Service flooded the hallways. SNL cut (censored?) our second song and kicked us out onto the sidewalk.”
rdldr1@reddit
OMG I totally forgot that the lame ass Steve Forbes hosted SNL.
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
We grew up with this and wound up where we are. It's almost like everyone wasn't actually listening to the lyrics
Indubitalist@reddit
Didn’t the former speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, say Rage Against The Machine was his favorite band? The Republican? Yeah, some people weren’t hearing those lyrics
justsayfaux@reddit
Ahh, the classic "you're a hypocrite for criticizing things you participate in" fallacy. You'll be (hopefully) unsurprise that Morello has also addressed this on many occasions, often citing Marx and his concept of exploiting capitalist infrastructure to spread his message:
He argues that you cannot avoid participating in a capitalist society, but that artists should use mainstream platforms to challenge the system rather than be silenced by it.
Morello and RATM have said they will never turn down a massive corporate media or music platform unless asked to dilute their political message.
He insists on maintaining affordable ticket prices for his shows, occasionally playing smaller, cheaper venues or donating large portions of proceeds to activist causes.
Morello has also clarified that his music and politics are not about being anti-wealth, but rather about critiquing exploitative power structures, racism, and inequality. (As he directly addresses in his response to Ryan for example)
He defends his status as a working artist by highlighting that surviving under modern capitalism requires functioning within its consumer framework, which no individual can fully opt-out of.
Indubitalist@reddit
I think maybe you meant to reply to someone else
justsayfaux@reddit
Correct you are
justsayfaux@reddit
Yep. Morello didn't shy away from addressing it either.
Ok_Mail_1966@reddit
Tom Morello selling kids his signature guitars and pedals at a 20% markup just for his name on it isn’t exactly socialism at its finest. I love rage, I even like Tom and artist activists are important to start dialogs. But let’s be clear, he’s writing his pro union miners folk songs that he now loves wearing his Harvard sweater
justsayfaux@reddit
Ahh, the classic "you're a hypocrite for criticizing things you participate in" fallacy. You'll be (hopefully) unsurprise that Morello has also addressed this on many occasions, often citing Marx and his concept of exploiting capitalist infrastructure to spread his message:
He argues that you cannot avoid participating in a capitalist society, but that artists should use mainstream platforms to challenge the system rather than be silenced by it.
Morello and RATM have said they will never turn down a massive corporate media or music platform unless asked to dilute their political message.
He insists on maintaining affordable ticket prices for his shows, occasionally playing smaller, cheaper venues or donating large portions of proceeds to activist causes.
Morello has also clarified that his music and politics are not about being anti-wealth, but rather about critiquing exploitative power structures, racism, and inequality. (As he directly addresses in his response to Ryan for example)
He defends his status as a working artist by highlighting that surviving under modern capitalism requires functioning within its consumer framework, which no individual can fully opt-out of.
Bat2121@reddit
ShroomnDoobin@reddit
I believe the polar opposite of the lyrics and boys themselves, although I really do like 60s and 70s Mopars. That said, what a fantastic band
RangerFan80@reddit
"are we the machine?"
marbotty@reddit
No, it’s the children who are wrong
RealSinnSage@reddit
chefs kiss
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
Remember when they played "We're not gonna take it"? or Seven Nation Army, or.. so many others 🙄
kiomansu@reddit
Dayne225@reddit
Yeah he did. In a tweet. Which Morello replied to saying you are the machine we are raging against. Or something close to that anyway
Legal-Pea8185@reddit
I think he gets it, he was being cynical.
Eric848448@reddit
Indeed he did. But nobody has ever accused him of being smart or self aware.
Never trust a man with two first names.
EnvironmentalGift257@reddit
Honestly Paul Ryan was a woke peacemongering genius compared to where we are now.
kateastrophic@reddit
I live in Nashville and sometimes get dragged downtown to the Country-themed, private equity-backed honky tonks. I found myself at Kid Rock’s bar and the band played “Killing in the Name Of.” This temple to white supremacy was packed with wasted frat boys and rednecks who knew every word but obviously didn’t hear any of it. It made me ill.
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
I moved to South Carolina 3 years ago I completely understand.
gaudiocomplex@reddit
There's some interesting literature on the assimilation of music into capitalism. Personally I think capitalism is inherently built to churn out rebellion as a temporary release valve. The more powerful the dissent, the more valuable it is to bring them in to the fold them. Corporatists also leverage the nostalgia in truck commercials and shit, but that's for another time.
Antoninus@reddit
Reminds me of The Architect:
scraw813@reddit
Capital subsumes all
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
I think this only applies if you have no interest in music beyond the radio.
gaudiocomplex@reddit
Yeah funny enough most of the lit is on mass produced stuff. Fair point.
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
Punk is still around, while rage may be some of the hottest stuff, there is plenty of rebellion.
I would also point out that more of the popular actual independent music is political af.
German_Merman@reddit
"I used to like them but then they went woke"
fireduck@reddit
When did punk get all political?
socoyankee@reddit
When hasn’t it been?
SumpCrab@reddit
I came to RATM through a punk perspective, but a bunch of dude's in high school came to it through metal, like Pantera, with Dimebag and his confederate flag guitar.
Anyashadow@reddit
Metal has always been like punk, rage against injustice. The problem is people don't listen to the lyrics and just like the music.
TiEmEnTi@reddit
Metal is closer to pop it's just dudes whining angrily about their feelings with loud guitars
SumpCrab@reddit
Metal doesn't have the same ethos or community. Don't get me wrong, I like plenty of metal bands, but they don't often make political statements in their songs.
PoisonMind@reddit
Metal does have an ethos, though. A big part of it is questioning authority.
SuperRocketRumble@reddit
Oh there are PLENTY of right wing assclowns in metal. Way more than in punk.
jambr380@reddit
Yeah, I was a Bad Religion/Pennywise guy who could vibe with RATM, but all the biggest meatheads in my school bought Evil Empire when it was released.
It was kind-of weird because even then I knew they weren’t getting the full messaging of the band. I liked the album before that one more anyway.
SumpCrab@reddit
My first RATM album was Evil Empire, but I read the lyrics. My older sister's friend turned me on to it and filled in the gaps.
Leut_Aldo_Raine@reddit
Nirvana had these types pegged way back in the early 90s...
"He's the one who likes all our pretty songs / And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun / But he knows not what it means"
xavPa-64@reddit
And then whenever I ask what pretty songs they’re singing along to without knowing the meaning of them, people are always like “I DONT FUCKING KNOW! But Kurt was liberal so I’d imagine they mean liberal things!!!”
justsayfaux@reddit
One of my all time favorite clapbacks
BasvanS@reddit
Fucking legend
handy_arson@reddit
Ha, yeah I like the follow-up... "Who our what in tf do you think they were raging against?"
0bsidianM1nd@reddit
Clearly it is a song about the Bulls at the state fare, what other bulls would they sing about?
AmishDatacenter@reddit
The Chicago Bulls, after completing their first three-peat in '93, obviously.
0bsidianM1nd@reddit
Bull on Parade
"Bull on Parade" is a rock song written and performed in 1994 by a collective of printer recycling workers based in Los Angeles, California. The song humorously recounts their exasperation with a coworker from Chicago who continually celebrated the 1993 Chicago Bulls championship team, frequently bringing up the exploits of Michael Jordan while lamenting the poor performance of the Los Angeles Lakers.
The song's signature refrain, "Another day, another story 'bout the '93 Bulls," resonated with audiences nationwide. Despite originating as an inside joke among coworkers sorting and refurbishing discarded office printers, the track became a surprise commercial success, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks.
Saturday Night Live Appearance
The song achieved national prominence after a live performance on Saturday Night Live. The episode was hosted by Steve Forbes, whom the group had long admired. Members of the recycling collective later described meeting Forbes and sharing the stage with him as the highlight of their lives.
The performance became one of the most-watched musical segments of the season and helped propel the song to mainstream popularity.
Reception and Legacy
Critics praised Bull on Parade for its unusual subject matter, combining workplace humor, sports nostalgia, and regional rivalry into an unexpectedly catchy anthem. The song has since become a cult favorite among basketball fans and workers in the recycling industry.
Music historians often cite Bull on Parade as one of the most improbable chart-topping singles of the decade, demonstrating how a joke about an overly enthusiastic Chicago Bulls fan could evolve into a nationwide cultural phenomenon.
crystallmytea@reddit
This scene must have really spoken to them
aharddayslife@reddit
Raging on behalf of the machine now. It is what it is 🤷
677536543@reddit
Masks and proof of vaccination, please!
JBCTech7@reddit
i mean they are basically rage for the machine now...it is pretty cringe.
Crash217@reddit
We need more RATM these days.
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
I think there is plenty of it look at bands like Viagra boys, Soft Play etc who are out here doing the damn thing, I just think that in world where we have access to incredibly defined niches something breaking out of containment is not the same.
walrus40@reddit
Throating millionaire socialist isn’t a flex
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
I think you fundamentally don't understand the difference between socialism and communism, as socialism, is not a moneyless classless society.
Also the whole band made money from their own talent and skills it's literally as meritocractic and voluntary as possible.
walrus40@reddit
So they got rich through mean ol capitalism? Or and did I catch meritocracy in there too? 🤣
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
What's the difference between Socialism, Capitalism, and communism? Define the terms of each system.
walrus40@reddit
How do you go from lecturing to needing to be taught?
MuttDawg509@reddit
Pretty sure he was testing u to see if YOU knew what YOU were talking about.
The grades are in btw. U failed your test.
walrus40@reddit
“Btw” “u” are you using a flip phone?
MuttDawg509@reddit
U know u love it. Btw.
walrus40@reddit
Cricket phones are cool, too. Don’t get defensive
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
Well you clearly seem to know everything so explain to me a dumb dumb what the differences are?
Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit
Fvck you I won’t do what you tell me.
Hrtpplhrtppl@reddit
We grew up with a Hollywood illusion of what America is. You know who I feel really bad for though? Those poor North Koreans watching their televisions thinking they are the best country on earth when every American knows from watching our televisions that America is the best country on earth.../s
What would you call it if I described a system where a few chosen by birth elite get to monitor, police, torture, and execute the masses while living lavish lives of unimaginable debaucheries enabled by the labor of the latter without those laborers ever being able to even question such a corrupt system or their masters crimes..? The Epstein files are just exposing America for what it's always been.
The highest form of protest is not having children for the government needs the governed... and even that choice is being eroded away. My in laws keep asking me when I'm going to "Give them grandchildren." I keep reminding them I'm Native American. We wouldn't breed in captivity, which is why they had to bring you all here in the first place. I mean, why would they even want to own slaves anymore when they can just rent you and your children for a fraction of those costs..?
The Epstein class can afford a good enough education to know the true history of the United States and certainly to be able to understand the basic principle of cause and effect. They have us playing Russian roulette with our health every day in America for as much profit as they can squeeze out of us. A country with no public health care system obviously could not handle any public healthcare crisis like covid or the never-ending opioid addiction epidemic their private healthcare industry has created and continues to supply for obscene unearned shareholder income. Which is only taxed at 10%, whereas if you actually labor and work for your income, you're taxed at 35%...
Furthermore, with no universal health care, the United States government forces people of lesser means to self medicate or suffer, then punishes them when they do. That is both cruel and wicked. I mean, the whole premise of Breaking Bad only worked for an American audience since Walt would not have needed the money in the first place in a more developed nation because being unable to afford to continue living does not happen there...
The powers that be are ensuring there are desperate people doing desperate things. Then, we see that the wealthy and their goons, the police, are beyond the reach of our justice system, so their laws are just in place to handicap the rest of us. The social contract has been broken. Cue the vigilantes... no justice, no peace.
"Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. " JFK
Now I'm not saying don't vote. Please always choose the lesser evil. However, we have always been and always will be the scapegoats left to point our fingers at one another in order to keep us distracted from any meaningful change. I mean, what led to this, people couldn't vote...? How is what got us here going to get us out? When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. After all, repeating the same thing over and over expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity. Before we can have an intelligent discussion on how things ought to be, we first would need to agree on how they truly are...
I mean, out of all the hundreds of millions of Americans, who really thinks these were the best two candidates...? Is it a wise tribe that does not send its best warriors to fight? You see, our masters will never give us the tools to dismantle their houses... The Republic of America has a so-called "representative democracy." How can that be true when the "representatives" are all wealthy while the majority of the "represented" are poor?
American two party politics is like the cartoon Tom and Jerry. Tom doesn't really want to catch Jerry because then he'd be out of a job, and Jerry doesn't want Tom replaced with a cat that will actually eat him. So they act like they hate one another and put on a show for the masses while continuing business as usual in the back room.
For example, insider trading laws do not apply to any members of Congress, either side. What's it called when those who make the rules don't have to live by them? Furthermore, when the punishment for a crime is only a fine, it does not apply to the wealthy.
Sure, they can say they let us "vote", and therefore this is what we wanted, but with all the lobbying and money in American politics, America is as much a democracy as would be two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner.
In America, the wealthy have won every "election," and the only thing to trickle down in the economy has been their generational wealth. This is why, in a true democracy as the ancient Greeks understood it, people got their representatives the same way we would get a jury. America is not a democracy.
"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it." Plato
And please remember what we actually celebrate on the 4th. A cabal of stolen land entitled elite, slave owning aristocrats, found a way to get out of paying their taxes. Only thirty percent of the colonists supported the "revolution" with the rest saying, "Why trade one tyrant a thousand miles away for a thousand tyrants one mile away...?" System isn't broken it's functioning exactly as intended. Why own slaves when you can rent them for a fraction of the cost (read the 13th amendment)...? But the real question they must be asking themselves is how can their grand experiment survive contact with the real time information/communication age, or can they just go masks off and drop the pretense? Which is where we are now... would you agree?
"The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists..." G.K. Chesterton
Shurakai_@reddit
Preach, my brother (or sister or sibling).
SignoreBanana@reddit
I'm not a big lyrics guy, more vibe to the music, but with RATM, that shit spoke to me
djsynrgy@reddit
I'm not a lyrics guy either, but I inherently understood what "The Machine" was. I also watched MTV, and saw various interviews with them. There was no mystery; they went out of their way to ensure their message wasn't left to interpretation.
Some folks are just dumb. 🤷🏼♂️
Ok-Somewhere-2325@reddit
Occupy wall Street. Scared the elites so much that they have poured billions of dollars into culture wars, to stop the changes that were starting to happen.
LetWaltCook@reddit
To be fair we didn't have very good sound back then. You could barely make out the melody on some fm radios let alone the full lyrics. And you couldn't find them anywhere if they weren't in the tape/cd.
djsynrgy@reddit
I'm sorry; what?!
Hifi has been around longer than we've been alive, friend. Maybe your setup was ass, but that wasn't exactly the gold standard. 😆
Torpel_Knope@reddit
If your stereo was so bad that you couldn’t make out, “Some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses,” I don’t know what to tell you, man.
seppukucoconuts@reddit
I worked with a retired cop. I caught him singing this song one day and I asked him if he knew what the song was about. He didn’t.
Fit_Relationship6703@reddit
Might be related to their entire discography being banned from radio after 9/11
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
Not all radio, just specifically clear choice, as I'm 36 and I was listening to them on radio in the San Francisco Bay area. However by post 9/11 most people were downloading music and using cds especially if you were young..
Non of its ban stopped any of us from listening.
Fit_Relationship6703@reddit
Fair points, people were downloading music already, buy they were still finding music through the radio. And it does appear it was only clear choice, (Didn't realize that) but they owned 1200 radio stations across U.S. in 2001 (6 in my town). Didn't stop fans from listening, but definitely cut into new fans finding them.
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
To an extent but I think that really misses how culturally huge they were we are talking videogames to the matrix
TurtleToast2@reddit
TBF I still can't hear the lyrics and we didn't have Google back in the day to look them up.
Imnotonthelist@reddit
I’d like to know what percentage of our generation voted for The Bad Guys. I’m too tired to look it up rn
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
I mean it's all bad guys all the way down, we haven't had a good guy in almost 250 years.
6thBornSOB@reddit
I know the bar is pretty low…how about the ones not directly linked to human trafficking?
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
Who are the good ones I need to know?
hellllllsssyeah@reddit
And those would be?
Indubitalist@reddit
This sort of blind cynicism has a lot to do with us being in this mess. A ton of people just didn’t vote in 2024.
GracchiBros@reddit
You all's refusal to be cynical, still worshiping this evil empire, refusing to try for anything better is why we're in this mess. Not our refusal to vote for a lesser genocidal evil.
walrus40@reddit
Or just grew out of teenage angst
eatajerk-pal@reddit
I still rally round the family with a pocket full of shells. RATM is a top ten 90’s band for sure.
nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit
A lot of people seem really enjoy them without listening to any of their lyrics, ignoring the bands name and all their messaging.
ialsohaveadobro@reddit
Or like the lyrics aren't actually that moving. They had to come up with the awkward phrasing of "work forces" just to "rhyme" with "burn crosses." Then repeat it 80 times.
Skittleavix@reddit
“You can’t just look at the pictures, you gotta read the captions too”
Sufficient-Quote-431@reddit
Well, after they took up with a cop killer Abu Jamal that was kind of the end for their original fans.
ImightHaveMissed@reddit
Human do have an almost unique disinclination to learn from others
granadesnhorseshoes@reddit
Or half of all the presidential elections in the proceeding years weren't reflected in the popular vote.
But no, its your neighbors fault for not voting "correctly", not systemic failure.
General-Reserve9349@reddit
It’s actually pretty hard to rage against the machine let alone get anywhere with it
__Sentient_Fedora__@reddit
Ow they play Coachella. Sponsored by every body.
Fit_Relationship6703@reddit
Also, several songs were banned from public radio after 9/11. Rage was the only band whose entire discography made it on that list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_memorandum
DirectorImportant578@reddit
In high school (03/04?) I did a persuasive speech on post 9/11 censorship and while researching my mind was absolutely blown by how many songs and music videos were outright temporarily banned from radio and TV. My teacher was floored that John Lennons "Imagine" was on this list. I definitely persuaded my audience how bullshit that censorship was 🤣
dangerous_strainer@reddit
"Gasoline drenched" haha
-tkof-@reddit
That drum fill in the first part of the outro 🤌
MRHOWERDCEO@reddit
SNL SUCKS ASS
Piercegirl23@reddit
Rage is insufferable. A bunch of rich guys yelling and screaming. Major label artists pretending to be oppressed for suburban kids.
TravoBasic@reddit
Why were they banned?
phanophite2@reddit
They're so disgraced only the democrat party will hire them.
p4rc0pr3s1s@reddit
These guys are a bunch of tool bags lol celebrating a mass murder and hating capitalism while selling 30 dollar t shirts and 300 dollar tickets. The fact that this generation celebrates morons like these assholes is exactly why the world is the way it is.
iambarrelrider@reddit
A lot better act than a lot of more recent garbage.
0bsidianM1nd@reddit
This is just depressing:
In the 90s I didn't want Forbes to be president, in 2026 I would give anything to have him in the White House compared to what we have now.
AvidCyclist250@reddit
looks like a big win to me
who's the pushover now? not ratm
coopnjaxdad@reddit
I mean what did SNL expect?
We need more raging against the machines nowadays.
Appropriate_Rice_523@reddit
Banned for what? Straight killing it?
Ok_Mail_1966@reddit
Seriously tho, Tom. What are you even doing when you play! Can he wear his guitar any higher and tighter? He looks like tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips or some portentous Ivy League Grad.
mackattacknj83@reddit
Still makes me want to 300 kick an authority figure into an elevator shaft three decades later
fredasboss@reddit
Clue is in the band name duschebags. wtf did they expect?
snoApe@reddit
Today's SNL is a hamster wheel by comparison.
blantdebedre@reddit
Why would they get banned for this? Wasn't this standard fare?
nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit
Banned from The BBC too... in a far more hilarious fashion https://youtube.com/shorts/xBD1tb1_bQg?si=PFCIRYwi7or2QZw8
1northfield@reddit
This is one of my all time favourite performances, telling RATM to not do something and then expecting them to comply
nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit
Telling them not to say "fuck you, i wont do what you tell me" was a folly
neo_neanderthal@reddit
Yeah, you would think they would have listened to the content of the very statement they were trying to ban.
karaloveskate@reddit
I saw nothing in that performance that warranted a life time ban.
wooq@reddit
read the caption
TiaHatesSocials@reddit
What part of this was bannable??? Did they expect a ballad or something?
wooq@reddit
Read the caption
Eziekiel23_20@reddit
A couple of us were big into philosophy during high school and I was giddy to see the books shown within the jewel case.
eatsleepdive@reddit
Steve Forbes!
MephiticDeity@reddit
I remember watching this live. I had the VCR set to record this performance and the next, but the next one never came and I didn't know why until many years later.
DuckTalesOohOoh@reddit
Now they rage For The Machine. Says a lot about them.
Ghoulie_Marie@reddit
DreadPirateZoidberg@reddit
Steve Forbes introducing RAtM is so fucking weird, man.
Ghoulie_Marie@reddit
marcos_MN@reddit
Steve Forbes introducing them is peak irony
thedogdundidit@reddit
I loved this music as a teen. Sounds even more relevant today.
nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit
Amazing how little has actually changed.
Ghoulie_Marie@reddit
Oh it's gotten much worse
thedogdundidit@reddit
I would say things have gotten much, much worse.
ReggaeForPresident@reddit (OP)
30 years ago and it still is as fresh as ever
cloudydays2021@reddit
I remember watching this live and jumping around my living room and every once in awhile I pull it up on YT and jump around my living room
TeddyAtTheReady@reddit
Careful! We’re not as bouncy as we used to be! Should I get the chiropractor on standby? 😬
bohawkn@reddit
No, stay away from Chiropractors at all cost. See a PT instead. They're not grifters.
patrick_oneil@reddit
What's great about chiropractors, and probably the best thing, is that you can stay away from them at no cost.
Aolflashback@reddit
I hate this stupid ass band
So-Called_Lunatic@reddit
I saw them on the Evil Empire tour, and my god I was ready to fucking die for a cause after that show. I've never been so full of teenage angst.
A_Gray_Old_Man@reddit
FEAR
bmoody345@reddit
The skit where Steve Forbes was a roofer was legitimately hilarious (bc he was a really weird guy)
Rahawk02@reddit
Cow Cow Chicken Cow Cow Chicken Chicken Chicken
detectivetomscoggins@reddit
This is a great performance on a network show, before the monopolies became too big, when a billionaire running for president had to share space with ridicule and aggressive artistic dissent.
grahsam@reddit
First of all, 30 years? Jesus fucking Christ, where did the time go?
Second, god I miss when SNL had good rock bands on. All of their musical acts are so god awful boring these days.
Ahlq802@reddit
God forbid you be the best part of that episode by far
iowaherkeye@reddit
Was that "Teve Torbes" introducing them?!
Emergency_Rush_4168@reddit
I absolutely lost my mind when I saw this. I was a Mormon kid and it felt like a drug.
edcrosay@reddit
The fucking irony that they are introduced by Steve Forbes.
uzernaimed@reddit
Such edgy millionaires
armyofant@reddit
Lorne has said that no one has ever officially been banned from SNL.
amindfulloffire@reddit
Being banned from SNL is like a badge of honor.
madlibs13@reddit
What did SNL expect? Lol
SillyBeatnik@reddit
And my parents wonder where why I have the beliefs I do when the very first CD i ever bought for myself was RATM's self titled album.
Rads324@reddit
Man I got chills like 8 different times watching this
Shaggy2772@reddit
The subs are hillarious
therealdavematt@reddit
Doing what nobody else has the balls to do
shameonyounancydrew@reddit
I was sure something bad was gonna happen, to warrant a lifetime ban
Notredamus1@reddit
We need them back more than ever.
Delicious-Egg5755@reddit
Zacks features with Run The Jewels are dope! 🔥🔥
MidwestAbe@reddit
RATM isn't among my 10 or 15 most favorite bands/groups.
But it had and still has perhaps the most profound impact on my personal politics and moral placement.
I would be a different person without them and Public Enemy in my younger years.
Forever grateful to Tom/Zach and Chuck/Flav and the rest of those guys.
DustedGorilla82@reddit
Tom Morello is fucking cool man
Top-Sleep-4669@reddit
And they wonder when I was radicalized…
Verbull710@reddit
They're our U2
DegTrader@reddit
Watching this performance now makes my knees hurt in solidarity with how hard they went on that stage.
Didujustcallmejobin@reddit
Come with it now!
Lafemmedelargent@reddit
Worth it.
hamburgler26@reddit
It is really amazing what a force of nature these guys were from the very beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk02MEkXYwU