They are both are intelligent men. They get it and hopefully they'll get the message out.

Most reactions don't acknowledge the tone change is the for a meaning. Cemetery gates for example, the structure feels like a balance of sadness and anger of loss, but no one digs that deep usually.

Yess

Facts

@@manchesterunited8218 I love the way you guys found your questions at the end. It's real life. Fuck them. Your government is killing all of us.

He will one day though

@@rogeredwards4802 Hopefully while he's still around.

I think just by him being next to his father shows that he does ♥️♥️

School him pops. Love that you guys do this together.

A lot like WAR PIGS by BLACK SABBATH!!!!

When I was in the USMC, it was a wide range of music. Things changed quite a bit from 1989 to 2009. We were listening to a lot of Queensryche, Stones, Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Tool, and the list goes on. Rwanda, Samolia, Romania, Poland, Germany, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Syria, Israel, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and a bunch of other places I can’t mention. Semper Fi, brother. 1989-2009, USMC, Master Gunnery Sergeant, retired

Except it is not on Toxicity :)

@@czolgistta I didn't say that byob was on toxicity. I said that the entire toxicity album carried us through most days and that byob was our anthem.

When breaking benjamin dropped phobia it was our second move on Fallujah. I remember the first time i heard that album ill never forget it.

Listened to the toxicity album soooo much. But yeah, diff album.

There's a lot of angry songs out there. A lot of angry songs about war, even. But this shit? They are *furious*.

Imagine every SOAD fan that went through their generally well known songs and because they choose to listen to this then... It surely was amusing 😂

Thanks for helping me get the message, I would have reacted the same way as Jojo, if I hadn’t just watched the other SOAD video, I still was lost in this one! Thanks for helping me look past the crazy! Thank you, God Bless 🙏❤️

Or we can all go back to the 90s :) ever hear loser by beck? My point exactly

Fax

thats why he said goat Iraq

I remember listening to this on the way outside of the wire in Iraq around 2005-2006 sometime. As I sat in a Hummer full of college kids who all came from middle and lower class families, nobody said a word just nodded their heads along with the song and got ready to go to work. Thanks for that memory.

@@DarkAngel1985Mike drones kill far more civilians than an army and Obama was king in that department. It came out he bombed hospitals and after that the media tried to cover for him. No investigative journalism anymore… odd. At least trumps story is he tried to pull out the troops and his generals lied to him. They lose funding if they don’t.

@@barrierroofingco.3662 Trump continued the drone strikes he is no more free of blame than Obama is. Actually, he ramped it up "The Trump administration has carried out 176 strikes in Yemen in just two years, compared with 154 there during all eight years of Obama’s tenure, according to a count by The Associated Press and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism."

like rock should do challange the establishment

Im Glad I didnt have to explain it lol !!

How about stealing the gold out of ft knox.nobody has seen it in over 45 yrs. Is it still there ?

@Turtlenest1 US dollars are oil backed.

I think the more direct meaning is that the gold in Fort Knox(or any reserve) represents the wealth of the nation. They are blaming the government for stealing the wealth of the nation to fulfill their own agenda and making the rest of the world think that the entire US has bad intentions.

Exactly this.also.. If it annoys you (jo jos son) about rock that you have to be a semi historian, child, imagine how it feels to watch ppl who dont know history going all around repeating it?

This.

My personal favorite line is "Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth." All you have to do is open your eyes and you can see that we are constantly being fed lies by the government and by the media.

My favorite line as well. And a good damn question

Reminds me of War Pigs by Black Sabbath. "Politicians hide themselves away, They only started the war, Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor"

The POTUS is supposed to be at the back, giving orders. The US military is completely voluntary unless there’s a national emergency and a draft is enacted. The poor have the opportunity to enlist for a free education and training. As such, asking why do they always send the poor is a monumentally ignorant question. The answer is extremely obvious to anyone that bothers to take the time to read.

He went 🕺🏻😂😨👁👁

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away, Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay. The rest of the world watching, at the end of the day. Both scared and angry, like, "What did he say?"

From the tablecloths!

Or golf courses.

Whenever i think of that pine, i think of Obama holding an M16 asking Hillary Clinton for a mag and mowing down putin while Xi jinxing is trying to snipe Angela Merkel

reminds me of that quote not sure who by but it is something like "when old men rage war young men die for it" may have got it wrong but meh🤷‍♂

SAME LOL XD XDDDDDDDD I CAN’T EVEN

PULL THE TAPEWORM OUT OF YOUR ASS

I’ve always considered Freddie Mercury to be the GOAT

Freddie and Chris Cornell for sure

If he thinks rock is bad, he should listen to some Jedi Mind Tricks. =p

Lies from the tablecloth... Indoctrination from the time we are big enough to sit at the table..

You hit the nail on the head. I was in Iraq from 2006-2007 15 months and half of my unit listened to SOAD. Our official mission was “Wining the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people,” but in reality we just drove around and got blown up. My unit commander used to bribe the village leaders not to bomb us on certain routes. Tax dollars hard at work.

Damn, this is sharp.

Good take man. Make sense 100%

Wow. Amazing interpretation.

BLAST OFF! bring the point home! And also the way I find myself smiling and enjoying the vibes and then ending with yells of anger and disillusion. Brilliant!

I'd also argue that, like any other genre, rap can be just as informative or rooted in history. Personally, as a white person, I don't know if I would know about the Tulsa massacre or Black Wall Street were it not for hearing about it in a rap song years ago. EDIT: I guess a better way to say it would be that rap has informed me of a lot of Black history that isn't really taught to us in school (at least, wasn't to me or my classmates).

@@aleindria42 Oh hells yeah, 100% agree. I guess I said “this music” kind of vaguely… I wasn’t trying to give rock or metal some kind of exclusive provenance. When I was a kid, rock was all hair bands and nihilism. The only music I ever heard with anything deep or educational to say was stuff like Public Enemy and KRS-One. Pretty much until Rage Against The Machine came along. And Rage might be a metal band or whatever, but Zack totally spits from a rap tradition so in that regard I think they’re vocally a lot closer to Public Enemy than System Of A Down. But I confess I didn’t know fuck all about the Armenian genocide until Serj and Daron taught me.

@@aleindria42 yeah, you want a good example of rap being informative and historical? Listen to Reagan by Killer Mike.

Also doesn't hurt that they're pulling in 200k viewers. Someone is bound to know something, not to mentiom the folks who are into the music are going to find the reaction vid, you know?

Oh, also, the oowoowoowoo on the guitar is done by pushing the string sideways on the frets... This lengthens the string which alters the sound. Plus it's a smooth movement, so you get that really smooth sound to it. :D

@@Xero1of1 is it a bend, or is it a whammy it sounds like a combination.

Ditto. Welcome to the Family.

Rage against the machine turned into the machine

Modern Day? SOAD has been around since 95 while Rages first album was damn near 1992 lol...they are from the same era of music bruv

Yea Rage and SOAD overlapped a bit. Similar war cries except SOAD spoke for the Arabian people while Rage was more the voice of the disenfranchised Mexicana people.

@@h.p.crowley1256 yeah, my point being that as Rage were dwindling System were just kicking off. Rage's last album was 2000 and System hit their stride with the release of Toxicity in 2001 and released material for the next decade while Rage had disbanded and went their separate ways.

@@jamesstewart6623 um... systems last album was 2005.... they have recently like less than a year ago put out a couple songs but..... I wouldn't say they are "modern" nor that they released material for the next decade.... their albums span less than a single decade.... they are a great and amazing band, but let them be what they are.... growing up sure when I was growing up they were a modern version of rage... but that was well over a decade ago.

Yesssss I agree 100% . Beautiful person and beautiful family. I support both their channels.

@@theresag6005 So wise

Yes he reacted already on his own channel. 😊

@@Metal_Mary cool thanks, I'm going over there to check it out now. ☺️

What about Rage against the machine?

The difference between the two, part of rage became the system and are fine as long as they stay the system, SOAD has always been for the people no matter who the system has been and who the people who are being oppressed are

@@---gh0st--- ^This. RATM sold the fuck out.

You’re half right. RATM are some dumb commies that made good music.

what’s your favorite rage against the machine song ?

@@pj_merks Freedom Even if I don't like some of their current beliefs, that song speaks truth and is just as relevant today as it was in 1992

Thank you soldier! I try!

China has it lol

@@thereal_ap232 💯🤣

@@reignjosiah You know wassup 😆

Well, like most conspiracies now, it'll(probably) get proven right in 6 months

It wasn’t stolen it was moved. Or so I’ve heard. Ain’t nobody breaking in to Fort Knox. There are sniper posts around the perimeter and they will kill anyone trying to get over the fence.

LOL My family is everything to me

I totally agree. I could barely stand to listen to the end of the video after the entire musical part had been incredible and one of the best reactions I've seen. B.Y.O.B. is an incredibly deep song. Why DO they always send the poor? It's a comment about the recruiting process of the US Military. If you have enough money or are in college for an education, you have a great deal more freedom to choose if you wish to serve your country or not. Those who are uneducated, who are poor, who can't afford to go to college on their own; they are the ones who benefit most from incentives like "go overseas for 4 to 6 years, and the government will pay for college when you return." It is, unfortunately, also "designer racism," by which I mean that, like most everything else in this country, it will affect people of color and ethnic minorities far more often and deeply than it will whites. With how deeply these systemic problems are ingrained in our society, and the observed lack of willingness by the government to actively try and stop racism and in some places even supporting it - such as the way Republicans got the voting rights changed in (I believe) Georgia to make it harder for certain groups of people to vote under the pretext of making it easier for other groups to vote - I can only conclude that this is done by design rather than by chance, and thus is designer racism.

@@zoegartham312 All of what you said here, while accurate, doesn't make what was said in the video any less true. You can exploit/manipulate people into becoming a soldier. And still use the sound strategy of keeping your leadership out of harms way.

@@zoegartham312 you do realize that those people who can afford to go to college also had to work for it themselves, nobody is going to give you anything in this life you must take it yourself. Get off your ass and get a job or do something that makes you money to afford to have those broad choices.

@@RetroSpctve that generalisation's not true at all, lots of people are lucky enough to have college funds provided by their families, or enough financial support that taking on massive student debts isn't a concern to them. That's not the case for many people, which is exactly what military recruitment exploits

@@RetroSpctve you need perspective. Badly.

Same. SUGAH!

Sugar was the one that made me originally fall in love with SOAD before eventually realizing that they are my favorite band of all time

You think his sons ready for that lmfao that’s contrast of a song

Well, on a purely material level, the rich don't need help paying for college. Certainly makes those manipulations easier.

So sad to hear but thank you for sharing. Stay strong my friend!

How ols are you now chula

I went to OZZFEST FROM 2001 to 2017 the last one was 2018!!!! Miss does all day concerts!!

But it still carries a timeless weight.

@@thebootlegstnr2933 it's like Straight Outta Compton for me. Basically the movie came out 30yrs later (not being exact) and it's still the same bs. The ish NWA was spitting about is still there. SOAD and RATM pen songs that, unfortunately, remain pertinent decades later. Because power and greed remain driving forces. #songsofprotest

Ya, cause so much is different today then when this came out 20 years ago.