This Band Plays 'Rage Against The Machine' Cover Using Only Children's Toys

Sep 20, 2018 by apost team

“The Wackids,” a French band, went viral after performing a video rendition of Rage Against the Machine's “Killing in the Name.” However, they were performing on children’s toys rather than genuine instruments. The group's mission statement reads that they are "a rock band with a strong identity.”

"Three superheroes dressed in yellow, red and blue, moving universal numbers onto children’s instruments. In the similar fashion that Angus Young usually plays in a school uniform or a Batman costume that includes a cape, Speedfinger, Blowmaster, and Bongostar are eternally recognizable by their personalities, their outfits, their toy instruments and their superpower; delivering the good work of rock to kids.”

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On December of 2009, Rage Against The Machine became highest rated on the Xmas chart after releasing Killing In The Name. Here is the tale behind that controversial tune. Not many rock numbers have experienced the afterlife of songs such as Killing In The Name enjoyed.

Getting picked up by a Facebook campaign that time in 2009 in order to claim that year’s No.1 spot during Christmas was an extraordinary success. The song raced to the lead by accumulating an excess of half a million downloads, putting McElderry in the rear-view and growing into the fastest-selling single ever in digital format.
 

Check out the video of the cover here:

The achievement was all the more exceptional because of the fact that the song was 17 years old and seasoned with potty-mouthed curses. Don't forget the fact that Rage Against The Machine, who taped it, had seldom to do with its second arrival.

“It caught us by complete surprise,” reveals guitarist Tom Morello. “It was a great David and Goliath narrative. We just joined the campaign during the last week. It was entirely ruled by supporters and was part of the best experiences in my life.”

Killing In The Name was composed at a pivotal moment in modern American times. The assault of the black motorist, Rodney King, from four LAPD officers on March 1991, recorded on CCTV tape, had angered the country after it was beamed serially over all news channels.
It was an event that catered directly into the programming of Rage Against The Machine, a progressive group of rap-metalheads who resisted against any type of political or societal ill.

Developed in Orange County during that time, they were managed by the grandson of a Mexican revolutionary singer and son of a Chicano political artist, Zack de la Rocha. As well as with Morello, himself the descendant of African insurrectionists.
The single, RATM’s first track, hard difficult experiences on many levels. A righteous amalgamation of hardcore, punk and hip-hop, Killing In The Name consisted of heavy venomous polemic, firing its focus onto what the band regarded as endemic racism in United States security bureaus. De la Rocha’s reoccurring mantra ‘Some of those who work with force are the same that light crosses’ refers undeviatingly to the Ku Klux Klan.
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