Flobots - Fight With Tools
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Artist: FlobotsEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2008-05-20
Music Label: Universal Republic
Soundtracks:
- There's a War Going On For Your Mind
- Mayday!!!
- Same Thing
- Stand Up
- Fight With Tools
- Handlebars
- Never Had It
- Combat
- The Rhythm Method (Move!)
- Anne Braden
- We Are Winning
- Rise
Music reviews of Fight With Tools
Music Review: (R)evolution rap.
Rating: 5 Stars
This band performed with "Rage Against the Machine" here in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. At the end of the show, most of the 7000 people in attendence joined a march led by "Iraq Veterans Against the War." See The Ground Truth and Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations for more on that movement.
It was a powerful scene, as a couple thousand other people joined in the march to the Pepsi Center where the Dems were gathering. After being faced with a phalanx of a few hundred Robocops ready to pounce on protesters, an Obama representative came out and received the letter from the members of IVAW.
I noticed that Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" reported on this peaceable assembly, and used the Flobots' performance for their bumper music between news segments (see Democracy Now's 8/28/08 archive).
Just today I smoked a bowl and revisited this CD. The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual
I'll be sharing this disc, a radical tool itself, with many others.
The viola is a great touch.
Some related tools to resist the corporate colonization of our minds:
Why We Fight
The Corporation
Rage Against the Machine
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
Yes!
"Let your life be a counterforce to the machine." - Henry David Thoreau
New Suns Will Arise : From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau
Description of Fight With Tools
Formed as a cohesive alternative organism in 2005, the FLOBOTS `good-fight' mythology can be traced via Denver's underground vines and creative community of the late `90s when various members enlivened each others' gigs and creative events, setting the charge that would eventually power up the band's contagious and rollicking rock/rap pedigree. Their rousing live show, seasoned by classically trained viola player Mackenzie Robert's innovative playing, sparked an impressive undertow of across-the-board support (including both coasts and off-the-grid territories such as Nebraska and Utah) as the group honed its glowing activist edge with a refreshingly positive message and bristling musicianship.The prescient "Handlebars," currently holding down a coveted `Top request' slot at several key radio stations as well as being the Most Added at Alternative Radio, has placed FLOBOTS among the most buzzed-about newcomers in rock and rap circles. "'Handlebars' was written in the same way the group kind of blossomed," says Jonny 5. "I had a friend a few years ago who asked me if I ever tried to ride my bike with no handlebars. I hadn't, so I tried it. Got to thinking about all the other things I could do - we could do. The song came so fast to me I actually called my mom's answering machine to record the lyrics and make sure I got it all down. Of course it's also about how even our best intentions are laden with some sort of opposite. We like to think that FLOBOTS are about directing that positive energy into real change."
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