lol, the guys that wrote and would play a soung that ends with an emphasis on “fuck you, I won’t do what you told me” did not do what they were told to… how surprising!!! 😅😅😅
Blows my mind the BBC thought a band named “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE” would behave themselves?! …they captured the genuine feeling of the British public and even played the fuckwits up until “FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME”..love this band
What's more, this is endorsed by the very machine the listener is supposedly 'raging' against, for good reason. No one is caught by surprise here. Saying F you to the BBC does nothing to change the existing structures of power and the enchanted consumer is conveniently rendered impotent in the process.
I have to imagine that someone involved in the decision chain knew that just asking them would GUARANTEE that it happened, and thus made damn sure to ask it.
@@InchonDM Old BBC exec: we know it'd be good to have them on because the kids love them, but how do we stop them from swearing? Young intern (stifling a smirk): we could just, you know, tell them they can't.
Love how at 8:32 you quickly hear the audio drop for a second. You can imagine the panic in the sound room 😂 then the woman saying "Get rid of it!" Chaos
Now that you mention that it makes this more interesting, since they were gonna try to censor they might’ve let that slide, but then he dropped more f bombs lol.
The saccharine BBC, totally missing the point as usual. Trying to censor the whole message of the song. I love how Zach plays along with the "I won't do what you tell me" build up, lulling them into a false sense of security before going balls out with the fucking soul of the song..."FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME". Epic. Iconic. Legendary. The rage is relentless. RATM.
Not the BBC's choice. They're subject to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code and could get themselves into deep trouble if they allow offensive language on the air between (usually) 06:00 and 19:00. They weren't "trying to censor", they were just following the law.
The band know if they full "fuck you" From the get go BBC will just cut them right at the start that's why the Band wait til the last part of the song.
What I love is that, moments before they start the song, you can see that every one of them is ready for what they planned to do. There's this giddy delight on all their faces.
"Do you think it's a Rage Against the Manufactured Pop Business?" The the lead singing goes quiet and clearly stifles a laugh. It's probably then that it dawned on him just how unprepared this show is for them
This wasn’t the first time an incident with RATM happened to the BBC. Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brookes was suspended after he accidentally played the full uncensored version of “Killing” At number 27 on the UK Top 40 Countdown At 5:00 PM on a Sunday night on 21/02/1993. Bruno was apparently too busy recording a promo for next week’s chart show while Zack De La Rocha angrily screamed “Fuck You I Won’t Do What Ya Tell Me” over the airwaves and Bruno returned announcing the next song without an apology, the station immediately received 138 angry phone calls of complaints from offended listeners afterward. All I can respond is with...”Whoops.”
haha thats so funny! only 138 calls out of the 1000s of listeners tells us something really! i'm not usually into this music but this song makes me tear up because of what it stands for it was a legendary moment in music!
I think what they should do is at the end of the call of these 138 snowflakes, they should this exact part of the song and hang up on them. We take peoples complaints too seriously and this is why we live in a sterilized world, literally and metaphorically.
For everyone who grew up listening to RATM in the 90s in the U.K and got sick of the bullshit music that was force fed to us, this was a huge moment. Thanks mate!
I like how the entire band gathered around Zach, the lead singer, right before he delivered the infamous line like they were saying "do it, we got your back".
no it shows that Radio 1 is the most misleading charts on the planet how can you tell someone there Christmas #1 on 20th December based from sales up to 19th December, that so many days out of Christmas, cant believe who many believe in Christmas charts on media and #1 as it very false, Rage didn't get to #1 at Christmas, Rage was was top for one week from sales from 13th to 19th December Only For 20th December Broadcast Version, UK Christmas Media Broadcast Charts is the most fix Charts on the Planet as data is not reached during Christmas, it always a week out, Joe McElderry with the Climb stormed the #1 on weekly 27th December, Based on real time data from 20th to 26th December 2009.
BBC have been working on a live delay for years, well before this, got to give a shout out to the person in charge of that delay 😂 Got to give to Zach as well for pretending he wasn't going to swear. The whole thing was genius
I was assuming there was a delay on what everyone else was hearing. I was ushered out of BBC TV Centre and as soon as I was out the gates my phone started going nuts. I then realised there was no delay and everyone heard what I did. It was mental.
I'm so glad they still sung the full song other wise it would defeat what ratm stand for. I have fond memories of dancing to rage in rock and indie clubs in the 90s. Amazing 👏
well Joe Did win in the last battle, The Climb was the official Christmas #1 in 2009 (Based on data Sales from 20th December) (27th December 2009- Confirmed)
I remembet when they were showing footage of metallica at leeds fest and cut it short because of swears, a few people had complained. A few thousand further complained metallica was cut short.
Asking RATM to clean up their lyrics for your state funded program on your state funded politically correct tv channel is logic along the lines of: "Yeah let's have Rowan Atkinson come on the show to do his Mr Bean skit but he's not allowed to make funny faces."
I watched this like 5 times before I realized the channel has the same name as the guy who started the campaign. You're a legend Jon, a real man of the people. You got my respect and admiration for this brother ✊
Cheers for the great clips of context before and after the actual performance. This is fucking awesome. Another christmas coming in a few months, anyone fancy a replay?
Same! I was just listening to "Killing in the Name" when my son came in and told me the story about this! He told me to google it...and here I am now lmao, and damnit, I LOVED this sooo friķkin much!!! So yeah, you aren't alone with just finding out about this even being a "thing"! 😉
@@mtpstv94 what do you actually think “you know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam, he turned the power to the have-nots, then came the shot” means? RATM hid nothing. Their lyrics were clearly libertarian socialist
After this interview, history was in the making and on 27th December, (From 20th December Sales) Joe McElderry was #1 at Christmas With The Climb. see X Factor did beat RATM in the end.
When he started singing fuck you I won’t do what u tell me, the women then says we are gonna have to end it here because they just did what we told them not to do 😂
After his first "fuck you....." the sound dims, but doesn't mute. Makes me think a freedom of speech or Rage Against the Machine fan was on the controls. I remember hearing this live & loved it. Typical authoritarian bbc, expect to tell a guest to do & say this & when they don't, they're surprised The establishment, eh?
All time favourite song! The only song I can sing at full tilt and hold nothing back!! And it just makes sense of the world even more so these crazy days we're in now 👍👌😎 The machine needs our rage against thee
![RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE [2.8.1992] Claremont, CA](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xk02MEkXYwU/mqdefault.jpg)
"We were expecting it, we asked them not to do it, and they did it anyway..."
RATM should use that for their promo material, that's too good
After all these years I never her heard her say “so buy joes records”
lol, the guys that wrote and would play a soung that ends with an emphasis on “fuck you, I won’t do what you told me” did not do what they were told to… how surprising!!! 😅😅😅
Kind of tells you that they just knew what'd happen and probably wanted it exactly how it turned out.
Of course they knew they'd do of, and invited them on anyway. It's bizarre that anyone thinks anyone working for Radio 5 didn't see that coming.
A bit strange that they did something you told them not to. That's so unlike them.
lol
Timestamp?
@@fightermma 8:30
@@GabrielPettier Thanks. I got confused. I thought he said they were confirming but I misread.
Exactly what I was thinking. They were like FYIWDWYTM!!
The greatest Christmas number 1 of all time.
The Greatest UK Number One of a Song released from the 90’s.
@@thecinematicmind Doesn't negate what he said
My 87yr old grandma (RIP) really liked KITN and nodded her head along on Xmas day to this!!!
gave you the 500 as it should be, cheers
@@thecinematicmind Naturally I wholeheartedly agree!
Blows my mind the BBC thought a band named “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE” would behave themselves?! …they captured the genuine feeling of the British public and even played the fuckwits up until “FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME”..love this band
'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me'. Could you not sing that bit? How did they think that was going to end? Talk about naive.
They are owned by sony
What's more, this is endorsed by the very machine the listener is supposedly 'raging' against, for good reason. No one is caught by surprise here. Saying F you to the BBC does nothing to change the existing structures of power and the enchanted consumer is conveniently rendered impotent in the process.
They are Capitalists for the machine. They are nothing but pathetic hypocrites. Rage For the Machine. Losers.
@@oldmate99 really want to say "so is your mum" but I won't cuz that would be mean. Merry Christmas to you though
Props to whoever at the BBC knew they would do it and still made the decision to have them on anyway.
I have to imagine that someone involved in the decision chain knew that just asking them would GUARANTEE that it happened, and thus made damn sure to ask it.
@@InchonDM Old BBC exec: we know it'd be good to have them on because the kids love them, but how do we stop them from swearing?
Young intern (stifling a smirk): we could just, you know, tell them they can't.
I really wish he had screamed MOTHERFUCKERRRRRR at the end like on the record. An epic performance either way.
I was hoping for this so badly when they cut back to the song.
already went too far, don't want to make enemies just want to make a statement
I guess he didn't say that because it was not a personal matter, "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" it's enough to make a statement.
@@vif3182 Right.
Me too
'we asked them not to do it, and they did it anyway'
well what in the fuck did you expect?
one of my favorite videos ever
She said they actually did expect him to do it.
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
They already told you
This was a piece of music history right here. What an amazing campaign, still the best ever
Love how at 8:32 you quickly hear the audio drop for a second. You can imagine the panic in the sound room 😂 then the woman saying "Get rid of it!" Chaos
Now that you mention that it makes this more interesting, since they were gonna try to censor they might’ve let that slide, but then he dropped more f bombs lol.
I have a bunch of RATM shirts but my favorite said “get rid of it” right on the back. Amazing!!!
It was CHAOS in that radio studio and that was the moment I genuinely thought we could pull this off
I like to imagine someone tried to turn it off and someone else in the studio was like, "let's just take the L this is awesome" and turned it back up
The saccharine BBC, totally missing the point as usual. Trying to censor the whole message of the song. I love how Zach plays along with the "I won't do what you tell me" build up, lulling them into a false sense of security before going balls out with the fucking soul of the song..."FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME". Epic. Iconic. Legendary. The rage is relentless. RATM.
class name lol
shut up you fucking weirdo its just a song
@@bigmanlizard7326 don't announce your depression to the whole internet, no one cares
Not the BBC's choice. They're subject to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code and could get themselves into deep trouble if they allow offensive language on the air between (usually) 06:00 and 19:00. They weren't "trying to censor", they were just following the law.
The band know if they full "fuck you" From the get go BBC will just cut them right at the start that's why the Band wait til the last part of the song.
they told them to censor the line "fuck you i wont do what you tell me", that just made the line more meaningful
I didn't realise how meaningful this was at the time. What a great band with great views
And now they're commie scum raging FOR the machine lmfao crazy how time changes and how well the brainwashing works
This is the most legendary thing to happen on tv.
Have you ever heard of Bill Grundy?
@@junior4654junior the old drunken pervert the sex pistols called out on his show?... Yeah that was a good moment too 👍
It was on radio.
@@320speed a radio with a film crew.
@@caninecurry5823 That was a private film crew to record what they were going to do because they knew bbc radio would cut them off.
“Sorry sir, you may not rage against the machine today.”
Still baffles me that they were surprised...
They weren't but they have to pretend to be so as to not get in bother.
No way they didn't expect it.
BBC - Bothersome British Censor
So funny. Huge fucking shock
Their name is literally Rage Against The Machine. Lolol
The clue is in the name
What I love is that, moments before they start the song, you can see that every one of them is ready for what they planned to do. There's this giddy delight on all their faces.
"GET RID OF IT" classic BBC. shuda just let it ride
Yeah lol at that point just go with it
Get rid of it 😂😂😂😂
Fantastic irony in asking a band not to sing the lyrics "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me." I mean, c'mon BBC, the clue was in the lyrics...
I can just picture the BBC producer standing behind the camera seeing it coming. Shaking his head and just mouthing the word 'no'.
Probably they were expecting ;” thank you , I will do what you tell me “.
"Do you think it's a Rage Against the Manufactured Pop Business?" The the lead singing goes quiet and clearly stifles a laugh. It's probably then that it dawned on him just how unprepared this show is for them
Fucking legendary how could they turn down an opportunity like that hahahah incredible
This wasn’t the first time an incident with RATM happened to the BBC. Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brookes was suspended after he accidentally played the full uncensored version of “Killing” At number 27 on the UK Top 40 Countdown At 5:00 PM on a Sunday night on 21/02/1993. Bruno was apparently too busy recording a promo for next week’s chart show while Zack De La Rocha angrily screamed “Fuck You I Won’t Do What Ya Tell Me” over the airwaves and Bruno returned announcing the next song without an apology, the station immediately received 138 angry phone calls of complaints from offended listeners afterward.
All I can respond is with...”Whoops.”
haha thats so funny! only 138 calls out of the 1000s of listeners tells us something really! i'm not usually into this music but this song makes me tear up because of what it stands for it was a legendary moment in music!
"offended listeners", aka the "this guy expressed some righteous rage about the endless degradation of late captalism and it hurt my feelings" crowd.
I think what they should do is at the end of the call of these 138 snowflakes, they should this exact part of the song and hang up on them. We take peoples complaints too seriously and this is why we live in a sterilized world, literally and metaphorically.
Amazing how the petty desires of the few outweigh the respect of the many.
@@End-Result The word "fuck" is more insulting than global imperialism, war, and corporate corruption...conservatism in a nutshell
Rage against the machine are legends for this. Respect
I'm sure it quickly dawned on them that they couldn't possibly honor that request and maintain their dignity.
"You can't even sing along to Rage Against The Machine" Watch me
My nigga
you scream to rage against the machine and it’s the greatest shit ever
@@jonathanvokes6064 i was just gonna type " ya dont sing along , ya scream and yell with all ya strength"
thanks for the like , whoever you are !!!
@@ickleshouse it was me! thanks for your reply
For everyone who grew up listening to RATM in the 90s in the U.K and got sick of the bullshit music that was force fed to us, this was a huge moment. Thanks mate!
👊
Hell fucking yeh 😂🔥
Can we do it again against Taylor swift
This is and always will be one of the greatest music stories ever. Every facet of it is perfect.
We were approached to do a documentary by quite a well know producer but the band didn't want to do it just yet
10:06 If you can't sing along to "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" then that sounds like a problem with *you*.
It was right there in the lyric, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” And they were surprised!
"Let's get christmassy, merry Christmas"
I love that you can tell he's cracking up at 8:18
I like how the entire band gathered around Zach, the lead singer, right before he delivered the infamous line like they were saying "do it, we got your back".
"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"
We explicitly told him not to say that
This is comedy
Whoever mixed this did the drummer dirty
they did everyone dirty
Pure modern music history
no it shows that Radio 1 is the most misleading charts on the planet how can you tell someone there Christmas #1 on 20th December based from sales up to 19th December, that so many days out of Christmas, cant believe who many believe in Christmas charts on media and #1 as it very false, Rage didn't get to #1 at Christmas, Rage was was top for one week from sales from 13th to 19th December Only For 20th December Broadcast Version, UK Christmas Media Broadcast Charts is the most fix Charts on the Planet as data is not reached during Christmas, it always a week out, Joe McElderry with the Climb stormed the #1 on weekly 27th December, Based on real time data from 20th to 26th December 2009.
Mad how they told them not to swear on a song that the literal last minute is just Zach screaming “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”
i love how a lot of production tried to keep it going lmao, also the dude in the back just chillin
This brings tears to my eyes. It’s perfect.
One of the best moments of my life, no question. This was the exact moment when I first thought we could do it
It's both amazing and horrifying how accurate this song is now in America.
It was accurate when it was written, just much worse now.
It's been accurate before it was written, when it was written, and still today.
time is a flat circle
@@soloflare9696All circles are flat. its a matter of time.
BBC have been working on a live delay for years, well before this, got to give a shout out to the person in charge of that delay 😂 Got to give to Zach as well for pretending he wasn't going to swear. The whole thing was genius
I was assuming there was a delay on what everyone else was hearing. I was ushered out of BBC TV Centre and as soon as I was out the gates my phone started going nuts. I then realised there was no delay and everyone heard what I did. It was mental.
So. Fucking. Inspirational. I need more of this
What an amazing piece of music and British history
We need a band to take the torch for our future!
I'm so glad they still sung the full song other wise it would defeat what ratm stand for.
I have fond memories of dancing to rage in rock and indie clubs in the 90s. Amazing 👏
How much would the whole meaning of this song been absolutely destroyed if they cut out the swearing at the end cuz BBC told them to!
10:06
Becky: NO! JOE SHOULD HAVE WON! YOU CAN'T EVEN SING ALONG TO RAGE!!!
The people that attended the Finsbury Park show would beg to differ
well Joe Did win in the last battle, The Climb was the official Christmas #1 in 2009 (Based on data Sales from 20th December) (27th December 2009- Confirmed)
I remember this, it was a huge deal at the time.
Still so massively relevant today here in the Uk as well. He talks about the tensions that people are feeling and it’s precisely the same now.
The bbc was shocked that rage against the machine raged against the machine
I remembet when they were showing footage of metallica at leeds fest and cut it short because of swears, a few people had complained. A few thousand further complained metallica was cut short.
Asking RATM to clean up their lyrics for your state funded program on your state funded politically correct tv channel is logic along the lines of: "Yeah let's have Rowan Atkinson come on the show to do his Mr Bean skit but he's not allowed to make funny faces."
I watched this like 5 times before I realized the channel has the same name as the guy who started the campaign. You're a legend Jon, a real man of the people. You got my respect and admiration for this brother ✊
I play this every christmas
How to make a moment legendary:
BBC did something wrong here, we pay the license, this is exactly what we wanted to hear.
Thank you Jon for uploading this as well as starting the original campaign!
Cheers for the great clips of context before and after the actual performance. This is fucking awesome. Another christmas coming in a few months, anyone fancy a replay?
It's now Ladbaby we need to sort out. They are the new X Factor and are part of the machine
How am I only now just finding out that this was a thing! Epic!
Same! I was just listening to "Killing in the Name" when my son came in and told me the story about this! He told me to google it...and here I am now lmao, and damnit, I LOVED this sooo friķkin much!!!
So yeah, you aren't alone with just finding out about this even being a "thing"! 😉
Zack even hit them with the merry Christmas
3:48 😁
Let's get christmassy 😊
both of them spoke so eloquently, total respect \m/
All ways loved toms way of playing guitar 🎸 sounds pretty unique.
A moment in time, a moment of rock’n’roll purity 👌
RATM: we are going to play an anti authoritarian song.
BBC: can you self censor any bad language
RATM: Sure, whatever you say.
Rage's lyrics say one thing. They believe politically in something else.
@@mtpstv94 no they don’t your shit thatcher right wing idea of “freedom” is NOT freedom for the average human.
@@mtpstv94 what do you actually think “you know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam, he turned the power to the have-nots, then came the shot” means? RATM hid nothing. Their lyrics were clearly libertarian socialist
@@mtpstv94 yeah the people who shut down the democratic national convention and the NY stock exchange sure are pro government
This made me proud to be British!
Made me proud to be an American.
@@claywhisman9721Made me proud to be a Canadian
Made me proud to be an Outer-Gebrovian*😉😂
*See The Big Yin🙂
Just love ratm , xxx any clips appreciated x
" *Dont* swear! "
Maam, you are literally asking for trouble in the most inviting way LOL
"we don't gotta burn the book, we just remove 'em"
This is, and always will be the best video on TH-cam
From the limewire generation, first record i ever baught. 100% worth it , what a moment
So stoked a younger gen got to experience this. I grew up with RATM and they got me through some seriously rough times and existential battles.
im proud to have been part of it x
Thank you for you're service 🙏
Thank you Jon!
BBC deserved every ounce of that!
still the number 1 song for every young soul rebelling against the machine anywhere on this planet.
Thank you England for this memorable moment the people have spoken
How much do I love these Guys
We asked them not to do it.........and they did I anyway ! Gotta love RATM !
After this interview, history was in the making and on 27th December, (From 20th December Sales) Joe McElderry was #1 at Christmas With The Climb. see X Factor did beat RATM in the end.
😂
And the interview they did beforehand was more intelligent, present, eloquent and expressionate than the pop artists they were up against.
how unexpected that the rage against the machine raged against the machine
Imagine asking Zach to censor himself
Tom Morello hit the nail on the head!
The UK 🇬🇧 was done with Simon Cowell and The X Factor churning out crap and saturating the music charts!!!!
When he started singing fuck you I won’t do what u tell me, the women then says we are gonna have to end it here because they just did what we told them not to do 😂
This was amazing,remember it well
You can't expect to tell a band to sing about how they won't do what they're told and then act surprised when they don't do what you told told them.
Always feel great listening to this song! What an ending! 🤘
Okay, we all know why we came to this video… but can we talk about why Tom has such a perfect voice for radio?! 🤣
Mannnn. I got chills hearing that final announcement, to hear R.A.T.M. with bbc radio one.... I can hear freedom ringing lol
After his first "fuck you....." the sound dims, but doesn't mute. Makes me think a freedom of speech or Rage Against the Machine fan was on the controls. I remember hearing this live & loved it. Typical authoritarian bbc, expect to tell a guest to do & say this & when they don't, they're surprised The establishment, eh?
"you can't sing along to rage"
No, ma'am, u gotta SCREAM AND SHOUT to RATM 🥰
and jump
This should be a Dr Pepper advert. Give them cameras, talked to radio channel, nice carpeted room to play in... What's the worst that could happen
Epic.
Legends of rock
God I loved this moment
We told them not to do it and ZDLR literally told her "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" ✊
I’m not surprised, BBC radio let me on the air and I’m literally the last person who should ever be LIVE on anything lol
The lady saying “wait a minute” 💀
They sound great as always
You can...100% sing to and with Rage....I do it all the time!!!
I imagine that #RATM really enjoyed playing this, as a meaningful evolution of their roots.
In every way, on every level this is how to RAGE❤🖤
The verbal exchange beforehand, their answers, it was beautiful
I bet it was invigorating as f
One of the best bands ever ❤
Hard af tune
All time favourite song! The only song I can sing at full tilt and hold nothing back!!
And it just makes sense of the world even more so these crazy days we're in now 👍👌😎
The machine needs our rage against thee