Rage Against the Machine Killing in the name The Word 1993

[@Lancer_78]

The Word was my favourite show as a teenager in the 90s. They booked THE best groups and the fact it was live and you didn’t know what kind of chaos was going to happen made it all the better 😅

[@chef_hoyle7180]

I remember watching this. and thinking what the fuck just happend. It was epic.True live t.v in the day.

[@michaellydon1239]

Sat in parents house in Wales 16 years old this changed me forever

[@SB-io2lf]

I miss the 90s. I'm glad I got to live through them, they were a great time.

[@Njal55]

I was 19 when this was aired - amazing scenes :) Along with the L7 performance. Epic.

[@Midlandsgoat]

The Word would not work at any other time than then. It was truly epic ! Great bands, guests and memories!

[@jasondavies249]

Came home from being out on friday night to hear this epic track. Bought the cd the next day and blown away by it.

[@cucumbonger]

Chris Eubank surveying the scene at the end... love it.

[@moonkef]

absolutely! lol

[@gb3037]

Hahaha, yeah!

[@mobious1602]

This just doesn't happen anymore. A perfect performance from a game changing band.

[@leewilkinson6034]

dude,,ive just posted this on fakebook,sayin exactly what uve said!

[@bahamastarry3054]

Chris Eubank and Race Against the Machine. Word.

[@thejoojooman6538]

I remember this like it was yesterday. Never 4got this performance. The Word was a Gr8 show!

[@davidhazelton5370]

What a time to be young

[@corshawnhughes8325]

Who else remember being a teenager or a young adult during this time amazing time for the youth of generation x

[@adammartin7007]

Oh man, the 90's were beautiful.

[@rustyfuzz470]

This is one of the most delightfully 90s clips I've ever laid my eyes on. Spectacular.

[@daveannan2577]

So glad that those shows have been uploaded. I.grew up in the 90s. The world was a better place especially as the UK still had its own identity. Now everything has been Americanised. Please note the conplete absence of uptalk speech.

[@leewilkinson6034]

so glad the MC5 influenced bands like these

[@-DHR4870]

Watched this show first time round. 👌

[@kiltsonfire164]

On the same week this was aired, BBC Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brookes got himself in hot water after he accidentally played the full uncensored version of RATM's Killing In The Name at #27 on the BBC Radio 1 Top 40 countdown at 5:00 PM on a Sunday Afternoon!

[@NickSamon]

REALLY?

[@samtagg8754]

This introduced a 14 year old me to my love of Rage against the machine

[@mrrickus]

Would love to see a full archive of The Word. There was one episode where they turned up with cameras at this lad's house who was having a full-on house party whilst his parents were away, hilarious! The show format was great, the bands brilliant, and the guests legendary. Surely someone has them all on an old VHS collection?

[@TheDangerousKid]

There is a channel with lots of episodes, not sure if it has everyone but has a lot. This was filmed in teddington near where I grew up, would have been awesome to be able to go

[@stevekenton7558]

lol 90s mayhem..love it

[@jamesennis8837]

Terry christian you are a Legend !!! the word was best show of all time..

[@jakmak1199]

Chris was itching to get amongst it... "Mark, hold my monocle".

[@Dullbedsitblogger]

I was in the Audience when this was filmed!

[@120wphwavesperhour4]

like all the people from Cork who were in Sir Henry's when Nirvana played 😂👍🙈

[@Dullbedsitblogger]

@@120wphwavesperhour4 haha honest I was there! Rolf Harris was also there but no one talks about that

[@120wphwavesperhour4]

@@Dullbedsitblogger lol The Word... I believe you, but not all those people in Cork 😂

[@shazwunder7967]

​@@DullbedsitbloggerI was there too but I'd hoped rolf was just a strange fever dream😬

[@Dullbedsitblogger]

@@shazwunder7967 those were strange times!

[@martinclk50]

Thanks for posting one of music's pivotal moments. I'd just got home mashed and put the Word on and here they came. I seem to remember L7 being on around the same time and that got lairy too :)

[@originalwhit]

Curry_Nation I'm sure someone got their beaver out when L7 were on

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

@@originalwhit Yeah Donita pulled her denims out to flash her thatch off. At one festival, she yanked out her jammy rag and lobbed it into the crowd. Donita Sparks didn't give a f*** mate....

[@Erectmygreenhouse]

Got hairy

[@gp6746]

I was there went to the pub first till closing and then this hit me in the face😁

[@thebmxband1t]

Because The Word was one of the best yoof kulcha shows of its time one has subscribed. Keep em coming the memories are most welcome mate. 😘

[@Bulletproof500]

Loved The Word, Chris Eubank links to Rage Against The Machine. Yeeeeeeeeesssh!!!!

[@dummytree]

I never understood why there was never a DVD of The Word performances. Many great bands on the show (and there have been Jools Holland, Saturday Night Live DVDs...).

[@Fatherjohn76]

Nirvana, RATM, Pumpkins... we'd talk about some of those Word performances in school for weeks afterwards

[@indianhead2416]

The Word had so many great bands play over the years. I love the look of disgust on Chris Eubanks face at the end Buhahaha

[@K.J.S.est1994]

Imagine how Bruno Brookes felt when he accidentally played this song uncensored on BBC Radio 1's top forty countdown two weeks later!

[@Piscesmermaid]

Yeah I remember poor Bruno! And then playing it again next time and saying ‘the EDITED version of killing in the name’, lol Great song

[@creadishcread2243]

Amazing, stage invasion leaves only the drums playing :)

[@dummytree]

And the bass.

[@boxoftrickspoker]

i saw this when it was live.

[@JesusCommando]

ha ha, me and all my mates thought this was just the best thing ever when it was first on! Fuckin' STORMING performance! xx

[@12villages]

Did they shoot this on 12fps

[@johnafirth]

Can just imagine if this had gone out at the old 6pm time... I remember Shaun Ryder getting Chris Evans into trouble with Pretty Vacant, which was hilarious.

[@chef_hoyle7180]

the fact they didn't think about a Mosh pit is very telling for a virgin live channel. What a show !

[@kaesekrustechannel]

wtf, the camera angel changes every second, i can't see

[@K.J.S.est1994]

BlackField I think when the camera angle is changing during the ending, it sounds like Zack is about to fucking explode.

[@Dreamskater100]

Yeah.

[@michaelrichardroberts579]

I was on the word, I say on, I was in the revengers, High Wycombe, railing through the gut prank. Terry got to talk to Kathy Lloyd, lucky bugger.

[@citizenerazed5539]

This song was the first song among their songs when I heard on the radio around 1993. By the way, Zack looks like very angry Kriss Kross here a bit. :)

[@K.J.S.est1994]

This version of Zack was intense as fuck during RATM’s first years of 1992-93, not surprised at all since he had all that anger unleashed from his previous band Inside Out which was a hardcore punk band he first sung for.

[@Steveypoos]

The second greatest Word performance of all time.........after Oliver Reed's legendary appearance.

[@gavjenxgavjenx]

haha terry christian! great upload

[@ardyer]

I was in the studio crowd. Electric!

[@stevemurphyis]

ardyer Me too! Fountain studios Wembley.

[@matrags]

We didn't realise how good we had it.

[@simonclarke7309]

When I first heard them and oh such understanding

[@kamuranDeliormanli]

There is no such a great tv shows now. 90's were another level in every occasion.

[@remo66101]

This looks like a really awesome TV show should bring it back

[@siddavis468]

Just brilliant. Remember it well!

[@feek2000]

Saw them at the Borderline club in London in 92, a lot of the guys up front at this were guys I used to go to or see at gigs at the time. Im pretty sure Zack has a fabric T Shirt on which was Chris who worked in Slam City Skates band, Chris was up front at this performance. Halcyon days.

[@shazwunder7967]

i see Dominic and John from Understand, John passed away a few years ago so it really warmed my heart to see him on the top of that pile. I wish the resolution was higher so I could spot a few more friends. Its definitely a Fabric shirt and I remember Chris giving it to him. He gave him a fuct shirt too, that started all the bootleg ones. Am I tripping or was Rolf Harris there the same night?😬

[@feek2000]

@@shazwunder7967 I think he was you know. That’s sad about John, sorry to hear that. You didn’t work in Slam per chance did you?

[@shazwunder7967]

​@@feek2000yep.

[@MatthewDay]

The 'i'd do anything to be on TV eating a grannies toe nail clippings, licking a fat man's armpits and walking in dog shit laidened flip flops and of course this epic live set from RATM. Makes the 'Masked Singer' looks like Songs of Praise ffs! Bring it back!! Today's TV is total arse!

[@MrLewisFloydHenry]

Woooooooooooohhhhh yeah

[@enzofernandez4843]

The most perfect killing in the name of performance of all time!!!

[@hazza5999]

Surprised no one mentioned Jo Whiley as the music booker for the Word.

[@sunsetalbell78]

EPIC

[@discopooh]

wasnt this 92? I remember watching this while living at my parents house and I move out a year later.

[@Rowlph8888]

Stage invasion leads to zack being smothered before he's finished singing the song and 1 of the greatest live performances is cut short, whilst the music still plays. Mark Lamar sees it happen and simplly chuckles, Chris Eubank peruses all the madness that happened every weekend on the oddest live TV show ever. They never had any security- Go figure! Should have been called "Murphy's Law", because if shit could go down, it inevitably would this tv show. Didn't last long!

[@daz9275]

And the rest is history.......

[@ldhumph70]

Boom.. have that world ✊🏻

[@ChloeDust]

Brilliant song, good crowd pumper!

[@simonclarke7309]

Bring back the word

[@ja-zo9df]

Couldn't ask for a trashier sound.brilliant

[@christianbliss8944]

Just fucking excellent mayhem

[@jfc4798]

who needed acid when you had the word

[@carldickenson5776]

Anyone know what date this aired?

[@Rowlph8888]

1992 I think . Unsuprisingly, the Show was Cancelled after a while… I'm surprised It got insurance. Absolute chaos, every week. This Stage invasion wasn't even the craziest thing that happened.

[@carldickenson5776]

@@Rowlph8888 yeah I remember L7 getting their pubes out! Great show

[@K.J.S.est1994]

@@Rowlph88885th of February 1993, two weeks before the infamous edition of the BBC RADIO 1 UK Top 40 Countdown where DJ Bruno Brookes accidentally played the full uncensored version of “Killing in the Name” as a new entry at Number 27 at 5:00 PM on the 21st February 1993.

[@robjones2408]

"The Word" was crass, puerile and vulgar. It also had the best live music of the 90s. Why isn't there a DVD of the finest music from the programme? Blur, Oasis, RATM, L7, Honky - it couldn't put a foot wrong. Great stuff.

[@patrick4213]

The Beat was brilliant too...staying up late on a thursday to watch brilliant bands play live

[@samtagg8754]

Nirvanas first ever tv performance

[@Rich-on6fe]

I remember watching this. I was 18 and it wasn't my style at all: I thought it was shit at the time, but it made an impression. Have never forgotten it.

[@Rowlph8888]

They chose the invites for juxtaposition and to be as controversial as possible. this show might as well have beeen called Murphy's Law, because if there was a possibility that shit would go wrong, it inevitably did on this show. Did you realise that the singers voice stopped mid sentence in this song because he got smothered by a stage invasion. I saw this live, But literally just now remembered iit therefore googled it. The rules were changed on British TV literally becausse of this show, in terms of what companies would allow live, without close security personnel. Hilarious then, hilarious now!

[@shanehaynes4896]

#needtheword

[@archive303]

Would have been Friday 12th February 1993. I saw them the following Tuesday 16th at Edwards no.8 in Brum

[@K.J.S.est1994]

archive303 IMDb says this was from 5th February 1993

[@archive303]

Joey Roller well then I stand corrected. I am sure it was still the 16th that we saw them at Edward's though.

[@dankhank8569]

if that's Chris Eubank then this must be the same episode with Primal Scream.

[@JudgeDredd_]

I'm pretty sure this video exists to give me epilepsy

[@stanleyderpalton3727]

Remember watching this at the time I went mental, jumping up and down at home

[@ScottieWallace]

lying ratbag

[@marleyjunior3583]

2:57 Tom's guitar stops working...

[@Erectmygreenhouse]

Rage for the Machine

[@universovtr8400]

min 3.35 Viva España XD

[@cameronpickard7456]

they are much too cool for an english crowdthey dont get it

[@vladimirolujic6637]

Back in the '90s when "liability first" wasn't the meaning of life. This was crazy. A bit epileptic editing, but OK.

[@bvseediermedia6]

Seemed a lot more edgy and exciting back then than it does watching it again now :-/

[@DudeEnglish]

The Word was fantastic but Terry Christian was a complete sausage.