It’s darn hard to find an area where we and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agree. But there is at least one. Ryan says he is a big fan of the band Rage Against the Machine. Who knew Ryan—the Ayn Rand disciple and worshipper of unfettered corporate power—could find common ground with Rage, which has made a career out of singing and fighting for progressive causes and against corporate greed?

Maybe, as the band’s front man and union member Tom Morello writes on RollingStone.com, it's because Ryan simply doesn’t understand the music.

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Click here to read Morello’s full column and here to read our interview last year with Morello on music, politics and activism. Morello is a member of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) Local 47 in Los Angeles, Calif.