Two Nightmare Reunions

Lost amid all the reunion press for the Police and the non-reunion of Van Halen, I came across the realization that the newly reformed Rage Against The Machine and Living Colour will once again be polluting my ears or eyes. I've always hated both groups. Rage were Rolling Stone crit faves and Living Colour were East Coast darlings, but both were pompous drags to me. The big problem were the lead singers. Zach de la Rocha and Corey Glover were just awful whenever I saw them live on TV. So, why were these groups so loved by critics? I figured it was their left-leaning politics. That's all fine, but you need songs to bring it over, and these groups had few. Tom Morello did much better in the less-praised Audioslave.