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Mixed or average reviews- based on 35 Ratings
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Positive: 18 out of 35
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Mixed: 2 out of 35
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Negative: 15 out of 35
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Dec 1, 2015
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Dec 5, 2015I enjoyed listening to it more than Coldplay's new album. As far as the grand scheme of things goes---I think I'll stay a Buddhist. Thanks anyway, Padre.
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Dec 4, 2015The illest pope this side of heaven drops the dopest tracks since God wrote Silent Night. Immaculately conceived, Wake Up! brings into question why we would ever listen to anything else ever. If you're looking for music to get turnt to, but also be forgiven for getting turnt as you're getting turnt, this is the album for you.
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Dec 1, 2015Pretty harmless, but pretty pointless as well. A great opportunity to do something really special and interesting is merely reduced to nothing more than the popular Pope's speeches overlaying some rather mellow easy listening music
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Dec 8, 2015While Francis P cuts his teeth on such free spirited over-the-top block party jams as "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!" and soul searching just-try-not-to-cut-yourself anthems as "Por Qué Sufren los Niños?”, his debut doesn’t hold a candle to his obvious inspirations, Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors.
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Jan 4, 2016Although it is difficult to imagine any scenario in which listening to this is entirely appropriate, the album was clearly intended as an inspirational totem. Its total strangeness only complicates that effort.
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Dec 22, 2015To a casual listener, it might be a little much, but considering the Pope released an album with an electric guitar, he deserves a little credit for having some edge. Whether listeners are religious or not, these are messages that are universally comforting in dark times.
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Dec 3, 2015Wake Up! exists at a tremendously strange midpoint between a two-hour mass and a corporate recruitment video. It’s like you drank a bunch of cough syrup and went to Live Aid: The Vatican.