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- Summary: Tom Morello's latest release as his folk alter ego is his third solo album, accompanied by a fully electrified band called The Freedom Fighters Orchestra.
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- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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| "I hurt the gentlest souls, I robbed my wife and son I turned my back on troubles, troubles I'd begun I cut a swath of pain and loss in the hallways... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 7 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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Aug 30, 2011A personal manifesto, WWRS falls somewhere between the Pogues at their most urgent and Tom Joad-era Springsteen at his most feverish.
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Aug 30, 2011World Wide Rebel Songs, is, without question, a welcome call to arms.
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Aug 30, 2011What Morello lacks in subtlety, he makes up for in visceral feeling.
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Alternative PressAug 19, 2011The addition of electric instruments and Morello's nasal speak-singing do make Rebel Songs read a little like a radicalized Dylan. [Sep 2011, p.116]
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Sep 14, 2011His voice here, a husky and burly drawl not too far removed from Johnny Cash's, is a constant delight throughout and is seemingly tailor-made for launching his volleys of criticism and cries for activism.
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Sep 1, 2011It takes a certain like-minded political sensibility to wholly appreciate both the music and the mantra, but rebels in search of a cause will likely share sympathy for Morello's fervent muse.
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Aug 30, 2011As a folksinger, he undeniably blows: There's simply nothing appealing or compelling about his forced, tuneless, featureless vocals, and without a strong frontman like Zack De La Rocha or Chris Cornell, flaccid attempts at rocking out like "It Begins Tonight" render Rebel Songs even weaker than if he'd stuck strictly to folk.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jan 10, 2015
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