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| 1.0 awful | dub sean | November 9th 07 |
Honestly, how can anyone take this guy seriously? His lyrics are flat out awful and his guitar work is monotonous and mundane. Please do not let this 'one man revolution' make another album, I beg you! After hearing One Man Revolution, I downloaded this. It was gone the next day, cast straight into my Recycle Bin. Sorry Mr. Morello, but you need to get back into Rage.
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| 0.0 | Carnifex | August 11th 11 |
I love his lyrics, but the music is so monotonous and boring. The 'Union Town' EP is the best thing he's done solo so far.
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| 2.5 average | assman44 | November 5th 10 |
Having long been a fan of Rage Against the Machine since my angry but misguided days as a teenage burglar/ self proclaimed revolutionary I was very excited and intrigued to hear of Morello's solo work. Hearing that it was folk inspired effort got me even more excited. I had always liked Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and The Band and the thought of Rage's socialist guitarist pursuing this route gave me a raging boner in my pants. So I hopped on the net and in true Rage Against the Machine, illegally downloaded the album off of a torrent website.
The opener, "California's Dark", had a decent Springsteen meets Guthrie feel to it. The follow-up, title track "One Man Revolution", was also a good folksy tune that any Marxist dissident could raise his fist to. The highlight of the album though was "The Road I Must Travel". An Americana influenced story of a lone radical, performed the vein of classics such as "The Weight" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad" is enough to give even the most conservative of listeners the urge to wave red flags and chuck molotovs at cops.
Unfortunately, after the promising start the album begins to bleed together and sound the same. "Union Song" and "Garden of Gethsemane" have their moments but ultimately the albums earnestly and bland Grapes of Wrath based metaphors becomes a bit much. Disappointing? Yes. Lucky for us though Rage is back together.
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| 2.5 average | Mr Grieves | September 11th 10 |
Morello has great lyrics, but musically this album misses!
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| 3.0 good | Urinetrouble | June 22nd 10 |
tom makes folky protest songs but ends up sounding like a stripped down bob dylan. a few fun songs, but overall pretty predictable
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| 3.5 great | uberspuck | June 7th 09 |
A lot of people seem to think this album is a resounding failure. In the intended genre with the intended purpose, yes, I would agree. However, from a comedic standpoint, this album is excellent, an unexpected success in the vein of Dewey Cox or Unknown Hinson.
Remember, it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter what you say, flesh shapes the day. Whatever that means.
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| 3.5 great | spuck | October 7th 07 |
Its a pretty poor serious attempt at folk music and if you're looking for a record of deep, meaningful folk songs, ignore it. However, when you take a step back and enjoy the inherent humor of poor vocals and lyrics in all their campy goodness, this albums is a hell of alot of fun.
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| 2.5 average | adios | November 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Samus27 | November 20th 13 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | March 17th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | ejb | September 10th 12 |
| 3.5 great | NoFro | June 1st 11 |
| 2.0 poor | ebay | January 4th 11 |
| 1.0 awful | Comj | December 16th 10 |
| 3.0 good | mike838 | September 19th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | spook6 | August 2nd 10 |
| 3.5 great | Tim00w | July 17th 09 |
| 1.5 very poor | Yotimi | February 10th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | snasser | February 15th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Vaires | January 5th 08 |
| 1.0 awful | donovr | December 14th 07 |
| 5.0 classic | kanak | October 25th 07 |
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