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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - The Fabled City
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List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $13.99
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Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886972039626
Label: Red Int / Red Ink
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Red Int / Red Ink
Release Date: 2008-09-30
Studio: Red Int / Red Ink
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Editorial Reviews:
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2008 solo release from the guitarist best known for his work with Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave. While Morello is best known for his bracing mix of Hard Rock fury with Hip Hop accents, as the Nightwatchman he performs as a solo acoustic singer and songwriter, playing self-penned songs which reflect his Leftist political beliefs. 11 tracks.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressive
Comment: I do not listen to Rage Against the Machine. Not because they aren't a good band, but because I rarely listen to the type of intense rock they play. Tom Morello's solo outings are another story. The Fabled City is a really good album with songwriting and singing that I appreciate. Good effort Tom! I hope The Nightwatchman continues with productions like this.
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Summary: Great Follow Up
Comment: This album is a great follow up the Nightwatchman's first album. Unlike the first album, this one has a more well rounded sound due to a band backing Tom Morello. While at first I was a bit disappointed by the loss of the one man and his guitar approach after a few listens I began to appreciate the new sound. A must buy for any fans of the first album.
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Summary: Almost bought this one...
Comment: After hearing the track "No one left" off the first album, I was about to buy this one. Luckily Amazon let me preview the entire set list, because I have to say it changed my mind. There are probably a few decent tunes here, but the Neil Diamond vocal styling of Tom Morello on, what seems to be, the entire album, just lost me. Maybe if I had a chance to listen to it, it might grow on me, but I'm not ready to take that leap. Don't get me wrong, Neil had some great tunes, but it's already been done.... better.
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Summary: Amazing
Comment: wow i normally do not like music like this...i am a big rage against the machine fan so i decided to check this out and he is amazing still...i love his voice on the album...it sounds like tim armstrong's voice put to poltically charged folk songs...this is a great album
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Summary: Do You Feel Safe?
Comment: Far too derivative and depressing to rate higher than 4 stars, Tom Morello's Nightwatchman side-gig releases a second album of politically based folk rock. "The Fabled City" is a richer sounding album than One Man Revolution and maybe even more of a downer. Embittered immigrants (the title track) share space with frustrated soldiers ("The Lights Are On In Spidertown") and doomed workers ("Night Falls") in a series of minor key rumblings.
Each song on "The Fabled City" is delivered in Morello's somewhat tuneless growl or a barked out shout. He is channeling a lot of influences (Springsteen on the title cut, Johnny Cash on "King of Hell," Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger Union Songs on "Night Falls."), what is missing is any sense of optimism. Even a rabble rouser like Steve Earle knows to throw in one sing-along per CD, and "Saint Isabelle" comes closest here. It doesn't make the songs any less affecting, but it does make "The Fabled City" a tough disc to sit all the way through.
What you do need to wait for, however, is Morello's take on Post-Katrina New Orleans. "Midnight In The City Of Destruction" sounds deeply personal and direct, and hurls this epithet:
"I lost my guitar, my home and my good fortune.
I lost my Grandfather, two neighbors and a friend.
I pray that God himself will come and drown the President
if the levees break again."
"The Fabled City" is a big old lefty diatribe, and if you can live with that, you'll enjoy the darkly intense folk-protests Morello spits out. Just be prepared for the fact that this is one angry fellow folkie and Tom's making it clear that he is not going to go quietly.
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