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...guitar effects may be gone, but the rhetoric remains on “The Fabled City,” Morello??s second album as his highly politicized alter-ego. However, Morello, who was a Gov concentrator during his time at Harvard, apparently didn’t take any electives in poetry. His heart may be in the right place, but that’s hard to discern as this tepid album plays...
...come and drown the President if the levees break again,” yet he spends much of the song filling space with pointless “la, la, las,” which leads to a rather confused message. Given the complete lack of melody offered by either Morello??s guitar or voice, the song drifts by without being anywhere near as passionate as it wants...
...opening couplet (“She warned him, warned him not to go / He said I, I’ve got to go”) demonstrates Morello??s complete inability to portray any depth of emotion in his music. The lyrics disappoint throughout the album and on many songs the listener is reduced to cringing in anticipation of another appallingly obvious rhyme...
...metal,” but whatever you think of that movement you cannot say that it was subtle. Simplistic left-wing posturing works much better when coupled with loud, powerhouse riffs, and Zack de la Rocha’s rapping than it does here with Morello??s flat voice and only intermittently engaging instrumentation. The volume may have been turned down, but on “The Fabled City” the failure of the Nightwatchman project rings through loud and clear...
While Greenspan said it would be hard to trace the copyright offenders through YRX—because it would require proof of actual CD burning—he thought that Morello??s website could still face copyright trouble...
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