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...Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha told the BBC that the band was "very, very ecstatic about being number one," giving thanks to the "incredible organic grassroots campaign" behind the movement. Guitarist Tom Morello was slightly more forthright by saying [it has] "tapped into the silent majority of the people in the U.K. who are tired of being spoon-fed one schmaltzy ballad after another." (See Rage Against the Machine in TIME's Top 10 festival moments...
...locals, attends a rally with guest speakers, then wows the crowd himself). Among the guests are Celeste Zappala, the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and a cadre of antiwar diplomats. At some venues, famous musicians are on hand: Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, ex of Rage Against the Machine...
...many ways, the most disappointing thing about “The Fabled City” is that it starts so well. The title track, which opens the album, has a lovely melody and a fantastic bassline, with Morello seeming to relish the simplicity of the arrangement. Second song “Whatever It Takes,” the only track on the album to feature electric guitar, is propelled along by a typical Morello riff as he exhorts us to defy our oppressors (“Don’t let them tie you to the stake / Whatever it takes?...
Unfortunately, it’s when Morello gets specific that “The Fabled City” falls apart. “Midnight in the City of Destruction” has pretensions towards being a damning indictment of the Bush administration, but its fury is more bizarre than infectious. At one point Morello sings, “I pray that God himself will 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...
These songs show the problem with the very idea of a Morello folk album. Rage Against the Machine was one of the most important bands of the 90s, and Morello practically invented the genre of “Nu-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...