Does anyone else find this Tom Morello side-project thing absolutely hilarious?

It is so. Bad. It is awesome how bad it is. It is awesome to think of all the Rage Against the Machine fans and sundry retards of every persuasion loving on this platitudinous, hollow, fake, pompous, transparent, self-aggrandizing horseshit.

It is aggressively horrible music. Not the outrageous kind of horrible. The boring, lame, shamelessly unoriginal and uninspired kind. Listen to the lyrics, dudes! They are well delusional high-schooler. Listen to "Until the End." Or (from what I've heard) pretty much any other song he's written as "The NightWatchman." Take "Road I Must Travel"

"Well I climbed the seven summits
And I swam the seven seas
But the road I must travel
Its end I cannot see
I fought in the jungles
And I fought in the streets
But the road I must travel
Its end I cannot see"

WOW! It's like, word-for-word the battle hymn that some college-going piece of feces who wears a bandana on his face at protests he doesn't understand hears in his head. When he's dreaming about the fake-ass "revolution" he'll spearhead that will get him all kinds of laid.

But even a dumbass like that would probably scribble something so unfathomably trite out of his notebook and try again. I mean Jesus Christ. You fought in the jungles and the streets? No you didn't. No, you really really didn't.

"One Man Revolution" lyrics

"On the streets of Havana
I got hugged and kissed
At the Playboy Mansion
I wasn't on the list" (uh YES you were on the list you multimillionaire son of a gun. And you got ALL of that money by barely re-writing Led Zeppelin and Soundgarden riffs twenty different ways and turning them into radio rock. Not by "fighting the power" or "liberating your people." Or "Writing stupid shit on your guitar." You are already onstage in front of how many thousand idiots who will receive any dumbass thing you say as holy communion. You don't need that extra bit of attention you get from scribbling some fragment of a meaningless "empowering" slogan on your way-more-expensive-than-we-can-afford guitar. What, were you afraid we were focused on Zach? Because we were. Asshole. )

"On the streets of Cape Town
Shit's ready to blow
I don't know how to get there
But I'm ready to go "

Holy dogs. What more perfect a rallying cry could there be for the millions of kids who want to pretend to be part of that fashionable and exciting "revolution" but don't know what the fuck it is or where it is or why it is. Harlem as a birthplace, then a political science degree, THEN you're a rockin' guitar player in a band with a decent rapper, and somehow you still, at 44, wind up as probably the least-cool most self-serious and totally clueless personality possible.

I know what some of you are thinking.

"stfu peter...once again u show ur ignorence...u dont even kno his music...let alone his brilliant political mind have u maybe seen him interviewed...no...u just judge...it is sad...ur mind will never be properly expanded...just keep eating what they feed u...lol..."

I ask in return: have YOU ever seen him interviewed? Ever paid any actual attention to the man at all?

"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."

Are you fucking kidding me? This guy went to Harvard? What is this played out let-me-enlighten-you nonsense anyway? Does he really think that sort of an idea is somehow "revolutionary"? Honestly can you think of any thought-flavor that has been MORE popular or cool or fashionably proliferated than the kind Morello is pushing? And not to cover the same ground twice, but you guys know how insanely rich Tom Morello is, right? What a bunch of fucking garbage.

He sounds, at forty-four, like some kid who is bedazzled by their whatever professor and gets all fired up for like one semester and spouts empty recycled rhetoric like the above at parties for the duration. Except for Tom, that semester lasts his whole goddamn life. I'd rather listen to the actual eighteen-year-old Morello's thoughts seem to belong to. Because for one, he'll probably come off at least as informed (involved and in-touch) and intelligent as Tom. And for two, he has an excuse: he's fucking stupid and eighteen years old. And if Tom's not stupid, what exactly is it that lets him off the hook?

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But BlackGravel Rolling Stone said that Tom Morello is the 26th greatest guitarist of all time and who are we to insult someone so revered by a journalistic paragon such as Rolling Stone. Also you're a bad person.

I love Rage and I love Morello but Ill even admit that his acoustic crap stinks.

He needs an electric guitar.

Okay, I'll stand up for the Nightwatchman.

I loved his debut album. It was very consistent, and the lyrics for the most part didn't both me much. Great folk songs.
His second LP released this year wasn't nearly as good. It was no longer just him and an acoustic guitar. There's more drums, some electric guitar, bass, pipes, strings, whatever... there was too much going on and it didn't sound folk anymore.

I like the Nightwatchman, but his latest release kinds makes me wonder...

For someone who chastised the AC Newman threadstarter who began his post with "leaky leaky" and then plunged in a tirade about his lack of immorality or godlessness or whatever, that is the most pretentious and useless thread title that my eyes have laid upon in a while.

Couldn't just "The Nightwatchman" have sufficed?

Carrion

Well we all kind of expect it of BlackGravel hence the utter lack of any serious response.

I see what the Grav is saying, to an extent. I'm pretty sure my friend is into the Nightwatchman simply because of Rage. Tom Morello is one of his guitar heroes, so I'm sure that plays into it.
But it really is just bland, boring stuff. And Morello is no Springsteen, that's for sure.

Oh well. I wouldn't have taken the time to write all that the Grav did, nor do I hate Rage Against The Machine (though they are mostly meant to inspire angsty teens). But I do see his point.