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One Day As A Lion | 
 enlarge | Artist: One Day As A Lion
Label: Anti
Category: Music
List Price: $8.98
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1522
Format: Ep
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.2
MPN: 86978
UPC: 045778697823
EAN: 0045778697823
ASIN: B001BTKP6S
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Wild International | | • | Ocean View | | • | Last Letter | | • | If You Fear Dying | | • | One Day As A Lion |
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After almost a decade of speculative anticipation on the part of his fans, Rage Against the Machine's Zach de la Rocha finally returns to the studio, with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. It's been a long wait, but if anything, the machine's sway has only grown more insidious, and de la Rocha rises to meet it as if he hadn't missed a beat. RATM fans will find all the familiar sonic and lyrical calling cards here, but One Day as a Lion is a mimeograph of neither contributor's flagship band. "If You Fear Dying" and opener "Wild International" highlight this five-song, 20-minute set. Sharing nearly synchronized leading riffs, the two songs also take similar liberties with religious taboo: "I target more heads than a priest Ash Wednesday" ("If You Fear Dying"); "I'm like a nail stuck in the wrist of their Christmas" ("Wild International"). In "Ocean View"--a heart-breaking, impressionist portrayal of the PATRIOT Act's capacity for enabling new twists on the old story of racial profiling--de la Rocha's wailing chorus glides atop a merciless cascade of thunderous drums. For those who follow either of these guys, everything here merits sustained attention. More generally, for those who like their protest music hard, loud, and in small doses, One Day as a Lion is king for a day, at least. --Jason Kirk
Product Description
One Day As A Lion is the creation of musical comrades Zack De La Rocha & Jon Theodore. This is music about space - the space between friends and collaborators where ideas form; the space in a song where the tension builds waiting for the next wave of sound; the space in the corners of the recording studio (Sinatra's old room at Ocean Way) where the sound gathers to fade and die. One Day As A Lion worked hard to capture that space on tape, unadulterated, unmolested, from heart to hand to skins to mics to tape to speaker to ear. The result, someone said, sounds like Led Zep meets Dr. Dre.
Album Description
Anti- Records' One Day As A Lion is an on-going creative collaboration between two like-conscioused individuals. One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept. A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It's a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California. The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 One Day As A Lion September 30, 2008
T. Snyder (AZ)
I was a teenager when Rage first came on the scene and blew me and my friends away. We loved the militant Public-Enemy political message, the impressive delivery and flow of Zack, and the funky/metal guitar of Tom. They were a band built for teenage boys to love and idolize.
Rage was one of my favorite bands and their old albums still sound VERY good today. So I came into One Day As A Lion hoping for something great.
And overall it is pretty good, but it's definitely not great. Zack still sounds good on the mic. But it can't touch the old Rage albums. I got the feeling I was listening to some sort of Junior-Varsity-Rage.
As mentioned in other reviews, the 5 songs on this EP kind of all sound the same, two of them especially, which is not good creativity-wise. Plus, I thought the choruses/hooks were not as strong, powerful or memorable as his other previous work.
It's taken Zack nearly TEN years(!) to put something out and this is what we get? So yes, I'm a bit disappointed. Will I still be listening to this One Day As A Lion EP 15 years from now like I do with the Rage albums? Probably not.
 Kind of sad... September 24, 2008
N. Perz (St. Louis)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
OK, the first track is pretty cool but the others just don't make the cut. It has a touch of the Beastie Boys to it but is more like the Renegades album then any original RATM material. It's kind of sad, really. I was such a huge RATM fan and wish Zack could have more success (although I was pissed that the he left the band right before they were supposed to play in my town...)
Anyway, ODAL is kind of weak material. If it was anyone other than Zack de la Rocha, I don't think it would be getting nearly as many 4 and 5-star ratings.
Not recommended.
de la Rocha is as good as ever, but music is lacking September 19, 2008
Michael Laminack (dallas, tx)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
de la Rocha is as lyrically and vocally intense as ever, but the music of One Day is somewhat subpar, especially in comparison to Morello and crew from Rage. Some of the songs sound almost identical, two of the songs differentiate in only a(very)slight variation in strum pattern. The lyrics are interesting and hard hitting, though, and some of the songs pick up a nice groove. Overall,it's an album worth picking up if you like de la Rocha.
Zach De La Rocha moves on...next door...Misses Tom September 7, 2008
D. Rekt (Wicheeta, Kansass)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD is a collaboration from Zach De La Rocha (of Rage Against the Machine fame)and some indie guys...sounds like RATM as a garage band...minus Tom Morello's innovative guitar playing...slashing chords and tubby drums...with Zach ranting as usual in the forefront...I would much rather hear the stuff that Trent Reznor produced for Zach...this is just him sleepwalking through some more angry indie stuff...
One Day As a Lion - One Day As a Lion (EP) September 5, 2008
S. D. Mason (Greenville, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One Day As a Lion (2008, Anti) One Day As a Lion's first studio EP. ****
For a long time there was talk of Zack de la Rocha releasing solo material (apparently material he had been working on even before Rage Against the Machine split), and even more talk when he worked with Trent Reznor. But now we get some sort of taste of what de la Rocha is like on his own, but he equally shares the stage with Jon Theodore, former Mars Volta drummer. As expected, One Day As a Lion is explosive, with de la Rocha spitting hateful messages at the powers-that-be while taking a minimalist effect. The idea is fantastic; Theodore's drumming is superb, playing a central role in not only developing an effective beat, but also being fairly responsible for filling the sound, as de la Rocha's vocals and keyboards are either sparse or start-and-stop. Sure, it sounds like lost Rage material, but it's fairly intimate for what it is, and what it is is righteous. A full-length LP would be outstanding. On it, boys! (Wild International)
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