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| Released | February 22, 2005 [1] | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 51:39 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
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Live from Rome is a solo studio album by American hip hop artist Sole. It was released on Anticon in 2005.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100 [2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Cokemachineglow | 64/100 [3] |
| Dusted Magazine | favorable [4] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10 [5] |
| PopMatters |   [6] |
| Spin | B [7] |
| Stylus Magazine | C [8] |
| XLR8R | favorable [9] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]
Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10 and said, "Sole's socialist screeds work well when he raps them like he means them instead of couching them in layers of affected irony." [5] Dave Segal of XLR8R called it "Sole's most accomplished opus yet." [9] Meanwhile, Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 3 stars out of 10, saying, "One or two songs in, the listener is convinced that Sole has something interesting to say; fifteen songs later, he's just an angry young man shouting about whatever." [6]
All tracks are written by Sole, except "Banks of Marble" by Pedestrian.
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cheap Entertainment" | Odd Nosdam | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Self Inflicted Wounds" | Alias | 4:10 |
| 3. | "Predictions" | Controller 7 | 1:12 |
| 4. | "Sin Carne" | Odd Nosdam | 3:10 |
| 5. | "Entalude" | Yasamin | 1:26 |
| 6. | "Locust Farm" | Telephone Jim Jesus | 1:48 |
| 7. | "Every Single One of Us" | Alias | 4:09 |
| 8. | "A Typical" | Alias | 1:27 |
| 9. | "Crisis" | Controller 7 | 2:41 |
| 10. | "Manifesto 232" | Odd Nosdam | 3:34 |
| 11. | "Banks of Marble" | Odd Nosdam | 3:03 |
| 12. | "Atheist Jihad" | Odd Nosdam | 2:55 |
| 13. | "Dumb This Down" | Odd Nosdam | 3:14 |
| 14. | "Imsotired" | Alias | 4:20 |
| 15. | "On Martyrdom" | Tepr | 5:24 |
| 16. | "Theme" | Matt | 3:53 |
| 17. | "Drive By Detournment" | Tepr | 4:34 |
| Total length: | 51:39 | ||
Credits adapted from liner notes.
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