Audioslave

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Fraggle Rocker, Jun 22, 2003.

  1. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Enough about Radiohead vs. Weezer. (They're fine. No offense intended.) Who likes Audioslave? My wife and I love them. She plays their album at least once a day. I say any good red-blooded head-banger or grunge-slogger has got to love them too. Led Zeppelin meets Soundgarden. I hereby nominate them as Best Band of the Twenty-First Century (So Far). Guitars are back! Their solos break new ground. (Sorry I haven't got the liner notes handy, so I don't know the guitarist's name.) I can't remember when I last heard such astounding new sounds come out of a guitar.
     
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  3. YoungWriter Audiophile Registered Senior Member

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    Its good stuff, but Rage Against the Machine, I think, was better.

    And the guitarist is Tom Morello.
     
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  5. airavata portentous Registered Senior Member

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    RATM rocked. I love Battle of LA. Audioslave is ok, don't like it too much. Cochise is a half decent song.
     
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  7. Åudioslave Registered Member

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    <--------- Heh heh! - Cornell rocks!

    Glad it wasn't a post about me personally!
     
  8. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    You officially kick ass my friend......

    BTW isn't Audioslave mostly made up from RATM with a different lead singer.

    Tom Morello is a guitar genius....he ripped it up in RATM.
     
  9. YoungWriter Audiophile Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, but it's much more about melody and the lyrics are more personal.
     
  10. mars2112 trailrunner Registered Senior Member

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    audioslave is awesome.. rage meets chris cornell.. match made in grunge heaven.. saw them live at the warfield.. they kicked ass.. cornell's powerful voice combined with morello's guitar is killer

    exploder, hypnotize, bring 'em back alive and set it off are excellent tunes
     
  11. fredx Banned Banned

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    I am not totally impressed although all I have heard is the three songs that were made into videos. I was a very big Soungarden fan and also somewhat of a big Rage fan. This new stuff is just not raw enough for me, its too overproduced or something.

    Also, Cornell expressed such a depth of feeling in Soundgarden songs and Rage was just an explosive mix of firepower.

    I think Cornell just joined "the Dave Grohl I am just still singing to be a cool macho rockstar dude because I never developed any other talent and I have forgotten about the feelings of forlorness and angst that people really related to in my music, so I can get heavy rotation on MTV and keep my popularity eventhough I am washed up and my music is disposable pop club".

    I am throughly unimpressed.

    However, I am impressed to see Fragglerocker being so active on the "free thoughts" and "arts and culture" sections. Nice to see you man, instead of wasting his time in the ever humdrum wasteland of mindless topic regurgitation that is the "world events and politics" section.

    (Note: this is not to say that I think politics and world events are unimportant.)
     
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  12. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    If you caught my post in the "Ten Favorite Albums" thread you'll deduce that "raw" is not exactly a high priority for this diehard progressive rock fan.
    Yeah but you can piss so many people off at one time in that section. Everyone is so polite over here.

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  13. testify Look, a puppy! Registered Senior Member

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    I say, that is almost the single greatest thing I have ever seen that I can actually strongly agree with. I think Cornell could have found a better match than the 3 members of the band formerly known as Rage. I don't think Tom, Timmy, and Brad could have found a new singer that did what Zack did. There is no way that Rage could have gotten any better after their breakup, and Audioslave in my opinion, proves that point very well. Sorry Fraggle, they just don't live up to my incredibly high standards.
     
  14. airavata portentous Registered Senior Member

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    I liked the issues RATM used in their lyrics. I should start listening to more of Audioslave- and find out if they are as good as everyone says.
     
  15. UberDragon The Freak at the Computer Registered Senior Member

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    Having listened to the album several times, I would have to say that along with Cochise and Like a Stone, that whole entire CD sounds exactly the same from song to song. It's just RATM with Chris Cornell and quasi-religious lyrics. sure, the guitars have changed a tiny bit from RATM (which pretty much used the same chords over and over), but it still doesn't change Tom Morello style.
     
  16. gracie_lou Registered Senior Member

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    i think audioslave makes beautiful music. i love tom's method and chris's voice. everything just kinda comes together in a beautiful, clashing harmony, if htat makes sense. :bugeye:
     
  17. yayacatfight Registered Senior Member

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    This has been 'the song' for a few months for me

    Like A Stone

    On a cobweb afternoon
    In a room full of emptiness
    By a freeway I confess
    I was lost in the pages
    Of a book full of death
    Reading how we'll die alone
    And if we're good we'll lay to rest
    Anywhere we want to go

    (chorus)
    In your house I long to be
    Room by room patiently
    I'll wait for you there
    Like a stone I'll wait for you there
    Alone

    On my deathbed
    I will pray
    To the gods and the angels
    Like a pagan to anyone
    Who will take me to heaven
    To a place I recall
    I was there so long ago
    The sky was bruised
    The wine was bled
    And there you led me on

    (chorus)
    In your house I long to be
    Room by room patiently
    I'll wait for you there
    Like a stone
    I'll wait for you there
    Alone

    And on I read
    Until the day was done
    And I sat in regret
    Of all the things I've done
    For all that I've blessed
    And all that I've wronged
    In dreams until my death
    I will wander on
     
  18. dribbler Banned Banned

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    very good combo with cornel and the morello from RATM.

    very good stuff. they are around to stay. cornell stated that they are a "band" and this is not just some project.
     
  19. Zero Banned Banned

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    Audioslave sucks cock.

    RatM was The Band.
     
  20. airavata portentous Registered Senior Member

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    Yeha. I agree completely zero.
     
  21. testify Look, a puppy! Registered Senior Member

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    I completely agree with airavata agreeing with Zero
     
  22. airavata portentous Registered Senior Member

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    That's indicative from your name -- Now testify !
     
  23. testify Look, a puppy! Registered Senior Member

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    Wait...WAIT! Rage is STILL THE BAND. Their music still lives on in the hearts (and ears) of the true fans out there. Even after 3 years of them breaking up, the sound of Rage still lives on in their 4 SPECTACULAR albums (not including live & rare). I for one, do not believe that Audioslave even deserves to be compared to Rage.

    I AM NOT saying that Zack made up Rage, nore am I saying that Chris sucks ass (well ok, I am). I am merely saying that as a group Rage was far superior to Audioslave.

    The whole attitude Rage had (has) was left behind when the group broke up. Yes, the remaining albums continue to put out that attitude, but the attitude alone puts Rage at a higher level of intensity than Audioslave. Sure, Audioslave can be a mellow band, but it just breaks my heart to see (and hear) the four AWESOME ex-members of Rage go from that level of intensity to being so dreary and...BORING.
     

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