The "Audioslave" (album) Appreciation Thread
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Honestly, I've been listening Audioslave's debut album for years and it's never gotten old. It's just a great rock record, period. It's weird because the critics seem to pan this album the most, even though I think it's infinitely better then their other two. The perfect record for any mood.... angry, happy, whatever... just blast it and it'll just feel right. Cochise alone is worth the price of admission... one of my favorite 'loud' songs ever. There are a FEW duds, yeah, but there are a lot of hidden gems too (Exploder is one of their best).
Great, great album. There's a lot of Cornell talk on here, but it seems like there's never enough love for this album.
Let's hear it people!
Great, great album. There's a lot of Cornell talk on here, but it seems like there's never enough love for this album.
Let's hear it people!
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...tickle my nausea...
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I agree, their debut was the weakest. However, there were some great tracks. Shadow on the Sun, The Last Remaining Light, Show Me How to Live, and Light My Way were amazing.
I think Revelations may have been the best. Shame they never toured to support the album.
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"I AM A VIRUS!"
Great song, definitely.
It always amuses me to be reminded how utterly subjective this whole art-appreciation thing is, lol. In contrast to the above, I don't feel OOE and EM have much in common at all, either musically or in terms of mood and content. And although OOE is probably my favourite AS album, I think Revelations (aside from some clunkers like Until We Fall, and that sounds great solo acoustic - it's the RATM crew that can't handle it) is a much more consistent and integrated album than the debut.
And for me, Carry On has some wonderfully subtle and accessible songwriting. It's rare for a writer to combine those two attributes. There's also some of his best and strangest lyric writing ever in "Disappearing Act", "Silence The Voices" and "Killing Birds".
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Revelations is easily the worst album by musicians that I thought I could trust to make good music.
2) Revalations
3) AS
I love all three though. AS is a great album, just don't appreciate it as much as the other two.
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Met a man locked away
For things he hadn't done
Innocence on a ball and chain
Never feel the sun
A grin on his face
Roses in his hands
But when he smiled at me
I could understand
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear you'll never freefall
If you're right you'll never fear the wrong
If your head is high you'll never fear at all
There was a daughter of a man
Took his life too young
She swore she'd never do those things
Then did just what he'd done
And a boy who's gone insane
Heard voices in his head
No one knows what they say
Now his mothers dead
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear youll never freefall
If you're right you never fear the wrong
If your head is high you'll never fear at all
There was a man who had a face
That looked alot like me
I saw him in the mirror and I fought him in the street
And when he turned away I shot him in the head
Then I came to realize I had killed myself
If you're free you'll never see the walls
If your head is clear you'll never freefall
If you're right you'll never fear the wrong
If your head is high you'll never fear
I don't listen to Out Of Exile ever really, but Revelations has really started to grow on me recently. I listened to it about once when I got it, then forgot about it. Picked it up again fairly recently, and there are some great tunes on there. I think Original Fire is possibly the worst on the album for me, and I have no idea why it was a single. I love Revelations, One And The Same, and Nothing Left To Say But Goodbye...and Moth is one of the best Audioslave songs. I really enjoy it as an album now.
I didn't like Carry On much to start with either, but I forced myself to listen to it as I was going to see Chris Cornell. It does have some really good songs on it though. I really like No Such Thing, and even like Arms Around Your Love, despite it being very poppy, it is a good song. Silence The Voices is a great song, as is She'll Never Be Your Man, and I think I really like Killing Birds..but sometimes i'm not sure.
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
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In your opinion. I don't think the quality of his music has gone down that much, it's just very different thesedays and a lot of people don't seem to be able to handle the change. But that's just MY opinion.
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
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Based on which albums I play the most it would be 1) self titled 2) Revelatons 3) OOE. I see that many of you dislike Revelations but for me, those last three songs, in a row, just blow me away! Personally i thought OOE was a miss. When I heard 'Be Yourself" for the first time, I thought "what the hell is this crap?" There were some keepers on the album, but much of it bored me. The third album brought back the rawness and power but alas, it was not meant to be...
As far as Carry On is concerned, my views have been changing on it lately. As I'm sure some of you remember when it came out, I was less than impressed with it. But having listened to the odd bits here and there lately, I am starting to warm up to it. The biggest problem for me is that it lacks identity. Where Euphoria Morning was shot through with an unmistakable melancholy, which made the record feel cohesive, Carry On flirts with so many different tempos and genres, that it feels all over the place. Yet listening to the individual songs, I really find it hard to pin-point what it is I don't like. Silence The Voices, Safe And Sound, Disappearing Act, Ghosts, Killing Birds - all very good songs, and very well written.
In all honestly I think the album, more than anything, was just rushed. For a start if he had held back a few months his voice would have been way better, as has been made abundantly clear on the subsequent tours. And perhaps he could have decided if he wanted to make a chirpy upbeat pop rock album, a harder rocking album, or a more acoustic based record - rather than just throwing all his ideas together. Either way, I think his next album will probably be a lot better. I think through touring and revisiting his whole back catalogue, he will hopefully find some idea of exactly who he is as a solo artist.
I think there's a lot of truth in what you say. Given the circumstances, Carry On probably was made too quickly - although that isn't always necessarily a bad thing - and I think it's transitional in terms of what he's up to musically. When I interviewed him earlier this year he did say that it was probably a reaction to what he was doing in Audioslave and he also implied that it might take a bit of time to establish a firm identity as a solo artist. I think he meant it would take time for him, as well as time for the public to accept it.
Also, like many very talented people, he's mercurial. He gets bored with doing the same old things and he wants to experiment. All that makes him vital and alive, even if it doesn't make him predictable, and people's expectations get confused.
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Chris Cornell is a dick!
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I love the first AS album...but, it's all about Mr. Cornell.
I am a man, I am advanced.....I am the first man to borrow Stone's leather pants!
what song is this?
great lyrics..!
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It's the song Exploder from the debut album. The lyrics actually don't look GREAT on paper, but when you add in the music and the vocal delivery, it's almost perfect. Check it out.
And of course the greatest song Audioslave ever wrote... The Last Remaining Light
Mike, I know these things are subjective, and a lot of the perceptions people have about recorded vocal sound are to do with production in the studio - but it really seems unlikely that his voice would be in best condition on the 1st Audioslave album when he was still drinking and addicted to painkillers. That album was recorded pre-rehab when he was still in pretty bad physical shape. In contrast, he was healthy and sober for OOE, and Revelations and Carry On were recorded when he was even off the tobacco.
I think there's a lot of evidence that his voice was at its worst early-Audioslave and has just gradually gone on recovering as he's got stronger. Certainly that's the story that comes over loud and clear when you look at the live work - part from the odd glitch like the nasty throat infection he had in Cuba. He's singing better live now than he has at any time since I don't know when. And I think he'll capture that on the next album - I for one can't wait.
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the other two are a little repitive i think...and the only songs as strong as the ones on the debut are wide awake, be yourself and doesn't remind me...but i like oos and revelations, they are not the greatest records of this century but just good
"I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"
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