Audioslave

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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Its Evolution Baby wrote:
    Suck on this you haters!

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ftuji1OkzdI&feature=related

    That is quite possibly the least remarkable guitar playing I have ever seen. You can find better than that. And again, read my post. My problem is the solo within the context of the song. Seriously, listen to their last album. Does even one of those solos help the song in which it is featured? You can look at songs like Like a Stone or Dandelion and say the solos work, but those kinds of examples are few and far between.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    First album was awesome, one of the best rock records I've ever heard.

    Second and third were inconsistent, some good songs, some filler. The RATM guys weren't versatile enough to keep it interesting without playing RATM-type riffs. I'm glad Cornell went solo because I can only take so many Tom Morello sonudeffect wanks on one record.
  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    boroff89 wrote:
    Here's some blasphemy for you: Tom Morello drove this band into the ground. His obligatory solo 3/4 of the way through every Audioslave song was almost always unnecessary and rarely did anything to enhance the songs. The other two Rage guys stepped up their games, Morello never did. He's the most overrated hack of a guitarist in the modern era of rock.

    Here, here.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I thought they were a good band. I loved the first album but Cornell and
    Morello didn't seem to fit together well. After the first album the two styles were more akward than innovative.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Saw them in Cardiff 2 years ago...they were kicking, really top class, high energy, catchy rock an roll band. Great gig.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dirtyshoes
    dirtyshoes Posts: 27
    I think they were a pretty good band... there early stuff was good...
  • pjtaper
    pjtaper Posts: 3,020
    aside from Chris Cornell being a designer jeans wearing asshole, I LOVE Audioslave! One of my favorite bands of all time... Revelations was my favorite album of 2006. That says a lot, since "Pearl Jam" was my 2nd all time favorite Pearl Jam album after No Code!
  • searchlightsoul
    searchlightsoul Posts: 583
    I view this band as a missed oppurtunity. In the ST they created this really amazing blues feel to alot of the songs but then subsequently reverted to boring run of the mill type rock songs. For me Cornell and Cumerford were the only guys who showed any growth. Tom's innability to evolve killed this band for mine.
  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    dana_b wrote:
    Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:
    One of my greatest regrets is seeing them live. quote]

    Why? Did you get beat up or something?? ;)

    Love(d) AS.
    Haha whoops, better edit that. It should say that one of my greatest regrets is NOT seeing them live. :(
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    pjtaper wrote:
    aside from Chris Cornell being a designer jeans wearing asshole, I LOVE Audioslave! One of my favorite bands of all time... Revelations was my favorite album of 2006. That says a lot, since "Pearl Jam" was my 2nd all time favorite Pearl Jam album after No Code!


    I think Cornell gets too much shit, I mean he sorted himself out, and he looks good, we'd all pose around in designer jeans if we could.... Yes we would, don't think we wouldn't.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • DaytimeDilemma
    DaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    boroff89 wrote:
    Here's some blasphemy for you: Tom Morello drove this band into the ground. His obligatory solo 3/4 of the way through every Audioslave song was almost always unnecessary and rarely did anything to enhance the songs. The other two Rage guys stepped up their games, Morello never did. He's the most overrated hack of a guitarist in the modern era of rock.



    You are a complete moron and should never post about guitar players ever again.




    Cornell killed this band. Morello is one of the best players of our generation.
  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    Brain Of E wrote:
    i think this was one of the greatest things to ever happen in modern rock. I agree that it was not as awesome as soundgarden or ratm, but it was pretty awsome in it's own right.

    The first band that got me into music: Audioslave (I was 12 when I first listened to them). First and maybe best live experience: Audioslave.
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    DaytimeDilemma wrote:
    You are a complete moron and should never post about guitar players ever again.




    Cornell killed this band. Morello is one of the best players of our generation.

    I don't think anyone is saying that Morello is a bad guitarist. Far from it, he's one of the best. But just because you can make all of those wacky sounds on a guitar...sure, it's technically good but for me, half of the time it just sounded like shite and completely didn't fit with the song. It seemed like he was just doing these ridclious solos becuase he could, rather than trying to make them fit into the song. Case in point, the solo on "Bring Em Back Alive."

    I know it's his trademark but to be fair, I wish he'd do some more traditional solos like on the first Rage album. I don't think Morello was awful in Audioslave - fucking amazing riffs and when the solos 'fit', they were incredible (Like A Stone, Yesterday To Tomorrow) but he didn't seem to experiment and it just got annoying.

    Not to mention that all of their songs seem to have the same structure - verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, chorus or whatever. That made for some catchy songs but I dunno, I guess I just wanted more than catchy songs from some of the greatest artists of the 90s.
  • DaytimeDilemma
    DaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    muppet wrote:
    I don't think anyone is saying that Morello is a bad guitarist. Far from it, he's one of the best. But just because you can make all of those wacky sounds on a guitar...sure, it's technically good but for me, half of the time it just sounded like shite and completely didn't fit with the song. It seemed like he was just doing these ridclious solos becuase he could, rather than trying to make them fit into the song. Case in point, the solo on "Bring Em Back Alive."

    I know it's his trademark but to be fair, I wish he'd do some more traditional solos like on the first Rage album. I don't think Morello was awful in Audioslave - fucking amazing riffs and when the solos 'fit', they were incredible (Like A Stone, Yesterday To Tomorrow) but he didn't seem to experiment and it just got annoying.

    Not to mention that all of their songs seem to have the same structure - verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, chorus or whatever. That made for some catchy songs but I dunno, I guess I just wanted more than catchy songs from some of the greatest artists of the 90s.


    That's cause Audioslave was nothing more than a corporate rock band put together by a record label that seems authentic because of the caliber of musicians involved.


    I remember when the rumors of Cornell and the Rage guys jamming first came out. It got huge press and people got excited. Then, if you guys remember, they broke up and stopped jamming. The buzz was so huge, the record company paid them a shit load of bucks to make a couple of albums and they did.
  • Blackeyedangel
    Blackeyedangel Posts: 262
    Duder5k wrote:
    In a decade full of whiney good charlotte-type bands, they were a blessing. I remember first hearing Shadow On The Sun in the movie collateral and thats what got me into them. Gonna miss 'em.
    Shit, even Good Charlotte had a handful of decent songs now and then, at least compared to these guys.
  • Obi Once
    Obi Once Posts: 918
    The albums certainly got worse, but seeing them live was awesome.
    your light's reflected now
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    seeing them live was awesome. saw them on both tours, and both the audioslave-only set and the mixed AS/RATM/SG sets blew your face off with pure heaviness.

    i initially expected very little after the way they formed (which as said above seemed to be hugely about getting squeezing money out of their reputations), but I later came to think that their first album is one of the finest rock albums i will ever buy. they were ON

    And despite the bland 2nd album there were moments where each of the guys could step up and make something about most song interesting (good examples - the brilliant lyrics of "your time has come", guitars on "yesterday to tomorrow" and pretty much every bass line commerford ever played)....dont know enough about drumming to say.

    I really liked the third album, Wake Up, Moth, Jewel, and Shape Of Things To Come are class songs.

    really cant help but feel it was a missed opportunity to move beyond the simple structures they mainly stuck to.

    they could have made historical music....
  • hguz73
    hguz73 Posts: 245
    I agree (as it was said before) that every release got worse. I still like Soundgarden and of course Rage..when both bands split it was kind of dissappointing. Then came the news of the creation of Audioslave, sounded like a good idea..but damn i was wrong. There was never a real chemistry between the two parts, its a shame that such great musicians couldn't pull up a nice proyect. There was always some sort of taste that they all couldn't show the best of them together.
    To end this statement i think it was a wise decision to break up..once things start bad they end worse. I hope Rage could release a new album since a Soundgarden reunion is far from becoming a reality.
  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    Audioslave: love them. Now that the dust has settled, I'd definately say OOE is my personal favorite. Best output by them, been listening to it constantly for a week or two now.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    DaytimeDilemma wrote:
    You are a complete moron and should never post about guitar players ever again.




    Cornell killed this band. Morello is one of the best players of our generation.

    I know he's a great guitar player, and he did some great work in RATM, but his solos after the first album are just boring soundwanks.

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