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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: nayrk on 31 Mar 2005, 11:01
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Anyone here like Audioslave? Just dl'ed the new single "Be Yourself" off iTunes, they sound alot more like Red Hot Chilli Peppers in this song.
Discuss
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give me a gun and i will shoot the members of Audioslave
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honestly sturge, do you like Anything!? lol.
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They make me want to grab Tom, Tim and Brad. Look straight into their eyes and say, "Come on, guys. Audioslave. Chris Cornell? Come on."
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i haven't heard the new single yet, but their first album ROCKS.
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Not a fan. Not a fan at all. Pretty much I don't like Chris Cornell. Which is blasphemy where I'm from, but yeah.
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I don’t care either way myself, but I know quite a few Audioslave (and Chris Cornell and Tom Morello) fans that loved the first album and think the new single is horrible.
I was also amused when Pitchfork noted that “Audioslave” is an anagram of “adios value.”
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myself, im impartial, i think the issue that alot people have with audioslave is that they are comparing them to RATM, which is impossible.... if you take em at face value, there better than most.
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chris cornell was hot shit in soundgarden, i won't lie. they were one of the only "grunge" bands i could stand.
but audioslave are such bottom of the barrel shit. gah. and i fucking hate tom morello so much.
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i certainly don't have the same hatred for them many others have exhibited. my reaction can be summed up generally as "eh." they're not as good as soundgarden OR RATM, and that's sad. mix'n'mash bands are almost always not as good as the originals (see also: velvet revolver, van halen with anyone else besides david lee roth [but ESPECIALLY douchey mcdouchenstein, the new guy, who is not only not david lee roth, but is also not even sammy hagar])
it's sad.
-sam
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They're at their best at full volume in the car on a hot summer's day. And I have a GOOD sound system.
that said, there's no other scenario in which I tend to listen to them.
still, I like them well enough.
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My housemate has a D.V.D. of Audioslave, and I was watching him with it once for want of anything better to do. There was an interview with one of the band-members, who was talking about Chris Cornell's lyrics for one of the songs - something about a bloke sitting around in a chair. The band-member was saying how he'd asked Cornell what the guy in the song was waiting for, and the answer was "He's waiting to die." The band-member being interviewed then used this as an explanation of how "deep" Chris Cornell was - he seemed seriously in awe. Yeah, 'cause like, death is way deep and shit. Good grief, talk about your adolescent angsty woe-is-me poetry! "Deep"? I hadn't heard people talk like that since High School! And these are grown men?!
So yeah, seems to me like they're a bunch of tools.
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I like their first cd, i've heard the new single I know, but can't recall what it sounds like, meaning that it wasn't as good imo as their singles from the first cd
so we'll see.
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honestly sturge, do you like Anything!? lol.
haha, he likes GREENDAY
take that indie-boy!
Then again, I'd like to shoot Cornell and force the rest of them to reform Rage against the Machine -_-
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Audioslave's first album was only slightly above average, but considering the range that Cornell has shown in the past, combined with the talent that Morello has shown in the past, I have hope for the second album.
Of course, both of their later work (with the exception of Chris Cornell's solo album) were awful. Once Tom stopped playing guitar, and started just making noise, Rage sucked hard.
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honestly sturge, do you like Anything!? lol.
haha, he likes GREENDAY
take that indie-boy!
Then again, I'd like to shoot Cornell and force the rest of them to reform Rage against the Machine -_-
whats wrong with that?, muahaha. I'm so cool it doesnt matter how popular a band is. If i like the sound , ill listen to them.
take that elitist bastard-face!
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Audioslave's first album was only slightly above average, but considering the range that Cornell has shown in the past, combined with the talent that Morello has shown in the past, I have hope for the second album.
That's the rub about Audioslave. I like the first two RATM albums, and I like the last three Soundgarden albums. They have really talented musicians, but they make sub-par music. They just don't mix together though.
Audioslave has always sounded like Badmotorfinger-era Soundgarden to me.
Rage should have just hired Page Hamilton then have him reform Helmet like that.
As far as lyrics go, I've learned that no matter what you write people who can't write will hold you in awe.
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thats not audioslave
that christian-rock band's name shall never be uttered.
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EDIT: Ha, I forgot which band it was even by. Thanks Khar!
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thats not audioslave
that christian-rock band's name shall never be uttered.
POD
O. M. G!
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gah! *gouges eyes*
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YOU FOOL
YOUR OTHER SENSES COMPENSATE
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HEAR MORE NUANCES IN P.O.D.
(BAD NUANCES)
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Man, I use to get P.O.D and S.O.D mixed up.
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Man, I use to get P.O.D and S.O.D mixed up.
How is that even possible?
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i liked Soundgarden and RATM, but i do not like Audioslave. by the end of Soundgarden's run i didn't like their sound anymore, and Chris Cornell starting sounding like a parody of himself, or something. i don't know if that's right, it's hard to explain.
i like pretty much everything up to Badmotorfinger, plus a couple of songs after that. but nothing of theirs really struck me as any good after Badmotorfinger.
in my opinion, Audioslave takes a past-prime Chris Cornell and pairs it with a "trying to rehash old RATM songs" RATM band. very ordinary.
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i have heard the new single, it ROCKS, and their first album ROCKS too.
Fixed for me :D
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Man, I use to get P.O.D and S.O.D mixed up.
How is that even possible?
Dyslexia maybe?
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Maybe.
For the record, I don't like 'em. But then, I didn't like RATM that much, so a lower class clone isn't going to really ring my bells.
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Maybe.
For the record, I don't like 'em. But then, I didn't like RATM that much, so a lower class clone isn't going to really ring my bells.
i guess that's what a lot of people are bummed about, Khar. Audioslave dosen't clone RATM in much of any way.
I do have to give Cornell respect for laying down a rule before signing on with the Rage boys: No Political Songs. i always like it when a celebrity openly sayd "i don't know enough about this stuff to share my opinion."
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Would that really have hurt? I mean on the first album in particular RATM just picked a basic theme (Politicians are involved with the KKK, for example) and then padded it out with endless repetition and a sloganistic chorus with a tangential relation to the actual song itself. Although, their lyrics did get better as time went on, I must admit.
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I lost any vestigial respect I had for R.A.T.M. when they allowed one of their songs to appear on the soundtrack to the "Godzilla" remake - a pointless waste of millions of dollars that could have been better spent, if ever there was one. Pretty much the definition of selling out your principles right there.
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i saw that as irony at it's best, actually. have you heard the song? if i recall, it's pretty much about big American movies being propaganda.
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Got to confess, I tried to erase all memories of that movie and everything to do with it as best I could. But Rage Against the Machine with irony? That demands to be seen (or heard) to be believed.
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Would that really have hurt?
You have to wonder about that. Chris Cornell doesn't seem to have the ability to write something that isn't non-sensical, so would we even have known it was a political song if he had?
I don't think it would have mattered. Chris and the Rage boys just aren't good fit.
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Audioslave rock but i havent heard any of there new stuff i just have the album with cochise on it.
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Frankly I wish Chris Cornell had the balls to do another Solo Album. Euphoria Morning was awesome. It didn't do so well. Oh well.
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Am I like the only one who liked RATM? Cause I did....and I'd rather have RATM then Audioslave. Some of their songs are pretty good, but his vocals are just so...indifferent. He sings like he doesn't entirely care what hes singing about, which actually is why some people like Audioslave, unfortunately, it doesn't do anything for me.
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I've mentioned that I like Rage somewhere in my posts, so you're not alone.
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no, I definately love RATM as well. Also more than audioslave.
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R.A.T.M. is indelibly associated in my mind with hoardes of high-school students jumping around screaming out: "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!". Mmm, there's no angst quite like try-hard teen angst.
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Chris Cornell doesn't seem to have the ability to write something that isn't non-sensical
I feel it is time to remind you all of "Spoonman" as proof that Druid is absolutely right.
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If you can't understand it, it must be deep...Shaggy is deep...real deep :-)[/img]