Audioslave - Audioslave
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Release date: 15 November 2002
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- Cochise
- Show Me How to Live
- Gasoline
- What You Are
- Like A Stone
- Set It Off
- Shadow On The Sun
- I Am the Highway
- Exploder
- Hypnotize
- Bring Em Back Alive
- Light My Way
- Getaway Car
- The Last Remaining Light
- Bring 'em Back Alive
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Audioslave - Audioslave: Wikipedia Album Entry
Audioslave is the eponymous debut album by hard rock band Audioslave and was released in November 2002.
The album's music is strongly reminiscent of Rage Against the Machine, with Chris Cornell providing his familiar classic rock-esque wails and croons to the songs. It features the hit singles "Cochise", "Show Me How to Live", "What You Are", "Like a Stone", and "I Am the Highway". The record was certified triple platinum in the USA.
"Like a Stone" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Songs from the album were first heard when thirteen rough rehearsal demo tracks were leaked onto various peer-to-peer filesharing networks on May 16, six months before the official release of the album, under the name "Civilian" (or "The Civilian Project"). According to guitarist Tom Morello "it was very frustrating, especially with a band like this, there is a certain amount of expectation." He also said that the songs were not in their finished form and that in some cases "they weren't even the same lyrics, guitar solos, performances of any kind." In an earlier, July 2002 interview with Metal sludge he spoke more explicitly about the incident, blaming "some jackass intern at Bad Animal Studios in Seattle" for stealing the demos and putting them on the Internet without the band's permission.
The album was released on November 19, 2002 and entered the Billboard 200 chart at position number seven after selling 162,000 copies in its first week. It was certified gold by the RIAA less than a month after its release,] and by 2006 it had achieved triple platinum selling status. It is the most successful Audioslave album to date, having sold more than 3 million copies in the United States alone.
Despite its commercial success, Audioslave received mixed reviews. Some critics lambasted the group's effort as uninspired, and predictable. Pitchfork Media's reviewers Chris Dahlen and Ryan Schreiber praised Cornell's voice, but criticized virtually every other part of the album, calling it "the worst kind of studio rock album, rigorously controlled-- even undercut-- by studio gimmickry." They described Cornell's lyrics as "complete gibberish" and called producer Rick Rubin's work "a synthesized rock-like product that emits no heat." Jon Monks from Stylus Magazine had the same opinion. He considered Rubin's production over-polished and wrote that "lacking individuality, distinction and imagination this album is over-produced, overlong and over-indulgent." On the other hand, other critics praised the supergroup's style reminiscent of 1970s heavy metal and compared it to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, saying they add much-needed sound and style to contemporary mainstream rock music, and have the potential to become one of the best rock bands of the 21st century.
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Audioslave - Audioslave Lyrics
Audioslave - Like A Stone Lyrics
On a cold wet afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Audioslave - Show Me How To Live Lyrics
And with the early dawn
Moving right along
I couldn't buy and eyeful of sleep
And in the aching night under satellites
Audioslave - Set It Off Lyrics
He was standing at the rock
Gathering the fog
Getting there with no directions
And underneath the arch
Audioslave - Light My Way Lyrics
In my hour of need
On the sea of gray
On my knees I pray to you
Help me find the bones of the dying dead
Audioslave - Hypnotize Lyrics
Well if you set your mind upon it
I know that you can
You've got everything you wanted
You've done everything you planned
Audioslave - Getaway Car Lyrics
The first time I saw you, you were chasin' down
A cyclone all alone in the field
With rail yards and clovers, I kept rollin' on
Never thought you'd wind up chasin' me
Audioslave - Gasoline Lyrics
Houses haunted, I just want to go for a ride
Out and on, thought I'd set this room a light
Left alone forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone, someone take me far from here
Audioslave - Cochise Lyrics
Well, I've been watching
While you've been coughing
I've been drinking life
While you've been nauseous
Audioslave - Shadow Of The Sun Lyrics
Once upon a time
I was on a mind to lay your burden down
Audioslave - I Am The Highway Lyrics
Pearls and swine, bereft of me
Long and weary, my road has been
I was lost in the cities alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for leaving I feel, yeah
Audioslave - Exploder Lyrics
I met a man locked away
For things, he hadn't done
Innocence on a ball and chain
He'll never feel the sun
Audioslave - Bring 'Em Back Alive Lyrics
I was on my way to the center of the sun
When I lost my wings and I fell into the crowd
And they carried me to a hole in the ground
And they buried me
Audioslave - What You Are Lyrics
And when you wanted me I came to you
And when you wanted someone else I withdrew
And when you asked for light I set myself on fire
And if I go far away I know you'll find another slave
Audioslave - The Last Remaining Light Lyrics
Roll me on your frozen fields
Break my bones to watch them heal
Drown me in your thirsty veins
Where I'll watch and I'll wait
