Music Poll #4: What Do You Prefer: Audioslave vs. Soundgarden & Rage?

KingLouieLouie · March 31st, 2004, 08:02 AM

This is another music thread that should spark some interesting discussion/debate....

Would you like Audioslave to remain as a group or Chris Cornell to reunite with Soundgarden and Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk to reunite with Zack de la Rocha and reform Rage Against The Machine?

Don't get my wrong, I love the album "Audioslave", but I just miss Soundgarden and Rage Against The Machine respectively....They were definitely among the best bands of their era and I wonder what kind of sound they'd generate if both bands were together now.....

FischerKing · March 31st, 2004, 08:10 AM

Rats - I loved Soundgarden but never cared for Rage. Audioslave is good though and I like them as well. However, I do like Soundgarden better than Audioslave.

Shawn

Cardinal Bob · March 31st, 2004, 08:11 AM

I like Audioslave and Rage. I hated Soundgarden. So my vote is keep the status quo.

Besides isn't Zach de la Rocha (allegedly) working on a solo album? I think (at the rate things seem to be progressing) he's working on it with Axl Rose.

"Yeah, Chinese Democracy should be out by the end of the year" - Axl

What year are you referring to, Mr. Rose?

KingLouieLouie · March 31st, 2004, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by FischerKing

Rats - I loved Soundgarden but never cared for Rage. Audioslave is good though and I like them as well. However, I do like Soundgarden better than Audioslave.

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Originally Posted by Cardinal Bob

I like Audioslave and Rage. I hated Soundgarden. So my vote is keep the status quo.

Wow, 2 opposite sides of the spectrum!

I guess I'm an "odd-ball" for loving both their former bands!

Mr.Dibbs · March 31st, 2004, 11:06 AM

Rage against the machine with a new singer, maybe Chuck D or Henry Rollins, or even DMX or even Bushwick Bill!. The singer for Rage sounded like a complaining 12 year old pansy.

Soundgarden's early stuff was good, i.e, Badmotorfinger and before, but everything after that album kinda sucked.

FischerKing · March 31st, 2004, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Oran

Rage against the machine with a new singer, maybe Chuck D or Henry Rollins, or even DMX or even Bushwick Bill!. The singer for Rage sounded like a complaining 12 year old pansy.

Soundgarden's early stuff was good, i.e, Badmotorfinger and before, but everything after that album kinda sucked.

Henry Rollins would be a tight fit - I love that guy.

Shawn

KingLouieLouie · April 19th, 2005, 10:08 PM

I find the following very interesting, don't you?

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/150...headlines=true

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Audioslave Performing Rage, Soundgarden Material At Shows
04.18.2005 2:59 PM EDT

'Black Hole Sun,' 'Killing in the Name' among songs played recently.

Ever since the Audioslave concept was unveiled in the spring of 2001, fans of the rock and roll supergroup have wondered whether the band's members would ever revisit the material they're perhaps better, if not best, known for — or, more specifically, how Chris Cornell would attack songs like "Killing in the Name" and "Sleep Now in the Fire."

On Thursday night in Las Vegas, where Audioslave kicked off their spring tour at the Joint, what was once a sort of band taboo became the stuff of concert lore. For the first time in more than five years, Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden material was performed live in front of a thirsty audience — and not by some tattooed cover band on dollar-drafts night at some bar in some college town in the middle of nowhere.

Cornell, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk shocked audiences last week by digging into their respective vaults and dusting off some moldy oldies. After playing "Set It Off," "Exploder," new song "Your Time Has Come" and "Like a Stone," the band launched into Soundgarden's "Spoonman." Later on in the show, Audioslave covered — if you could call it that — Rage's "Sleep Now in the Fire," followed immediately by "Outshined," from Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger.

For the band's encore, Audioslave started light, with an acoustic rendition of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun," and then exploded with versions of Rage's "Testify" and "Killing in the Name." The band performed the same six songs the next night in Phoenix.

A collective willingness to acknowledge the bandmembers' pasts is somewhat of a new thing for Audioslave. Prior to this tour and the recording of the band's forthcoming disc, Out of Exile, Audioslave struggled with an identity crisis, Cornell said recently. In order to sell themselves as a new band that was more than just the dude from Soundgarden with those other dudes from Rage, Audioslave had decided against playing anything but material from their self-titled debut.

"In 10 months of touring, we did nothing but play Audioslave songs," he said. "Even though we have vast career catalogues, we didn't touch on that. We carved ourselves out, I believe, a spot for Audioslave on its own terms and by itself."

A source close to the band said Audioslave expect to continue digging into back catalogs on this spring jaunt, but that they'd be mixing it up a bit more, as far as what songs they'll perform.

For more on Audioslave, check out the feature "Audioslave: Beyond The Sum Of Their Parts."

— Chris Harris