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intereact!Audioslave
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2005-05-24
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
In what was widely predicted to be a short-lived supergroup/side-project, Audioslave has instead gratifyingly yielded a bonafide band. The follow-up to their promising, if not quite artistically congealed '02 debut finds singer/songwriter Chris Cornell contributing a slate of songs that would have done his former Soundgarden proud, while guitarist Tom Morello and his former Rage Against the Machine bandmates cast them in a focused rhythmic groove that suggests that the old school can still yield a timely lesson or two. Cornell's best songs may still lurk in the shadows (the funeral hypno-blues of "Heaven's Dead," the martial metal of antiwar opener "Your Time Has Come," "The Worm" as anthem for self-loathing), yet they're now brightened with such surprisingly sunny fare as "Dandelion," "Doesn't Remind Me"'s charged, existentialist daydream and even a hook-rich, dangerously optimistic back-to-the-future power ballad in "Be Yourself." Morello's work on the title track and elsewhere is a study in taste and less-is-more efficiency, a telling hint of how forcefully these iconic '90s stars have sublimated their egos as their new music has blossomed; who said there are no second acts in American (rock) lives? --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5
1) Audioslave CD [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Excellent CD. Some of Audioslave's best music is on this album. Highly recommend! Received in perfect condition, and quick and easy transaction.2) Out of Energy! [Rating: 2 out of 5]
Audioslave gave soundgarden and rage against the machines fans something to cheer about with their debut. Now they release their sophomore album OUT OF EXILE. The first single Be Yourself is a slow moving but great song. Meanwhile the rest of the album falls flat for the most part. It opens with the rocker Your time is come which reminds one of the first single from Audioslave's first album. The 2nd track, out of exile, which the album is named after is a pretty good song, but after the 3 aforementioned songs the album is just not that good. There isn't enough originality only the continuation of the same sound throughout. It just lacks any really great songs and if Audioslave continues to release albums (which means they need to release something better than this), this one could be the one overlooked and least listened to by most fans. I was highly anticipating this album but my anticipation turned out to be poorly placed.3) like any of you know better!!!! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
for me, the album is great, it entertains me, that is what I want. You know what you like, don't listen to every Rolling Stone wanna-be that decides he/she knows the soul of a band, and the sound YOU are looking for. Listen for yourself and decide for yourself. These spoon feeder reviews (probably plagiarized) are ridiculous at best. Its the best ever, its the worst ever, its great, it sucks, get a life. As for me, I am again entertained by the audioslave albums, all of them, 5 stars.4) 3.5 stars [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Seems most either love it or hate it, its pretty good the first 4 songs really hold me then it drops slightly after that but its not bad. Definately check out the first album if you haven't already, i don't know i just feel there's more energy coming from that one. My rating of 3.5 stars means its on the higher end of and average album.5) Cornell, Wilkes, Comerford & Morello are, at best, an ill-fitting group of clashing musicians, commie Cuba-supporters at worst!! [Rating: 1 out of 5]
Audioslave's sophomore-slump CD--with an accordingly self-righteous and "epic"-looking shot of waves on the horizon--antagonizes the listener to revile the group for two, major reasons: their music and also their political ideology!!!! The team-up of a grunge-singer and accomplished guitarist like Cornell with these three urban hoodlum-types from Rage Against The Machine, a band whose musical inferiority was surpassed only by its hazardous, socialist-justice proselytization, was an ill-fitting mismatch from the getgo. Add to that already inexcusable, woeful combination the taint that these four are a bunch of liberals and socialists who detest America and the system of capitalism while longing to be Marxists and commies, and you have a completely rotten band you cannot tolerate.Audioslave was never, ever a harmonious combination of musicians because of their irreversibly different, musical backgrounds. As far as musicianship goes, Cornell is the most consummate of the four with his credentials being quite unquestionable as Soundgarden frontman (great, primal screaming/singing; guitar playing). Even his solo album was not too shabby. Now, juxtapose that with the three rejects from Rage Against the Machine, who are remorselessly talentless hacks with no finesse in their instruments' playing, and you have a total inequality. Morello's imitative skill as a shortcoming guitar playing is typified by his dreadful playing; he's unapt at playing a guitar competently. All he does is produce aggravating and chaotic, funk noises on the guitar that sound more like someone messing with their guitar. The drummer has a subtle bit of promise to him, as he drums quite hard, but his metronome timing is uninspired and he's nowhere near the best drummer alive today, Tool's Carey. The bass player is also--like the miscreant Morello--preoccupied with producing funk-like beats on his bass, and it sounds like excrement!!!!Take the most notorious song off of Out of Exile, Doesn't Remind Me: it's too unseemly, bouncy and uninspired. Cornell sings the verses monotonously with no ambition, and the chorus is just your basic, "balls-out" rocker. Also worrying is the subliminal message of nihilism in the song which seems to advocate an ideology of having no real principles, beliefs or positions. The line "what's mine is ours" is also scary because it reeks of socialist ideology.The title-track's lyrics may be poetic and "beautiful" in a sort of clandestine approach, but, again, when examining the lyrics, it's flagrant what Audioslave's indoctrination-message is. The references to "her labor" and "harvest" are barely loosely disguised insinuations to Mother Earth, feminism and environmentalism. In short, all dislikeable and unpopular liberal diseases. As the listener, you always have to be 100% wary of Audioslave's socialist, secular-progressive miscreants plotting to indoctrinate their audience...which shouldn't be too hard for them to do, considering the kind of sheeple who make up their fanbase.Continuing their pessimistic and hopeless theme of mortality on this CD--which, again, is consistent with their socialist sickness where they refuse to recognize God in order to feel a higher purpose--Heaven's Dead is a plodding exercise in depression and self-pity!!!! Grudgingly, I'll willingly concede that the tune and the way Audioslave plays on this song are uncharacteristically memorable; Cornell sings passionately, and there's this repeated chord which has that sweet feel to it. Yet, this is no excuse for the song's theme which is utterly nihilistic and full of mortality, a mindset that can only be brought about by questions of existentialism which arise from not having a higher power (God) to believe in. As such, Audioslave has again, with an increasing failure of originality, disseminated socialist and progressive misbeliefs!!!!How American "fans" (read: misguided sheeple who've come to like the concept of Audioslave more than the actual product of their music) can still financially support this band of un-Americanism is beyond this morally clear reviewer, as Audioslave's hugest trespass was playing a concert in 2005 in the dictatorial, communistic cesspool known as Fidel Castro's Cuba. Audioslave was even disdainfully proud to have mingled with the enemy--the Cuban regime--but upon returning to the US, pejoratively compared the US to socialist, third-world Cuba!!!! In interviews from last year, Tom Morello relentlessly accused US policemen at their American concerts for "beating up" concert-goers while the "good, old" commies in Cuba--according to the falsifying Morello--fostered only an atmosphere of unity and love. This propaganda from Morello's mouth culpably sounds like nothing but pro-socialist, pro-Democrat Party talking points.My review has absolutely contained more than enough demerits to Audioslave's reputation to make undecided listeners boycott and shun the band of questionable talent and loyalty. Unluckily, the diehard "fans"--again, it's hard to believe sheeple can be so misguided to get excited about a band which has no good guitar players and only produces monotonous-sounding songs--will obstinately continue patronizing this anti-American group. Just remember that Audioslave only has Cornell as its saving grace; sounds more like RATM garbage than rock; and supports US enemies like Cuba!!!!