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Audioslave's self-titled debut (out Nov. 19) is a full-on rocker that mixes Rage's heavy-metal funk with Cornell's Zeppelin wail and tortured lyrics. It tests the bass on your stereo--and it's catchy too. But the main draw is two distinct platinum parts coming together in mid-career. Cornell, who had a solo act going when he fielded Morello's call, did not want to join a political band. "Before we played music together we had the politics conversation," says Cornell. "I said I would take no specific focus lyrically before I started writing...
...about talent struggling for recognition, with the added wrinkle of the talent being a white artist yearning to be taken seriously in a black genre. Eminem runs with the theme and delivers Lose Yourself. It starts with a dreadful keyboard solo, but then a guitar riff kicks in, a bass drum thumps and Eminem starts telling his - and his character's - story. The song is about working hard, trusting your talent and succeeding against the odds when opportunity presents itself because, hey, there's no other choice. The chorus ("You better lose yourself in the music, the moment...
...display of such health. Mike Gordon, having attended the very same show a year ago when Kottke played solo for a diverse audience now joked about how he had found a better seat closer to Kottke: on stage. Gordon’s playing on his five-string bass fused much of Kottke’s first position finger-picking with his walking and generous bass finger styling. Gordon’s ability to as, Kottke quipped, “transpose on-the-go,” gave the tunes they had worked up together a sort of carefree ambling. Gordon?...
...paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below. And diffusing throughout the room, holding the whole tenuously cohesive mess together, there is slinky drum-and-bass music to vegetate...
...earlier songs, especially “Same Left-Foot Freckle” Gordon’s voice was out of harmony with Kottke’s deep tremolo. Kottke appeared to get lost three times in his playing out of time with Gordon’s playful bass in the earlier goings. But, by the seventh song of the set, “Car Carrier Blues,” (a song, Gordon explained, had been written by his friend Joe Lenitz, “Who wears goggles when he drives, and he hates to drive”) the pair were...