Songfacts - “The Audioslave Track That May Be One of Chris Cornell’s Best Songs”
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“Audioslave still felt like four musicians who hadn’t yet peaked. And one of their songs may be up there with Cornell’s best.”
Songfacts’ Thom Donovan revisits “Like a Stone,” the Rick Rubin-produced track from Audioslave’s 2002 self-titled debut, where it followed the crushing album opener “Cochise.” Walking through the lyrics verse by verse, he reads the song as Chris Cornell contemplating death and the isolation of facing mortality, without the comfort of a conventional afterlife.
Donovan also highlights the minimalist groove underneath Cornell’s gothic poetry, and argues the song may feature one of Tom Morello’s finest guitar solos, which is saying something given both men’s catalogs.
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