This review covers the alternative rock track Audioslave – I Am the Highway.
This track was released in 2002 on a self-titled album.
The track starts with string elements. Guitars then join the track, replacing those elements. The vocals then join the track with a verse. A second guitar joins the track and the track goes into the main chorus. This is capped off with a short instrumental section.
After that, the vocals take the track into the next verse. The secondary guitar rejoins the track and the vocals take the track into the main chorus again. This is capped off with a guitar solo that sounds fairly acoustic in nature.
The secondary guitar then joins the track and the track presumably goes into the main chorus again. This is capped off with a section of repeating vocals. After that, a guitar effect leads the track out.
The biggest problem easily is the vocals. While they sound decent enough from an overall sound, the biggest problem is that they garble pretty much every lyric in the track. I might have gotten half a dozen words at most out of the track. As a result, you can forget about any meaning being derived out of the track. That goes straight out the window.
The guitars sound decent, but they aren’t anything special.
I honestly can’t really think of anything that stands out as being great in this track.
As such, it’s a very bland and boring track. The guitars are OK, but the lyrics are almost completely garbled. I couldn’t derive any meaning out of it whatsoever. Additionally, I couldn’t really pick out anything that sounds great in this track. A barely passable track that you can simply throw out and move on.
Score
5/10
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