‘Doesn’t Remind Me’ – Audioslave, 2005
I guess you could say that Audioslave could be termed a Supergroup on the basis that all members of the band were members of successful grunge and rock bands in previous incarnations. I don’t know about you but I was curious when I first heard of this band was forming, after all we had one of the most powerful voices in rock Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) and one of the most distiintive guitar players still giging in Tom Morello (Rage against the machine) but I wasn’t excited enough to go out and buy their first album and still haven’t.
The song is taken from their second album Out of Exile and is what you expect from this group of talented musicians and contains everything that’s good from Cornell and Morello – a strong, powerful vocal performance and some guitar wizardy from Morella. Lyrically the song is based on a low period in Cornells life and the lyrics reference doing some unusual things, anything really that takes his mind off thing. Check out the first verse
‘I walk the streets of Japan till I get lost
Cause it doesn’t remind me of anything
With a graveyard tan carrying a cross
Cause it doesn’t remind me of anything
I like studying faces in a parking lot
Cause it doesn’t remind me of anything
I like driving backwards in the fog
Cause it doesn’t remind me of anything‘
I usually take from the song an activity, energetic or otherwise, that will ease a bothered mind and relax a person. Everybody needs this every now and then. The remaining verses of the song continue in the same vain except the last where it seems to be directed at a lover that’s sung in a higher pitch than the rest of the song and just before the Morello trademark solo kicks in. I love the phrase ‘graveyard tan‘ because i think it’s a great description of an Irish person with our pasty white skin. Check out a video of the song here.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I really like this song. But among the three Audioslave works, the debut is my favorite and “Like A Stone” is the best track on it.