All Songs, Best to Worst: Audioslave

Like anyone with good taste in music I was saddened to hear of the untimely passing of Chris Cornell, one of the most gifted singers of his generation, certainly one of my favourites. I thought it would be appropriate to kick off this third round of Ranking All Songs (first batch since last December) with some of Cornell's and since I haven't heard all of Soundgarden's songs I'm going to rank all of Audioslave's songs.

Audioslave was definitely a unique band during its short lifespan in the 2000's. It mixed hard rock with the 90's alternative sound. This is hardly surprising given where Chris Cornell came from as well as the other three bandmates, the instrumentalists from Rage Against the Machine. The band didn't start off too well. The band's name was rather dull. In addition the first album wasn't great; the songs mostly sounded the same and their sound was basically just Rage but with a different singer. But there were a couple hits that rocked well. With their second album, the band matured to become more than the sum of its parts and had established its own sound. The third album – the best in my opinion – continued expanding the band's sonic palette with forays into funk rock and R&B. The band only made three albums, but they're decent modern rock albums and we should be thankful for the time we had with Audioslave. So read on and enjoy my ranking of all 36 of Audioslave's songs from best to worst.

1. “Be Yourself”, Out of Exile (2005)

2. “Like A Stone”, Audioslave (2002)

3. “Doesn't Remind Me”, OOE

4. “Shadow On the Sun”, A

5. “Revelations”, Revelations (2006)

6. “#1 Zero”, OOE

7. “Moth”, R

8. “Until We Fall”, R

9. “Gasoline”, A

10. “Shape of Things to Come”, R

11. “Cochise”, A

12. “Set it Off”, A

13. “Jewel of the Summertime”, R

14. “Out of Exile”, OOE

15. “Man or Animal”, OOE

16. “Your Time Has Come”, OOE

17. “One and the Same”, R

18. “Getaway Car”, A

19. “Broken City”, R

20. “I Am the Highway”, A

21. “Show Me How to Live”, A

22. “Dandelion”, OOE

23. “The Curse”, OOE

24. “Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye”, R

25. “What You Are”, A

26. “Yesterday to Tomorrow”, OOE

27. “Sound of a Gun”, R

28. “Somedays”, R

29. “The Worm”, OOE

30. “Drown Me Slowly”, OOE

31. “Light My Way”, A

32. “Original Fire”, R

33. “Hypnotize”, A

34. “Exploder”, A

35. “Wide Awake”, R

36. “The Last Remaining Light”, A