Some songs you fall in love with after the first listen, others grow on you. It’s not that often that I hear a song that “blows me away” but when I find that tune, I always turn it up when I hear it again.

One of those “blow me away” tunes is ‘Cochise’ by Audioslave. I remember when I first heard that Chris Cornell was joining a band with the guys from RAGE, my first thought was “please don’t let Chris rap”. Thankfully he didn’t. He was the ‘badmoterfinger’ Cornell instead.

I was working at the Rock and the Music Director at the time ran into the on-air studio with a CD single of ‘Cochise’ sent in from the Record Company. Both he (music director) and I were/are massive Soundgarden and Rage fans and we were dieing to hear what this “Audioslave” was all about. We threw the disc into the CD player and turned the volume in the studio to full. We were both jaws on the floor. Blown away. It sounded like the guys from Rage were jamming and in walked Chris Cornell, grabbed the mic and just let it rip ‘Jesus Christ pose’ style. What a brillant song. What a brilliant first impression. I still love that first Audioslave album.