The year is coming to an end and boy what year this has been. We had Sting playing in India that too in Pitampura, Joe Satriani set his feet on the Indian soil for the first time and Mark Knofler was here (minus his maserati Ghibli). Delhi continued to be taboo for all such events (no change there), Bangalore or Bangaluru was the place for audiophiles and rock junkies and Dhanauti in Uttaranchal pitched for its place to be the Indian Woodstock. 
Now coming to brass tacks, the Best rock album for the year 2005. The year saw albums from White Stripes, Green Day, Incubus, Velvet Revolver, Alter Bridge, Good Charlotte etc..
Green Day’s “American Idiot” had a tremendous response in the US topped Billboard ratings and bagged a few Grammy’s. But you know how things are in our part of the world, things which work elsewhere probably don’t work here. Anyway I don’t follow their music, don’t believe in commercialized slick packaging and all this anti-musicmanship. So the undisputed “Best rock album 2005” is Out of Exile by Audioslave.
Audioslave pools its talent from the Rage Against Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. This band has just created history by becoming first rock outfit to play in Cuba, more specifically at La Tribuna Imperialista, in front of 60,000 fans in a show organized by he US Treasury Department and Instituto Cubano de La Musica.
The album has a nice song titled “Your time has come” which has almost Pearl Jam like feel to it with some extra effort on the vocals. Found “Out of exile” pretty neat, ”Be yourself” was rather contemplative (it has become my anthem, it plays in my mind whenever I am doing something stupid) and “Heavens Dead” has beautiful lyrics.
Finally the downer: the album requires patient listening and is not meant for Linkin Park fans. If you love filter coffee and extended guitar solos then you’ll love it.
I depart with famous words of the band’s Harvard educated guitarist
"A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I’m only interested in writing great songs." -Tom Morello
Now coming to brass tacks, the Best rock album for the year 2005. The year saw albums from White Stripes, Green Day, Incubus, Velvet Revolver, Alter Bridge, Good Charlotte etc..
Green Day’s “American Idiot” had a tremendous response in the US topped Billboard ratings and bagged a few Grammy’s. But you know how things are in our part of the world, things which work elsewhere probably don’t work here. Anyway I don’t follow their music, don’t believe in commercialized slick packaging and all this anti-musicmanship. So the undisputed “Best rock album 2005” is Out of Exile by Audioslave.
Audioslave pools its talent from the Rage Against Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. This band has just created history by becoming first rock outfit to play in Cuba, more specifically at La Tribuna Imperialista, in front of 60,000 fans in a show organized by he US Treasury Department and Instituto Cubano de La Musica.
The album has a nice song titled “Your time has come” which has almost Pearl Jam like feel to it with some extra effort on the vocals. Found “Out of exile” pretty neat, ”Be yourself” was rather contemplative (it has become my anthem, it plays in my mind whenever I am doing something stupid) and “Heavens Dead” has beautiful lyrics.
Finally the downer: the album requires patient listening and is not meant for Linkin Park fans. If you love filter coffee and extended guitar solos then you’ll love it.
I depart with famous words of the band’s Harvard educated guitarist
"A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I’m only interested in writing great songs." -Tom Morello
