Song · Audioslave
“Original Fire” by Audioslave
From the album Revelations (2006)
“Original Fire” by Audioslave appears on 20 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2006 and 2009. It was first released in 2006 on the album Revelations. Its best result is #14 on The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2006, #7,125 alternative song of all time and #489 of the '00s.
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"Original Fire" was the first single Audioslave pulled from Revelations in 2006, and it catches Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk loosening their collars. Morello built it on a riff he had been carrying around for ages, but once the four of them started jamming on it in the room, the thing mutated into something none of them had planned: still a hard rocker, only now with a strut of vintage funk and soul in its hips. Cornell wrote the words and sings them with a grin you can practically hear.
Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it, with Nick DiDia recording. It took months to catch on, then climbed to number 3 on the Modern Rock chart and 4 on Mainstream Rock, and more than a year and a half later it resurfaced in the top 10 of the UK Rock Chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1897 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1958 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1985 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
Also listed as: The Original Fire.
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