I loved Soundgarden when they were around, and I had respect for RATM (although I never really liked their music). However, I bought the first Audioslave album and I honestly couldn't get into it. There were about two or three songs I genuinely liked and the rest just sounded really bland to me.

Chris Cornell is a phenomenal vocalist and Tom Morello is a literal genius on guitar. However, for me, their styles don't really mesh all that well. It really feels like the both of them have to reduce their own brilliance in order to fit all of that talent into the band. The end result just comes out sounding forced to me.