"Show Me How to Live" is a song by the American

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supergroup

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. It was released in June 2003 as the third single from their first album, ''

'' released in 2003. It peaked at number 67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart, number 2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 4 in the Modern Rock Tracks. Produced by

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, the song contains heavy guitar and drum riffs and a solo broken up with a phasing, fluttering effect by

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achieves an unusual effect by repeatedly striking his throat with the side of his hand while changing pitch.

Composition

The song is played at a tempo of roughly 90 BPM and contains heavy guitar and drum riffs and a solo broken up with a phasing, fluttering effect by

, achieved by using a combination of

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the high E-string, using his trademark Dunlop Cry Baby

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and a ring modulator effect.

achieves an unusual effect by repeatedly striking his throat with the side of his hand while changing pitch.

Track listing

# "Show Me How to Live" # " Super Stupid" (

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cover) (Live BBC Radio 1 Session). # "

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" (Live BBC Radio 1 Session). # "Gasoline" (Live BBC Radio 1 Session). ;7" single # "Show Me How to Live" # "Super Stupid" (Funkadelic cover) (Live BBC Radio 1 Session).

Music video

The music video for the song is made of clips from the 1971 film ''

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'' in which a white 1970 Dodge Challenger driven by a drug addict from Denver to San Francisco is involved in several car chases with police cars and motorcycles, and a Jaguar E-Type. The clips of a radio DJ (played by

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) singing and dancing to 1970 music have been synchronized to the Audioslave song. Other parts have been remade with the band members, in the car driven by the lead singer

,Audioslave, "Show Me How to Live" music video via

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, Oct. 29, 2009 and playing in front of a small audience in the Nevada desert. The movie, and the video, ends with the muscle car deliberately crashing into a bulldozer road block set up by police. Thus, the video was banned from MTV. Two Challengers were used during the filming of the video, one of which was given away in a contest put on by the band. Cornell and the band's drummer,

Brad Wilk Brad Wilk (born September 5, 1968) is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–present), Audioslave (2001–2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (2016–2019 ...

, autographed the inside of the trunk of this car. The video was filmed in

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, and was produced by Allan Wachs and directed by AV Club.

Personnel

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– bass guitar *

– lead vocals *

– guitar *

– drums *

– producer

Charts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Show Me How To Live Audioslave songs 2003 singles Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin Songs written by Chris Cornell 2002 songs Epic Records singles