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 Tom Morello, achieved by tremolo picking the high E-string, and using a combination of his trademark Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal and a ring modulator effect.

[1] Lead vocalist Chris Cornell achieves an unusual effect by repeatedly striking his throat with the side of his hand while changing pitch.

The clips of a radio DJ (played by Cleavon Little) 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 Cornell,[3] 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.