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Music : Contraband
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Rating: 
- A missed opportunity
I bought this with enough of an open mind to not expect it to be GnR Mark 2(000?). Unfortunately I was correct; this is a poor album. As happens on Amazon, I feel I must take issue with so many five star reviews of frankly mediocre and dull offerings. Many customers like me used to buy on the stength of these reviews. If there is only one two star review out of a hundred; read it and believe it. Five stars should be reserved for timeless masterpieces.
The production quality is poor, the vocals are very weak and most crucially, the songs are dull and completely unmemorable. It seems that the much maligned Axl Rose may have been the creative influence in GnR by a substantial margin. Was Slash overrated from his time in GnR? It seems so from this album, as his playing is wholly unremarkable.
The two stars are for Fall to Pieces and Slither - decent rock songs. Otherwise this is totally forgettable output from a bunch of bored millionaires.
Rating:
- Perfect mix of STP & GNR . Rock genius ....
I want to start by saying i will always be a fan of Scott Weiland , whatever he does . Stone Temple Pilots were and still are a superb rock band and Guns N'Roses are still an iconic band to this day . So i was always a bit worried that these couldn't mix well , but i was so wrong ! The first five songs on this album are pure rock genius , mixing great old fashion riffs that only Slash could play with quality lyrics that only Weiland could have wrote . Also Slash and Duff sound like they made this album halfway through making 'Appetite For Destruction' . All i can say is every song on this album did not dissapoint in anyway . It's a shame it didn't get the credit it deserved ....
Rating: - A top quality hard rock album
I'd heard a great deal about Velvet Revolver, however, being a GNR fan of the old school I was weary of listening to anything that may be just a second rate GNR clone. This album is far from that, it is fresh, unique, with some excellent drums, guitar and lyrics. It is some of the best and most original hard rock/metal I've heard for years, a top quality buy.
Rating:
- More like Velsh*t Revolver
One of the worst cd's I have the misfortune to own. And that Included Matchbox Twenty's "Mad Season".
If you want good rock and roll, I recommend the AWESOME Black Stone Cherry cd (eponymous).
Rating: - not as good as the Velvet Underground... or the Velvet Underpants for that matter...
It's never a good sign when you're listening to a record, feted as a return to form by some of rock's biggest names and you think, I could do better. It's never a good sign when the first time you listen to it, you can't remember one single song. It's never a good sign when you think "Crikey, the vocals aren't very good".
So here we have the debut by Velvet Revolver, the crassly named reformation of Most of Guns'N'Roses (1990-1995 era) with some guy from the Stone Temple Pilots.
I was never a fan of the Stone Temple Pilots. I always thought their singer was awful, a generic mid-American grunge clone, and their lyrics were * coughs * even worse. (A quick scan of the lyrics to "Sex Type Thing", which consist largely of "I wanna get close to you, here I come", are down there next to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" in the dumb stakes).
In the end, I thought that with the songs on this album written by Everyone Who Was In Guns'N'Roses but Axl Rose, it might be good. And, whilst it certainly is the best thing slapped on plastic that anyone from the GNR camp has written in the past twelve years ("Chinese Democracy" doesn't count), it's still fairly crap.
First things first. The vocals are dreadful. Generic, undermixed, lacking in personality and melody, and spotwelded to bargain basement rain/pain/again/shame type rhymes that could've been scrawled in crayon by a five year old.
Shame, then, because it completely disproved the theory that Screwed Up Junkies are Good Artistes. This guy can't write about anything more the girls and cars. And there's nothing you can sing in the bath.
And that's the trouble. The thing that made Guns N Roses so interesting was Axl Rose. The truculent Brian Wilson of Rock that he was, his otherworldly banshee scream, his bizarre approach to melody, and the weirdly compelling lyrics that seemed to be about Everything and Nothing at the same time. Often, especially on the bloated Illusions double set, GNR themselves were less than thrilling musically, but somehow, Axl's vision always rose the band above the bland.
But not here. There's a couple of songs here that sound Just Like Bon Jovi. I half expect to see a video of the band wandering around a desert in big snakeskin boots and trailing fan-assisted Big Flailing Rock Hair.
Musically, the band are on top form, pulling great big skulky rock things from the Big Bin Of Rock Riffs, rocking out, and sounding (mostly) great. The first song, and a couple of others called "Set Me Free" and "Big Machine" are, despite - or because of - Scott Weiland's junkie-vocal contribution, quite good. The rest are, well, OK, I suppose. But just when the songs start to take off, the vocals, and the dumb stupid rock lyrics, ground it again in a dreary reality of unmelodious ramblings and a few bits of token swearing. It sounds like a bad Dave Grohl impersonator fronting a GNR coverband.
Overall, Velvet Revolver is just the latest batch of hype. 7/10 for the music, 0/10 for the lyrics, and for gawds sake, Axl, pull your finger out, you can do better than this. Show them how it's really done.
Contraband? Contrarubbish more like.
- A missed opportunityI bought this with enough of an open mind to not expect it to be GnR Mark 2(000?). Unfortunately I was correct; this is a poor album. As happens on Amazon, I feel I must take issue with so many five star reviews of frankly mediocre and dull offerings. Many customers like me used to buy on the stength of these reviews. If there is only one two star review out of a hundred; read it and believe it. Five stars should be reserved for timeless masterpieces.
The production quality is poor, the vocals are very weak and most crucially, the songs are dull and completely unmemorable. It seems that the much maligned Axl Rose may have been the creative influence in GnR by a substantial margin. Was Slash overrated from his time in GnR? It seems so from this album, as his playing is wholly unremarkable.
The two stars are for Fall to Pieces and Slither - decent rock songs. Otherwise this is totally forgettable output from a bunch of bored millionaires.
Rating:
- Perfect mix of STP & GNR . Rock genius ....I want to start by saying i will always be a fan of Scott Weiland , whatever he does . Stone Temple Pilots were and still are a superb rock band and Guns N'Roses are still an iconic band to this day . So i was always a bit worried that these couldn't mix well , but i was so wrong ! The first five songs on this album are pure rock genius , mixing great old fashion riffs that only Slash could play with quality lyrics that only Weiland could have wrote . Also Slash and Duff sound like they made this album halfway through making 'Appetite For Destruction' . All i can say is every song on this album did not dissapoint in anyway . It's a shame it didn't get the credit it deserved ....
Rating:
- A top quality hard rock album I'd heard a great deal about Velvet Revolver, however, being a GNR fan of the old school I was weary of listening to anything that may be just a second rate GNR clone. This album is far from that, it is fresh, unique, with some excellent drums, guitar and lyrics. It is some of the best and most original hard rock/metal I've heard for years, a top quality buy.
Rating:
- More like Velsh*t RevolverOne of the worst cd's I have the misfortune to own. And that Included Matchbox Twenty's "Mad Season".
If you want good rock and roll, I recommend the AWESOME Black Stone Cherry cd (eponymous).
Rating:
- not as good as the Velvet Underground... or the Velvet Underpants for that matter... It's never a good sign when you're listening to a record, feted as a return to form by some of rock's biggest names and you think, I could do better. It's never a good sign when the first time you listen to it, you can't remember one single song. It's never a good sign when you think "Crikey, the vocals aren't very good".
So here we have the debut by Velvet Revolver, the crassly named reformation of Most of Guns'N'Roses (1990-1995 era) with some guy from the Stone Temple Pilots.
I was never a fan of the Stone Temple Pilots. I always thought their singer was awful, a generic mid-American grunge clone, and their lyrics were * coughs * even worse. (A quick scan of the lyrics to "Sex Type Thing", which consist largely of "I wanna get close to you, here I come", are down there next to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" in the dumb stakes).
In the end, I thought that with the songs on this album written by Everyone Who Was In Guns'N'Roses but Axl Rose, it might be good. And, whilst it certainly is the best thing slapped on plastic that anyone from the GNR camp has written in the past twelve years ("Chinese Democracy" doesn't count), it's still fairly crap.
First things first. The vocals are dreadful. Generic, undermixed, lacking in personality and melody, and spotwelded to bargain basement rain/pain/again/shame type rhymes that could've been scrawled in crayon by a five year old.
Shame, then, because it completely disproved the theory that Screwed Up Junkies are Good Artistes. This guy can't write about anything more the girls and cars. And there's nothing you can sing in the bath.
And that's the trouble. The thing that made Guns N Roses so interesting was Axl Rose. The truculent Brian Wilson of Rock that he was, his otherworldly banshee scream, his bizarre approach to melody, and the weirdly compelling lyrics that seemed to be about Everything and Nothing at the same time. Often, especially on the bloated Illusions double set, GNR themselves were less than thrilling musically, but somehow, Axl's vision always rose the band above the bland.
But not here. There's a couple of songs here that sound Just Like Bon Jovi. I half expect to see a video of the band wandering around a desert in big snakeskin boots and trailing fan-assisted Big Flailing Rock Hair.
Musically, the band are on top form, pulling great big skulky rock things from the Big Bin Of Rock Riffs, rocking out, and sounding (mostly) great. The first song, and a couple of others called "Set Me Free" and "Big Machine" are, despite - or because of - Scott Weiland's junkie-vocal contribution, quite good. The rest are, well, OK, I suppose. But just when the songs start to take off, the vocals, and the dumb stupid rock lyrics, ground it again in a dreary reality of unmelodious ramblings and a few bits of token swearing. It sounds like a bad Dave Grohl impersonator fronting a GNR coverband.
Overall, Velvet Revolver is just the latest batch of hype. 7/10 for the music, 0/10 for the lyrics, and for gawds sake, Axl, pull your finger out, you can do better than this. Show them how it's really done.
Contraband? Contrarubbish more like.