GUNS N' ROSES — G N' R Lies (review)

GUNS N' ROSES — G N' R Lies album cover EP · 1988 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
Pekka
Somehow usually regarded as a studio album, this weird release is actually more like a double EP. The first half of the disc is taken up by Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, the band's debut EP which was actually a studio recording with ovedubbed crowd noise to justify the title. The EP consisted of two original songs; Reckless Life and Move to the City and two covers; Nice Boys by Rose Tattoo and Mama Kin by Aerosmith. Reckless Life is the hard rocking opener and in my opinion the best song of the bunch, but it has since been forgotten by the band as it has been mostly absent from their set lists since the turn of the 90s. Move to the City was performed at least on the Use Your Illusion tour years later when they had a horn section on road with them to perform the horn parts of this mid tempo rocker. The cover songs are somewhere between these two original numbers, wild rocking tunes livelily performed. All in all pretty good stuff, but oh how much better it would get the next year.

On the second half of the album are four acoustic pieces recorded in the middle of their Appetite tour, one of them being an alternative version of perhaps the fastest rocker on Appetite, You're Crazy. This version is completely different, a rather slow shuffling tune, which actually is closer to their original idea. Works this way too. Used to Love Her and One in a Million are a bit more forgettable tunes, if not for Million's "niggers and fags" which caused a bit of an uproad at the time. Patience is the real gem of this release, a tender ballad about a troubled relationship and lost love. Or apparently according to Slash, about Axl's dog. No wonder I like it then, I'm a dog person.

This release probably was released just to feed the devouring masses hungry for more in midst of the massive success of Appetite for Destruction. And it sounds like just that. Some good stuff, some ok stuff, and some less than that. Let this be the last album of theirs you buy, at least of those containing original material.
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