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VELVET REVOLVER
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| Average Rating: 7.58 |
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Excellent Distorsion Mixed With Excellent Vocals.
by Super Jesus Who cares?
Reviewed on June 9th, 2004
No its not GNR meets STP, and no its not that classic blues sound everyone is once again waiting to hear since the GNR 93 break up. But this is the esence of hard rock, strong rhythm guitars, a key lead guitarist (who beter than Slash), easy but heavy base and great sadistic vocals. Velvet Revolver has this and much more in their debut effort Contraband. It is understandable that loyal GNR and STP fans will despise this album at first, and maybe forever; but as a music fan, the fuse between rhythm guitar and solos is reluctantly appearing track after track. The vocals and lyrics are poetic and harmonic but also hard and dark perfectly coordinating with the tone of every song.The best part of this album is perhaps that there is much more than "Slither" for you to explore, yes "Slither" is a great track and definately one of the best in the album, as Slash's guitars screams continisouly. But songs like "Fall To Pieces" and "You Got No Right" touch the softer side of the band, like Axl did in the case of "November Rain" with GNR. "You Got No Right" starts of with a great acoustic sound, and quickly shifts to a bluish guitar, that only Slash is known for. The album's opening song "Sucker Train Blues" sets the mood for the rest of the album, each song has a similarity of style to it, but at the same time each track is great in its unique style, "Loving the Alien" is exactely what I wa snot expecting from a hard rock band, but in definately one of the best songs in the album. If you are a hard rock fan and are tired of Punk Rock's trendy powerd chords, guitar solos that last 3 seconds, and mediocre vocals, then pick up Contraband. Velvet Revolver may very well be the pioneers of bringing back hard rock. I personally havent experienced this type of music since GNR's break up, and the death of metal/hard rock in the early 90s that later paved the way for the Grunge era. Whatever your taste may be, if you are an anti TRL Punk Rock fan like I am, this album is definately a new taste that has been there before, but with a new lineup and a new style. Long live Velvet Revolver.
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[2005-01-05] These guys all prove they still have it (8)
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[2005-01-05] CD rips fine... (6)
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[2005-01-03] Completely Uninspired (2)
[2005-01-02] Demerits to RCA and Velvet Revolver for copyguard (2)
[2005-01-02] Good stuff (10)
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[2004-11-26] Can't Really Go Wrong (10)
[2004-11-25] just helping out (10)
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[2004-10-16] Classic hardrock? (2)
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[2004-10-09] Lacks Charisma. (4)
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[2004-09-29] A MUST BUY (10)
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[2004-09-15] Honesty (8)
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[2004-09-13] Uninspired and Unfortunate at best.... (4)
[2004-09-13] 4.5 for a killer album (8)
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