Roses & Champgne [Import]

Roses & Champgne [Import]

Track Listings

1. Romeo & Juliet

2. Light The Light

3. Where Are You

4. Forest Of Cries

5. Coming Home

6. Paris

7. Paradise Smile

8. Not You Baby

9. Down Town Junkie

10. Springtime (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Silver Mountain is back with a album for 2005 . The album continues in Silver Mountain's tradition of beautiful eclectic music. Asia exclusive schedule to include a bonus track 'Springtime'. Sail Production.

Tracks:

Welcome To The Jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine
Patience
Paradise City
Knockin' On Heaven'S Door
Civil War
You Could Be Mine
Don't Cry Original
November Rain
Live And Let Die
Yesterdays
Ain't It Fun
Since I Don't Have You
Sympathy For The Devil

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If time is the true test, then Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits confirms that they really were one of the greatest rock & roll bands in the world. While, in retrospect, fellow graduates of the class of 1987 are about as cool as poodle perms and spandex, the L.A. bad boys still rock like gods. Listening to the sun-drenched chords of "Paradise City" and the ensuing stadium-sized swagger is enough to make wearing leather trousers and bandanas seem like a good idea. Of course, it helped that for them sex, drugs, and rock & roll was a way of life, not a fashion statement. As Axl Rose wails "I wanna watch you bleed" on "Welcome to the Jungle" like a chain-smoking lunatic possessed, it's hard not to believe he meant it. Yet equally, it was his surprisingly poetic nature that made genuinely touching love songs of "Patience" and "Sweet Child of Mine."

Though none of their subsequent albums matched the drug-crazed genius of Appetite for Destruction, they did, as the Greatest Hits reminds, have their moments. From the bloated Use Your Illusion I & II came ultimate rock ballads "Don't Cry" and "November Rain," along with the primal rage that was "You Could Be Mine." And while the covers of the The Spaghetti Incident? were largely forgettable, the fact that their final single was a seedy sneer through the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" seems spectacularly fitting. --Dan Gennoe

Album Description

It may surprise some to realize that Guns N' Roses released only four full-length original albums, and two of those debuted simultaneously. But they were enough to forever change rock `n' roll. Even more shocking is that one of the great bands in rock history, with its last studio album issued 10 years ago, has never had a "best of" compilation. Now it has. Welcome to the jungle with Greatest Hits (Geffen), released March 23, 2004. With 14 selections housed in a digipak, Greatest Hits features all eight of the band's Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 tracks (five of them RIAA-certified "gold," i.e., sales of more than 500,000 units). Along with spanning the group's five album releases, Greatest Hits also marks the debut on a Guns N' Roses album of the band's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" for the 1995 film Interview With The Vampire.

Customer Reviews:

Buy the originals you'll thank me in the long run........2007-07-18

If you want the real deal from GNR just go out and get Appetite For Destruction.During the 80s there was GNR and Metallica two of the biggest bands in metal and if you know the legacy of Metallica you would sure understand that thats quit a feet to be alongside the most publicized metal band ever. if you like AFD then get the EP entitled lies which is a raw extension to AFD and then when your in the mood for something more toned down get both use your illusions cds. Sorry guys this album is mediocre at best and you can't cheat yourselves by getting a half hearted compilation go out and get AFD and Use Your Illusions 1 and 2.

Okay, but please read!.......2007-06-17

I love GNR. They remain one of my favorite bands. They put so much feeling into their music and lyrics (even those that are about drugs and sex). This was the first GNR CD I bought, and at the time I was in love with them. Years later I was pushed by a friend to buy Appetite for Destruction. I said to him, "I already have their greatest hits." But he replies, "No you don't. Not really." So eventually I bought AFD, and I was blown away. It is one of the greatest albums ever written. It's absolutly astounding. I am shocked to see that this greatest hits collection only had three songs from AFD. I no longer listen to this collection. Songs like Nightrain, Mr. Brownstone, My Michelle, and Rocket Queen weren't included. They certainly are better than some of the Medicore songs on here like Yesterday, Since I don't have you, and Such Fun. How were they hits, they were cover songs that did little to elevate the bands success. Where's It's So Easy, Coma, Estranged, and Garden of Eden. (even their underrated songs just mentioned are better than some songs on this track). If you want GNR's best, buy Appetite for Destruction and Use your Illusion I & II. If you want one CD then just get AFD.

Can't live without it!.......2007-06-09

Who doesn't love Sweet Child of Mine?? This is one of my all-time favorite CDs!!

Lost in mail.......2007-05-18

Inever received this item. No one from Amazon or the Post Office will help me locate it.

Guns And Roses - A Decent Compliation.......2007-05-01

Talk about a band that had it all and pretty much threw it all away. Guns And Roses is the classic example of a band that came from nothing, hit the big time quickly, and then flushed it down the drain in a sea of drugs, alcohol, greed and general vice. The fact that they treated their fans like [...] did not help matters either. Showing up hours late at concerts or not showing up at all. Having hissy fits in the middle of shows and walking off the stage. It is really amazing to me these guys have maintained the audience that they have given the way their fans have been treated. This is a band that could have been the biggest hard rock band in the world, but basically blew it. Still, there is no denying that they produced some great rock n roll. The band really only put out 4 studio albums, so most people who are big fans of the band probably already have most of what is on this disc. As a compilation it is a decent collection. Naturally there is a lot of material from "Appetite For Destruction". The two "Use Your Illusion" albums are both well represented as well. My all time favorite G & R tune is probably "November Rain" which is here in all it's symphonic glory. Several covers are also here including Bob Dylan's "Knocking On Heaven's Door", Paul McCartney's "Live And Let Die", and The Rolling Stones "Sympathy For The Devil". All in all this is a decent collection if you just want to get the band's best known songs.

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Contrafan
Super Group Super Great
Great first effort from the supergroup, now polished this year with a new album
4- Content 1- Disc
Almost Every Song Is A Hit !!!

Contraband
Velvet Revolver
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Scott Weiland. Slash. Duff McKagen. Matt Sorum. It doesn't seem like a good idea to put these people in a room together, let alone a band. But it was the same exact explosive element of danger and low I.Q. scores that made both of these players' former groups--Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses--sell billions, so why stand in their way? The music on Contraband sounds appropriately monumental, all window-quivering riffs, and ticker-tape parade choruses. "Do It For the Kids" and "Set Me Free" take direct inspiration from Nirvana, meaning they are brilliantly raw, raucous, and indecent. It's great stuff. The power-ballads like "Fall to Pieces" and "You Got No Right," however, are more heartburn than heartbreak when compared to past achievements like, oh, let's say "Sweet Child O' Mine." --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description

The debut release from VELVET REVOLVER features Guns N' Roses founding members Slash and Duff, as well as Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland. The complete line-up is below...

SCOTT WEILAND - Stone Temple Pilots SLASH - Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit DUFF - Guns N' Roses MATT SORUM - Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit, The Cult DAVE KUSHNER - Infectious Grooves

Customer Reviews:

Contrafan.......2007-07-27

Come on...we BUY the CD and can't put it on our ipod!!

Sure install software to create security breaches in your system.

AND only 2 good songs...what a rip.

1 star for the music.

-1 star for greed. THIS IS A HUGE ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Super Group Super Great.......2007-07-05

It was predicted that this band would save rock n' roll, and for me that's what they did. The combination of ex-Gunners with former STP frontman Scott Weiland is fantastic to say the least. If you like Rock n' Roll pick this album up immediatly.

Great first effort from the supergroup, now polished this year with a new album.......2007-07-05

I come back to review this album in the wake of VR second album release "liberated". Contraband is the orginal first effort of this group, made up of ex-Guns and roses members Duff, Slash and Matt Sorum (second drummer for guns After Steve), Stone temple pilots frontman Scott Weiland, and Dave Kushner, former guitarist for Wasted youth. Originally known as "the Project" and filmed for a VH1 documentary while rehersing and serching for a frontman, Weiland fell into their laps and they hit it off right away. Set me free was their fisrt song and released on the Hulk soundtrack. Next release was SLither. These first two has the old STP sound to them, with a kick of GNR guitar from slash. Final big release off the album was Fall to pieces, A great ballad and very GNR sounding. Overall, a great mix of sound on the album from both groups. I agree that the mixing was a bit rough, but still good. With their second album out now, the band has really come into their own sound, and comparing it to this album, Contraband was definitly a start, and seems a mix of their root groups sounds, but awesome anyway. Hopefully these guys will keep going and not fall apart like audioslave recently did, another supergoup of this decade. Check this album out. Unfortunately, this edition was a copy protected album, so making taking it to I pod, mp3 is not really possible. Oh well, still worth it.

4- Content 1- Disc.......2007-07-03

Bought this years ago.. When i switched to strictly using my PC for music, i went to rip and cant... Read other reviewers about their issues as well. I dont own an I-Pod but cant use the disc for that either... So i guess i wont be hearing this again until i hook my stereo back up.. Absolutely insane and RCA should be ashamed... I am sure there will be many used editions because of this.
Musically its great. I do like the cd itself. Solid Rock record.

Almost Every Song Is A Hit !!!.......2007-06-28

I love Guns N Roses and when I heard that Slash and Duff were going to make a superband I was hyped about it. It took me a few weeks to pick this up after it came out but when I did I fell in love with it :) Some of the best songs on it are Slither (the single), Big Machine, Headspace, Superhuman, and basically all of the others except for 1.

I'm really looking forward to the sequel to this and it's coming out in less than 7 days - so it's already a must buy for me :)

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A Hidden Gem
Great laid-back soft sound
Let it ride, let it roll, let it go
Accessible Yet True
With the Cardinals, Whiskeytown may be back...

Cold Roses
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
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Sent reeling by the one-two punch Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes delivered with I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Ryan Adams vowed to strike back in 2005 with three of his own releases. The first--a double album, no less--sees the attention-seeking former Whiskeytown singer casting off both the raucous guitars of 2003's Rock N Roll and the rainy-day ballads of the same year's Love Is Hell in favor of the more introspective moments and rustic textures of 2000's Heartbreaker. He's snuck in at least one epic with "Meadowlake Street" and one potential radio hit with the twangy "Let It Ride," while the rest of the set is mostly packed with bleary-eyed laments that feel all too mannered after spending the last few years revealing his naked pop ambition in full. No doubt Adams will make up for it with the next one. --Aidin Vaziri

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Here is the album that many fans have been hoping Ryan Adams would make since his much heralded emergence with Whiskeytown. Though Adams has been as eclectic (and erratic) as prolific over his solo career, this double-disc gem delineates the possibilities of alt-country in 2005 while transcending the limitations typically associated with the genre. The organic arrangements of his new band, the Cardinals, blend acoustic and electric strains, sparked by the interplay between J.P. Bowersock on guitar and Asleep at the Wheel alumna Cindy Cashdollar on pedal and lap steel. With the set-opening "Magnolia Mountain," Adams and band draw inspiration beyond the title from the era of Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain" and the Grateful Dead's "Sugar Magnolia," though much of what follows shares as much in spirit with Bright Eyes (or even the poppier side of Prince) as it does with retro country-rock. On "Mockingbird Street," Adams builds from the stripped-down intimacy of a heartbeat toward the majesty of an anthem. Except for the rock and roll swagger of "Beautiful Sorta," the material exposes an open-hearted vulnerability, emotions that range from the rapturously romantic ("Cherry Lane") to the tremulously tender ("Mockingbird") to the broodingly bittersweet ("Rosebud"). On the engagingly uptemo "Let It Ride," Adams confesses to "27 years of nothing but failure and promises that I couldn't keep." This release represents promise fulfilled. --Don McLeese

Album Description

Cold Roses is the first of three Ryan Adams releases this year on Lost Highway Records. September to hit this summer and 29 to hit this fall. The new release, a double CD, features Ryan's new band The Cardinals and was produced by Tom Schick. Ryan & The Cardinals recorded Cold Roses in two different sessions at Loho Studios. Ryan will be touring in the Spring, Summer and Fall. "Let It Ride" is the first single going to AAA in early April.

Customer Reviews:

A Hidden Gem.......2007-08-01

Some of the best music in rock was made in a folksy revival in the late 60's and early 70's, as artists were simultaneously celebrating the free love era and coming to terms with its limits and dark underbelly. This time of tension and introspection produced albums like Music From Big Pink, Astral Weeks, the White Album, John Wesley Harding, and of course the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.

What's incredible about Cold Roses is that Ryan Adams has not just listened to that music, he has absolutely INHALED it in substance and spirit, and breathed back this wonderful album. To criticize these songs as unoriginal misses the point. What's original is Adams's ability to so faithfully channel the spirit of a beautiful, honest, and vulnerable era while adding some modern flourishes along the way. In doing so he goes many places musically he's never gone before, and retains a very strong coherence of sound throughout the album.

To enjoy and fully appreciate this album, you have to be a fan of the kind of music I mentioned. Those who want straight country will be disappointed, and should get Jacksonville City Nights instead. Those who want a shimmering combination of psychedelia, country and folk should get this album, and will realize it's one of the best anyone has made in years. There's a reason Phil Lesh loves Ryan Adams: this is probably the best Grateful Dead studio album since American Beauty, only the Dead didn't record it!

Great laid-back soft sound.......2007-07-25

The music on this CD is haunting and refreshing. Ryan and the Cardinals put together a nice ensemble of songs.

Let it ride, let it roll, let it go.......2007-07-10

I wasn't always the biggest Ryan Adams fan, but I remember years before I bought Cold Roses a couple of friends catching a concert of his - one friend thanked the other for bringing her saying "it's good I got to see him now since he'll probably drink himself to death in a couple years." Well, despite his rock and roll lifestyle, he hasn't drank himself dead just yet, and part of the reason might be that Ryan Adams seems to be writing two songs for every drink he consumes. Cold Roses, a double disc (!) of alt-country tunes, is the best of the three (!!) albums Adams put out in 2005, and that's because, on the one hand, Adams clearly has talent to burn, but also because he's willing to turn whatever idea pops into his head into a conventional song structure, and luck was with him for most of Cold Roses' 18 songs. You can hear that sense of drunken and whimsical invention on songs like, for example, "Mockingbirdsing," an infectious song that makes the most of musta-been-brilliant-at-the-time lyrics like "Sing me what the lord was singing/ on the day he made the sky the color of the blues," or a rambling coming-to-at-7-in-the-morning number like "Meadowlake Street." Then, there are songs that are plain brilliant - "Let It Ride" or "Dance All Night" or "How Do You Keep Love Alive," any of which could be classics of its genre. They sit side by side with the songs that are a little more drunken and a little more inane ("Beautiful Sorta," "Sweet Illusions," "Cherry Lane"), but if there's one failing of Cold Roses, it's not Adams' wild ways, but his predictable ones. For all of its great creativity, Cold Roses suffers from aimlessness - for an album with the running time of this double disc, it's surprising that you could not use words to describe the album such as "sprawling" or "epic" or even "exhausting." The record ends in "Friends," a great sunset song as bittersweet as any of its kind, but you may feel at the end of it as though you've gone nowhere. As a collection of good to great songs, Cold Roses is amongst Adams' best work. As an album, it seems like just another night at the bar.

Accessible Yet True .......2007-06-08

Ryan Adams seems to produce two types of albums. Either you get the dark, misunderstood soul who showed-up on Love Is Hell or the melodic pop smith who showed up on Gold. Since then each record I have by Adams has danced between those two worlds with mixed results, 29 for example seemed like a rushed, unfocused effort, Rock N Roll kept things blasting but was clearly not in Adams normal wheelhouse of style.

On Cold Roses, Adams and his backing band The Cardinals stretch out comfortably in his varied styles in one of the most engaging efforts of Adams career. This album is neither too up to seem unrealistic of whom Adams is as an artist nor too down to be off-putting with melancholy laced diatribes. Instead the heartfelt, lovesick soul who has shown up before is now easy to listen to as Adams allows the Cardinals to create a lovely and rich alt-country backdrop throughout Cold Roses, which allows Adams to not veer off the path into self-indulgent territory.

Cold Roses presents 18 mostly realized efforts. Songs like Let It Ride best showcase this as richly played guitar hooks blast the song off in the right direction while Adams rides the energy into interesting places. Dance All Night is another example, with the lyrics dancing between happy and sad creating a wonderfully melodic slice of life tune that does not seem cheesy, all of a sudden the Bob Dylan comparisons that were applied to Adams can now morph into Neil Young comparisons.

Throughout Cold Roses Adams seems to be in a comfort zone that makes the record feel more complete, like a vision has been met. Each side of the record creates two different feels, but yet still remain a believable package. Sweet Illusion on the first side seems to best capture the sparseness Adams was looking to achieve, while If I Am Stranger is an example of the warmth on the second album.

With the huge number of Ryan Adams records out there one might wonder what one is the best showcase of his talent. Considering his back and forth prolific personality, Cold Roses seems like the best bet to explore as it best showcases all sides of Adams as a performer without veering into sub-standard territory. On Cold Roses, both the dark soul and merry popster appears, but with the help of The Cardinals, Adams allows both sides of himself to shine.

With the Cardinals, Whiskeytown may be back..........2007-04-13

Ryan Adams is a truely talented artist. Every album shows his depth in a variety of musical genres. His voice has an almost chameleon quality that lets him sound like a completely different artist from song to song. Influences from all over the musical spectrum show up in his music.

However....with the newly formed Cardinals, Adams seems to be harkening back to his Whiskeytown days. This album (and it's acutally a double album) has a much more alternative country feeling. This isn't a bad thing. He even adds to repetoire of musical diversity pulling from the Eagles (Easy Plateau) and Van Morrison (Dance all Night). I just personally think that he does his best work in the haunting melodies of albums like Demolitions, Gold, and Love is Hell. This is still a pretty good album and definately worth a buy for fans. This is the first of three albums he released in 2005. The flurry of work kind of shows and takes it's toll in this first one. The first half of this double album doesn't hold a candle to the second. I almost wish Amazon let you use half stars because the first half is 3 and the second a 4. All the real standout material like Easy Plateau, Let It Ride, If I Am A Stranger, and Dance All Night come from disc two. Don't let the mixed singles put you off. This is a good album with some real gems. Just don't expect Gold of Love Is Hell. Cold Roses is a very different album.

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Awesome!!!!!!!!!
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A glimpse of the future, and not because of its huge influence and umpteen million sales. The poor-little-rich-boy protest "Out ta Get Me" intimates that Axl Rose's egotism and martyr complex were soon to grow bigger than his head; still, Appetite's night-train wreck of punk and metal sounds and sensibilities make it more than just an emblem of its time. Whether GN'R are dancing with Mr. Brownstone, penning a callow kiss-off letter to some chick named Michelle, or passing out on somebody else's sofa, this was and remains a savage journey to the heart of the American--or at least the Hollywood--dream. --Rickey Wright

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Customer Reviews:

Awesome!!!!!!!!!.......2007-07-25

Guns And Roses album Is the best GNRS Albums Yet!!!!!!!

Best Songs:
1 Welcome To The Jungle
2.Night Train
3 Sweet Child Of Mine!

GN'R made hard rock fashionable again in the late 80's.......2007-06-21

THE BAND: William "Axl" Rose (vocals, synth, percussion), Saul "Slash" Hudson (guitars), Izzy Stradlin - born: Jeff Isbell (guitars), Michael "Duff" McKagan (bass), Steven Adler (drums & percussion).

THE DISC: (1987) 12 tracks clocking in at approximately 53 minutes. Included with the disc is a 10-page booklet containing song titles/credits/times, song lyrics, all original album artwork, and thank you's. Recorded at Rumbo Studios (Canoga Park, CA), Take One Studios (Burbank, CA) and Can Am Studios (Tarzana, CA). Label - Geffen Records.

COMMENTS: Some good music was released by some well known bands in 1987 - Aerosmith (a nice comeback with "Permanent Vacation"), Def Leppard ("Hysteria"), Motley Crue ("Girls, Girls, Girls"), Dokken ("Back For The Attack"), and Whitesnake (self titled - featuring John Sykes), etc. But the one album that made the most impact was "Appetite For Destruction". Just another album from a glammy tattooed L.A. hair band? No chance. The music was instantly cool... fusing elements of hard rock, blues and metal into one... full of crunchy guitars, attitude, catchy hooks, and vocals like no other. GN'R's debut is the 4th highest selling album of the entire 80's decade (15+ million units sold in the U.S. alone... only behind Michael Jackson's "Thriller", AC/DC's "Back In Black", and Springsteen's "Born In The USA"); and Rolling Stone magazine currently ranks it at #61 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Rose and Slash had a much publicized feud (and 20 years later are still at it)... and the band imploded in the mid 90's. A short life with one incredibly solid debut album, some odd leftovers on "GN'R Lies" (1988), two good albums in '91 with "Use Your Illusion I & II" (though had they taken the best songs from each and put them on one album - it would have rivaled "Appetite For Destruction"), and a bunch of covers on "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993). The band entered the music world with a ferocious bang, and the fizzled away without much noise. "Appetite" reminds me of one of my all-time favorite albums - Aerosmith "Rocks" (1976) - full of style, swagger, and simply great rock & roll music... destined to be a classic. The group successfully re-energised the genre in the late 80's with shameless gusto. The album gained momentum slowly - and exactly one year after its release, reached #1 on the Billboard charts. "Sweet Child O' Mine" became a #1 single and proved to be the album's selling point. "Paradise City" was the band's 2nd Top 10 hit. And after being re-released, "Welcome To The Jungle" achieved the same Top 10 status. As good as the 3 big hits here were, the rest of the album rocked on almost the same level. The 1st 9 songs are/were amazing and I put the deep album tracks right up there with the hits - "It's So Easy", "Nightrain", "Mr. Brownstone", "Think About You", and "My Michelle" are all classic GN'R tunes. Only 2 things negative regarding this album and GN'R - 1. the tail end of the album (specifically "You're Crazy", "Anything Goes" and "Rocket Queen") seemed to be a bit of a let down... I wish the album ended with a bigger bang; and 2. Axl Rose's antics on and off stage were disappointing. With that being said though, you simply can't deny the music on this album. A great debut - a classic! Very necessary in any rock library (5 stars).

Appetite for Greatness.......2007-06-11

Appetite for Destruction - by Guns N' Roses - is one of the best Rock and Roll albums to be released in the decades before and the decades that followed. It was jolt of electricity to the Rock and Roll scene. There were songs here for fans of every genre as the hit Sweet Child O' Mine and Welcome To The Jungle were crossover hits enjoyed by metal fans and pop fans alike. The impact of these songs are still felt today, as Jungle is even played at NBA basketball games, and sports radio talk shows. But the real gems on this CD are the harder rocking offerings like It's So Easy, Nightrain, and My Michelle. If I have to put together my "stranded on a desert island list" this CD easily makes the cut. My personal favorites are Think About You and Rocket Queen. There is not a weak song amongst this group. The title is appropriate as the only thing that could derail this outstanding group was its own appetite for destruction, and new faces both literally and figuatively. I did have th opportunity to catch Guns and Roses in concert (with Metallica) in Oakland, and they were excellent.

If you are looking for the definitive post 70's rock and roll album, you have found it. Tremendous... 5 strong stars! Enjoy.

wow.......2007-05-20

At the age of 60 I have discovered Guns N' Roses. I had to go and buy all the other CDs as well. It's never too late to find a really good Rock and Roll band.

The Best Rock Album Ever.......2007-05-16

Appetite for Destruction is a definitive hard rock album from a legendary band. From the opening track, Welcome to the Jungle, through other hits such as Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine, this is Guns N' Roses debut album, and the album that moved them from being homeless musicians to multi-millionaires. Get this album, you won't regret it.

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Use Your Illusion II
Appetite for Destruction
G N' R Lies
The Spaghetti Incident?
Live Era: '87-'93

ASIN: B000000OSE
Release Date: 1991-09-17

Tracks:

Right Next Door To Hell
Dust N' Bones
Live And Let Die
Don't Cry (Original)
Perfect Crime
You Ain't The First
Bad Obsession
Back Off Bitch
Double Talkin' Jive
November Rain
The Garden
Garden Of Eden
Don't Damn Me
Bad Apples
Dead Horse
Coma

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Part one of Guns N' Roses' ambitious second album is arguably the better of the two. It certainly rocks harder, though this seems to be more coincidence than anything else; which songs went on which CD looks to have been a random selection. Use Your Illusion I stays closer to the band's bluesy hard-rock roots, with guitarist Izzy Stradlin contributing some of the best songs, including "Dust N' Bones" and "You Ain't the First." "November Rain" (clocking in at over nine minutes) became an instant classic, and there are a fair number of straight-ahead rockers, such as "Perfect Crime," "Don't Damn Me," and "Garden of Eden." Taking the best from this album and Use Your Illusion II would have made a killer single CD, but there's enough good stuff here to make it worthwhile. --Genevieve Williams

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The guns n roses show.......2007-04-18

This was the 5th guns album i bought my first being : Greatest Hits, 2nd Appetite: third Use your illusion 2 and then lies and finally Uyi 1.
Each time i bought a new guns album i heard a new sound completly different to the album before it. My fav. songs on this album are Don't damn me, Dead horse, Back off Bitch and definetly COMA. The riffs are unbelivable, Matt on the drums is great and axl well he is legendary, his voice, ever changing and his lyrics especially on Coma are mind blowing. Buy this album. You have to appriciate the lyrics of Axl and the others to really get this album. But there are still some hard rockin classics 5*

nearly perfect .......2006-12-30

use your illusion 1 is a real bluesy, complex, rock n roll album, instead of a stupid hair metal album like appetite. i'll only review songs i like,ok.

dust n bones, bad obsession and bad apples: intelligent, aerosmith, stonesy blues rock songs.

live and let die: cool cover song, unique riffs.

don't cry: beautiful, but not comparable to november rain.

november rain: if u know anything about gnr, you've heard it. sounds classical, complex, and great instruments.

you ain't the 1st: twangy bluegrass country song w/ no solos, short, but one of a kind.

double talkin jive: kinda stupid lyrics, but almost metallica-sounding guitar solo, which fades into a spanish guitar sounding solo at the 1 minute left mark, rebellious.

the garden: seems to tell of drug use, multi-styled, it's soft yet heavy, like led zeppelin songs. BEST HARD SONG ON ALBUM

don't damn me: rebellious, and quality lyrics, just a simple gnr rocker.

dead horse: starts out acoustic, then suddenly gets crazy heavy, and an awesome solo from slash, then goes back to the same acoustic part then ends.

coma: describes a coma, has very heavy riff in it; coma>the garden.

This is not a hair metal album; uyi1 is like aerosmith/stones, while appetite is like poison/motley crue/kiss. do not buy but a few songs off appetite.

turn around point!.......2006-12-28

appetite makes gnr sound like motley crue: high-pitched singing, repetitive songs, empty lyrics. This makes em seem even more manly; they sound like aerosmith, perhaps lynyrd skynyrd, having old, bluesy licks, deep lyrics, southern rockish keyboard, and the great ballad november rain, of course. Also, kinda weird pink floydish/zep sounds in some parts.
anti- hair metal! buy now!!!

turn around point!.......2006-12-28

Yeah, whatever.......2006-12-13

Okay, I'm still wondering something: Do we really need two CD's worth of this album? I mean, come on! Yeah, there's some coolness spread across this album: "November Rain" and "Don't Cry" are two more awesome lovestruck power ballads, "Live and Let Die" is arguably even better than Macca's because of Slash's heavy guitar, "Right Next Door to Hell", "Dust n' Bones", and "Perfect Crime" fill out the obligatory "kickass rock n' roll" quotient. And "Coma" is nicely epic and such. The biggest misstep is the acoustic country-twanger thing "You Ain't the First", which at least is mercifully brief, unlike the proceeding stupidity. Tell me, what was their justification for dragging slag like the Stones rip "Bad Obsession", misogynistic "Back off B*tch", psychedelic trash "In the Garden" (with Alice Cooper making a total fool of himself), and "Don't Damn Me", with Axl justifying his writing "One in a Million" by saying, "Sometimes I wanna kill" and "Sometimes I wanna destroy" (niiiiiiice. Now those two people in the world who previously didn't think you were an a** have changed their minds). And not only is he an a** (but you knew that), he's a friggin' hypocrite. "Why let one bad apple spoil the whole damn bunch", proclaims Mr. Axl "Immigrants and f*ggots/they make no sense to me" Rose. Hey buddy, by now everybody knows you hate anyone who isn't a straight American white guy, so why pretend otherwise? Who's gonna believe you? And guess what else? If you take what's good here, you get an economical single CD! Maybe it's a couple songs too few, but that's what we have those precious few good songs from Use Your Illusion II for!

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Stands up to repeated listening
Maybe after repeated listening, I'll up my review
ALO simply amazing
awesome!
great

Roses & Clover
ALO
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ASIN: B000OLHG48
Release Date: 2007-05-01

Tracks:

Maria
Empty Vessel
Try
Roses & Clover
Monday
Shine
Plastic Bubble
All Alone
Lady Loop
Water Song

Album Description

ALO may be describing the inspiration for their release Roses & Clover however, it best summarizes the band's newfound approach to their music. For a band accustomed to performing songs live for years, crafting and shaping hundreds of times over before entering the studio, the age-old process of recording an album first was, well... liberating.

On Roses & Clover, ALO explored new methods of collaborating, finding a richer, more mature sound built on their individual songwriting strengths. Recorded in a turn-of-the-century barn in the hills overlooking colonial Santa Barbara, the four musicians holed themselves up for two weeks with little more than their favorite instruments and 40 songs in various stages - 80% of which had never been performed on stage.

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Stands up to repeated listening.......2007-06-22

I have been a fan of these guys for a long time. Mostly their live shows and live recordings. I am not a huge fan of any studio recordings in general for the simple reason that I cannot "feel" it as much as when the band is playing together.
However, this album goes to my top ten albums of all time, for anyone. Every song is a gem, I can listen to this album over and over and do not get sick of it. For me, no matter what the artist, that is a miracle.

I do agree that on the surface, this album is a bit more pop, but that is merely the surface. This album is pure magic. Super recommended.
Faves are Roses and Clover, Monday, and empty vessel.

Maybe after repeated listening, I'll up my review.......2007-06-19

I have to disagree with others in that this is their best yet. I still think Fly Between Falls is much much better. Don't get me wrong, this is still great music, with incredible vocals from Zach and very good songwriting with very catchable melodies and harmonies. But I don't think it has the depth or transcendence that Fly has. Even though they continue to demonstrate their mastery of classic R&B, ala Marvin Gaye and even Stevie Wonder, woven around more bouncy jam-band influenced rythms, there are many times I have been listening to this and listening to the melodies and thinking..."oh-oh...hope they aren't going to start sounding like Hootie and teh Blowfish."

They haven't gone totally "pop" yet, and hope they never do.

But who knows, I might be back here in a month or 2 after listening a few more dozens times to change my review entirely. I can be like that with music.

ALO simply amazing.......2007-06-11

After seeing ALO support Jack Johnson I went out the next day and bought their first album Fly Between Falls, which I would says was amazing in itself. As soon as I was aware of the new record I had to get it shipped across the atlantic and was not dissapointed. Ever song on the album Roses & Clover is well written, brilliantly performed and a pleasure to listen to. My persoanl favourite tracks are Maria and Monday but I could listen to this album over and over and never get tired of hearing the beautiful songs. I recommend anyone who likes good music to get this.

awesome!.......2007-05-31

this cd is great from start to finish-lyrics are well-written, melodies are catchy and folky, and zach griff's vocals are as usual without equal

great.......2007-05-25

I bought this album as soon as I knew it was out, just 4 days before I was to see them in concert. I love their previous album, Fly Between Falls, and wasn't sure where they would go from there. To my great surprise this album is even funkier than the last, and yet it contains great mellow songs to balance it out wonderfully. I highly recommend both of their albums, its hard to determine which is the best. But overall, i suggest to go out and see these guys live, they play one hell of a show, and ive been to a lot of shows in my day. Peace and love

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The final album by Guns and Roses...
Pure early 90s metal
gnr 2
Wildly uneven, but could've been amazing
pretty good

Use Your Illusion II
Guns N' Roses
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Live Era: '87-'93

ASIN: B000000OSG
Release Date: 1991-09-17

Tracks:

Civil War
14 Years
Yesterdays
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Get In The Ring
Shotgun Blues
Breakdown
Pretty Tied Up
Locomotive (Complicity)
So Fine
Estranged
You Could Be Mine
Don't Cry (Alt. Lyrics)
My World

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Had Use Your Illusion II been combined with Use Your Illusion I, keeping only the best material while dropping the filler, it would have been one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Instead, great songs like "Civil War," "14 Years," "Estranged," and "So Fine" compete with the inexcusable "Get in the Ring" and the well-intentioned but off-target cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." There's no point to the second version of "Don't Cry," either. On the other hand, when Guns N' Roses were good, they were very, very good, and some of the material on this album is unsurpassable. --Genevieve Williams

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The final album by Guns and Roses..........2007-06-26

Both Use Your Illusion albums had enough material for a 4LP set, and most of it is superb. This is the better of the two records, with G n R classics like Locomotive (an intense, nearly 9 minute rave up), Pretty Beat Up (courtesy of Izzy Stradlin with a cool sitar intro), an excellent cover of Knockin' on Heaven's Door, and Estranged is a good ballad. Gettin' in the Ring is a funny song where Axl goes off on critics. The song is a bit obvious, but it's still fun to listen to. This is more than likely Guns n Roses's final album. There's no way Axl is ever going to release anything else. How come Axl and company can release the equivalent of four albums in 1991, and haven't made an album of new material in 16 years (well, at least Axl, the others have moved on)? Axl needs to get his head out of his a**, and stop being full of himself.

Pure early 90s metal.......2007-05-19

Use Your Illusion II, the second half of Guns 'n' Roses' dual release, is second only to Appetite for Destruction in their list of best albums. With charging guitar funk ("Breakdown"), speeding hard rock ("You Could Be Mine"), and amazing ballads ("Estranged"), UYI II is a must-own for everyone and all die-hard G'N'R fans. It starts off with a creative blend of hard rock and balladry ("Civil War"), and after you've heard that song, you're immeadiately hooked. The blues rock sample of "14 Years" is also amongst the best in G'N'R's arsenal, and it shows that sometimes, bassists CAN be good at singing. "Estranged," which is probably the album's highest point, is one of the top 100 greatest songs of all time, and could even give "Stairway to Heaven" a run for its money. Other songs on the album, such as the two-part "Breakdown" and the awesome "So Fine," also deserve credit for giving the album the unique sound it has. "You Could Be Mine," which is my favorite from the album, is a hard-rocking G'N'R hit that will have you headbanging from the start. It features brilliant vocals by Axl Rose, awesome drumming from Matt Sorum, and masterful guitar playing from the almighty Slash. Use Your Illusion II probably would've won Best Album of the Year Award in 1992, but unfortunatly it didn't get the recogniton it needed thanks to Nevermind by Nirvana, one of the most overrated albums of all time. Standing as the last good album by Guns 'n' Roses, Use Your Illusion II will help you become a big fan of the band, even if you're against them in every way. A must-own album for everyone.

gnr 2.......2007-02-15

one of the best gnr albums, the other is part 1. most of the songs on the use your illusion cd's are really well written.

Wildly uneven, but could've been amazing.......2006-12-21

Hey, remember my old review of this album? Remember how much it SUCKED? Well, I'm editing it, because I've changed my mind about a couple songs. Now, I still feel Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a mockery of the Dylan classic, that Get in the Ring is stupidly self-centered, that My World is more wanking to end the extended game of pocket-hockey we call Use Your Illusion (at least it's short...), that Locomotive and Breakdown are amazing examples of WHY I feel this was an extended game of pocket hockey (how come nobody but me says that anymore?), and there's too much idiocy like Shotgun Blues, Pretty Tied Up (someone should make a law about anyone but Lou Reed writing a song about S&M) and So Fine. Oh, and why remake Don't Cry? It was a good song, you know, before you threw in the unneeded remake.
But we've got five REALLY AWESOME songs here. Ever see that video for Yesterdays? Great stuff, man. (and this from a guy who normally despises music videos!) Say what you will about Axl, but that little slither-dance thing he's got going is pretty cool. Now, I'm not saying you can judge a song by its video, because the song itself is amazing, too. Slash and Izzy riff away and Axl howls "ooh... yesterday's... got nothin' for me!" Schweet. Estranged is, well... Estranged. I didn't like it at first, but I didn't like ANY Guns n' Roses at first - their work seems to grow on me more than any other group's. Anyway, air-guitaring to that thing should be some sort of Olympic event, it's a great song to blast out the windows while you do said air guitaring (it'll drive the neighbors crazy, especially if they hate GN'R as I'm sure mine do and if you're as bad at air-guitar as me), it's got the best lyrics on any GN'R song anywhere ('cept maybe Patience), it's awesomely epic, AND I like Dizzy Reed's piano. It's true. I think he was an unnecessary addition to the band, but Estranged makes me change my mind. Possibly the best of either Illusion, though November Rain's some pretty stiff competition. Anyway, Izzy Stradin's my second-favorite Gunner (behind Guy with Cool Hat, Cool Stage Name and Even Cooler Guitar Tone), and he gets a chance to sing on his Stonesy Axl bash-a-thon 14 Years, which rocks tremendously. And I haven't gotten to the two big hits: Civil War (which mixes Appetite's hard rock, GN'R Lies' acoustic material, and surprising social relevance) which rules, and You Could Be Mine, a flat-out burning rocker which rules even more.

pretty good.......2006-10-06

This was a pretty good piece of work by GNR, but they have definately done better. Use your Illusion I was clearly the better of the two, but that doesnt mean this cd was total trash. This was by-far 10 times better than the Spaghetti Incedent, but not as good as Appetite for Destruction or the Greatest Hits album. "Knockin' on Heavens Door" was probably the best song on the album, whearas "My World" was complete garbage. I don't know what they were thinking with this song, but it sucks big time.

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A great Live show!
An interesting live album despite the overdubs
A Mixed Bag, with Moments of Greatness
....THAT OLD COUNTRY FEELING.
Jerry's 'On'

Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)
Grateful Dead
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ASIN: B00007LTIM
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

Bertha
Mama Tried
Big Railroad Blues
Playing In The Band
The Other One
Me & My Uncle
Big Boss Man
Me & Bobby McGee
Johnny B. Goode
Wharf Rat
Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Oh, Boy!
I'm A Hog For You
Bonus Track 1

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Expanded & remastered (in glorious HDCD) version of 1971 album includes two ultra rare bonus tracks, 'I'm A Hog For You' & 'Oh, Boy!'. Includes expanded booklet as well, with rare photos, packaged in Digipak format. Warner/Elektra. 2003.

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A great Live show!.......2007-02-22

I found the record version of this in my basement. Sadly, for about 3 years I could not listen to it and other amazing grateful dead records because it seemed that no one in america had a record player anymore. But I finally bought the cd and good god Is this good! it truly is an awesome piece of music, it can stand the test of time, and it is really good to listen to for whatever occasion. This is by far one of the best live albums the dead released, it is up there with "Live/dead" and "truckin up to buffalo july 4th 1989" But it as soon as humanly possible.

An interesting live album despite the overdubs.......2006-10-13

This is a great live album dispite that it doesn't really represent the period right. Spring tour 1971 featured alot of Pigpen tunes in the setlists but only one appears here. Due to Pigpen's illness, most of his parts are erased and overdubbed by Merle Saunders. Vocal overdubs were also added. On all of the lp copies you hear Phil singing backing vocals on Bertha. For whatever reason, on all the new remixed, remastered and newly released albums for this period this also happens. Buy this disc with Ladies and Gentlemen and get a good dose of the Dead from spring'71. Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road is one of the all time best.

A Mixed Bag, with Moments of Greatness.......2006-06-02

For their second `official' live album, the Grateful Dead switched gears a bit from their previous endeavor. While "Live/Dead" accentuated the jamming aspect of the band, spreading five songs over four sides (the three tracks on side four really constitute one performance), this collection goes for a breezier feel. Here, eleven tracks fill out four sides, allowing room for only one meandering jam ("The Other One"), which does little to add to the legacy already created by "Live/Dead". When performing their own original material, this album succeeds completely on its own terms. "Bertha" is one of the chirpiest jam tunes the Dead ever came up with - enough to inspire Los Lobos to do a faithful cover version - while "Playing in the Band" gives Bob Weir the opportunity to indulge in some rock and roll. It's only when the band attempts to incorporate songs previously made famous by others that the album veers out of bounds. "Me and Bobby McGee" is a pointless endeavor, especially in light of Janis Joplin's definitive version, while there really aren't too many people who would consider a Grateful Dead version of "Johnny B. Goode" to be essential listening.

Grateful Dead works mostly because it presents a fairly accurate overview of the band's strengths (and weaknesses). Energetic `cover' songs such as "Mama Tried" and "Big Railroad Blues" provide an opportunity for the band to get down to basics and play like a fully integrated bar band. "Wharf Rat", meanwhile, shifts moods, sounding simultaneously desperate and hopeful, allowing the band to grease its improvisational tendencies to full effect. Most telling is the jam that ties Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" to the public-domain folk song "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad." This segue pretty much summarizes the best bits of the album, combining instinct, tradition and energy into a unique synthesis that transcends either basic song. Coming on the heels of two exceptional studio recordings, more people were listening to the Dead, and this album does an excellent job of retaining old fans while seducing new ones. Combining elements of their `traditional' jamming with a batch of nicely constructed new songs, Grateful Dead does a laudable job of offering something for everybody.
B+ Tom Ryan

....THAT OLD COUNTRY FEELING........2006-04-06

In the sixties The Grateful Dead were the premiere group in the scene of Psychedelic Jam Rock. They made their way up the ranks by playing infamous live shows that were famous for "the vibe."
What was the vibe? Well basically the band and the audience would become one, sometimes on the music (which was excellent at times) and sometimes on loads of drugs (in these cases the music was nothing more than a few intangible notes repeated over and over.---see LIVE/DEAD)
By the early seventies however, The Dead had reached a new phase. They found that, a little bit of proffesionalism, and a little less partying, was actually making them successful. In the same year the band released their two masterpiece albums WORKINGMANS DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY, and launched what became their first major (major) tour. This all happened years before I was even concieved, but when you look through my DEAD collection, this is the era where I hop on board. The laid back, country style, that far better showcases the bands talent, over the sixties psychedelia. GRATEFUL DEAD (aka SKULL and ROSES) was the bands next release, and really basks itself in country feel. The whole thing was recorded live, but stands to be the first published recording for every track contained within. Excellent stuff, some of The Deads best, for sure.
Right off we get the now bonafied classics BERTHA, MAMA TRIED, ME AND MY UNCLE etc.
Bob Weirs Dead introduction of PLAYING IN THE BAND, and there are also a few cover songs... ME AND BOBBY MCGEE (a different kind of version, nice) JOHNNY B. GOODE, and BIG BOSS MAN (W/Pigpen on vocals for that-yeah)-
This should be part of your DEAD collection, I'd say. If you like the country side of THE DEAD, without all the space out jams, this is for you.

Jerry's 'On'.......2005-09-03

I read somewhere that Jerry said this record epitomised what the Dead were all about. and after hearing it again ,re-mastered after all these years I agree .I had this on vinyl while living in London in the 70's(a double LP) I liked it then and I love it now . Jerry's guitar never sounded better (especially on the remaster -great job whoever is responsible )Song selection is what they were doing back then .This is the disc that has the famous , Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away'' seguing into Woody Guthries' , "Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad" and the superb Big Railroad Blues(was that Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers?) .All tunes contain astounding band performances Kicking off with "Bertha" ,and Jerry's axe shines throughout . I would recommend this to anyone new to the Dead ,as a great place to start. This remastered version contains two extra tracks that could have been left off .. The Coasters' Im A Hog For You Baby,and Buddy Holly's Oh Boy! .. 'Hog' is the better of the two , but neither of these performances enhance the disc .. but, there again .. some Deadheads might be ecstatic that this extra material is on here.

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For The Roses - my favorite Joni Mitchell album
You've got to shake your fists at lightning
The garden inspires mature art.
"FOR THE ROSES": JONI MITCHELL'S FLIGHT FROM THE BLUES, PART ONE
"I'm a wild seed again, let the wind carry me"

For the Roses
Joni Mitchell
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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ASIN: B000002GYQ
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Banquet
Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
Barangrill
Lesson In Survival
Let The Wind Carry Me
For The Roses
See You Sometime
Electricity
You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
Blonde In The Bleachers
Woman Of Heart And Mind
Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune)

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Sandwiched between the solitary, heart-on-her-sleeve confessions of Blue and the ravishing pop of Court and Spark, 1972's For the Roses captures Joni Mitchell in a deceptively subdued period of transition. Still hewing to a spare sound, Mitchell ventures beyond the elegant folk sources of earlier records to explore her love of blues and jazz-based harmony, writing as much on piano as guitar; thematically, the earnest reveries and heartbroken dirges of before give way to a more detached, even journalistic perspective and darker, grittier settings, most strikingly on "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" was the set's nominal hit, yet in hindsight the keepers here are found in evolutionary pieces like the jazz-tinged "Barangrill," the rock-infused "Blonde in the Bleachers," and in more sober meditations like "Woman of Heart and Mind"--testaments to her restless growth and signposts to the more mature music ahead. --Sam Sutherland

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For The Roses - my favorite Joni Mitchell album.......2007-07-24

I LOVE this great album, one of my personal all-time Top 10 if I were marooned on a deserted island ... it carries me along like a story of a sometimes gentle, sometimes anguished tour of past love, heartbreak and disappointment, along with insights into the world around us ... for my tastes, this album and "Blue" are her definitive works ...

You've got to shake your fists at lightning.......2007-03-01

JM told the world how she felt with Blue. For The Roses develops her storytelling muse with deeper observations.

"Blonde In The Bleachers" narrates the uneasy relations of the musician and the groupie, successfully describing both points of view. "Woman Of Heart And Mind" aptly illustrates the frustrations of an evolved lady taking in an eternally adolescent man. "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" conveys drug abuse with a Burroughsian dispassion. "Barangrill" is a road song inspired with meticulous attention-to-detail. "For the Roses" rails against pop culture commerce with chilling probity. Finally, "Judgement of the Moon and Stars," with its stunning climatic lines, reveals JM, the humanist warrior.

And, "You Turn Me On (I'm A Radio)," charming and smart.

A seriously overlooked album.

The garden inspires mature art. .......2007-01-23

" For the Roses" is probably Joni Mitchell's least recognized work that merits rapt attention. Other CDs are fabulous, close to perfection, but "Roses" delivers in a way that positions it as among the best of Mitchell's recordings.

"Blue" was amazing, no denying that. How could an artist top it? Mitchell imposed an exile on herself after the tremendous response to "Blue" for reflection, study, a time to get out of the race. The result was a musical jump that carried a maturity that wasn't exactly missing in previous releases, but discernable growth is obvious.

" Banquet", the opening track, is such a panoramic view of the way people were dealing with a complex society. Again, fairly simple terms, but loaded meaning. " Cold Blue Steel..." chronicled the crushing lament of addiction; mired in the squalor while unable to resist.

"Lessons in Survival" seamlessly flows into " Let the Wind Carry Me", a suite that says to lover and family " I love you, please accept my essence."

" For the Roses" provides the first glimpse into Mitchell's disenchantment with the music industry... it's also an open letter to help her friends in the business cope with the fickle nature of entertainment. "Judgment of the Moon and Stars ( Ludwigs Tune) " is a thoughtful ode to Beethoven, talking of him being "condemned to wires and hammers"... or, in laymen's terms, the cold comfort of his piano.

Intense, isolated study served to increase Mitchell's doubt about absolute truth, but it also formed the basis for an overlooked masterpiece. Incidentally, her first top forty single came from this CD; " You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" is a campy attempt at appeasing the DJs who control the fate of the much needed "hit". It works, though, in the context of light moment among serious depth.

"FOR THE ROSES": JONI MITCHELL'S FLIGHT FROM THE BLUES, PART ONE.......2006-12-27

Between the pivotal "Blue" and the exceedingly popular "Court And Spark", Joni Mitchell escaped to her homeland, Canada, away from the pressures and trappings of her career. Emotionally raw from her "blue" period where her privacy crashed with fame, it was there, it is my understanding, where "For The Roses" was born, freed somehow by terra firma. What we have with "For The Roses" is an album of great complexity and simplicity, the isolated artist continuing to grow and change just as the lush vegetation and water around her in the album's magnificent photos would attest.

Rooted in folk-rock, "For The Roses" shows the first ever-so-slight dabblings into the jazz foray where her muse would take her for basically the rest of her career. However, the songs are mostly stripped down, reminiscent of their origins in the wilderness of Canada, rugged. The vulnerability of "Blue" is still there, but there is also the strength of the deep roots of home.

Lyrically, "For The Roses" shows signs of further growth and strength, also. From the start, Mitchell had been quite articulate, but this album marks the start of her supreme poetry. The songs tackle subjects from hunger ("Banquet") to drug abuse ("Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire"). The title track hauntingly evokes the lonliness of isolation still aware of popularity ("I heard it in the wind last night, it sounded like applause") while understanding and comraderie is sought with another great musician in "Ludwig's Tune". One can hear the stalwartness in emotionally ravaged autobiographical songs such as "Lesson In Survival" and "Let The Wind Carry Me" and "Woman Of Heart And Mind", which really captures what one would sense to be the essence of Joni Mitchell; and, of course, there are the songs about romantic relationships gone awry, "See You Sometime" and "Blonde In The Bleachers", two of my favorites amongst a collection of great songs.

The retreat, precipitated by "Blue", that marked the creation of "For The Roses" garnered Joni Mitchell the renewed strength to create the L.A. jazz-based "Court And Spark". However, "For The Roses" is a great achievement, in and of its own merits, and deserves that recognition.

"I'm a wild seed again, let the wind carry me".......2006-12-03

It's sandwiched between Mitchell's two most melodically full albums, Blue and Court & Spark, but For The Roses is my favorite Mitchell record because it's her most lyrically daring album in a context of piano and horns that fulfill its sensibilities of dislocation and wanderlust. In songs like "Barangrill" or "Woman Of Heart and Mind," the compositions are unmistakably beautiful, but it's her observations that makes them unforgettable. Mitchell includes seeming half compositions - the unique segue of "Lesson In Survival" and "Let The Wind Carry Me," and "Blonde In The Bleachers" - songs that don't connect melodically right away, but allow moments of power to stand out and lodge in your brain; when she sings in "Blonde In The Bleachers" that it "seems like you've got to give up such a piece of your soul when you give up the chase," it rings with wounding clarity. And those half compositions allow more traditional songs like "You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio" to feel even more wondeful and surprising. It's that unique composition of observation that makes the album so alarming and true. Its closers on each side are its best - "For The Roses," which makes being famous and feeling alone the most beautiful sensation anyone's experienced ("Up the charts into the airports/ your name's in the news everything's first class/ the lights go down and it's just you up there/ getting them to feel like that"), and "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" that invigorates and inspires with lines like "Condemned to wires and hammers/ strike every chord that you feel." The verse and voice are perfect, but it's everything that leads up to it that makes it unforgettable, the most truly full experience in Mitchell's magnificent career.

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Nice Boys Don't Play Rock N' Roll.......2007-06-30

While Guns N' Roses debut album "Appetite for Destruction" (1987) initially failed to make a major impact, over the course of a few months, with singles like "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child `O Mine," almost overnight, Guns N' Roses became the biggest band on the planet.

To capitalize on the band's success, Geffen re-released Guns N' Roses first release, the "Live like a Suicide" (1986) EP along with four new recordings. Together, these eight songs made up Guns N' Roses second album "GN'R Lies" (1988).

"Live Like a Suicide" had been released one year before "Appetite" as a way for Geffen to introduce Guns N' Roses to the public. Although it was released under the "Uzi Suicide" label, that was just a front for Geffen. It was thought that if the EP had been released under an indie label it might have given the band added street cred. And while "Live Like a Suicide" is supposed to be a live album, that's not really the case. Crowd noise was added to the recordings, to which singer Axl Rose would later decry as "contrived."

While "Live Like a Suicide" or "side A" of "GN'R Lies" isn't as powerful as AFD, these are still great songs. While they may not have been recorded in front of an audience, they still have a live sound as they don't sound overproduced or have a lot over overdubs. Hopefully, however, one day "GN'R Lies" will be re-released without the faux crowd noise.

The opening "Reckless Life," featuring Rose's mightily signature wail and Slash's signature screeching solos, can be seen as a precursor to "Welcome to the Jungle." Rose Tattoo's "Nice Boys" is another fine hard-rocker and follows nicely. An early GN'R classic and the best song on "Live Like a Suicide," the groove-laden swagger of "Move to the City" has a clear element of vintage Aerosmith. A cover of Aerosmith's "Mamma Kin" is good, if not great.

The second half of "GN'R Lies" consists of four new acoustic recordings, demonstrating early on how versatile GN'R were. The Izzy Stradlin penned "Patience" is just plain terrific. A gorgeous balled, it's not overdone or overly sentimental, yet shows a sensitive side to the band none-the-less. "Used to Love Her" a song about killing your wife/girlfriend is one of the band's more misunderstood songs. As Rose states in "Live Era" (1999) while introducing the song, it's just a joke, a fantasy.

The country-esque "Your Crazy" is an acoustic version of the same song released a year before on "Appetite." While the "fast" AFD version of "Your Crazy" is probably the album's weakest song, the slower version on "GN'R Lies" is one of GN'R best recordings.

Guns N' Roses most controversial song, "One in a Million" closes out the album. This is the song that Axl Rose/Guns N' Roses detractors single-out when they refer to either Rose or Guns N' Roses as racist and/or homophobic. Listening to the song, it's easy to see why the song generated a storm of controversy upon its release. However, to simply condemn Rose and GN'R would be simplistic and a knee-jerk reaction.

Does "One in a Million" have racist, xenophobic and homophobic undertones? Yes. Is Axl Rose a white supremacist that hates gays? No. Essentially, the song is a gritty, honest confessional taken from the perspective of an ignorant young man who has grown up in Indiana his whole life, and upon arriving to LA, has negative experiences with blacks and gays. It's a song from the perspective of how Rose felt at the time and it doesn't reflect his current world-view.

Overall, GN'R's "Appetite For Destruction" and "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" (both 1991) may be more satisfying than "GN'R Lies" but this album still contains many gems and is overall a great collection of songs. This CD is also recommended for fans that didn't care for the more artistic leanings of "Use Your Illusion" but like the rawness of AFD.

On "I Used to Love Her".......2007-06-21

People, people--"I Used to Love Her" is NOT about killing and burying a girlfriend, it's about putting down and burying a dog. The word that in clean contexts means "female dog," but which is usually used as a derogatory word for women, takes its literal meaning in this song. That's the joke. That having been said, it isn't a very funny joke.

As for my review, I bought this album a long time ago for "Patience," but rarely listen to the whole thing, since it sounds just like what it is--a cobbled-together album to keep the group in the spotlight. And I do object to "One in a Million." This album is pretty much for completists only.

Patience.......2007-03-23

Patience is one of the best song I have ever listen to. Sorry for Gn'r fans but the rest is just 'ok'.

Why 100 Bucks ?.......2007-03-18

I am writing this message , for the people who might have clicked on a "GN'R LIES" , that might have a very high price next to it.It could be the price is for the limited MFSL 24 K Gold Ultra Disc/original Master Recording.If you are a GN'R obsessed fan , that might be for you , but if you are just looking for the regular CD , you can find much cheaper here at Amazon on another GN'R LIES icon , if you keep looking!

As for the songs , I am an avid fan , but looking at a perspective , of what I thought of "LIES" when I first heard it , I was not impressed with the "Live Like a Suicide" stuff (Mamakin,Reckless Life,etc)at first , but it eventually grew on me , and now I would recommend to any fan.I love the acoustic stuff on here the best , and even though the lyrics might cross the line with some people , the overall songs are a great listen.I like "Used to Love Her" , "One in a Million" along with "Patience" as well.Great sing alongs,that give you great escape.

GN'R Runs in Place.......2007-03-17

Uncomfortably positioned between the amazing Appetite for Destruction and the miserably indulgent Lose Your Illusion project, this is very much a stopgap release. And like most stopgaps, it's a complete middle-of-the-road project. Combining the pseudo-live (read: in the studio with crowd noises dubbed in) EP Live ?!#* Like a Suicide and a collection of new, acoustic songs, this could've made a great four-song EP, rather than a lousy eight-song LP. I like Reckless Life, a fierce rocker that should by all accounts be a classic, arguably the most underrated GN'R song out there. Same for their version of Mama Kin. On the other end of the specturm are Nice Boys and Move to the City - neither really make much of an impact on me.
Onto the new stuff. First, the good news - this contains the Top 5 smash Patience, easily one of the group's best songs ever, once again nailing the sensitive-guy routine (which had also previously been done on Sweet Child O' Mine and would happen a third time on November Rain). It's the perfect song - hell, I even like the whistling at the beginning. For whatever reason, I prefer the acoustic You're Crazy to the one released on Appetite - I don't see why it wasn't included on the album in the first place, as it would've added some variety and pounds the living crap out of the full band one.
Okay, now we've got Axl's infamous, borderline-sociopathic stuff. What the hell inspired him to write One in a Million? Was he trying to offend every group of people imaginable, or had he just been dancing with Mr. Brownstone on the Night Train (wink wink nudge nudge) while he was writing it? Even when you look past the lyrics, it sounds like a demo, with Axl singing vocals that sound like he was being castrated as he sang or something. Same with Used to Love Her (But I Had to Kill Her). Jeez, Axl, what the #@)*!) did the world do to you? I mean come on, the guy wore a frickin' Charles Manson shirt, for the love of Eric Clapton (or whoever it is you worship). The sad fact is, he probably just wore the damn thing for the shock value, since it would take somebody even more psychotic than Axl to support that moron. But I digress.
Okay, so what's the point of Lies? Uh, to get Patience on an LP, I suppose, and to make Life !?@* Like a Suicide more widely available. Ooh, ooh! I know! And to hold fans over while they worked on those bloated Illusion discs.

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