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Velvet Revolver are an impressive act of defiance: a band
of old-school bad boys from twentieth-century megagroups who make a
rocket-guitar racket that is more compelling than most current woe-is-me
punk and emo. The blitz in "Let It Roll," "Get Out the Door" and "Pills,
Demons & Etc." may be second nature to guys who did time in Guns n'
Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, but there is plenty of thrill in the
fuzz-lined hard-rubber bends of Slash's guitar breaks and the way
bassist Duff McKagan keeps time, like a cop swinging a billy club. There
is honest depth here too. Since Velvet Revolver's first album, 2004's
Contraband, singer Scott Weiland lost his brother to a drug overdose - a
tragedy deeply etched into Weiland's fallen-dandy howl in "For a
Brother," the deceptively grand ballad "The Last Fight" and, strangely,
the cover of ELO's "Can't Get It Out of My Head," which may be Weiland's
way of describing the daily battles he still fights with his own dark
impulses.
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Track List
- Let It Roll
- She Mine
- Get Out The Door
- She Builds Quick Machines
- The Last Fight
- Pills, Demons & Etc.
- American Man
- Mary Mary
- Just Sixteen
- Can't Get It Out Of My Head
- For A Brother
- Spay
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Gravedancer (track not available in Rhapsody)
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