Slither, in particular, just got on the charts and ranked first among the rock songs at that time.
And the SOLO of Set Me Free is wonderful (SLASH's is of course wonderful).
Into pieces. . . It's like a gun flower. . .
Let me show you that music review of this album:
Album title: contraband
Singer: Velvet revolver
Issue date: June 8, 2004
Issuing company: RCA
Music Style: Hard Rock (Hard Rock)
Band members: Scott Welland (lead singer), Slash (lead guitarist), Dave kushner (rhythm guitarist), Dave "Ross" McCagan (bass player), Matt Solom (drummer) [Introduction to the track]
1. Sucker train blues -4:27 (key recommendation) Comments: A great album must have a great opening single, just like Welcome to the Jungle in Desire for Destruction. This fast and tough single is an important part of this album. From Dave McCagan's bass to Slash's guitar, they announced the guns and roses.
2. For the children-3:55
3. Big Machine-4:25
4. Illegal I song-4: 17
5. Glasses-3:4 1
6. Break into pieces -4:30 (key recommendation) Comments: This is an obvious single that reflects the disintegration of guns and roses. The lyrics are not very long, but every sentence is heartfelt, and music like don't cry reflects the broken pain. At the beginning of the song, "It's been a long year, I've been here since you left, I'm getting old and I'm devastated" shows the loneliness of the members after being broken. At this time, Slash's clear guitar solo is no longer like a pure performance, but more like a bird that has been whining. In the last climax, "I have tried for so many years, and there is more to go. Will the memories fade away? I am waiting. Will I find you? Can I find you?" It is more like the expectation of the members of the Velvet Revolver Band for the reunion of the gun and the rose.
7.Headspace-3:42
8. Superman-4: 15
9. Let me be free -4:07 (key recommendation) Comments, Matt Sorum's fast and intensive drums and intense guitar accompaniment make this single one of the most difficult singles in the whole album. He has all the elements to be an excellent rock single: smooth melody, wonderful solo and excellent drum rhythm. The harmony in the climax is also obviously different from the sharpness of Axl Rose in the period of guns and roses.
10. You have no right-5:35
1 1.Slither-4:08 (key recommendation) Comments: Slither, as the first hit single of this album, may not be the best single in the whole album, but it is indeed the best single between Scott Weiland three former guns and rose band members. Both Scott Vilander's singing with junk rock style, the strong sense of rhythm of Duff McCagan and Matt Sorum, and the guitar accompaniment and solo led by Slash have proved this point.
12. Dirty little thing-3:57
13. Love aliens-8:20
[record review]
When the author got the album of this band composed of members of the famous original class of Guns and Roses, his mood was very complicated, both excited and very worried. Because the name gun and rose is so important in my heart, I am afraid that Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum's new album will be disappointed, just like Metallica, it is not as good as before. However, from the moment Slash's signature guitar began to play, it was like listening to the gun rose band in its heyday. The initial worry disappeared in an instant, and the great gun rose came back! The outstanding sales results after the first week of release also prove that the success of the album Velvet Revolver is not partial. The sales of 256,000 copies in the first week made them the champion of the Billboard 200 list. When Axl Rose's new album Guns and Roses, Democracy in China, was just a slogan, the Velvet Revolver band had firmly stood on the podium of the top of the charts. I don't know if these artists who only lack Axl Rose's former guns and roses can understand an ancient poem by China, "If you know where your brothers are climbing in the distance, one person is not as good as one."
In fact, in the eyes of many fans of Guns and Roses, izzy stradlin and Slash are the real souls of Guns and Roses. Gorgeous Axl Rose and his high notes are only important factors for the band to attract fans, while Duff McKagan only adds punk energy to the band, but for music, creative genius izzy stradlin and performance genius Slash are the real guarantee for the band. Perhaps because of this, when Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and izzy stradlin work together again, people will think that this is the real entity of guns and roses, and Axl Rose and his gang just have the names and shells of guns and roses.
This is an album that can definitely be described as great. The style and arrangement of the work are very close to the most classic album "The Destructive Desire of Guns and Roses". In some ways, this album is even better than the two albums released at the peak of Guns and Roses, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
Compared with the familiar works of guns and roses, the only difference comes from the lead singer. Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilot before the lead singer of Velvet Revolver, has a completely different singing style from Axl Rose. The only similarity between them is that they both have a high talent for acting. Axl Rose's performance in this respect is world-famous, and it is one of the symbols of guns and roses. When Scott Weiland twisted his waist, was naked and wore low-waisted white pants in the music video of the single Slither, no one would deny the performance ability of the lead singer. The biggest difference between Scott Weiland Axl Rose is singing. Compared with Axl Rose's high-pitched and isolated voice, Scott Weiland's singing is more Grunge style. For example, Slither and Scott Weiland use more harmony when singing. The application of this kind of harmony is different from the original harmony in Paradise City, but more like Def Leppard's harmony, which is particularly prominent in the two chorus "Should we go out later and perform time for strangers" in Let's do it for children. Scott Welland Axl Rose's singing style is different, which determines that he can't be an important part of the evolution of singing style into a band like Axl Rose, but Scott Welland is still trying to make his singing one of the highlights of the band. He combined his singing style with the music of Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Guns and Roses. In fact, his integration was very successful. Sometimes, such as illegal I songs, Scott Welland's slow-paced singing makes the whole single play faster and the music more difficult. He is successful. In the end, their successful integration made the music of this album very lasting, and the more you listen to it, the smoother it became, just like Desire for Destruction!
No one can deny Slash's genius. His signature guitar solo has always been one of the most important features of Guns and Roses. One of the important reasons why this album is a great work is that these excellent rock musicians have not changed their styles because of the change of the popular trend of rock music. In this album, they still use traditional rock instruments. Every song is still rock music dominated by Slash guitar. Slash's gorgeous and arrogant guitar hero performance makes this album look as unscrupulous as their works when they were young. Slash's guitar performance is still the most attractive part of the band's works. His signature guitar solo is all over every single of the whole album, which is a really great highlight of the album.
Duff McCagan still wants to be the conductor of the band, just like he did in Guns and Roses. Although this confident punk youth is not confused, Duff McCagan is naturally more arrogant without the bossy Axl Rose here. As usual, he is still the first person in the background and sound of the band, and plays the pilot in the band from time to time. For example, the opening single "Sucker Train Blues" and the main single "Slither" are all based on Dave McCagan's bass as a prelude. In fact, Duff McKagan's bass performance provided a guarantee for the band's musical strength for a long time, and the fast and heavy rhythm made the band's music tough enough.
Although Matt Soren also recorded peak albums such as Guns and Roses, Use Your Fantasy I and Use Your Fantasy II, he didn't have enough time and space to show his talents like the first drummer Stephen Adle. This album may be the first time that he really fully demonstrated his strength. His drum skills are as outstanding as Stephen Adle's Desire for Destruction.
The album's opening single "Sucker Train Blues" starts with Duff McKagan's fast bass and sirens from far and near, and then the lyrics are fired like Scott Weiland's machine gun bullets. In the fast and intense rhythm, Slash makes this single look as inspiring as the opening single of Guns and Roses Peak. Doing for Children has impressive harmony, and what is even more impressive is the repetition of the rhythms of Matt Soren and Duff McCagan. The heavy bass-dominated "Big Machine" has a strong style of Scott Welland's "Stone Temple Pilot", but Slash's radiant guitar quickly covered up Scott Welland's roar. The fast drums ignited the illegal my song, a metal style work. Slash's solo in Wonders is one of the masterpieces of the first half of the album. After five hard rock singles, the first tender single "Broken" finally appeared on the album. This single, like Don't Cry, obviously alludes to the Broken Gun Rose, a very profound single. The next "Headspace" is another hard rock single with a roaring melody. Superman is more like my lovely child. It starts with Slash's clear guitar improvisation, and it is repeated from time to time in the melody since then, but Scott Weiland's rough voice is not as high as Axl Rose, and the climax can only be replaced by growling. "Set Me Free" is one of the most difficult singles in this album, but the low singing at the beginning is a bit like "So Easy", and this single is also a member of the original soundtrack of the movie "Hulk". "You have no right" is another soothing lyric single in the album. Obviously, the content of this single is also aimed at the split between guns and roses. The lyrics of "If I meet you outside tonight, will you love me forever" also show pessimism about the prospect of reorganizing guns and roses. When Slash's guitar solo came to an abrupt end, this sad feeling immediately stood out. The excellent single Slither is the band's first hit single. In the music video of this single, the velvet revolver band is performing wildly in a tunnel similar to the famous sewer in Paris, and the underground is full of flavor. Dirty little thing is the last hard rock single on this album. After the single ended, he proved that every hard rock single in this excellent album is not only fast and intense in rhythm, but also very smooth in melody and quite unified in musical style. The last single of the whole album, Falling in Love with Aliens, is the third lyric single in the album. Similarly, it implies the split between the gun and the rose. "Can you get me a phone call? It's just a little thing" once again expresses the loneliness of the members after the disintegration of the band, and when Slash improvised the guitar throughout the whole single in the accompaniment, it shows that this loneliness has gone too far.
Every single in this album is a masterpiece that can stand the aftertaste. They have a unified style and a very clear melody. These hard rock singles not only have high-intensity and high-hardness rhythms, but also have fast and compact melodies, just like Desire for Destruction. If there is only one shortcoming, it may be because there are three slow-paced lyric singles in this album. Although these three singles are all sentimental about the disintegration of guns and roses, they do affect the original unified hard rock style of the album. Without these three singles, this album will become a hard rock bombing like The Great Desire for Destruction, with no breathing space. But just like the classic single "Don't Cry" by Guns and Roses, the insertion of these immature singles reflects the other side of the band members, and also makes the lyrics of a single like "Broken to pieces" more touching. They are like desserts in a big meal, adding a different flavor, and the existence of tender feelings singles is not unacceptable for the album.
A work that we can never tire of listening to, just like listening to Desire for Destruction. At first, we may think it was too arrogant, but after listening to it several times, we have unconsciously liked this album. At first, we felt that the stiff melody began to feel smoother and smoother. Of course, this is the most popular charm of rock music. This isn't guns and roses. Their members and Scott Welland completed a wonderful fusion, successfully combining Scott Welland's singing style of "The Pilot of the Stone Temple" with the other three main members' hard rock playing styles of "Guns and Roses", forming a brand-new and unique style of the Velvet Revolver Band. This album is a velvet revolver style album. The problem figures of "Gunhua Sancai" and "Shimiao Pilot" are not only temporary performance bands, but have formed their own paths. This excellent album proves that their music level is still very high, and the Velvet Revolver Band can exist independently as a great band, not just the new title of former members of Guns and Roses. The classic debut album of a classic band, the only thing to worry about is that this band will not be as brilliant as it used to be, and I hope they will exist for a long time unless they are reunited with Axl Rose.