Nice Boys? (G'n'R - Lies - Guns n' Roses)

Member Name: Satan's_Spawn

Product:	G'n'R - Lies - Guns n' Roses
Date:	29/09/00 (44 review reads)
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Advantages: Guns N' Roses

Disadvantages: none that I can see!

In 1986, under their own label Uzi Suicide, Guns N’ Roses released their first EP, Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide. Only a few thousand were ever made, and later, after Appetite for Destruction propelled the band to fame, the EP began to sell for thousands of dollars.
In order to make the tracks available to fans who may not have the ludicrous amounts now being charged for Live… GN’R put the original four tracks; Reckless Life, Nice Boys, Move To The City and Mama Kin, together with some new stuff; the beautiful Patience, the jokey Used To Love Her, the original version of You’re Crazy, and the highly controversial One In A Million, onto a mini album and GN’R Lies was born.
Obviously, as a collectable item, the original EP was and is still a lot of money, but for those that just want to hear the tracks, Lies offers a viable solution.

This isn’t thought of as GN’R’s best work, and there have been times when Axl has been so sick of explaining himself over One In A Million’s lyrics (which refers to ‘immigrants and faggots’ and ‘police and niggers’) that he has wished it had never written, but for the GN’R connoisseur, Lies is a must have.

Highlights of the album are of course, Patience, perhaps one of the nicest ballads ever penned, and something the band played at their disastrous Donnington appearance (where two fans were crushed to death) in a (failed) attempt to calm the crowd. Nice Boys for its breakneck speed and declaration that Nice Boys don’t play rock ‘n’ roll, and the excellent Mama Kin.

Like a little piece of history, a sneak preview of the bands talent, GN’R Lies is not just a mini album, but a mini classic.

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