One in a million (G'n'R - Lies - Guns n' Roses)

Member Name: Stevie3535

Product:	G'n'R - Lies - Guns n' Roses
Date:	14/08/00 (103 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A solid GNR album

Disadvantages: Some heavy fans will dislike the acoustic songs

After making such an impact on the music world with the brilliant Appetite For Destruction, many wondered how Guns N Roses would follow it up. GNR Lies is the answer. This album is essentially a great exaple of how Guns 'N' Roses used to be, before certain members left and Axl took over. The first 4 tracks on this album are all live tracks from the "Live *#?!! like a suicide" LP which was Guns N Roses first record, even before Appetite. All of these tracks are live so the sound quality is slightly poorer than the others. All of them however, are great examples of proper Rock n Roll, the way it should be. Particular favoourites of mine are Nice boys, and the very cool Mama kin. Also Reckless life and the jazzy Move To the City are quite good too. This point is where opinions are split into Hard rock fans who like GNR and simply GNR fans, for the last 4 songs are all acoustic. However, if you like GNR, you will understand why they have done this, and for me it is a refreshing change. Patience is a brilliant song, a really nice ballad. From there, we have an acoustic version of Your Crazy which is also not bad, and a light hearted song called Used to love her (but i had to kill her) which was written purely as a joke but still Axl was criticised for it. Then we come to the most controversial, and in my opinion, best song on the album: One in A Million. Controversial because of lyrics like "police and niggers, get out of my way" and "immigrants and faggots make no sense to me", which were easily misinterpreted by critics. They felt they were a direct attack on certain groups of the population, completely not what Axl was meaning. And if they could see past its "Offensive" lyrics, they would realise that it is a really good song.
Which raps up for me a fairly good album by GNr. Not up to the standard of Appetite or the illusions albums, but still good nonetheless.

Summary: