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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Guns N Roses New Sound Still Rocks

By Patrick Daniels

The new Guns N Roses release has gotten a lot of attention because it doesn't sound like the old stuff we all knew and loved. Yes, it is a different sound, but I don't think that's a bad thing.

Appetite for Destruction, the first album, was just about perfect for a debut. It had just the right mix of punk, blended with a little glam influence, all wrapped up with a loud and brash attitude. Appetite brought them out of the box screaming and set the stage for what was to become their signature sound.

The Illusion albums carried the rock influence and strung it out, making a more epic and sweeping feel. There were still some hard rocking songs, but everything felt bigger, more polished and lost a little bit of its grimy back alley feel. They were still very good, and seemed a natural evolution for the band. Now, after 15 years we get another face slap of rock and roll from Axel. It is a new sound, but it sounds like an updated G n R album.

Other than Axl, there are no returning original members of the band. Thats okay, because Axl would make them crazy anyway. I know that the album cover says Guns N Roses, but this is most definitely an Axl Rose album. If it just had his name on the cover, it might have been a little better received. If the die hard fans give the album a chance, then I think that they will hear some of the classic sounds, some of the classic riffs that the hard rocking band of the eighties perfected.

The first two songs on the album open it up with frenzy. The title track, being the better of the two, lights it up and even though it was written over the last fifteen years, it still feels fresh and new. These groups of songs bridge the years from the last album to today. They could almost all be played on the radio and have unique sounds that are far better than 90 percent of the other so called rock out there. I would much rather blast this album while cruising in my car than Nickelback or Three Doors Down or Daughtry or any of a hundred other rock bands that sound the same---weak. - 18758

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