Velvet Revolver

Editor's Review:

A contemptuous sneer was my instinctive reaction to a supposed Guns N’ Roses / Stone Temple Pilots supergroup, because such schemes are usually inspired more by visions of combined-following cash potential than by genuine musical interest. But whatever it was that inspired this rock-icon hodgepodge, I officially retract my initial sneer. It rocks in a way that restores faith and replenishes the hope that all the crap on the radio is not what rock has somehow been allowed to degrade into. Cutting guitar hooks, face-smashing rhythmic energy and Scott Weiland’s strung-out vocal presence (“Mother Fucker yeah” is an actual lyric) demonstrate the continued dominance of the veterans, while attention to little things like song structure, arrangement and lyrical substance keep them honest. It seems the road-haggard Stone Temple Roses can still summon the mana to utterly squash their contemporaries. Hopefully this won’t kill the bastards.
- Peter Kimmich
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Record Label BMG Records Released June 2004

Tracks Sucker Train Blues Do It For The Kids Big Machine Illegal i Song Spectacle Fall To Pieces Headspace Superhuman Set Me Free You Got No Right Slither Dirty Little Thing Loving The Alien

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