G N' R Lies (studio album) by Guns N' Roses

Great album except the lyrical garbage that is "One In A Million".

Album of two half's. First being raw and live sounding (even though it wasn't) from their pre-fame days. Gives good insight of what was to come. Second half acoustic and polished. Highlighted the difference of some songwriting skills, and of what coming into some money does from before 'Appetite' to afterwards. The better of the two half's for me personally.

Album Rating: 84.13
(673/8)

Lyrically troublesome at times. Musically brilliant throughout.

1.Reckless Life. 80
2.Nice Boys. 80
3.Move To The City. 70
4.Mama Kin. 78
5.Patience. 99
6.Used To Love Her. 85
7.You're Crazy. 84
8.One In A Million. 98

From Boltzmann 08/30/2018 15:14

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Sure, its a bit of a "cash in" to get something out there after Appetite. But its not bad at all. There's barely a weak song, there's a certain amount of soul in the "live" side, and the four acoustic songs are burning with attitude. No filler. But then they over-compensated for that later with the Use Your Illusion Albums....

A stop gap release between, appetite for destruction, and the, use your illusion, albums. It consists of the, like a suicide, e.p, a four track live recording featuring a cover of Aerosmith's, mama kin, Rose Tattoo's, nice boys, and originals, reckless life, and, move to the city. The album also features four acoustic recordings, you're crazy,(original version on, appetite), used to love her, a darkly comic country number, one in a million, featuring some dubious observations from Axl Rose, and best of all, the beautiful ballad, patience. It's an enjoyable record featuring the dark and the light, the rock and the ballads, a decent stop gap.

I rank this one with Appetite as their best album. Yes, the lyrics are questionable on One in a Million, but it's a good tune and I can sympathize with a lot of what he's saying. Better than either Illusion album.

I too find this their most satisfying recording.

And unlike most folks I don't despite Axl for writing "One in a Million" one bit. On the contrary I applaud him for having had the guts to say it like he felt it during that period of his time.

Even today LA can be a mighty scary place for a penniless small town white boy to surface who just wants to sing rock music and who's got a chip the size of a mountain on his shoulder and who honestly doesn't yet know dick shit about the way world works.

In my book the long haired "loser" that Axl was, was as much of a society's outcast as gays, black men and immigrants were in the 80s USA. And for many today's Axls, gays, black people, drug addicts and immigrants and so on and so forth the world can still be one big fucking hell hole.

Being always politically correct only helps in cementing status quo. The only way the change is even possible is that somebody somewhere stands up and rocks the boat. What matters is how people around this rocker react to rocking.

From lightmyway 05/17/2012 21:21

A rushed-out sequel to Appetite for Destruction, it's not great but it doesn't deserve to be totally overlooked either. There's a good amount of quality here.

From pearljammer13 11/10/2011 01:32

I must be the only one that likes this album more than any other by gnr. I don't think there is a remotely bad song here. I wish the first 4 didn't have the fake crowd noise because they are great songs but it kind of throws the listener off. And Crazy sounds way better the way they slowed it down on this album. And If you can get past the lyrics in One In A Million, its an amazing acoustic song, the way an acoustic guitar should sound.