Audio CD review:
Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93

Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93

Band: Guns N' Roses Title: Live Era '87-'93 Rating: Release Date: 30 November, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Nightrain 2: Mr. Brownstone 3: It's So Easy 4: Welcome To The Jungle 5: Dust N' Bones 6: My Michelle 7: You're Crazy 8: Used To Love Her 9: Patience 10: It's Alright 11: November Rain 12: Out Ta Get Me 13: Pretty Tied Up 14: Yesterdays 15: Move To The City 16: You Could Be Mine 17: Rocket Queen 18: Sweet Child O' Mine 19: Knockin' On Heaven's Door 20: Don't Cry 21: Estranged 22: Paradise City

Editoral Review " Indeed, GNR satisfied a grassroots hunger for bigger-than-life hard rock at a time when legions of alternative bands were enjoying their first burst of overweening critical attention and commercial cachet. Guns N' Roses' career could be neatly summed up in a lyric from their song "Pretty Tied Up": "I just found a million dollars that someone else forgot. The last and most spectacularly successful band to prosper from Hollywood's burgeoning 1980s Sunset Strip glam-metal scene wrapped a couple decade's worth of sometimes tired clichés around a tight, assaultive musical attack that enticed millions yearning for poor role models. And if their edgy songs often blurred fantasy and reality, the best of them had a street-level honesty that couldn't be denied. A de facto greatest-hits collection culled from performances recorded around the world, Live Era best documents the early, ferocious performing prime of GN'R's original quintet on its first disc, leaning heavily on their landmark Appetite for Destruction album to great effect. But the second volume often chronicles the band's steady decline into bloated self-parody and neo-Vegas "professionalism. " This band needs a horn section like Slash needs another drink! --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Guns N' Roses discography, or go back to the Guns N' Roses tabs