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Old 07-23-2009, 05:45 AM   #6867 (permalink)
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Mojo - yes that's the gist of the majority of the reviews I read prior to picking up. That and that it's the band's second best LP after Holy Bible. I might agree with that too but think the two most recent LP's now might share that place too.
(Even the band itself has stated it put some crap on GT that would have been better left off.)

Funny most of our song preferences are polarized with each other's. My ranks:

Motorcycle: 5 star
You Love Us: 4
Love's Sweet Exile: 4
Little Babynothing: 4
Stay Beautiful: 4
Spectators of Suicide: 4
Repeat UK: 3.5
Damn Dog: 3.5
Methodone Pretty: 3.5
Slash n Burn: 3
Natwest: 3
Repeat U.S.: 3
So Dead: 3
Born to End: 2
InventedDisease: 2
Condemned: 2
Tennessee: 1
Crucifix: 1

You seem to like the more slasher/GnR influenced tracks. To me, Born to End is mostly good enough but a) very derivative and just seems a little less than authentic, and b) I can't get past the title being similar to the Heartbreakers' Born to Lose (though the songs and their subject matters are very different), and lastly, c) the phrasing of the "Nagaski Dolls R Burning/Beg For Mercy Pray for War" bit being just like Alice Cooper's "no More Pencils..." brings it down. But it *is* a nice riff through the verses and bridge.

And to me Condemned by Rock n Roll becomes almost a bit of a joke at times with the GnR/Slash guitar section in the middle and the Lou Reed solo live Sweet Jane style outtro in the major key as the epic outtro and all.

So we agree it's a pretty damn good record but for completely different reasons.

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