Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II (1991)

As much as I hate Axl Pose, if they combined the best songs from the first two Use Your Illusions this would've been possibly the biggest rock album ever. It would've been a cluster of rock hits that it's the same thing Metallica would later do with Load and Reload was that the quality of songs they produced were too good and massive to be just put on one. They probably both did the split for the money but, there's no denying who was on top unless you're a Metallica fan like me haha..Around the time of the recording former Guns n' Roses was drummer had been fired for abusing drugs (like all of them weren't)and hired Matt Sorrum from The Cult. I think a big reason why the albums did good on the charts and sold well was because there seems to be a lot of music videos they did if I'm right. I'm sure that's all they were showing on MTV with the epic story triology they tried to show via the music videos which I think was out of order because it went "November Rain" then "Don't Cry" and lastly "Estranged". I don't know if I prefer part one or two. I think I prefer part one because of the awesome music video "November Rain". That was like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" of hard rock music being that it was over freaking eight minutes. Songs to check out "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", "You Could be Mine" and "Estranged".

1. "Civil War" 7:43
2. "14 Years" 4:21
3. "Yesterdays" 3:16
4. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan cover) 5:36
5. "Get in the Ring" 5:41
6. "Shotgun Blues" 3:23
7. "Breakdown" 7:05
8. "Pretty Tied Up" 4:48
9. "Locomotive" 8:42
10. "So Fine" 4:06
11. "Estranged" 9:23
12. "You Could Be Mine" 5:44
13. "Don't Cry" 4:44
14. "My World" 1:24

Velvet Revolver - Contraband (2004)

My dad insists that this is the best record of the last decade. I personally think Death Magnetic was the best. I'm not really into many supergroup bands like Chickenfoot whom I just could never get into and people kept telling me how great they were. Velvet Revolver's super egomaniacs somehow made the chemistry work and maintained great success with there debut record. The loaded line up of Weiland-Slash-Sorrum-Duff with former Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Dave Kushner made for fun times and trips to rehab. I've seen them twice and they're really energetic and soulful even though, they seemed like they all hated each other when I saw them on the Libertad tour. It was the best selling album for a debuting band which goes to show you how they pulled it off when everyone was thinking Axl Pose was getting the last laugh. Interesting mix of STP and Guns n' Roses here. It was a million times better than Chinese Democracy I bet we can all agree on that. Songs to check out "Slither", "Dirty Little Thing" and "Sucker Train Blues".

1. "Sucker Train Blues" – 4:28
2. "Do It for the Kids" – 3:56
3. "Big Machine" – 4:26
4. "Illegal i Song" – 4:18
5. "Spectacle" – 3:42
6. "Fall to Pieces" – 4:35
7. "Headspace" – 3:43
8. "Superhuman" – 4:16
9. "Set Me Free" – 4:08
10. "You Got No Right" – 5:35
11. "Slither" – 4:08
12. "Dirty Little Thing" – 3:58
13. "Loving the Alien" – 5:49