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Title: How many Axl-epics here...?
Review: This album has some long songs on it, including the overplayed (what do you expect?) "Civil War," but the other three, "Breakdown," "Locomotive (Complicity)," and "Estranged," are just as good or better. Like Use Your Illusion I, there is some experimentation away from the straight hard rock/metal of their first album, but the different styles work quite well. However, this album has even less of that pure rock than UYI1, and a just as heavy dose of bleating about the evil media... and just about everyone else, for that matter. (No wonder Guns N' Roses broke up.)But even those songs, like "Get in the Ring," are good enough that you're willing to listen to the album all the way through. Slash has few equals at guitar, and the lyrics are great, even if Axl's voice is usually subpar. Fantastic stuff. There'll never be music like this again.
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