After a rough and bumpy breakup with Guns and Roses, its members went different ways.  After a couple of years in the process Velvet Revolver was formed.  With the legendary Slash on the lineup how bad could it be?  The result was a rather coarse sound that is very different from Guns'N'Roses.  Though not as good as G'N'R, Contraband is a decent rock album that is a lot better than some of the nu-metal of today and pulls of some decent tracks.  Though there are couple of songs that are fillers (i.e Headspace) it's a pretty good album pulling off hits like Slither and Fall To Pieces.  Along with these songs I also like Big Machine, Do It For The Kids, and Sucker Train Blues in particular.  Overall, a solid 13 track album that is worth the money.