GnR review: "it's the last record I will ever buy just to read the liner notes"

Rob Harvilla @ SF Weekly on the new Guns and Roses cd. I haven't heard it yet. Maybe I should -read- it first! A few favorite parts of his review, the whole thing at the link.

I feel comfortable stating that it's the last record I will ever buy just to read the liner notes. Holy shit. Do pop into Best Buy and have a gander.

(Deep breath.)


Fourteen studios in four cities. Twenty-two assistant engineers. Eight folks under the heading "Additional Pro Tools." Six more under "Logic." The recurring phrase "initial production." Eleven musicians get their own personal thank-you lists; deranged mastermind Axl Rose's requires nearly three columns of tiny-ass type. (Notable names: Mickey Rourke, Donatella Versace, Izzy Stradlin.) And these are just full-album credits; all 14 songs get their own personal bibliography. "There Was a Time" has six guitarists (five is more common) and five orchestral arrangers; "Madagascar" boasts not just French horns but synth French horns, plus clips from two Martin Luther King speeches and dialogue from Mississippi Burning, Cool Hand Luke, Braveheart, Casualties of War, and Seven.

I saw this part on a longer version of the review on the web yesterday, looks like it got edited overnight:

Full lyric sheet too: Within the first minute of the histrionic piano ballad "This I Love," Axl rhymes why, goodbye, I, eyes, wise, try, inside, die, mine, light, bright, night, and deny.

This is the mythical burrito microwaved by God that's so hot, God himself cannot eat it.

Rob writes some entertaining stuff eh?! More at the link.