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Guns N' Roses: "The Spaghetti Incident?"

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Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1993.11.23
Time:
 46:03
Category: Hard Rock
Producer(s): Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses, Duff McKagan, Jim Mitchell
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.gunsnroses.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Since I Don't Have You (Rock/Beaumont) - 4:20
[2] New Rose (James) - 2:38
[3] Down on the Farm (Gibbs/Harper/Garrett) - 3:29
[4] Human Being (Thunders/Johansen) - 6:48
[5] Raw Power (Pop/Williamson) - 3:12
[6] Ain't It Fun" [featuring Michael Monroe] (Chrome/Laughner) - 5:06
[7] Buick Mackane [Big Dumb Sex] (Bolan/Cornell) - 2:40
[8] Hair of the Dog (McCafferty/Agnew/Charlton/Sweet) - 3:55
[9] Attitude (Danzig) - 1:27
[10] Black Leather (Jones/Cook) - 4:09
[11] You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Thunders) - 3:35
[12] I Don't Care About You (Ving) - 2:07
[13] Look at Your Game, Girl [Hidden track starting at 2:17 in "I Don't Care About You"] (Manson) - 2:34

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W. Axl Rose - Lead Vocals, Keyboards on [1], Kazoo on [4]
Slash - Lead Guitar, Co-Lead Vocals on [7], Talkbox on [8], Backing Vocals on [9,12]
Duff Mckagan - Bass, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals & Drums on [11], Lead Vocals on [2,9], Co-Lead Vocals on [5], Production
Matt Sorum - Drums, Percussion on [8], Backing Vocals on [4,9]
Dizzy Reed - Keyboards, Piano on [1], Percussion on [13], Backing Vocals on [11]
Gilby Clarke - Rhythm Guitar

Michael Monroe - Co-Lead Vocals on [6]
Mike Staggs - Additional Guitar on [6]
Mike Fasano - Percussion on [8]
Richard Duguay - Lead & Rhythm Guitars on [11]
Eddie Huletz - Backing Vocals on [11]
Blake Stanton - Backing Vocals on [12]
Eric Mills - Backing Vocals on [12]
Rikki Rachtman - Backing Vocals on [12]
Stuart Bailey - Backing Vocals on [12]
Carlos Booy - Acoustic Guitar on [13]

Mike Clink - Production on [2-10,12-13]
Jim Mitchell - Production on [11]
Bill Price - Mixing
George Marino - Mastering
Kevin Reagan - Art Direction; Graphic Design
Dennis Keeley - Photography
Gene Kirkland - Photography
Robert John - Photography

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Recorded in 1992–93 at A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios, Rumbo Recorders, CanAm Studios, Sound Techniques, Triad Studios, Conway Recording Studios and Ocean Way Recording.



As punk albums go, The Spaghetti Incident? lacks righteous anger and rage. As Guns N' Roses albums go, it's a complete delight, returning to the ferocious, hard-rocking days of Appetite for Destruction. The Gunners play Stooges and New York Dolls songs exactly as they do Nazareth -- as straight-ahead, driving riff-rockers. After the epic Use Your Illusions, the band sounds like it's having fun, not caring about making "art" like "November Rain" or "Estranged." Unfortunately, the tacked-on Charles Manson song leaves a bad aftertaste, but not because of the song itself; the inclusion of the song seems like a publicity-seeking stunt, a way to increase their sales while trying to regain their street credibility. And as The Spaghetti Incident? proves, they didn't need to stoop so low.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



The mid-'80s Los Angeles rock scene that gave birth to Guns n' Roses was a curious thing, neither quite punk scruffy nor given to glam excess, largely populated by hip kids who were too young to remember that Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith had long been completely passé. In retrospect, the original Guns n' Roses formula seems obvious enough, but no one had ever before successfully crossed the grungy street attitude of the underground Hollywood bands with the polished, riffy sound of the pouf-haired Sunset Strip popmetal bands, and the result was a giant paradigm shift in rock & roll.

But although the tremendous success of G n' R may have all but erased the few vestiges of the underground rock scene that still existed in Hollywood, the legacy of punk rock continued to thrive, at least as a hip influence: Punk rock codified the underground anti-establishment groove that is now mandatory for any artist harder edged than Whitney Houston, and rock groups as unrelievedly mainstream as Skid Row and Mötley Crüe now consider it more or less obligatory to include Sex Pistols songs in their sets. And with the rise of punk-rooted "alternative" music in the last couple of years, it has become apparent just what that music was an alternative to: G n' R, who had grown to represent this generation's ultimate in bloated rock excess.

In The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of mostly punky cover versions of drunkrock classics, Guns n' Roses reassert their roots in hard-edged rock & roll — some punk rock, some not — the way that U2 tried to with Rattle and Hum when their "authenticity" had become suspect. But in recording half an album's worth of punk-rock songs, Guns n' Roses reveal themselves as a glam-rock band, and a good one, as if T. Rex and the Dolls had come out of early punk rather than the other way around.

"Black Leather," a post-mortem Sex Pistols song written by Steve Jones, sounds better than the original — more bounce, heartier groove — and the tough swagger of G n' R on this track may be what the original Pistols aspired to before Malcom McLaren pushed Johnny Rotten on them. There are quick, goofy versions of the Damned's "New Rose" and U.K. Subs' "Down on the Farm," which Axl delivers with an English accent as contrived as that of any Orange County hardcore singer; there is a loose, sloppy version of Iggy's "Raw Power" that would be a hit at any Whisky Jam Night.

Punk rock is sometimes best read as a vigorous howl of complaint against one's own powerlessness, but Axl doesn't quite connect to the punk-rock material on Spaghetti as anything but a conduit for pure aggression. He can't even seem to curse right. In his version of Fear's punkrock chestnut "I Don't Care About You," his is not the fuuuuuuck youuu of Fear's Lee Ving, the epithet of the misfit yelling at the cop car after it has safely rounded the corner, but the fuck you the tavern bully says as he shoves you hard in the chest. When Chris Cornell sings, "I want to fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck you," in the Soundgarden anthem "Big Dumb Sex," Cornell's voice is filled with longing and desire; Axl, reprising that Soundgarden chorus as a tag to the T. Rex song "Buick Makane," sounds like a guy reading cue cards on the set of a porno movie.

But the Nazareth anthem "Hair of the Dog" is almost a primo Guns n' Roses song to begin with, muscular riffing, forged-iron arpeggios, enraged lyrics just built for Axl's manly scream, exactly the sort of thing G n' R are best at — hipwiggle music, '70s sounding without being explicitly retro — powered by the sort of glam-groove Slash guitar and oddly baroque Matt Sorum drumming that seem merely overwrought elsewhere on the album. "Buick Makane" works the complex riff until it screams.

Punk-rock virtues are most apparent in the Duff-sung version of Johnny Thunders' "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory," which features irregular arrangements, wavery vocals, even a splash of vulnerability. It's also the one song on the album you will probably fast-forward through in the car.

Jonathan Gold - December 9, 1993
RollingStone.com



"The Spaghetti Incident?" is the fifth studio album by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. The album comprises covers of older punk rock and hard rock songs, and is the last to feature guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum. "The Spaghetti Incident?" is the only studio album to feature rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke, who replaced original Guns N' Roses member Izzy Stradlin during the band's Use Your Illusion tour in 1991.

Many of the tracks were recorded with original Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin during the Use Your Illusion I and II sessions and then were later re-recorded with Gilby Clarke. Those tracks were previously intended to be included in a combined Use Your Illusion album, consisting of three (or possibly even four) discs, instead of the two separate discs they ended up being.

In 1992, the band prepared to release the leftover cover tracks as an EP, with Gilby Clarke replacing Stradlin's guitar tracks. They later decided on making the album a full release and recorded several more tracks for it. Bassist Duff McKagan sings on many of the album's tracks and Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe appears on "Ain't It Fun" as a guest vocalist. This was the last Guns N' Roses album to feature lead guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum, and the only album to feature Gilby Clarke. It was also the band's last studio album until 15 years later with Chinese Democracy, and its last album until the live compilation album six years later with Live Era: '87-'93.

During studio sessions the band recorded a cover of "A Beer and a Cigarette" from Hanoi Rocks but the song never came out.

On the bottom of the cover art of the album, there is a code written with the Zodiac Killer's symbols, which has been deciphered as "fuck'em all".

Wikipedia.org



Nach dem Ende einer langen Welttournee laufen die Motoren der Gunners immer noch auf Hochtouren. Die richtige Erholung vom Reisestreß ist ein neues Album, diesmal nur mit Coverversionen. Wie Bassist Duff McKagan bei seinem Solotrip "Believe In Me" steht die Band hier auf abgefahrene Nummern aus der Punkrock-Zeit. Sie jagt Iggy Pops "Raw Power" durch die Boxen, kehrt in dem Damned-Song "New Rose" kräftig die Glamrock-Seite heraus und schneidet Nazareths "Hair Of The Dog" alte Soundzöpfe ab. Ein vorprogrammierter Hit ist der untypische Einstieg mit der Doo-Wop-Ballade "Since I Don't Have You". P.S.: Im zwölften Titel ist eine zweite Nummer versteckt. ** Interpret.: 06-08 ** Klang.: 05-07

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Punk N' Roses - geht das? Zunächst mal nicht: Wer Axel Rose "Since I Don't Have You" nölen hört (original in den Fifties von The Skyliners,zuletzt von Art Garfunkel vernudelt),bekommt eine Ahnung davon,warum Frank Sinatra ihn für sein nächstes Duets-Projekt will. Doch dann geht doch noch der Punk ab: "New Rose" (The Damned) mit Duff als Punk-Bändiger,"Ain't It Fun" (Dead Boys) mit Vokal-Gast Michael Monroe. Oder die Post: bei T.Rex' Buick Makane mit Slashs Premiere als Sänger oder "Hair Of The Dog" von Nazareth: Punk Rock N' Roses kommt gut.

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