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The Axl Rose Mission
Dedicated to counter rumors circulating about the singer.
http://axltribute.homestead.com/
Unofficial Uzi Suicide Homepage
Contains news, rare sounds, lyrics, pictures, history, discography, and links to related sites.
http://Suicide_UZI.tripod.com/
Garden of Illusions
Promotions, news, articles, gallery, message board, and chat.
http://www.geocities.com/lori_in_texas/
Guns N' Roses is Back
News, discography, lyrics, biography, and pictures.
http://www.terra.es/personal3/vmmbson/
Guns N' Roses Lyrics
Guns N' Roses song lyrics indexed by album and alphabetically.
http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/guns_n_roses/
GNR Sucks
Full MPEG videos, MP3s, news, fan's corner, links and lyrics.
http://www.gnrsucks.com
ComaConcert
Live concert videos, bootlegs, and trades.
http://www.comaconcertvideos.com/
The Spaghetti Incident?
A collection of history, lyrics, audio, and pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/nobby_clark_2000/
The Blues
Indonesian Guns N' Roses website with information about the band, photos, and fan forum.
http://mypage.rileks.com/sossego/
Dramas and Traumas
Pictures, lyrics, downloadable sound files, and news.
http://gnr-drtr.tripod.com/
Amazon offers End of Days (Audio CD),09 November, 1999
cn-Sunshine Rock Guns N' Roses List price $11.98
Feeling nostalgic for the late 90s? / 3
3.5 Stars

The fall of 1999 saw the release of the film "End of Days" and its accompanying soundtrack.

The late 90s saw the tail end of the post-grunge era and the emergence of Nu-Metal or rap/metal. This soundtrack is a still shot or time capsule of that time. With a few exceptions, the "End of Days" soundtrack is more or less what you would hear if you tuned into a modern rock station in the late 90s. Nu-Metal was dark, masculine, and angry. Post-Grunge was a watered down version of the real thing.

"The Camel Song" by Korn is fairly representative of the whole Nu-Metal movement. It's heavy, has grueling guitars, screaming rap verses and tortured choruses, and not much melody. It sounds, as guitarist Slash once commented, like the "inside of a meat grinder." It is what it is; you'll either love it or hate it.

"So Long" by former House of Pain frontman Everlast, sounds derivative of his late 90s hit "What it's Like." "So Long" is actually just as good, and probably didn't get the attention of "What it's like" because the two sound alike. This dark, brooding song has a good hook and haunting melody.

"Slow" by "Professional Murder Music" is largely forgettable dance/metal filler.

Limp Bizkit's excellent "Crushed" is one of the band's best songs. The band had not yet slipped into mediocrity and self-parody. "Crushed" has a haunting, eerie beat and creepy background vocals.

The album's real selling point and highlight is the Guns N' Roses comeback single "Oh My God." It was the band's first new song in eight years, although it featured only original member W. Axl Rose. Rock fans are largely mixed on this song. People either seem to love it or hate it. Personally, I absolutely love it. It sounds a lot like Marilyn Manson or "The Downward Spiral" era Nine Inch Nails. It's an industrial tinged rocker, but still has the GN'R sound and structure. It has a very infectious, pounding disco beat and full throttle vocal assault. There is some confusion as to who plays on this track. It is: W. Axl Rose (vocals), Tommy Stinson (bass), Josh Freeze (drums), Robin Finck (guitar), Dave Navaro (guest guitar), Paul Huge (guitar), and Dizzy Reed (keyboards).

The inclusion of the Prodigy's "Poison" makes for a little variety and although released several years earlier, doesn't sound too out-of-place.

"Superbeast" by Rob Zombie sounds like every other White Zombie/Rob Zombie song. It's good, but not great.

Eminem's "Bad Influence" is one of the rapper's earliest singles. It has an infectious groove and rap-along verse. This was before Eminem became overexposed. It was a time when he was genuinely interesting.

Poweman 500's catchy "Nobody's Real" was the band's one big hit and enjoyed frequent airplay back in the late 90s. Although Powerman 500 wasn't the most memorable band, this song has stood up well.

Although Stroke (not "The Strokes") never got off the ground, their single "I Wish I Had" is one of the soundtrack's most memorable songs. This spacey mid-tempo number is akin to Pink Floyd.

"Sugar Kane" by Sonic Youth is a great song, but it seems a little out-of-place on a CD dominated by the likes of Creed, Limp Bizkit, and Korn.

Creed's "Long Way" is derivative of "Ten" era Pearl Jam. While this track isn't awful, it's a little dull and a rather anticlimactic way to end the album.

While the "End of Days" soundtrack isn't quite up there with the "Lost Highway," "Natural Born Killers" or "The Crow" soundtracks, it's still a good collection of songs. If you are an Axl Rose/Guns N' Roses fan, it's worth buying for "Oh My God" alone. Or, if you are already feeling nostalgic for the days of when Scott Stapp and Fred Durst dominated the radio, this CD is a good trip down memory lane.

Song "Perfect Crime"
Kickin' back in the shadows
Got no need for the light
Who's sorry now old timer
Look at how you've spent your life
Scroungin' for change
to put some money in your pocket
My how scratch does burn
Laughin' at the suckers as you pissed it away

But I got the time and I got the muscle
I got the need to lay it all on the line
I ain't afraid of your smoke screen hustle
It's a perfect crime
Goddamn it it's a perfect crime
Motherfucker it's a perfect crime
I said it's perfect

Keep the demons down
and drag the skeletons out
I got a blind man followin' me in chains
I said he's fun to watch
when the world has stopped
An I think he's got somethin' to say
"You wanna fuck with me, don't fuck with me
'Cause I'm what you'll be so don't fuck with me
If you had better sense
You'd just step aside from the bad side of me
Don't fuck wit'da bad side o' me
Stay away from the bad side o' me
Don't fuck wit'da bad side"

T minus 1:09 and counting

Ostracized but that's all right
I was thinkin' about somethin' myself

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Call on everybody who's got last rites
Said it's better if you locked 'em away
Runnin' through the visions
at the speed of light
Won't ya let me be
Motherfucker just let me be
Goddamn it better let me be
Don't ya know ya better let me...

Perfect crime
Goddamn it it's a perfect crime
Motherfucker it's a perfect crime
Don't cha know
It's a perfect crime
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Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits: Pitchfork Review
[Geffen; 2004] Rating: 3.9 - Review by: Chris Ott.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/guns-n-roses/greatest-hits.shtml
BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - Guns N Roses, Greatest Hits
Review of Guns N Roses - Greatest Hits. ... All Music Reviews AZ. elsewhere on BBCi:. Guns N' Roses at Leeds. Suggestions? [different angles on this] ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classicpop/reviews/gunsnroses_hits.shtml
Amazon.com: Greatest Hits [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com If time is the true test, then Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits confirms that they really were one of the greatest rock & roll ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TLA9G?v=glance
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