Gimme a reason...

OK feebs, a brief description of tracks. Make of it wot you will. I can expect a good slagging if the comp doesn't meet with your approval, but that's wot it's all about. Oh, and Chris - wot's so bad about that...? ******************************** 1: Always on the Run - Lenny Kravitz: Apparently, Lenny insists on only ever recording material using original '60's equipment; valve amps, big barbecue-grilled microphones, the whole business. Seems to work for him, though. This track exemplifies his retro, psychedelic acid-rock Hendrix influences, not least by recruiting Slash [Guns 'n' Roses] on lead guitar. Plus the bass is pure porn. 2: Sympathy for the Devil - Guns 'n' Roses: Slightly more pedestrian rhythm section than the Stone's original due to Matt Sorum's "meat and potato" drumming, but it wins on the grounds of O.T.T. theatricalism, and Slash being the sleaziest guitar in Christendom. Bitch. 3: Take a Look Around - Limp Bizkit: Nu-Metal - and why not? The kids are still, young, fucked up and angry - that's good news isn't it? Except they're yesterday's news. Voted MTV's Best Band in the World one year, and Worst the next. 4: I Just Wanna Live - Good Charlotte: Making "Limp Bizkit" look like your Dad, Good Charlotte are still young, dumb and full o' cum. Don't you just hate them for it? Nice synths though - work well with the three chords, bless 'em...! And they're so cute when they try and look dangerous ;o) 5: Cold Beverage - G. Love & Special Sauce: Special Sauce were producing laid-back, West Coast, white boy hip-hop, while the Fun Lovin' Criminals were still nicking rolos from Mr McKnobiie's girly mag shop, and doing it better than anyone else. Barbecue music, no doubt. And I don't mean that in a bad way. 6: Policeman Skank - Audioweb: Banged to rights! Reminds me of late nineties London, very messy. 7: I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness: I love the idea of The Darkness - the spandex, the guitars, being Queen's little sister in - ironically - a totally un-ironic way. The thing is, this is the only track of theirs I find acceptable. It's a cracker, though, isn't it? 8: Thick 'n' Thin - Black Crowes: Somewhere between Scooby Doo and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this is white boy rock 'n' roll in the Jerry Lewis school (if he'd played guitar, that is). Now, hold still, bwoy... 9: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron: Seventies Harlem Black Voice personified. Not an obvious guitar track, but gets in on the bassline. You can almost smell it.... 10: One in a Million - Guns 'n' Roses: As a counterpoint to the radical seventies Black Power, Axl Rose goes off on one. Only in America.... *sigh* 11: Radar Love - Golden earring: "Hey, Rudy! Grab dat Flying-Vee and let'sh play a little... Rock 'n' Roll!!!" Dutch rockers Golden Earring demonstrate that getting a translator in doesn't always work. "We've got a thing and it's called Radar Love...!". Oh, really...? 12: I Ain't Sofisticated - Ruts: ....umm... 13: The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones: If you ever felt you needed a reason to get up in the morning, the first line of the chorus is it - "I-I-I-I-I!!!! NEVER HAD TO KNOCK ON WOOD...!!!!!..." 14: God's Cop - Happy Mondays: Never really liked these at the time, but was forced into an abrupt about face after someone played me "Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches". Unbelievable when you hear the production that they really were just a bunch of crack heads of the estates, and not a manufactured act. Definitely on one, matey! 15: Daughter - Pearl Jam: Grunge survivors, still head and shoulders above most of the toss that came out of Seattle 16: Rebel Rebel - David Bowie: I can't be arsed doing this any more 17: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix: turn on, skin up, turn over.... no, hang on... turn up, switch off.. oh fuck it...