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"She Builds Quick Machines" is the first single from Velvet Revolver's not-particularly-well-named Libertad, and as far as ongoing intra-band struggle between STP and GNR, this is one is definitely in Weiland's wheelhouse (that "push right now" bit, which could have been lifted straight from Core). We're feeling ho-humish on this one—it's hard to believe anyone still believes rhyming "exes" with "Texas" is a novel lyrical tactic—but we'll hold off further judgment until we hear Libertad's token power ballad ("Fall To Pieces" still makes the magic):
Velvet Revolver - She Builds Quick Machines [MP3, link expired; via Deaf Indie Elephants]
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When did Jackie Earle Haley join the band?
Or Rob Halford!
In this photo Velvet Revolver look like a eurotrash street gang.
Is it "Texas" and "exes," or "Texas" and "excess"? Not that one is necessarily better than the other...
When will Slash's top hat get old. The guy has been wearing it for over 20 years old. Oh yeah and the music sucks. I guess Izzy Stradlin really was the brains behind GnR
"Where's Izzy?" Axl and Slash asked (via music video) about 15 years ago.
The answer is, apparently, somewhere you can't completely piss on your musical legacy.
"The Blues", "IRS", "Catcher In The Rye", "Madagascar", "Chinese Democracy", "TWAT" and "Better" are um, better...in my opinion. Much better.
Focusing primarily on the issue of "Texas/exes", might I suggest following:
Product tie-in positioning = Lexus
Macho posturing = flexes
Stiff Records nostalgia = Dexy's
Contemporary musician reference = Beck sez
Actually, tangentalizing from that last point, I'd have obfuscated the rhyme for a Texas with the sound of a leaf blower anyway.
Not bad, but kinda "butt-rock"ish. If ya know what I mean.
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